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The Resonances of the Heart by Mikana_Chaos_Goddess
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 Jul 2026
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Altus Mira Mercar has spent her life performing with flawless technique, trapped beneath the expectations of her powerful noble family. A celebrated violin prodigy, she is entered into the prestigious Archon’s Centennial Duo Competition, a stage where reputation, lineage, and perfection matter as much as music itself. Her assigned partner is Professor Emmrich Volkarin, a famed pianist and scholar whose brilliance is undeniable, though his humble standing makes him an unexpected and controversial match for an Altus of Mira’s rank. At first, their partnership is defined by contrast: Mira’s polished restraint against Emmrich’s soulful, emotionally rich playing. But as they rehearse, argue, and learn to listen beyond the notes, their music begins to reveal what neither of them dares to say aloud. As Mira and Emmrich slowly fall in love, their bond threatens everything society has arranged for them. Mira’s family’s ambitions, her unwanted engagement, and the rigid class walls of the Tevinter Imperium. Together, they must decide whether love is worth defying tradition, and whether two hearts, resonating in perfect harmony, can create a future stronger than the world trying to silence them.
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18 May 2026
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Sugar and Peppercorn by lullayloo
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
04 Jul 2025
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After thirty four years, Rook Laidir has finally fared her way to a higher education, a degree awaiting her at the Grand Necropolis. Yet the precedent of ancient history cannot be left in the past, and she finds herself being threatened with deportation. As she drowns her sorrows in drink, she comes across an equally distressed necromancer that has an assortment of interesting anecdotes to offer—including this:
Spouses married to a native citizen gain permanent residency.
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10 Feb 2026
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nosce te ipsum by trashwithvariety
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Nov 2025
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Professor Francesca Ingellvar and her daughter, ostracized by Nevarra after the War of the Banners, leave for Minrathous. Old friend Dorian puts them up in his penthouse while he and Neve Gallus investigate a string of gruesome murders. When the trail leads to more questions than answers, they turn to a familiar corpse whisperer for help, who has more than professional history with their newest resident...
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10 Feb 2026
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Like Fields of Amaranth Lie by Moon_Alure
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
13 Oct 2025
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"We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of Amaranth lie."
- Walter de La MareEmmrich Volkarin had never intended to step foot inside a brothel. But Orlais was a land of color, temptation, and masked truths, and something about the velvet dusk, the wine-sweet air, the perfumed streets—all of it—it stirred in him an ache he could no longer reason away.He told himself it was curiosity. He told himself it was harmless. A clinical indulgence of something so many others had sampled. He gave a false name and stepped through the brothel’s door expecting artifice, practiced flirtation, and emotional distance. Sating of a curiosity. Once. Just once.
He did not expect her—
And from that moment, Emmrich’s careful world began to tilt.** indicates explicit content
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13 Jan 2026
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Marginalia by Dulcidyne
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Dec 2024
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In Emmrich’s experience, people (and spirits) came in many varieties. But fundamentally, there were only two that mattered: those who could be trusted to borrow a book and return it in pristine condition…
…and those like Rook.
(A series of vignettes about finding love in the margins with the help of books, a pig, some flowers, a harpsichord, and a couple of rhyming teacups.)
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20 Jul 2025