sassanids:

things i am here for:

the kirkwall gang giving anders really practical gifts because they know that he doesn’t want a lot of useless possessions that’ll only weigh him down if he ever needs to quickly escape from the templars

• hawke buys him a new pestle and mortar made of beautiful black granite; anders runs his hands across the stone, feeling it cool and smooth against his fingertips. he smiles.
• isabela sneaks a new obsidian knife onto his desk and removes the dull old thing he was using before; anders picks it up without thinking and is halfway through slicing through an entire batch of elfroot before he realises that this knife isn’t his, it actually cuts.
• merrill doesn’t appear herself, she knows anders doesn’t always appreciate her presence; but one day anders finds two satchels full of expensive royal elfroot and felandaris in his supplies, and he knows exactly who found this for him.
• fenris leaves a pile of clean wolf furs on one of the clinic beds one day; “hawke cannot afford the darktown healer to get sick, and neither can darktown,” he says, “so make yourself a pair of new boots and a coat, or else.”
• varric appears one day with an entire casket of premium ferelden whiskey and leaves it just inside the door. you work too hard, the note on the barrel reads. don’t worry, i made sure to have this taken from a templar supply wagon.