SK_Morello
Fandoms
- Dragon Age - All Media Types (48)
- Dragon Age (Video Games) (48)
- Dragon Age II (45)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (22)
- Dragon Age: Origins (12)
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No Heroes, Some Problems: Origins by SK_Morello
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
06 Sep 2026
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Sereda Aeducan would have made a good Warden, if the Joining chalice hadn't claimed her as it claimed so many others.
Without her, Alistair climbed the Tower of Ishal alone, and was rescued from certain death, alone. Uncertain and unwilling to step up, he lets himself be pushed and pulled between Morrigan and her mother, a puppet dancing to their tune. Ferelden needs a hero, but it's stuck with him.
Leliana wants to help. Sten wishes to find purpose. Zevran expects to die. Oghren just wants another drink. How do the companions do without a force of nature like the Warden to hold them together? And how far into the dark will Alistair fall before he can't find his way back?
A first in a series of Dragon Age AUs asking what happens to the fate of Thedas if there's no hero driving the story and it's all down to the Companions. A warning - these will get dark.
Series
- Part 1 of No Heroes
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To Shed One's Skin: Awakenings by SK_Morello
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
06 Sep 2026
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Dain Cadash survived the Blight, somehow, and now he's responsible for rebuilding the Ferelden Wardens all alone.
It's a terrible idea, even as he sets off for Vigil's Keep with Harding - his first recruit - and Lucanis, who is delaying heading for Haven on the Chantry expedition for a few more weeks to stay at Dain's side. They arrive to find the Keep under attack, and a strange talking darkspawn in command.
There's a Dalish mage who's escaped the Circle and may or may not have killed her Templar captors, and a resentful noble in the cells. Neither are happy to join Dain, but it's better than the alternatives.
Still, something strange is happening with the darkspawn, and Cadash needs all hands on deck to navigate the twin threats of the Mother and the Architect.
(An AU where all the Companions and Heroes are mixed up to see what changes)
Series
- Part 2 of Companion Swap
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Careful Son, You Got Dreamer's Plans by SK_Morello
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
06 Sep 2026
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Malcolm Hawke had three kids and a stubborn determination to reach Kirkwall.
Lothering had been home for ten long years, the longest he'd been anywhere of his own choosing. He had roots in the village in a way he'd never had before - there were friends, drinking buddies, people who respected his advice about herbalism and botany.
He'd watched Leandra's funeral pyre in the grounds of the Chantry, Bethany clutching his hand, Carver holding hers. Garrett had stood a little way off, watching the pyre burn with the same aching grief. Three kids, two of them who took after him when it came to magic. One who looked like him, joked like him, loved like him. And one who looked so much like her mother it hurt to look at her some days.
When the Blight first crept out of the Wilds, Malcolm knew they had to go.
An AU where Malcolm Hawke is the surviving parent and gets them as far as Kirkwall before the shadow of the Gallows is too long to avoid. Follows Garrett Hawke trying to constantly piece himself back together as he loses his family one by one.
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I've Learned to Live With the Way That it Hurts by SK_Morello
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
06 Sep 2026
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Garrett Hawke knew what he was: a good mage. He also knew that that wasn't enough. Not in Kirkwall, not anywhere.
Burdened by the death of his father and sister and constantly confronted with a weakened Veil in his new city, the certainties that Hawke built his life on have crumbled. As Carver drifts towards the Templars and he befriends dangerous mages he can't help but wonder how long it will take him to falter too.
But he knows the dangers of the Circle, knows what awaits him in the Gallows. When Ketojan suggests mages might be happier under the Qun, it is a thought that grows within him, taking root.
He will never be the same again.
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Too Many Hawkes Ruin Kirkwall by SK_Morello
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
06 Sep 2026
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“Nox - do everyone a favour and shut up?” Freya responded, before switching her attention back to Cullen. “I apologise for my brother, Knight-Captain, he likes to pick fights to make himself feel taller.”
Malcolm and Leandra Hawke loved each other dearly and didn’t know when to quit.
Their oldest, Freya, is tired of being the reasonable one. The one trying to hold the family together whilst cracking jokes to remind everyone it’s not that serious.
It is that serious for Aspen. Kirkwall is no joke for a mage. Especially when your twin brother finds trouble, and Templars, around every corner. Aspen and Lennox Hawke came into the world together. They might very well take each other out of it again - and every one agrees it would be Nox’s fault.
And then there’s the other twins - or at least, the one that survived the flight from Lothering.
Series
- Part 2 of Too Many Heroes
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No Heroes by SK_Morello
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
06 Sep 2026
- Words:
- 8,219
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Companion Swap by SK_Morello
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
06 Sep 2026
- Words:
- 46,421
- Works:
- 2
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Blasphemy by SK_Morello
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
12 Jul 2026
- Words:
- 7,963
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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The Whore of Kirkwall by SK_Morello
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
16 Aug 2026
- Words:
- 89,923
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 3
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Too Many Heroes by SK_Morello
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
06 Sep 2026
- Words:
- 143,454
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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Alistair has a lyrium brand that keeps him from getting off. Tabris doesn't know.
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Zevran is tired of Kieren being constantly flirted with, and sets out to remind his lover just who exactly he belongs to.
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Tabris might be more upset about Alistair's rough childhood than Alistair is.