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Ma ghilana by vanillaRstrange (vanillastrange), vanillastrange
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
14 Nov 2025
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All monumental stories have varied beginnings, like so many intersectional points on the roots of a great tree, but this one in particular began the moment he realized he might actually care about her; a Dalish elf named Da'lah Lavellan, who the shemlens called the 'Herald of Andraste'.
I AM THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF THIS FIC AND I DO NOT AUTHORIZE AI TO SCRAPE MY WORK.
**disclaimer adopted from the wonderfully talented CrittaDownUnder
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Walking in Fields of Fertile Failure by StarrShineGirl, vanillaRstrange (vanillastrange)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
07 Nov 2025
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The Veil fell to the Dread Wolf’s betrayal, and Dizzy walked away—from everything.
Two years later, she’s still walking. Avoiding people. Avoiding memories. She isn’t looking for redemption—or for anyone at all. But the world has other plans.
First comes Crybaby—a Spirit of Disruption with a talent for trouble. Then Lucanis—the man she left, and still loves. Lace Harding follows, all bright smiles and new sharp edges. Cole, gentle and unnerving, arrives next. And finally, Felassan—a man broken by Pride. Together, they form something like a team.
Once, Varric asked her to help him save the world. She tried. She gave everything—pieces of her soul—and she failed.
Kingdoms fell, religion toppled, and now Dizzy must choose: run again, or risk it all to fix what’s left.
The strange thing about failure is that hope can grow in the cracks. And Dizzy, for all her damage, keeps finding people who believe in her. Maybe that’s the worst part—because when they look at her, they see a leader. She just sees a tired woman trying not to make the same mistake twice.
A story of aftermath, love, and reluctant hope—a road trip through the end of the world, and maybe a chance to save it anyway.
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Back-rank Mates by vanillaRstrange (vanillastrange)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
11 Oct 2025
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How honest are relationships that form among the individuals that make up an elite organization of thieves, assassins, and spies?
For the Crows of Antiva, the game of shadows is much more a way of life. The more contracts you have, the more difficult it can be to see things for what they are.
But you can still fool around and fall in love.I AM THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF THIS FIC AND I DO NOT AUTHORIZE AI TO SCRAPE MY WORK.
**disclaimer adopted from the wonderfully talented CrittaDownUnder
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The Durlac Job by vanillaRstrange (vanillastrange), vanillastrange
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age II
15 Sep 2025
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[I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a summary about the series, or this story in particular]
BEHOLD! AN ANTHOLOGY SERIES OF THEDAS DURING THE DRAGON AGESorry for yelling, I'm just so excited to post something *uwu*
For all my narrative shenanigans, my process is pretty linear. Sometimes I have these ideas for misadventures that won't fit in a longer storyline, so here we are!
Please enjoy! And if you do (or even if you don't) let me know!xxoo -R
I AM THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF THIS FIC AND I DO NOT AUTHORIZE AI TO SCRAPE MY WORK.
**disclaimer adopted from the wonderfully talented CrittaDownUnder
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- Part 1 of In The Company of Elves
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AO: One-shots in the Dark by vanillaRstrange (vanillastrange)
Fandoms: Pathfinder (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
08 Jun 2025
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A place for original think-pieces that may or may not get published in books.
Stories of lesser-known heroes set in the world of Absalom, and sometimes other planes of existence, where whether it's fast or right, guaranteed the job will get done most of the time.I AM THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF THIS FIC AND I DO NOT AUTHORIZE AI TO SCRAPE MY WORK.
**disclaimer adopted from the wonderfully talented CrittaDownUnder
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In The Company of Elves by vanillaRstrange (vanillastrange), vanillastrange
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
15 Sep 2025
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A Flaming Fist officer walks into a Zhentarim hideout. Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn't it? Except the punchline involves significantly fewer clothes and substantially more poor judgment than your typical tavern humour.
Here's a professional tip: when infiltrating enemy territory, remember to change ALL your gear. Because there's always some observant bastard who'll spot what you missed faster than you can say "know your enemy" - a phrase most people understand as a strategic principle.
But these two took it a bit too literally.Series
- Part 1 of Rounds Owed
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17 Nov 2025
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Written in Red by Fade_touched_Lurker
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
28 Nov 2025
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If one looked at the different stories of how the Black City became Golden again, they all contained different elements of the truth, for a given level of mythological belief. But no one would know better than the two people who were closest to the source as they dreamed in the fractured, shattered reflections of red lyrium.
“So we’re in deeper waters now, as it were, being physically present in the Fade?” she asked.
He nodded.
“Well,” she said, thoughtfully, “I think I understand why you were so worried now, about me dreaming. My clan would fish in the Free Marches sometimes, in little coracles on the Waking Sea. Sometimes a squall would come up before everyone could get back to shore. More than once someone was drowned because they tried to save someone else and got pulled down too.”
“Yes,” he affirmed. “Much like that. And the mad dreams of the Titans are much greater than a squall.”
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- Part 3 of Redemption, Restoration
- Part 6 of The Mundane and Divine
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15 Nov 2025
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Bull is torn between conflicting loyalties by the demands of the Qun.
But it wasn’t his job to convince the Bas that this was a good idea. He just had to relay the information. That he didn’t feel like he was doing it particularly convincingly was beside the point. She’d seemed interested in allying with his people. Not suspicious at all. Like she just assumed that everyone would want to work together to defeat Corypheus and then just go on their way afterwards. Weird mix of naive and cunning.
She leaned over the war table, thoughtful, looking through the little troop markers on the Storm Coast. She’d talked with Bull earlier in the day about the possibility of a Qunari alliance. That they were offering dreadnoughts was a major concession for them. Something didn’t feel right about it, though. He normally shared his intelligence without reservation or concern. She would have expected him to be interested or excited or at the very least neutral about the possibility of an alliance with the Qunari.
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12 Nov 2025
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He tells her half-truths of the anchor and how she might close the rifts, assures Cassandra that though she is a mage, she is not capable of such extraordinary magic, and laughs genuinely when she asks if Varric is with the chantry. He makes himself fit in.
The world is fractured beyond repair, these people are little more than tranquil, and the fade is locked behind his creation. If this woman, this interrupter with the markings of the all-mother is to be the key to their salvation, so be it. He has made more from less.
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It was never supposed to happen like this, for either of them. But it did, and everything will change because of it.
(exploring the Solavellan love story in DAI through the lens of what we learn of Solas in DAV; Solas related DAV spoilers will be sprinkled throughout)
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- Part 1 of the rabbit and the wolf
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19 Oct 2025
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You Wingless Thing by Pip (Moirail)
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 May 2025
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Elgar'nan sees something that he wants, and no one can stop him from taking it.
She is reed-slender and soft-fleshed and moon-haired, her mouth curved to smile and her hands unscarred and uncalloused. She laughs easily, scowls fiercely, and wears every expression in between as if it is a strand of gemstones that she’d like to show off.
She is not Elvhen. She is barely an elf - their language sits like marbles in her mouth, consonants clacking together rather than singing. In some ways, Elgar’nan finds it endearing: like watching a halla take its first steps, still wet from the womb.
Bookmarked by vanillaRstrange (vanillastrange)
11 Oct 2025