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1. The Dead and Those Who Do Deserve to Die by Windhound

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

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   06 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Rook & Solas (Dragon Age)
   • Rook/Solas (Dragon Age)
   • Female Lavellan/Solas (Dragon Age)
   • Female Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age)
   • Lace Harding & Rook
   • The Iron Bull & Rook (Dragon Age)
   • Cole & Rook (Dragon Age)
   • Past Lace Harding/Rook - Relationship
   • Rook (Dragon Age)
   • Solas (Dragon Age)
   • Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age)
   • The Iron Bull (Dragon Age)
   • Cole (Dragon Age)
   • Leliana (Dragon Age)
   • Josephine Montilyet
   • Dorian Pavus
   • Varric Tethras
   • Dragon Age Companions
   • Wisdom (Dragon Age)
   • Antivan Crow Characters (Dragon Age)
   • Female Lavellan (Dragon Age)
   • Minor Original Characters - Character
   • Mage Rook
   • Male Rook
   • Antivan Crow Rook - Character
   • Qunari Rook
   • The Fade (Dragon Age)
   • Qunari Culture & Customs (Dragon Age)
   • Saarebas
   • Escaping the Qun for fun and profit
   • Demons
   • Spirits
   • Bisexual Male Character
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Lovers to Enemies
   • Non-Explicit Sex
   • Self-Indulgent
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Time Travel
   • Time Travel
   • Inevitability
   • tragic drama
   • Hate Sex
   • Existential Angst
   • Attempt at Humor
   • Dragon Age Spoilers
   • Dragon Age: The Veilguard Spoilers
   • Playing the Long Game
   • Assassin doing assassin things
   • No beta we die like Rook totally did not
   • Pining (angry)
   • consensual but probably not sane
   • Conversations

   Summary

   Rook put his affairs in order. He hugged a confused Viago and broke up with Harding. He needled Solas, and arranged things with Emmerich because he understands these things. He didn't say anything to anyone else, because it would all be a big mess and too many feelings he didn't have the capacity to deal with. He didn't say anything to Varric, but he thought the old man would get it anyway.

   It's not that Rook planned not to make it back. But. Well. Better to be practical about these things, and make sure the team would make it out the other end.

   Rook saw it all balance on the edge of a knife, and made the call. He fell into the blight, lost to the Veilguard and failing his mission.

   Rook wakes up.

   -

    

   Rook takes the fall and wakes up back in time, around the start of Inquisition. Lost, but determined to make things better this time. For other people.

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Dead and the Deserving

   Language:

   English

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