#arlathanex2025

[arlathanxchange]

Arlathan eXchange is returning!

Do you love elves? If so, join us for the 2025 Arlathan Exchange - a celebration of elven characters, open to gen fic, ships, or solo/introspective pieces!

☆ IMPORTANT DATES

Nominations Open: Sunday, March 16, 2025 12:00p ET

Nominations Close: Sunday, March 30, 2025 12:00p ET

Sign-Ups Open: Sunday, March 30, 2025 12:00p ET

Sign-Ups Close: Sunday, April 13, 2025 12:00p ET

Assignments Recieved: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 8:00p ET

Works Due: Sunday, May 25, 2025 12:00p ET

Works Revealed: Sunday, June 1, 2025 12:00p ET

Creators Revealed: Sunday, June 8, 2025 12:00p ET

Click on the linked dates to see the schedule in your local time.

☆ NOMINATIONS OPEN IN TWO WEEKS

Changes and Updates

Veilguard content, ships, and characters are fair game for this year's exchange! More information about how to nominate tags with Rook and Veilguard OCs will be released when nominations open.

☆ MORE INFORMATION & MOD CONTACT

rules & info | faq | ask | discord | email: [email protected]

Tumblr’s asks are famously unreliable. If you don’t see a response within 72 hours please feel free to resend the ask or send an email. This event is affiliated with The Hanged Man, an unofficial collective of Dragon Age fans who try to make a positive difference in the fandom community by giving fans a place to chat, share and create content, and interact. You can read more on our website.

[inquisimer]

arlathan exchange treats

Along with my main gift, I wrote a few treats for this year's @arlathanxchange! There were so many good prompts, I wish I'd had time to delve into more of them, but I had a lot of fun with these 💜

if we knew each other's secrets (what comforts we should find) for @wishforhome

Teia & Female Elf de Riva | G | 1657 words | No Warnings After Illario crosses the line with Zara, Rook turns to an old source of comfort. - “Rook,” she says, not sounding nearly as relieved as most people would be to find a friendly face instead of an intruder. “What’s wrong?” Arlow laughs, the ends of her hair brushing the counter as she tilts her head back. Such a weighted question. What’s wrong? Everything. And also, in the grand scheme of things, nothing—for the moment.

life is good (and that's the way it should be) for @kiastirling-fanfic

Alistair/Avexis | G | 934 words | No Warnings Neither Avexis nor Alistair are suited for the Winder Palace, but they find a way. (ps, if you're not on the Avexistair agenda, you should be)

[sorrowfultales]

I remembered I have a Tumblr

With the creators now revealed, I can finally post about the piece I wrote as a gift to @isilloth-draws for this year's @arlathanxchange!

If you know what the title is referencing, you probably know where this is going! This was my first real attempt at writing angst and I'm glad Isilloth was kind enough to allow me to write the piece with my own Inquisitor in mind.

You can read "La Pietà" HERE.

[tulipathy]

fic: dexterous

Ancient Arlathan AU f!Lavellan/Mythal/Solas, M, 2k. Written as a treat for @breitweisergallery's "The Right and Left Hands... just another thing stolen from the elves" idea in the 2025 @arlathanxchange.

What need has Mythal, Seaborn, All-Mother, Glorious, to fulfill her own will? To touch her own divine self? None, for she has two capable Hands: Solas and Lavellan.

This one gets weird in a slippery way I like. Top notes are only pleasant, but klaxons of all-is-not-well are going off under the joyful devotion. If you want them to be.

and here's my masterlist of other fics

[arlathanxchange]

✨ WORKS HAVE BEEN REVEALED✨

There are currently 44 works featuring elves in the collection! Thank you to everyone who participated this year - we are so impressed with all of your hard work and excited to check out everyone's creations!

Read the Works Here!

Reminders:

☆ CREATORS ARE STILL ANONYMOUS! Please do not share your work as your own publicly or claim it until creator reveals on Sunday, June 8th, 2025 at 12p ET. ☆ You are allowed to publicly guess who your creator might be, share recs, or link people to any of the works in the collection! ☆ Creators, don't forget to update your publication date to today so that it will show in Recently Updated searches! To do so: Edit Work → under Associations check "Set a Different Publications date" → enter today's date) ☆ Don't forget to comment on your gift!

