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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    Inquisition Corp. functions as the invisible hand of the Divine in New Haven.

    Yet when NEO, a company out of Tevinter, revolutionizes the entire world with their Automaton invention: spirits bound into the mechanical bodies of automatic beings... Thedas enters the new "Electrical Age."

    All but one seems to question the promises of these tech giants. When a strange new automaton is brought in for diagnostics, with freckled skin that betrays the manufactured mass of wires lying beneath, Evelyn finds that everything she thought she knew will be turned upside down, head over heels.


    Evelyn stares blankly into the stormy sea, their gaze meeting.

    “The difference is that my central nervous system isn’t a mass or wires and code.”

    “No,” it grins again, a slight upturn. “I suppose it would not seem that way to you.”

    Her eyes sharpen to a glare. “So, what– there’s no difference between us at all?”

    “None more than the sum of any other creatures, when compared.”

     

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    07 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 32

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    ‘Yes,' Solas says quietly. 'I believe that everyone on this boat has a secret.'
    Felassan raises an eyebrow. ‘Even you?’
    Solas looks out across the river, and for a moment he is dizzy with the way the waves beckon him, the little lies they tell in every shift of the tide. He should deny it, but he finds that he cannot.
    ‘Most especially me,' he says heavily.

     Solas is a famous detective with a troubled history dating back to the wars that destroyed his homeland. When he embarks on a cruise along the Enavuris River to pursue a lead in his most recent case, he encounters a passionate love triangle which comes to a fatal end.

    Complicating the tragedy is the fact that the victim Justinia, heiress to the Chantry fortune, was murdered with Solas’ own gun. And then there’s the problem of his extremely inconvenient attraction to the prime suspect, Jacqueline Lavellan.

    As the cruise continues through the wilderness, rapidly approaching the Veil that separates the south of Thedas from the mysterious north, Solas races to uncover the truth before the killer can strike again.

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    05 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 1

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    In Thedas, a slew of wildfires cause massive death, destruction and famine about 200 years after Solas swore his life and power to preserve the veil. With the mass suffering drawing the attention of spirits, the pull of the veil leaves him drained and desperation has him turning to uthenera for respite.

    Written for day six of Solavellan Week 2025: I will always come back to you.

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    24 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    Three hundred years ago, Fen'harel successfully tore down the Veil he created to sunder the physical world from the Fade. Since then, he has tried time and time again to heal some of the damage he's made to the world and to himself, to no avail. His heart remains in the past, with a mortal woman who he loved for so short a time—Inquisitor Ellana Lavellan.

    Three hundred years later, Ellana should be dead. Instead, she wakes up to a foreign and destroyed world full of spirits and elves living harmoniously. Humans and Qunari are a dying race, and the land is being ruled by two gods who hate one another. She finds herself being used as a pawn against the man she's certain has forgotten her; after all, what are three centuries against a year-long affair?

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    There are some spoilers regarding the lore that was revealed in the Veilguard, but otherwise this is canon-divergent from that game.

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    21 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 62

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    The village of Crestwood, population 2300, had not seen a murder in sixteen years. But two grisly deaths, the gruesome manner almost identical but seemingly no link between the victims created a stir that law enforcement could not ignore.

    Enter renowned serial killer hunter Ellana Lavellan, a tenacious and determined detective sent on temporary reassignment to the Podunk town in the middle of void-forsaken nowhere. There she meets an array of mostly friendly faces eager for her knowledge and expertise, in over their heads in the bizarre case splashed all across the tabloids. Friendly faces all, except the local lead pathologist and adjunct professor, a Dr Solas Wolff; MD, PhD, who would make his disdain and displeasure for her presence known vigorously and often.

    A classic whodunit it, with an added spanner in the works of a simmering tension between the detective nicknamed 'Mabari' and the Professor she nicknamed 'Doc'.

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    24 Mar 2025