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“Hey, kid! Wait up!” A dwarf - no, two dwarves, were trotting after him as he maneuvered the busy streets of Treviso. He paused, allowing them to catch up. “Never got to thank you for getting us out of that mess. Really saved our hides, rookie.” ‘So they’d been Antaam prisoners.’
“Don’t mention it. Like really, don’t. My boss is fucking pissed.” Kione’s smile didn’t quite reach his eyes.
“So I heard. Viago, right? We just spoke to him. How would you like to help save the world?”
A retelling of Veilguard events with sprinkles of my Rook, Kione de Riva’s, backstory.
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Beach Episode by MediocreMillie
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
05 Jul 2025
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After dealing with the fallout from Weisshaupt, Renya "Rook" Laidir decides the gang needs a fucking break and makes them all take a much-needed vacation to the Rivaini coast. Only, with a group like hers, there's always trouble on the horizon. Maker knows she has her own troubles, such as her new relationship with the handsome necromancer already on the rocks and the arrival of a troubling figure from her past.
Anyone need a palate cleanser after the Siege of Weisshaupt? Good lord, why couldn't we get a scene like in Inquisition where the gang is just...playing cards or something?
Rated E for shEnanigans....but also eventual smut.
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eight stories about work as an antivan crow
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Oh Fearless Leader by Writingwithfantasy
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
04 Jul 2025
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“Rook doesn’t punch! He shoots! And sometimes stabs!“
A Legatus being kidnapped by the Venatori leads the team to realise they don’t know as much about their leader as they thought.Kaiden Mercar is a lot of things, a leader, a Shadow Dragon, and a terrible liar.
A Rook story starting from just before Blood of Arlathan till the end of the game.
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- Part 1 of Stories of Heroes
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Reverie by lamppost_in_winter
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
13 Jun 2025
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Viago plays the piano. Rook watches him while reminiscing about her past and thinking about how attractive Viago is.
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Crow Upon A Glowing Skull by TheCuriousFae
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
12 Jun 2025
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The Mourn Watch was all Ehren Ingellvar ever knew, from the day they were found in the crypts, to the day they were sent out to 'find themselves' after their controversial triumph at the War of the Banners. Even after, during their hunt for Solas, they only scantly heard of other factions.
That is, until they needed to hire a Crow to help save the world.
Then, their cold dead heart somehow ended up in the clutches of the Antivan Crow's most infamous mage killer, supposedly thought dead for a little over a year. How fitting for a Nevarran Necromancer.Little did Ingellvar know that not only would they find themselves balancing on a razor's edge in matters of life and love trying to find and kill their targets, but Ehren might find a little something more about themselves, but at what cost?
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It had been two months since Viago had become Fifth Talon, and each time he thought he had finally gotten a handle on the enormity of the responsibility of leading an entire House, a new crisis arose which urgently required his attention.
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What They Made of Me by TheHumbleWriter
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
02 Jun 2025
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Rook was raised to be a weapon. First by the slavers who stole her, then by the Crows who sharpened her into something useful. She has been many things—mage, assassin, runaway—but never truly her own. Now, the world is breaking, and she is standing at its fault line, forced to make choices she never thought would be hers to make.
What does a weapon do when no one is left to wield it?
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I Know It Will Be Sadder If You Never Hit The Road by Memories_of_the_Shadows
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
23 May 2025
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Viago receives a letter from his cousin. He doesn't expect to get a baby from it.
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Baby You’re a Haunted House by redhandsredribbons
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
23 May 2025
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Got a case for you, Slick.
You know how I’ve been trying to find the right person for this job for years? (One thing I’ll say for Chuckles is at least he moves slow, compared to our measly mortal existences. Not even shitting you when I say that sometimes it feels like he’s working on my schedule. I know that sounds crazy.)
I think I found somebody.
Barn (“Baby”) Ingellvar, code name Rook, is a trans man dwarf, former Legionnaire, and the Grand Necropolis’s favorite undead foundling. Rook navigates relationships, respectability, and the end of the world. Emmrich intends on a charming courtship, and gets kicked in the face with an existential crisis instead. And Harding? Harding becomes the Blight. Don’t worry! It’s a good thing.
A Veilguard and post-Veilguard fix-it fic, told (at first) through new codex letters and party banter. The unconventional format has a storytelling function, and changes as the Titans start to wake up. Rook’s romance arc is V-shaped polyamory: Rook/Harding and Rook/Emmrich, separately.
