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we carry the future (it turns to dust in our hands) by circle123
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
12 Sep 2024
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“I left the Order, when I joined the Inquisition. I’m not a templar anymore.”
“You’re not?” she asks. “Prove it.”
A fireball flares in her palm, the white-hot shriek of it contained but ready to launch. He is all reaction, practiced movements shifting into a defensive stance, hands ready to clap together in a silence. She can smell his lyrium in the air.
Banishing the magic, she says, “You can take the man out of the Order, I guess.”
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Evelyn and Cullen remake the world.
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a desperate light that since has died by carnalapples
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
25 Aug 2022
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Her gaze begins to drift, and it feels like a door being closed, and Cullen is running out of time to fix an endless number of things. It’s the other side of the same coin, and it’s sheer dumb luck.
Moments between Cullen and the Inquisitor as they learn to navigate a world that's changing quickly and not quick enough.
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Cullen's lyrium withdrawals get worse, and cause his past to collide violently with his present. And in the middle lies his burgeoning relationship with the Inquisitor. A rewrite/expansion of the quests Perseverance and Happier Times.
content warnings are for Cullen's hallucinations/flashbacks/nightmares, I included a lot to cover my bases but I don't think they're too bad. chapter 1 is rated M for some gruesome descriptions and some sexual tension, chapter 2 is rated E for slightly more in-depth trauma but also the comfort part of the hurt/comfort mix.
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Few Against the Wind by WaitingForDogot
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
12 Dec 2025
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"I’ve never told anyone what truly happened to me at Ferelden’s Circle. I was… not myself after that. I was angry. For years, that anger blinded me. I’m not proud of the man that made me."
"The way I saw mages… I’m not sure I would have cared about you, and the thought of that sickens me.
Lyrium withdrawal and the realization that he's desperately in love with the Inquisitor has left Cullen raw. Vulnerable. The horror of his past keeps intruding into his present, and he can't help but wonder whether he's been carrying it with him in more ways than one- whether his desires are his own, or something darker that controls and compels him from deep within his subconsciousness.
He needs to address it— he needs to come clean in order to move on— but will he lose the woman he loves in the process? Will he lose her to something (or someone) else before he can gather the courage to act?
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- Part 2 of The Cadence of His Heart
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Catarina Lewis' world turned upside down, so she ignored it. Until the day she found herself in Thedas. Now she is being swept into adventure after crazy adventure with friends who make life and death into a daily game. The more she learns of herself, the less certain she is of what she wants. Her knowledge of Thedas may come in handy, but everyone she meets is so much more than their character portrayals, and trust is easier said than given. The future she doesn't know seems worse than the one she does-- it is worth trying to change things, especially when she can't know if it will be for the better?
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You call this fun?!
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Chapter 1: A Timely Distraction
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“I have… not seen many shemlen before now.”
He looks around at the three of them: the spymaster, poised and perceptive, the diplomat with her clipboard and coiffed smile, and the military leader, large frame paused in a warrior’s rest.
“Well, you’ve certainly gotten a decent amount of exposure by now.” Josephine’s smile meets her eyes sweetly. “What do you think?”
They are strange. Loud. Frank. Earnest. Saven eyes the warrior’s hulking mantle. “You are large.”
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Amantes Sub Rosa by LyricalLyrium
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
06 Jul 2025
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“I’m keeping you safe,” Cullen said, his voice rough, and she licked her lips.
“Safety means nothing without freedom,” Solona shot back, her own voice trembling with emotion. Seemingly unconsciously, she leaned closer to him.
“And freedom means nothing if you get this circle annulled,” he replied. He had the sense that neither of them was paying any attention to the conversation.
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As the youngest Knight-Commander and First Enchanter in Kinloch Hold’s history, Cullen Rutherford and Solona Amell navigate running the Circle, politics, and being completely and desperately in love.
AU in which the Blight never happened, Solona never became a Warden, and Uldred didn’t exist.
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He's Not Okay - Act 1 by nekojinrogue
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
18 Nov 2023
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This is part of a series that will tell Cullin Rutherford's story, from Origins through DA2 and Inquisition.
This is my take on Cullin's story and his involvement on the sidelines and how his character developes over time.
Warnings will increase as the story progresses. For now, there will be plenty of gore and violence, demons, bloodmages, torture and PTSD. There will be some references to demonic non/con, but it will not be graphic.
Later in the series, the ratings may rise to Explicit, but not for a while. Poor Cullin has been too traumatized for love any time soon.Series
- Part 2 of Saga Of A Templar
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Circle mage Amamiya's Rite of Tranquility awaits. Templar Knight-Captain Akechi is conflicted, to say the least.
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- Part 17 of Zine Fics
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Rice by EverythingIsAlreadyTaken
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
08 Jan 2023
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Inquisitor Nolvarra Lavellan catches Cullen eating stale bread, and she can’t have that.
“But… Can’t you just have something brought up?”
She looked at him very seriously, “More bread?”
“Fresh, not stale,” he said confidently, like he’d found a solution.
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- Part 1 of Nolvarra Lavellan
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Cullen Rutherford is tightly wound, and that damned Tevinter mage is twisting him tighter.
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rivers of bitter certainty by carnalapples
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
17 Mar 2023
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“Do you ever think what life might have been like, had you not been at the Conclave?”
