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namedforthemoon wrote...

I just had a thought... We haven't seen pictures of Bartrand, yet.... What if he's even better looking than Varric? What if he's even more suave, more the roguish scoundrel that... We all think Varric is? What if everything Varric knows (as far as being a suave, roguish scoundrel), he learned it all from his older brother? Hmmmm.

Impossible!

[Maugrim]

mynameisdanza wrote...

namedforthemoon wrote...

I just had a thought... We haven't seen pictures of Bartrand, yet.... What if he's even better looking than Varric? What if he's even more suave, more the roguish scoundrel that... We all think Varric is? What if everything Varric knows (as far as being a suave, roguish scoundrel), he learned it all from his older brother? Hmmmm.

Impossible!

Shall we rewrite or blowup the heretic?

[bsbcaer]

I guess it would all boil down to who has the better chest hair to pull it off

[mellifera]

mynameisdanza wrote...

namedforthemoon wrote...

I just had a thought... We haven't seen pictures of Bartrand, yet.... What if he's even better looking than Varric? What if he's even more suave, more the roguish scoundrel that... We all think Varric is? What if everything Varric knows (as far as being a suave, roguish scoundrel), he learned it all from his older brother? Hmmmm.

Impossible!

I'd like both then, plz.

[Lucy Glitter]

^ ROFL

[jackkel dragon]

Maybe Bartrand can dual-wield chest hair? Don't ask me how it works... just go with it.

[aimo_ahmed]

yukidama wrote...

mynameisdanza wrote...

namedforthemoon wrote...

I just had a thought... We haven't seen pictures of Bartrand, yet.... What if he's even better looking than Varric? What if he's even more suave, more the roguish scoundrel that... We all think Varric is? What if everything Varric knows (as far as being a suave, roguish scoundrel), he learned it all from his older brother? Hmmmm.

Impossible!

I'd like both then, plz.

Uh oh. What if the Varric & Bartrand situation is like Carver & Hawke's? WHAT THEN?

But as usual, Yuki provided the only acceptable answer :3

[tmp7704]

aimo_ahmed wrote...

Uh oh. What if the Varric & Bartrand situation is like Carver & Hawke's? WHAT THEN?

It's probably like Alistair and Bann Teagan.

I sense another splintmail swapping session...

[Dave of Canada]

Might as well start revealing everything about Legend of Varric. I'll start with a companion so I don't need to explain it when I give the full description of act 1.

You'd see glimpses of Sebastian's personal life if you talked with him between acts at camp
Sebastian was a spirit healer that played the usual "white mage", though he had some damage spells if only to not make him completely useless should you be trapped alone. His health was set to low, his mana to high and was probably one of the companions you'd want to keep around because of his abilities.

Raised in a Circle, Sebastian had known nothing of the outside world and all he knew was the Circle's regime. When a very (very very very) dangerous maleficar is spotted hunting down caravans with a group of bandits, a group of templar is assigned to stopping him at all costs and are assigned Sebastian as a project to see if the Circle Mages could be trusted in hunting down their "kind" with the templar.

After being heavily abused by a few templar for refusing to light their campfire and doing "tricks", the group is attacked by the maleficar and are found losing the battle with the templar falling one by one until only the group leader and Sebastian remain. Sebastian, seeing this as his chance to flee and escape the templar's abuse, refuses to heal the leader when he cries out for heals and watches him perish under the maleficar's magic.

The maleficar, thankful for Sebastian's "passive assistance", let's him go and tells him that he's a free man. A passing caravan spots the group and notice Sebastian among them, now adorned in the templar armor, and begged for assistance before passing out from his wounds (sustained by the templar's abuse). The caravan take him in and luckily for Sebastian, they didn't head back to the local village but carried him to an isolated port where there was chantry.

A free man with no where to go, he tagged along with the caravan that saved him. The caravan was heading toward the isolated island community of Hannen, this sounded perfect and Sebastian went there. He befriended his saviors, eventually marrying the young daughter of the carriage driver. Who were these saviors? By chance, and probably the only people from Hannen who come to the mainland, the Bann of Hannen and his daughter.

