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My Dear Commander by Lyssarah
Fandoms: Cullen Rutherford - Fandom, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
11 Oct 2025
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The world was crumbling around them, nothing but fear and horror as the sky ripped open as they were on the precipice of the end of the world. Lyssarah Evelyn Trevelyan, a Mage from the Circle of Ostwick was the answer they were searching for. In the mist of a Templar-Mage war, with a magical anchor that was slowly killing her, she is willing to do anything to bring the crisis to an end. When an ex-Templar, now Commander of the newly reformed Inquisition meets the soon to named leader of their organization, he cannot help but fall hopelessly in love with her, despite her being a Circle Mage —Something he once deeply feared and despised.
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A Lack of Proper Decorum by TheFemPC
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
06 Oct 2025
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Lindiranae of Clan Lavellan had been primed for leadership since the day she became first apprentice, but an unexpected turn of fate sees her don the mantle of authority in a way she never expected. Not only must she guide the Inquisition to victory against Corypheus, but she must also learn to navigate a world that is a stark contrast to the one she knows, and master some of her worst fears in the process.
Cullen Rutherford left behind his life as a Templar, haunted by a bloody past fraught with tragedy and failure. The Inquisition offered a chance to find redemption, but not without cost. Yet despite his own private struggles, he finds a sense of belonging in his new role as Commander of the Inquisition forces.
Although the fate of Thedas hangs in the balance, something wholly unexpected blooms within the strife and conflict. Two stubborn, wilful individuals come together and inadvertently soothe one another's old wounds and open each others minds to their very different worlds, despite a shaky start and a lot of awkwardness.
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Passage Through the Lichgate by arquennial
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
05 Oct 2025
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It was not until her eyes finally rested on his, eyes the color of sunlight seen through ice, that it hit him - the student, the elf.
Johanna’s protégé.
Emmrich felt a faint chiming from within, like the echoes of a fate foretold.
“Vesper,” he said cautiously, tasting the name. “Vesper Ingellvar. It is a pleasure to be re-acquainted.”—
In 9:45 Dragon, young Vesper Ingellvar finds herself growing closer to the notorious Professor Hezenkoss, as conflict threatens Nevarra’s existence - and Emmrich Volkarin's relationship with his oldest friend.
Eight years later, Vesper's search for answers forces her to turn to the one person she has sworn never to trust: Volkarin himself. But as the two Watchers grow closer they find themselves confronting what it means to live and die well, and - perhaps - to transcend both.
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Anything Like This by PneumaticDragon
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
04 Oct 2025
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Scarlett Trevelyan approaches everything without so much but whim.
And it was whim that she accidentally stumbled into the dreams of a certain golden-haired Commander. Now all of her whims are enveloped by him, and she doesn't know what to do about it.Cullen approaches everything with a pragmatism the Inquistor clearly lacks.
But his pragmatism falters as she can't help but glow in his eyes in a way he's never seen, and it's not the mark or the lyrium withdrawal. Now that he's seen it, he doesn't know what to do about it. -
What Vows I Kept by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
04 Oct 2025
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Cullen Rutherford's worst enemy and greatest asset is his own mind. Addicted to lyrium and dangerously, stupidly in love with the Herald of Andraste, it has sometimes tortured him, but it has always gotten him through. Until now. Haven is on fire, a demigod is stalking them, the Inquisition's war is about to kick off for real, and all he has to keep himself sane enough to survive is a beat up old journal.
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- Part 2 of The Lion's Words
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Let the sword return to its sheath by IrinaPalmova
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
03 Oct 2025
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Before the young woman’s eyes, fine red lines began to etch themselves into her skin, stretching from her elbow down to her wrist. She could hardly look away, her heart pounding in her chest as the words appeared, written in blood like some sacred covenant.
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Ever in Service by Goldberry_Bombadil
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Frozen (Disney Movies)
28 Sep 2025
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Cullen Rutherford is sent on a mission on behalf of the Inquisition to retrieve the disgraced Queen of Ferelden, Elsa Theirin, who fled Denerim after revealing her magic to her court accidentally.
With the Landsmeet only two months away, Elsa is willing to take drastic measures - even finally marry - to keep her crown. Only… Elsa has never been impressed with the eligible noble Ferelden bachelors. Without forewarning, Leliana offers up the hand of Cullen Rutherford, who, despite his lack of noble heritage, is a former Templar who can appease the nobility's concerns about Elsa's magic.
Cullen, his life ever in service to causes greater than himself, accepts.
