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  1. Rec 23

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    "We wake and whisper awhile,
    But, the day gone by,
    Silence and sleep like fields
    Of Amaranth lie."
    - Walter de La Mare

     

    Emmrich Volkarin had never intended to step foot inside a brothel. But Orlais was a land of color, temptation, and masked truths, and something about the velvet dusk, the wine-sweet air, the perfumed streets—all of it—it stirred in him an ache he could no longer reason away.He told himself it was curiosity. He told himself it was harmless. A clinical indulgence of something so many others had sampled. He gave a false name and stepped through the brothel’s door expecting artifice, practiced flirtation, and emotional distance. Sating of a curiosity. Once. Just once.

     

    He did not expect her—
    And from that moment, Emmrich’s careful world began to tilt.

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    09 Sep 2025

  2. Rec 9

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    If Anders had to pinpoint the exact moment his better sense had abandoned him, he would trace it back to that day in Lowtown marketplace. Witnessing Fenris, an elf who had only ever shown himself to be acerbic at best and vitriolic at worst, practically melt a merchant with unexpected kindness and effortless charm? Well, it was eye-opening.

    He didn’t dwell too much on the way that smooth voice made his stomach flip, nor the sudden heat he felt seeing that broad smile for the first time. He was mostly preoccupied with two immediate questions: 1) why had Fenris never treated him this way? And, 2) what would it take to achieve that outcome?

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    24 Aug 2025

  3. Rec 23

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    “You really need to work on—this,” Hawke says, circling a wide gesture about Dorian’s entire self.

    “Beg pardon?” Dorian says. “The man who’s covered in blood from head to toe is going to criticize my aesthetic?”
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    At a breaking point with his expected path in life, a young Dorian Pavus embarks on a rebellious journey to escape his family’s disappointment by drinking his way across Thedas.

    But when things go awry, Dorian finds himself stranded in the grimy streets of Kirkwall—a place where his magical talent, far from the advantage it’s always been, is suddenly a glaring liability.

    Things are looking pretty bleak. Until Dorian runs into a charming apostate named Garrett Hawke.

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    07 Aug 2025

  4. Rec 25

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    Illario Dellamorte gets blighted in the final battle for Minrathous and when the smoke clears and the day is saved, he's stuck stranded in the Anderfels as a freshly Joined Grey Warden with absolutely no fucking ties to anyone, anything, or any reason to give damn about continuing to breathe. He'd walk off a cliff into the sea if only Evka, Antoine and one extremely aggressive griffon will just get out of his way. (EI: Illario gets a horse girl arc. Torture would be preferable.)

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    04 Aug 2025

  5. Rec 5

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    If Lucanis was a different man, one who had not gone through exacting and severe Crow training, one who had not been leashed to a demon and left to rot in salt and blood, perhaps the news that Catarina had sent someone - one of Viago’s, no less - would have stirred something within him. He knew that Zara had given them reason to believe he was dead, and his grandmother’s knowledge and action to the contrary should have inspired gratitude, or relief, or at least something of that ilk.

    He felt only other, uglier things.

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    24 Jul 2025