#varania

[demonic-dorito]

I know many people immediately hate Varania for betraying Fenris, but I think in her eyes, it was the best she could do for him.

When Fenris kills Hadriana, he says that Danarius must know that Fenris knows about his sister. Could there even be a world in which Danarius is monitoring Varania constantly? Checking through all the messages she got, having her followed, reading the messages she sends to Fenris, using his influence as a magister to make sure Varania’s work was never quite successful- keeping her desperate for a way to have a decent quality of life. Like if she straight up said no to his proposition he could literally just have her blacklisted from whatever line of work she wanted to be in, so she’d be forced to come back to him, groveling. “””Best””” case scenario is Varania gets to Kirkwall, hangs out with Fenris for a few days, Danarius captures Varania and tells Fenris that if he doesn’t come back, he’s gonna torture Varania. With this in mind, Varania’s best play is to go along with Danarius from the get go. And the sad part is, that’s also the best for Fenris in Varania’s mind. If Fenris returns to slavery with his sister as his masters apprentice, she would be in a position of authority- one she could use to help him, ease his struggles. And think about the way Varania reacts to seeing her brother again. She isn’t cackling maniacally and twirling her stick-on curly mustache- she sounds devastated he actually showed up. This, to me, doesn’t read like she was power seeking. It feels like she genuinely cared for her brother despite the resentment she felt toward him due to her struggles of being a free elf in a slave society.

Now, do I believe that Danarius would hold up his end of the bargain? Absolutely not. I think he’d plot to have to disposed of the second the three of them landed on Seheron to replace her with a respectable (read:human) apprentice. At that point, it’d be far harder to Fenris to escape.

I truly don’t believe Varania ever had a real moment of agency in the situation. She, like many of those whose misfortune lands them in Kirkwall, is a tragic character. I hope she was able to find work in the Free Marshes.

#Varania #Fenris #da2 #da analysis #dragon age #my post #if she’s not featured in future content I will die #Danarius

[ere-the-sun-rises]

So, I was listening to the Fenris romance from DA2 again (for reasons not at all related to Gideon Emery's voice) and got to the part where he asks you to go with him to meet Varania. He mentions she had been working for Magister Erimond, but moved on to Minrathous.

Magister Erimond.

The asshole who was controlling the Wardens at Adamant.

Maybe the rest of the fandom already figured this out, but I was today years old and it fucking hit me like a ton of bricks.

#Dragon age #Dragon age 2 #Da #Da2 #Dai #Dragon age inquisition #Fenris #Varania #Magister erimond

[transfenris-truther]

FANFIC UPDATE:

Chapter 43 of No Town More Barren Than Our Town is up! In this chapter, Fenris confronts his sister with documents from his past and finally asks for her help with them. Here's a little excerpt. Thanks so much to everyone who's still excited about this fic after so many chapters. It means the world.

Varania sighed, turning to the shopkeep in the doorway, “Amelia? Close up the shop, please. You can go home for the day.” The shopkeep curtsied, “As you say, Magister.” Fenris didn't miss the tension in Varania’s shoulders, but waited until he heard the bell of the front door announced Amelia's exit before he asked, “Magister?” Her face was too neutral, “You know how these southerners are. Any Tevinter Mage is a magister.” He narrowed his eyes, “So you're saying she's mistaken.” Varania slumped slightly, caught, “My status is under review.” He tossed the envelope onto the desk in front of her, “Is that how you got these? Magisterial Privilege?” She shook her head, not looking him in the eyes, she removed the magnifying spectacles and set them on the desk, “They were a part of the estate, Leto. It was in the documents. Didn't you read them?” He scowled, “How could I?” “You read now, don't you?” She paused, realizing, “You can't read Tevene. I never considered… we corresponded in Common.” He didn't say anything. The expression on her face was unreadable, and Fenris was reminded suddenly that they were essentially strangers.

