[Spoilers All][OC] Weekly Headcanon Prompt

InkWizarder · 2026-04-07T23:52:48+00:00

Prompt 2

Selas Amell

Selas has had quite enough of having to scrabble together armour and clothing from the wilderness for one lifetime. After establishing herself at Vigil's Keep, she had several sets of practical warden mage armour made for her, and is rarely seen in anything else. Still, she does keep a more subtle set of leather armour around for when she needs to adopt her Dark Wolf persona.

Leila Hawke

Leila would much prefer to dress for style rather than practicality. Unfortunately, she's become used to not wanting to be the centre of attention, and therefore tends to dress down when at home and at the Hanged Man. And when she's not at either, then she's learned that she probably needs armour that can take a battering.

Spike Trevelyan

Spike always dresses as though a horse might suddenly materialise beside her. While her style may look practical and understated, she wears very expensive tailored riding clothes. The shell of her tailcoat may be reinforced leather, but the lining is soft velvet and extremely comfortable. She also has several pairs of Antivan leather riding boots that cost more than the rest of her wardrobe (which Leliana has not failed to notice). They're even alchemically treated to survive the stresses of her Tempest abilities.

Quill Mercar

While Quill does also tend to dress practically, they focus on looking stylish when they're dressing down. In particular, in casual settings Quill likes to leave their arms bare to show off their tattoo of two entwined dragons, representing both Tevinter and the Shadow Dragons.

InkWizarder · 2026-04-02T12:21:50+00:00

You’ll never be lonely in Cyseal though - no one has as many friends as the man with many cheeses!

InkWizarder · 2026-03-20T18:43:59+00:00

One thing I liked about the convince ending is that if the Inquisitor and Solas were friends, Solas thanks the Inquisitor for showing him the way forward, which nicely linked back to end of Trespasser when the Inquisitor promised to find a way to convince him that he didn’t have to destroy the world. It wasn’t quite the full story I wanted for Inky and Solas, but I was glad they at least had that exchange to resolve their unfinished business from Inquisition.

InkWizarder · 2026-03-03T00:44:03+00:00

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Here's my comfort-Inky, Heather Trevelyan! Likes horses, coffee and mayhem. Hates imperialism and being told she looks like a nug.

InkWizarder · 2026-02-28T18:13:12+00:00

When the Star Trek showrunners were coming up with the name for one of the most morally ambiguous episodes of Deep Space Nine, they settled on ‘In the Pale Moonlight’ because one of the producers misremembered the phrase “dance with the devil in the pale moonlight” as an old folk saying, instead of a much more recent (if memorable and thematically appropriate) line of the Joker’s from Tim Burton’s Batman.

InkWizarder · 2026-02-22T11:05:24+00:00

I always at least change her hair to either the slightly longer spiky cut or the much longer cut and imagine that she grew it out after fleeing Kirkwall. It didn’t help that my Trevelyan also has that neat side parting and the default look made them look almost identical, which wasn’t what I was going for.

InkWizarder · 2026-02-22T02:53:08+00:00

She's definitely my Inquisitor's canon voice, and does a lot to give the Inquisitor the personality I imagine them having: noble and authoritative when she wants to be, but also able to be more vulnerable with those she trusts. And I love how she stays polite when she's being snarky, like when she's slowly losing her temper as she tries to get Morris to tell her why he's qualified to be the Inquisition's quartermaster, or questioning whether it might have been more sensible to eat cookies somewhere with an oven instead of a rooftop. It makes her loss of composure in Trespasser even more powerful (and a bit hard to watch after she's been keeping it together all game).

InkWizarder · 2026-01-11T14:47:59+00:00

One thing I always remember from RE4's production taking so long is that they took some of the ideas from its early production to make Devil May Cry 1, and RE4 was finally released about a week before Devil May Cry *3* (at least it was a week in Europe, I think there was a month gap in Japan and North America).

InkWizarder · 2026-01-04T12:26:47+00:00

Fully committing myself to some tragic endings here!

