Following the events of Dragon Age: The Veilguard Lucanis and Rook return home to Treviso to enjoy their happily ever after. Except it’s not so happily ever after.
In Age of X, when Magneto says ‘there must be a shrine in some remote corner of your being. A place of sanctity.’, in that entire speech, and in that moment, that place for him is Legacy. It’s Anna.
Because he didn’t imprison her as his own laws would have asked for; he didn’t kill her in the rubble to secure his fortress. He sheltered her. He preserved that corner of himself. Legacy (her ways and the world seen through her eyes) represents that piece of humanity in him while the rest of his soul is a butcher’s shop. He wants to trust her judgement even if her actions are breaking his world apart. He chooses to put his faith in her at the cost of himself and at the cost of the world he fights to keep afloat because he trusts her to be the better part of him.
The story starts with Legacy reminding him of how long they have been fighting for, making him reflect on the meaning of their lives. And by the end of it he comes to terms with how tired he is of that struggle, of surviving just to wake up again and again to the same grey day. So when she exposes the cracks in his fortress he chooses to see the rays of light that are coming through.
Yes, I do love that story - it had so many details written with care and respect.
Carey did a great job with this story, and I hate how Age of X-Man (Why couldn’t it have been Age of Nate Grey!) has superseded the original AoX title to claim its name. Ah well…
Great Khaleesi and I were discussing this just last night, how General Magnus treasured Legacy, and how it was returned by her to him. (Or at least in our headcanon) We helped each other form a half-thought each of us had to be made whole.
If General Magnus and Legacy were in a relationship around the edges of the story, or circling one another, it has a memento mori or this idea that their general spends his days fighting their enemies, and his nights appealing to/appeasing/apologizing/atoning to their fallen.
It’s the love of death, the cycle of rebirth, the endless ocean of souls and lives within her. It’s the Elysian Field of mutants made flesh in a human body. A tontine that doesn’t end with death, but instead creates a living history within the body of one person.
Forgive my weakness, but I’d like to also suggest that some of these themes were (lightly) discussed in my first ever completed Fic A Monster Amongst Monsters:
i loved this arc a lot and am STILL thinking about it and about their dynamic and how they’re portrayed in white / black respectively, how he calls her his compass and she says she loved him—the way a warrior knows death is always calling and the way death embraces the ones who know it as a friend—the way she’s his shadow, has his complete trust to do the things he can’t, as the leader
it’s a relationship dynamic i want to sink my teeth into, the revenant and the revered, the priest and the altar and the manufactured deity magnus is all but creating of legacy is delicious. obsessed with him loving her so much he makes her Legacy, eternal, undying, untouchable by mortal hands or time like that man yearns and loves with the most selfish selfless love to make her immortal so she can be a living paradise, his paradise, that he can go to his grave knowing will be undying and everlasting proof of his love for her and i am unwell over it mae
also mae your fics are amazing thank u for the shoutout here 🥹💛
had the ‘sauron was never meant to have any characterization outside of being evil’ argument at work today and it was the quickest way to tell someone a) hadn’t read the silmarillion and b) had no concept of character depth or actual personality
'hes just a bad evil eyeball’ get a load of this guy! has no idea that when thangorodrim was broken and morgoth overthrown, sauron put on his fair hue again and did obeisance to eönwë, the herald of manwë, and abjured all his evil deeds!! OR that some hold that this was not at first falsely done, but that sauron in truth repented, if only out of fear, being dismayed by the fall of morgoth and the great wrath of the lords of the west!!
welp back at it again with the OC stuff–this time more asoiaf oc stuff WHICH goes back a good bit and in true Khaleesi Fashion™️ i’ve just tied all my asoia aus with my various ocs together BUT this time i went all in and made this The Version Where House Targaryen Comes From Visenya Via Maegor Instead Of Rhaenys Via Aenys
bear with me because this is messy af and nowhere near complete but has a good chunk of the ocs and their surrounding family members already
i have some halloween stuff i’m working on buuuut i also ended up doing a big thinktank thing on my Massive ASOIAF AU and these two got an overhaul
so this is vaelora velaryon and lucerys II targaryen—i have. almost an entire family tree for them but these two are incredibly messy and unhinged and obsessed with each other. if you recall some of the other asoiaf au posts she was a tyrell before but recent events have been….eventing….and now these are them : o ) i’ll probably post some stuff about them over on my main so if ur into that head over to @binarysvnrise 👌
god i have so much information to dump about these two and the huge au they fit into BUT she’s his niece and they are obsessed with each other. they’re actually…..both married already….but do not plan on letting that stop them 🫣💦 they’re both also obsessed with ancient valyrian traditions and vaela ends up getting into old valyrian magic rituals she finds in old scrolls in the targaryen archives so they’re in a lot of ways this meme:
