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Rook had lived a peaceful, relatively secluded life in the Grand Necropolis. It had been that way for years, long enough that she thought she'd finally found her purpose. But good things never last, do they? Somewhere along a series of never-ending missteps, she found herself in charge of a team tasked with taking down two escaped elven gods.
For someone who claimed to not believe in fate, there were entirely too many things that had to go wrong in order to bring her face-to-face with the man who would end up changing her life. With the help of Lucanis and the spirit possessing him, the mysteries of her past start fitting together. But sometimes remembering hurts worse than the unanswered questions ever did.
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AKA I created a head-canon for this Rook that consumed my thoughts, so I started writing it out, and then it kept changing and evolving, eventually turning into a novel length fic. Follows a handful of key in-game events, but focuses on lots of additional "in-between" interactions that better develop the relationship between Rook and Lucanis. (Expect slight canon divergences) -
Tainted Blood by Maidhel
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
26 Nov 2025
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Sometimes the smallest choices can change everything.
Varric’s decision to hire a blood mage to stop Solas was one of them.
This is the story of a Rook who isn’t quite what anyone expected. Morally gray and socially awkward, she has little interest in making friends. Enter an Antivan Crow, suspicious of her from the start, and suddenly her plans begin to unravel, threatening more than just her secrecy.
This is also the story of Lucanis Dellamorte, an assassin turned abomination, the last thing he wants is to work alongside the very kind of mage he once hunted. Enter his personal bane, who’s somehow the most tolerant, accepting person he’s ever known, and now he isn’t so sure if he should trust his instincts or his morals.
“You know,” she said, voice low as she raised her hand to gently brush the ridge of the dagger. “I don’t normally use other people's blood in my spells. But I do use my own. So if you’re ever going to try and kill me—” her fingers drifted to skim the blade’s edge, just shy of drawing blood, and Lucanis pulled back with a grunt. “—make sure to do it in one clean move. Or otherwise, without blood involved.”
[Updates every Sunday]
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The Shadows of the Fade by NegligibleMoose
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 Nov 2025
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This is the sequel to More of a Rook than a Crow, which in turn is technically a sequel to Dragon Age the Veilguard. This means major spoilers for Veilguard!
Thedas is saved, which means that Isabella can return to the fold as Lucanis begins his new work as well. However, with a strange letter addressed to her at Villa Dellamorte, she is asked to discuss something that Viago was hoping to sweep under the rug.
The King of Antiva has learned that Rook was a Crow, and Rook has been summoned for an audience with the King. Only, Isabella hasn't gone by that name for several months and very few people knew who Rook really was. Is it a trap, or does the King really just want to extend his personal thanks to her for saving the world?
And when cloaked figures appear to pave the path for those from across the sea, it seems that Isabella might need to get the Veilguard back together to find out exactly what is going on.
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- Part 2 of The Demon and his Shadowed Crow
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Cloaks, Shoes, Daggers, and Candles by Anonymous for Toshi_Nama
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
23 Nov 2025
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Letters between Rook, Illario, Lucanis, and Spite before Candelaria
And maybe a little reconciliation
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Stray Italian Greyhound. by TenderKindOfRuin
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Nov 2025
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A character focused fix-it romance exploring Lucanis’s emotional arc and the relationship with Rook that the canon never gave the depth and focus it deserved. The tension, the softness, the slow burning desire beneath all that discipline and pain. A story of quiet moments, breaking down walls, demonic understanding and a love that changes everything - whether he’s ready for it or not.
Inspired by Stray Italian Greyhound (Vienna Teng) and the real world life changing love I found when I met my husband ❤︎
(I currently have around 20k words pre-written and being beta read. I hope to post updates regularly :) )
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Eating Crow by selunesdream
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
12 Nov 2025
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“You know, my room has good choke points too.”
Born to renowned assassins, Fiammetta De Riva, the Little Flame of Treviso, hasn’t known home in a very long time. What she does have, is a tarnished reputation amongst the Antivan Crows, a fractured relationship with her cousin Viago, and a complicated relationship with House Dellamorte.
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Rook fucked up at work and landed in trouble with her big cousin, is tasked to save the world by adopted father figure Varric Tethras, and accidentally catches feelings for old acquaintance-turned-abomination, Lucanis Dellamorte. Also, here’s jealous wreck Illario Dellamorte, who is pissed off about all of it.
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- Part 1 of Eating Crow
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(Sequel to Nest Dapples)
Its been a year after the final battle, a year of rebuilding and growth. Life seemed to be going fine with Alvina and Lucanis adjusting to normal life, working around Antiva and their Houses. She even sent letters and received updated from all of the Veilguard, life was slowly returning to normal.
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Now Alvina is only a dozen weeks pregnant, and she is seriously considering this being her last contract to settle in Treviso with Lucanis. But unexpected turn happens, Caterina’s health rapidly declines. Not even a week later, 3 Talon Houses strike and leaves House Dellamorte fighting to survive. Illario has been both a great surprise, but also bitter and harsh towards her.What of I told you what really made him snap and betray his family to Zara? Being faced with a turning point that could make or break the House for good this time? But why does he have mixed feelings about Alvina being pregnant?
