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palipunk · 2 years

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Music night with clan Lavellan ♪♫ - Desert Dalish vibes all around!

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too-many-lavellans · 1 year

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🌱Elfroot Excursion🌱

Lineart by Myre | Colours by Juls

From our Inquisikids to yours, Happy Dragon Age Day!!

#Dragon Age #Dragon Age: Inquisition #Story Time #Clan Lavellan #Little 'vellans #Cerill Lavellan #Keeper Deshanna #Shep'lan Lavellan #Andros Lavellan #Von Lavellan #Venui Lavellan #Semiel Ariathra #Ordina Ariathra #Valaris Nessina #Pehn Lavellan #Serran Lavellan #Yet again a demi-sibs collab that took Far longer to finish than needed. for... reasons... But Here It Is!!#it's a lavellan comic yes but secretly very specifically a cerill+wes comic

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anneapocalypse · 2 years

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I really like the Clan Lavellan war table op line in Inquisition.

I do agree with the criticisms about no one reacting to the outcomes (to either one, actually, though I mostly see people talk about that in the case of the clan being killed). But I love the quest line itself, the story of it, and the incredible show of solidarity and cooperation that is possible if it succeeds.

It is an incredibly precarious situation, for a variety of reasons that make perfect sense in-universe. From the perspective of Clan Lavellan, one of their own is in the hands of a militant organization they have every reason not to trust, and their clan is under attack. They have no desire to start trouble with anyone, but thanks to their position and their history, for their own survival they must assume the worst about any show of force directed at them by an outside group. The humans of Wycome are suffering under some sort of affliction they do not understand; people are sick and dying and frightened, and with enough provocation they will be quick to blame a historically scapegoated group within reach. The Inquisition is observing the situation from afar, trying to make decisions with limited information, where one misstep could have disastrous results.

Much of the op line is about listening carefully to the information given by your sources, evaluating it, and choosing who to trust. Can a ruling noble be relied upon to care about protecting a Dalish clan camped near his city? (Absolutely not.) Can Dalish elves, city elves, and human commoners be persuaded to see their common interests and work together? (Yes, actually.) When is the right time to send troops, and when will an overt show of force make everything worse?

The outcome if you succeed is truly remarkable. With some assistance from Inquisition spies, you have a Dalish clan, the alienage elves, and a coalition of human merchants banding together to not only save themselves and their city, but overthrow the corrupt Duke and end aristocratic rule in Wycome altogether with the formation of a City Council on which the elves both city and Dalish are represented. This new system is protected first by the Inquisition and later by an alliance with Kirkwall under the new Viscount, Varric Tethras.

This is incredible! This is unprecendented! In my opinion, it's up there with getting Briala a title and disbanding the Templar order as one of the most revolutionary things an Inquisitor can do—exclusive to an elven Inquisitor because of their clan connections, and hidden within this little line of optional war table operations.

I just think it's really neat.

#lavellan #clan lavellan #inquisitor lavellan #dragon age meta #dragon age inquisition #wycome #duke antoine #dragon age #dalish #dalish elves #city elves

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catebeesart · 1 year

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Keeper Deshanna Istimaethoriel Lavellan, stern and wise and just a liiiittle spooky

(she can will the roots on her path to support her throne and move her wherever she wants to be!)

#she counts as a girlboss #aaa she looks just as i intended #i love expanding on eelis's clan #shoutout to latvian folk clothing btw hot shit #cate draws elves #keeper deshanna #dragon age #clan lavellan #dai #beesart

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schubertgoobert · 6 months

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If you see me down on my knees, please do not think that I pray.

Little pseudo-tarot card painting of Omen

#omen #dragon age #dragon age art #dai #lavellan #clan lavellan #dragon age inquisition #da #dragon age elf #dragon age oc #dalish #dalish elf #dragon age fanart #digital art #fanart #my art #Omen Lavellan #non inquisitor lavellan #dragon age character

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brekkie-e · 1 year

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Mithra’ama’nira Lavellan.

Part time Inquisitor. Full time dork. Love of my life.

I plan to make a full introduction post for her at some point, but for now more relevant info under the cut.

Mithra'ama'nira is her formal elvhen name. It translates roughly to pearl of the heavens. She uses Ama'nira with non-dalish as many find it difficult to pronounce. Close friends and family call her Nira. This means she goes through most of Inquisition being referred to as Ama'nira and Nira almost exclusively.

