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death is close (but so is life) by inquisimer for mortonsspoon
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 May 2026
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Arlow folds her arms across her chest. “What do you want to hear?”
“That I am wrong. That in my grief, I mistook the shape of your knife in his skin. That your magic is not the touch that stopped his heart.”
Nothing about the accusation bothers Arlow. She gazes down at Lenore, steady and unmoved. It makes an eerie, uncomfortable picture; this is the stranger she met so long ago, not the wry smile and patient comfort of the lover she has known. “You want me to lie to you?”
After Lucanis falls on a contract, Lenore tends his body— and recognizes the source of his wounds.
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this is not a love story by inquisimer for fadelights
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
04 May 2026
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It is a funny thing, the way time and circumstance trade barbs, and twine, and shape each and every fate.
Two roads diverged in an Antivan wood—
And yet reunited, where all roads in Antiva do.
Nova de Riva and Marisol Cantori, through the years.
A gift for fadelights as part of the DAFF Discord Server's 2026 OC Swap!
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Will [forgiveness] be offered to her, in turn? When the Maker calls her home, will her intentions matter more than the Seekers she left scattered to the wind?
There are no answers on her knees.
A brief study of Cassandra as the Divine, written for Dragon Age Annual 2026: Arcana
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Family. He is a boy, cane-bitten and bloody. All that remains is Caterina, the steel in her eyes, the set of her jaw, and the seat of First Talon. And Illario. If nothing else, he has Illario.
Enemies. He no longer has Illario.
A brief character study of Lucanis, written for Dragon Age Annual 2026: Arcana
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how the night might change us by inquisimer for rook-de-rivas (someassemblingrequired)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 Mar 2026
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After an evening with the Dellamortes and their new baby, Ashara is in her feelings. Viago fucks her about it.
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perhaps in time by inquisimer for Tricksy_Hobbitses
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Mar 2026
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In a blighted city, Teia brings Viago flowers.
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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)
11 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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- Part 1 of like a river
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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