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A Fade Wanderer’s Guide to Thedas by WhatHappensNext
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Fallout 4, Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 Nov 2025
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Nora thought she and Solas were going to restore Elvhenan and ride off into the sunset. Instead, she wound up in the Ossuary—imprisoned, experimented on, and turned into a demon factory.
Now she’s loose with terrifying new abilities she barely understands, a Blight spreading like wildfire, and a pair of elvhen gods dead set on world domination. Add in some unfinished Inquisition baggage, and her plate’s more than full.
Good thing she’s made some new friends.
If only they didn’t think she was the enemy.
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- Part 3 of Out of the Frying Pan
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The Reluctant Pawn by WhatHappensNext
Fandoms: Dragon's Dogma, Dragon Age - All Media Types
07 Nov 2025
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He wakes in the Rift with no past—only a name, a purpose he never chose, and an Arisen who makes his heart betray him before he can understand why.
Anders doesn’t question the pull toward her—he barely dares to resist it.
But when fate shoves them into a cycle of dragons, stolen hearts, and impossible choices, he’ll have to decide what he is: weapon, witness… or something fiercely his own.Series
- Part 1 of Pawns and Prejudice
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A Demon Wrangler’s Guide to Thedas by WhatHappensNext
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
19 May 2025
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Nora thought she was done for. She had given everything to make sure Solas’ ritual went off without a hitch. For a moment, it looked like game over for her.
Instead, she was spat back out through another swirling green portal into Thedas.
She might be done with Thedas—but Thedas sure as hell wasn’t done with her.
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- Part 2 of Out of the Frying Pan
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A Scrapper’s Guide to Thedas by WhatHappensNext
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Dec 2024
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Nora is done… with everything. She’s done with the Commonwealth—a place full of bad memories and worse life choices. It seems the Commonwealth was done with her, too. It chewed her up and spat her out through a swirling green portal into Thedas.
And Thedas? Thedas was just getting started with her.
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- Part 1 of Out of the Frying Pan
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[RETIRED] Cullen Rutherford, Reporting for Duty by WhatHappensNext
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Dec 2024
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Cullen bends the knee in service to Fereldan. He would do anything for his queen… oh, and Alistair, too.
This work has been retired from active posting and is slated for deletion next year. Depending on how my upcoming projects go, it may be rewritten or repurposed in a new form. Thank you for reading and following the journey so far!
If you enjoyed this story, I invite you to check out my new series, coming soon, which explores similar dynamics in a fresh setting.
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- Part 5 of [RETIRED] The Duty-Bound Heart
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This work has been retired from active posting and is slated for deletion next year. Depending on how my upcoming projects go, it may be rewritten or repurposed in a new form. Thank you for reading and following the journey so far!
If you enjoyed this story, I invite you to check out my new series, coming soon, which explores similar dynamics in a fresh setting.
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Pawns and Prejudice by WhatHappensNext
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon's Dogma
07 Nov 2025
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A runaway mage with no past.
An Arisen with no heart.
Two worlds bound by a Rift that was never meant to hold either of them.
When Risa and Anders are pulled into each other’s orbit—first by fate, then by choice—they uncover a truth older than dragons: pawns remember more than they should, the cycles were never natural, and some hearts are taken long before they’re claimed.
As war, myth, and magic collide, they’ll fight to break a system built on sacrifice…and discover something stubbornly, unexpectedly human growing between them.- Words:
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Out of the Frying Pan by WhatHappensNext
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Fallout 4
26 Nov 2025
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Nora wasn’t meant to survive one world-ending disaster, let alone two.
The Commonwealth chewed her up, and the Breach spat her out—hurling her into Thedas with a past she can’t outrun and powers she never asked for. Every choice costs her something: a life, a loyalty, a piece of herself. Every world she touches demands another sacrifice.From the battlements of Skyhold to the rooftops of Treviso to the fractured heart of the Fade, Nora fights beside allies who don’t trust her, gods who want to claim her, and lovers she can’t afford to need. Old wounds follow her. New ones bloom. And the fate of Thedas twists tighter around her with every step she takes.
She didn’t ask to be a hero. She refuses to be a weapon.
Out of the Frying Pan follows Nora’s journey across worlds, factions, and impossible choices—a story of survival, stubborn hope, sharp edges, and the people she would burn whole kingdoms to protect.
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