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Stay Awhile by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
13 Mar 2026
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Amell reaches Skyhold soon after the Inquisitor is back from Halamshiral,
It puts Lavellan's relationship with Cullen under an interrogative point: They kissed three times, what's that against a shared past, a common culture and trauma bonding? For Lavellan, the only solution is leaving first.
As Skyhold turns snowy, the two must learn to communicate. And a small new spell may even help. -
We Should Stop Meeting This Way by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Inquisition
05 Mar 2026
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Mahariel gets captured by Clarel's men, as she's travelling through Orlais and the Calling distracts her.
As she's reflecting over her situation, and gaining as many informations she can from her jailor, she gets saved by an impromptu and unhoped for, but still very welcomed, saviour.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,820
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 28
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Dust if you Must by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
23 Feb 2026
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Too many months after the end of the Sixth Blight, it's a damp summer in Treviso.
As Lucanis is trying to convince Spite that he really can't do anything about the heath, and reflecting on where life took them, they receive an unexpected visit.And a possible second chance to a life of his own.
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- English
- Words:
- 3,040
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 17
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Ashes and Sparks by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
31 Jan 2026
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Modern AU: Events of Dragon Age II and Dragon Age Inquisition, without Corypheus around.
When Solas woke up, he was dead-set to go along with his plan. Particularly after three Dalish clans told him off, and he settled in Kirkwall, only to discover that the city was caught in a political war about whether to reinstall a Circle of Magi, after centuries since the Chantry declared them abolished.
Everything changed when he took pity on two stranded children, and decided to get his plan on pause. An orb in the back of his office, an annoying dwarf mocking him in his house, he postponed everything until Aisling and Dorian would be grown up and had lived a long life.Things won't probably go according to plan.
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Helping Hand by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Jan 2026
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Two times in Haven when Lavellan and Commander Rutherford found some common ground where they thought there was none.
Featuring an infirmary, Lavellan not knowing what to make of her paycheck, a stressed up Adan, and Apricot the Halla.
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Deck the Halls by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
30 Dec 2025
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"The Titans' dreams are mad from their imprisonment. I cannot kill the Blight, but I can help to soothe its anger."
Seven years after the Sixth Blight, Niamh Lavellan Rutherford is still thinking about one single sentence she was told. And as a young Somniari who wants desperately to do something useful and take her place in the world, she decides she may do something about it.
So, when a proposal about the future comes her way, she's quick in saying no to the Mourn Watch and yes to a position in a Minrathous still a bit in chaos and rebuilding.But when a newly met rival, named Cicero, starts to pick on her too much, she decides her plan may need to be set in place quicker than she thought. Who cares if the stupid Cicero counts four (or five, they can't never remember) Archons up their bloodline, she's more than ready to show them all her real value.
There's only the usual First Day party in the middle, and mamae Lavellan already told her: "I made you and I will unmake you if you don't show up".
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- Part 9 of A Tune for the Journeyman's Tale
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Hard Times in Havenstown by deathmallow, stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
06 Nov 2025
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Chicago, 1930. The city’s both broke and broken, and for many, hope’s gone up in smoke. When two mysterious deaths shake Havenstown, nurse Clerra Trevelyan, a healer with wounds of her own, and PI Cullen Rutherford, a man who strives to help but guards his secrets closely, are drawn together by the case. Together, they’ll chase the truth from the lowest shantytown to the highest halls, sort hard truths from whispered lies, and discover that both justice and love don't come easily.
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Lumina Noctis by bygonesigh, stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Oct 2025
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As though to heighten the thick humidity that Dock Town steeps in, unwanted summer rain comes in irregular waves, catching many off guard. It was moments like these that reminded everyone that years of living in Dock Town didn't matter, the city would always find ways to surprise you.
Like this damn hot rain that only serves to bring this part of Minrathous into a boil. We are all simmering in slow-cooked stew as Upper City vultures wait to pick carrion off our weary, brittle bones.
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There's always trouble happening in Dock Town, and detective Neve Gallus will be on the job. Day or night; rain or shine, she's there.
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Gallus & Ghilly, Private Eye by stridingcorgi, Taxy
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Oct 2025
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Two years ago, Ghilan’nain agreed to turn against Elgar’nan and help save the world on one condition: she will accompany Neve Gallus for the remainder of the detective’s mortal life. The mother of monsters refused to explain herself, but given the stakes, Neve could hardly refuse. “Whatever it takes,” right?
Neve has settled into an awkward tolerance of this dubious arrangement by burying herself in her work. Yet under all the grumbling, she finds herself beginning to appreciate Ghilly’s attempts to take care of her.
And Ghilly knows it.
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Written for the Dragon Age Reverse Bang 2025, with art by the wonderful StridingCorgi, aka GreyPetrel! https://linktr.ee/greypetrel -
Dead Ringer by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
18 Oct 2025
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After dealing with Bartrand Tethras in Act II, Hawke needs... Something. She doesn't know what, exactly.
