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In your heart shall burn. by icewazowski
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
05 Jan 2026
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Adariel Lavellan was no stranger to the suffrage of her people.
Elves had always been shunned in Thedas, and Adariel was no stranger to the suffrage of her people, the discrimination within the cities, the rumours of treatment in Tevinter, all of it caused a wariness around the Human species.
Years after freeing herself from her Alienage in Kirkwall, Adariel was sent by her Keeper to spy on a meeting at the Conclave. That meeting would change the world as they knew it, and the reputation of the elves.
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A Taste of Ferelden by Emarild
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
05 Jan 2026
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Cullen raised an eyebrow, trying to suppress the grin that was tugging at his lips. “Lady Trevelyan, are you suggesting I act against the Seeker’s orders?”
“Are you telling me it hadn’t crossed your mind even once?”
“Not openly.”
“Good. There is this secluded clearing on the other side of the lake. Care for a walk?”
Cullen turned his head, looking in the direction of the training encampment. “Let me get my gear.”
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The story of Morgan Evelyn Trevelyan and Cullen Rutherford, told through salty tears, bitter regrets and sweet companionship.
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- Part 1 of A Taste of Ferelden
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Remembering You by WiltedSunflowers
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
05 Jan 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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let this remain by CarnivalsoftheCity
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
05 Jan 2026
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His voice was hoarse, vowels stretching in a way that was obviously Ferelden but not noble, though he held himself like one. Shoulders back, jaw set. A proud man, with too much to prove and not much time to do it. A gust of wind swept ash towards them, catching in his hair, and Maeve’s nostrils flared at the sudden and unmistakable scent of lyrium.
Templar.
She raised her chin a fraction, almost defiantly. If only her soft scholar fingers and Chantry veil did not give her away as a Circle mage and nothing more.
(or, the inquisition from the perspective of maeve trevelyan)
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- Part 1 of a lifetime rolls by (maeve trevelyan)
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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
04 Jan 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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Drifting through Memories by Bigolmacncheese
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
04 Jan 2026
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~~ If you're just here for the sex (and welcome, friend), chapters 4, 12, 18, 19 and 27 are for you~~
After finding out that his father had, shall we say, more than just a hand in the death of the boy he loved, 18-year old Dorian Pavus flees his home with the sole goal of getting as far away from Tevinter as possible, eventually finding himself lost in the inhospitable Frostback Mountains.
Lucky for him, 19-year old Cullen Rutherford, Templar Recruit, is part of the search party sent out to bring him home. Their fates collide when they are trapped together in a cave deep in the Frostbacks, with only each other to rely on for survival, and enough time to bring them close.
But the following decade is hard on the two men - Dorian's father completes his blood ritual, leaving his son irreparably changed, and Cullen's time trapped in Kinloch Hold has instilled in him an unwavering hatred for mages. When their paths cross again in the Inquisition, there's little left of the two boys who had fallen in love in the Frostbacks.
But perhaps they will learn to love and accept one another as they are now, scars and 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
04 Jan 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 for real, and all he has to keep himself sane enough to survive is a beat up old journal.
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“Wow! I can’t accurately express how beautifully this all rolls together now. Amazing.”
“Utterly devastated. This one was so beautiful.”
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- Part 2 of The Lion's Words
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The Blade by Dovahkiir2015
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
30 Dec 2025
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Set during the events of DAI. Two women. One, a noble human who believes she is destined for greatness. The other, an elf who doesn't think she's anything more than a weapon. Both thrown into the Fade, both cast into the path of a danger greater than they could imagine. Both are needed to defeat a foe that is seemingly unbeatable.
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- Part 1 of The Blood, The Bow, The Blade
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The Light You Still Hold by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
29 Dec 2025
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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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Ideologically Incompatible by Calbie
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
27 Dec 2025
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“Can I help?” Without waiting for an answer, he takes the cloth from me and dips it in the water, washing under one arm and sweeping across my chest to the other. My breath catches as he draws the cold fabric over my nipple.
“Dorian…”
“Am I doing it right?” He slides over to the other nipple. “I’ve never washed anyone before. Generally I don’t even have to wash myself. Why don’t you have a mirror, Commander? I’d like to watch you watching me wash you.”
I lean my head back against him. “Are you always this cheerful in the morning?”
He smiles. “I suppose you’ll have to wake up with me more often to find out.”
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Enchanter Dorian Pavus and Commander Cullen Rutherford are the definition of ideologically incompatible - which makes falling in love somewhat awkward.
Featuring Dorian coaxing Cullen through lyrium withdrawal with not a care for his silk shirt, the north/south divide made flesh, romantic snow, the challenges of having sex while wearing full plate armour, and what happens if you threaten to name a Mabari after your beloved.
This is a companion fic to 'Just A Wolf', with the same Inquisitor.
