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solanumoph · 2 months

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Collages reflecting my ideas about fashion in Thedas (part 1).

The following references were used:

Ferelden: Fashion of Tudor England

Orlais: French and Venetian fashion

Tevinter: Byzantine and Ottoman costumes

Antiva: Italian Renaissance

Nevarra: Art Nouveau Fashion

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #dragon age fandom #dragon age fashion #dragon age aesthetic #dragon age world #thedas #da art #dragon age collage #collage #aesthetic #fashion #costume #fantasy

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fensyl · 1 year

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Orlesian court vs Ferelden court ft Fervanis

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anneapocalypse · 1 year

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It makes perfect sense that Celene is wearing a blue gown to the peace talks rather than the purple and gold of House Valmont that's described in The Masked Empire. Celene is throwing this ball in hopes of cementing her claim to the throne and ending the civil war. To wear her family colors when she meets Gaspard at the negotiating table would be to position them as equals, embroiled in some petty house squabble. Instead, Celene wears the colors of Orlais. She wears blue to position herself as the face of the Empire itself and Gaspard as the petty traitor.

Likewise, Briala may have worn blue when she worked for Celene and served the empire, but now she presents herself as an ambassador for the elves, saying, "If humans are going to treat us as if we are not citizens, we may as well have the trappings of a foreign power." It would make no sense for her to wear blue now, as that would align her both with Orlais and with Celene, and she now wishes to set herself apart. Green evokes the Dales (somewhere Briala has spent a lot of time lately), and by extension the interests of elves everywhere.

#there are other aspects of briala's in game appearance that feel like an afterthought but #on the question of her wearing green I absolutely agree #celene valmont #briala #wicked eyes and wicked hearts #the masked empire #dragon age inquisition #blunders of thedas #dragon age meta #dragon age fashion

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eluviansandevanuris · 1 year

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Fashion of the Winter Palace: Dorian

When Josephine announces that they are to chose their own clothes for the ball at the Winter Palace Dorian retreats to his library corner to think.

For all his glib jokes, Dorian is intimately aware of how mages from the Imperium are perceived, it doesn’t matter that he’s not actually a magister. For the nobles of Halamshiral that is all they will ever see him as.

He could wear one of the uniforms that Josephine commissioned, but hiding who he is has never been one of Dorians’ strong suits. He will not hide, not here and not in Tevinter.

He will never ‘play the part’

And so Dorian gets to work, he will treat this as any other soirée in the imperium, he will dazzle and intimidate, enthral and horrify. Orlesian fashion is oddly simpler than Tevene fashion. Yes more styles come and go every year, but it’s not like the secret language of Tevene fashion where every stitch speaks.

When Dorian is announced at the Winter Palace, a momentary hush falls over the ballroom and one Orlesian noble faints, Dorian looks majestic, he looks regal, he looks like a magister of old.

The outfit he wears in many layered and complex, with whisper thin inky black silk as an under-robe , the ends peaking out making it appear as if he’s walking on smoke. The over robes are rich and heavy with golden embroidery, glimmering in the light of the Winter palace.

If one looks closely many of the looping swirls of brocade hide glyphs of protection and resistance to poison.

The black velvet surcoat is a thing of beauty, wide shouldered and high collared adding to Dorian’s daunting appearance.

The sleeves of the ensemble are eye catching and mesmerizing, the eyes of a dozen peacock feathers wink at the gathered masses.

Dorian leaves no part of himself unadorned, his eyes are lined with shimmering gold and curved around his ear is a golden serpent cuff.

As he walks through the halls of Halamshiral scandalized whispers bouncing off the marble walls, Dorian cannot help the small satisfied smile that curves along his lips.

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dai #da #dragon age fashion #Fashion of Thedas #fashion of the winter palace #tevinter fashion #tevinter imperium #tevinter #tevene fashion #dorian #dorian dragon age #dorian pavus #dai dorian #fashion #fashion baby

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caemidraws · 4 months

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Session notes (not really)

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #ocs #comics #fashion #artists on tumblr #i drew this last week actually n forgot about it and we had another session in the meantime #yes it's the other campaign where i play the clueless warlock #yes i havent drawn him in ages #but we're going through his backstory now so i had to

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elvyn · 2 months

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Fancy ✨

#fashionable solavellan save me #Not very “fantasy” outfits but I wanted to draw them in something more classic? i guess 🤔#Anyway #I had fun #Have I already told that I like gold and yellow #especially in solavellan's art?#Probably a million times but yeah i love sollavellan with gold accents #Solavellan #dragon age #solas #lavellan #aideen lavellan #dragon age inquisition #da:i #(btw I think Solas is screaming internally)

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secretsimpleness · 1 year

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Bad dreams again? Who’s on watch tonight, with time to comfort you? HoF Surana, All The Companions Except One / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

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dalishious · 16 days

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Hate how you can put together a really cool look for your character in DAI and then have it completely ruined by the ugliest looking weapons you can imagine strapped to their back

#dragon age #dai #that i must sacrifice fashion for the sake of good stats is a curse

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voidwife · 9 months

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Hey there! 💖

My dash is so very, very quiet. I recently went through the list of blogs I was following and it was a little bit of a bummer to see just how many of them had been inactive for years. So, I'm looking for some new folks to follow! If you post any of the following, give this a like or reblog and I'll check you out!

