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1. Before, After, Before Again by cimmanombagel

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

   • Explicit
   • Major Character Death
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   22 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook
   • Lucanis Dellamorte
   • Rook (Dragon Age)
   • Bellara Lutare
   • Emmrich Volkarin
   • Davrin (Dragon Age)
   • Taash (Dragon Age)
   • Spite (Dragon Age)
   • Endgame Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook
   • POV Lucanis Dellamorte
   • Lucanis Dellamorte is Bad at Feelings
   • Lucanis Dellamorte is Not a Virgin
   • Female Rook (Dragon Age)
   • Mage Rook (Dragon Age)
   • Human Rook (Dragon Age)
   • End of the World
   • Falling in Love at the End of the World
   • Idiots in Love
   • they just won't say it for now
   • Angst and Feels
   • Smut
   • Wall Sex
   • Penis In Vagina Sex
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Five Stages of Grief
   • they're not linear but they're certainly there
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • blink and you'll miss it but it's also there so be aware
   • Dissociation
   • Binge Drinking
   • Hangover
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • mostly for chapter 2 even though there's a tiny bit of comfort at the end
   • it's a rollercoaster y'all
   • i almost want to tag it dead dove but i don't know that it's quite that bad
   • but chapters 2-4 are post-Tearstone Island and he's not having a good time
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Spite Being Spite (Dragon Age)
   • Protective Spite (Dragon Age)
   • Minor Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook/Spite

   Summary

   “I’ll be here for you.”
   “Don’t make promises you might not keep.”
   “Lucanis, I—”
   “Don’t.”
   Lucanis didn’t want to be this brusque with her, he truly didn’t. So when Rook’s eyes—the ones that had saved him a thousand times over, the ones he would kill for and die for just to see the smile in them—grew pained at his dismissal and dropped to the floor, it set off a war in him between the cold, if feigned, indifference settling in his chest and the urge to take her in his arms.
   But he could not hear that particular confession spill from her lips, not right now. Not at a fraught moment like this.
   Not when the same words burned a hole through his tongue, demanding to be set free or else consume him.
   Because they had been, for some time now. How couldn’t they?

   Lucanis thought he was prepared to take down two gods at the end of the world, until Rook shatters that illusion for him.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   21,721

   Chapters:

   3/5

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   Kudos:

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