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To peacefully end the war with Akielos, King Auguste of Vere sold his brother in marriage. To some, that was his first mistake.
As Laurent thrived in Akielos, his brother's rule suffered without him. Now the King of Vere has taken a prolonged Retreat from his duties, leaving the country in the hands of his chosen Regent, his uncle, Richard. In the south, Akielos is at war with her own people, a simple rebellion that should have been quashed in months stretching into years, as if their enemies somehow know their every move before they make it.
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- Part 3 of Obligation, Duty, Honor
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Wesninski was standing at the Home court door, impatient and annoyed. His weird blue eyes were the same as the boy's, but they looked every bit as merciless and dead as Riko's father's could be. Another shark, Riko realized, even if his runt of a son was nothing but a dog.
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Mary fails to save her son. Nathaniel grows up in the Nest.
Another attempt to explore the story that could have happened. Tags to be added and adjusted as needed.
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At the battle of Marlas, Auguste brokered peace by promising his brother to Akielos. That was his first mistake.
Auguste is a failure of a King. His brother hates him, his wife is dying, and his guards are turning against him. The only person still on his side is his uncle, Richard of Vere, and Uncle Richard is still recovering from a vicious assassination attempt. Every move Auguste makes seems to be the wrong one. Every time he is sure he is right, the rift between himself and Laurent only stretches farther.
One thing Auguste is sure of: whatever the price, no one will take his brother from him.
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- Part 2 of Obligation, Duty, Honor
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Neil doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about sex. Maybe he should.
A missing scene of the type I wish we had seen in the books. Now expanded into more scenes in order to explore a few more things I wanted to look at.
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"You sold me to Akielos."
The battle of Marlas comes to an end fizzling on uncertain terms when the victory Auguste earned fails to prove as decisive as he'd first thought. With his father dead and the crown unexpectedly placed upon his brow, sacrifices must be made for the greater good. Auguste cannot establish his rule and continue this pointless war at the same time - not without a high price in bodies and time and gold. Peace must be established, quickly, and it has to be the kind that lasts. Laurent will understand. Sometimes, duty and honor must take precedence over personal preference.
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- Part 1 of Obligation, Duty, Honor
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The gods always pick two: one to bless, one to curse. It was an accident, discovering how the blessing tempered the curse. It seemed the gods-blessed Aurelis could do anything - from sending their enemies screaming with the mere whisper of his name, to making the cursed crown Prince remember what it feels like to be human. The death of the blessed one would be devastating - soldiers would desert, people would panic. There would be no one left who could control the Prince, allowing him to maintain a freedom no other cursed one has ever been afforded.
Lucky, then, that the tales of Aurelis falling in the field were exaggerated. Lucky that Aurelis was only injured, not killed. There is no telling what extremes the cursed Prince might have gone to, had Aurelis really died.
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- Part 1 of Parallel
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"Does it hurt you to think of him hurting your country?" he asked, and he told himself that he was pleased, that he wanted Damen hurt. That is eased his own pain if Damen, too, were forced to suffer.
"You know it does," Damianos answered. He paced like a caged animal, like one of Halvik's chained leopards, full of restrained violence, yet he came no closer. "Are we playing now with the fate of nations?" he demanded. "It won't bring your brother back."
With the Regent in Ios and his Akielon's identity revealed, the war for the throne of Vere is gaining heat. Laurent's plans for his alliance and his trust in his Akielon have both been shaken by his Uncle's machinations, but he is determined that he will continue the fight, no matter how much it hurts. This is an attempt to examine King's Rising from Laurent's POV.
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- Part 3 of Marionette, Poppet, Prince
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Chastillon was filled with the ghosts of Laurent's innocence. It didn't matter. He didn't think of it. He was silent as he rode, and his mind was hard at work on other matters. The plans he had so meticulously been making, he now set about tearing apart and rearranging. Now he was contemplating winning.
His path to the border strewn with pitfalls and traps of his uncle's making and haunted with memories of the past, Laurent is forced into relying on the unlikely assistance of his brother's killer. This is an attempt to examine Prince's Gambit from Laurent's POV.