Final Fantasy XIV

The Elder Scrolls

World of Warcraft

Dragon Age

Dungeons & Dragons

Cats

Fashion

Nature / Landscapes

Art

Photography

#void chatter #final fantasy xiv #the elder scrolls #world of warcraft #dungeons and dragons #dragon age #cats #fashion #nature #photography

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greypetrel · 2 months

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Sweetest of diversions. ✨

And so it begins! Starting with @salsedinepicta's lovely Maren and her peak fashion choices (french hoods are the prettiest, but I wanted to do some variations). And what's the point of a structured bodice if not to hide some fancy accessory inside, after all? it's all part of the fun, what's a ball without daggers?

#ockiss24 #aisling lavellan #maren hawke #salsedinepicta #dragon age #digital art #illustration #greypetrel #kisses #(I ship them now)#(Aisling ships them as well I'm sure)#tudor fashion is cool and maybe I'm getting a grip on those sleeves

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lady-phasma · 7 days

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Matt Smith Returns as the Face of Paul Smith

We’re thrilled to be working with Matt again. He is, as Paul put it last season, “one of those people who really embodies effortlessness, both in terms of his on-screen characters and his off-screen sense of style.” And the admiration is mutual: “Paul Smith has provided classic, inventive, and colourful tailoring for years. At its heart is the brilliant legend that is Paul Smith himself. To work with him and get to know him personally has been a complete honour,” the actor said. “He continues to push boundaries in life and art, making Paul Smith a consistently iconic British brand. Not to mention utterly stylish.”

#matt smith #doctor who #house of the dragon #eleventh doctor #paul smith 2024 season #men's fashion #he really does age like a fine wine

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the-goat-bazaar-of-art · 4 months

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Anders in a jazzy gold dress

#anders #dragon age #dragon age 2 #anders dragon age #fanart dragon age #Fanart #Anders in a dress #Fashion

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hceinart · 11 months

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she needed a glow up, no tatts yet but hopefully..

#my art #all art #melantha surana #dragon age #the og one was... sigh #the fits are: nekkid / post mage origin - getting to ostagar / gw armor / field fashion idk / king's council

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anneapocalypse · 1 year

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The way Anders dresses isn't unique to him or something that he, specifically, came up with. Variations on robes with fur or feathered shoulders have been worn by apostates, Tevinter mages, Dalish mages, and generally any mages not part of the southern Circle system since Dragon Age: Origins. Various apostates and blood mages wear this style; so do the Tevinter mages in the alienage; so do Keeper Marethari, Merrill, Lanaya, and Velanna.

Variants of this style include Robe of the Witch, Tevinter Robe, Chasind Robes, Reaper's Vestments, Archon Robes, and Robes of the Magister Lords.

Anders first appears in Awakening wearing the Tevinter Mage Robes variant. (Incidentally, this is the same variant Merrill is wearing in the Dalish elf prologue, so I don't think there's any character significance to this particular model having that name; it's just asset reuse, which was very common in Origins.)

When Anders returns in Dragon Age II, he's equipped with a new variation on this style called the Renegade's Coat, but it's very much a riff on the same idea. Note the design inspiration down to the feathered shoulders, the incorporation of metal rings as closures, the similar collar detailing, and the green and gold and black color scheme:

As with various other armor models from the earlier games, the Renegade's Coat gets remade and repurposed for various NPCs in Dragon Age: Inquisition. (Merrill's DA2 robes--which also have those feathered pouldrons!--get this treatment as well, though they're turned into Dalish Scout Armor while the Dalish Keeper Robes more resemble Merrill's romance armor from DA2, at least in the "female" version.)

Tevinter mage robes get a more unique redesign in Inquisition (though it's worth noting that Corypheus's look also incoporates those big feathered shoulders associated with Tevinter in the previous games), but this style of robes continues to be associated with apostates, rebels, and mages outside the Circle generally. I see it suggested sometimes that various apostates, hostile mages, and so forth in Inquisition are "dressed like Anders" as some sort of deliberate statement by the devs (the idea being that it's meant to reflect negatively on Anders), but I think it's more that this look has been associated with basically any magic user outside the southern Circle system since Dragon Age began.

