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and though i burn (how could i fall?) by CarnivalsoftheCity
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
19 Dec 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 3 of a lifetime rolls by (maeve trevelyan)
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17 Jan 2026
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Mountains Go Into Labor by IsiloAranel
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
13 Jan 2025
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Modest in temper, bold in deed.
That was the motto of House Trevelyan. But as a mage in the Ostwick Circle, Evelyn Trevelyan would only ever be able to fulfill the first half. Boldness was not something the world wanted from a mage. Evelyn had long accepted this fact, even as she dreamed of freedom, if only a fraction of the freedom others enjoyed. When a mage destroyed a Chantry in Kirkwall, starting what would become the Templar-Mage War, Evelyn found herself thrust into a world that required boldness not only for survival, but for the savior it saw in the Herald of Andraste. Can an ex-templar teach her to trust herself and the boldness he sees hidden deep inside?
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06 Jan 2026
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The Fall of the Order by Luaithe
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
13 Aug 2018
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Kirkwall. City of Chains. And the Gallows - stronghold of Templar might in the Free Marches - welcomes every new arrival from the Waking Sea. It is 9:30 Dragon. Seven years before tragedy strikes first Kirkwall, and then Thedas. Cullen Rutherford of the Templar Order arrives at the forbidding stronghold a changed man. The horrors he suffered in Kinloch Hold have reformed him into a man utterly convinced of the dangers of magic and wholly committed to protecting people from it, whatever the sacrifice. Knight-Commander Meredith sees a kindred soul, and the broken templar becomes Knight-Captain, second-in-command of one of the strictest Circles in Thedas.
The Templar Order is as secretive as it is proud. Behind the Champion's tale, the Templar Order had its own part to play out. How do events in Kirkwall lead to the fall of the Templar Order?
--A behind-the-scenes fiction of DAII featuring the Templar Order from the perspective of Knight-Captain Cullen--
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- Part 2 of Tale of a Templar
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14 Aug 2025
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living Gallows.
Serious, thoughtful, masterpiece. -
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Set during Act 2 of Inquisition. Cullen, who has never before been aware in the Fade, finds himself in Solona Amell's dreams. In the waking world, she's alone in the Deep Roads and in need of companionship. He's happy to oblige.
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14 Aug 2025
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The Making of a Templar by Luaithe
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
14 May 2018
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A young boy watches the templars in his village train and makes a decision. He too will dedicate himself to a life of service as a peacekeeper and champion of the just. But fate is rarely kind.
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- Part 1 of Tale of a Templar
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23 Jul 2025
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Ars Moriendi by LyricalLyrium
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
20 Jun 2018
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Amell knows she's dying. On her final stop in Ferelden before going to the Deep Roads, she finds Cullen, alone and in the end stages of lyrium addiction. With no one to turn to, and her Calling a constant reminder of her own mortality, she does what she can to help him come back. Edited with some major chapter re-writes as of February 2025.
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- English
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- 29,315
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- 13/13
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09 Jun 2025
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The Lion's Words by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age
04 May 2025
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Cullen Rutherford keeps a journal throughout DA:Inquisition. He struggles with lyrium withdrawals, guilt, and trauma, while desperately trying to keep the Inquisition from falling apart.
"so poignant...it's heartbreaking."
"My god, this fic is absolutely phenomenal."
"far more intelligent than some...best sellers."
"legitimately one of the best character studies I've ever read."
"It's become a fandom classic - something that i'll be able to come back to time and time again and enjoy it even more each time."
"This is absolutely, fucking brilliant."
"It's Canon in my head now."
"Your writing style is beautiful and you get into cullen's character and personality so, so well. I adore it, honesty"
"I demand more! It's so good!"
"...extremely refreshing. I dearly wish more people wrote Cullen like this"
NO AI TRAINING: Without limiting the author’s exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.
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- Part 1 of The Lion's Words
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- English
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- 139,526
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- 161/161
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28 Nov 2024
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Outstanding.
meticulously written details and very well thought out dreamsDo not read part 2!
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Second Chances by AnnaeraStrange
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
08 Nov 2024
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21 Nov 2024
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A New Start by AnnaeraStrange
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
24 Jul 2024
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Later, when Cullen is looking through his notes and adding to his uncontrollable to-do list, he reads her name again, absently scratching it with his quill next to Dagna’s at the Undercroft on his map of the Castle because it doesn’t make sense to put her anywhere else.
Kirstin McGarrie – Lyrium Engineer.
He doesn’t know it yet but that name is important.
