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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.
An attempt to touch on and maybe expand upon my take on Cullen's PTSD from Kinloch.
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Deeper than the Ocean Itself by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
11 Sep 2025
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The Inquisition is done, the battle is won. The only thing to do now is continue. But Cullen Rutherford is only a shell of the man he once was, lyrium claiming more pieces of his body and his mind with each day. On a journey to Val Chevin, his ship wrecks upon the Waking Sea and Cullen finds himself at the mercy of the waves. Until a creature known as a siren rescues him and reminds him of what it means to be brave. [AU, semi-canon compliant]
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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
08 Sep 2025
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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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- Part 2 of The Lion's Words
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Prayer & Retribution by LoreOfThedas
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
30 Aug 2025
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Submissions for Rutherest 2025
Day 1 (Friday, August 29th): Friends, Faith, and Family
After overhearing a conversation between two Templars, Cullen reports it to Meredith who dismisses him immediately. In response, Cullen takes more lyrium than permitted and spirals before the Maker's Bride.Day 2 (Saturday, August 30th): Demons and Duty
When old thinking patterns arise, Cullen is met with what he believes to be divine retribution.Series
- Part 5 of Writing Challenges
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Cullen spent his life devoted to the Templar Order and to the Chantry. Where did that get him?
Now, in the dark of night, he's trading one devotion for another.Series
- Part 2 of Rutherfest 2025
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When Anders was in solitary he begged for any sort of attention. Even from a lost young templar in a broken circle.
Now Cullen is the Knight Captain of Kirkwall. And wants to renew things with his favorite reluctant mageSeries
- Part 7 of Black Emporium 2025
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Inquisition - The Lion Of Ferelden - Act 4 - Part 2 by nekojinrogue
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Aug 2025
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Continuation of Saga Of A Templar
Cullen Rutherford has issues.
He has been demon possessed, he has been tortured, he has been turned on and abandoned and forsaken by those he trusted, those he cared about, those he worshiped.
He has also has found true friends where he least expected them.Cullen is now the Teyrn of Western Ferelden and serving the Inquisition. He has forsaken the templar Order and founded his own order of the Verumque where mages and knights are treated as equals and work together toward a common cause - To Serve Ferelden. Or, that's the intention.
His demon Wrath has now become Valor after making an accord with a feral mabari lost in the Frostback mountains. Valor is at Cullen's side as his guard and companion now.
Cullen is still restling with his remaining demon which he has named Reverie. He's realizing his mistake.Can his companions help him find true freedom and salvation before the Elder One comes for him?
Will they even figure out what he truly suffers from?
Can he even ask for the help he needs?Posts will come a bit slower for this part.
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- Part 6 of Saga Of A Templar
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(Fix Your) Broken Parts; Swallow Them Whole by The_Drowsy_Captain
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
19 Aug 2025
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A defeated Raleigh Samson is taken prisoner by the Inquisition after the battle in the Arbor Wilds. He wanted to die on the overgrown cobblestone; unfortunately, Cullen Rutherford and Melora Lavellan don't give a flying rat. Even the Inquisitor, his enemy won't let him die, entrusting him to Melora's care to recover from his addiction - a (willing) sacrifice to construct a treatment plan for any red Templars who can be saved. Samson is determined to make them regret it.
Somewhere along the way, he begins to forget his goal.
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you’re not like other mages by chronic_chirper
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
13 Aug 2025
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Of all of the inane things Commander Cullen could have said, “you’re not like other mages” found its home right at the top of the Unofficial Greatest Hits List of Shitty Things he had said to the Herald since she’d arrived in Haven three months ago — a seemingly insurmountable feat. At least no one could accuse him of half-assing things. Cullen gave a hundred and ten percent to literally everything.
The worst part about the entire thing was, it had been intended as a compliment.
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A collection of one-shots depicting key moments leading up to the relationship between tiny Inquisitor Damiana Lavellan and the esteemed Commander Cullen Rutherford.
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A Thing Yet Unnamed by OpalApparition
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Jul 2025
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Cullen has spent months balancing on the razor's edge of his own broken pieces, keeping Dorian at arm's length to protect them both. But when the truth finally spills out, Dorian proves he's far less fragile than Cullen feared, and far more willing to help him piece himself back together.
A DA Kinkmeme fill.
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Too Sweet For Me by Kayundae
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
01 Jul 2025
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Teon Wystan is invited to a Fresher’s week party by his old childhood friend, Ewan Trevelyan. Drunk shenanigans ensue and he wakes up in bed with a complete stranger. Worse, the stranger is in fact a Templar. Even worse than that, he’s hot.
