#also I'm so proud of this codex entry mock-up

[kmackatie]

Codex: The Chess Piece

[found on a table in Emmrich's room in the Lighthouse after a visit to Dock Town] A note from Rook, attached to a worn scroll yellowed with age: Professor, Overheard you discussing Dalish funerals with Bellara when I was speaking with Rana at the Wall of Light. I remembered a scroll that the Veil Jumpers unearthed that had sat in storage waiting to be catalogued correctly. I’m no translator, but my ancient elven is half-decent and I happen to have an interest in and personal connection to Falon’Din. —Rook P.S. Don’t tell Bellara where you got it from. I’m in enough trouble with Strife as it is.

After deep-diving on some codex entries for a different fic, an idea lodged in the back of my head to attempt to write a fic made up of codex entries that would add into my Rook's journey. Thus, this was born, in which I lovingly spent even more time deep-diving into codex entries and taking a crack at writing some.

Also spending over an hour creating a mock-codex entry in Procreate.

read on ao3 here

Rating: T Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Relationship: Rook / Emmrich Volkarin Characters: Rook, Emmrich Volkarin, The Veilguard Companions and NPCs Additional Tags: Character Study, Canon Compliant, Worldbuilding, Epistolary, Codex Entries (Dragon Age), Codex Entries for Rook, Male Rook (Dragon Age), Dalish Rook (Dragon Age), Mage Rook (Dragon Age), Developing Relationship, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Spoilers, self-indulgent expansion of Rook's character, Discussions of Past Relationship Words: 6,865