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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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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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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 10 of For the Love of Random NPCs
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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
05 Jun 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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"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
15 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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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
18 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.
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A Thawing Spring by madameinky
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age
24 Jan 2025
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Commander Cullen Rutherford is a rational, logical military man. Fen'an Lavellan is a spit fire mage with no patience for former Templars. Especially not ones that look like Ferelden Princes. Forced to serve the budding Inquisition Fen'an is faced with political machinations, the constant threat of death, and lots of unwanted feelings for her stubborn, former-Templar Commander.
A novelization of Dragon Age Inquisition.
Canon Compliant (for the most part). Lots of Dalish lore and smut.
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you’re not like other mages by dogsandflyties
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
28 Dec 2024
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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 Mage’s Works Never Done by KiiGaea
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
26 Dec 2024
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Canon divergence- 18 years between Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Cullen Rutherford is in his mid 20’s, has not met Marian Hawke, & has more of his DAO & DA2 mentality towards mages.
Hawke finds out she’s pregnant with Anders’ child after the events of the chantry attack. Though she let Anders go, she decides to raise the child on her own, without the knowledge of who her father is.
18 years later, Leanna Hawke grows up to be just as witty, stubborn, and willful as her mother, and just as much of a revolutionary as her father. She has come into her own as a young apostate mage, which frankly terrifies her mother.
After months of begging, Marian reluctantly allows Leanna to go with “Uncle Varric” to the Divine Conclave under an invitation in her name so she could observe the peace talks at the Temple of Sacred Ashes between her fellow Mages and the Templar Order.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Eat, Drink, Poison by elo_elo
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
09 Dec 2024
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Things are changing for 27-year-old Diana Trevelyan. She’s just published her debut novel, just moved to a house deep in the wilderness to start work on her second, just acquiesced to the pressure of her doctors and gotten herself her first pair of hearing aids. But the hearing world is not all it’s cracked up to be and while isolation is what she so desperately sought, her newly mechanical ears have started to play tricks on her.
For Cullen Rutherford, things are staying unpleasantly the same. The same gig on his old service buddy’s cattle ranch, the same exasperated sponsor, the same nightmares. But as the autumn grows colder, reports of wolves terrorizing cattle become darker and stranger and Cullen finds himself forced to fall back on his training, and back into all his old fears.
The two meet in a sleepy mountain town as it prepares for its coldest, snowiest winter in decades. Will they be able to overcome their demons and find solace in each other? And what is happening out high on those lonely peaks?
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When the Silence Breaks by In_Uthenera_We_Wait
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
08 Dec 2024
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Cullen Rutherford had always maintained a stoic facade when it came to the Inquisitor.
But when she almost dies at the Daarvarad, he wonders if he can keep silent any longer.Series
- Part 1 of From the Life of Andreth Lavellan
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,650
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 88
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Is It Bright Where You Are by ofashesandshadows
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins
20 Nov 2024
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((NOV 10 - - UPDATES SOON!! I was waiting to see if the new game ruined my plot. I'm gonna proceed with the story!))
The Inquisitor has just faced down the Nightmare in the Fade, but the true nightmare comes when he's back in Skyhold and gets a summons to Ferelden's capital. The Inquisitor keeps more secrets than anyone in the Orlesian Royal Court. Who will find out? Who will help keep secrets? Who will just make out together? (There will be lots of making out)
Or -- A Skyhold Soap Opera that I won't Apologize For.------
A self indulgent ridiculous thing that's floated in my head for the last ten years. No, really. I asked a bunch of people back then if they would read a story where the HOF and the Inquisitor were the same person and they all said no. Well, guys, THIS ONE'S NOT FOR YOU! Expect drama, friendship stuff, and romances and love triangles and maybe finally resolve all those feelings you got in Inquisition upon meeting your old love interests from the previous games. -
The Templar's Heart by Phocion1
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
13 Nov 2024
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In Kinloch Hold, a young mage (Y/N) and a steadfast templar, Cullen Rutherford, find their paths crossing in a world steeped in tension. Bound by duty and separated by the rigid laws of their respective identities, their relationship unfolds slowly over the years. As they navigate the challenges of their intertwined destinies, they must confront their own beliefs and the obstacles that threaten to keep them apart. Starting in the Ferelden Circle of Magi at Kinloch Hold, their bond deepens despite the strict rules and growing tension between mages and templars. As the world changes and the Inquisition rises, their connection faces new challenges. Ultimately testing their hopes for a future where they can be together.
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Worship In The Bedroom by Shewolfe
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
03 Nov 2024
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This never should’ve happened.
We never should’ve met.
Love shouldn't bloom from such tragedy, and yet here I stand falling for a woman many consider the messenger of Andraste.
It's blasphemous.There's something more to the Commander.
I could feel it.
Something beneath the ex- Chantry boy's diffidence, something primal.
But I'm now considered a key figure in the religion he follows.
And even though I know I'm still just a woman, he sees someone closer to his god than he's ever known.
Still, I won't stop trying to bring out the Lion I know lurks beneath all that armor.