The Bann himself was not pleased by Sebastian's presence, he had hoped to get his daughter married to another noble and hope to get his bannorn more well known to Ferelden. Though he had clear disgust for Sebastian, he knew his daughter loved him and kept his disgust quiet.

Years later, Sebastian would be blessed with a daughter and he raised her with his loving wife while still keeping his apostate symbole as a secret. During an argument about the Bann (She felt that he didn't respect her father), he lost his cool and accidently set a picture on fire. This revelation led to many problems that would plague Sebastian and hound him for the rest of his life, because she had approached her father and told him about it completely. He prepared to turn in Sebastian but she couldn't allow him to do it, he swore that he'd protect his secret for her and eventually the couple would solve their problems and Sebastian would tell the truth.

Another few years pass, Sebastian is now middle aged and he's forced to see his wife passing to an illness. While she's on her death bed, the Bann decides that he's had enough of Sebastian and he doesn't need to protect him anymore because he doesn't want anything of his to belong to him (he plans to get rid of Sebastian, keep the daughter and raise her as his heir). They argue, the Bann calls in the templar and Sebastian is arrested before seeing if his wife died.

Somehow (under mysterious circumstances that I'll explain later) he managed to evade the templar, get his daughter and flee to a tower north of Hannen village long abandoned for being "haunted". There he remained, sneaking into Hannen and getting supplies from a family he had befriended to feed himself and his daughter.

During Legend of Varric, with all the refugees arriving into Hannen and the guards dealing with the situation being too preoccupied to look for him, he returns to Hannen in hope of assistance with a problem that recently developed.

SIDE-QUEST: 
If you had heard the full story of Sebastian (by chapter 4) you'd be able to talk with a wounded merchant near an outpost outside of Redcliffe. This merchant would describe that the maleficar from ages past that Sebastian had been assigned to stop is still killing people and taking their supplies, now attacking people fleeing the Blight.

Sebastian, hearing about the death toll he gathered since they first met, is horrified with himself as he could've prevented their deaths had he healed the templar. (Obviously) He asks for Varric's help in stopping him if they pass by the route, if you accept then you'd find a bandit camp near the road that could be entered and you'd have a brief meeting with the maleficar before he attacks you with "his" bandits (actually peasants / refugees / guards that are being controlled by blood magic).

EPILOGUES:
If you helped him with his side quest and got the "good" ending, he'd eventually return to Hannen and realize that he never should've lied. He builds a grave for all those lost during the Blight, all those he's responsible for killing and to his wife. He disappears, leaving his belongings and nobody knows where he went off to.

If you refused to help him with his side quest and got the "good" ending, with him knowing that he's indirectly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of merchants and families, would try to locate the maleficar to a point of near obsession. He'd eventually find the maleficar, and after years of searching, would engaged him in battle as he should have all those years ago. Merchants found him dead next to the maleficar, both buried in unmarked graves as they believed both of them to have been slain by templar and both being in league with each other.

If you didn't hear about his side quest and got the "good" ending, Sebastian would eventually wonder what happened with the maleficar and search for him. He'd never find traces of "a maleficar" and this forever haunted him, one day he disappears without his belongings and nobody knows where he went off too.

Modifié par Dave of Canada, 29 janvier 2011 - 07:13 .

[namedforthemoon]

tmp7704 wrote...

aimo_ahmed wrote...

Uh oh. What if the Varric & Bartrand situation is like Carver & Hawke's? WHAT THEN?

It's probably like Alistair and Bann Teagan.

I sense another splintmail swapping session...

*ponder* I'm confused by this statement. But anyway, I see I've stirred the pot. Maybe Ms. Kirby can clarify for us.

Is Bartrand the smexy older brother that younger brother Varric learned all his debonaire suavity-goodness from?

[jackkel dragon]

Maybe Bartrand learned from Varric. Taking notes from the other side of the thin bedroom wall.

[tmp7704]

namedforthemoon wrote...

tmp7704 wrote...

It's probably like Alistair and Bann Teagan.

I sense another splintmail swapping session...

*ponder* I'm confused by this statement.

Well, since a picture is supposedly worth thousand words and all that...



drawing by aimo, obviously

[namedforthemoon]

Ohhhhh

Yeah, I was sitting here thinking, "What? You couldn't change Bann Teagan's armor in the game!" but now I get it. 