Trevelyan, Cullen, and four other lives. In-Thedas AUs.
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Viscount Marlowe Dumar has put together a group tasked with keeping the peace in the political shit-show that is Kirkwall. As the threat of the Mage Investigation Agency looms over the city, Garrett Hawke and the Kirkwall Crime Bureau are pulled into a web of messy situations when their newest member's past comes back to haunt him.
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Ever in Service by Goldberry_Bombadil
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Frozen (Disney Movies), Dragon Age (Video Games)
28 Sep 2025
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Cullen Rutherford is sent on a mission on behalf of the Inquisition to retrieve the disgraced Queen of Ferelden, Elsa Theirin, who fled Denerim after revealing her magic to her court accidentally.
With the Landsmeet only two months away, Elsa is willing to take drastic measures - even finally marry - to keep her crown. Only… Elsa has never been impressed with the eligible noble Ferelden bachelors. Without forewarning, Leliana offers up the hand of Cullen Rutherford, who, despite his lack of noble heritage, is a former Templar who can appease the nobility's concerns about Elsa's magic.
Cullen, his life ever in service to causes greater than himself, accepts.
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Once Upon A Dream by love_in_nature
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
30 Jan 2022
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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
Emma Carpenter was just your average woman. She was married, worked at a bookstore, and was close to graduating as a Lit major. Until she came upon a strange light on her morning jog.
Now Emma finds herself thrown into Thedas. A world in the midst of chaos, where magic exists and the line between dreaming and reality is blurred.
Fate has her meeting a woman named Ivy who the people of Thedas call the Herald. Through Ivy, she is pulled into a group called The Inquisition. Despite herself, she starts to become attached to the people there, most strongly to an elf mage with secrets of his own.
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- Part 1 of Emma and Solas
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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
Emma Carpenter was just your average woman. She was married, worked at a bookstore, and was close to graduating as a Lit major. Until she came upon a strange light on her morning jog.
Now Emma finds herself thrown into Thedas. A world in the midst of chaos, where magic exists and the line between dreaming and reality is blurred.
Fate has her meeting a woman named Ivy who the people of Thedas call the Herald. Through Ivy, she is pulled into a group called The Inquisition. Despite herself, she starts to become attached to the people there, most strongly to an elf mage with secrets of his own.
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Safe & Sound by Polkadotdotdot
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
01 Mar 2025
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“This world will try and take your spirit. It will make you hard as ice if you let it. Don’t, my girl. You need to be the light when all other lights go out.”
Evelyn doesn’t hate Templars on principle, but it's ridiculous that this one has her feeling like a lovesick trainee, despite her being the only hope Thedas has of closing the breach and stopping a would-be god from destroying all they know. Cullen, on the other hand, can't understand how a mage of a fallen circle can be so kind to him when he doesn't know how to be kind to himself.
Courtship would be far easier if it wasn't for the small matter of saving the world.
Evelyn Trevelyan and Cullen Rutherford, from beginning and beyond.
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Saga Of A Templar by nekojinrogue
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins
10 Oct 2025
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A series of stories all following Cullen from Kinloch Hold to the Inquisition.
Warnings will increase as the collection grows and each story builds upon the last one.- Words:
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Cocktails and Cheese by Aurlana
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
13 Mar 2022
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Alistair is the owner of a cheesy bar in downtown Denerim. Commander Cullen is a police detective from the other side of town. Both men go through the motions of their day-to-day lives, not realizing that something essential is missing.
After a chance meeting and some casual flirting; will these two find that little spark of attraction enough to break free from their humdrum existence and lead them down the path towards true happiness?
Welcome to my Thedas!
As cliche' as it sounds, I woke up one morning with an image in my head: Alistair standing behind a bar, flirting shamelessly with a handsome, blonde, curly-haired detective. (Guess who?) Since the image couldn't be captured properly with the stick-figures that I am so adept at drawing, I decided to put pen to paper and run with this idea.
Thank you for coming along for the ride. I hope you enjoy!
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- Part 1 of Cocktails & Cheese Universe
- Part 5 of Alistair Appreciation Week Submissions 2017
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The Light in His Head on His Skin by kokoshka67, whatsanapocalae
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games)
01 Dec 2025
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Everyone scattered, after The Chantry was destroyed in Kirkwall, but Fenris, Aveline, Merrill, and Isabela rush back together when there's a sighting of a gangly blond mage in Templar custody. They work together to find Anders, in the dregs of a ruined old Chantry in the middle of nowhere, but, as it always is when it's important, they're too late, and what they find is a tortured and starved to death corpse, the Tranquil brand in its forehead, in a room of dead Templars. Or so they think. But Anders clings to life and the Rite of Tranquility had failed, and they have to work together to heal the healer, while Fenris tries to figure out what to do about the one night they spent together, before Fenris' memories had driven them apart.
Art in Chapter 8 by kokoshka67 (on Tumblr and Bluesky)
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Life in the Ostwick Circle was cruel and oppressive and Evelyn Trevelyn swears she will never be under a Templar's control again.
But a late-night encounter with the Commander of her army, an ex-Templar, leaves the Inquisitor with complicated feelings over the new tenor of their relationship.
All she knows for certain is that she doesn't want it to stop.
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