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Let These Ruined Palms Be Your Chantry by ratbagjasper
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
03 Jun 2026
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Tarquin seeks change like a dog sniffs for scraps at the docks. Perhaps it's the familiarity of the path. From place to place, prize to prize, always trying to hunt down the end of it. Because there is an end, right? A city, a person, something. It wasn't Ventus, and it wasn't the military. It wasn't the Templar Order. The Shadow Dragons—now that's close. Names and faces and drinks to share and stories to laugh over. A man with a mask and many names and blue eyes, with a soft laugh and a sense of purpose so brightly burning he would've put Andraste herself to shame. And Tarquin feels that way, like a moth drawn to a flame. Can't get too close without getting burned.
Then a couple of corrupt gods escape their prison, and the Sixth Blight begins, and suddenly there are worse things he could throw himself on than a walking conflagration of divine ambition. Tarquin closes his eyes, because the heat of a hearth feels the same as a pyre when you stand this close.
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A character study dressed up in the raiments of porn-with-plot following Tarquin as he realises he's stupid in love with his boss.
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- 14,590
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- 4/10
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28 Jun 2026
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The Hearth and Honey Bakery was only a year old, but had really taken off. Lucanis had developed regular customers, including his very sweet neighbor who ran the bookshop next door, and began to receive more and more requests for custom event cakes. He could even afford to finally hire someone to help with the work load.
Building his perfect little life in Nevarra City hadn't been easy, but he loved the place he found himself in now; doing something he was passionate about, something that made him truly happy for the first time in decades.
He loved his new life, and he would fight tooth and nail to keep it, no matter who threatened it.
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- English
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- 47,572
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- 8/10
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17 Jun 2026
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You are invited to the wedding of the First Talon of the Antivan Crows to Professor Emmrich Volkarin. You will appropriately fawn over the First Talon's bridegroom, you will not stare at the skeleton ringbearer, and you will have a magical time, because the First Talon has planned every detail of this wedding.
Vignettes of Lucanis planning the best damn wedding for Emmrich that he can.
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- Part 3 of Courtship and Other Fumblings
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21 Apr 2026
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Parallel Lines by BabblingRook for BhaalsBaldBalls
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
14 May 2026
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“I think it’s too late anyways. I think I’ve already painted you both on my heart. And I’m terrified.”
Dana Laidir has never been one to deny herself the things she wants. Not after going from slavery to servitude to the well-intentioned but overbearing adolescent years in the care of her adoptive aunts and uncles. Not when she’s spent adulthood perfecting how to obtain the things or people she most desires. But what she finds herself wanting the most, who she finds herself wanting, is not so easy to obtain. It’s more than the fleeting lust or desire she’s familiar with, and she knows that should scare her.
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19 Jan 2026
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Villa Dellamorte by Larxicana
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
30 Jan 2026
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Jobless in Antiva after finding himself in the middle of a fabricated scandal, Emmrich falls on hard times. He can't get another teaching position in Antiva, moving back to Nevarra would be a nightmare, and no one wants to hire someone his age. After months of not receiving a response to any of his applications, he's starting to lose hope and feel like a burden for taking up Bellara's guest room without being able to pay his share of the rent.
Until a mysterious letter slips through the mail slot one stormy night, with nothing but his name written across the back in beautiful calligraphy and a purple wax seal on the front depicting a crow in flight, holding a dagger in one talon and a human skull in the other.
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30 Oct 2025
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Three's Company by grav_ity
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Oct 2025
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It's not insecurity. Rook knows that. Lucanis is asking because, at his heart, he wants to make everyone happy, and everyone starts with her.
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After back to back runs romancing Lucanis and Emmrich, the author's brain reaches the logical conclusion: OT3.
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05 Oct 2025
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Footnotes by galedikarios
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
24 Oct 2025
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Lucanis was once the best agent in all of Antiva.
A name that made dictators quake, now reduced to a campus guard who kicked the coffee machine whenever it ate his coins. Each night he wandered the empty halls of Nevarran University, torch in hand, resigned to another dull shift with only the shadows, and Spite, for company. Until one night, a thin strip of light bled from beneath an office door.
Professor Emmrich Volkarin, PhD. Parapsychology. Titles meant little to Lucanis, but staff hours were staff hours. He slipped a reminder note under the door and carried on, only to find, on his next loop, that the professor had left him a reply.
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05 Oct 2025
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Between the Fourth and Fifth Rib by Skarchived
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
01 Jun 2025
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Oh, how much can change in four months.
There, bent over Caterina’s bedside, a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles slipping down the bridge of his nose, is Emmrich. He looks up at the sound of the door, those bright hazel eyes reflecting nearby candlelight. Surprise widens his gaze, but in an instant, as recognition takes hold, every feature softens. He smiles for Lucanis and it’s so good to see that Lucanis’ knees grow watery beneath his weight, threatening to give out entirely. He could weep for relief at the sight. That near-need to collapse morphs quickly into something else as Lucanis’ leg muscles twitch, convulsing with a sudden urge to run toward Emmrich, a jerky start and stop motion, a single, stumbling step. His heart leaps and Lucanis suddenly can’t breathe.
