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Free Falling by aetherflowers
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
28 Jun 2025
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After Kirkwall's Chantry was destroyed, the city was caught in the middle of the mages and templars waging war. With too many wounded and too few healers, they accept an offer from the Ostwick Circle to send aid. Yvette Trevelyan is all too eager to see the city her cousin, the Champion of Kirkwall, wrote about in his letters. She's used to sneaking away from her overseers, and she goes straight to the Hanged Man. There are rumors the Champion himself still appears there, and she isn't the only one who's looking for him. Even if he doesn't show, she's still determined to have a good time. When you're a Circle mage, you have to make every moment of freedom count.
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- Part 1 of Yvette Trevelyan
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In Waking Dreams by AParisianShakespearean
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
28 Mar 2022
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They fall in love slowly during the war at the height of the Inquisition. During their romance, the former Circle mage and former templar discover they love one another as more than the Commander and Inquisitor, more than the rose that survived and endured the winter, and more than a forgotten goddess of old. Then war, like everything, ends. They dream of dawn after stars.
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The love story between Inquisitor Lydia Trevelyan and her Commander. As the Inquisition begins and unravels, so do their own personal struggles, issues, torrid pasts, and feelings for one another. Sprinklings of other characters here and there. Slightly diverges from canon. Rated E for later chapters.Series
- Part 1 of Dreams
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After the mysterious death of Senior Enchanter Lydia, Thalia Trevelyan is summoned by the Knight-Captain for questioning.
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- Part 2 of The Ostwick Circle
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A Series Of Rebuttals, or The Herald Responds to the Inner Circle's Testimony on the Problem of Mages by jenny_of_oldstones
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
03 Sep 2017
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Being the Inquisitor and a mage isn't easy. It's even harder when friends and colleagues are less than prudent with their opinions.
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The Hate That's in Your Head by Ember_Keelty
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Inquisition
21 Mar 2020
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Cullen has an affair of sorts with Solona Amell in Kinloch Hold. It does not end well.
Twelve years later, one of Solona's older sisters and a child who looks just like she did go searching for their family amid the chaos of the mage rebellion.
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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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Teldirthalelan by Akari_Chaan
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
18 Dec 2025
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In a freak twist of fate, after killing Ghilan’nain and unleashing a lethal amount of magic, Rook does not find herself in the Prison of Regrets. Instead, the magic creates a pseudo-rift and spits her out the other side.
Stuck in the past, she has several options but only one real conclusion: the Inquisition had done fine the first time. They certainly didn’t need her assistance. The fate of the Veil still hung in the balance, and she had vowed to keep it there by any means necessary. Solas had been helpful up to this point, but she’d known he was plotting—scheming to escape his prison.
He had used blood magic on her. He’d hurt Varric. He’d cheerfully kill her given half a chance. This younger version hasn’t done anything yet… and doesn’t know to be wary of her. Rook wasn’t above using him, and then killing him with his back turned.
What was the Dalish saying? May the Dread Wolf take you? Not if Rook took him first.
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Ch 12
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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
19 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.