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Exalted_Dawn @exalted-dawn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Character sheet comm for @inquisimer.bsky.social #dragonage #datv #rook

Exalted_Dawn @exalted-dawn.bsky.social · 6d ago

A couple of previews of the stickers im doing for @dragonageannual.art !!! Enjoy some dragons :>

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 2w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @meripoika.bsky.social is a hobbyist artist from Finland with a graphic design background. She's been a #DragonAge fan since Origins and is excited to work alongside other amazing artists. #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 instagram · cara

square cropped fanart of Lucanis Dellamorte from Dragon Age: The Veilguard by Meri, merch artist. He is wearing his starting armor and landing from a jump in a three-point stance. Spite's wings are extended behind him, and the background has black-purple crystals protruding from the ground.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · last mo.

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @yolebrat.bsky.social is a professional artist, illustrator, & DFA inspired by fantasy worlds. #DragonAge holds a special place in her heart and growing up with the games totally had nothing to do with the direction of her career #DragonAgeAnnual 🔗 tumblr · instagram

A square cropped fanart of an elven character holding a lamb with golden horns, by Yolebrat, calendar artist. The elf has long white hair and red eyes, and both they and the lamb are glaring directly at the camera.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · last mo.

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @zazrichor.bsky.social is an illustrator with a penchant for portraits and character art, as well as a budding love for landscapes. Anything with dragons in it has their attention. #DragonAge #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 tumblr · cara

a square cropped fanart of Sten from Dragon Age Origins, by zazrichor, calendar artist. Sten is depicted inthe Dragon Age Tarot style, with Dog the mabari, the wild's flower, Sten's sword, and many geometric elements depicted symbolically around him.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · last mo.

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝️ @exhaustedarchivist.bsky.social is far too invested in exploring lore of fauna, flora, food, & maps in Thedas & elsewhere, along w/how it interplays with the environments & cultures. They're excited for another year of people's thoughts on the world of Thedas! 🔗 tumblr

An excerpt of fanfiction by Archi, calendar writer:
Whether they are domestic or wild stock, on the surface or in the Deep Roads or thaigs like Kal-Sharok, Kal'Hirol, or Orzammar. Brontos are known for a few things: their utility and unique dietary adaptability. Due to their low sustenance requirements, it allows them to live on as little as water, fungus, and rocks. It is astounding that brontos are capable of extracting nutrients from even the barest of edible organic material and still be capable of such strength. It is that strength and hardiness that makes them prized beasts of burden with a fierceness rivaled only by the druffalo.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · last mo.

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 When not languishing in the pit of angst headcanons, gl1tch can be frequently found either writing or gaming, with a cup of forgotten tea nearby and a sleeping dog curled up beside him. #DragonAgeAnnual #DragonAge #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

An excerpt of fanfiction by gl1tch, calendar writer:
"How could you let her charge off like that?" It was less of a question, more of a dagger in the gut. And then, "My daughter, my sweet angel..." And Hawke bites back her sorrow and her anger, keeping herself form bitterling swiping back. Instead she only thinks it, thinks, I'm your daughter, too...

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · last mo.

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 juniper-and-dragonthorn has been part of the #DragonAge fandom since the end of 2024, writing fic and participating in fan events. She loves this world so much and is so excited to be participating in #DragonAgeAnnual for the first time! #zine 🔗 tumblr

An excerpt of fanfiction by juniper-and-dragonthorn, calendar writer:
No. The refusal is vicious, plenetic, rooted deep in some near-forgotten place. To the feeble creature you inhabit, however, the offer is tempting. desperate now, you try to shake the temptation loose, kick it away. The creature has little strength, you realize, it yearns to acquiesce. To be free. To be free as you want to be free.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · last mo.

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 Writer, editor, lore nerd. Hinterlands fan. Elfroot collector. Person with a normal number of hours invested in every #DragonAge game. #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 tumblr · @isatunoll.bsky.social · ao3

An excerpt of fanfiction by Mick, calendar writer & beta reader:
"Hey, Formless One," Emmrich said, his tone as casual as he could make it. "Do you want to come to the Fall Out Wisp concert in the Crescent Fane with me tonight?"

