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Sowing Winds, Reaping Storms by Exalted_Dawn
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
09 Nov 2025
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Most often, revelations of memory are soft things, pillowed in sweet, sometimes-sorrowful rumination. They are stirred to mind by a lost bauble suddenly found, or a nostalgic scent carried on the wind. A chance reunion with an old friend. Sometimes, however, on those very rare occasions, one's past could return to them delivered on the edge of a knife.
Teia just never imagined that the man who saved her twenty-five years ago would be the one wielding it.
A canon-divergent prelude to an Enemies-to-Lovers set up between Zevran Arainai and Andarateia Cantori, where a chance meeting twenty years prior set the two on a path of eventual collision, placing them both on opposing sides in a war over the rise or fall of the Antivan Crows. Zevran, who was once Teia's savior, suddenly becomes a threat to the lives of herself and her underlings, and she must weigh the price of her own life debt against the cost of fallen friends. And at the end of the night, someone must be made to pay.
Written Piece for the Rara Avis Zine.
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Wolves Among Serpents by Exalted_Dawn
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
31 Oct 2025
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A year has passed since she first received the Inquisition’s summons. A year, since she took a new name and left everything else behind. A year of brutal training, working alongside the Agents of Fen’Harel and climbing their ranks, just for this one opportunity. A mission to Tevinter. Another step closer to earning the Dread Wolf's trust.
All Ny'ari had to do was kill a magister.
However, the scope of her mission escalates when she suddenly finds herself crossing paths with Fenris, a mysterious elven warrior, and an herbalist from the Denerim Alienage on the hunt for their long lost relatives. Brought together by circumstance but united in goals, all three agree that their best chance to track down and corner the elusive Magister Caladrius is to work together. Following the trail of a crime committed over two decades ago, they find themselves faced with having to navigate the messy political landscape of Tevinter’s capital; confronting slavers, befriending local rebels, sneaking into the Circle of Magi, and even infiltrating a gala held by Magister Caladrius himself. But when it is the safety of long-lost family on the line, who can say what risk is too high to take?
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- Part 2 of The Dread Wolf Guides You
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Their bodies were a tangle. Bare skin, bronzed by sunlight and sealed in sweat. There was no contract older, more sacred, than this. Than the brushing of lips upon her throat's most tender spot and the ghosting of fingers as they traced across her stomach. Josephine shivered, delighting in the touch.
"So have you made your decision yet, Princess? The sea yet beckons."
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A very tropey and self-indulgent Pirate/Noble Woman fanfic except its Josephine and Isabela and sapphic as the high seas themselves. A gift fic for the 2025 DAFF Moodboard exchange. Hope you enjoy!
Recent series
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The Dread Wolf Guides You by Exalted_Dawn
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Oct 2025
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A series of fics dedicated to Talenna's Rook canon, including her main story fic Wolfsong, in addition to any prequel and sequel fics associated with this canon.
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In the years since Corypheus' defeat, Inquisitor Dascha Cadash has become used to many things. Her empty bed, with her lover Thom away with the Gray Wardens. Her duty dictated to her by her advisors, unable to trust her judgment. Even the Nightmares that plague her each night in defiance of her status as a dwarf, and the accompanying pain as the Anchor grows increasingly unstable.
When she is sent to the Deep Roads to investigate suspicious earthquakes on behalf of Orzammar, Dascha expected to find little more than close-minded dwarves and some old rocks. Instead, she finds a friend in Shaper Valta and a mystery more ancient than known dwarven history. A story exploring The Descent with a dwarf who dreams, and takes that aftermath with her to the Exalted Council.
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Faithbane: The Last Myth of Elvhenan by irabelasvhenan
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 Nov 2025
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Born of a god and raised as a weapon, Lanalath was not meant to kneel—until betrayal drives her into the forbidden woods of the Dread Wolf. Bound by blood and a promise made, she awakens in the Lighthouse, a sanctuary between worlds where Solas rules as both rebel and her jailor. As war stirs and gods prepare to regain control once and for all, the line between captor and companion begins to blur—and with it, the end of an empire draws near its final reckoning.
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It's ancient Arlathan and Solas falls in love with Elgar'nan's bastard daughter.
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Violet on Violet by Spirit_Finn for MagicalMysMalin, WoundedSoul
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age: Inquisition
03 Nov 2025
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Five thousand years ago two spirits (Wisdom and Hope) took physical form and became some of the immortal Elvhen.
And so began their love story.
Join Solas and Felassan as they spearhead a rebellion, take on would-be gods, cross time and space, and lose everything… including themselves.
Will their love pull them through? And what kind of an ending can these two have after surviving so much?
This work is part of the 2025 Dragon Age Big Bang event. My partnered artist is MagicalMysMalin!
His artwork will be featured in Chapter 8!!In the meantime go visit him on AO3 (same name) as a writer or see some of his art on X!!
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Ashes in the Sky by Chisotahn
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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In the aftermath of the Chantry's destruction and the Circle's breaking, Kirkwall's once-Champion flees the city with a near catatonic Anders in tow. Something has been badly wrong with Anders and Justice for a while, and now Hawke has no choice but to reckon with it.
Thanks to unexpected help from Bethany and another old friend, Hawke and Anders find a new direction: the Avvar, who deliberately pair mages and spirits together and have a very different, deeper understanding of the challenges Anders and Justice are facing. With their relationship in turmoil, Hawke and Anders set out for the Stone-Bear Hold, seeking answers, stability, and a safe place for everything between them to come to light.
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- Part 7 of Feathers, Black and Blue
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Remember the Fire by Lola1b, monsterthalia
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 Oct 2025
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“You’re in demand.” Ameridan seemed to be watching him closely, with great interest. “A young gothi from the north. Why is that?”
“Perhaps you might know. I have caught your interest, also.”
Ameridan waved a hand. “I am interested in everyone. An observer of the human condition.”
“Enough to wait outside for them and ply them with wine?”
His smile widened. “That’s only in special cases."
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The story of how Ameridan met Kordillius Drakon. How an elven mage from the Dales became the lover of the first Emperor of Orlais, and how it all fell apart. A story that spans the foundation of the Chantry, the start of the Second Blight, the Inquisition, the Nevarran Accord, and beyond.
Or: Come for the gay romance! Stay for the deep dive into obscure Thedas history!