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Once Upon A Dream by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
19 Feb 2026
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In a fractured world after the battle against the Evanuris, some wounds run deeper than any blade. Rook finds herself ensnared by the enigmatic elf Felassan, who seeks her aid for his cause. As Rook navigates his request, she begins a reluctant journey of healing. But Felassan's true aim is far grander: to seek an impossible reconciliation with Solas, the former friend turned formidable foe. Can three fractured souls, scarred by war and undone by their pasts, choose trust over solitude, and find a path not just to survival, but to a bond strong enough to start rebuilding?
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A Study in Want by phoenixhowl for irabelasvhenan
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Feb 2026
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Rook Mercar, the first elven Magister in Tevinter’s history, is a woman of precision - her uniform immaculate and her authority unquestioned. When she agrees to sit for a portrait, she expects a routine affair: a matter of record, a political necessity. But the artist assigned to her is no ordinary painter. She has spent her life mastering the art of being seen on her own terms, finds herself unravelling under the weight of his attention. And Solas, who claims to be nothing more than a painter, seems to know far more than he lets on.
In a world where power is painted in broad strokes, their connection is a study in subtlety - each brushstroke, each glance, each touch revealing layers neither expected to expose. But as the portrait nears completion, the lines between artist and subject, control and surrender, begin to blur.
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a measure of choice by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
28 Dec 2025
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Solas has always served the order that shaped his world but when a quiet defiance stirs among his people, he is sent to retrieve a warrior who has turned away from the old ways. What begins as a simple mission becomes a reckoning - not just with the warrior’s choices, but with the foundations of Solas’s own beliefs.
As he walks the line between duty and rebellion, between the past and an uncertain future, Solas finds himself drawn into a world where truth is heavier than obedience, and freedom demands more than he ever imagined. In the shadow of towering expectations and the weight of history, he must decide what he is willing to sacrifice.
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fadebound by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
28 Dec 2025
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Rook never asked to be a hero. She only wanted to survive. But when a ritual goes catastrophically wrong, she finds herself bound to Solas, the enigmatic Dread Wolf, and thrust into a war older than time. The elven gods are free and their return brings not salvation, but ruin. As cities burn and the war wages on, Rook must decide how far she’s willing to go to stop the coming darkness.
Haunted by the past and hunted by the present, Rook walks the razor’s edge between duty and desire, vengeance and sacrifice. With her team fractured and the world unravelling, she must confront the cost of power, the weight of leadership, and the terrifying question: What happens when the only one who understands you is also the one who could destroy everything?
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sulahera by phoenixhowl for virevas
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
29 Nov 2025
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In the quiet halls of Vhen’theneras, where magic hums and secrets linger, Aurora stumbles upon an unexpected melody. Drawn to the music room by restlessness, she finds herself at the harpsichord, her clumsy notes filling the air. But when Solas, ever composed and enigmatic, joins her, the lesson becomes something far more intimate.
What begins as a playful exchange of touch and teasing soon ignites into a fire neither can ignore. Between discordant notes and whispered challenges, the space between them dissolves, leaving only the heat of shared breath and the promise of something deeper. As the music fades, their connection burns brighter, transforming the room into a sanctuary of passion, trust, and surrender.
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an offering by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
29 Oct 2025
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When members of her Dalish clan begin to vanish, Rook refuses to stand by and watch her people fade into fear and silence. Desperation drives her beyond the bounds of what’s permitted, into the shadowed corners of forgotten lore, where whispers speak of an ancient god who walks between worlds.
To save her clan, Rook must find offerings and uncover a long-lost ritual that could summon the god of the Crossroads himself. But every miracle demands a price, and when the god answers her call, Rook finds that the line between salvation and sacrifice is far thinner - and far darker - than she ever imagined.
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past self by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Oct 2025
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Rook, a gifted young conservator, is accustomed to precision, science, and control. When she is assigned to the museum’s newly unveiled Elven collection, she expects meticulous study in a sterile lab - but the artefacts have other plans.
Solas, the museum’s seasoned chief curator, trusts intuition over instruments, history over hypothesis. His quiet, almost spiritual approach clashes with Rook’s rigorous methods, and their tension quickly becomes personal.
Soon, their disagreements are overshadowed by inexplicable phenomena. Haunted by vivid, disorienting dreams and sudden, mysterious pains, Rook begins to suspect that the artefacts are connected to her in ways she cannot explain - and that Solas may know more than he admits.
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a deathless spell by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Oct 2025
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Solas, cloistered in his sanctuary, finds his fragile peace shattered by an unexpected visitor looking for Rook. Her explorations have taken her too far, charting paths into places that should remain untouched - routes into the terrifying depths of the Void. Armed with her cryptic maps, Solas embarks on a desperate journey through the Abyss, determined to retrieve her before the darkness claims her. In a devastating clash of power, Solas saves Rook, but his triumph is shadowed by a deeper concern. As he heals her, her quiet, unconditional devotion forces him to confront the human cost of his grand designs.