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- Part 2 of Marionette, Poppet, Prince
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Laurent had come to Marlas a bright and innocent youth caught up in his brother's excitement, in the romance of battle and the righteousness of their cause. He left the battlefield alone, a stranger to himself, ready to be reshaped into a creature of someone else's design. Time and trauma cut him farther from himself, from the ability to do anything but play the losing game he found himself caught up in.
This is an attempt to examine the first novel from Laurent's POV.
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- Part 1 of Marionette, Poppet, Prince
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This is an (incomplete) collection of drabbles written from 2015-2020 and posted on tumblr, covering the third act of DAII. Stories include the aftermath of Danarius's defeat, lots of fluff, too much sugar, and learning how to heal.
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- Part 4 of Tumblr Drabble Collection
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They say that your life flashes before your eyes in those last crucial moments before you die. That’s the cliché anyway. No one ever mentions waking up from death two years later and having to figure out how to fit your life back into the patterns and cycles that were once so familiar to you. Shepard has new scars and old problems and only one course of action: get to work.
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Dessert in Thedas by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
31 Jan 2022
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This is an (incomplete) collection of drabbles written from 2015-2020 and posted on tumblr, covering Fenris and Hawke in their post-game adventures. Stories include Hawke dealing with Anders's death, fleeing Kirkwall, the events of Inquisition, Weisshaupt, and after.
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- Part 5 of Tumblr Drabble Collection
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This is an (incomplete) collection of drabbles written from 2015-2020 and posted on tumblr, covering the second act of DAII. Stories include lots of flirting and fluff, That Night, and then pining and angst.
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- Part 3 of Tumblr Drabble Collection
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Snacks in Thedas by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II
07 Jan 2022
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This is an (incomplete) collection of drabbles written from 2015-2020 and posted on tumblr, containing a random assortment of alternate universe and non-canon drabbles. Stories range from Vampire AU, to modern AU, to other Hawkes...there's even an Office AU. There is no reason behind the order these are posted in. If you like random things, this may be your collection.
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- Part 7 of Tumblr Drabble Collection
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Drinks in Thedas by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
07 Jan 2022
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This is an (incomplete) collection of drabbles written from 2015-2020 and posted on tumblr, covering my Inquisition-era Pavellan stories. Stories include early flirting, failing at sneaking around, and the events of Trespasser and beyond.
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- Part 6 of Tumblr Drabble Collection
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Legacy by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Dec 2021
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Lured to an ancient Warden fortress, the Hawke brothers search for answers.
Companion/Side fic to Act Two; this takes place in the timeline for Leopold Hawke. Canon compliant retelling/novelization for the Legacy dlc.
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- Part 3 of The Tale of Leopold Hawke
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This is an (incomplete) collection of drabbles written from 2015-2020 and posted on tumblr, covering the first act of DAII. Stories include too much early fenhawke flirting, Anders's unrequited crush, and maybe even a little something dirty.
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- Part 2 of Tumblr Drabble Collection
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Breakfast in Thedas by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
13 May 2021
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This is an (incomplete) collection of drabbles written from 2015-2020 and posted on tumblr, ranging from backstory stories to DAO era drabbles. Stories include pre-Kirkwall Fenris, circle tower Kanders, Hawke family in Lothering, clan Lavellan, and some stories about Lyna Mahariel and Zevran.
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- Part 1 of Tumblr Drabble Collection
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Act Two by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Jan 2021
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Leopold Hawke is a hard man. He sees what needs doing, and he gets it done - whatever the price, he'll gladly pay it if it means protecting the ones he loves. Four years in Kirkwall have left Leo and his surviving family better off than they were when they first came to the City of Chains, but trouble is stirring, within and without. Canon retelling/novelization of the game's Act II.
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- Part 2 of The Tale of Leopold Hawke
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The Other Trespasser by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Dec 2020
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It might have taken a trip to another universe, but Dorian Pavus has found all of the things he's always been looking for. He's in love, making real, lasting changes in Tevinter, and building the kind of life he can be proud of. But the Inquisition he worked so hard to fix is in trouble again, and there are forces at work beyond his - or anyone's - imagination.
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- Part 4 of Redcliffe Amulet