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Rook(s)
Noura De Riva
Marianela De Riva (Non-rook crow oc)
Art Tag
Writing
WIPs
Talons’ Favor — Teia x Original female Crow! OC x Viago series
Intro to Archaeology - Modern AU! Emmrook as professors in a newly merged department
Completed/oneshots
Wrinkle like the river, Sweeten like the dew — Emmrook (Female, mage, city elf crow) longfic
When you kiss me I am happy enough to die — Emmrook sweet/silly oneshot
No Longer Updating
La Yugular — Lucanis x Original female Crow! Oc — during/post VG slow-ish burn
Antivan Crow Lore
Crow Love Languages and Courting
Teicanis or Teia x Viago x Lucanis is Good, Actually
General Crow Headcanons Masterlist
Fic Summaries
below cut!
Emmrook Longfic:
COMPLETE
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew
Noura De Riva is the ideal Crow underdog — fighting her way through a difficult upbringing and a cruel Cuchillo house to be a high-ranking Assassin in House De Riva. However, this is made complicated when she screws up a major operation with the Antaam and ends up on a whirlwind adventure to save Thedas as “Rook.” On top of everything, her feelings for a certain handsome necromancer force her to confront her own emotions, her past, her present, her desires, and what role she wants to play in the life she has.
Generally canon-compliant longfic that I’m mostly just writing because it’s fun for meeeeee
Emmrook Modern Au
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Introduction to Archaeology
Noura De Riva is an assistant professor at a large and esteemed research university who is ready to move onto the next step in her career as a cultural anthropologist: Tenure, and subsequent lifetime security and peaceful existence at her job. However, this process is slowed down when Dr. Solas Wolfe caused a ruckus about a year ago at the field’s biggest academic conference, resulting in multiple firings, sabbaticals, and the rest of the Anthropology department to be left to clean up the pieces. On top of everything, her former mentor Varric Tethras is retiring right when she feels she needs him most.
The new department heads announce that the Anthropology and Archaeology departments will be merged for “strategic planning” and funding reasons, much to the dismay of all involved. On top of everything, Noura is paired with a professor in the other department, a Dr. Emmrich Volkarin, for the duration of the semester as required by the university.
“Oh no, he’s hot!” Ensues, academia is a mess, and nobody really knows what the hell “strategic planning” is anyway.
Let’s just say, there’s gonna be a lot of Bone if ya catch my drift ;)
Emmrook Oneshot
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79529211
mollypercocet
Summary:
Rook de riva loves emmrich sooooooooo much that she begins to wonder.... is she insane and evil? Did he cast a spell on her to make her behave this way? and more!
Notes:
Yo shoutout to everyone who read tevinter nights i brought back my boii for the intro portion
basically i was like. She loves him so much it scares her and she thinks he did dark magicks upon her but really she's just got viago paranoia, a fat ass, and a dream
Lucanis Dellamorte x Original Character (female)
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La Yugular (NO LONGER UPDATING)
Marianela De Riva is an Antivan Crow working in the midst of the Antaam invasion in Treviso. Born a Dalish hunting prodigy, she’s long since accustomed and integrated herself into the complex and dangerous life of an assassin — Specifically a Sirena, a femme-fatale who uses her good-looks and cleverness to complete her contracts.
When her old friend Noura, now called “Rook” returns to the Cantori Diamond with the very-much-alive-and-possessed-by-a-demon Lucanis Dellamorte, Mari is thrown into the background of a terrifying and apoctalyptic set of circumstances that calls everything she’s known into question.
Viago told her long ago to stay away from the Dellamorte boys, but he didn’t mention that one of them had pretty brown eyes and long, dark eyelashes.
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I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.
Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.
Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.
It can not always be about your preferred topic.
You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.
the more I replay rhe VG the less I understand why I ever even doubted Emmrich is supposed to be a blood mage. like using the Gloom Howler's blood to determine it's an elf does not strike me as a particularly normal Andrastian thing to do
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Rating: Explicit
Words: ~30K, 6 chapters (all chapters will be published by June 12)
Pairing: Lucanis Dellamorte/Emmrich Volkarin
Tags: Wine, Yearning, Humor, Getting together. Excerpt below is safe for tumblr, full fic tagged for sexual content (read on AO3)
Summary: Long ago, Lucanis Dellamorte made his peace with death. Now, he wonders whether he can find a way to make peace with life.
Check out the @unfairlyfallen's amazing art for Chapter 5 here (tumblr-safe) and here (full version)!
