Also the short version of the #edenderiva lore drop lmao

Big things happening today with #edenderiva lore ajfhsbfhdb

The more I think about her and Lucanis, the more I realize that specific trajectory of their relationship that I have in my head might be worth at least a couple chapters-long rewrite fic lmao

#edenderiva

Eden: nah. 90% of the time she doesn’t even think about it, but when she does, it’s a nope. Some Crows use their looks to do their jobs; she doesn’t. Growing up in Antiva + with the Crows gave her a very different perspective on looks & attractiveness. So many people care —

Alba & Eden mistletoe smooch! 🫒🕊️
For @eirvherassan.bsky.social ✨

#AlbadeRiva #EdendeRiva

Eden ended up forming an unexpected bond with Emmrich because he reminded her so much of her father, who had died when she was 10 along with her whole clan. Emmrich ended up being kind of like an uncle figure for her, & he’s helped her process a lot of things she’s ignored for decades.

#edenderiva

Eden & Lucanis are two demi assassin disasters, so it took a LONG time. His appearance in the Ossuary was her first “oh no he’s hot” moment, dampened ofc by the mission & her thalassophobia. But she didn’t realize any feelings had even developed until the almost-kiss. …

#edenderiva

Eden’s heritage would be extremely mixed, but the most prominent & traceable lines would be Māori, Indian/Southeast Asian, and Arabic/Persian descent.

#edenderiva

Eden’s CC hair is pretty close, but I always imagine her hair just a smiiidge shorter & curlier, and with slightly thicker bangs that she can hide behind & glower from under lol (art by @loustica-lucia.bsky.social 💜)

#edenderiva

Okay I thought I’d posted this on my main but apparently I didn’t soooo here’s the only fic I’ve written about Eden so far 👍

#edenderiva

Adorable and exhausted as always ^^

#edenderiva

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Bones.

Specifically, Eden collects finger bones that she’s found (all sorts of things wind up in the canals and washing up in weird places). But she also has a collection of unidentified/hard to identify bone pieces.

Also feathers, seaglass, cool beads… she’s literally a corvid lmao

#edenderiva

And why did I make that portrait of Eden, you ask? For this of course! An actual reference sheet for Artfight ^^

Someday I’ll do references completely with my own art, but for now this will do.

#edenderiva

Think I’m getting the hang of cel shading, at least a little bit. Have some more of my baby Eden, thanks to me obsessively wanting at least one hand drawn character portrait for artfight.

#davrooks #edenderiva #originalcharacter #datvrook #digitalart #oc

Hahahaha what d’you mean I messed up and forgot the pics of Eden that’s crazy >>;;;;;;

(Now ACTUALLY art by @loustica-lucia.bsky.social)

#edenderiva

Thread time cuz all my Rooks are queer!

Eden de Riva (she/her), my “canon” Rook. Bisexual and demiromantic, on top of being very neurospicy, she and Lucanis go together like coffee and chocolate 💜

(Art by the spectacular @loustica-lucia.bsky.social)

#edenderiva

I present one (1) sopping wet cat in human form for your blorbo’s friend consideration. She’s prickly at first but she’s just awkward I promise 🖤

#edenderiva

Oil brush commission for @eirvherassan.bsky.social 🥰💞!
It was fun to mix Antivan Crows designs with something more gothic for Eden de Riva!💀

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#DragonAge #DragonAgeTheVeilguard #DATV #LousticArt
#EdendeRiva #Rook #ArtCommissions

Quote this with how your #DABlorbos would look like!

Eden under a microscope is actually hard to characterize but I think I got close!

#edenderiva #davrooks #dragonage #datv

Up in my feels this morning about Eden and Emmrich visiting his parents together. This moment really cemented him as an unexpected father figure for her, & brought up a lot of very repressed emotions about losing her own parents 🥺

Someday I’ll write a ficlet for it

#edenderiva #davrooks

Went through some cutscenes today and got more pics of Eden finally! She doesn’t smile often, but when she does, she’s so cute I wanna die 🥹

#edenderiva #davrooks

Eden nose scrunches!

(Bonus Aevax cuz I don’t have a 4th for Eden ajfhsbfhdb)

#edenderiva #aevaxingellvar

Since I’ve only really gotten to play three of my Rooks so far, I’ll go with them.

… I need to work on getting more action shots of them lol.

#davrooks #vriellederiva #edenderiva #aevaxingellvar

Look, I knew I made Eden short. That was on purpose. I’ve always imagined her as being on the shorter side. A tiny goth ball of rage.

I just didn’t realize *how* short I’d made her until I recruited Taash.

#davrook #edenderiva

⇀ ooc. headcanon 5: if Eden were a companion the player could talk to at their home base

#edenderiva #edenhc

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⇀ ooc. headcanon 4 (cont.):

…killed to get, she has chosen to look at it in a new light. It might have been Falon’Din’s vallaslin, but now she wears it as the mark of one who walks the Vir Banal’ras—“the Way of Shadow”. And Falon’Din himself can pry it from her skin.

#edenderiva #edenhc

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⇀ ooc. headcanon 4 (cont.):

…who were no better than the Tevinter scum who’d erased her clan and family. She doesn’t talk about how hard that was to internalize and understand, but it almost broke her. Now, even though she can’t rid herself of the vallaslin she…

#edenderiva #edenhc

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⇀ ooc. headcanon 4 (cont.):

…to spread. She didn’t want to believe it at first. Outright refused. It wasn’t until she met Varric and Harding and had irrefutable proof set before her that she had to face facts. The gods she’d grown up believing in were monsters…

#edenderiva #edenhc

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⇀ ooc. headcanon 4 (cont.):

… Eden never doubted for even a moment that Falon’Din walked with her clan, and chose her specifically to survive to avenge them. Her unwavering belief was never tested; it simply existed, ironclad and immovable. Until the truth started…

#edenderiva #edenhc

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⇀ ooc. headcanon 4 (cont.):

… heavily on her faith in the Evanuris to get her through what came after. Though to call it “faith” isn’t quite right. “Faith” implies a belief in something otherwise uncertain or unprovable, and endures even when brought into doubt. …

#edenderiva #edenhc

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⇀ ooc. headcanon 4: the Evanuris

To say that Eden took learning the Evanuris’ true natures hard would be an understatement. After having her whole world ripped apart by the soldiers of the Imperium—having all of her clan wiped off the face of the earth—she relied…

#edenderiva #edenhc

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