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hold tight to everyday life by carnalapples for LadyNorbert
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
03 Sep 2023
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In days, months, and years, a family is formed.
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16 Dec 2025
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a desperate light that since has died by carnalapples
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
25 Aug 2022
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Her gaze begins to drift, and it feels like a door being closed, and Cullen is running out of time to fix an endless number of things. It’s the other side of the same coin, and it’s sheer dumb luck.
Moments between Cullen and the Inquisitor as they learn to navigate a world that's changing quickly and not quick enough.
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16 Dec 2025
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The Commander turns, closes the distance between them with long, hurried strides. (She couldn’t get away even if she had the energy to try.) “Are you all right?” he asks, and she knows that the answer expected of her is yes.
He crouches down before her, reaches towards her with a gloved hand — and it’s a far cry from a Templar’s gauntlet, but all she can see is light.
“Don’t.”
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11 Dec 2025
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Five years after the Inquisition’s disbandment, a disillusioned Dorian takes a leave of absence from the Magisterium and journeys south to visit Cullen, where the fully recovered once-commander runs a rehab program for templars out of his manor house in the Bannorn. Dorian, wounded grievously in both body and spirit by The Iron Bull's final betrayal, is still struggling with his losses and the man they've made him. Seeing his old friend awakens memories, both good and bad, which he'd thought long buried. As the two reconnect, spending time together on the farm with Cullen’s many dogs, they begin to realize they may have more to offer one another than simply reminiscing about a shared past.
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07 Dec 2025
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we carry the future (it turns to dust in our hands) by circle123
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
12 Sep 2024
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“I left the Order, when I joined the Inquisition. I’m not a templar anymore.”
“You’re not?” she asks. “Prove it.”
A fireball flares in her palm, the white-hot shriek of it contained but ready to launch. He is all reaction, practiced movements shifting into a defensive stance, hands ready to clap together in a silence. She can smell his lyrium in the air.
Banishing the magic, she says, “You can take the man out of the Order, I guess.”
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Evelyn and Cullen remake the world.
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05 Dec 2025
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trapped between two lungs by CarnivalsoftheCity
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
04 Dec 2024
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Never before has he felt such a flood of emotion like this for another person, one that was not hate or agony or terror. She is perhaps the most beautiful creature he’s ever seen, and he breathes with her for one long, tenuous moment.
“I did not expect,” Cullen says very quietly. “For you to become as important to me as you have.”
(or, a series of moments between cullen and maeve, where he pines hopelessly and she's just waiting for him to catch up)
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- Part 2 of a lifetime rolls by (maeve trevelyan)
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05 Dec 2025
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The Void Between Us by Gefionne
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
09 Aug 2015
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Though she was born in Ostwick in the Free Marches, Enchanter Trevelyan was trained as a mage at the Ferelden Circle of Magi, where she befriended and—against all that she was taught—fell in love with a Templar novice named Cullen Rutherford. Separated after Uldred’s rebellion broke the Circle during the Fifth Blight, they are unexpectedly reunited under the banner of the Inquisition.
Inquisitor x Cullen AU
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28 Nov 2025
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This Is Me Trying by Polkadotdotdot
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
09 Sep 2025
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It was the formality of the letter that struck him first. With every word, the pristine paper crumpled under his grip, forever leaving indents that couldn't be smoothed. Cullen's frown deepened when he dropped the letter on his desk.
Advisor and beyond. As if she couldn't dare write what they once were. Then again, he lost the right to be annoyed the moment he stepped away from the Inquisition as he did.
Duty broke them. Having seen too much, still needing to heal from his trauma, Cullen Rutherford stepped away as Commander of the Inquisition. Having lived for two years in South Reach, he never expected to hear from the ex-Inquisitor, let alone have her turn up at his door...
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28 Nov 2025
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if i burn you (it's all friendly fire) by cherryrevival
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
21 Nov 2025
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But somewhere between sickly green rifts and wary war table glances and careful conversation amid the clang of sword and shield, Cullen had gone from templar to Commander to Cullen to templar and Commander and Cullen.
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23 Nov 2025
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Far Kinder, Far Gentler by Syrina
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
21 Sep 2025
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His gaze returned again to the drawer at his desk, to the quick snap of the lock that would take but a moment, at the relief that was guaranteed, an end to his self-inflicted torment. He could feel sweat upon his brow, beading on his upper lip, forming, somehow both balmy and cold, under his armor.
“Are you listening to me, Cullen—?”
He was pinned between two forces. The lyrium and her. Stretched taught between them to the point where he could feel his sinews straining. One force had to give, the lyrium or her—
He surged from his chair, taking the choice from one victor, giving it to the other.