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Chapter 1 — Antiva
"You are being ridiculous."
"I am being careful, Teia," Lucanis said, frowning down at the list in his hand. Behind him the Diamond buzzed with its usual activity, the murmur of conversation and the clink of coin from the public level blending with the more deliberate sounds of Crows going about their business in the Sanctum. "You have all the notes on the fledgling training?"
He looked up in time to see her roll her eyes. "Yes. I told you, yes."
"It's important, Teia. It can't wait until I'm back." He felt the low-level apprehension he'd been battling for the past week take another lurch upward. "Maybe I should—"
"If you say 'maybe I should postpone my trip' I am going to have Viago drug you and the two of us will throw you in the back of a carriage."
"Teia."
"I mean it, Lucanis. You're going. We've talked over all of this a hundred times already. We have it covered."
He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I wasn't going to suggest postponing. I just want to be certain that—"
"Stop worrying. It's only a month. What can go wrong in a month?"
The question sent a shudder through him. "A lot."
"We'll take care of it," she said, her tone reassuring even through her exasperation. "Caterina is hardly going to let the House fall. Even Illario has started making himself useful on occasion."
He gave Teia a dark glare, which she ignored. "You deserve this, Lucanis. You and your necromancer friend have been talking about making a tour like this since before the fall of the gods."
"I know." He sighed, looking at his list again. There were still several items they hadn't talked about, and his mind insisted on adding more.
Always. More.
Lucanis shushed Spite's grumbling and tucked the list into his breast pocket. "I appreciate the help, Teia. You know I will return the favor if you and Viago ever want to get away."
"You're a dear," she said. "Just be sure to bring us back some of the wine you sample."
He started to reply then saw her gaze shift to focus on something behind him. "What is it?" he asked, his shoulders tensing.
"You are about to be ambushed," she murmured, the hint of a smile playing over her lips.
In a flurry of footsteps, a familiar redhead hurried up and threw her arms around him. "Lucanis!"
"Harding?" He returned the hug, blinking in surprise. "What are you doing here at the Diamond?"
"We just happened to be at the Lighthouse, and then—"
"Where are we taking this?" Taash came around the corner, holding one end of a large trunk.
"Just here is fine for the moment." Emmrich appeared behind Taash, his face pink with exertion. He set down the other end of the trunk and smiled at them. "Lucanis! I'm a trifle early, but I didn't want to be the cause of any delay."
"Welcome to the Diamond, Professor Volkarin," Teia said with a warm smile. "We are so glad you are here to take Lucanis off our hands."
Lucanis shot her a look and then moved over to greet his old friend. "I am glad you made it. Though I did not expect you to bring these two along," he said, nodding at Taash and Harding.
"Like I said, we were at the Lighthouse, and then Emmrich stopped in to pick up some stuff from his old room, and one thing led to another." Harding blew a stray hair out of her face and gave Lucanis a grin. "Ready for your big vacation?"
"I will be," Lucanis said, eyeing Emmrich's luggage. "That is a very large trunk for a four week trip."
I recently stumbled upon people discussing headcanons on this topic under another post and now I'm Curioise. (rbs for reach are appreciated!! and please share details in the tags I'd love to know!)
if you have multiple Rooks, vote for whoever is your main/favourite!
so why does *your* Rook wear that shoddy starting armour?
they literally just dress like that. it's their style (or lack thereof)
sold their old armour to get money while on the road
trying to look inconspicuous (of their own volition)
trying to look inconspicuous (varric and/or harding made them)
act of fashion defiance towards whoever kicked them out/solas/varric/the world
I headcanon/mod them into wearing something different (like what?)
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So here's some resources for getting the right skin colors for the dragon age characters that people have whitewashed through the years:
Isabela from Dragon Age is Black by Dalishious
FULL skin palette for Alistair by Dalishious
High quality Alistair headshot for colorpicking by Dalishious from this
High quality Zevran headshot for colorpicking by Dalishious from this
Fenris' skin color by Dalishious
High quality Fenris Images for colorpicking by Dalishious
High quality Merrill headshot for colorpicking by Dalishious
And just so people don't have the excuse of laziness, here's palettes i have made by colorpicking textures and models, feel free to use them:
My own dirty laundry: I have been guilty of whitewashing Merrill before, as I didn't know she was in DA:O so I used the DA2 render for colorpicking, from this I need everyone to learn that sometimes the whitewashing isn't done by malice but from a place of lack of knowledge.
