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Poison Either Way by VixenOfCadmea
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
18 Jun 2025
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“So tell me, Rook.” He sets his glass down, the crystal tapping gently against the wood with a soft clink. “Is this the life you chose… or the one you were left with?”
A memory rises, unbidden: the two of them, younger then, hands still unbloodied, lying in a field gone gold in the late summer light. He turns to her and agrees she'd be his queen. Not a dare, not a game, but promise in those ocean blue eyes of his.
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Rook didn’t marry for love—she married for power, for position, for the illusion of control. But Viago has always seen past illusions. They were raised side by side, sharpened into weapons by the same cruel hands. He knows her ambition by heart, just as she knows his own hunger for power.Loyalty is costly. Desire is a dangerous game. And in the Antivan Crows, it’s poison either way.
For the Viago Week prompt: Talon or King.
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- Part 1 of From Rook to Reina
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- 8,667
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- 2/2
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12 Feb 2026
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the sound of pretenses falling by seimaisin for someassemblingrequired
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
09 Mar 2025
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It's in a Crow's nature to lie, to tell half-truths that get them closer to their marks, to their goals. And now, with so many people out there who would be happy to kill her - Antaam, Venatori, the bloody elven gods themselves - to take away this one simple layer of defense is unacceptable. "If you knew it was magic," he asks, "why didn't you go back to the Lighthouse? You've got mages there. I can't do anything about magic here."
Lena covers her mouth with her hand again for a moment, and Viago sees another struggle play out in her eyes. But he waits, until she lowers both her hand and her gaze. "You're the only one I trust with all this truth," she mutters.
Well, fuck.
Venatori blood magic forces Rook to tell nothing but the truth. But there are truths between her and Viago that have been buried for too long.
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the lonely end of the rink by sugarlump, wishforhome for effelants
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
04 Dec 2025
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In theory, Vero Solano is living every hockey-obsessed kid’s dream. After surviving a string of hazing incidents, they’ve clawed their way to the Show – the Thedas Hockey League. When Vero is traded mid-season to the Antiva City Crows, they’re preceded by their reputation as a stand-offish loner who prefers anonymous hookups off the ice to team bonding. To everyone’s surprise – including and especially their own – they soon find themself connecting with Viago de Riva, the Crows’ enigmatic goaltender whose on-ice brilliance has earned him respect despite his own eccentricities.
A 14-year THL veteran and the cornerstone of the franchise, Viago has spent his entire career barely tolerating his teammates. Still, there’s something about Vero’s careful detachment that’s entirely too familiar. Despite his misgivings, he finds himself offering the Crows' newest defense player post-practice advice that quickly evolves into something that looks dangerously like friendship – and maybe more.
(Actual fic length is approximately 54,500 words. The rest is footnotes/glossary.)
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- 65,535
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- 7/7
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15 Dec 2025
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The Risk, and the Reward by howlsmovinglibrary
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
17 Mar 2025
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“Sorry,” Vic said quickly. “I thought -” She stopped. “It was just... a very clean kill.”
…Surely he understood that, right? From the number of people she now had an intimate awareness of, even from her brief ten-month stint as the disgraced sellsword of House de Riva, Vic knew that the majority of Crows shared this sentiment, at least. Killing people felt good. Sometimes, victory just felt good, and it made you want to make other people feel good, or perhaps selfishly push yourself from good into phenomenal-
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After a misread heated moment, and a disastrous first kiss that never should've happened, Vic more than gets the message: Lucanis Dellamorte isn't interested.Which is fine. Plenty of people are.
[multichap fic, that's basically me writing a more consistent romance narrative for Lucanis and this particular Rook.]
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- Part 1 of Crows and Rooks.
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14 Oct 2025
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a new kind of alibi by Sinister_Queer
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Dec 2024
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For a moment, Lucanis thought she was still asleep—caught in the memories of other bodies in her bed—but the twist of her spine to draw herself closer to him could not be anything but intentional.
“Lucanis,” she sighed, guiding his hand up to the warm space just beneath her breasts. “It’s so early.”
Her head tipped back, rolling to flash him bright, brilliant eyes as her lips parted in a warm sigh. His brows knit as Teia’s liquid spine rolled against him, the brush of her heel against his calf, the nudge of her—of her against his hips.
Something was wrong
(AKA: Lucanis and Teia pretend to fuck to distract guards, and then actually fuck. Viago gives them cover, and watches.)
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Bellara stares wide-eyed at Rook. “So, they call you the cuckoo because…”
“Oh, I didn’t kill anyone!” Rook amends, then laughs at herself. “No, not true, I absolutely did. But not other Crows. No, cuckoo’s just a good nickname.”
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Rook's never really belonged in the Crows. Does the end of the world care about belonging? Not really.
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A Night of Regret by Kadannish
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
25 Jan 2025
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A year and a half before the events of Veilguard, Varric, Harding, and Rook take a detour in Treviso.
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Lightning, hot and consuming, shoots down Lucanis’s spine. His name, whispered from those lips with the barest touch to his ear. He just might die like this. His hand, the one that’s not resting dangerously low on her waist, the one that holds her more respectfully, clenches into a fist— a futile effort to steady himself.
Rook’s hand, the one not over his heart, trails across his shoulders, leaving flames in their wake. Long, long fingers threading under his hair on the back of his neck, thumb at his jaw. Another thought flashes: the feeling of those silk gloves against his skin, tracing his face as he drowns in her exquisite taste. Her, lips shaping his name just like that murmur in his ear, again and again and again—
“Do you like it when I say your name,” she presses her lips closer, dragging against his ear, nose in his hair. “Lucanis?”