#fenris #da2 #fanfic update #no town more barren than our town #fenhawke #Varania #dragon age #fanfic

[illusivesoul]

"I would have given you everything"

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #fenris #varania #illusivedits #illusivesouledits #fenris dragon age #dragon age fenris #dragon age elves #hawke #female hawke #femhawke #irene hawke #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #gamingnetwork #dragon age gifs #daedit #daedits #dragonageedit

[silver-horse]

I have some thoughts about the Dragon Age Keep and what it might mean for future games.

I think it’s weird that lots of minor choices are recorded in the Keep, meanwhile seemingly important things that affected companions are not recorded. This is of course relevant because we have to import a world state from the Keep. The only choices that future games can react to are the ones in the Keep. They are the choices that can matter in the long run.

Here are some examples for the choices recorded in the DA Keep:

 did the warden give an amulet to a beggar?

 did the warden take part in a bar fight with troublemakers?

 did the warden return a book to the Shaperate library?  

 did Bella, a random tavern waitress start a brewery? died? etc.

 did the warden bring Varathorn ironbark? (no story significance, he just makes something from ironbark that we can use)

did Hawke return some cargo to Martin? ( if yes, then he starts a shop, we can trade there but it has no relevance beyond DA2)

... and so on, you get the picture. (Imagine if they also kept a list of every sidequest from Inquisiton where we herded sheep, asked someone to be an agent or collected flowers for a widow.)  I could list soooo many choices which almost certainly won’t be relevant in the future. While I think it’s cool to keep a record of these small things, the problem is many other choices should take priority. So why keep a record of these choices and not the things I am about to list below?

Some choices that are NOT recorded in the DA Keep:

did Alistair get hardened?  (This isn’t that relevant for Leliana because for a time she is hardened no matter what and her final ending in DAI is recorded as it should be. However it’s important in Alistair’s case, especially if he becomes king. Logically the future of Ferelden should be different at least slightly. It should matter who the ruler is and what kind of ruler that person becomes. In DAO even the dialogues are different with Alistair if he is hardened yet in later games this change is erased? So is it meaningless?)

for each of the companions in DA2, were they rivals or friends of Hawke?? (for Inquisition it’s recorded about every companion whether or not they became friends with the Inquisitor. Yet this is not recorded for the game that had a rivalry system?? It’s also not recorded if the warden had a bad relationship with anyone. Of course this was unlikely because of the many gifts, still.)

the fate of Velanna and Sigrun? (it’s pretty clear that Bioware isn’t interested in continuing their story, they will never return. Still their fate at least could have been recorded in the Keep.)

the fate of Jowan? (originally there would have been an option to recruit him as a companion, this didn’t happen but he still played a significant role. The warden can free him and tell him to leave, in that case he survives and goes on to help refugees. Otherwise he is usually executed, yet these differences are not shown in the Keep.)

did Fenris kill his own sister?!? (it’s pretty evident that this could be important to him. Plus the next game takes place in Tevinter and she is there if she is alive. Maybe Bioware never wants to bring back most of the companions from DA2 other than Varric or maybe Isabela so they don’t care about their personal stories, I don’t know. But this tapestry should keep track of any potentially unfinished story threads. If characters ever return even for a short cameo and we ask them about things, certain answers should be different.)

I could probably keep listing important choices which are missing from the Keep, but this is already a long post and we can all see the problem here.

Bioware said that they don’t have a fixed planned ending for the Dragon Age series, it’s an evolving universe. They rework cancelled projects and change things all the time. They can’t know which choices will be relevant. They might decide to follow up on some story threads.

I wonder if additional choices could be added to the Dragon Age Keep? What do you guys think? Would they ever do that? Expand the Keep with more choices from previous games? (Otherwise they either need to force a canon choice or they need to avoid the mere mention of events that weren’t recorded in the keep. Disappointing either way.)

#dragon age keep #my thoughts #Dragon Age #analysis #da4 #dragon age 4 #my post #my posts #dragon age dreadwolf #Dragon Age Origins #Dragon Age II #Dragon Age Inquisition #dragon age 2 #Alistair #Fenris #Varania #Jowan #Velanna #Sigrun #dragon age awakening #Alistair Theirin #da mine #dao #keep #dragon age exodus #da2 #dai #Inquisition #Awakening #text post

[loquaciousquark]

[Fic] Iron Bound [24/25]

Rating: G Characters/Pairings: Fenris/Hawke, Sebastian Word Count: 5.5k this chapter, ~96k total Summary: Fenris, captain of Starkhaven’s White Guard and the dearest friend of that country’s prince, has arrived in the kingdom of Kirkwall with a retinue of noble-born guards and a carriage brimming with lavish gifts. How else to win over the hearts of a suspicious mountain people who would rather break teeth on stone than accept the prince of Starkhaven stealing away their heir princess?

