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Forbidden Fruits by IrinaPalmova
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Apr 2026
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When Cullen Rutherford was a boy, he failed to protect his little sister Rosalie from being abducted by a maleficar. It is a failure that carved itself into bone, shaping the man he would become: the Templar, the Commander, the believer who has only ever known duty and guilt.
Then the Conclave burned, and Amara Trevelyan walked out of the Fade.
Her faith is gentle where his is rigid, questioning where his obeys, alive in a way that feels dangerously close to hope. Friendship blossoms between them, then deepens into something quieter and more vulnerable, until, almost without noticing, he loves her.
Those feelings are new. Those feelings are terrifying. For they could herald the return of the boy he once was, the one who still believed in kindness, in peace, in something beyond suffering.
But the past does not stay buried forever. The Fade does not give without taking. And when the truth of Amara's childhood unravels, Cullen is forced to face the impossible:
The woman he loves is not who she believes herself to be.
And the sister he lost… may not be lost at all.
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What Vows I Kept by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
26 Apr 2026
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Cullen Rutherford's worst enemy and greatest asset is his own mind. Addicted to lyrium and dangerously, stupidly in love with the Herald of Andraste, it has sometimes tortured him, but it has always gotten him through. Until now. Haven is on fire, a demigod is stalking them, the Inquisition's war is about to kick off, and all he has to keep himself sane is a beat up old journal.
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- Part 2 of The Lion's Words
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📜Amnesia: The Drug Descent📜 by Babblecat3000
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Amnesia: The Dark Descent
24 Apr 2026
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♡ Too much/too little lyrium causes a templar to imagine he's the protagonist of a popular video game. ♡
AUpril: Day 22: Supernatural
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- Part 22 of AUpril
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She Keeps Me Up by bendingwind for knight0fcups
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
19 Apr 2026
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Anything for the cause.
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Neither By Chance Nor Fate by deathmallow
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
15 Apr 2026
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Clerra Trevelyan just wants to go lend aid to the war-torn Hinterlands. Cullen Rutherford just wants to try help bring peace and atone for past failings. But sometimes when you head to a Divine Conclave to do your part to heal the wounds, you get a lot more than you bargained for: a calling that'll push you to the brink, but that you can't ignore.
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Remembering You by WiltedSunflowers
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
07 Apr 2026
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Lana grew up just outside of Honnleath, with mom working as the towns doctor as a way from escaping their life from the clan. She was immediately outcasted by the town, because of her and her mom being elves. The only one who wanted to be her friend was Cullen, and together they became best friends. They didn't know at their young age that they were falling for each other.
At the age of thirteen Cullen left to become a templar, and they never saw each other again. Until the explosion of the temple of scared ashes happened, they finally met each other.
Only factor is that Cullen doesn't remember her at all. Can she get him to remember her again? Can they accept how much both of them changed?
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Lyrium by CrimsenKhalessi
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
30 Mar 2026
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When red lyrium starts appearing in the streets of Thedas, it doesn’t just corrupt; it makes its users rabid. Ivy “Rook” Ingellvar is on a deadline to find the source before the sickness spreads. But her past won’t stay buried, and the people Varric holds close start showing their secrets.
Emmrich Volkarin should be the safest man to stand beside, a rare necromancer with iron control and a gaze that never looks away. Necromancers are scarce, and the bonds they form are rarer still, old magic that clings, claims, and refuses to let go. As the trail tightens, protection blurs into possession, and Rook must decide what she’ll sacrifice to stop the red and what she’s willing to surrender to the man following her every step.
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My Dear Commander by Lyssarah
Fandoms: Cullen Rutherford - Fandom, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
30 Mar 2026
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The world was crumbling around them, nothing but fear and horror as the sky ripped open as they were on the precipice of the end of the world. Lyssarah Evelyn Trevelyan, a Mage from the Circle of Ostwick was the answer they were searching for. In the mist of a Templar-Mage war, with a magical anchor that was slowly killing her, she is willing to do anything to bring the crisis to an end. When an ex-Templar, now Commander of the newly reformed Inquisition meets the soon to named leader of their organization, he cannot help but fall hopelessly in love with her, despite her being a Circle Mage —Something he once deeply feared and despised.
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The Light You Still Hold by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
28 Mar 2026
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Convincing the Inquisition of her innocence was hard enough when she was newly marked, let alone a month after fleeing from their custody. Ophelia Trevelyan has no wish for history to remember her as just one more mage to ruin the world, but when her choices are stay and die or run and live, she knows which option to pick. She doesn’t know how she’ll convince the Inquisition to believe her this time, but maybe closing the rifts and making friends with them all is a start.
Until closing the rifts becomes less about proving her own innocence and more about saving the world one rift at a time. Until becoming friends with them means starting to love them.
A story in which the Herald flees from the Inquisition, winds up right back with them, and somehow finds happiness throughout all the trials to follow.
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Limerence in Tenebrae by Nilari_12
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Mar 2026
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Our original character, Myra, has found herself, under mysterious circumstances, thrust into the world of Thedas. Stripped of language skills and answers, she must fight not only for her survival but also to satisfy a burning curiosity and a relentless desire for the truth that avoides her. The "how" and "why" of her predicament will drive her forward, compelling her to confront not only this harsh new reality but also the person she once was in her own time. Don't you crave the change as well, dear reader?
