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I fretted fire (but that was long ago) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
17 Jan 2026
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“We might as well move on. He’s never going to ask.”
Teia reaches over Marisol’s shoulder to sweep her thumb along Viago’s cheek.
Considering. Calculating.
“Perhaps he won’t.” Something catches in her concession, something sly and impish. Something that curls in Marisol’s core like honey spooned into hot tea. “But I will.”
When Viago can't (won't), Teia puts Mari on her knees.
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- Part 4 of honey and venom
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no answer will be heard (to the question no one asks) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
15 Jan 2026
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She drags a sheet about herself. Gathers her hair over one shoulder and wraps it around her knuckles. "It's just a fact. Don't tell me death suddenly bothers you?"
"Your death."
"Hm?"
"Not a nameless, theoretical concept." His walking stick is propped against the armoire; he grips the snake-wrapped handle like he can choke an escape from its silverite throat. "Your death. That is what we're... considering."
Or: Addie has made peace with her Calling and Viago has not done that.
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- Part 3 of just after the end of the world
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in loving me (in loving you) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Jan 2026
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“The only thing that could pardon you in this moment would be if we walked out, right now, with no intent to come back.”
“The only thing?” Something devious glints in Viago’s eye, and something other than hunger pools at her core. Her awareness catches on the weight of his palm against her leg— even before his fingers tighten, before they slide up the length of her thigh.
“Perhaps—“ her grip tightens imperceptibly on her wine glass; her breath stills in her lungs “—perhaps not the only thing.”
Viago and Addie attend a dinner party.
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- Part 2 of just after the end of the world
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“And that should mean I want you less? When have you ever known me to—“ Teia grinds against her, a wicked interruption that punches Mari’s breath out all at once. “Rude.”
“I could stop, if you—“
“No.”
Teia and Marisol enjoy some time alone.
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- Part 3 of honey and venom
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for what it has cost me by inquisimer for basedonconjecture
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
15 Dec 2025
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On the run from the Wardens, Hawke and Stroud dare to steal something for themselves.
(It ends just as it was always going to.)
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serendipity // zemblanity by inquisimer for flowersforthemachines
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
21 Nov 2025
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When a strange eluvian manifests in the Crossroads, two Rooks catch a glimpse of how things might have been different.
“What,” Jackdaw balances on the tension stretching between them like a high wire, “is going on here?”
“Why don’t you tell me,” Addie points her dagger at the Fang, “seeing as you have that?”
“You seem to know a great deal about it.”
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heartlines by inquisimer for RosellaWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
18 Nov 2025
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When her childhood friend fails to appear at her thesis defense, Vanthi and Lucanis return to the Lighthouse to find what's become of her.
“We’ll find her,” he murmurs. Vanthi swallows. Nods.
“Of course. It’s so easy to lose time here— she’s probably upstairs, in a sea of research notes. Happened to us all the time as apprentices.”
But Rosamund isn’t upstairs.
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- Part 2 of never the same love twice
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to love what death can touch by inquisimer, pixiedurango
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
17 Nov 2025
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Confronted with unexpected grief, Cara de Riva finds comfort in the presence of a new friend.
co-written for Rookfest on tumblr!
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my feet burn (now I'm in this with you) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
08 Nov 2025
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Before House Cantori can make their play for Seventh Talon, Teia needs one more thing: her Spellblade.
She bears no grudge for that. Orders were given, and she carried them out willingly— eagerly, even, for the light it sparked in Teia’s eyes. But this—
This means something else.
Teia lifts the weapon, blade against palm, and holds it out, hilt-first. “Come with me,” she says. A simple invitation. “In this, be mine.”
Written for Rara Avis Zine and featuring art by Melody Loka!
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- Part 2 of honey and venom
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cursed is the fool who's willing by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Oct 2025
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“Rosa was here the other day, did you know?” And there is— a bite to her words. Of course he didn’t know, but now he does, because there is no one else who steals his shirts and wears them about all of Antiva as if she has rights to every piece of him.
“And she what,” he musters a bit of dignity, even as Teia laughs quietly above them, “walked back across Treviso, half-naked?”
“You say that as though you don’t think she would.”
No one teases like the Crows of House Cantori; no one suffers them like Viago de Riva.
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patron saint of the lost causes by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
01 Oct 2025
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They paid a heavy price to save the world. In the aftermath, Viago takes issue with Rook's grief.
Fingers close around her throat, killing the sound. Her skin feels oversensitive, every point where the leather presses into it burning like a match head.