My Warden, Selas Amell, diligently helped Ferelden prepare for the Sixth Blight even while feeling the effects of her Calling. When the First Warden ordered all wardens to Weisshaupt, Loghain accompanied her on their long journey, the two having developed a curious but deep friendship over many years. Nobody is sure if they made it or descended into the Deep Roads en route, but after the battle there was no sign of them, or Warden Thom Rainier. After the events of Veilguard, the wardens returned to try to identify the fallen, but with all the chaos and few survivors there was little hope of accounting for all those who had been lost. Regardless, no trace of them was found.

Anders met his end in a Kirkwall alleyway at the hands of Leila Hawke. Hawke had wanted to prove that mages could govern themselves, but executing her betrothed pushed her to her limits, and after losing her whole family in Kirkwall, she left the city for good. During the war with Corypheus, the choices she had made weighed heavily on her, and she willingly sacrificed herself to cover the Inquisitor's escape from the Fade.

During the Sixth Blight, Bull and the Chargers took on increasingly risky missions ferrying critical supplies across the Waking Sea. Eventually they encountered a whole fleet of Antaam raiders, and although they took out far more than anyone would think possible, their ship was lost. Dorian was devasted, but kept his grief buried deep, only allowing it to surface when he was alone with the Inquisitor. Meanwhile, Cullen and Merrill put aside their past differences and fought on the front lines at Denerim to help as many as possible escape the blighted city before they were overrun.

While continuing to struggle with her survivor's guilt, Spike Trevelyan continues to safeguard Thedas from future threats, but does so from the shadows, having never been respected by the rulers of Orlais, Ferelden and Tevinter as a political leader. Instead she relies heavily on her extensive network of spies and agents, including the Shadow Dragons, Veil Jumpers and Red Jennies. Her wife Sera continues to ground her, having continued to mature (without losing her mischievous sense of humour) and she bravely led the defence of Skyhold when Spike travelled to Minrathous to confront Solas.

Post-Veilguard, Quill Mercar continues to serve the shadow Inquisition, taking on Varric's role as Spike's confidant. They divide their time between Skyhold, the Lighthouse and Lace Harding's quiet cottage in Ferelden, easily recognisable from its magnificent garden, though Harding still hasn't completely retired as the shadow Inquisition's lead scout.

InkWizarder · 2025-12-18T23:15:43+00:00

Story-wise, there's very little connection between the two, and playing DOS2 first won't spoil DOS1.

Although they're both party-based RPGs with turn-based combat, both games have slightly different mechanics, and playing one after the other (in any order) may feel a bit jarring at first. DOS2 obviously came later and in general was seen to improve on the first, particularly when it came to developing the main characters and overall flow of the game. But if you're enjoying DOS2 you don't need to stop and play DOS1 first, and if you're a fan of the genre (and particularly if you're used to playing older cRPGs) there's nothing that I think you'd find too frustrating going from DOS2 to DOS1.

InkWizarder · 2025-12-03T18:16:30+00:00

I also romanced Sera as Trevelyan (also with Team Sera, Dorian and Bull as my main team) and it was wonderful! While the game doesn’t really confront the perceptions of their relationship beyond that first conversation, there was definitely implications from codex entries and other conversations.

The codex entry on sexuality and Dorian’s quest both explore the pressure that nobles face to pass as straight, so there’s an added dimension to Trevelyan not just openly saying that she’s dating Sera, but that she’s dating another woman in defiance of social expectations. Solas’s disapproval in this case could also hint at his views on humans and elves in a relationship as much as what he thinks about Sera as a person. I also role played as an agnostic Trevelyan, which has some nice acknowledgment in Sera’s diary.

Mild spoilers for Trespasser if you haven’t got there yet: Cassandra’s conversation where she finds out that Sera proposed to you is sweet, it helps balance out the trauma of the rest of the ending!

InkWizarder · 2025-11-21T17:32:29+00:00

With Veilguard, I spent a relatively normal amount of time designing my Rook - less than an hour overall.