The silence hung in the still air of the chamber and Emmrich could see Johanna's face twist into a mocking expression, ready to laugh at his attempt.

Then, a faint vibration trembled the ground beneath their feet.

"Oh. My. Fucking. Maker," said the Formless One.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 Middy, aka midnightprelude, loves writing complex characters in #DragonAge, with her two favorites being Dorian and Anders. She's especially excited for the theme of this calendar because of how beautiful so many Dragon Age settings are! #DragonAgeAnnual 🔗 tumblr · ao3

An excerpt of fanfiction by Middy, calendar writer:
Time barely made an imprint this deep in Darktown, so Anders found the best clock to be the shaking of his own hands. If they were steady, still, calm, as they should be, then dawn was far away. The first tremors he would only notice during detail work- stitching wounds that would heal well enough without magic, for example. Just a little hesitation. A little unsteadiness, as the night burned away like the wick of a candle.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 Mo has been telling stories since she could talk and writing in the #DragonAge fandom for about three years. She's excited to be participating in #DragonAgeAnnual for the 2nd year and looks forward to the amazing creations that will be part of it! #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfiction excerpt by mortonsspoon, calendar writer:
Tucked behind a tree and a thousand years worth of vines, a mosaic gleamed golden whenever the sunlight touched it. Bellara stepped toward it, spell-swathed hand lifting automatically to search for any hint of lingering magic. As she di so, she took in the sweep of color: green-blue tiles in the background, pale outlines, gold details. She would have to brush away the leaves and clean the tiles to see all of it. It would be revealed one little piece at a time or not at all, as so many things were.

It would be worth the work it took to find.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 Rosella is a writer of fanfic by day and a chronic replayer of video games by night. When not pondering ancient elves, dwarven castes, and the Chant of Light, you can find them making soup and sourdough. #DragonAgeAnnual #DragonAge #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfiction excerpt by Rosella, calendar writer:
Heir sees the way she unsettles others reflected in their eyes, and for a moment, she is reminded of the glassy, oblong pupils of dumb sheep. These people are instruments in a grander scheme, notes of a song that thrums relentlessly to a harmonious end. It is Heir's honour to be one of the musicians suited to pluck the bowstrings.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 A #DragonAge fan for well over a decade, Sinope has been reading and writing fanfic since the early 90s. She loves found family, overthinks everything, and spends too much time playing with yeast and yarn (separately). #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfiction excerpt by Sinope, calendar writer:
The spirits trapped in Johanna's lantern weighed on his heart. He had no lack of good intentions; what he needed was the words. What incantation could open floodgates so sturdy? What force could he call upon that would have sufficient authority, without draining his own stores dry? The answers eluded him, and Emmrich did not appreciate being eluded.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 wishforhome has been playing #DragonAge games since they came out in 2009, but only joined the DA fandom with the release of Veilguard. When they're not writing or moderating events, you'll generally find them watching, talking, or thinking about hockey. 🔗 tumblr · ao3

An excerpt of fanfiction by wishforhome, calendar writer & beta reader:
The Grand Cleric of Antiva has ideas about power. She believes - or at least, she says she believes - that he is the Maker's chosen, that it was divine providence that struck down his half-siblings and cleared the path to his throne. She proclaims he will rule by divine right, with the Maker's most sacred blessing.

But Viago knows better.

He will rule, instead, by the right of blood.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @chevalierlogan.bsky.social is a storyboard artist working in the animation industry with a love for dramatic storylines and morally grey characters. #DragonAge #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 instagram · twitter

square cropped fanart by ChevalierLogan, Zine Artist, of Zevran Arainai, Dorian Pavus, and Isabela from Dragon Age. They are standing around a map and Dorian has his palms spread across it. Both Dorian and Isabela are looking at Zevran, and all three are smirking. The artwork is desaturated sepia, with gold highlights on Isabela and Dorian's jewelry.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 Keeley is also known as OokeyKukey (or just Kuke) on other platforms around the world wide web. This is her first time contributing to #DragonAgeAnnual, but she's super excited to be part of the project! #DragonAge #zine 🔗 tumblr · instagram · website