“Don’t,” Viago warns. “You’re better than that, we deserve better than that, from you. We are not a dirty handkerchief for you to dry your tears on. After everything—“
His thumb slides up the column of her throat, pushes her chin back. “You are better than that, Rook. Do better.”
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- Part 1 of just after the end of the world
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though I burn (how could I fall) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
13 Sep 2025
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“That has nothing to do with this.”
“Doesn’t it?” Marisol picks up her phylactery and turns it over. “For all that you resent Fulgeno, he is part of you. Part of your past, part of the reason your present is what it is. As the Circle is part of mine.”
She traces the runes with a blunted nail. “Why not eradicate the parts of our past that hurt? That were not ours to control?”
Viago scoffs, almost. There is something halfhearted about it, like he wants to refute what she says, but only gets part of the way there. It doesn’t matter— she’s already picked apart the pieces of any argument he might make.
Years before the Dread Wolf aims to take down the Veil, Teia recruits a thief (an elf, a mage, a spark) from the gutters of Salle—and gets exactly what she bargained for.
(Or: no one has told the Crows of House Cantori that they are not the exception to every rule, and Viago wishes that someone would.)
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- Part 1 of honey and venom
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by waves I'm tossed (but they have never moved the stars) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
16 Aug 2025
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The child is unexpected, not unwanted. Holding their fate in her hands, Arlow confronts the doubts that linger from her contract with the Veilguard.
"If we raise them, how can they be anything other than exactly what we are?" she whispers. Thinks of Viago's hand pushing her off the docks; of Caterina's cane; of blood and sweat and bile, and how every story ends in a scar.
"Are we such a terrible thing to be?"
"I don't know anymore." The admission falls too fast from her lips, escaping before she can swallow it back. "I hate that I don't know anymore."
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- Part 8 of no matter how far
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compass points you anywhere (closer to me) by inquisimer for RosellaWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
03 Aug 2025
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Before a date, Vanthi worries her experience won't be up to par, and Rosamund offers her help with that.
There’s a beat where she regrets the offer. Where Vanthi’s lips part, just slightly, and she blinks. A beat before realization hits her like a druffalo and her eyes go wide. But just as Rosamund opens her mouth to laugh it off as a joke, Vanthi whirls around and grips her elbows.
“Truly? Would you? That would make me feel so much better, Rosa, if you don’t need to be anywhere else? I mean if you do, that’s okay, but if you don’t—?”
“No, no I don’t.” Her voice sounds distant, even to her own ears, the pounding of her heart in her throat too present, too loud. “I offered, didn’t I?”
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- Part 1 of never the same love twice
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if I have your hand to hold by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Jun 2025
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The day before Lucanis re-opens his grandmother's famous restaurant, a woman walks in, looking for a job.
Is it a trick? Maybe—but she makes a perfect cup of coffee.
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- Part 7 of no matter how far
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inis vitae sed non amoris by inquisimer for RosellaWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
01 Jun 2025
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inis vitae sed non amoris: the end of life, but not of love.
Giovanna de Riva goes in search of what remains in Blighted Treviso.
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if we knew each other's secrets (what comforts we should find) by inquisimer for wishforhome
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
01 Jun 2025
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After Illario crosses the line with Zara, Rook turns to an old source of comfort.
“Rook,” she says, not sounding nearly as relieved as most people would be to find a friendly face instead of an intruder. “What’s wrong?”
Arlow laughs, the ends of her hair brushing the counter as she tilts her head back. Such a weighted question. What’s wrong?
Everything. And also, in the grand scheme of things, nothing—for the moment.
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- Part 2 of no matter how far
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life is good (and that's the way it should be) by inquisimer for KiaStirling
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
01 Jun 2025
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Neither Avexis nor Alistair are suited for the Winter Palace, but they find a way.
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the voice that meets you in the storm by inquisimer for KiaStirling
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
02 May 2025
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Hissera Thorne receives hope from her Warden allies in the South and offers Lucanis hope for Blighted Treviso, in turn.
A gift for KiaStirling as part of the DAFF Discord Server's 2025 OC Swap.
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for a moment (the sun knew of you too) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - Various Authors
22 Feb 2025
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So much for chivalry, Loghain thought bitterly. Unsurprising, though. He’d known chivalry to be dead for years, and none of these pretenders would have had any claim to it before, anyhow.
He stepped over corpses, retrieving arrows as he went. When he finally stood over the fallen commander, his quiver was full once more. But he hooked his bow to his back.
A short character study of Loghain at the end of the Battle of River Dane, written for Dragon Age Annual 2025: Legacies