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  1. Summary

    Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.
    - Richard Siken

    A collection of stories about my mage Crow, Andrea de Riva.
    Andrea is not a Rook character, but a separate Antivan Crow OC. They are a spirit healer whose skills have been perfected under the assassin's guild to work as a torturer. Throughout this series I am exploring their relationship with magic, their elven identity, how power is an illusory replacement for safety, and how they get tangled up with Illario Dellamorte.

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    A collection of stories about my tiefling Piety, an Archfey pact bardlock who struggles to break himself free of their pact to the Prince of Frost.

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  1. Rec 15

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    A minute flare of her nostrils. Oh, he'd had years to practice not getting under her skin; it was freeing to disregard all of it. She stood up, the tip of her cane striking the hard floor clear and loud, familiar. He didn't flinch. She'd trained it out of him — out of them both. He drank again.

    "You should have killed me to secure the position," Caterina said, looking at him.

    After Lucanis almost kills him, Illario has a conversation with Caterina.

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    22 Feb 2025

  2. Rec 37

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    The price for the services of Lucanis Dellamorte was gold—a lot of it, admittedly—but he was known to be well worth the coin.

    But if one didn’t have gold... well, then there were always other ways to pay.

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    AU where Lucanis was never taken to the Ossuary, but he is still hired for the contract ;)

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    20 Feb 2025

  3. Rec 33

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    “How’s Rook?” The words burst out of him like a dog breaking off a leash.

    Bellara stopped.

    “Bad.” Back turned towards him, she continued, “I almost said that you can imagine, but you can't, I guess. Not like I can. The Blight is… a lot. Too much by now. When it's over, it's… It will be a relief. For her.” She let out a shaky breath and turned around. “So thank you. For coming."

    We will help.

    “Death is my calling, after all,” he said. “It’s what I do best.”

    After almost a decade of a tumultuous relationship, Rook and Lucanis made the choice to cut ties for good. Yet when Rook's time comes, Lucanis visits the Weisshaupt fortress to make good on a contract taken ten years ago — to see Rook through the end of her Calling.

    Placed in the series for chronology. Can be read as standalone (and was written basically before anything else in the series). 

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    03 Feb 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    emotionally devastating but best bellara characterization i've seen * lucanis & rook have so much rich history that you can't help but feel for them both

  4. Public Bookmark 24

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    Woljif had to admit, it was a pretty sweet deal. Why not follow through and see what an honest quid pro quo felt like? A couple of days ago he had been chained up, for lack of a proper jail cell, in the moldy basement of the Defender’s Heart tavern, furiously concocting dead-end escape plots. The worst thing about it was crouching in a dark corner on a hard, cold floor and gazing up the stairs where light, laughter, the scent of food, and sometimes even music drifted down, out of his reach. Perpetually out of his reach.

    Until, of course, this golden-headed half-elf had come down the stairs and made him a deal.

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    10 Jan 2024

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    ch.24

  5. Rec 7

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    There are four things Kieran knows about Solas:

    (1) He’s Professor Flemeth’s infamously irritable and reclusive TA, and tears his essays to shreds
    (2) He’s Kieran’s new labmate in one of the most difficult academic programs in Ferelden, under the supervision of one of the most mysterious professors alive
    (3) Solas hates point (2)
    (4) Solas hates tea

    When Solas makes his distain for Kieran clear, Kieran decides to fight fire with tea. Will Solas survive this tea war? Will Kieran find the one tea Solas can tolerate? Is there more brewing beneath the surface that neither of them want to confront?

    (The answer is yes.)

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    06 Mar 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    My favorite modern AU fic :)