#dragon age fashion #anders #blunders of thedas

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inverswayart · 1 year

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On Orlais fashion

So, while i was trying to design an outfit for Julie, I stumbled upon a problem - what the hell was considered fashionable in Orlais during Awakening? I scanned through wiki and concept art and then got an idea for a big cool post about it, but my da high is closing in to an end so I'll just ramble for a bit instead.

It's evolving (and too fast)

So yeah, if we look at the concept art and what have appeared in Inquisition, Orlais fashion seems to change at break-neck speed - on par with modern fast fashion. Why is it a problem? Because modern fashion operates in a world of mass-production, which whole kinda alluded to in Thedas, is allegedly haven't been achieved yet. But still, in DAI we see at least 3 pretty distinct silhouettes of women's clothes that feel like different stages of one evolutionary line. I'm talking those beauties:

So, as we can see, one more-or-less consistent thing about all of them is waistline - fairly high one, like something out of 16th century Italy or first two decades of 19th century. But everything else is varied - the neckline from completely closed to pretty plunging, sleeve length and form, construction of skirt...

But looking at them in this order they do resemble a solid development line - tho for me it feels like there should be at least one more phase between first and second stages - no way such high and tight wheel ruffles would collapse without a trace of their existence... Otherwise, there's a couple of noticeable trends here - first, slight widening of skirts; second, slow rising of sleeves; descending neckline.

At third image it feels like someone suddenly invented the crinoline straight out of 1850's, completely foregoing farthingale and panniers (here's all of them for comparison, in the same order):

To be clear, neither panniers or farthingale are prerequisite for crinoline to appear - but considering the alleged time period Dragon Age was inspired by and the fairly 1770's like hairdo's Leliana alludes to in DAO (the "I like your hair" dialogue where she mentions a noblewoman incorporating entire birdcage with living birds into her hair) one would expect them rather then mid-19th century invention.

Still, to line up those dresses is to insert at the very least 5 or so years between them, maybe even 10 or 15 (once again, those high ruffled collars would have not dissapered so smoothly... Imagine orlesians with those huge-ass Elizabethan lacey standing collars, wouldn't that be sick?) But to be honest, at least i can see how Origins noble dress could've evolved into the first one.

All the prerequisites are there - standing collar ready to get taller and rufflier, kinda puffed up sleeves, little cape-like decoration at shoulders, waist accentuated by fairly wide belt ready to turn even wider and more decorative, fairly narrow skirt to expand... And it would've ecen work with the timeline we have - there's roughly 11 years between DAO and DAI, and the silhouette would've had time to change - but then the Inquisition dress would be the latest fashion, not the fairly outdated one we see.

There are also two distinct outliers - Florianne de Chalons and empress Celine with their dresses more or less out of common trends we saw before:

And while Celene's dress I can still place in the general climate we got - like yeah, she's the Empress, she can be the most fashion-forward one and outclass everyone around, and her dress does look like evolution of what we saw, it would be at least 5 more tears before crinoline would start to change it's shape (ironically getting closer to panniers) and while I can read her overdress as on of the exposed underdresses in a "I'm above your backroom dealings and behind the stage machinations and so I have nothing to hide" kinda gesture, it feels like a stretch.

Florianne, on the other hand, while being more in tune with others silhouette-wise... Why does she has those pagoda sleeves? Why the train when even the Empress does not have one? Mystery for ages.

A bit unrelated but one cool canon thing about Orlesian fashion is that codex in DAI that says that it's all about hiding the actuall contour of body behind augmented forms - shoulder pads, structured garments and so on. That actually is pretty close to Elizabethan conception of man as something completely separate from nature that found it's reflection in geometrical fashions of the era.

So yeah, in the end, while very pretty, Orlesian fashion is kind of a mess (as is every other fashion in Thedas we have seen. Can't wait for Dreadwolf to throw even more aestetics wrenches in here).

#tag for words #dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #dragon age inquisition #dai #orlais #fashion #fashion history #dragon age meta #i probably put way more thought into it that devs intended #but what are they gonna do about it?

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hollyand-writes · 15 days

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My draft and unfinished artwork for the @dragonagereversebang last year, which I unfortunately had to drop out of. Hoping to finish this someday, and colour it in. 1920s AU Carver/Merrill!

#i'd kind of been hoping to put an art deco background on it and make it properly 1920s but i don't know if that would work #1920s fashion #carver hawke #merrill #carrill #1920s!AU #carver x merrill #merrill x carver #hollyand draws #my fanart #dragon age 2 #1920s AU #roaring twenties #dragon age #carver/merrill #merrill/carver #my art #alternative universe

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