Rizbef Writes

My name is Liz! I am in my 30s with two young kids, a full time mentally taxing healthcare job, and a deep undying love for Dragon Age. I have limited creative abilities aside from writing, and my kids sleep through the night now, so I am getting back into it!

My (blank, but some bookmarks!) AO3

The dream: To have written novelized versions of all four Dragon Age games, print out a copy of each at the good ol' Office Depot with commissioned fanart covers, and then look at them on my shelf. Maybe even read them! Occasionally risk sharing with friends! And publish weekly to AO3 once done. The other dream: To write my own original work, which you can find discussed for the first time here and under the tag "every version of us"

The Plan:

Zenith of the Black Sky: Main Character - Mage (Elemental) Enid Surana 💙 Love interest(s): an Alistair/Morrigan unresolved triangle that will probably end me. Core Arc: Embracing Agency. Enid's Enneagram: 6w5. Progress: 27 chapters in rough draft; ~70 total expected

Cries of the Sacrificed: Main Character - Mage (Force) Valora Hawke ❤️Love interest(s): Act I-II Fenris, Act II-III Anders. I have a plan for the narrative structure of this story (Varric's incorporation) that I'm really excited about! Core Arc: Embracing her Identity. Valora's Enneagram: 4w5

Where Mortal Hand Had Lain: Main Character - Mage (Healing) Rhiannon Lavellan. 💚 Love interest(s): Cullen but with some Solas drama. Rhiannon was previously widowed and lost a child due to (? blight). 10 years on, her Keeper sends her to the Conclave. Core Arc: Finding Morality in a World that Breaks You. Rhiannon's Enneagram: 1w9

??? Title from the Chant of Light ???: Main Character - Mage (with a knife) Cimeria de Riva 💜 Love interest (s): Davrin (or, hear me out, Kieran - I'm contemplating). In VG I had her romance Davrin, but I think the overall structure of this story is going to vary wildly from actual VG. I'm considering keeping her a Crow but having her infiltrate the Magisterium and eventually overthrow it. Core Arc: "What Gives You the Right" or something like that. Cimeria's Enneagram: 8w9

Side Ideas/additional throughlines:

Morrigan's early parenting days and her post-Origins through Inquisition POV

Leliana/Zevran. Her journey to becoming the Divine with Zevran as functionally her Left Hand - perhaps reforming (?overthrowing, ?annihilating) the Crows as an organization

Anora/Teagan as a thing. I don't know. It speaks to me.

I feel so full of questions - I used to be a 100+ books a year reader. In 2025 I read less than 20 and in 2026 I'm at... 5. But hear me out - most of 2025 I was making progress on my giant Dragon Age fanfiction. Now in 2026 I've been extremely busy with Mom's Situation and now writing about it to process ~*le trauma*~ I feel so guilty on the one hand for how little I've been reading. I also feel like it's understandable given the circumstances. The guilt came back recently because things have lightened up now that she's moved. But I feel so compelled to write that reading anything feels like 1) time lost and 2) potential contamination.

I'm gonna tag my original work posts with "every version of us" if you just want to be here for Dragon Age shenanigans! One of the themes or motifs that has come up in the story as I've been plotting it is the idea of "music" as the anti-hoard. Chapter 1, the oldest daughter POV sees her sister playing Guitar Hero, her dad singing Jimmy Buffet setting up the graduation party. In Chapter 3, the first middle daughter's POV has us following her as she sneaks out to go see Paramore in 2008. By Chapter 7 the oldest daughter has a boyfriend who is really into the indie music scene of the 00s/10s, and she tries to contrive tastes based on what he thinks is "cool" enough. Later the middle daughter learns to play guitar for real and it becomes a tool of self expression and she even starts performing at small gigs. The epilogue has the oldest daughter going to see Hayley Williams in 2026, all by herself. Something something doing things for you because you like them, but also put the phone away and be present in the live music, feel the connection to the crowd, that moment in time. It's not anything you could possibly bottle up and keep. You just had to be there.

At the end of the story I want three pages of fine line drawings (but I can't draw so we'll see how that goes...) 1) Samantha's (eldest) Spotify playlist "cleaning mom's apartment" full of 00s/10s nostalgic bangers 2) Phoebe's (middle) mixed CD she made for her sister at her high school graduation