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(In which mourning gives way to love anew.)Bookmarked by cipherninethousand
24 Aug 2025
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Small Steps to Flight by Livikun
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
18 Jul 2025
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The thing about the Veilguard was the need for trust.
Lucanis had been raised to trust no one and question every action against him. Emmrich had learned that trust was a precious thing to give and receive in turn. Spite isn't so sure about what any of that means yet.
Rook is just trying to keep herself and everyone else together.
A character study/romance between an assassin, a spirit, and a necromancer, told through their eyes along with the leader of the Veilguard.
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- Part 1 of Chessa 'Rook' Ingellvar's Veilguard
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18 Aug 2025
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To Be Near You For A While by minzimpression
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
13 Jul 2025
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The story of a Crow who has to figure out what to make of life after defeating literal gods. The Crow's attached Spirit knows exactly what they need. Unfortunately, the Crow loves to sabotage his own happiness. He does not deserve kindness. A necromancer begs to differ.
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01 Aug 2025
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The Hunt Ball; or, Dance Me to the End of Love by ImperiousFox
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
30 Jul 2025
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A year has passed since Sabine “Rook” Ingellvar saved the world, she has the love of a dashing Necromancer, and today is her birthday. Lucanis Dellamorte is throwing his best friend a ball and everything must be perfect: the decorations, the food, and most importantly— their gift.
Or: A totally self indulgent exploration of several niche interests and the Sex Pollen trope (because how else are they supposed to talk about their feelings).
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31 Jul 2025
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A Marriage of Convenience by LadyMuzzMuzz
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
18 Jan 2026
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An AU where instead of heading out with Varric to stop Solas after the War of the Banners, Zea Ingellvar is arranged to be married to Professor Volkarin, who can shield her from the political blowback. She dodges the executioners axe, he gets to fulfill his dream about 'playing house' for a few years before he ascends to Lichdom. It's mutually beneficial for both... but their hearts may have other plans.
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- Part 8 of The Trials of the Heart
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27 Jul 2025
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In the Moment by pgf59
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
25 Feb 2026
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Rook saved the world. That's done. Cross that off the list. No problem.
But living as a normal person? With Emmrich Volkarin? And his kid?
That might be a little harder.
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27 Jul 2025
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Too Late for Antique Vows by BeaBabbling
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
08 Jun 2025
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Forensic pathologist, Emmrich Volkarin, meets the woman who has been hired to landscape the cemetery that neighbours his home. As their paths intersect and they grow swiftly closer, Emmrich finds himself battling his feelings. Battling his feelings, and growing dangerously close to failing, something Rook only seems to encourage.
And it wasn’t just her forthright, sometimes clumsy, always charming physical overtures, which were already staggering: to be desired by someone young and splendid. It was her trust. The way she looked at him like he had all the answers. The way she opened her heart to him, even as he held his back by a leash. It couldn’t be as it appeared: it simply wasn’t possible. No matter how pure her intentions, women like her did not settle for men like him.
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22 May 2025
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You have always been a delicate disaster by Inkivaarinen
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
10 May 2025
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When Lucanis blinked his eyes open he was met with a cloud of dark hair that obscured his vision. He breathed in the scent of sandalwood and citrus, and the faint undertone of ozone that sharply prickled the back of his nose. Rook’s familiar scent quickly eased his mind, and memories of last night rushed back to him. He brushed his arm behind him to seek out Emmrich, finding the other side of the bed empty, but still faintly warm. When Lucanis strained his senses, he could hear slight movement from the other room.
It hadn’t been a dream then.
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10 Mar 2025
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Dream Me Off My Feet (or The Power of Love and Rock ‘n Roll) by DrowsyBowser
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Feb 2025
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Cullen struggles to forget his night of debauchery. It only gets worse when a twist of fate brings him face to face again with the handsome stranger who stole his heart in bathroom stall.
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- Part 2 of Edge of Heaven
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01 Mar 2025
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The Fade's most secretive polycule goes a little crazy.
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19 Feb 2025
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We Tremble Like Leaves About To Let Go by Petricharis
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
25 Jun 2025
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As the seasons pass, Rook and Emmrich learn what it means to love each other forever after.
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- Part 7 of The EmmRook fics
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16 Feb 2025
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The Marvels of Tevinter Magecraft by lovenug
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
06 Mar 2025
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In a clandestine store on a Minrathous backstreet, Rook finds a treasure trove of spelled sex toys. The acquisition turns into several nights of experimentation between Emmrich and her, as they delight in learning new things about each other, and growing even closer in the process.
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09 Feb 2025
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We start at the end, Persephone is a Mourn Watcher thrust into the potential end of the world. She finds herself between a necromancer and a crow for better or for worse.
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- Part 1 of Auras of the Fade
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30 Jan 2025