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๐ด๐๐๐๐: "As High as Honor" ๐บ๐๐๐๐: is a sky-blue falcon soaring upwards, outlined against a white moon on a sky-blue field. ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐: darker hair, lighter skin, and gray or darker eyes with strong Andal traits.
๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ one of the Great noble Houses of the Seven Kingdoms. Their seat is the Eyrie - which is considered impregnable. Their other holding is their Winter castle; the Gates of the Moon (which was once their main seat).
Both castles are next to the Giant's Lance, the tallest mountain in the Vale with the Gates of the Moon in front and the Eyrie further back, nearing the top.
The Arryns have many distant relatives throughout the Vale. However, they are much poorer, the exception are the Arryns of Gulltown. An example is Petyr Baelish - although lesser they are still proud of their name and heritage.
The founder of House Arryn was Ser Artys Arryn, known as the Falcon Knight, and it was founded by the Coming of the Andals. Kingย Roland I Arryn, the grandson of Ser Artys and fourth Arryn king, began the process of building theย Eyrie.
The First Men who did not accept Artys as their king were forced into the Mountains of the Moon, becoming the Vale mountain clans.
During the Conquest, the Arryn and Targaryen fleets fought in a battle in the waters off Gulltown, which resulted in the destruction of the Targaryen fleet and the death of its commanding officer, Daemon Velaryon. Visenya Targaryen, on her dragon Vhagar, burned the Arryn fleet in response.
Visenya was tasked with securing the Vale. So, Visenya flew on Vhagar to obtain the surrender of the Vale of Arryn. When Sharra Arryn, the Queen Regent of the Vale, returned to the Eyrie she found her son sitting on Visenya's lap asking if he could ride the dragon with her. Once Sharra yielded and bent the knee, Ronnel flew twice with Visenya and Vhagar.
The Arryns have since remained Defenders of the Vale and Wardens of the East for the Iron Throne.
Accidentally repeating history by making an Elven Rook (originally Dalish by design/if game permits) who finds themselves trying to save the world in the footsteps of Inquisitor Lavellan.
It would be really cool to find some Rook + Lavellan / Lavellan + Ameridan parallels while playing through Veilguard.
Rook stumbles upon a hidden bookshelf in the Lighthouse.
Rook: *running their fingers across the book spines* Whatโs this? Your evil plan repository?
Solas: Unimportant.
Rook: Oddly reticent. Letโs have a read.
Solas: NO!
Rook: Oh, that just makes me want to read it more.
Rook pulls a random book out and flips to a random page. The smile on their face drops. Their brow furrows.
Rook: Solas, literally the first sentence I read was: โMy mouth descended upon her yearning flower.โ
Solas: *coughs awkwardly and looks away*
Rook: SolasโฆSolas, is this your porn stash?
Solas: Erotica.
Rook: Nuance, listenโwait, this is your hand writing. D-didโฆdid you write this?
Solas: โฆ
Rook: *grabs another random book* Youโre hand writing again. โHer masterful mouth and tongue worked my-โ
Solas: You donโt have to read it out loud.
Several hours laterโฆ
Rook: * throwing books all over the place* Itโs all fucking lewdโs!!! You wrote all this smut!
Solas: A mere thought experiment put to paper.
Rook: This is not a thought experiment, this is a horny dissertation! All about you and this Lavellan lady. Andrasteโs Tits! Are you trying to get a PhD in Down Bad?!
Solas: Can we stop talking now?
Rook: Did you get this peer reviewed by Desire Demonโs or something? This shitโs smutty. I thought Varric was bad.
Sometimeโฆ
Lavellan: My name is Lavellan.
Rook, mouth agape, turns to the projection of Solas.
Solas: Not. A. Word.
Rook: *shaking Lavellanโs hand* Hi. Iโve read all about you.
A tear in the Fade appears. Solas reaches out and begins to strangle Rook.
I like to write Solas and Lavellan as equally unhinged.
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they look like ex boyfriends who just broke up bc robby was afraid someone would find out. then they go to prom with girls who they have no interest in and when they find each other at the party. robby regrets it and miguel dares him to come closer and kiss him in front of all these people.
We've talked about Ghilan'nain and her monster making experiments.
And I saw a post somewhere about how the Dalish consider the halla "brothers and sisters" to the clan, and what if that is actually literal? Like, Ghilan'nain experimented on elves to make the halla?
And while that is horrifying, I want to point out the concept art for the varterral.
That torso certainly looks like it might have once been a fucking person to me!
Let me just drop my new gif here.
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Iโm not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.ย Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, thatโs what a king does.ย Of course Artemisโs wrath is wild and painful, thatโs what nature can be.ย Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her motherโs arms, thatโs what death does.ย This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively toย โnicerโ gods are kind of missing the point.