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- Part 1 of Dragon Age: The Veilguard Sampler
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All My Friends Are Sad & Bright by sorrygoldfish
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
04 Aug 2025
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Rook's life is a mess, objectively speaking, and keeping the Lighthouse coffee bar running after the year she's had isn't making it any easier. Then she meets Lucanis Dellamorte, a rich guy with enough skeletons in his closet to fill a graveyard, and her life gets even messier. Grief is weird, being an adult is hard, and falling in love might be the messiest thing of all.
This is a story about two people falling in love, but it’s also my love letter to the friend group. It’s not a very serious story, except when it is (because life’s not that serious, except when it is.)
(Title from the poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich)
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- Part 1 of All My Friends
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20 Aug 2025
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a beautiful night for a bloodbath by calypsid
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
01 Aug 2025
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Livia Mercar has spent her entire life on the streets of Minrathous learning how to manipulate people to do exactly what she wants them to do. But the streets are hard, and cold, and miserable, and she's growing too old for that life. She needs a new start. A new life.
Preferably, a rich one.
She's scraped together every coin she can lay her hands on and reinvented herself into a gently bred lady of the Ton. She has every intention of marrying one of the bachelors in Treviso -
But perhaps she's set her sights on the most dangerous one of all.
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20 Aug 2025
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miles of regrets and confusing friends by calypsid
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
12 Aug 2025
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Five times the airlines delayed Rook's flight, and one time the flight went (almost) as scheduled.
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- 6,099
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20 Aug 2025
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Stars Are Blind by chainlinkfences
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
07 Nov 2025
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"Rook." She froze, hand on the bannister, but she couldn't bring herself to face him.
"It was a good idea. The execution is what failed." Lucanis paused. "With Ghilan'ain."
She threw a small, quick smile in his direction to convey her gratitude for the effort, jumping steps as she made a hasty exit.
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A reckoning for Lucanis x Rook through the events of Dragon Age: The Veilguard (part canon, part liberties).
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- Part 1 of Saffanis Cinematic Universe
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10 Aug 2025
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When I Say by SableVerse
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
05 May 2025
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Viago paused before her and reached out to brush her hair from her face, fingers gloved in kid leather. He tilted his head, watching her with a gaze like slow brandy.
“You're standing too stiffly,” he said, voice quiet but precise. “Relax your shoulders. No one from House de Riva stands like prey.”
Rook obeyed without hesitation, exhaling slowly as she eased into his correction.
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The Cantori Diamond is where Crows learn to perfect the art of seduction.
Rook is learning. Lucanis is helping.
Viago is teaching.Instruction, obedience, denial. All part of the lesson.
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sunset stains like a nectarine by calciferrrx
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Nov 2024
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It's not like they haven't discussed the fact that Spite is, essentially, a constant audience to everything they do, in public or private. After some gentle cajoling from Rook, he's generally behaved himself in the bedroom.
But then… there have been a few times, more recently.
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Rook and Lucanis trade questions and stories on a quiet evening. They learn that they met once, many years ago.
Now a multichapter! No real ongoing plot, just little conversational scenes that didn't fit anywhere else.
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18 Mar 2025
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Solemn, devoted Lucanis. He doesn’t know how heavy his regard is, how the force of his attention sends shivers down her spine. Dutybound Lucanis, who would never ask her to stay in Treviso; does he think it’s kinder that way? That the question, once vocalized, might clip her wings?
He offers deaths at every turn, like each life is a bauble that caught her eye at market. The world holds perhaps a score of throats he wouldn’t slit at her word. It's sweet, in its way. Comforting, sometimes, having the most fearsome Crow in Antiva at her shoulder. Galling, occasionally, when people look at her and only see the threat of Lucanis’s shadow.
Lucanis, holding her after the latest round of nightmares. Anchoring her to sanity with his soft beard against her cheek, his hands on her ribcage while her heart tries to beat itself out of her chest. Every night in his arms is another night she’s grateful she outlived the gods.
Life would be simpler if she loved him a little less.
The gods are dead, the world's a mess, no one is happy about the new Talon, and Rook's haunted by regret. Rook, Spite, and Lucanis figure out how to live despite it all.
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- Part 3 of Thunder Without Rain
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I, Carrion by laufehson
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Mar 2025
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“If we needed anyone to blend in and be inconspicuous,” Viago stresses the word inconspicuous, “in the event that something were to happen, you would be an asset.”
“I see.” Rook reads through the letter. Masquerade ball. Venatori threat. The First Talon requests your presence. She weighs her options - how honest to be, how much to say. “This seems risky.”
or: a Crow masquerade ball.
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- Part 1 of i, carrion
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Something like heat coils low in his gut, but he keeps his expression carefully neutral, refusing to let her see.
Until—
She hums softly, the sound warm, indulgent. “Such a good boy.”
Lucanis goes still.
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For @ockissweek today I have borrowed @inquisimer's fantastic Ariya Tabris. Honestly, Mer, I went into this just thinking that the two of them needed a minute of quiet. Thank you for letting me borrow your gal <3
“A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.”—Walt Whitman, “A Glimpse”
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14 Feb 2025
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speak to me in the language of reverence by hyperions_light (flyiing_giraffe)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 Jan 2025
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After Rook almost dies (again) trying to get Viago his crown, relations between their favorite Crows are somewhat strained. Obviously, the solution to this is to arrange a foursome.
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Rook/Teia/Viago/Lucanis with feelings and pieces of plot. This technically goes in the middle of a larger fic I'm not done with yet, but it can be read by itself, and I figured no one would object to getting the porn early.
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gets stuck in your head (won't come out of your mouth) by Mossful
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
17 Jan 2026
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“If you don’t give me the dagger I shall cry,” Rosa declares.
“I have never seen you cry, not even once.” Viago replies.
“Then I shall pout very hard.”
Or: Viago and Rook's complicated relationship over the years.
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- Part 2 of something's electric in your blood