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Journey through the Black City by confused_mae
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
18 May 2025
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She began to feel a presence in her dreams. It was later then she realized it was him, watching her. He was a wolf hiding in the shadows of her mind, lurking behind every corner only to disappear when she would try to turn and catch him. What could Solas possibly want with her after everything they've gone through? Rook would soon find herself in the Black City with Solas, who planned to cleanse the blight corrupting the city for good.
*This work is complete! I will be posting chapters on Saturdays just so I am able to give each chapter some time to breath between each posting*
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Rabbit by MediocreMillie
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
16 May 2025
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“Did you know the physiological effects of fear and arousal are much the same?” He leaned closer, inhaling the eucalyptus scent of her hair. Rook tugged weakly on the door handle, but he held firm. Emmrich could practically feel the heat of her blush radiating, even from behind her. “Shallow breaths.” He ran two fingers up her spine, moving her heavy curls over her shoulder before pressing them to the pulse point just below her jaw. “Elevated heart rate.” The beat pounded below his fingertips perfectly as he tightened his grip on her neck and leaned closer to kiss the nape. A small whimper escaped her lips. He grinned against her skin. “Involuntary sounds.”
“Emm…” she whispered, trembling.
Emmrich used his grip on her throat to spin her to face him, caging her smaller body against the door. “Dilated pupils,” he observed. “My sweet Renya..." He enjoyed the way she had to crane her neck to look him in the eye. “When you learned that it was I who cornered you in the Necropolis all those years ago, did it change how you viewed the memory?” He leaned in to run his teeth along her delicately pointed ear. “Does it excite you now, little rabbit?”
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Hostage by SandcastleKings
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 May 2025
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Before Jericho Mercar became "Rook", before he was even "Jericho," he was just Tully. Dreamer. Son of a Magister. Unwilling agent of the Venatori. Just trying to find himself in a harsh and unforgiving world. This is his emotional journey from Tully to Venatori, to Shadow Dragon, to Rook.
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The Beginning of the Beginning by Rodimiss
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
04 May 2025
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Valencia de Riva limps back into the Cantori Diamond, her boots sticky from the blood drying on their soles.
Following her altercation with the Antaam, the woman who will someday be known as Rook and Viago have a conversation.
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though I burn (how could I fall) by inquisimer
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
26 Apr 2025
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He blinks, and something shifts again, and—
He still cannot put his finger on exactly what. But she slinks around the coffee table and takes Teia’s wine glass from her fingers—unabashed, audacious, unbowed—and drains the last mouthful for herself. And she looks up at her Guildmaster, almost submissive, almost penitent, if not for the smirk that pulls at her lips like a spark.
“Well? Can I do it?”
Teia rolls her eyes and flicks at her Crow’s ear. And, over her shoulder,
“Just bring her back in one piece, Vi.”
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.)
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Porcelain by disastermage (delicate_mageflower) for dismalzelenka
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
23 Apr 2025
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He’s trying to put pieces together. It was so vivid, it felt so real, a part of him still isn’t entirely sure it wasn’t. But Spite is upset, and there’s something Lucanis is missing.
He may have just done something terrible.
Lucanis accidentally hurts Rook, and has to learn to live with their forgiveness.
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- Part 7 of Rook's Talon/Crow's Shadow
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The backstory of one Rookley Aldwir, how they left a shitty situation, became a Veil Jumper and eventually met one Varric Tethras.
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- Part 1 of Rookley Aldwir
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Teach Me How to Pray by The_Great_Morrigan for To my best friend Katelin. Thank you for listening to me ramble.
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
08 Apr 2025
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Rook never expected to have feelings for someone again, especially not a certain necromancer with a kind smile and warm eyes. Emmrich was the exact opposite of how she was taught to love, but sometimes, when the world is falling down around you, you need someone standing by your side. With a past shrouded in mystery and Elven gods on their doorstep, Rook must learn to fly before she falls.
Rook/Emmrich with some slight Rook/Solas.
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How Moments Lead to a Lifetime of Happiness by NebulaEyes
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
06 Apr 2025
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Emmrich wasn't sure what he was expecting when he raised the dead to mine the tunnels of the necropolis, but being taken on an adventure to stop the gods and falling in love was nowhere near what he would have ever guessed.
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Lucanis sees it before he understands it: the way Rook’s body stills mid-sentence. The way her laughter catches, stalls, like a bird striking glass. The smile fades from her mouth with the kind of precision that only comes from habit—old habit. Something carved into the bones. Her eyes, wide and green and suddenly so small, lock onto a man standing just inside the threshold.
And Lucanis is moving.
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Rook sees someone from her past.