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1. Ante Mortem by lyriumveins

   Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   28 Oct 2024

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No Romantic Relationship(s)
   • Rook (Dragon Age)
   • Original Characters
   • Shadow Dragon Rook (Dragon Age)
   • mentor and apprentice
   • Gladiators
   • Violence
   • Action
   • Angst
   • Hope
   • Guilt
   • pre-plot
   • Backstory
   • Character Study

   Summary

   Before he became Rook, Cato was a gladiator. Practically born in the sands of a Tevinter training grounds, a blade was put in his hands the very moment he was old enough to hold one. Under the grueling tutelage of his mentor, Reth, he crawled his way to the Grand Proving Arena of Minrathous—hungry for the accolades that come along with gladiatorial triumph. But earnest ambition is seldom rewarded within the Imperium, and plots concocted in the shadows came to eat away at Cato's gold-plated fantasies of glory.

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