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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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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 Mare

     

    Emmrich 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.

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    15 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    A chance meeting during a storm between Professor Emmirch Volkarin and a convenience store clerk named Rook leads to something more. But Emmrich has a possible life-changing audition coming up, and Rook has secrets of her own.

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    13 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 69

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    From the moment they met, Emmrich had viewed Rook as a sensitive, delicate little thing, but this sharpened reality. Her fragility wasn't abstract. It wasn't metaphorical. It wasn't just the foolish romanticizing of her softness by a man in love with her.

    It was real. It was written into the architecture of her biology, the scars carved into her very body.

    And just for a moment, he could have sworn he felt Death breathing at his ear—its voice, cold and familiar, taunting him as it whispered:

    "She was mine first."

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    12 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 57

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    Ten years ago, Ivy “Rook” Ingellvar broke the one rule her parents had: she entered The Shrouded Halls.
    Deep within she discovered a skeleton possessed by a spirit of curiosity. Believing it abandoned, she rescued it from the grasp of a Lich and brought it home. Ever since that night, The Grand Necropolis has been plagued with earthquakes and shadows always seem to linger where they shouldn’t.

    The dead are restless.

     

    (A Labyrinth retelling in the Dragon Age universe.)

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  5. Public Bookmark 52

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    “Are you in danger?”

    “Yes.”

    “We’ve seen what Volkarin does to his victims. Does he have a vendetta against you?”

    “No.” Rook wished it were that simple. “He’s in love with me.”

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    A 'Silence of the Lambs' AU

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    11 May 2025