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The frantic stream of her thoughts was abruptly severed as the fingers of her hand became ensnared in the thread as well, pulling her downward. She watched the light above diminish to a shrinking glimmer as she was dragged further into the abyss. Then, with a jarring impact, her back slammed against something hard, and everything descended into darkness.“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman, you - Myra, but nothingness is the foundation of this becoming.”
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Anorean Radonis (Lavellan) was an unwanted mage in her clan, sold into Tevinter slavery to House Radonis as a young child. She was tortured in every way possible, broken to be a (perfectly) loyal spy in their espionage division once she came of age. She was sent to the Conclave to gather information on the important dealings in Ferelden, when she walked into something she shouldn't have. In a world suddenly torn asunder by magic, corrupted godhood and war, Anorean becomes the Inquisitor, a leader of a stabilizing force throughout the world of Thedas. Her newfound friends and a mysterious elven mage aid her as she tries to escape her past- and maybe, just maybe, save the world.STORY STYLE:
*This will soon be made into an audiobook.*
This is written true to most Dragon Age events and lore, in a novel style.
This story is NOT fast paced. It tells the story of the Inquisitor with a slow unfolding plot, and even slower burns, with sweeter payouts.ALL RIGHTS AND DIALOGUE FROM THE GAME BELONGS TO BIOWARE INC. I CLAIM NONE OF THAT.
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- Part 1 of Dragon Age
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What If He Didn't Go To Kirkwall? by nekojinrogue
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
22 Mar 2026
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This is an alternate timeline branching off from the universe of Saga Of A Templar.
There may be more than two chapters. I don't know yet.
What if Cullen disobeyed the orders of Knight-Commander Greagoir and did not meekly allow himself to be sent to Kirkwall?What if he threw it all away, just like he was thrown away, and returned home at the height of his trauma and turmoil?
This story takes place during the Origins timeline.
I will be writing this to offset bouts of writer's block that are interfering with my completion of Saga Of A Templar. I'm still working on that, don't worry.Series
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Harding notices that Rook is restless and distressed after Treviso. They confide in her, and tell her about their past and their history with the Venatori and lyrium.
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I shall see the stars and know (your light remains) by Spaceace365
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II
15 Mar 2026
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Cullen finds himself back in Kirkwall once again, and struggles with several things - how to stop Meredith's mad rampage, how to get out from under the choking grip of his lyrium leash, and how to make sure Hawke doesn't get his sodding arse caught or killed before he can become Champion again.
A sort of fix-it fic, where some things go better but most stay the same, because this is Kirkwall.
Alternatively: Kirkwall 2, electric boogaloo
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Deeper than the Ocean Itself by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
12 Mar 2026
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The Inquisition is done, the battle is won. The only thing to do now is continue. But Cullen Rutherford is only a shell of the man he once was, lyrium claiming more pieces of his body and his mind with each day. On a journey to Val Chevin, his ship wrecks upon the Waking Sea and Cullen finds himself at the mercy of the waves. Until a creature known as a siren rescues him and reminds him of what it means to be brave. [AU, semi-canon compliant]
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Only Yours to Give by Ribsfortheribgod
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
08 Mar 2026
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Or, "The Abrupt and Immediate Radicalization of One Solona Amell"
I had a mage-templar interaction in my head and I couldn't sleep until this happened. My first fic in a literal decadeSolona Amell has lived in the safety of the Circle Tower for years without any trouble from the Templars. Any mage who saw trouble must have brought it upon themselves, she thought. It isn't until a new Templar from the Free Marches attacks a young apprentice that all the Templars begin to feel dangerous, even the ones she thought she could trust.
*Tagged for non-con/rape in the last chapter, and secondhand mentions of past underage SA throughout.~*~
He took another step towards her, and she felt a gasp escape her as his free hand brushed her neck. “Why did you ask me that?” He growled. “Yesterday, you asked when I would hurt you just because I felt like it. Why?”Solona swallowed hard. He deserved the same truth she had learned from her first close call after a lifetime of safety - no, the illusion of safety.
The words fell past her lips more easily than she expected. “Because if being ‘one of the good ones’ won’t save me, then it probably won’t save you either.”
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I read that there's an ending in DAI (if he is still taking lyrium and is not with the Inquisitor) where Cullen loses his mind to the lyrium. He becomes a beggar, until Lace Harding finds him on the streets, and either gives him ‘coin or a quick death.’
The thought of it hurts my heart, and I had to get it out of my head - so here we are with this tiny, sad AU fic. -
A Quiet, Dangerous Thing by MakersBread
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - Various Authors, Dragon Age: Inquisition
03 Mar 2026
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Aubrey survives the fall of Ostwick Circle- but not her capture.
Intercepted by Knight-Commander Cullen Rutherford, she should be returned, contained, forgotten. Instead, her presence eases the lyrium’s grip on him, unraveling years of discipline and faith. With the Templar Order fractured and war looming, Cullen claims Aubrey under the pretense of safety, taking her back to his Circle in Ferelden. Bound by secrecy, restraint, and a growing attraction neither of them will name, they walk a line that could destroy them both.A OC/Cullen Rutherford ‘Romantsy’ set during the Mage/Templar War.
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A Seeker At The Door by QueenOfAngryMoths
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
01 Mar 2026
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The Herald of Andraste is not having an easy time, if anyone could be in such miserable, Ferelden weather. With all the snow, the last thing Cassandra needs is Evelyn suffering from lyrium withdrawal. But, for some reason, the Herald seems insistent she suffer alone. This will not do.
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- Part 4 of Sally Payne
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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