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Knowing the lore of Rendon and Bryce makes the whole human noble origin hit different
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Holy moly
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commission for @thelilyknight 💙
ellanna & alistair
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loved working on this one :")
#commission#dragon age#alistair theirin#warden cousland#ellanna cousland#dragon age oc#dragon age origins#haverdoodles#art
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Cousland's Vengence
Screw that Howe in particular
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.Ambush Ahead ⚔️.
#dragon age#zevran arainai#alistair theirin#morrigan#sten#cousland#bodahn feddic#sandal feddic#Andrastopher cousland#male cousland#dao#dragon age origins#mabari#.it’s a dark spawn ambush btw.#.smth simple before the year ends :) still trying to get green but all this says is Christmas haha.
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love interests 🌷
edit: added mahariel :)
#buncha bawring headshots sorrreeeyyyy#in between comms#dragon age#the way I hatched these r so…urk 🤥 how does takehiko Inoue do it#i just needed my own refs nyways#dao#da2#god now the tags.#alistair theirin#kaleb cousland#zevran arainai#theo tabris#leliana#nugsdottir brosca#morrigan#seline surana#felix amell#anders#sebastian vael#hawke#myart#hamin mahariel
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ok i don't think i ever posted this here so...
a piece from last year that i still like, with my other warden - Helena Cousland
she's my precious baby :(
#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age fanart#dao#warden cousland#grey warden#dragon age oc#dragon age warden
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Queen of Cups
tarot commission for @lusilly of their Cousland ⚔️
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replaying origins again, so here's my cousland who looks like a sad puppy and makes questionable decisions sometimes.
(the irony of a guy named tristan outliving a woman named isolde is not lost to me.)
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Vamptober
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A little WIP...
#dragon age#leliana#bard wife#color sketch#leliana x warden#warden cousland#artists on tumblr#art wip#unfinished
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Why Rendon Howe is evil
This is a little theory thats been going around in my head for several days.
Rendon Howe. Evil personified. Probably one of the most despicable and hated characters in the Dragon Age series. One of the characters thats most easily defined as being just plain bad and evil, with good reason. Even in the game itself no one likes him (with 1 exception that I'll mention later in this post)
In the game, we really aren't given many reasons as to why he is the way he is and why he does the thing he does beyond saying he's evil, power hungry, and like he himself says as he dies, "I deserved more!"
But recently I started to become curious about him to try to find out what had made him become like this, cause I prefer villains to have some complexity that goes beyond just "He's evil just because".
Rest of the analysis under the cut.
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My main theory of why I think Rendon became "evil" is cause he may have suffered brain damage due to his injuries while fighting against Orlais with Maric and his rebels. My first thought for this came cause historically, Henry the 8th of England suffered several brain injuries during sporting events, and its believed that his injuries led to him having a severe personality change, which led to him become more radical, tyrannical and murderous.
After the death of his father and the Howe family joining the rebellion, Rendon joined Maric's forces and became close friends with Bryce Cousland, future Teyrn of Highever, and Leonas Bryland, future Arl of South Reach. The 3 of them fought together in the Battle of White River, which was the worse defeat the rebels suffered in the war against Orlais, and only 50 of the initial thousand soldier strong fereldan army survived.
Rendon was very badly injured during the battle, and Bryce and Leonas had to dragged him away to safety as the rebel army was crushed by the orlesians. Bryce was injured in the arm while trying to save Rendon from a chevalier. They got Rendon to Redcliffe and stayed with him for a month while he recovered before leaving to rejoin Maric and the rest of the rebel forces. While Rendon recovered in Redcliffe, he was tended to by Leonas's sister, Eliane, until he eventually recovered months later. He eventually proposed to her and they got married.
And here is the first bit of evidence we get of Rendon's attitude and behaviour completely changing after that battle and his wounds. From the wiki: "Leonas had become concerned by the changes in his friend's behavior since the battle and attempted to prevent the marriage." And some other quotes from Leonas that we get to her in dao: "Rendon Howe was no friend of mine. The boy I knew... died at the Battle of White River" and "That he didn't die years ago is the only thing worth mourning here." Leonas cut all contact with Rendon after he told him that he was only marrying his sister for her dowry and connections.
