AN ELUVIAN HAS TWO FACES, AFTER ALL.

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[ HIBISCUS ] sender invites receiver to go traveling with them.

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Just as the premise of an invitation begins to form in Mira's mind, the little fox ambles up to her eagerly with an enthusiastic wag of his plush tail as if on cue, for the guise of the leal'nehn'vellath'shiral is best worn in cases like this. To unfriendly eyes, he would appear as little more than a Fade-touched fennec (whose population had recently exploded as a consequence of the Breach), magical enough to warrant appreciation and evoke a sense of mystique, yet mundane enough to be remain nonthreatening and endearing.

He stands on his hind legs for a moment, front paws making a repetitive series of digging motions against Mira's calf. June yips at her, the air about him conveying a sense that he is well-pleased by the prospect. As he lets out an affirmative yip, his tiny face adopts an open-mouthed-grin; an almost humanoid expression of joy. Where many might rightfully demand to know the nature of their destination while walking with someone (and a god might easily be expected to demand such explanations imperiously), there comes no question as to where they are headed, as June seems content to trust and to be trusted with the simple pleasure of a shared journey.

It was infinitely more gratifying than watching Mira's travails from afar, as he'd done during her tenure in Skyhold. As Mira closes her eyes, the image of a grand and splendid aravel designed specifically for sailing the skies fills the darkened space behind her eyelids, the slow pace at which its elegant sails of silk brocade furrow against the endless expanse of cloud convey a sense of leisure and profound enjoyment; the sentiment of a wayfarer recently freed from his gaol who has remembered at last how to stop and appreciate the scent of the flowers along the roadside.

thinking about how solas and mythal did actually radicalize june, though his mission was always to secure the freedom (if not the resurrection/restoration of) the titans, so of course he expressed this in a way they both found extremely objectionable. it went from june simply wanting to help his friends to june genuinely believing that freeing them (no matter the cost) was the right thing to do in general, which is meaningful because the concept of morality held little water with him before this. this extends into him masterminding the mage revolt at kinloch, because he saw how they were mistreated. he watched the rise of the institution of the circle and observed every single failed harrowing ritual from the eluvians in the harrowing chamber, from first to last. as elven children with magical talent were kidnapped and forced to join the circle where they were brutally reeducated by the chantry, so too did june seek to reeducate humans using the blight, which he believed everyone should ultimately become part of in order to achieve the ultimate level of mutual respect and understanding through being a hivemind.

as far as my worldstate is concerned, i really don't think the entire south of thedas was destroyed in vg, especially in a dark ritual worldstate + one where the wardens in amaranthine were equipped with silverite + not banished during inquisition, because you have greater preventative power depending on your worldstate choices. i do, however, think elgar'nan would specifically make it a point of specifically destroying kinloch and denerim as vengeance for june. there's also something to be said about how elgar'nan, velanna, and mythal (all narratively positioned as first peoples/in-world racial minorities) aren't permitted by a white-authored narrative to want justice or vengeance for the wrongs done to them and their loved ones by humans. that was A Choice on the part of the devs and i'm not here for it. any threads referencing kinloch or denerim in vg with june will default to these two specific locations being annihilated.

i find it very interesting how yt people who speak over poc and behave very performatively (parroting antiracism talking points while actively harassing and maligning poc) in fandom spaces will suddenly lash out and feel threatened when they see other white people acknowledging racism in a manner that directly includes their peers of color in the conversation without taking up the entire stage, or speaking over them. it's deflection through projecting one's own misdeeds on to someone else. every accusation is a subconscious confession.

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ELVHENAN:

ORIGINS:

  • tba.

DA2:

  • tba.

INQUISITION:

VEILGUARD:

i think there's a reason the statues look like this in the regret prison, especially considering that falon'din is right next to june (falon'din's imagery has been sighted next to june's since origins), ghilan'nain is next to elgar'nan (who are both center stage for vg.) the positioning is clearly significant and meant to tell us something, and i don't think it's about the evanuris's past relationships.

it's subtle insight on what's going on with them right now. solas is focused on the present while he's talking to rook. he made that prison and his will is the force that causes the prison to take this shape, because rook canonically knows either very little or nothing at all about the evanuris, much less their respective symbols/imagery.

in addition to the fact that june is essentially the living reason why magic functions (and therefore why elvhenan and the evanuris's magic function and exist), because of his incredibly varied and unsurpassed talents and skillsets, june is by far at the highest risk of being kidnapped (whether by one of his fellow gods or their enemies) out of all the evanuris. the same can be said for his worshippers, whose skills are always in high demand. this is a big part of why he's the most elusive and seldom-seen of the gods. if he weren't a god, he'd be at risk of being hunted by people who want to traffic and enslave him, point blank period. that's why the evanuris guard him the same way the glassworkers of serault are guarded.

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