You know, I always feel a little sorry for Master Dennet. The Inquisitor is like, hey, I need a horse expert! Here is a horse expert! And he comes along to be your horse expert.
And for a while all is well. He brings his own fine horses, and the Inquisitor adds to the stable as she finds new breeding stock—often excellent. Where she got the charger from, he doesn’t know, and he feels too honored by having it in his care to ask.
And then the Inquisitor starts coming back with like… deer. And Dennet scratches his head, because he knows horses, and just because it has four hooves and you can put a saddle on it doesn’t make it a horse. Hell, the food and space and exercise requirements for a cob and a draft horse aren’t the same—a goddamn deer is presumably completely different. But he goes around Skyhold rounding up Dalish elves until he finds one who knew something about halla, on the principle that that’s probably the closest thing, and they work it out. (He’s always respected the way Dalish treat their halla, so it’s not that big of a leap. And even though Dalish—the Charger—doesn’t know anything much about how to raise halla, he looks the other way when she wants to spend half a day in the deer’s box stall being all affectionate at it. Can’t hurt.)
But deer of various kinds are at least still… well… grass-eating hoofed animals. Things don’t begin to really go sideways until they bring back the first dracolisk.
It’s a lizard. It’s a giant meat-eating lizard. Dennet is a master of horse, and he will stretch that to deer in a pinch, but asking him to figure out the care and feeding of big spiky lizard things is a bit much. It is—he tries to explain, first to Cullen and then to Josephine and finally to the Inquisitor herself—as if someone had decided that because you knew how to knead bread, you were obviously a master pugilist, because both things involved punching things. For his trouble he got a friendly clap on the shoulder and a “Just do your best! We can free up some funds to hire you more help!” (help from where? was he to hang up fliers somewhere for dracolisk handlers? where exactly was one supposed to go for that?).
(We will not even discuss the zombie horse with a sword through its head. We will not. The zombie horse got a stall to itself and was studiously ignored, on the principle that it was dead, and not much Dennet did could either help or hurt it.)
Dennet knew that he was in over his head and then some when the Inquisitor showed up with a charming grin and a giant fucking nug, and all he thought was, “Better see if any dwarves know what to feed it.” (Dagna does, but he’s a little afraid because she keeps having these ideas for ‘experimental feed,’ and….)
At least his life is never boring.
Poor Master Dennet
THIS IS THE BEST
OMG HAHA ❤
YES
This is my favourite omg his face
Burr: You’ve insulted me, embarressed me, and ruined my career. I want an apology.
Hamilton: You’re wrong I have done nothing wrong ever this is all your fault BUT if it were my fault heres a list of 30 years worth of times i did insult, embarress, and ruin you
Ages ago, an anon asked for pictures of Cullen’s sword and shield in combat to use as art references. I am sorry it has taken me so long, but here’s the first batch. It gave me an excuse to enjoy screenshots so thank you and i hope they help!
First things first: I am not very good at drawing him either :’D
I suggest you do lots of studies of him with references on the side, especially at the beginning. Once you start to get the hang of it, yuou can pull references aside if you wish. They do always help. Also make you realize how different he actual is in-game from how I draw him :’D
Also, the true secret to all drawings is practice, so you need to draw lots, k?
I don’t know when I started to draw his horns so differently from the ones he actually has but I’m not complaining. unless someone else is complaining. But hey, you just need to find your way of drawing them 😀 and once again it’s all about shapes.
reckless & terribly gay 