Underappreciated moment of peak comedy: when you’re busting Lucanis out of the ossuary and you’re stuck in an elevator with him. I read the fanfics before playing and y'all really did not convey to me when you first recruit him how fucking creepy Lucanis is. There’s all this build up of dead guards on the way to his cell. He hisses and growls all his lines, talks to thin air, probably has the body language of a wretched feral cat about to lose its shit. Harding, bless her, is like ‘heyyy uh do we really wanna be confined in a tight space w this guy’
Meanwhile Rook is desperately trying to make small talk by asking about his grandma. Amazing. We should have had some elevator music going in the background, otherwise no notes
Before Veilguard’s release I was theorizing the Veilguard companion characters might have been designed to be parallels to the known Evanuris, but I couldn’t place all of them.
Now that I’ve played the game (almost twice) I think I’ve figured them all out.
Rook - Elgar'nan, the leader. Controller of light and dark. The one who influences the others.
Neve - Mythal, who can be a fierce protector or a source of inspiration and hope.
Harding - Andruil, the hunter, who went mad from the Void and had to fight her way back
Bellara - June, the inventor. Master of magical artifact.
Lucanis - Dirthamen, keeper of secrets, who mastered the twin ravens of Fear and Deceit, and returned from death.
Davrin - Ghilan'nain, Master of Monsters, Keeper of Halla.
Emmrich - Falon'Din, the necromancer. Friend of the dead.
Taash - Sylaise, who’s fire cannot be quenched.
Which leaves Solas to play the role he always has - Fen'Harel, the trickster and betrayer, who could ally with them, if only they will listen to his advice and try to protect their world as best as they can.
the mortalitasi may be the funniest mages in thedas because as far as i can tell their entire strategy is just to do blood magic with so much confidence nobody questions it
Love that for them. (I also have arguments about spirit healing.)
Can you imagine how much social propriety gets drilled into people in the north about Not Calling The Mortalitasi Blood Mages?
Can you imagine being drilled relentlessly on etiquette but also having the Extremely Handy Ability to automatically sense all blood magic/thinning of the veil in your vicinity?
Lucanis is so tired, you guys.
I think it helps that not ALL necromancy is blood magic despite that tweet, and I’ve had issues with it since she said it.
By definition, blood magic uses the mana stored in a living person’s blood to fuel it. If the caster uses their own willpower to connect to the Fade and cast, then it’s magic, not blood magic.
Dorian’s casting in DA:I only used his own mana, for example.
In the Mortalitasi skill above, the caster isn’t using blood magic until their own mana is depleted.
I’m not saying they don’t use blood magic sometimes (or even for some weaker Mortalitasi all the time). But I am saying the fact it’s not always 100% certain they are doing blood magic just by being necromancers or mortalitasi probably helps them get away with it.
I love that Emmrich gives you approval if you pick Dorian as archon. “Mindful and polite” peepaw heard “violent revolution” and went 👍🏼 Well done, Rook!
P. S. It is completely in character, I adore that.
DA series really made two the most charming and beautiful necromancers and then official statistics say they are the least romanced companions in their games
God, now I’m thinking about student Dorian at the Necropolis, sneaking out at night to canoodle with another boy and getting caught by Professor Volkarin, who gives them a talking to (he’s not judging too harshly, but it’s not safe for students to wander the Necropolis unattended!) and sends them back to the dormitories.
Or at least he meant to, but young Master Pavus seems genuinely upset for some reason, which is quite unlike the usually flippant young man. He asks Emmrich if his father is going to be told about this, which has Emmrich baffled because why would a magister need to be told about his son engaging in a bit of ordinary teenage mischief?
And then Dorian finally manages to get out that no, he’s not talking about the sneaking out part. He’s afraid his father is going to be told that he was with another boy.
And the whole awful situation finally clicks into place for Emmrich, who now has to sit down with Dorian and explain that of course his father won’t be told, because there’s nothing wrong with the gender of the person he’s choosing to spend his time with. If his father takes issue with it, then his father is the one in the wrong. There is nothing wrong with Dorian being who he is.
And now Emmrich also has to pretend he can’t tell that Dorian is trying very hard not to cry, because he’s never had an adult say any of this to him before, and it’s something he’s needed to hear for so long.
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