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  1. Public Bookmark 46

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    Nina Shepard has been through a lot in her life. Raised on the streets on Earth, joining the Alliance at 18, fighting to protect Elysium when she had been there on shore leave, N7 training. She does it with a brave face for it has always been her dream to rise in the ranks of the Alliance, but when she's called on a mission at Eden Prime, she finds that things are going to get a whole lot more complicated than she always thought.

     

    First in series of novelisations that'll go through all three games and beyond, focusing on the Fem!Shepard/Garrus Vakarian romance

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    26 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 41

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    Sara and her crew of oddball misfits have finally defeated the Archon. And now, the Andromeda Initiative and the angara are able to plan for a future, and work on their recovery.

    But really, Sara only cares about two things: getting Scott healthy enough to join her aboard the Tempest, and her future with Jaal.

    Yet she's still Pathfinder and problems in Heleus are never in short supply.

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    26 Oct 2025

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    "Smells different," Spite commented, glaring at Lucanis as though her scent were his fault. "Like caramel. Soft." His mouth split in a grin. "She wants you. Us. Wake her!"

    "No!" The word escaped Lucanis before he could keep it in. "Leave her be, Spite. Let her sleep."

    The demon was wrong. Had to be wrong. Letting himself believe that Rook wanted him was too dangerous for both of them. Spite was his only possible future, and he couldn't afford to hope for anything more...

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    26 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 52

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    A retelling of Rookanis with all the detail Bioware forgot.
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    Rook panted, her chest rising and falling with deep breaths. She swallowed and felt his blade dig into the delicate skin at her throat, just barely enough pressure to split flesh. Blood bloomed and spilled, a thin and thready rivulet that trickled downward to be lapped up by the fabric of her collar. Lucanis followed it with his gaze, eyes hungry with desperation but burning near-black with resolve.

    “Surrender, Rook,” he said.

    “No.”

    He shifted, correcting his stance and drawing back one arm so that he could poise the blade above her heart. A growl escaped him and he bared his teeth, pushing the sword until the blade tip punctured her garment, punctured her skin. She cried out, a small bleat of pain coupled with a hiss, but she bore up under it, channeling it into something else entirely.

    “Dammit, Rook!” he screamed at her. “Surrender!”

    An unhinged laugh escaped her and she smiled, the copper-coin scent of blood in the air. His nostrils flared and he bared his teeth, but his determination rallied in the face of her defiance.

    “You first,” she said.

    And he shattered.

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  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    Ari Ingellvar has always had a strange connection to spirits. Easily possessed yet also able to force out any spirit that found a home within her, she thinks it nothing more than a quirk of her magic. Yet when two ancient elven gods return to bring about the end of the world, her magic, scars, and the vallaslin she was found with will point toward secrets she never expected.
    When Ghilan'nain threatens to destroy everything she's ever cared about, will Ari be strong enough to face her own beginning?
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    Lucanis/Rook/Spite slow burn expanded retelling of Veilguard that spawned from the thought "What kind of child would be found in the depths of the Necropolis?"

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    26 Oct 2025