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Coffee Smell by zombiefishgirl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
07 Nov 2025
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Mara and Lucanis falling in love
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- Part 334 of Mara Aldwir
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Spite week by RookStormblessed
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
31 Oct 2025
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Day 1: Scent
Day 2: Home
Day 3: Rook/ Lucanis
Day 4: Compassion
Day 5: Agreement
Day 6: Touch
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While traveling through Arlathan Forest to help some Veil Jumpers, Lucanis and Rook stumble upon some odd statues. Much to their surprise, the statues end up doing what they thought impossible. Separating Lucanis and Spite into their own bodies.
Prompt: Promise
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Unfinished Business by Cheerysmores
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
24 Oct 2025
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He finds a dagger nestled inside the package. It’s well-made but unassuming, one of a thousand hidden up the sleeves of Crows across the continent. He can tell it was cleaned in a hurry, the surface smeared with a thin sheen of crimson and something darker– a cheap poison he surmises. The good ones don’t leave a stain. His fingers stop as he touches the serrated edge. He knows the pattern. He’d traced the exact scar over Phyrra’s shoulder the last time she’d come to his bed. She hadn’t seen who’d attacked her, just heard their screams as she’d shoved them from Minrathous’ city walls.
Spite inhales. “Smells like. Deathroot. Iron.” His sharp eyes narrow, snapping to Illario again. “Rook.”
Lucanis tightens his fist over the handle. “Who was it?”
“One of the lower Houses took the contract. None of the Talons would ever accept that- at least for now.” Another whimper comes through the cellar door. Illario kicks it harder. “I’m holding onto the specific details until I know you’re not going to do something stupid.”
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What would happen if someone took a Crow contract out on Rook?
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When confronting Zara, Lucanis and Rook realize Zara can control him with blood magic.
Prompt: "It's not your fault"
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As the Crow Flies by masseffected2021
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
09 Oct 2025
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A look at Lucanis and Rook's life together, years after the death of the gods.
A story told in a collection of one-shots and snippets.
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Threads of Doubt by damdirtyheathen
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
06 Oct 2025
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“So... Lucanis,” Lyvia said at last, her voice slipping into the hush like a knife into cloth.
Rook didn’t turn, didn’t risk loosening her focus. Her gaze stayed pinned to the overseer as he paused briefly beneath a lantern’s sputtering light to look around him, then moved on. “What about him?” she asked, her tone even and controlled.
Lyvia tilted her head as she walked, sharp-eyed, her attention flicking between Rook and their quarry as if neither deserved to be neglected. “You’re both Crows, but you never crossed paths until the Veilguard?”
“There are a lot of Crows in Antiva,” Rook said, her voice pitched low. The words felt mechanical - practiced, but necessary. “I knew of him, but no, we never met until then.”
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- Part 40 of Perfectly Gathered Clouds of Doom
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Bliss In My Heart by RooksTalon
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
09 Sep 2025
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Lucanis pushed the pram housing his precious love through the market area of Treviso with a bit of pride swelling in his chest. Plenty of Abuela’s had stopped to coo over Elaris and to congratulate them on “such a wonderful gift”. Most market stall holders were offering gifts and trinkets to honour the birth and to keep their favour with the Talons of the Crows, so much so the undercarriage of the pram was overflowing with all sorts of stuff.
Lucanis and Isseya are still adjusting to their new roles as parents and Spite is adjusting to babies in general. Can he be trusted around such an innocent being?
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- Part 21 of The Love of Crows
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Lucanis Week 2025 One Shots! by NegligibleMoose
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Aug 2025
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One shots for DATVCompanionWeeks event on Tumblr!
Day 1 - Spite/Determination
Day 2 - The Ossuary/The Lighthouse
Day 3 - For the Love of Treviso/A Moment's Peace
Day 4 - Family, Enemies, Contracts
Day 5 - Coffee, Cooking, Wyverns
Day 6 - Forgiveness/Vengeance
Day 7 - Free Space - Caterina's ApprovalSeries
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Rook & Crow by Spritzy
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
30 Aug 2025
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Rook, Lucanis decides, would make a terrible Crow.
But she is an excellent distraction. One that may be turning him and Spite into more than they ever bargained for.
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Lucanis and Spite survived the Ossuary, but leaving isn't as simple as walking out the door. Rook offers an outstretched hand, one with love, family, and a future, but Spite's obsession with Rook and his toddler leaves Lucanis unsettled, terrified of what being intimate could mean.
7 Chapters, all written - each chapter answers 1 prompt for the Lucanis Week 2025 challenge.
Angst with a very happy ending -
Twelve Months by Morrigan1986
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
21 Aug 2025
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The Evenuris have been defeated. Solas's plans have been thwarted. The Veil is safe. The blights have ended forever. Minrathous has been saved. The day has truly been won. Now Lucanis Dellamorte and Anna Ingellvar face their next greatest challenge: what next? Their relationship has only begun to blossom and they both have responsibilities that could pull them apart.
A series of snapshots show how Lucanis and Anna navigate what happens after you save the day.
Updates every Thursday.Series
- Part 2 of Inhume/Exhume
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More of a Rook than a Crow by NegligibleMoose
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
20 Aug 2025
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“I guess you were right after all, Viago. I am more of a Rook than a Crow.”
After saving captives from the Antaam, Isabella finds out from Viago that she ruined a larger Crow operation. Until further notice, she's banished from Antiva until things calm down. That's when she meets Varric with a contract of a lifetime. If she can pull this off and find the Dread Wolf, then she can return home victorious once tempers have cooled.
However, when the ritual crashes down around them and circumstances change, Isabella realizes that she needs to extend the contract. Otherwise, there won't be a home for her to return to.
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- Part 1 of The Demon and his Shadowed Crow