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Rolan misses his chance with Tav at the end of the events of BG3 and a year passes where his yearning only grows. An opportunity to see her again arises when the city of Baldur’s Gate throws a grand masquerade to celebrate the heroes who defended the city from the illithid plot. He’s not one for parties and he wants to toss the invite away. Will his sense of responsibility keep him from happiness?
My 400 tumblr follower fic featuring all of our favorite tropes. This fic will be either two or three parts and finished very soon. Part One is SFW, following parts will not be.
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14 Jan 2026
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As if her musings conjured the brown haired wizard, Thea nearly collided with him on the path to the shops. He had come out of one of the tailor shops with a package under his arm, his dark brown linen coat being tugged on and his focus being elsewhere. He dropped the package to catch Thea’s arms and then dropped them with a curse.
“Zurgan,” he hissed a bit as bent down to grasp and inspect his package. “You might be more mindful of your surroundings, Anthea, lest you walk right off of a pier.”
Thea wrapped her arms around her middle and discreetly touched the place on her right arm where Rolan had grasped her for a moment. Then she lowered her hands to her sides before she shot a smirk at him.
“One could say the same of you, Rolan, what with your preoccupation with your precious package. Plus we aren’t near enough to the water for me to walk off a pier.”
Rolan grumbled with a roll of his eyes, the yellow hellish eyes flicking a bit towards the sky as if asking the Gods for patience. Still, even though it was obvious he was annoyed with her, he gestured for her to go ahead of him as they headed past the shop. His hand smoothing down his expertly coiffed hair as he waited.
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10 Dec 2025
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Pride Goeth Before the Fall by oozeboy
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 Jul 2025
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Lei'lessa Thorne is a disappointment of a Warden. She was raised in Orlais in a tradition of intrigue, lies, and trickery that some would call The Grand Game. Her family's strongest piece in their fight for elven rights. Before she failed, of course, and ended up conscripted to a group she would never belong in.
Until it's time to play a new Game: against the Dread Wolf
An enemy to lovers slow burn we're all wanting. With a slight alternate canon where Solas escapes the Fade early, and ends up tied to Rook regardless as they struggle against the gods.
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29 Apr 2025
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He wants to lavish all of his attention on someone. She wants to stop worrying about rent. And if he keeps slipping and saying 'I love you' in the bedroom? Well, that's just pillow talk, baby.
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31 Jan 2025
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The Wolf's Mantle by Scriberated
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
22 Apr 2025
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Rook is captured by Elgar'nan. For the crime of taking on the Dread Wolf's mantle, now she must wear it for all to see.
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24 Jan 2025
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between two fires by buttonbug
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
17 Mar 2025
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Rook wasn’t supposed to be here. No, really—she wasn’t supposed to be here. The Inquisition wasn’t supposed to even be on her radar—the Rook that existed then wasn’t even called Rook, and still was learning how to cast spells.
And yet, Solas is looking at her. Not the Solas she knows, either.
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Rook time travels. It makes things objectively worse.
alternatively titled: Mithian Aldwir's very bad, horrible, no-good, terrible year
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14 Jan 2025
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But … But that would mean …
That would mean everything might have been real. The villagers might have been right. And Gale …
Gale might have just found a fae in his backyard.After his divorce, Gale moves to the countryside in search of a quiet life.
He finds more than he bargained for.
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13 Jan 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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07 Jan 2025
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How to Court a Seeker by orphan_account
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age
02 Feb 2023
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After a suggestive encounter on their way to Fereldan, Cassandra finds herself wondering what Varric's true intentions are when he begins displaying romantic interest in her.
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04 Jan 2025
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Quietus by livingmeetthedead
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
20 Aug 2025
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Love at first sight is reserved for the bards, the poets, and the fools. An argument can be made that bards and poets are fools, but that has little significance here. For the rest, love betides after a cumulation of moments that embraces all the senses.
However, for Emmrich Volkarin, though he hadn’t been privy at the time, it was mere happenstance that love began with sight.
A small tale about love.
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28 Dec 2024
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And then, with some finality: “You disgust me,” he scoffed. He was halfway down her shirt. Goosebumps formed as air nipped at the bare skin of her chest.