But stone is all they have in their kitchens lately, and gravel in their quarries and ice in their bitter rivers, and Starkhaven sits abreast the richest lea and moorland south of the Minanter.

And Sebastian Vael, the young prince of that country, needs a wife.

—

Varania, despite considerable effort and a—frankly—rather resilient will, was going to cry.

Even the bustling cheer of the tavern around her could not stop it. Cupped between her hands was a bowl of thick broth, a few potatoes and carrots idly floating through it; she had tried to taste it twice, but disappointment had made her throat too tight to swallow and she could not bear to try again. Her eyes burned badly; she blinked and the bowl blurred, wavered, then reformed.

The image rose again in her mind. A great hall, lit warmly with fire and welcome, clear afternoon sunlight spilling through the towering windows. A crowd of many others, a hundred like her and unlike her in every way, waiting patiently between her and the raised dais at the end of the room. And upon the dais two black thrones; and seated on the rightward one a man dressed in soft, expensive leathers, his skin a rich brown, his stern eyes a familiar mossy green, and his brow crowned in black and twisting iron…

Someone laughed two tables over and the reverie shattered. The inn was overwhelmed by the dinner crowd, every table bursting; the only sign of the waitress was an occasional overloaded platter glimpsed above the throng’s heads, and a piercing whistle which summoned kitchen boys like magic.

She had thought the letter had been magic. What else could it have been, a starlit hand reaching out of the black morass of her future like a lifeline from the gods themselves, promises scrawled across the page like jewels spilled from an upturned sack.

A brother yet alive.

—

Links: FF.net, AO3

#dragon age #quark writes #fenris #hawke #fenris/hawke #varania #did you REALLY think we were getting out of this fic without varania #a b s o l u t e l y n o t

[quillfulwriter]

Short little emotional hurt/comfort with found family fluff written for flufftober ❤️

☕ Tip me on coffee if you liked the read!

#flufftober #flufftober 2023 #fenhawke #dragon age 2 #fenris x hawke #da fenris #da2 #da hawke #mage hawke #danarius #varania #read tags on ao3 #my fanfiction

[inclusive-dragonage-mods]

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage2/mods/3944

Nicol's Varania Morph by Aveneri

This is the only Varania mod I’ve seen that isn’t influenced by the bullshit Blue Wraith tried to push about Fenris’ pre-ritual appearance, which as far as I’m concerned makes it the only one worth sharing.

#dragon age #da2 #dragon age 2 #bioware #varania #dragon age mods #diversity #dewhitewashing #fenris

[the-cryptographer]

Ey! Guess who finished their novel length fic about Sebastian and fenders *checks calander* two weeks ago?! (It’s me.)

Anyhow, enjoy a (mostly) lighthearted romantic comedy romp where Sebastian tries to break-up and make-up Fenris and Anders, and confronts the ways his religion can be both empowering and disempowering. All to the backdrop of Chantry fundraisers, diamondback, terrible friends, worse relatives, and human trafficking in Thedas’s worst city.

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games) Rating: Mature Relationships: Fenris & Sebastian Vael, Anders/Fenris (Dragon Age), Male Hawke/Sebastian Vael, Isabela/Merrill/Varania (Dragon Age) Characters: Sebastian Vael, Fenris (Dragon Age), Anders (Dragon Age), Justice (Dragon Age), Male Hawke (Dragon Age), Varric Tethras, Merrill (Dragon Age), Isabela (Dragon Age), Aveline Vallen, Donnic Hendyr, Elthina (Dragon Age), Varania (Dragon Age), Cullen Rutherford

#Sebastian Vael #Fenris #Anders #fenders #Varania #dragon age #my writing

[all-action-all-picture]

Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators - 8

1982 UK paperback edition of 'Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators: The Mystery of the Silver Spider'.