One addiction after all was far kinder, far gentler.
“Can I touch you?” was out of him before he could preface it, arrange it to be better-worded.
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Or Cullen goes through lyrium withdrawal and uses "servicing" Inquisitor Lavellan as a way to cope.
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- Part 1 of Crimson Rites
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10 Nov 2025
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Open Hand or Closed Fist Would Be Fine by stiliskni
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
19 Jun 2022
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“You are,” she swallowed thickly against her throat. “Stubborn, boarish, intolerant -” A shudder went through her. “I loathe you.”
“Do you really?” Cullen challenged, hard and unwavering.
Her eyes darted to his mouth. Only for a hair’s breadth of a second, but he’d caught it all the same.
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Enemies to Lovers AU with a mage Trevelyan from Kirkwall's Circle.
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09 Nov 2025
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Life in the Ostwick Circle was cruel and oppressive and Evelyn Trevelyn swears she will never be under a Templar's control again.
But a late-night encounter with the Commander of her army, an ex-Templar, leaves the Inquisitor with complicated feelings over the new tenor of their relationship.
All she knows for certain is that she doesn't want it to stop.
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15 Oct 2025
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'Til Winter's End by warpedlegacy (BECandCall)
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
06 May 2023
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After the events of the Exalted Council, Theresa feels adrift. No Anchor, no Inquisition, no home, and no left arm. What she does have are two clear points of reference. The first is her steadfast determination to stop Solas from enacting his plan to destroy the world. The second is in her husband, Cullen. At his suggestion, they spend their honeymoon in South Reach with his family for a long-awaited reunion, where Theresa begins to recuperate. But when all the bustle of duty and danger is gone, she is left with only herself, and has to relearn who that is.
Find me on Tumblr at @warpedlegacy - my asks are always open about my fics!
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- Part 1 of While Time Remains
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24 Sep 2025
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A Dance with Fire by thebenben
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
16 Aug 2025
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Katheryn Trevelyan is an accomplished and headstrong mage, with an affinity for fire magic and an icy exterior. When a twist of fate puts her in the middle of a world shattering conflict, she has no choice but to join forces with the newly formed Inquisition and save the continent from certain doom. A task that includes dealing with one Cullen Rutherford, a former templar with an ill-fated past and an understandable unease around magic.
What could possibly go wrong?
(A complete novelization of Dragon Age Inquisition through the eyes of my mage Trevelyan Inquisitor)
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17 Aug 2025
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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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He wanted the quiet stories, the ones not about heroes or witches or monsters, but about lads who left their farms to serve the king because it would bring money after a bad harvest, or lasses who traveled to the heart of the darkest forest to fetch herbs needed for healing a dying mother. He liked the stories his siblings never chose, the ones about ordinary people doing extraordinary things not because they were nobility or special or chosen, but because they had honor, or love, or saw wrongs that needed righting.
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07 Aug 2025
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sing to me on this long drive home by storm_petrel
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Sep 2020
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Alcohol, Virgil, mid-20th century Canadian music, The Good Shower, and putting your ship (and your heart, and your head) back together, piece by jury-rigged piece.
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30 Jul 2025
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There was no Alliance manual for trying to drag two trillion people fighting and screaming through absolute certain death, and there was nothing about what to do when you unexpectedly got spat out on the other side, either. And there was *definitely* nothing about what to do if your hot, older-than-you, currently missing-in-action boyfriend knocked you up at some stage in that sequence of events.
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29 Jul 2025
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we walk the paths not taken (with only the stars to guide us) by circle123
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Jan 2025
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“You’re not going to die,” she tells him, and rolls up her sleeves.
In the moon’s dim light, the Knight-Captain looks pale as death. His hand in hers burns hot with fever, and she can feel his blood slowly seeping into the hem of her robe.
“Why would you… help me?” he asks.
She summons a wisp to her hand. His blood glints black in its pale green light. “Because you’re going to help me,” she says.
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Evelyn and Cullen, an alternate past.
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27 Jul 2025
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Oathbreaker by OpalApparition for mimi_maru
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
14 Jul 2025
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Ser Cullen Rutherford is an oathbreaker.
Or, he will be, by story's end, for he cannot keep promises made to both his Lord and his Lady.
Trusted Knight loyal to the House Lavellan, Ser Cullen Rutherford's honor has defined him since boyhood. But while his sword belongs to Lady Lavellan’s father… his heart belongs to her alone. He’s vowed to serve his lord and pledged to protect her happiness, but when the Lady Lavellan is betrothed to a Lord, Cullen must choose which oath to break.
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15 Jul 2025