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Deeper than the Ocean Itself by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
26 Sep 2025
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The Inquisition is done, the battle is won. The only thing to do now is continue. But Cullen Rutherford is only a shell of the man he once was, lyrium claiming more pieces of his body and his mind with each day. On a journey to Val Chevin, his ship wrecks upon the Waking Sea and Cullen finds himself at the mercy of the waves. Until a creature known as a siren rescues him and reminds him of what it means to be brave. [AU, semi-canon compliant]
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Neither By Chance Nor Fate by deathmallow
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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Clerra Trevelyan just wants to go lend aid to the war-torn Hinterlands. Cullen Rutherford just wants to try help bring peace and atone for past failings. But sometimes when you head to a Divine Conclave to do your part to heal the wounds, you get a lot more than you bargained for: a calling that'll push you to the brink, but that you can't ignore.
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The Light You Still Hold by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
18 Sep 2025
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Convincing the Inquisition of her innocence was hard enough when she was newly marked, let alone a month after fleeing from their custody. Ophelia Trevelyan has no wish for history to remember her as just one more mage to ruin the world, but when her choices are stay and die or run and live, she knows which option to pick. She doesn’t know how she’ll convince the Inquisition to believe her this time, but maybe closing the rifts and making friends with them all is a start.
Until closing the rifts becomes less about proving her own innocence and more about saving the world one rift at a time. Until becoming friends with them means starting to love them.
A story in which the Herald flees from the Inquisition, winds up right back with them, and somehow finds happiness throughout all the trials to follow.
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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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i want the pain of payment by wishb0ne for Dragonflies_and_Katydids
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
07 Sep 2025
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Cullen submits to Meredith and Samson in exchange for lyrium and a well-placed whisper of praise.
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Blade of the Faith by WaitingForDogot
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
01 Sep 2025
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For Day Three of Rutherfest!
Cullen grapples with a difficult decision on this day of celebration, Divine Victoria has some important announcements to make, and it only gets more complicated from there.
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- Part 3 of Rutherfest2025
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As Commander Cullen Rutherford whisks Inquisitor Anaia Trevelyan away to Ferelden after seeing she was in need of respite after the strenuous trial of the Winter Palace, the rather new couple find themselves utter nervous wrecks around each other. Though they've loved each other from a distance for months now, finding themselves suddenly free of all formalities leaves them to wrestle with expressing it as they'd hoped while traveling the countryside. But as they near Cullen's surprise destination, will they finally overcome the dam they've unintentionally built between them?
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My contribution to the Rutherfest 2025 Event! I decided to roll all the prompts into this one fic. Family, Faith and Friends. Past, Present and Future. Dreams and Devotion. Demons and Duty. It's a short fic being only five chapters, but I love it to pieces. Hope you all enjoy it as well!
Happy reading!A huge thank you to @wyse_ink for all your input on this one :)
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One man's trash is another woman's treasure by Toshi_Nama for librarypirate
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
31 Aug 2025
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One man, near-broken by torture and a Circle's fall.
One woman, shaped by a sister's loss of control and the destruction of her whole world.
Who else could see past the scars, or see them as advantages rather than signs of weakness? Who else could believe in a still-bleeding young man?
“It wasn’t what Greagoir wanted, but the poor boy deserved something better than to be dumped off to the side, labeled as nothing but a problem.”
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Prisoner's Dilemma by Toshi_Nama for StarrShineGirl
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
31 Aug 2025
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None of those sensible things led to Quinn’s visits, so frequent that the guard at the prison door didn’t even ask her purpose any longer.
“Back already?”
No, it was Ser Raleigh Samson’s strange, burning vitality. He brimmed with life, raging just under the skin, in a way she hadn’t seen outside of the handful of Grey Wardens she’d met.
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Hoarfrost by OpalApparition for aliceisdead
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
30 Aug 2025
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When Haven falls and the Herald vanishes beneath the avalanche, Commander Cullen must choose between his duty to the survivors and his need to search for the woman who saved them all.
A Rutherfest 2025 Oneshot ❄️
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When Anders was in solitary he begged for any sort of attention. Even from a lost young templar in a broken circle.
Now Cullen is the Knight Captain of Kirkwall. And wants to renew things with his favorite reluctant mageSeries
- Part 7 of Black Emporium 2025
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A Champion of the Just by WaitingForDogot
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
29 Aug 2025
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Rutherfest Day 2 Prompt: Dreams and Devotion
Now that Divine Victoria has crashed the party, Cullen is presented with a choice.
Part 3 tomorrow!
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- Part 2 of Rutherfest2025
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Come Back to Me by StarrShineGirl
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Aug 2025
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Seren Hawke fell in love with an impossibility.
They walked away from each other.
They broke each other’s hearts.How did it come to this?
(Or: how to save Thedas while avoiding your ex and trying not to stab a Templar. Again.)