How We Are Handling Rook

[blackemporiummod]

Hello nuglets! As you might already have heard, we need to have different rules for handling Rook nominations and requests than any other Dragon Age protagonist.

Prior to Veilguard being released, Ao3 announced a change in how they would tag video game protagonists. They would no longer support the layered canonical tags that we are used to for the Warden, Hawke, and the Inquisitor; instead, all varieties of Rook would simply be "Rook (Dragon Age)". Different tags to denote lineage and background would go under additional tags.

When you post on Ao3, none of the three main tagging fields (Relationships, Characters, Additional tags) are required. However, almost all people tag the relationship and/or the characters involved.

Because of that change, fanworks with Rook are not being tagged with enough detail for us to assess each Rook ship individually. Instead, we have had to make some generalizations based on what the mods and some helpers were able to discover about the most popular Rook ships; and trends for past PC/LI ships.
( Eligibility )

( Nominating )

( Requesting )

Rules Updates for 2025

[blackemporiummod]

We have some additional changes to announce for this year! The first two were driven by all the glorious new Veilguard content; the third is an Ao3-wide change.

1. We will be allowing up to 40 nominations this year! That's right, you can have twice as many as previous years! Because of the way Ao3 works, you will have to use two different fandoms to get to your 40 nominations. The first fandom, as always, should be Dragon Age -- All Media Types. The second fandom should be Dragon Age (Video Games). Don't worry -- all the nominations will wind up under All Media Types like usual; and we'll be updating the spreadsheet as we approve, like usual!
2. You may now have up to 40 requests and offers instead of 30.
3. You may now have up to 150 text characters for your nominations! More space for all the glorious moresomes in the Dragon Age universe.

Also, if you haven't already, please go read our guidelines for how we are handling Rook.