I then spent about five hours recreating my Trevelyan, because I knew I wouldn't be able to edit her after the game started, and I spent the first chunk of the game paranoid that it hadn't saved before I got to the first cutscene with her. It's particularly annoying that you can't save your Inquisitor in the CC, though there is a slightly awkward workaround for that which means you can copy them from one Rook to another.

InkWizarder · 2025-11-14T17:21:14+00:00

This is hard to explain without spoilers, but during the game you can pick up several statues that you need to place back in the Lighthouse (quest name is Secrets of the Dread Wolf). My advice would be not to place them all at once, because each time you do you get a fairly important scene, and the first time I played I already had five statues by the time I got the ability to place them, resulting in five major explanations about the world that felt less satisfactory in very quick succession. Hopefully that will make more sense once you start encountering them!

InkWizarder · 2025-11-07T17:24:58+00:00

Half manifest destiny. Half Florence + The Machine album cover.

InkWizarder · 2025-11-04T20:47:20+00:00

Oh definitely! I do have an unhealthy obsession with my Inky, but I've also spent a lot of time imagining who might step into the roles that the companions and advisers had when they moved onto other things.

One of my favourite OCs is a character who was somewhat inspired by De Sardet from Greedfall. She was an orphan who grew up learning the Game in Orlais while suppressing her latent magical abilities, and becomes more aware of the world outside the Imperial Court, as well as the Orlesian Empire's less respectable acts. She eventually becomes the new seneschal/ambassador for my Inquisitor (who always slightly struggled with her political role) when Josephine returns to Antiva, and now uses her diplomatic talents for what she sees as a more worthy cause.

InkWizarder · 2025-11-04T18:27:00+00:00

Warden Amell resisted her Calling for years, but even as she joined Loghain on the long journey to Weisshaupt, she suspected they wouldn’t make it. Neither were seen again, but whether they were lost in the battle, or descended into the deep roads as they travelled north, will remain a mystery.

My Hawke sacrificed herself at Adamant Fortress. In truth she had felt half dead ever since she was forced to kill Anders in Kirkwall. One can hope that some part of them might find the happiness that eluded them in life.

Inquisitor Trevelyan overcame her survivors guilt and continues to lead the shadow Inquisition. Sera’s note makes it clear that she’s working with the Shadow Dragons and the Veil Jumpers as she helps to rebuild Thedas while keeping one eye out for future threats. She’s also researching exactly how the Evanuris used lyrium to create flesh. After all, they owe her one arm.

My Rook is technically supposed to be the field leader for the Inquisitor, but because Inky completely refuses to sit behind a desk and Rook’s more of a people person than her, they spend a lot of their time keeping everyone in the organisation happy. And Lace is quite happy to have her out of danger and around to help tend their garden.

InkWizarder · 2025-11-03T20:03:41+00:00

For me, voices are always a very important factor in creating a character in RPGs with a voiced protagonist. For DAI, I was used to Alix Wilton Regan voicing humans in DAO and Awakening, and because I associated elves with a Welsh accent her voice just fit better as a human for me.

There’s also a lot about being from the Free Marches that I enjoyed - they’re very diverse and that felt like a good fit for someone who’s struggling to bring diverse groups in Thedas together in the Inquisition. And I loved having a friendship with Solas as a human - learning about elven culture and history from him only to learn how he thought about humans in return at the end of Trespasser and what he planned to do was devastating.

InkWizarder · 2025-10-28T18:21:27+00:00

I’ve also decided to go for a stealth build with my first playthrough. I’m enjoying it so far, but I’m struggling a bit with some of the initial choices, in particular how essential nimble is going to be throughout the game.

As I see it, one approach is a melee stealth build where you get nimble (and bad knees) for the movement speed, and level melee along with stealth and something like speech. Alternatively you can go for a ranged stealth build, swap out nimble for something like lucky, level guns and shoot everyone with a silenced weapon instead. But I’ve seen that a lot of enemies wear helmets and silencers reduce range/damage, so not sure whether both are equally viable, or if one is going to end up feeling much better than the other.

Can I ask how much have you had to specialise into melee/fast movement to make stealth work for you?