This goes back to what I mentioned earlier about the one person that seemed to care for Rendon. That person is Bryce Cousland.
Bryce and Eleanor were the only people that attended Rendon and Eliane's wedding, and even though Rendon was treated as a pariah by almost everyone in fereldan nobility, Bryce still maintained a friendly relation with Rendon, and seemed to have an almost protective attitude towards him, which contrasts greatly with how Leonas feels about Rendon. And this is where I came up with another theory about why this is. I believe that Bryce feels personally responsible for the injuries and near death that Rendon suffered during the Battle of White River and feels that he is somehow obligated to look after him. I can only hc why these could be, but maybe Rendon got injured while protecting Bryce, or maybe Bryce's actions during the battle led to Rendon's injuries. Maybe that's why Bryce seems to have keep pushing for the friendship that he once had with him, even though he clearly no longer was the same person. Cause Bryce felt responsible for the way Rendon had turned out.
Its possible that Rendon was just always like this, and those months he spent recovering just made him become super resentful against everything and everyone, but I do believe that the near death injuries he suffered during that battle, including possible head injuries and brain trauma, led to his personality changing and to him becoming the sheer villain we see ingame.
And to finish, a bit of background as to why Rendon would have hated Bryce even despite of this, here's a bit of info about them and about the relation between Highever and Amaranthine.
Rendon's father, Tarleton, supported Orlais during their occupation of Ferelden, and was eventually hanged by the Couslands before the Howes officially joined the rebellion. Adding the fact that Highever was once part of Amaranthine before they rebelled to gain their independence and annexed a good part of southern Amaranthine after winning their independence war, it adds some context to how Rendon could have seen this part of his greater vengeance against the Couslands and Highever for killing his father and taking away land from Amaranthine.
TL,DR: Rendon Howe suffered grieveous injuries during the war against Orlais, including possible brain injuries which may have led to a complete personality shift and to him becoming the person that we see him being in the game.
#dragon age#dragon age meta#dragon age lore#rendon howe#illusivesoulrambles#nathaniel howe#delilah howe#couslands#bryce cousland#eleanor cousland#ferelden#maric theirin#denerim#amaranthine#highever#the landsmeet#dragon age origins#dao#da:o
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Just a wizard and his paladin
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my witchy magpie 🖤
#i looove the hc where her time w/ the warden encourages her to cherish and love pretty things again#also my own personal headcanon: the companions definitely braid each other's hair :>#leliana and my warden are braiding flowers into morrigan's hair in this case#dragon age#dragon age origins#dao#da fanart#morrigan#leliana#eliora cousland#sketch dump#digital art#my art#bishiart
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one of my absolute favourite tiny details is cousland’s nan insisting the warden start the telling of a childhood story, and instead of, i don’t know, “once upon a time”, cousland’s cultural go-to is before our fathers’ fathers came down from the moutains. cousland has chantry tutors but at their nanny’s knee it was alamarri folk tales, not andraste and the wyvern. i think that’s so interesting and it’s one of the jumping-off points for my take that highever let andrastianism colour its culture and traditions more so than change them, in contrast to a centre of pilgrimage and of royalty like denerim, which is more closely interlinked with, and perceived by, andrastians outside ferelden’s borders. cousland to me is always saying some slightly off brand stuff they don’t realise is weird (read: heresy) while alistair and wynne raise eyebrows at each other
#cousland: let’s pay respects to the spirit inside connor before we try anything#alistair: the demon??#cousland: it’s still one of the maker’s first children isn’t it?#alistair: well i mean yes but—#cousland: you lay a space for the spirits on feast days you don’t ask what kind of spirit takes it#alistair: what are you TALKING about#warden cousland
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CW blood and rendon howes head
Roses have Thorns
#i love my babygirl cousland so much#as much as i hate rendon howe#she is The Rose of Ferelden symbolism slay#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age fanart#dao#hero of ferelden#cousland#university is eating me but my love for dragonage is stronger#oc: aisha cousland
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