Ridden by guilt and fear that her best friend will now hate her, she looks for help and comfort from the one person that openly told her not to want any kind of attachment.
Unfortunately, it starts feeling like attachment enough. -
Just Me. by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
08 Oct 2025
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The Emprise du Lion is taking a toll on everyone. Caught with some anxiety before the siege of Suledin Keep, Lavellan seeks an excuse to go scouting the Keep on her own, one last time.
When she accidentally steps on a bear trap, forgotten by some long-fled hunter and hidden in the snow, she has little else to do than waiting for help.
When Cullen finds her and frees her, there's a deeper discussion to be found, that the need to communicate her whereabouts to her own Commander and partner.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,585
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 18
- Hits:
- 233
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When the Time Came by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
11 Jul 2025
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Tamlen is finally ready to give his bonding gift to Mahariel.
After all, they've been friends for all their lives, their relationship turned physical and all the clan expects them to bond, one day. What better moment than in ancient ruins they'll be praised for discovering?
Mahariel, tho, may have second-guessings to make.A retelling, tweaking canon just a tiny bit for the dramah, of the Dalish Elf origin.
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- English
- Words:
- 3,097
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 23
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For Duty by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
20 May 2025
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After the Architect and Mother had been defeated, Mahariel has no time to bask in the feelings of having finally found a place for her own, when she receives a visit from Alistair.
It's the chance to finally sit down and discuss of past hurt, past mistakes and regret, and still lingering feelings for each other, and the third person in the mix, after some sightings near a certain hut deep in the Korcari Wilds.A fix-it fic to tie ends down on Mahariel/Alistair, and introduce Witch Hunt.
(it may be updated with further chapters, flashbacks and going further with the story.)- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,937
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 69
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Nightswimming by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
03 May 2025
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While visiting clan Lavellan in Wycome, Cullen has a nightmare.
To help him calm down, from both the nightmare and understanding that a Dalish clan is not the best place in the world if you want to keep your privacy, Aisling brings him down by the sea.
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- Part 8 of A Tune for the Journeyman's Tale
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Time and Stars by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
28 Apr 2025
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On the road to Honnleath, Lavellan and Cullen share a tend and a bed for the first time.
Expectations are clearly not met, or they both are to worried to make the first move.
Stars and a horse help them a little.Series
- Part 7 of A Tune for the Journeyman's Tale
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,392
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 296
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Leave at Dawn by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
01 Feb 2025
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Morrigan is ready to leave.
She built a life in Vigil's Keep, travelling less, with Mahariel and Kieran. As the storm approaches and the voices of the Well keeps getting more insistent, she must take action, once again.This time, Mahariel has to stay back.
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The Sixteenth Time by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
15 Jan 2025
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Neve Gallus is trying to wrap her head around Rook.
Once it could have been a mishap. Twice, it's normal. Thrice, it can happen. But fifteen time are too many for a warrior to leave her back open, seemingly only when Neve's around. So what do you do? Investigate on the subject.The sixteenth time it happens, with no more hunches on the motive for such a behaviour, Neve snaps.
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First Day's Carol by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
30 Dec 2024
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Three First Days in time when Niamh Rutherford decided to take matters in her own hands.
Because First Days are there to be spent with all the family together, and if a silly Dread Wolf keeps missing and no one comes looking, she may as well do so.
Nothing bad will happen, if you're a Dreamer, your mamae was the Inquisitor and you overheard her talk about magical theory all your life, right? Right?
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- Part 6 of A Tune for the Journeyman's Tale
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She of Many Names by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
08 Dec 2024
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Not all you've heard of the Dark Lord of Mordor may be the truth. As a start, it may be that we have to deal with a Dark Lady, whose main mistake had always been being more interested in experimenting on magic and possibilities than in actual politics.
Things may change, when two Hobbits entered from the Black Gate, found nothing they would expected Mordor to be -surely not a welcoming place where Orcs were more busy trying to plant and grow greens than actually conquering the world- and started to realise that the real problem was another wannabe-evil overlord... Who as so many before him had been fooled by a very bad translation on the inscription on a certain Ring.(Someone commented under one of my illustrations that my canon Inquisitor, a Lavellan who cries at every dragon she slays and would resolve problems offering people food if she could, had "the eye of Sauron". I imagined her in Sauron's place and chaos ensued. Said chaos made me laugh too much to leave it in my head, apparently.
LotR, but with Dragon Age characters because yes.) -
A Testament, a Prophecy by stridingcorgi
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age - All Media Types
15 Nov 2024
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CW: King Alistair, a façade marriage, mentions of death and dead bodies. Polyamory, a very consensual open relationship.
Mahariel didn't want to kill Loghain. But as much as things in her life goes, she had to. It's a chance to reflect about her life, a possible future after the Blight. A testament to what she can achieve if she puts her mind into it, if she challenge everyone and enters politics... And a prophecy of what's her destiny if she fails.
Two times when Mahariel chose politics, and one when she took a possible crazy bet against her Order.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,750
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 4
- Hits:
- 75