square cropped fanart by Keeley W, zine artist. A redheaded woman is flying a futuristic red car over an apartment complex. There is a small, tan dog on the seat behind her, and a man playing a guitar and looking up at her from the roof below.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 This is LadyHedi's first time being part of a project like this, so she's very excited! #DragonAge has inspired her like no other and she is forever grateful for it. She hopes her love shines through her art and does it justice! #DragonAgeAnnual 🔗 instagram · tiktok

square cropped fanart by LadyHedi, zine artist, of Solas and Lavellan from Dragon Age: Inquisition. It is styled as a formal portrait, with Solas and Lavellan wearing formal clothing in green, gold, and white. Lavellan is holding a golden staff and wearing a sun-spike tiara.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 Myth makes maps and art for books and is mentally often somewhere in the depths of the Fade or the Necropolis halls. #DragonAge #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 instagram · tumblr · website

a square cropped painting by mythrender, zine artist. The perspective is underwater, looking up toward the sun. A thin character with long, dark hair is clutching a glass bottle to their chest and sinking toward the bottom. They are wrapped in shreds of seaweed. Another indistinct character is watching them from above the surface.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @paragonraptors.bsky.social is a pro illustrator & #DragonAge enthusiast. He has a scholarly interest in the impact of imperialism & economics on mage liberation, specifically pre-9:30 Kirkwall. He also really likes the characters & story & stuff. 🔗 tumblr · website

square cropped fanart by paragonraptors, zine artist, of an elven mage warden from Dragon Age. They are wearing the mage warden armor from Dragon Age II and holding a silver staff with a hook at the top and blade at the bottom. A goose with its wings spread is standing behind the warden, and the background is textured black and red stripes.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @pineflowerart.bsky.social's best friend got them into #DragonAge & the rabbit hole they've fallen into because of it has been one hell of a creative outburst! They've fallen in love with Thedas & are excited to explore its beauty #DragonAgeAnnual 🔗 tumblr · tiktok

square cropped fanart by Pineflower Art, zine artist. The artwork depicts Lavellan and the Dread Wolf from Dragon Age: Inquisition in the mural style from the same game. Lavellan is sitting below the wolf's neck, with their left hand extended toward its body, surrounded in a green glowing circle and pattern denoting the Anchor.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 4w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 Painting has been a lifelong hobby for RedRune and she's happy to do it as a full-time job. She's an old-timer who discovered #DragonAge in 2011. Being part of #DragonAgeAnnual and celebrating her love for the franchise is magical. 🔗 tumblr · instagram · website

square cropped fanart by RedRune, zine artst, of an elven character from the chest up with sharp features and dark red hair. They are wearing a fur over their left shoulder and holding a small, dark-colored dog.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @rowanartist.bsky.social rolled into #DragonAge fandom with Inquisition, fell in love with the characters, then worked their way through the earlier games. With Veilguard, the hyperfixation returned full swing & hasn't left since #DragonAgeAnnual 🔗 tumblr · instagram

square cropped fanart by RowanArtist, zine artist, of Zevran Arainai and Warden Cousland from Dragon Age: Origins. Zevran is sitting against a tree with Cousland's head in his lap, playing with Cousland's hair. Cousland has short, curly brown hair with a white streak in it, and his eyes are closed. A long sword and a short dagger are driven into the ground beside them.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 🎨 @storvacker.bsky.social enjoys creating art & world-building with her writer husband. She fell in love with the rich lore of the Frostback Basin & the Avvar who live there. He's excited to share that love in this year's #DragonAgeAnnual #zine! 🔗 tumblr · website

square cropped fanart by Sage-Crown, zine artist, of Sera, Lavellan, and Dagna in Stone-Bear Hold from Dragon Age: Inquisition. Sera and Lavellan are embracing in the foreground; Sera has a dialogue bubble that reads "So stupid...". In the background, Dagna is smiling at a large Avvar character, who is leaning on the fence of a goat's paddock.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 @unseelieash.kawaii.social crashed headlong into #DragonAge fandom in 2021 and never escaped. She remains stubbornly enamored of Grey Wardens, griffons, and Ferelden, ships Handers, and has thoughts about Elvhen linguistics nobody asked for #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 ao3