She is one of twelve siblings. Her mother is an Antivan city elf. Their entire family is trilingual, but predominantly use antivan and dalish elvish. They have subtle Antivan accents.

Her mothers family line are descendents of a high priestess of Ghilan'nain. In my lore, Ghilan'nain "blessed" her 4 high priestesses with her visage and enhanced their magic. This became a bloodline trait passed down from mother to daughter, so all the afab people in Nira's family line have golden eyes, are extremely pale, and have the hair. It is rare for them not to be born a mage as well. The family has lost all record of this connection, and just think it is a bit of a quirk of their genes.

Ama'nira is autistic, and also struggles with anxiety. Some of her core hyperfixations are the Grand Necropolis of Nevarra, the craftsmanship behind the tools used to make Vallaslin, 3 select Green Knights that led Clan Lavellan from the Dales, and any elvhen history she can get her hands on.

She is not a talented mage. She had a traumatic incident with it when she was young that makes her over think it, and has never figured out how to move past it. Therefore she is not the First of Clan Lavellan, but in fact the Third.

She has a very complicated and unhealthy relationship with her mother.

I have had this character in the works for the better part of four years. She is a part of a whole gaggle of oc's that work together during Inquisition in my canon. I've had such a blast developing a Lavellan clan and family for her. Since most of what we see in the games and books are clans dwindling in numbers, I wanted to explore making a clan that is very large and finding new ways of adapting to the changing world they live in. This was even more fun to play with and create a multi-cultural family.

Give me an oc. I can and will run away with the world building for it.

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #solas #lavellan #inquisitor lavellan #dai #dalish #dalish inquisitor #clan lavellan #dragon age dreadwolf #my oc #my inquisitor #inquisitor ama'nira #brekkie art #brekkie oc's #solavellan #autistic oc's #autistic inquisitor

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my-usshak · 13 days

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Did...? Did my clan got destroyed?!?;?!?

#dragon age #dai #clan lavellan #I'M SO SAD MAN #dragon age inquisition

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cairaleighexe · 1 year

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hanan portrait i scrapped but couldn't bring myself to bury

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haverdoodles · 2 years

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Deshanna

— (Keeper Istimaethoriel)

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The youngest Keeper in Clan Lavellan’s history, powerful earth mage, single mother of three, and future grandmother of Thedas’ Herald of Andraste.

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Her younger self vs her current self :)

#keeper deshanna #keeper istimaethoriel #clan lavellan #haverdoodles #haverdoodles oc #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #art

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blarrghe · 4 months

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The Hunter, the Snake, and the Fox

M | No Warnings Apply | M/M | Pavellan | Canon-Divergent

Summary:

When Magister Dorian Pavus' expedition meets unexpectedly with a clan of unhappy Dalish elves, First Taren Lavellan may be the unhappiest among them. Unhappier still to be put to the task of helping to see his quest through. This is the tale of how a fortnight in the forests of the Free Marches can change everything.

Notes:

This is a canon-divergent, enemies-to-lovers tragedy. I'm just gonna say that last bit once. Set in a canon-compliant Thedas where the Breach/Inquisition simply never happened. Other game-typical politics and prejudices are intact.

This is also a first for me in that this fic is already finished, and I will be updating weekly! Consistency! Wow!

Ch. 1/26: Master Pavus

Snippet:

The dawn rose misty. Soft brushes of pale white fog hung low in the air, painting the forest floor in a glittery dew. Rays of watery yellow echoed through the slats between trees in a faded memory of sunlight. It was quiet. The blue-grey soaked cushion of a cluttered forest floor insulated the small clearing where Dorian's company had made their camp. Only a few faint birds chirped, calling out desperate, lost calls in a farewell to summer.

Dorian Pavus woke damp in his tent, cursing the chill.

DAFF tage list: @warpedlegacy @rakshadow @rosella-writes @effelants @bluewren @breninarthur @ar-lath-ma-cully @dreadfutures @ir0n-angel @inquisimer @crackinglamb @theluckywizard @nirikeehan @oxygenforthewicked @exalted-dawn-drabbles @melisustheweee @agentkatie @delicatefade

#I'm finally posting ittttttttt #pavellan #my writing #my fic #dragon age #dragon age fanfic #dragon age inquisition #dragon age inquisition fanfic #da:i #dorian pavus #dorian x lavellan #clan lavellan #enemies to lovers #canon divergent au #but also canon compliant ish? very much in the DA universe for a change #the hunter the snake and the fox #I'm so exciteedddddd

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heniareth · 10 months

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Hey. Hey. If clan Lavellan is wiped out in your playthrough and you play a mage Lavellan, then the First of clan Lavellan is also the last :D

#i'll see myself out #so sorry #inquisitor lavellan #lavellan #mage lavellan #dai #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #clan lavellan

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greypetrel · 1 year

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She's a 10, but she's studying LatinTevene on Catullus.

