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  1. Rec 2

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    Illario was the author of his own tragedy. But he had help.


    Ever thought about what it would take for a man to decide to kill his own brother cousin? Ever wondered how Illario ended up working with Zara Renata? Are you curious about what that relationship was like?

    Me, too.

    Title from "Guilt" by Sir John Betjeman

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    08 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    A case that started with the simple tracking of smuggled artifacts and underground cultists goes even more sideways than Detective Neve Gallus could have imagined. Now she’s faced with figuring out what these artifacts can do, what larger plans they’re part of, and how she and her secretive new ally can possibly stop them.

    Neve and Rook have their work cut out for them as they follow leads, face their pasts, and get into some trouble.

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    29 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 4

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    “And that should mean I want you less? When have you ever known me to—“ Teia grinds against her, a wicked interruption that punches Mari’s breath out all at once. “Rude.”

    “I could stop, if you—“

    No.”

    Teia and Marisol enjoy some time alone.

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    11 Jan 2026

  4. Rec 1

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    On an Inquisition stopover in the Last Court, a friend's innocent questions help Vivienne realize that she has changed more than she knew. As she dwells on the lawlessness at the edge of the Empire, and the shadow that the Circle casts on mages even here, she tries to discern her own path forward.

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    15 Dec 2025

  5. Rec 3

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    Sometimes, Anora wondered if the Hero of Ferelden was amused by the ludicrously complex domestic situation she had engineered. Sometimes she wondered if Alistair was amused. She hoped he was, and not just because he had a pleasant smile, a pleasant face, and an even more pleasant laugh. She had come to enjoy his company. She liked him. She wanted him to be happy.

    If that meant welcoming his mistress as the new royal bodyguard, then so be it.

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    15 Dec 2025

  6. Rec 1

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    Calien stood on the half-barren coast of Antiva, a place he'd learned never to call home again just to stave off the pain, and the whole world was a potential enemy once more.

    The blight is over, but its survivors remain.

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    14 Dec 2025

  7. Rec 1

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    Two Chevaliers, one current and one former, find solace in something as simple as combat

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    14 Dec 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 2

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    A treat based on the prompt: Davrin & Isseya.

    You can't carve what you don't know...

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    14 Dec 2025

  9. Rec 1

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    On the run from the Wardens, Hawke and Stroud dare to steal something for themselves.

    (It ends just as it was always going to.)

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    14 Dec 2025

  10. Rec 1

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    After this, every Hawke needs a hug (and so do I).
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    Tierney Hawke has survived close to a decade of Kirkwall's chaos, but after the Chantry the Seekers are hunting for her. They want answers.

    She manages to hide out in the Free Marches with an old acquaintance and a spark kindles between them.

    But Varric asks her to come to Skyhold - he needs her help with Corypheus.

    What will happen next, you wonder? Read on to find out! Then read the note at the bottom before proceeding to any additional chapters. Chapter 1 is the main story. Chapters 2-5 are Epilogues that range from sort of good to holy moly this is painful. More at the bottom!

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    14 Dec 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 2

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    exodontia (ˌɛksəʊˈdɒnʃə): the branch of dental surgery concerned with the extraction of teeth.

    or: what if Caterina Dellamorte didn't trust Rook de Riva enough to reveal that Lucanis is alive? What if she sent illario with the veilguard instead?

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    20 Oct 2025

  12. Rec 14

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    Give me to the road
    Upon the heart that I had sold
    Warm my heavy hands
    My heavy hands for you to hold

    -- OR, Viago spends some time away from Treviso during Fire and Ice, and the Anderfels don't quite agree with him.

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    11 Oct 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 2

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    After swearing himself to the Grey Wardens as a child, twenty two-year-old Dalgar Thorne is finally allowed to take The Joining. He and two other recent Warden recruits head out into the Wandering Hills under the guidance of Senior Warden Olivier du Lac; there they will bring down their first darkspawn and prepare their vials of darkspawn blood for the ritual, shrouded in secrecy.

    At least, it's a secret from most recruits. Dalgar has known the hard truths of The Joining for years, and he is more than willing to make that sacrifice to secure his place among the Grey Wardens. But his fellow Warden recruits may not agree.

    Once their small party is deep in the wilderness, the two other recruits—a young human named Conrad and Sybil, an elven graverobber—reveal that they each have very different plans.

     

    (Rating may change in later chapters)

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    28 Sep 2025

  14. Rec 4

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    Double dating in Minrathous.

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    02 Sep 2025

  15. Rec 5

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    The child is unexpected, not unwanted. Holding their fate in her hands, Arlow confronts the doubts that linger from her contract with the Veilguard.

    "If we raise them, how can they be anything other than exactly what we are?" she whispers. Thinks of Viago's hand pushing her off the docks; of Caterina's cane; of blood and sweat and bile, and how every story ends in a scar.

    "Are we such a terrible thing to be?"

    "I don't know anymore." The admission falls too fast from her lips, escaping before she can swallow it back. "I hate that I don't know anymore."

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    17 Aug 2025

  16. Public Bookmark 16

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    In the ski village of Sahrnia, a high-stakes game of Wicked Grace is set for sundown on a cold Wintermarch day.

    Everyone comes to the table for a different reason, with their own baggage.

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    20 May 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 13

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    “That has nothing to do with this.”

    “Doesn’t it?” Marisol picks up her phylactery and turns it over. “For all that you resent Fulgeno, he is part of you. Part of your past, part of the reason your present is what it is. As the Circle is part of mine.”

    She traces the runes with a blunted nail. “Why not eradicate the parts of our past that hurt? That were not ours to control?”

    Viago scoffs, almost. There is something halfhearted about it, like he wants to refute what she says, but only gets part of the way there. It doesn’t matter— she’s already picked apart the pieces of any argument he might make.

    Years before the Dread Wolf aims to take down the Veil, Teia recruits a thief (an elf, a mage, a spark) from the gutters of Salle—and gets exactly what she bargained for.

    (Or: no one has told the Crows of House Cantori that they are not the exception to every rule, and Viago wishes that someone would.)

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    07 May 2025

  18. Public Bookmark 12

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    Professor Francesca Ingellvar and her daughter, ostracized by Nevarra after the War of the Banners, leave for Minrathous. Old friend Dorian puts them up in his penthouse while he and Neve Gallus investigate a string of gruesome murders. When the trail leads to more questions than answers, they turn to a familiar corpse whisperer for help, who has more than professional history with their newest resident...

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    07 May 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 5

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    In the aftermath of the fight against the gods, Rook is drowning. She can only hope not to take Neve down with her.

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    06 May 2025

  20. Public Bookmark 16

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    What if an additional 'Rook' was recruited into the Veilguard from each faction? How would the story that unfolds change? Would it stay on track, or be derailed entirely? How would Solas gain the upper hand? Thorne, Aldwir, De Riva, Mercar, Ingellevar, and Laidir all team up with the original companions of the Veilguard to stop the Evanuris from tearing down the Veil and drowning the world in the blight. Lives are lost, others are saved, and in-game events change both by an inch and by a mile.

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    18 Apr 2025

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