MAGIC'S IN THE AIR TONIGHT

Under the shroud of night

its so difficult to draw anatomy. and objects. and backgrounds. and clothing. and colors. and lighting. i honestly dont know how i ever managed to draw anything in my entire life

Dungeon Meshi Episode 17

"fenris hates all mages" counterpoint: he just has beef with Anders Specifically

obsessed with characters who were written for one another. like, what do you mean the reason for my existence is to be by your side? what do you mean our divine purpose is to belong to one another, for better or worse?

Softie

god i love making animatics in my head i wish drawing was real

ダンジョン飯 by 並木風磨@namiki_kazama

oh they super understood the assignment this time holy shit

my giveaway prize for the lovely @hawkeeffect who requested something with fenhawke and neck kisses. thank you for being so patient. ♥

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I think Anders and purple!Hawke are very adorable, and I don’t draw them quite enough.

i love when people draw 2 characters cuddling and it looks like this

bfs…

what if hawke and anders kept writing to each other while hawke was getting his unforgettable 'cassandra is beating the shit out of a dummy with my face on it' experience at skyhold

one day hawke witnesses a raven almost crash on his desk. the note, written in blocky letters, reads, "HAD TO TAKE OVER FOR A WHILE. HE KEPT TRYING TO FOLLOW SOME 'SONG'. WILL 'CATCH UP' ON 'SLEEP'. YOU BOTH ARE WELCOME. WHERE DO YOU KEEP 'TEA'."

the second raven flies in five minutes later. "FOUND IT."

hours pass, hawke goes to bed. the third raven screams to let her in.

"THAT WAS NOT TEA. PLEASE LABEL YOUR ELFROOT."

ok so the point i was going to make re: the circle tower and ferelden geopolitics was that the fact that all of ferelden only having one single circle, is CRAZY. orlais, a country of similar size, has FOUR; each(!!) marcher city has their own. antiva and the anderfels also have 1 circle each and they are respectively #1 a nation the quarter of the size of ferelden and #2 a barren wasteland of a place. and this is pre-blight! and i can believe that ferelden has a lower population than orlais, but i struggle to accept that ferelden has a quarter the population that orlais does. even nevarra, by all accounts an old and dying state, has 2.

there are clearly templars stationed at many chantries throughout ferelden, but the idea that they could possibly find every single mage in the country and send them to the tower is preposterous. ferelden simply does not have the infrastructure for that, neither to spread out over the whole country to hunt apostates nor to contain them all in one place. (how many people can that tower handle???)

this suggests that ferelden is generally more lax about apostates than elsewhere, which is reinforced both in da2 and inquisition when we get word that alistair (in da2) offered refuge to escaped kirkwall mages in ferelden and that alistair and/or anora (in inquisition) allowed the mage rebellion quarter in redcliffe. you could argue that alistair's decision might have been influenced by the events of dao but anora is (i say this lovingly) a bit of a hardass! rather than being moved by mage assistance in dao i would suggest instead that she is reflecting a larger ferelden attitude towards mages, which is less harsh than orlesian or marcher attitudes

we know that mages in the circle can be called upon in times of war to assist their country's army (i think that was mentioned in dao but it's stated several times in the novels). something to consider, then, is that circles are not only for containing mages and protecting people from them; but they are also for the consolidation of magic as a military power. orlais and the marcher states are creating armies. ferelden, with its sort of implicit acknowledgement that the tower doesn't hold all the mages in the country, lacks that military resource. even in the stolen throne there's only one single mage working on the ferelden side in contrast to quite a few on the orlesian side

which is why it's #1 crazy that the fereldens successfully liberated themselves from orlais #2 crazy that they defeated the blight and, most importantly, it's why you should NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DOG LORD!!!!!