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Dragon Age: Requiem by sneakysnitch99
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
26 Dec 2025
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"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand." - Robert Walton, Frankenstein.
Humanity/ hjuːˈmænəti/ - the capacity to feel, to suffer, to love, and to seek connection, tempered by conscience and the awareness of one’s place in the world.
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In a world forged from ambition, deceit, and the merciless games of crowns and courtiers, two souls meet on the edge of ruin; torn between loyalty, desire, and the perilous machinery of the Grand Game. Love here is but a gentle bloom; it is a fracture, a creation stitched from longing and defiance, beautiful and horrifying in its inevitability. In the hush of Orlesian courts and the shadowed streets of Ferelden, it breaks quietly, irreversibly, and like all things monstrous and magnificent, it leaves only echoes.
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Cullen hasn't been the same since Kinloch. He was tortured by demons and blood mages. How could he be the same man after that?
Now, a decade later, he's part of something he truly believes in again in the Inquisition and he finds himself falling for the Inquisitor.A telling of the romance from Cullen's POV set from the start of In Hushed Whispers through to the end.
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After weeks of receiving no word from Scout Harding about the situation in Emprise du Lion, Inquisitor Melisande Trevelyan sets out with Commander Cullen to check on the military camp established outside of Sahrnia. Sahrnia proves to be even more bleak than they could have expected- soldiers and citizens are going missing, demons and red templars alike run rampant, and red lyrium is poisoning the earth. The red lyrium contaminates what little supplies the Inquisitor's party has, and soon the long-term exposure begins to poison her, her condition worsening rapidly as the winter presses on. Cullen, on the other hand, feels stronger, more capable, more like the templar he was— and he hates every minute of it, knowing it sets back his recovery from his addiction to a point from which he may never return. Desperation tests the loyalty of the Inquisition soldiers stationed in Sarhnia, demonic forces pull strings from the shadows, and the Inquisitor and Cullen are forced to rely on each other like never before in order to survive the winter in the Emprise. As they search for a way to stop the corruption of the red lyrium and liberate the town of Sahrnia, it all comes back to Suledin Keep and a mysterious demon who resides there.
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Fragments of Us by Nunaiswriting
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
22 Dec 2025
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Inquisitor Ophelia Lavellan never asked for power—but war, loss, and duty have made her stronger, and more vulnerable, than she ever expected. Commander Cullen Rutherford stands at her side, steady and distant… until the weight of their pasts begins to draw them closer.
Fragments of Us is a slow-burn, Cullen x Lavellan romance that unfolds between battles and quiet nights. It explores healing, trust, and the kind of love that grows in the silence between two survivors.
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A Dirge of Derangement by Cyclonus_Left_Horn
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
19 Dec 2025
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"Lyrium grants Templars our abilities, but it controls us as well. Those cut off suffer. Some go mad. Others die."
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Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Iwilluptownfunkmyfootupyourass
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
19 Dec 2025
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Ten years.
It had been ten years since Namora last set foot in Fereldan, and she immediately was reminded why when the Temple of Ashes exploded. She hardly remembers the ordeal, but it made sure to leave a physical reminder in the form of a magical mark on her left hand. The same mark that would be the world as she knew it's only hope to be saved from absolute devastation.
10 years was also when she last saw the only man she's ever loved, Cullen Rutherford, and now they'd be reunited in such dire circumstances. Two people that have simultaneously changed a lot and not at all, would their love transcend time and bring them together once again?
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A Lack of Proper Decorum by TheFemPC
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
15 Dec 2025
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Lindiranae of Clan Lavellan had been primed for leadership since the day she became first apprentice, but an unexpected turn of fate sees her don the mantle of authority in a way she never expected. Not only must she guide the Inquisition to victory against Corypheus, but she must also learn to navigate a world that is a stark contrast to the one she knows, and master some of her worst fears in the process.
Cullen Rutherford left behind his life as a Templar, haunted by a bloody past fraught with tragedy and failure. The Inquisition offered a chance to find redemption, but not without cost. Yet despite his own private struggles, he finds a sense of belonging in his new role as Commander of the Inquisition forces.
Although the fate of Thedas hangs in the balance, something wholly unexpected blooms within the strife and conflict. Two stubborn, wilful individuals come together and inadvertently soothe one another's old wounds and open each others minds to their very different worlds, despite a shaky start and a lot of awkwardness.
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Something Out Of The Ordinary by Carako for Settiai
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
14 Dec 2025
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The atoning Commander, with his inner demons.
The traitorous Grey Warden, joking through his pain.
The Hero of Ferelden, long past the Blight.
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Let the sword return to its sheath by IrinaPalmova
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
11 Dec 2025
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Before the young woman’s eyes, fine red lines began to etch themselves into her skin, stretching from her elbow down to her wrist. She could hardly look away, her heart pounding in her chest as the words appeared, written in blood like some sacred covenant.
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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
10 Dec 2025
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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