Treats:

The collection will remain open for treats, so there's still time to post an extra gift if you'd like to! You can treat specific people by checking out the requests list and you can see who has not received a treat yet by checking the Treatless List. You can also treat the exchange as a whole by creating for ANY PAIRING on the Nominations List. For more information and a detailed how-to, check out our Treats & Treatless FAQ!

☆ Contact the Mods: ask | discord | email: [email protected]

[arlathanxchange]

Three Days Left to Sign-Up!!

✨ CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP ✨

Sign Ups Close: Sunday, April 13, 2025 12:00p ET Visit our website to see the schedule in your local time.

Requests ⤷ how to filter autoao3app Nominated Tags: gSheets | ao3 | autoao3app

REMINDERS

☆ Be careful when editing your sign up!! AO3 has been known to add "Additional Tags" to your selections. Please double-check your requests carefully to make sure the selections for "Fanart" and/or "Fanfic. If you discover an issue AFTER assignments go out, please let a mod know immediately.

☆ If you signed up with any Treats related tag on your OFFERS, please do the mods a favor and remove those tags. We would really appreciate your help with that!

☆ Creators are not required to follow provided prompts, so please do not expect prompts to keep you "safe" from your triggers, squicks, etc. It is highly recommended that you include Do Not Wants or a letter listing them in each request. Please try to make DNWs as specific as possible.

☆ If you are requesting a specific OC, please be sure to include a link to information and/or art references for that OC.

☆ Don't forget you can tailor your offers to requests that have already been made. Offering ships that are already being requested will help to ensure that you'll receive a match!

If you have questions before signing up, you can:

check out our sign-up tutorial

learn about exchange letters

peruse our FAQs

CONTACT

ask | discord | email: [email protected]

Tumblr’s asks are famously unreliable. If you don’t see a response within 72 hours please feel free to resend the ask or send an email.

[arlathanxchange]

Nominations Are Open!

✨ CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE YOUR TAGS! ✨

Nominations Close: Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 12pm ET ⤷ Visit our website to see the schedule in your local time

View Nominated Tags: gSheets | ao3 | autoao3app Tutorial: How to Nominate

NOMINATING FOR DA: TV

Canon characters should be nominated with their full names and canonical tags if they exist (i.e. Andarateia Cantori, not Teia Cantori)

To nominate a Rook with one of the six canon backgrounds, use this format: [Gender][Lineage][Last Name] (i.e. Male Dwarf Ingellvar, Female Elf de Riva)

To nominate a Rook from a non-canonical faction, use this format: [Gender][Lineage] Original Rook(s) (i.e. Female Qunari Original Rook(s))

NOTE: AO3 is not canonizing Rook tags with gender, lineage, or last name, so all Rook tags will need to be manually typed out when nominating.

Ships that were nominated for this exchange in both 2023 & 2024 have been pre-loaded into the tagset! This frees up your nomination spaces for other characters/ships.

MORE INFO & MOD CONTACT

rules & info | faq

ask | discord | email: [email protected]

Tumblr's asks are famously unreliable. If you don't see a response within 72 hours, please feel free to resend the ask or send an email.

[arlathanxchange]

Sign Ups Open & Nominations Closed!

✨ CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP! ✨

Sign Ups Close: Sunday, April 13, 2025 12:00p ET Visit our website to see the schedule in your local time.

Requests ⤷ how to filter autoao3app Nominated Tags: gSheets | ao3 | autoao3app Note: Some nominations were re-ordered when they were approved. Non-canonical tags are ordered alphabetically by character last name - if you don't see your nomination, try reversing the name order!

If you have questions before signing up, you can:

check out our sign-up tutorial

learn about exchange letters

persue our FAQs

CONTACT

ask | discord | email: [email protected]

Tumblr’s asks are famously unreliable. If you don’t see a response within 72 hours please feel free to resend the ask or send an email.