"Fen..." "Don't tell me. Your head hurts and you need help getting down." "Mpf, no. But can you tell me what does "pedicabo et irrumabo" mean?" "... Excuse me?" "I get that the author is angry at these Aurelius and Furius... But the vocabulary is too difficult, I don't understand what he wants to do to them. And also what can't hairy old men do about limbs that need to move?" "... what the Void are you reading, weirdo?!" "Prefaction says it's a renowned Tevinter author! The first poems were very, very beautiful, he's so in love with this Lesbia... Even if I don't think he really meant 'sparrow'..."

"Give me that book." "HEY!" "It's not fit for children." "I'm not a child!! I have my Vallaslin! Give it back, you can read it after I'm done!" "Go to horny jail!" "You go first!

"Aaaw, Pavyn, Radha, look at them!" "Disgusting. Losing time like that. In the open. Tsk." "You could apologise to her and have her attention back, brother..." "As if I care about the attention of a backstabber." "They're so cute together! They'll get married in Spring, I'll do her a crown with elfroot and crystal graces, they'll be gorgeous on her hair!" "She didn't backstab you, Pavyn, she just studied when you were having fun." "She forgot to study how to have a dignitous social life. And personal spaces." "And oh, they'll have a lot of children with the greenest eyes, and they'll play with mine, and they'll marry eventually! It will be so romantic!!"

More of the AU. Featuring siblings and friends assisting and shipping them, because the Lavellans have in-house therapy, but no privacy.

(Catullus XVI, if you'd like to know.)

#dragon age #fenris #lavellan #da fanart #fenris x lavellan #cuties coexisting #clan lavellan #sketch #greypetrel #aisling lavellan #radha lavellan #da art

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aldruiel-scribbles · 2 months

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It is finally happening, and I'm not even close to finish but it's a start

P.S: the dragonborn is not the Inquisitor, and shit will happen, and Solas will deliciously suffer a lot a little

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fadedapparition · 2 years

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the implicit politics of clan lavellan: keeper istimaethoriel is pretty great, actually

the exposure we get to clan lavellan is limited to a few dialogues and the war table operations, but i like what's suggested by the "good ending." the only outcome for the clan other than its wholesale destruction (don't even get me started) is its shift to a position halfway between a that of a regular clan and a group of regimented, politically unified, culturally and theologically traditionalistic city elves. the clan becomes sedentary, settling permanently in/near wycome. it's able to claim formal political power in a region where feudal systems aren't as deeply-entrenched and the sovereignty of individual cities is zealously upheld.

this opportunity is unprecedented, and clan lavellan is uniquely positioned to take advantage of it due to the preparations of its keeper. keeper istimaethoriel has been quietly readying for this sort of eventuality since before the story began, and this strange ending puts her in the perfect situation to implement the political program that's implied from the second she appears in the narrative.

in both dialogues with josephine and letters from the keeper, clan lavellan is characterized as aberrant inasmuch as they're relatively cosmopolitan and mercantile, relying on trade as a secondary mode of living. as a clan that's unusually dependent on trade, it's in their best interest to maintain cordial relationships with sedentary societies, and their attempts to do so have been more-or-less successful. keeper istimaethoriel says as much in her letters.

While some Dalish clans hate humans and wish nothing to do with them, Clan Lavellan has always dealt fairly with all and wished only for peace.

and in one conclusion of the same operation,

We would be a distraction if we came to the Inquisition itself, our hunters arguing with the humans as they so easily do.

clan lavellan finds itself in and around human settlements often enough that the hunters arguing with humans is a known tendency. it's also notable that relations with humans are, while tense, sufficiently civil that the hunters are arguing rather than being forced into armed conflicts. you only get into debates with people who are not actively attempting to massacre you.

choice-dependent dialogues with josephine buttress this characterization of the clan as one that has been effective in forging ties with its sedentary neighbors.