Originally published in 1967, written by Robert Arthur with a cover by Peter Archer.

#robert arthur #alfred hitchcock #the three investigators #1982 #1967 #alfred hitchcock and the three investigators #peter archer #varania #paperback

[lelianaslefthand]

ALONE

DRAGON AGE 2 | NO MAGIC, NO PROBLEM! PLAYTHROUGH

#dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #da:ii #fenris #varania #no magic no problem! #brb sobbing #.myedits

[demonic-dorito]

Related to my last post about Varania:

part of me believes Danarius sent Hadriana there specifically to be killed so the apprentice spot could open up for Varania. Fenris would be compelled to stay with Danarius and not try to escape again bc Fenris clearly cares about his family (ya know, the whole “I’m going to enter in a deadly competition wherein- best case scenario- I get sold to a new master and spend the rest of my life in slavery and never see my family who I’m doing it all for again” schtick he’s got going on) and having his sister by his side might “placate” him.

#you can’t tell me it doesn’t make sense for Danarius’ character #Danarius #Fenris #Varania #Hadriana #da2 #da analysis #dragon age #my post

[transfenris-truther]

Thanks for the tag last week @blarrghe . As requested, here's just a taste of Varania content from the next chapter of No Town More Barren Than Our Town. Tagging @blarrghe right back, @merrybandofmurderers and @tea42 . If I missed anyone, sorry! I'm playing less attention to Tumblr lately!

The shopkeep shook her head, a black strand of hair escaping her neatly tied back hairstyle, “In the back. Where we take the measurements.”  “Show me.” She didn't hesitate, but the atmosphere of fear was all around her. He wondered bitterly what Varania had told her. It was like being Danarius’ bodyguard again. His reputation preceded him.  She led him wordlessly to a door on the back wall, swinging it open on smooth, silent hinges. The room it opened up to was larger than the front shop and divided into sections by rattan and wood screens. Along the back wall was a long wooden table fitted with dozens of small drawers. There, illuminated by a ball of steady-glowing magical energy, sat Varania, sewing tiny stitches that disappeared neatly into plush fabric. She turned to look at him, green eyes flashing even larger than usual behind a set of magnifying spectacles. “Change your mind about killing me?” She asked, as if it were the least interesting question in the world.  “Not yet,” he murmured, “Or I wouldn't have come in broad daylight.”

#fenris #da2 #no town more barren than our town #varania #wip wednesday

[bishicat]

Fenris looking at Hawke with his big meow meow eyes :3c

#so i just finished his act 3 quest 'Alone' and when fenris looks at hawke after sparing varania I just...........fell even deeper #his EYES are what got me #like they seemed so full of sorrow but also hope (?) & love at that time #that's when I had to close the game to draw them eyeballz #cause fenris is my big meow meow baby and he deserves some fanart #this was so fun to paint ahahhghghgg i need to draw him more #fenris #dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #dragon age fanart #fenhawke #digital art #my art #anyway back to playin 🏃‍♀️ #bishiart

[kirkwallmorningnews]

if i had a nickel for every time a warrior companion sought out his sister that he never met in a bid for a family connection he has lacked and wanted his entire life, only to be rebuffed and blamed by said sister for the death of their mother and shamed for living in perceived luxury while she has had to scrape to survive, i would have two nickels.

#alistair theirin #fenris #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #obviously there are some differences #alistair has never met goldanna and fenris technically has met varania. he just has no memory of her #also goldanna isnt actually alistair's sister but he fully believed she was #and goldanna also didn't try to sell alistair into slavery to get ahead. to my knowledge. #that would have been a much stranger quest #idr if varania ever outright blames fenris for the death of their mother #but i do think it was implied in 'freedom was no boon' #now I'm just rambling

[breadedsinner]

What is Dragon Age 2 if not a story about collecting Little Brothers like Pokemon.

#DA Tag #I don't think we're ever told if Fenris or Varania is older but eeehhh #I am assigning him Little Brother