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    An apostate's guide to popular fiction.

    (Or: Hawke runs headlong into Cassandra's book club, Varric comes along for the ride.)

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    14 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    Enasal: joy in triumph over loss

    Inquisitor Elera Lavellan finds herself at the end of the world. Again. Torn between duty, love and heartbreak, she stands tall once more in the face of adversity. Working with Varric’s chosen agent, Rook, against her former lover as she advises familiar friends and colleagues, including Commander Cullen, to defend Skyhold and the South in her absence, Elera does all she can to quiet the devouring storm within her.

    The false gods she once worshipped threaten to destroy the world. The man she loves is trapped within the Fade, helping Rook as much as his own ends as he remains resolute in his goal to bring down the Veil. The whole of Thedas hangs in the balance once again. This time, Elera knows she may not come back from it. This time, she knows she may have to choose between her love and her duty.

    What she does not know is that perhaps time has allowed her scars to heal more than she realizes. That perhaps her heart, that she believes gone with her vhenan, returned—only to be slowly given to another.

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    An alternate ending to Veilguard for Lavellan that was inspired by the different canon endings and a love for Cullavellan.

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    12 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    Alia Lavellan is a hunter, a rogue, and out of her depth. She has been following Solas for the past ten years - his new mission makes no difference. This is a story about grief.

    Unholy mix of narrative prose, character journaling, and in-universe meditations on lore. The former Inquisitor takes over Varric's task of scribing (and in places, embellishing) events, Solas wars against everything that became the blight, and both of them find a way to live with their actions.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 54

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    How like him it is to deflect from the shellshock of their reunion by explaining some intricacy of the Fade to her with his characteristic matter-of-fact, I-know-more-than-you tone. How annoyingly like him it is to speak to her with the remorsefulness of a reluctant kidnapper, as if it was not her own agency that brought her back to his side. Her mild irritation exists in equal measure with her relief at his nearness; what she wouldn't have given to have been annoyed by him any number of times these past years, as long as her reward for enduring his more insufferable traits was simply his presence at her side.

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    12 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 8

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    I'm slowly losing my mind post-Veilguard (and I say slowly but the amount of despair increases exponentially by the day) so it's time for therapy (escapism.) I'm just going to kind of post blurbs here as they come to me and kind of fill in the blanks as I would have wanted to see them. Any witnesses are merely coincidental, but stay awhile if you feel so inclined.

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    12 Jun 2026