Kintsugi Plays Dragon Age 2 (a winner is me!)

>Varric?

 

>Varric! Where would he be?

 

> Ask Varric.

 

I have never taken Varric on this quest and so I didn't know about this option! Am curious to see how it plays out

 

>Varric! Where would he be?







Gee, thanks.

Spoiler: Codex - The Enigma of Kirkwall

After pursuing another dead end, we were attacked by maleficarum. I fear V. will not make it. The fences must have tipped them off. Are they cultists trying to protect the answer? Are they after it themselves? Or was it a random attack?

The mages of Kirkwall have a more troubled history than those in other Circles. A greater percentage of them do not survive the Harrowing, and a greater percentage turn to blood magic—almost double that of Starkhaven or Ostwick. Is there a secret fraternity delving into the Tevinter secrets of this city?

Either way, we must be more careful, lest we become the Band of One. Or None.

—Hidden under a cobblestone with curious markings and signed, "The Band of Three"

 

#kpda2banter #fenris+merrill

 

Oh, that's my mine!


(gets momentarily distracted by a codex entry)

Spoiler: Codex - The Tevinter Imperium

For good or ill, the Imperium has put its stamp on Thedas forever.

The old Imperial Highway is still in use across most of Thedas. The ruins of Tevinter fortresses and centers of magical study still litter our landscape, long after the glory of the Imperium dimmed. But the influence of that ancient empire goes deeper than this. Without Tevinter, there would have been no Blights, no Andraste, no Chantry. Every aspect of our world would be altered.

The might and majesty of the Imperium may have faded, but it still makes its presence known, even in the most distant corners of Thedas. Every child has been brought up on stories of Tevinter as it is now: a decadent nation, ruled by the archon and his court ofmagisters — great, and no doubt corrupt, mage-lords. Their Chantry a mockery of our own, their Black Divine a man chosen from the ranks of the Minrathous Circle of Magi. The Maker's most hallowed law, "Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him," perverted. Mages in the Imperium say their most sacred duty is to serve man, and they serve best by wielding political power.

And the worst, that which Blessed Andraste must weep to see: All of it is built on a foundation of slavery. While most nations forbid the buying and selling of slaves within their own borders, nearly everyone ships her people to the Imperium for sale, skirting the prohibitions against such atrocities, and feeding the Imperium's endless hunger for bodies: To fight the Qunari, to work the mines and quarries, to build the palaces of the magisters, to sweep the crumbling streets and turn the middens and serve at the whim of their mage overseers.

—From Black City, Black Divine: A Study of the Tevinter Imperium, by Sister Petrine, Chantry scholar

Haven't we seen this one? Anyway, right, we have a job here.




>_?

 

oh my god the arishok is very shy about his blackflirting isn't he? Boy. If you want hawke to seduce you you should just SAY SO ARISHOK

 

> Where is this popular fellow?

 

I'm reminded of that fanart I stumbled across of m!Hawke and the Arishok, um


dueling

 

This is probably huge bc I literally just drew this on the subway and posted w mobile

 

:D!!! I love it

Also, I remember reading a deliberately silly fanfic about that (maybe @wixbloom mentioned it to me? It included "starfish" as a euphemism) but I've never seen fanart... >:?

 

...A terrible thought just crossed my mind.

Spoiler: And it is the phrase

"Varric and Isabela write a porno."

 

Sudden urge to draw torrid romance novel cover

 

... WELL I WAS PLANNING ON GIVING YOU GUYS THE BANTER AS I GOT TO IT, but please skip to 4:27 in this video if you don't mind spoilers for Aveline's companion quest. (And more spoilers if you watch any of the banters after it.)

 

I reviewed it in my Questionable Dragon Age Fanfic thread! Dig it up when I get home ;)

 

>Where is this popular fellow?






>.>; hopefully not my mine


A LOT of carta dudes!

@LadyNighteyes likes it when enemies literally fall out of the sky, so I took a screenshot of this guy :P

Ok glad this fight is over AAAA STOP STABBING ME

are these spiders necessary

wow, i sure am glad that fighting all those spiders was worth it >:T


Maybe if their shiv had been sharper, they'd be alive?



WHO EVEN NEEDS THIS MANY MERCENARIES

(A pause in the middle of the fight for triumphant music.)

 

Ooo, a present!


Varric still cannot open complex chests, alas.


THIS IS TOO MANY GOD DAMNED MERCENARIES oh hey javaris


^Hawke is speaking here.



>_?

 

> Elf?

 

>Elf?





eheh.



A fucking ton of bodyguards!


>_?