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- Part 1 of Second Chances
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20 Nov 2024
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It haunted him still, as it likely would for the rest of his life, the things he had said to Gregoir after the events at Kinloch Hold. He found himself wondering often these days about the turn his life might have taken if he had stayed there and let his fear consume him, if he would have become as cruel and unfeeling as Meredith was now, if he would have hardened entirely.
He had made many mistakes, but perhaps leaving Ferelden wasn’t one of them.
Cullen in Kirkwall, finding his way back home.
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03 Sep 2024
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Quantum Life by Muckenfusser (Pathofdots), Pathofdots
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
16 Jul 2022
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MBIT story that takes place in game - then ---not
An untypical twist to cannon story. Everything in the game happens pretty much as scripted 'out loud' in a Female mage Trevelyan cannon scene play through as Bioware drafted. That is key to this story.
Did you ever wonder why sometimes the scenes feel odd - like there is something unsaid. Like the characters are kept from saying what they really really want to say. Especially Cullen - that sweet barely stuttering mess at the beginning who can barely go after what he really wants?
Inspired by a deep dive into Quantum Leap and Total Recall.
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25 Aug 2024
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The Silver Lining by Decim
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Nov 2019
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Everyone around her seemed incomprehensibly eager to have the rebel mages close the Breach. Never mind that it made her a funnel in some magical experiment, one that they didn't know for sure would even work. No, much better if they found the templars instead - for herself and for Myca. Yet it was only the suspicious commander who shared this view. Suddenly she had a reason to get on his good side.
Canon friendly re-imagining of templar-sided DA:I. POV Cullen and Elsa Trevelyan — a noble girl with a secret who is more familiar with the Game than with combat. Gradual build with a lot of character development, fleshing out of game events, and between-the-scenes detail.
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- 64/64
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18 Jul 2024
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Hawke has been incarcerated for seventy-two days. Seventy-two days without sunlight, without entertainment, without a soul to talk to. It hasn't been the most exciting stay - until Cullen Rutherford walks into her cell, cuffed and beaten. Will she put aside her distaste for the commander? Will her nightmares stop?
Be warned of language, graphic violence, and smut.
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11 Jul 2024
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Nightmare Confessions by nekojinrogue
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
20 Sep 2023
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Four days into Cullen's first week in Kirkwall. He's starting to settle in to his new home, but even a young Rutherford can only push himself so far. Samson get's his first experience of his roommate's night terrors, but his reaction is surprising. Samson demands an explanation and Cullen finally has someone to talk to. How much can he really tell?
Graphic descriptions of past blood, gore, and violence. Demons, demons, and more demons. Blood mages. Referenced suicide/death of npc's. So many dark tags on this one. Either I'm getting better at tags or this storyline is getting serious.
Hope you are enjoying my take on Cullen's difficulties.Series
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28 May 2024
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Inquisition - The Conclave - Act 4 - Part 1 by nekojinrogue
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
16 Jul 2024
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This is my vision of how Cullen's life has gone during all three Dragon Age games as the tortured side character. He is the main character of these stories.
If you have not read the entire series, you will not understand what is happening. I am not that good a writer to make each story stand-alone. Too much work.Cullen is possessed of two demons that constantly war with each other and pull him to and fro.
Previously, Wrath was dominant.
Now, in his heartbroken state, it is Despair that runs things.
His struggle is real.Wrath is Italics text. Despair is small text.
Expect Updates will not be as fast as previous stories, as I am writing this one from scratch and without concrete guidelines.This is not the story that I originally intended to write. Cullen has gone completely off the rails. He will not go along with the flow. He will not listen. He will not conform. He is doing his own thing and, as much as I want to keep this true to the game, this is now truly AU.
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- Part 5 of Saga Of A Templar
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Commanders Cross Over by savvysav
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
20 Nov 2019
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21 May 2024
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Before Meredith brought Kirkwall to heel, she brought a broken Knight-Lieutenant Cullen Rutherford, back to the Order.
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17 May 2024
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Letters from Orlais by Kauri
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
19 Jan 2020
- Words:
- 94,244
- Works:
- 2
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17 May 2024
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The Soul has Bandaged moments by insideofadog
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
11 Aug 2015
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A big, sweeping tale of two mature people coming together and trying to make it work, despite their pasts. Told in the Inquisition's own words, through letters, personal journal entries, and reports.
Humor, sex, friendship, and most of all, romance. My Inquisitor is a capable and slightly odd mage, who finds herself in a strange dance with a good man, who wants only to atone for his past and build a new life for himself. Can people whose lives were forever altered by the Circles truly find a future together?
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AU in which Dorian stayed in Tevinter and got married. His wife wants a child but Dorian is completely unable to perform with her, so she tries a different approach.
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05 Feb 2024
