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The Pedagogy of the Pearl by arquennial
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
25 Jan 2026
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Alistair steels his resolve, and meets her gaze.
“Could you teach me how to last longer?”
Siobhan blinks, her eyebrows dropping a fraction as she puzzles this over. “Anything at all, and that’s what you want?”
“Yes,” he says. He clears his throat. “... Please?”
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- Part 1 of what time tempers, you anneal
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In All But Name by oOAchilliaOo
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins
15 May 2026
- Words:
- 238,220
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- 44
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Our Better Selves by QuelleBelleVie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
13 Apr 2024
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“I was a glorified prisoner of the state, Dorian. He – all of them – are drug-addled slaves to it. I’m sure they could have become different people, long ago, but the Chantry took that future from them the moment they were dosed with lyrium," Cora says with disgust.
“I could say the same of you, you know,” Dorian says. “Indeed I have done, of all southern mages. But we find ourselves here, now, bent toward the same end. I suppose we’ve all been given the chance to choose our better selves, haven’t we?”
“Yes,” Cora sighs. “I suppose we have.”
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- Part 1 of Our Better Selves
Bookmarked by cherryxwave
01 Nov 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I am in shambles (lovingly) (it's the best)
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Our Quarters by QuelleBelleVie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Jun 2024
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“Cora,” he says, and she feels the calloused pads of his fingers on her chin before he turns her head to face him. His smile is soft, but the creases at his eyes and faint flush on his cheeks betray utter pleasure behind it. “Are you proposing that we live together? Properly?”
She lets out a breath that she hadn’t realized she was holding. “Yes.”
“I would like that very much,” he replies, smile broadening. “Very, very much.” And then his lips are on hers, and she is melting against him with relief and joy and the not-unpleasant trepidation that comes with taking a leap into the unknown.
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- Part 2 of Our Better Selves
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The Kitchen by sarenka
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
17 Feb 2021
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Cullen struggles with memories and trauma from Kinloch and Kirkwall and battles his lyrium withdrawals. Rejected by Evelyn Trevelyan, he stumbles into the Skyhold kitchen at night and meets a kitchenmaid, Orla.
Their nighttime discussions become his pastime.
What could the Commander of the Inquisition and an illiterate maid talk about?
As it turns out, everything.
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Why wouldn't a maid have a voice in the story?
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hanging on the memory you need most by calypsid
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
17 Aug 2025
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"You're alive," says Alistair hoarsely.
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The Calling may be false, but it's still constantly in the back of his mind. Alistair distracts himself with the family he's always wanted. Just a little fluff with Alistair and princess Elodie.
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- Part 5 of Ophelia Cousland, Queen of Ferelden
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She goes, he follows, even if it takes a while - it's been the same for nearly ten years now. They were happy that way, or at least he thought they were. The thought of that changing...
For the prompt: "If you ask Alistair why his isn't with the Warden, he says "There was a discussion, believe me!" I've seen several reunion fics but I have seen any of Alistair and the Warden having to part. So give me the fight that you know happened, Alistair unwilling to leave her but knowing that they have to part. Give me the goodbye sex. Give me H/C and angst and fluff."
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Yonder Heart and Somber Lover by bigalaskanmoose
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
29 Aug 2021
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"The bastard part really grates on your nerves, does it not? Or is it the Grey Warden thing now? Forgive me, my dear, but I’ve lost count of all the things you hate about me."
Or: King Alistair needs an heir and Cousland pretends she hates trying to conceive.
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He made the promise before the world changed; before their roads diverged. When the future was still unwritten.
Now nearly forty years have passed since the blight and despite being cured of the taint, Alistair finds himself joining the Hero of Ferelden on her calling. A woman he once shared a life with.
Before she disappeared - nearly twenty years earlier.
Bookmarked by cherryxwave
23 May 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
I wept in the middle of the night reading this fic. WEPT
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A Lightning Bolt of Red and Gold by Madmaxine2718
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Jul 2024
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It’s been a long eight years since the slaying of Urthemiel. King Alistair has effectively ruled Ferelden on his own, with the Hero of Ferelden having gone missing shortly before Alistair’s coronation. With Leliana’s help as his spymaster, Elissa Cousland and her host of secrets are tracked down and exposed, setting off a chain of events no one could have anticipated.
