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Halsin tries to navigate a complicated relationship to gain some insight.
He makes a miscalculation.
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- Part 6 of a tragical history
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Playing with Matches by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
21 May 2026
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Trevelyan is pretty sure that Dorian’s only with him because it annoys Inquisitor Lavellan.
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Who Bids in Brooding Souls the Sunset Burn Above? by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Apr 2026
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After working in his lab all night, Faustus spends a day out in the sunshine “enjoying” the weather, not a cloud in the sky.
Alternate Title: Blue Sunny Day
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- Part 5 of a tragical history
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The First Month by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Feb 2026
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“You think I’m weak,” Cullen hissed, voice breaking. “You think I’m not strong enough.”
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- Part 16 of a black arrow in the fog
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The Night Before by Checkerbox
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
18 Dec 2025
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It wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been alone.
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Does Deceit Take Flight by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
29 Aug 2025
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Ruminations on a doomed romance and a prevaricating empire in decline.
(or, a rewrite of Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts that incorporates several quests that relate to the Orlesian Civil War)
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- Part 9 of a black arrow in the fog
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“He’s rather despondent over the life’s path you’ve charted for him[…]I think a part of him sabotages all efforts to keep him on the straight and narrow, either to spite you or to punish himself[…]No matter what he feels, it would be a pity for such a mage to go to waste. Our Imperium needs better.”
Also, Dorian and Trevelyan indulging each other during a private night in.
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It was never a question of if he would come back, drenched and looking like he'd been dragged for miles by the back of a carriage. Only when, and would it be before he'd finished pulverizing what was left of his life.
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- Part 5 of a friendly knife in the back
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Examinations of a breakup.
(note: title has been changed)
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- Part 4 of a friendly knife in the back
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He just followed the scent of blood that led to her.
Cadash just wanted coin.
(Another Inquisitor: Cadash)
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- Part 1 of a friendly knife in the back
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,465
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 24
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Trevelyan is the only part of his life that isn’t spiraling out of control, he thinks.
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- Part 2 of a friendly knife in the back
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Death Rattle by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
28 Jan 2025
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Speaking of heroes becoming villains when things don’t go their way…
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- Part 3 of a friendly knife in the back
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In order to help Karlach stay in top form, the party needs entrance to a druid grove for the infernal blacksmith within. Luckily, it seems the archdruid Halsin has a favor they can trade for passage inside.
Unluckily, the favor is rather…involved.
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- Part 2 of Party on the Sword Coast
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You would like to think that you died that day, and the person who carried on after you was someone else entirely.
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- Part 7 of Party on the Sword Coast
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confound these passions with a quiet sleep by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Oct 2024
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Astarion contemplates his beloved consort in a moment of repose.
(set during chapter two of "Sweet Helen, Make Me Immortal With a Kiss")
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- Part 4 of a tragical history
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Why does she get to keep all the money by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Oct 2024
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For the first time in his life, Astarion notices an injustice and seeks to correct it.
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- Part 5 of Party on the Sword Coast
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Leave Me a While to Ponder on My Sins by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Sep 2024
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He doesn’t even remember saying it.
(they talked each other into this)
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- Part 3 of a tragical history
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Finally in a proper city tavern, Astarion takes a bath. Tav joins.
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- Part 9 of Party on the Sword Coast
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A little village on the road should promise some much needed rest and relaxation, but unfortunately for the weary party they are led by a workaholic. Even more unfortunately still, it turns out that they’re not the only ones on a quest in the area.
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- Part 4 of Party on the Sword Coast
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The name is a little bit of a misnomer; there is always at least a little bit of light in the Underdark.
(The marriage is going...not as poorly as it could be)
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- Part 2 of a tragical history