Lucanis Dellamorte - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

6 ft is short? Oh wow. To me, a short guy would be under 5 ft 7 in . I'm 5'7" and a good amount of men I see daily are 5'7" to 5'10"-5'11 so to me that's what I consider average.

Edited to add: remember kids, if your feet touch the floor when you're standing up, you're tall enough! With love, auntie RR

You are tall in my books 👍🏼

Yeah I mean, not that 6'0 is short. I was hoping that by "short king", they meant more like average, just not super-tall.

I might have a warped sense of reality too, surrounded by freakin' giants. The ball and chains is 6'3. My brothers are both like vikings at 6'2 and 6'3-almost 4, and I'm not too short (5'7) for a girl, either... so IDK ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Evidently Caterina didn't give Lucanis PediaSure, my mom swears that's how my brothers got so tall. She says she used to cry to get them to eat, but they loved them some PediaSure, so she just stocked up on it.xD

OK I finished reading The Wigmaker's Job. Yeah OK I can see he's going to be insanely popular as brooding hitman genius with a soft heart for the innocent and downtrodden. So I assume his whole shtick will be about how he only kills bad people who deserved it, thus allowing even a goody two shoes Rook to romance him, I guess.

Still, the dude is a crow and doesn't seem to be bothered by collateral damage. So this faction is still very unappealing to me. Can't the hot guy be a less shady faction?! Really not the bad boy kinda girl. Sigh.
At least Cullen was only an addict I guess...

I mean, Davrin is right there protecting the world from darkspawn and monsters with his adorable baby griffon. Seems like he's the more solid choice for people who want a smoking hot dude who isn't an assassin!

But.. but... He's an elf! Nothing good ever comes from romancing an elf.

#elfhater
#magehater

Well, his collateral damage in that specific story was made up of blood mages and people who licked the boots of blood mages and Venatori like Forfex, so not much loss for society there from my point of view.

And the Crows have had at least one large scale operation hat was also a clusterfuck. Zevran tells a story about how they were contracted to assassinate pretty much an entire wing of the Antivan royal family and it got really messy. I'm fuzzy on the exact details but I think he said it came close to bankrupting the nation or something. As I mentioned before in another thread, the Crows have really good PR to make people forget how messy and cutthroat they can really be.

And I'd say Davrin is plenty hot, plus he seems to be more of a knight in shining armor type and has a dog.

See above concerning my reaction to that particular job. We also learned that, like Zevran, he had been trained to be an assassin from a child and physically abused by his grandmother to make him remember her lessons. He was beaten and starved. It was probably worse being her grandson, being groomed for leadership, than it was for someone like Zevran, who admitted he quite liked his gilded cage, having come to appreciate it having spent a short time among the Dalish. Ditto Teia who was also a street rat who worked her way up the ranks. It was only after they ordered him to kill the love of his life and lied about her to get him to do it that Zevran finally realised what a life he was trapped in. He admitted he took the job against the Wardens because he was hoping they would kill him.

This is why I am interested to discover what exactly did lie behind Lucanis' fake death. He clearly wanted to stop being Caterina's puppet or even avoid becoming the puppet master, yet he hadn't rejected his profession entirely. What did he mean when he said "Death is my Calling?" So, if he was just a ruthless assassin I wouldn't care how hot he is but I think there is more to it. Zevran is still my favourite romance to date because of what you slowly discover about him and how devoted he becomes to you in the end. If you do the ultimate sacrifice he is genuinely heartbroken and the epilogue says that he never loves again. If you don't and you both survive, he leaves you temporarily to exact his vengeance on House Arainai after which you are reunited out in the west, presumably never to leave you again. I'll take that over Fenris (the writers shafted me on that one) or even Dorian (he better be involved in DAV or he abandoned me for nothing). Alistair was okay but he won't marry you if you are an elf and he is King, which was disappointing (so I kept him as a Warden) and with Cullen I just don't know what all the fuss was about as he never interested me. Neither did Blackwall or Iron Bull. Don't get me started on Solas;  I really got burned by that one.  As for Anders, him turning out a murderous terrorist (and lying in order to get you to help him) does somewhat take the shine off that one.

So, I'll take the sexy assassin who has never known love and see what we can do for each other. If the signs aren't good, there is always Davrin.

Time is rather fucky in Tevinter Nights, indeed, there's no really good way of knowing when the stories take place relative to one another. Some could be at the same time, they could be out of order, they could be days apart or months apart. I don't remember much detail about the passage of time or events referenced between each other besides Solas and the Qunari invasion. Hunger mentions Antoine and Evka were recalled to Weisshaupt but it's not clear if it's because of what Ramesh found in Horrors of Hormak or another reason, Luck in the Gardens and The Streets of Minrathous both happen in Minrathous but there's no specific way to know when they take place in relation to one another, so a lot of questions I think will be around until the game comes out.

It never works like that. No one ever has a problem with objectifying the male characters and playing on their sexual appeal, at least not unless something has changed recently. In video games perhaps? Don't know which country you are from but here in the U.K. with TV dramas it has often been observed that whilst a lot of complaints are made when this is done with female actors, somehow no one ever objects to Darcy in a wet shirt or Ross Poldark needing to remove his shirt entirely to do a bit of manual labour (that I'm pretty sure a gentleman would not have ever done in that era having plenty of people he could employ to do it for him). Purists might mutter how it was not in the spirit the era in which the work of fiction was set but the female viewers got really upset if anyone tried to prevent it.

Also, it isn't just the ladies who appreciate a nicely honed masculine torso if you know what I mean. Remember Dorian's butt?

I will certainly keep this in mind when I read it next however the last bit is where things fall apart because demons don't just return to the Fade. Things should've been a lot worse. But weren't.