PC: The human towns we traded with ate the same food and suffered the same weather we did. PC: The main difference was that they had homes, while we wandered.

the reference to "village mobs" in an alternate part of the same dialogue tree emphasizes that pursuing these relations can be dangerous, but you know which sedentary population is most likely to trade fairly/least likely to stab you for being an elf? one composed entirely of other elves: the wycome alienage.

it's not stated that clan lavellan has had prior dealings with the elves of wycome, but it's not an unrealistic inference to make based on how the two groups treat one another.

Keeper Istimaethoriel: Some of the elves of Wycome fled their alienage to warn us. Others fled to escape the harsh treatment they are suffering in the city. I fear violence will come soon, da'len.

the fact that the city elves of wycome begin fleeing to clan lavellan even before the purge indicates that 1) the city elves believe it plausible that the clan would grant them refuge 2) the city elves feel obligated to warn the clan of potential dangers. based on these attitudes, there’s a sense of solidarity between these two groups; the city elves trust and attempt to aid the clan, trust that the clan proves justified by accepting refugees and risking themselves to intervene militarily. the “dalish are isolationist” claim a few city elves make elsewhere in the series is a clan-specific complaint borne partially of ethnic prejudice, and the attitudes they display towards each other indicate that it’s not a widely-held belief among the elves of wycome or at all applicable to this clan in particular.

and all of the traits given to the clan through the war table operations, dialogues, etc. are compatible with and implicit in the initial premise of the game. lavellan is sent to the conclave as a spy, and it makes more sense that she’s able to move in culturally human circles so easily if she’s used to being tasked with doing so. the pc was only at the conclave in the first place because this keeper is atypical in her keen, consistent interest in foreign politics.

Solas: Your clan was unique in having enough interest in human affairs to send you to spy upon the Divine's meeting.

it's a common criticism that lavellan's narrative pretext for being present at the conclave is weak, and while i don't disagree, it's less true if sending spies to meddle in human business is exactly the sort of thing deshanna would do. this conflict will affect elves, and judging by her reactions to wycome, deshanna considers all elves to be her business. she is an established meddler, and she knows exactly what she's doing here.

one of the details i like best about this is the departure from inquisition's standard treatment of economic modernization as inextricable from cultural assimilation. you can play a lavellan who is proudly and unapologetically dalish, having received extensive cultural instruction from the keeper herself (the line in the temple of mythal about being taught the prayers to falon'din, among others). keeper istimaethoriel is progressive in most respects, but not at the cost of maintaining the clan's robust cultural legacy. this keeper has pursued economic modernization and diplomatic outreach without sacrificing her cultural preservation/transmission efforts because she sees them as linked goals - in order to preserve the people, you need allies, new members, the ability to adapt without losing the things that make you who you are. becoming the partial ruler of a multiracial polity is the absolute ideal outcome for someone with these beliefs.

in origins, lanaya, the first to keeper zathrian, says that when the elves find a homeland, all elves - even "those who have forgotten," or city elves - will live in safety and reclaim their traditions. if the player character intercedes prudently, keeper istimaethoriel has secured them a home, one where close interaction between dalish- and city-born elves is an inevitability. she doesn't have to wait for the rise of a second elvhenan to share lost lore with those who want it or materially aid elves across ethnic lines; if the clan survives, she can begin that work immediately.

deshanna spends her whole micro-narrative prepping for this, and because she has, i can see it going incredibly well. go get ‘em ma

#a lot of this is probably self-evident. i just wanted to type it up rq<3 #clan lavellan #dragon age meta #dragon age inquisition #deshanna istimaethoriel lavellan #dragon age

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schubertgoobert · 1 year

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Pride of the Dalish

Omen, sole survivor of Clan Lavellan, and younger brother of the Inquisitor

#omen #omen lavellan #dragon age #lavellan #oc: omen #dalish #non-inquisitor lavellan #dragon age inquisition #dai #my art #digital art #dragon age art #oh this lad #slaps his head #this bad boy can fit so much trauma #clan lavellan

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catebeesart · 1 year

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Veli Lavellan, Eelis's best friend and hunting partner from before the Inquisition.

Keeper Deshanna actually tasked him to go to the Conclave, and Eelis asked to follow (it was all a ploy to send them both, because the buddy system is important!!) But even the Keeper couldn't predict what would happen at Haven.

#im trying to draw canon characters but its not happening. srry!#eelis was the only survivor of the breach so you can put two and two together #i love veli too much to say what happened to him #cate draws elves #oc: veli lavellan #dragon age #clan lavellan #dai #beesart

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