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She’s always known that the daughter of a teyrn is supposed to be softer, according to her peers. When she travels to Denerim, when she’s at a ball, or a fancy solar her mother is putting on, she always feels a little bit off. A little too hard.
It turns out, that may not be a bad thing. Because when life is all bad things (except for one surprising light), hard may be what saves you.
The only path is through, and if you can't trust anyone else to do the job well ...
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Legend by Korrindo
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
15 Jun 2025
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Dru Tabris was never meant to survive. After killing a nobleman in the name of vengeance, all that waited for her was dead. Until fate intervened. Conscripted into the Grey Wardens, she is thrust from the executioner’s rope into a war against ancient monsters stirring beneath the earth.
The Blight spreads like rot, and when betrayal from within leads to the king’s death, Dru and Alistair, a fellow warrior, are all who remain. Hunted by the crown they once served, they become fugitives in a land teetering on ruin.
Their only hope lies in a fraying alliance of mages, mercenaries, and outcasts—each with secrets of their own. To end the Blight, Dru must unite a broken kingdom, face the ghosts of her past, and confront a destiny written in blood.
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The Making of a Warden by Lolly4Holly
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
14 Jun 2025
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Before the Blight, there was betrayal.
Amelia Cousland, youngest daughter of Highever's ruling family, was never meant to be a soldier, only a pawn in a noble game she hated. But when treachery burns her home to the ground, and her family is slaughtered by those they trusted, Amelia is forced to flee with Duncan of the Grey Warden's and leave everything behind.
Amelia is taught her suffering has a purpose. That her sacrifice will matter as she takes the Warden vow herself.
A retelling of Origins from the eyes of a Cousland Warden. Full of grief, loyalty, betrayal, slow-burn bonds, found family, and the long road to saving Thedas.
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As Branwen Surana, a young elven mage of the Circle of Ferelden, was woken up in the middle of the night for her Harrowing, she had no idea that her life was about to irrevocably change. When secrets are revealed and choices need to be made, what will Branwen do? Will she play it safe, or will her loyalty blind her to the truth?
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The Warden's Rose by Devaigh
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
06 Jun 2025
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In the shadow of the Fifth Blight, two Grey Wardens find something neither expected: each other. This canon-compliant story explores the quiet moments between epic battles, chronicling their relationship from that first meeting at Ostagar to the moment Alistair offers Eleanor a single rose... and his heart. It's a tale of grief transformed into hope, duty balanced with desire, and the courage required to open one's heart during the end of the world.
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Traiterous Tethers by SweetSoubrette
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
05 Jun 2025
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The Couslands are second only to the King, so Celia has been told. The Couslands hold their duty before all else, so Celia has been drilled. The Couslands and the Howes have incredibly deep ties, no one else truly knows how deep but Celia.
This fic takes place before and during Dragon Age: Origins. It builds on the motivations and machinations of Arl Rendon Howe, and his involvement with Teryn Couslands youngest daughter.
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue by dragonsofarlathan
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age (Video Games)
04 Jun 2025
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Venowen Tabris hated the idea of marriage, especially to a man she had never met, but her father finally convinced her to do it for her family. Now, her fiance was dead, her community was hurting, and her family was fractured. At least the rage keeps her going, until it doesn't.
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- Part 1 of In Pieces
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On the precipice of the Fifth Blight, a power-hungry Arl uses the coming chaos to orchestrate the eradication of Teryn Cousland’s entire House. From the ashes of the fallen rises Bryce Cousland’s youngest child, Fiadh; ushered from the jaws of death by recruitment into the Grey Wardens- sworn to defend against the Blight and its Darkspawn. As her country, Ferelden, descends into fear and chaos in the wake of the coming evil, Fiadh dedicates herself wholly to the murder of the man who killed her family. However, brewing civil war and the inevitable appearance of the dreaded Archdemon threaten to upend the whole of Ferelden before she has the chance to avenge the dead. After all, a Cousland always does their duty.
A complete novelization of my Dragon Age: Origins play-through.
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Mages and Lovers by BawdyBaldurian (BawdyBard)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
02 Jun 2025
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Resurrected from the depths of FF.net and ancient Ao3!
Part One of Mages and Lovers, events from the timeline of Dragon Age:Origins and Awakening (9:30-9:31 Dragon). Protagonists from later series’ will make appearances.
Temene Surana, a newly Harrowed elven mage finds herself thrust into a completely new life when she is recruited into the Grey Wardens as the Fifth Blight begins. She meets a kindred spirit in the Wardens, Alistair, whose sheltered and lonely upbringing is much like her own. They fall in love as they try to find allies to keep the country of Ferelden from being consumed by the darkspawn, but there is no promise of a happy ending for the pair even if they can manage to end the Blight.
At the same time, Lene Hawke, an apostate mage from the small village of Lothering finds herself on the run with her family, fleeing the aforementioned Blight. By chance or perhaps intentional fate, they meet a powerful ally who helps them escape across the sea to the Free Marches city of Kirkwall. Things in the City of Chains are little better for the lovelorn redhead, as she is forced into indentured servitude to pay off her families entrance into the city.