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Under Your Command by Silverbow829
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
25 Jul 2023
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This series is a love letter to my Warden husband, Nathaniel Howe.
Nathaniel returns home to the wreckage of the past, and builds a new future with an unlikely partner. Warden-Commander Cariane Amell is thrown into a role she never expected and never prepared for, and finds family and love along the way.
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Bookmarked by cherryxwave
26 Apr 2025
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Alistair pulls her in for a kiss, and he lingers even after her lips leave his, sifting his fingers gently through her hair and watching it shimmer around his hands like bolts of straw-blonde silk.
“I’m… sorry, my love,” Siobhan says, her hands curling into loose fists at his chest. He feels his heart thumping against them, his future weighed in her hands. “It was a long day at court. I’m a bit tired.”
“Of course,” he says lightly, pressing a kiss to her brow, and with no further talk of prettiness they snuff the lights and climb into bed.
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One month after the conclusion of the Fifth Blight, Alistair struggles with the mantle of kingship and the distance growing between him and his beloved Cousland.
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- Part 2 of what time tempers, you anneal
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cut down at the garden's gate by carnalapples
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 Oct 2024
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After the Kirkwall Rebellion, the Champion and her sister disappear without a trace. Sebastian hasn't heard from either of them in years, and is fine keeping it that way, until two Hawkes come through Starkhaven, kicking up the past he'd like to forget.
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dead winter in the forgotten land by carnalapples
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
29 Jul 2024
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Recently, Amell has found herself wondering if she would be better off had she never heard of Jowan’s plan, if she had never become a Grey Warden. She would be dead, most likely, but she would be ignorant before it. And perhaps happy. She’s been talking to Wynne and thinking of sacrifice, and it’s left her feeling wrong. Wardens live to sacrifice. So do mages.
She watches him breathe lightly in sleep. The light catches his hair and he looks… different. Shiny and clean. Like a king’s son. There’s a hollow in her chest. There are many ways to sacrifice.
Amell always was good at running. This quest is just her latest attempt.
Bookmarked by cherryxwave
24 Mar 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
😫🥰😍😭 if there's one thing you're to find in my bookmarks, let it be this one
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“There’s a joke here somewhere,” Alistair says, laugh a little breathless, and fingers twitching against the back of his neck.
“Something about Ferelden and…dogs.”
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She Looks Right Through Me by Fiber_Punk
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
26 Jan 2025
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It seems a simple task. Just another landsmeet to determine the fate of the still half destroyed Circle Tower, Kinloch Hold. But when King Alistair is faced with the one thing he desperately wanted but couldn’t have distraction plagues his proceedings.
Warden Commander Tabris on the other hand is finally hitting her stride in leadership. With rebuilding efforts underway in Amaranthine and Vigil’s Keep she prepares to join the Landsmeet along with a fellow Warden and mage at her side to help support the efforts of the circle and prevent it from falling further into disarray. She’s certain she can keep her head down and her mind focused on the task at hand and not let old feelings get in her way. New feelings on the other hand…This work is complete.
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- Part 8 of Warden Tabris World State
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one day soon i'll hold you (like the sun holds the moon) by maharieel
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Dec 2021
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Her hands were meant for bearing weapons of mass destruction, for cradling the galaxy despite the way it burned – she worried, even now, that she would taint his pure skin with the blood stains and scorch marks on her palms. His tanned skin was so untouched by the world, his fingers so pure where they clutched at the bottle.
She could stare at him and his innocence forever. Her son. What a strange, wonderful concept.
(or, shepard & kaidan, after the war with a warm bed and a baby to love)
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Only Yours by macha1313
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
06 Nov 2024
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Alistair does not take the dark ritual well.
Later, he would say that he hardly remembered the next hour. That was a lie, the only significant one he would ever tell his wife. He didn’t think he could bear to see her face, even decades after, if he admitted that he was still haunted by every miserable, shameful second when his trips through the Fade turned dark.
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- Part 9 of Let's Take Our Time
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warmer by clayre
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
08 Jul 2020
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Alistair gets hurt. The Warden shows him a good time to get his mind off it. (And to get him off.)