Modern Thedas AU
(Smut marked with *)
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- Part 3 of Our Blood Runs Like a River
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Things were different in the weeks following the fall of Haven. Sure, the Inquisitor still worked hard for her people. Helping far more than should be physically possible. But Cullen could see the tinge of sadness in her eyes. The way her smile was dimmed. And how any time she found herself alone with him, she quickly turned and ran the other way.
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- Part 3 of Commander Rutherford if You Please
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"There were many ex-Templars in the Inquisition, to Erika’s distaste, but there was only one Templar, with a capital T. The Templar, though from Kirkwall, was infamous even at Ostwick, one of the few whose name all mages in the Free Marches knew. Knight-Captain Cullen. Everyone always used to say his name like it was one word: Knightcaptaincullen. He belonged to that illustrious category of Templars, to whom their regular self-righteousness was insufficient, and new and inventive kinds had to be devised on the daily."
A mage!Trevelyan/Cullen romance where they both have a lot of issues, most of which will only be exacerbated in this fic.
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- Part 2 of Mala in Se
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Beyond the Veil by nuhre
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
14 May 2025
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After having a car accident, Imogen Wrenfield wakes up in a world that isn't quite her own. Without being able to speak the language and faced with magic and other dangers she has no idea how to deal with, she tries her best to navigate this strange place and find her way home.
But things don't always go according to plan, and soon Imogen finds herself caught in the middle of a brewing war.
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- Part 1 of Echoes of the Veil
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The Rite of Tranquility & Other Moral Crises by Quillful (QuillfulWriter)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
04 May 2025
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Dorian lived a simple life before, where his father was a good man and he'd never be subject to unfair circumstances. Running away to the Inquisition meant dealing with ugly reality and a particularly handsome man. In this case, at the same time.
The Inquisitor rendered Livius Erimond Tranquil. The mages were outraged. Cullen wanted a veteran Templar and mage to diffuse the tension, and he wanted Dorian to be the mage.
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and though i burn (how could i fall?) by CarnivalsoftheCity
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
19 Apr 2025
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There was never a way of knowing before her how his body could feel under the touch of another. She is a balm to a wound he wasn’t aware he had, a solve to the loneliness he knew but had not worried gaped within him. The Inquisitor is just a woman, but it is a miracle that he hasn’t crumbled under the rapturous weight of her touch.
Cullen is terrified of it most days. This thing that they have created is stronger than anything he has ever felt, and also so fragile that he is convinced that one day he will blunder into it and it will shatter. Like he has just now.
(or, in which cullen can almost let himself feel pleasure, except for all the times he can't)
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- Part 2 of a lifetime rolls by
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The Mage Trevelyan: The Major Arcana by Vpelno
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
15 Apr 2025
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We all know the story; the war, the breach, the Inquisition. Now told from the perspective of the Inquisitor, the Commander and Corypheus.
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Hidden Truths and Masked Desires by asianhero
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
31 Mar 2025
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Though it had been ten years since Cullen had last seen the Hero of Ferelden, his traitorous heart never let him forget the pain and guilt that came with loving her. While attempting to atone for his past sins, of which he is sure he'll never fully absolve himself from, he's met with a familiar face in the depths of the Orlesian court.
Though, he's unsure if seeing Eliana Amell here, of all places, is a blessing in disguise, or a disaster waiting to happen.
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He Is Not Mine To Claim by runesAndTunes
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
21 Mar 2025
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Maker have mercy, Cullen silently begged, for he was weak to the vision before him.
Cullen watched, feet frozen to the ground of the bath chambers as Carver, completely nude, lathered himself absently. He was methodic, almost tedious in his movements— his mind seemingly elsewhere. Cullen thanked the Maker that his back was turned lest he catch sight of whatever stricken mess Cullen was.
Cullen knows, he knows he shouldn't indulge this. But when has he ever been able resist Carver, really?
A collection of moments between Cullen and Carver prior to them getting together. Each chapter is stand alone and not necessarily chronological.
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- Part 3 of Lyrium and Longing
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More Than You Know by Quillful (QuillfulWriter)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
06 Feb 2025
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Someone leaves a dead cat at Dorian's door. He returns the favor in an excruciating manner, using necromancy to transfer the pain of the creature to the perpetrator. Cullen strives to save Dorian from losing himself to the justified revenge.