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the stillness of forever by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
04 Oct 2025
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In the quiet seclusion of Minrathous, Rook shares an isolated life with Solas. She is drawn to the dark, forgotten catacombs beneath the city, seeking a connection she can't name. Her solitary explorations lead to a savage encounter that leaves her gravely injured and consumed by despair. Finding her near death, Solas gives in to a dark, irresistible impulse. He heals her wounds, but in doing so, forges a profound, binding link. As Solas's control deepens, an undeniable touch that pierces her thoughts, Rook reaches the limit of her resistance. Exhausted, yet finding peace in the strength of his will, she surrenders completely. Solas sweeps away the remnants of her suffering, replacing her despair with an exquisite, overwhelming rapture, sealing their bond in a climax of passion and absolute devotion.
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- Part 2 of what lurks beneath
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shadowed hearts by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
28 Sep 2025
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A year after betrayal and presumed death, Lucanis returns to Treviso - scarred, changed, and hiding a secret darker than anyone can imagine. Rook is stunned to see him alive, but joy quickly turns to dread as a string of misfortunes begins to plague the Dellamorte family and the city itself.
Determined to help Lucanis and uncover the truth behind the chaos, Rook finds herself entangled in a web of deception, danger, and desire. Someone - or something - is watching her. And as her feelings for Lucanis grow, so too does the sense that what brought him back may not be entirely human.
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taming the sun by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
01 Jun 2025
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In the gilded halls of the Elvhen Empire, power is a game of shadows and silk. To seal an alliance, Rook is offered as a concubine to the formidable Emperor Elgar’nan. But court life is a nest of vipers, and Rook quickly finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue. Someone is orchestrating her downfall before she can even earn the Emperor’s notice. Surrounded by divine politics, Rook must master the treacherous dance of the court. If she cannot uncover her enemy and win the emperor’s favor, it might not just be her heart at stake - but the fate of her kingdom.
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drag me down (by my regrets) by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 May 2025
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Rook has spent months fighting against forces determined to tear Thedas apart, but now she has found evidence of another threat looming on the horizon, she fears she can’t face this alone. There’s only one person who might tip the scales in her favor - Solas, the Dread Wolf, and possibly the destroyer of everything she holds dear.
Breaking him out of his prison is an act of sheer desperation, but Rook is running out of options. She knows she can’t trust him. But as ancient powers awaken and enemies close in, she’ll have to decide if working with Solas is a risk worth taking… or if she’s just invited an even greater disaster into her midst.
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the rhythm of eternity by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
11 May 2025
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In the shadowy depths of the catacombs of Minrathous, Rook is sent by her order to confront an ancient and powerful being. Their initial encounter, charged with both terror and a strange allure, quickly turns dangerous. When they meet head on, Rook finds herself overpowered and subjected to Solas's possessive will. As Solas asserts his dominance, a heady blend of fear and sensation takes hold, leaving Rook struggling to withstand his power.
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- Part 1 of what lurks beneath
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through the looking glass by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
06 May 2025
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Years after Solas vanished, sealing himself within the Fade to prevent catastrophe, Rook has heard nothing from him. She carries on, bearing the unspoken love she never confessed, a quiet ache buried beneath duty and time.
Bound still to the Veil, Solas seeks her out in the Fade. Amid memory and magic, the two must face all that was left unsaid, the weight of sacrifice, and the fragile hope that even after everything, something between them might still endure.
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sanctified by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Apr 2025
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Emmrich Volkarin was once a man of flesh and heart. Now, he is a lich whose responsibility should lie with the Necropolis. Beneath crumbling spires and across the withered boundaries of the Fade, he searches for Rook. His beloved. His obsession. Lost to a realm of forgotten dreams and haunted echoes after being dragged into the Fade with Solas, she lingers like a ghost in his unquiet mind.
For centuries he has hunted her memory through dreams and memories, through mazes of echoes and history. The Fade twists around him, alive and watching, but Emmrich cannot turn back. He will brave the madness, reach through the Veil between this world and the next, and bring her home.
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lonely as I am (to love someone like you) by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Mar 2025
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When a novice elven mage binds herself to a mysterious spirit, she believes she finally has a friend at last. But as whispers of the ancient terror stir, she begins to unravel the truth - her bond is not with a mere spirit, but with the very god she has to destroy.
With the fate of Thedas teetering on the edge, Rook must find a way to sever their connection before Elgar'nan claims her and she becomes the key to his reign of ruin.
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the serpent underneath the flower by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
28 Dec 2021
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It is a common saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but Lan Xichen experiences it firsthand when he has to attend yet another Sect Conference where Jiang Cheng won't be due to his seclusion. Luckily for him he encounters the most beautiful mystery man, and develops an instant obsession.
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Beneath the waves by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Dec 2021
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Everyone goes on his own journey as they work through what has happened to them in life. Nie Huaisang has made his choices, as did Jiang Wanyin, and Lan Xichen.
Now they have to live with it.
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- Part 3 of Maybe Forever
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A Lazy Afternoon by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
19 Mar 2021
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One of the scenes I took out of Maybe Forever but here you have it anyway.
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- Part 2 of Maybe Forever
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Maybe Forever by phoenixhowl
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
10 Mar 2021
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To live is to persevere. To love is to be alive.
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- Part 1 of Maybe Forever