Natalie Mattson

I’ve had such a delightful year with Emmrich in my life. Thank you for giving him so much depth and emotions. I also dream of a Dragon Age 5 with you in it, maybe if we collectively wish very very hard?

A woman wearing a Grey Warden Athletic Department tank top while running with a miserable look of pain on her face.

Not my best race photo in my life, but this is what a Grey Warden would look like on their return to the Deep Roads.

Jason Mantzoukas as Derek from The Good Place holding a sign that says “Help I can’t stop saying ‘Jason’”

Episode one of series/season 19 of Taskmaster without context.

"There's always money in the banana stand." - George Bluth Sr

"There is no cash in the pumpkin patch." - Lou Wilson

The connection between money and fruit needs to be studied further to find the fabled money tree.

Dead leaf covered ground with fresh leaves poking through

Dead leaf covered ground with fresh leaves poking through

It’s that time of year where midwesterners stare at dirt looking for signs of life.

A side of a house with a large collection of icicles. The largest icicle is over one story in length.

A few times a day, I check this icicle, which is called the murdercicle, on my neighbors house to see how long it is. It’s the little things in life.

What could possibly go wrong? #Dragonageveilguard
#assan

Oh, OH!!

I think I've gotten to most people’s questions, and I promised I'd talk about influences on Emmrich and the Mourn Watch before wrapping this up. So here we go!

It took me while to figure out Emmrich's character voice. I'm happy with where I landed, but he was a tough one. A few books helped me out.

A screenshot showing the TikTok unavailable message due to the US TikTok ban. The background is a TikTok video of Spencer Pratt.

It’s very millennial of me to get the tiktok ban notification on a Spencer Pratt video. My 2008 self would have a hard time understanding the situation, but these are strange times we live in.

It was the longest I’ve spent in character creator for Veilguard, but I think absolutely worth it. Rook needed to look as close to his dad Zevran as possible.

Oh, my God, Rook, you can’t just ask people why they’re a dwarf.

In #DragonAge, I believe that Nevarrans would follow the same wedding tradition as the Schrutes from The Office and get married while standing in their own graves, except the Necropolis is a better setting than a farm.

A wrist with two seed bead bracelets. The top bracelet says “Vhenan” and the bottom says “Darling” with the words bookended with a heart bead on each side.

Today was a fun mail day! I got my Vhenan and Darling bracelets today from my friend’s shop all for my #DragonAge romances. Good thing I have two hands, one for Solas and one for Emmrich.

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Sitting down to play some #Veilguard at the end of the day, and my digital photo album next to my tv decided to show me an old photo op of some Elven cuties

Seeing the Pantone color of the year like “oh we in a RECESSION recession…”

I wanted to take time and echo what so many of us are saying: Thank you for the incredible job you did writing Emmrich! He is my favorite in the game, and I'm looking forward to when I get to romance him as a Mourn Watcher Rook.

Happy #DragonAgeDay! Starting my third play of Veilguard and it’s time for my warrior play, which is usually my least favorite class when it comes to game play. Excited to be able to throw my shield, but I’m going to miss my mage laser powers.

Emmrich calling Rook “Darling” makes my heart go pitter patter. 😍🥰

A ticket from May 22, 2005 for a Broadway in Chicago performance of Wicked and copy of the playbill.

Interior cast list of the 2005 Chicago cast of Wicked.

I saw Wicked Part One today, and thus begins the longest intermission of my life. It’s been nearly 20 years since I saw Wicked for the first time in Chicago with Stephanie J. Block as Elphaba (and a then unknown Adam Lambert!) and I’ve been in love with it ever since.

He wouldn’t have gotten as far with any other partner.

No, you’re right. It was too disjointed and not what I expected for the DWTS finale. Witney did a great job this season hiding his weaknesses with choreography.

I enjoyed the #DWTS finale and would like to burn Stephen and Riley’s freestyle in my retinas.

Just like I am Rook and Rook is me.

Dragon Age The Veilguard conversation with Rook and Emmrich in the Necropolis with dialog choices up and the choice to commit to a relationship with Emmrich selected.

I won free pie today and this is still the best thing that happened to me by far. Can’t spell necromancer without romancer. 💀😘

Feels good to see the #Packers end the 49ers season for once instead of them ending ours. #GoPackGo

Television displaying the Dragon Age The Veilguard title screen

Hold my calls, I’m in Thedas for the weekend.

Just what my mom always told me

I also need the way he looks at Lavellan tattooed to the back of my eyeballs

He says it like he’s been holding a breath for years. 😭