Rook’s retort was quick, sharp— “All that, and you still can’t keep your hands off me.“
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25 Dec 2024
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i would've known you always by Natterina
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
15 Dec 2024
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In 9:44 Dragon, Emmrich Volkarin enters an ill-advised affair with one of his students, one he is forced to end when he allows his insecurities about his age to win out over his heart.
In 9:52, he joins the Veilguard, only to come face to face with the woman he'd desperately hoped he would somehow see again.
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There hadn’t even been anything to indicate what was coming: Miss Ingellvar had been just another face amongst his students, one of the young up-and-coming embalmers that had the Mourn Watch excited, but she had only been one of many in her year group.
She had been just another face, until the night she was not.
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16 Dec 2024
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Will-O'-The-Wisp by lovenug
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
25 Jan 2025
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“Hi Manfred,” Rook says. “Nice to meet you!”
Rook looks like most people look. She is person-shaped and has a head with hair, but beneath that, she is brimming with curiosity. He feels drawn to her, in the same way he had been drawn to Emmrich once – when Manfred was shiny and small and not yet called Manfred. He has a good feeling about this. It’s new. It's exciting. He already agrees with her.
Nice to meet you too! he hisses.***
Short and sweet scenes showing Manfred’s perspective on events of the Veilguard, and on the budding romance between Emmrich and Rook.
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10 Dec 2024
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Budgie Ingellvar is too wild for fellow Mourn Watcher and esteemed academic Emmrich Volkarin. The Professor worries…and perhaps more about her.
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- Part 1 of Emmrich and Budgie
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10 Dec 2024
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Rolan’s reading was again interrupted by Brid flinging herself onto the couch next to him and shoving her hands between his face and his book. There on her palms sat a perfectly smooth rock, and a new-looking piece of linen. Rolan picked up the linen, and gave an impressed hum when he could find no flaws.
“I beg your pardon? ” Brid said, indignant at Rolan’s coolness. “Congratulate me, tell me how clever I am! Give me something! ”
Rolan looked over at her, and as his brain flicked through different things he could say—to annoy her, or frustrate her, or make her laugh—he noticed how close they were, and an idle thought occurred to him. If Brid were looking to be given something, how easy it would be, no effort at all, really, to close the distance between them and give her a kiss.
After an innocent spellbook theft in the Grove, Rolan and Brid forge a friendship along the road to Baldur's Gate--despite their best efforts to keep each other at arm's length. As they grow close, Rolan digs into the past she tries to forget, and discovers the primal power she once abandoned.
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Alternating-ish POVs, going from early Act I to post-canon.
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- Part 1 of The Water Our Bed
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13 Sep 2024
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Rolan pulls in a little breath, beating back a few memories of holding a crisp letter from Lorroakan in his hands, one that would go on to be frayed and fragile after suffering in his pocket for months. “I won’t... I can’t be another apprentice.”
“No, no, no,” Gale assures. “I think assistant professor has a far better ring to it.”
Rolan spends a term at Blackstaff.
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29 Jul 2024
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“It had been one year since the fall of The Netherbrain. Six months since Tav had seen her friends. And three days since she had last bothered to leave her bed…”
A year following the events of Baldur’s Gate 3, Tav, isolated and adrift, reflects on better times while burdened by worsening magical abilities. Her loneliness begins to shift when she reconnects with old friends, including the Archmage Rolan, who is also struggling to adjust to a new way of life. Their growing bond and a newfound chemistry lead forgotten memories to resurface in Tav’s mind…
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15 Jun 2024
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Rolan thought things would be different once he reached Baldur's Gate.
Instead, he finds himself struggling to prove his worth as a wizard.
“I’m not pretending to know you, Rolan.” Gale lets out a shallow sigh, “But my eyes don’t deceive me. What I see is an apprentice wizard working as a shopkeeper, too untrained to cast even the simplest of spells!” Gale isn’t shouting, but his tone is stern, almost like he’s scolding a cat.
Rolan has held his composure through verbal assault, through beatings, but this?
Pity?
Pity is the last thing Rolan wants.
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08 Jun 2024
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“I took my pleasure from the wizard last night.”
“And he survived?”
The evolution of the unlikely relationship between Gale of Waterdeep and Lae'zel of Crèche K’liir, from uneasy allies to steadfast lovers
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31 May 2024