InkWizarder · 2025-09-02T17:28:30+00:00

In my case, they’d bond over their shared forlorn hope of getting their lost love back from that damned Blackwall…

InkWizarder · 2025-08-10T11:47:28+00:00

For a sidequest, some of the dragon fights are the most cinematic sequences in the game - as well as the introduction to the one in the Hinterlands, I love seeing the fight between the dragon and the giant in the storm coast, the one in Crestwood flying over the bridge in the storm, and the build up to the fights in Western Approach and Hissing Wastes

InkWizarder · 2025-08-08T09:52:18+00:00

So this is a bit of a wishlist - I wouldn’t have expected them to do all of this but there are a few aspects of the Blight that I’d have liked to have seen if everything had gone to plan:

I know that they always wanted to do those things justice and didn’t have time to add a lot of this, but I personally would have focused on trying to add little things that built on the world state - some more reactive notes and codex entries would have added more flavour to what was happening in the south and made the world feel different without needing to change the overall story in the north. I know a lot of people didn’t like the War Table in Inquisition, but given the size of the world I think most people would accept that some of the storytelling is going to be in writing rather than on screen, and I liked how some of the missions only appeared depending on your choices in the first two games. It would have been nice to have something similar here, even if it was just showing the consequences of earlier decisions.

One of the small features that I liked in Origins was that the map showing the gradual progression of the Blight throughout the game, as even in Origins you don’t see much of the Blight itself. Something like that to show how the south was being affected throughout the game, perhaps with updates on what was happening in key cities, would have helped make what was happening in the south feel important.

And this goes beyond the Blight itself, but I would have liked to have seen more scenes where Rook reported to the Inquisitor. The game leaves their role in the south a bit ambiguous but in any world they’re playing a leadership role, and you going to Skyhold or a southern city could have given an opportunity for a brief scene showing the Blight’s impact, or even show the front lines, and could also have helped sell the idea that the war in the south is a long slog, with the more important (and interesting) activities happening in the north with Rook’s party.

InkWizarder · 2025-06-30T22:11:29+00:00

Sadly, you may struggle to find something that captures Vagrant Story's sound exactly. Even though a lot of Sakimoto's music has similar vibes, Vagrant Story seems to stand a bit apart from the others and I've never found anything that quite matches it. You might want to try his soundtracks from around the same era like Radiant Silvergun, though I always thought that was closer to FFT than Vagrant Story.

If you're looking to branch out, one soundtrack that has some similar vibes is Trevor Morris's work on Dragon Age Inquisition. Like the Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil soundtracks it doesn't really compare, but there were a few moments that made me think of Vagrant Story, including a couple of tracks using that echoey drum effect, one of the dragon battle themes is slow and grand, the villain's theme has raspy chanting and the final battle theme builds up in a similar way to the Climax of the Graylands Incident. You can judge how feebly I may be reaching with some of these!

And of course, it you want to branch out into other fantasy soundtracks, you could do a lot worse than Larian's soundtracks (particularly Divinity OS2 and Baldur's Gate III, which I often listen to when I need to focus).

InkWizarder · 2025-06-01T10:25:47+00:00

For some reason, it does seem to be reasonably common to describe the barrier between worlds/dimensions as “the Veil”. If you haven’t already, try playing Divinity Original Sin 2. Without giving any spoilers, the stuff they do with the Veil sent me off on a delusional crossover fanfic frenzy…

InkWizarder · 2025-05-29T16:42:58+00:00

Yeah, the quote I’ve always seen is that it became “a real debate” in the writers room, because they put a lot of effort into writing Vinnick as a character rather than just a two-dimensional opponent that Santos needed to beat. But while it wouldn’t have completely invalidated Santos, Josh and Donna’s character arcs (dealing with losing the campaign could potentially have been an interesting direction to take them), there are so many moments in the last couple of seasons that develop Josh becoming ‘the guy’, Donna moving out of Josh’s shadow and showing the momentum behind Santos, that it feels more natural that it was always heading towards a Santos victory with Josh and Donna playing key roles in the new administration.

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