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- Part 1 of Mages and Lovers
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"Your Harrowing is tomorrow, isn't it?"
"Hm? Oh, that thing? I suppose it is." She cannot muster the energy to be as concerned about this as everyone wants her to be, even as the chantry maiden's fingertips clench gently around her skin.
"Are you truly so unbothered?" A scoff of indignation. "You could die, you know?"
"Either I fail and I die in the Fade or I succeed and spend the rest of my life locked away in a tower. Somehow both outcomes sound wholly unappealing to me."
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"Duncan's gone."
The way his voice trembles around those words makes her heart ache something fierce. She knows. She knows this agony. The agony of losing a loved one. And she knows there's nothing she can do to ease the pain. Nothing she can say that erases the loss. All she can do is stand beside him.
"The king... the Grey Wardens... they're all gone..."
All she can do is stand beside him as the world falls apart and hope the two of them will be enough to put it back together.
"I'm so sorry, Alistair. We'll get through this, somehow. I promise."
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Or, the story of a mage that finds a future for herself at the end of the world.
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- Part 1 of Birds of a Feather
- Part 1 of Scylla Diander (Mage Warden/Inquisitor)
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A Warden’s Duty by Couslandpup (darkwolf76)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
26 May 2025
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On the road to Ostagar, a grieving Elissa Cousland and Duncan seem to have different ideas of duty, or do they?
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A New Road by SidheLives
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
25 May 2025
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Daveth had slipped up one too many times, and he was finally going to pay for it—or so he thought, before the man he'd tried to rob intervened.
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Wardens of Denerim by Recluse_Lecter
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
19 May 2025
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Reighner Tabris grew up with his older sister Illia in the Denerim Alienage. Their father arranged marriages for both of them and their cousin Soris. Things go very wrong, costing countless lives of citizens, Grey Wardens, and more.
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'Don't fall'. Hardly enough of a warning for what it truly meant, but... Jaune did fall. And he woke up in a strange land, far away from home, beset by its own darkness. There he will have to try and find his friends, perhaps a way home and, most importantly, a way to keep moving forward. Even after everything that's happened. Easier said than done...
https://www.tumblr.com/twistedfate21-blog/734450215286898688?source=share
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A retelling of Dragon Age: Origins, following Yvra Tabris. Largely canon compliant, but meatier with a heavier emphasis on the Warden's romance and the overall violence of the Dragon Age universe.
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- Part 1 of A Right To Revenge: DAO
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Of heroes and villains by Guendoleona
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
27 Apr 2025
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If you've ever wondered "What on earth was going on in Loghain's mind while the Hero of Ferelden was busy rescuing every nug, finding every missing child, and stealthily acquiring every cookie for Sten?" then this is an answer.
There may be (hard won) redemption ahead. But first there's Ostagar, a devastating civil war, a year of every wrong decision, and a man convinced he's the only one who could see the dangers that threaten Ferelden.
This is for the one other person out there in the universe who finds Loghain's ever-so-paranoid mind a fascinating place to be. (And who likes a good "fall-from-grace to redemption" story.)
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Of Diamonds And Dust by dragonologist_phd
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
27 Apr 2025
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Marja Aeducan and Darvis Brosca lead lives as different as one could possibly imagine. Marja Aeducan, a member of the nobility and second in line for the throne, has spent her life maneuvering the dangerous political machinations of the Diamond Quarter. Meanwhile, Darvis Brosca, a Casteless dwarf rejected by society, does whatever it takes to survive on the streets of Dust Town.
When a Grey Warden arrives in Orzammar, the lives of Marja and Darvis are forever changed. Driven from the city by misfortune and betrayal, the two must join the ranks of the Wardens in order to save their own lives. But the surface has far greater dangers than they realize. The noble and the thief will need to stand together if they're going to fight against the oncoming Blight, the brewing civil war, and the strange surface malady called "sunburn".
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- Part 1 of All Their Words For Glory
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illustrated by vjatoch
A story about the Blight, about four treaties and a battle. A story about war—and about falling in love.
Sanguine is a loosely canonical chronicle of the events of Dragon Age: Origins featuring a canonically impossible Warden, which results in some familiar situations resolved in unfamiliar ways. It is fully pre-written and illustrated, and is being published in a serial format with weekly updates beginning in September of 2024.
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The Blight doesn't wait for heroes. It devours everything in its path - hope, home, and heart. And still, the Grey Wardens march.
She was too young to carry a blade, let alone bear the burden of a nation's last defense. But when the darkspawn rise and fate calls, even a child of the wilds must answer. When duty called, Mythara chose to rise.
A story of growing up too soon, of love lost in the shadow of death, and the unbreakable bonds forged on the battlefield.
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Mahariel doesn't want anything to do with the Wardens and their rituals. The Blight doesn't care.
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Or: Mahariel avoids the Joining. It doesn't go well.