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   A Good Death by fadelights

   Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)  

   • Explicit
   • Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   05 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Lucanis Dellamorte/Emmrich Volkarin
   • Lucanis Dellamorte/Spite/Emmrich Volkarin
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Emmrich Volkarin
   • Lucanis Dellamorte
   • Spite (Dragon Age)
   • Myrna (Dragon Age)
   • Vorgoth (Dragon Age)
   • Manfred (Dragon Age)
   • Ingellvar Rook
   • de Riva Rooks
   • Sidony (Dragon Age)
   • Original Characters
   • Strife (Dragon Age)
   • Johanna Hezenkoss
   • Depression
   • Grief
   • discussion of suicide
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Passive Suicide Ideation
   • Major Character Injury
   • Injury Recovery
   • blighted Treviso
   • Minrathous/Treviso Choice - Minrathous Saved (Dragon Age)
   • Political Intrigue
   • Political Conspiracies
   • Misuse of Necromancy
   • Hardened Lucanis Dellamorte
   • Hardened to Softened route
   • Mourn Watch Rook
   • Antivan Crow Rooks
   • original characters peppered in for Flavor
   • Medium Burn
   • Friends to Lovers
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Forced Proximity
   • Hand Jobs
   • Intercrural Sex
   • Frottage
   • Blow Jobs
   • Anal Sex
   • big cameos for those who read Tevinter Nights
   • Manfred ships it
   • Lucanis catches up on like five years' worth of sleep
   • tiny pumpkins
   • oops all age gap romances
   • heavy topics handled with humor
   • Emmrich opens his mouth and the prose goes purple
   • chapter length consistency is for chumps
   • no beta we die like....you'll see :)
   • POV Alternating

   Summary

   After being cursed by a Nevarran palace necromancer after an assassination attempt gone wrong, Lucanis and Spite must recover in the Grand Necropolis from wounds both physical and mental, old and new, as they work with Emmrich to untangle the curse and its ties to the mysteriously long-lived King Markus. As they unravel a royal conspiracy, Emmrich and Lucanis' trust and friendship gradually become something more: something worth living for.

   An exploration of a post-game Hardened to Softened route for Lucanis.
   Art by magpie and Luinquesse

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   115,680

   Chapters:

   17/17

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   Bookmarked by Invincible_Owl26

   15 Dec 2025