[mellifera]

aimo_ahmed wrote...

yukidama wrote...

mynameisdanza wrote...

namedforthemoon wrote...

I just had a thought... We haven't seen pictures of Bartrand, yet.... What if he's even better looking than Varric? What if he's even more suave, more the roguish scoundrel that... We all think Varric is? What if everything Varric knows (as far as being a suave, roguish scoundrel), he learned it all from his older brother? Hmmmm.

Impossible!

I'd like both then, plz.

Uh oh. What if the Varric & Bartrand situation is like Carver & Hawke's? WHAT THEN?

But as usual, Yuki provided the only acceptable answer :3

I'll force them to make up their differences, if only for a night 

[namedforthemoon]

I wonder what Bartrand looks like... Maybe he's clean shaven, like Varric. Maybe his brows are a little thicker, his hair a little darker and a little longer... And I'm sure he's got that Tethras roguish smirk. Mmm. My toes are curling just thinking about it.

[Maria Caliban]

He taught Varric *everything* he knows.

[aimo_ahmed]

Maria Caliban wrote...

*pic snip*

What did you do differently? Is it the inking?

That said, it looks wonderful.

Yes, this piece doubled as digital inking practice, something that I still haven't been able to solidly grasp yet. Was referring to the style of Alex Alice (one of my all time fave bandes desinee artists) as a guide, but he makes it look so effortless with an actual brush....while I have so much more to learn with a tablet stylus T_T

But glad that you and others like the results all the same! Will definitely strive to devote more time on this technique

Bonus: Step-by-step gif!


Direct link to gif here

I am loving the Chinese New Year Varric :3 Jade donut necklace, how apt and fabulous :3

Loving Nova-Fov's hand-offering Varric. If he's asking "Come with me if you want to live.", the right answer is YES, PLEASE X3

tmp7704 wrote...

Well, since a picture is supposedly worth thousand words and all that...



drawing by aimo, obviously ../../../images/forum/emoticons/wizard.png

Oh good god. What kind of monster have I created???

Modifié par aimo_ahmed, 29 janvier 2011 - 09:55 .

[tmp7704]

Maria Caliban wrote...

He taught Varric *everything* he knows.

Dragon Age: Ding Ding Dong?

[namedforthemoon]

I don't know, but maybe you should recreate something like this with Varric, Bartrand, Lady Hawke and Isabela/Aveline/Bethany/Merrill.

[tmp7704]

I imagine Varric and his brother could be fighting over Isabela's shoes, although doubt that'd be met with this much approval from the owner...

[namedforthemoon]

I could see Varric bringing Lady Hawke to his estate, or where Bartrand keeps his "special goods" (aka contraband) to get a few things that they might need for their next adventure. Of course, Varric already has eyes for Lady Hawke, but then out of nowhere, here comes Bartrand.

"My, my, my... Who do we have here? Varric, you didn't tell me your friend was such gem." *takes one of Lady Hawke's hands in his and holds it warmly* "Hello... My name is Bartrand. You've heard of me from my little brother, I'm sure?" *Varric rolls his eyes in disgust and goes back to looking over the shelves of goods, while his smarmy elder brother proceeds to look over Hawke's shelves of goods*

Modifié par namedforthemoon, 29 janvier 2011 - 08:15 .

[GameBoyish]

Could someone show me (or quickly sketch) a picture of Varric pointing right at YOU? I have a motivational poster to make XD

[Absafraginlootly]

I just watched the trailers again after ages.

I wasn't particularily exicted or not excited for a varric romance before but watching the rise to power trailer reminded me how sexy Brian Blooms voice is.

[namedforthemoon]

Brian Bloom definitely has a sexy voice. I'm glad they're putting it to good use this time around, with lots of lines. Hopefully some sultry, romantic lines, eh, yaknowhatImean, eh?

[bsbcaer]

TriviaAeducan wrote...

Could someone show me (or quickly sketch) a picture of Varric pointing right at YOU? I have a motivational poster to make XD

Isn't the "buddy Jesus" Varric on the first page?  Never mind, couldn't find him...

Could you use the top image of the following?