A fanfic excerpt by Ashura, zine writer:
A prayer for Ferelden: for Lothering's blighted soil and Redcliffe's bloodied walls, the dirty alleys of Denerim and the empty crater of Haven. For the girl she once was, and the heroes she helped to shape. One for Orlais: cascades of shattered glass on the palace floor, riots in the alienage and weary armies marching over battle fields barely overgrown. For the news from the north, and old friends who once believed they could lay down their arms.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 beyondthesea has been in and out of the #DragonAge fandom since 2017, after being hooked by DA2. Her interest has been primarily writing f/f rarepairs, but for #DragonAgeAnnual she's really excited to explore the idea of location as a character #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfic excerpt by beyondthesea, zine writer:
Sometimes, when the night was clear, before [Shianni's] parents locked up the house, her mother would carry her outside, just past the threshold, to look up at the sky. She doesn’t remember any of the stories she’d told her, but she does remember that she’d loved them. You have as much right to this as anyone else, her mother had repeated. The stars look down on all of us the same. Shianni can hear her saying those words when she looks up at them from the alienage, more obscured from the narrow streets by the apartments stacked on top of each other and the fort and castle in the distance, but still looking down on her just as they had in the fields of her parents’ freehold.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 cravingcoconutredbull is overjoyed to have the opportunity to connect with others who share her love for this franchise, one that has brought so many amazing people into her life that she's grateful to call friends! #DragonAge #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfic excerpt by cravingcoconutredbull, zine writer:
It felt like everything—the end of the world, the start of a new one, a hundred missed mornings and every whisper between their bodies, in the Lighthouse, in Antiva, on rooftops and battlefields and all the places where they'd dared to survive. The crowd roared at the next firework—massive, bright as a dawn that shouldn’t exist, and still, her heart was louder.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 floricolous is a writer who has been in the throes of #DragonAge brainrot for the last decade. Probably has a concerning amount of fondness for avocados, old men with magic, and cannibalism as a metaphor for everything. #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfic excerpt by floricolous, zine writer:
“Are you alright, dearest?” Emmrich reached for her, cupping her cheek, turning her face toward his, and searching her eyes. He was warm and Rook hoarded it — the heat, the affection — like pieces of grave gold that she could bury with her. Something that would go on while she became food for the earth.

Here were his hands, fashioned to fit in hers and in the curve of her cheeks.

Here was his smile, trapped in amber, preserved for all the ages to come.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 Jacs is a writer, anthropologist, and notable elf enthusiast. However, their true love is giving readers emotions (frequently the sad and/or tragic ones). #DragonAge #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfic excerpt by Jacs, zine writer:
She nodded, and stood. Part of her still wanted to beg for her name from his lips, to be loved as her grief-clouded memories told her she had been. It was painful to leave, she would probably always grieve from what could have been. But she would remember that grief, and whether she would grow from it or with it… she would decide in time.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 laufehson has been a #DragonAge fan for almost fifteen years (her longest fandom). It's her second year with #DragonAgeAnnual and she's so excited to be back— she can't wait to see how everyone interprets this year's theme :) #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

A fanfic excerpt by laufehson, zine writer:
She wondered if his attention was dependent on a misunderstanding of her character; that eventually, he would see her for what she really was: something forged of stone, hardened and sharp and impossible to bend.

Dragon Age Annual @dragonageannual.art · 3w ago

📍CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT📍 📝 A lover of storytelling and haunted landscapes, moss is endlessly infatuated with the world of #DragonAge and its characters. She is so excited that this project is the perfect intersection of those things. #DragonAgeAnnual #zine 🔗 tumblr · ao3

An fanfiction excerpt by moss, zine writer:
Fire polishing might be another alternative. Let the worst parts of herself melt down to nothing, and whatever is left behind be smoothed, hardened, cleared, purified. Maybe that’s what they tried to do to Andraste, but they had the temperature wrong, and she burned down to ash with nothing to show for their efforts.