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Return To Me by theelderdemon
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
28 Nov 2025
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Emmaleia was sent to simply spy on the conclave and report back to her mother - Keeper Deshanna Lavellan. But it all goes wrong and Emmaleia finds herself thrust into a place of leadership and worst of all called the Herald of Andraste! She throws herself into the face of danger for the good of the Thedas and discovers something unexpected along the way.
Cullen Stanton Rutherford came to the conclave at the behest of Seeker Cassandra Pentaghast. He leaves Kirkwall to return to Fereldan and finds himself in the line of duty again...this time as the Commander of the Inquisition Army. Cassandra assures him he is the best man for the job but he has doubts...and then someone comes along and makes him hope for a future that he could be a part of.
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Few Against the Wind by WaitingForDogot
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Nov 2025
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"I’ve never told anyone what truly happened to me at Ferelden’s Circle. I was… not myself after that. I was angry. For years, that anger blinded me. I’m not proud of the man that made me."
"The way I saw mages… I’m not sure I would have cared about you, and the thought of that sickens me.
Lyrium withdrawal and the realization that he's desperately in love with the Inquisitor has left Cullen raw. Vulnerable. The horror of his past keeps intruding into his present, and he can't help but wonder whether he's been carrying it with him in more ways than one- whether his desires are his own, or something darker that controls and compels him from deep within his subconsciousness.
He needs to address it— he needs to come clean in order to move on— but will he lose the woman he loves in the process? Will he lose her to something (or someone) else before he can gather the courage to act?
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Explicit chapters have asterisks in the title:
* Some explicit passages
** Mostly explicitSeries
- Part 2 of The Cadence of His Heart
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Our Inner Demons by Goldberry_Bombadil
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
26 Nov 2025
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Like most of Thedas, Cullen believes Solona Amell's daughter is King Alistair's bastard, born nine months to the day of the Circle Tower's rescue, though the King has never publicly declared his paternity nor his relationship with Amell.
When Solona and her daughter, Eleanor, come to Haven during Inquisition times, Cullen finds himself falling into old habits. As his thoughts rapidly start to spiral out of control and into obsession, he realizes there is more than meets the eye. Getting closer to Amell will require him to uncover secrets that might be better left untouched.
*Updating probably 2-3x weekly.
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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
23 Nov 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.
Updated weekly!
The lovely people that have read it have said:
"So Raw."
"I am so excited to read and reread and rereread this."
"Just love it. Absolutely superb....So delightfully poignant and painful."
"The tension! The action! The mystery! This gave me all of the Big Feelings. Bravo! 💗💗💗"
"super impressed with the depth and nuance of your insight."
"your characterization is spot on and TICKLES me."
“…if it's not official canon, it should be.”
“chills.”
“HELL. YEAH!”
“Heart-wrenching.”
“So good!”
“Absolutely incredible. Words fail me.”
“Wow! I can’t accurately express how beautifully this all rolls together now. Amazing.”
“Utterly devastated. This one was so beautiful.”
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- Part 2 of The Lion's Words
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In the Shattering of Things by LuckyWizard
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
13 Nov 2025
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Lady Rose Trevelyan is in over her head.
Her attendance at the Conclave was only meant to distract her from her failures as a daughter. And then it blew a hole in the world. Marked by an unknown magic, armed with only a few relevant skills, Rose fumbles and fights her way across Thedas with a band of shockingly deadly oddballs dedicated to stopping— well, all of it. As apocalyptic forces conspire to break and remake her, Rose is snared between the tentative devotion of the Inquisition’s stalwart commander and the fierce love of legendary warrior Garrett Hawke, two vastly different men both haunted by hindsight.
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The Duality of Thedas by purpleprimary
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
13 Nov 2025
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In a realm of all things unknown, Warren finds himself alone. What will he do without the familar comfort of his own world? Does he even want to live in a place without such liberties?
He has little time to dwell on the matter, though, as the anchor bestowed upon his hand refuses to fade. This world may not be ready for him, but he must be prepared for what will seep into him or else everyone and everything around him will crumble.
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Fractured Souls: Frozen Hope by macha1313
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
06 Nov 2025
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An utterly unrepentant self-insert main character gets isekai'd into Dragon Age: Inquisition, and eventually falls for Cullen Rutherford.
Beth Chisholm had what she considered an unremarkable life, until something pulled her into the Fade and she found herself in Haven directly after the explosion of the Conclave. Now she's surrounded by strangers in a land torn apart by a religious and magical war, and she's started receiving visions that tell her more about the future and the past. Scooped up by the Inquisition, she's given a chance to put her new powers - and some of her old talents - to use.
Cullen Rutherford joined the Inquisition to atone for his past and leave it behind, and certainly not to find a relationship. But he cannot get the Inquisition's new Seer out of his head - at first because he's unsettled by her strange power, but eventually, because of something else entirely...
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- Part 1 of Fractured Souls
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Well.
He looked like Dorian.
Older, yes. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes when he peered up at Cullen were proof enough of that. Ten years ago, when they had met for the first time, Dorian would have been appalled by the mere idea of such a thing.
But beneath that, beneath the aged hair and skin and the clean, elegant robes that he wore so naturally, it was still clear that this was the man he had known.
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After the events of the Exalted Council, Cullen left his life as an advisor and commander of the Inquisition's forces behind. He spent eight years in relative peace, the past lying dormant, until he found himself being called upon for one more mission. When he agreed, he never expected it to lead him to an old friend or a new beginning.
Written for the 2025 Dragon Age Reverse Bang alongside the incredible Maagpie!
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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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The Advent of the Phoenix by Munklington
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
21 Oct 2025
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When Knight-Enchanter Evelyn Trevelyan is ambushed by Avvar barbarians during a mission in the Frostback Basin, she becomes the most wanted mage in Thedas. When she is taken in by one of the Avvar Holds, things become even more complicated as they believe she is the woman prophesied to save the Avvar from extinction. Unwilling to let their savior go, the Thane of Redhold holds her prisoner while the other Avvar Holds seek to capture her. As her status as a mage outside the Circle of Magi brands her an apostate, she can neither go back home, but neither can she simply accept this new life that was thrust upon her.
This is a tale laden with magic, spirits, gods, and demons based on the Dragon Age Avvar culture. In the midst of it all is a complicated enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance.
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- Part 2 of The Phoenix Chronicles
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Beautiful Disaster by LarasLandlockedBlues
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
15 Oct 2025
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When she thought about how much she wanted to get away, she never realized just how far she would end up.
Just another Modern Girl in Thedas story.
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- Part 1 of A Beautiful Disaster
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and though i burn (how could i fall?) by CarnivalsoftheCity
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
13 Oct 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 3 of a lifetime rolls by (maeve trevelyan)
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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. -
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Ellana stood there, hand covering her mouth as she stared at him. Her brows were raised in surprise as she took in the sight of him spread out on her bed with his hand wrapped around his-
"I'm sorry," he squeaked out, anticipating some form of admonishment.
"Don't stop on my account," she said instead, voice low with a need that made him shiver at the feel of it.
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Ellana walks in on Cullen using her quarters
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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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Mysterious Ways by pierog_balkanski
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
03 Sep 2025
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Cullen never expected he'd end up where he has.
Commanding the Inquisiton's troops was hard enough, even without the distracting thoughts of Lady Lavellan. -
forever yours, forever mine by CrimsonShield75 for whatsanapocalae
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 Sep 2025
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Anders and Cullen find themselves in a ... complicated relationship
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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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“I rather enjoy watching when you’re using your Commander voice.”
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- Part 6 of Commander Rutherford if You Please
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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 :)