Magic Theory in Dragon Age
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Kirkwall's chantry burns beyond the horizon. The mage responsible still lives.
Hawke isn't sure he can forgive this time. The chantry explosion was shocking but that made sense. Twisted sense but sense. No, Hawke isn't sure he can forgive the knife pressed into his hand afterwards. He's lost too many people he loved, how could Anders think to become the next to die?
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- Part 38 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Wade was just a journeyman in the service of a smith with better business sense. His skill might have been legendary, if only he had someone able to manage coin and time and the tides of luck.
Herren was a demon of Desire combing the Fade for interesting dreams and the chance to see the world of mortals. He never thought a non-mage could be so enticing.
And then he said 'yes'.
This is their story up to and through the Fifth Blight.
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- Part 2 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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A blood ritual at midnight under an eclipse of the moons at zenith.
Most abominations didn't start off so dramatically but Anders was that kind of mage.
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- Part 10 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Knight Commander Meredith would not have granted Serah Hawke the title of Champion if she knew he might live through the night.
Instead he had to bring that creature with him. Maker, it was hideous. She'd read the reports but never seen it in person before.
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- Part 27 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Lord Seeker Lucius' last words hung over the book like an accusation. 'We Seekers are abominations, Cassandra', he'd said. He spoke of Pride in the same breath and a delusional desire to remake the world.
Now the book has passed from one abomination to another. What secrets does it hold?
What would cause Pride to hold Faith so close?
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- Part 54 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Justice can't hide this from Anders anymore. The feathers keep growing back and Anders can't help but notice. Justice is going to Fall and take Anders with him.
Unless...
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- Part 35 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Something seems to be preying on the minds of Inquisition soldiers. They have the same vague blank look as the Fereldan refugees in Kirkwall.
Cullen investigates. That demon nearly tore Kirkwall apart, he won't see the same thing happen again here.
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- Part 56 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Warden Eliot Amell always had a morbid fascination with stories like this while studying in the Circle: haunted forests, fantastical creatures, men turned into monsters. The reality is a lot less glamorous but no less fantastical. A lapse in judgment leaves him trapped in one such story.
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- Part 5 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Once Amell risked everything for his best friend. It all went wrong - Jowan was outed as a blood mage, a Chantry Initiate was arrested, and Amell would have faced torture and worse under the Tower. Instead Duncan invoked the Rite of Conscription, stealing him out from under Greagoir's nose.
Now Amell finds him again.
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- Part 6 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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A mage can never go home again. Every mage is Nevermore Seen Again.
Redcliffe will never forgive Connor for what he did as a child. But his father lives in Denerim now. Connor decides to make the attempt.
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- Part 80 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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An Anatomist's Notes on Abomination by NebulousMistress
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types
17 Feb 2025
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Anders is an Anatomist as well as a Spirit Healer, a mage who studies the physical body to better understand its inner workings. His physical transformation after joining with Justice, slow and fast and total and minor and everything, fascinates him on an academic level.
Of course he took notes. Experimentation on the self is a Great and Venerable Tradition in science.
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- Part 76 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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The Seekers' Secrets by NebulousMistress
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
27 Nov 2023
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There would be no more secrets. Every Seeker would read the Tome of the Lord Seeker. Then together they would create a new Charter, to once again do the Maker's Work upon Thedas.
If the Seekers could handle the Truths of the book without Falling.
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- Part 81 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Professor Bram Kenric has sent missives to the Inquisition about a find in the Frostback Basin. With Corypheus dead, the Inquisitor is able to attend to the situation personally.
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- Part 77 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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It's said a mage can never go home again. Connor's already proven that wrong.
Now he and Eamon have been asked to Winter in Redcliffe Castle with the family Connor never had the chance to meet.
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- Part 84 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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The Longest Night festival in Redcliffe is an oddity even in Ferelden. Most places in Ferelden keep a few of the old superstitions, often reskinned and rephrased to make them acceptable to the Chantry.
The Longest Night festival has no such veneer of civility. Nor is it optional.
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- Part 85 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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The Uninitiated by NebulousMistress
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
27 May 2024
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Faith has never been one to willingly lead. For too long, Faith has been chosen to Fall to Pride to lead the Seekers of Truth. That's why they lost their way.
The Seekers of Truth seek the Maker's Work, whatever that might be. They'll benefit from the guidance of those who remain uninitiated.
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- Part 86 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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The Seekers of Truth have schismed from the Chantry and retreated to a stronghold in the Hunterhorn Mountains. There they rebuild, slowly, as they prepare to seek the Maker's Work, whatever that might be.
This is their first tentative foray into that quest.
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- Part 90 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Anders took a spirit into his soul for this. Justice killed for this. Vengeance started a war for this. A spirit Fell for this, becoming the demon the world believed them to be. Now…
They’ve won. They're free.
A terrible thing, to have nothing to fight for.
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- Part 83 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Sebastian comes to Kirkwall to continue his traditional courting of Flora Harimann at her father's insistence.
Anders comes to Kirkwall to begin Vengeance's long arduous quest for Justice's Atonement.
Varric is just trying to keep his city together between the red lyrium on the Gallows island, reunited Hawke siblings, and now a murderous Prince. Of course it gets worse.
What did Justice leave under the Gallows that fateful night?
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- Part 93 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn