In the Shadows
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I'll Bury us Both, Fed to the Night as Ghosts by SK_Morello
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
15 Feb 2026
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Everyone knows the story of the Champion of Kirkwall - Aedan Cousland, who fled the massacre of his family by Rendon Howe and settled himself in the city during the Blight. Who pulled himself up from friendless refugee to noble, to hero. A family man, dedicated to the Chantry, who killed the Arishok and tried to keep the peace in the subsequent years as tension threatened to pull the city apart.
But fewer people have heard the story of the Protector of Lowtown. Another Ferelden refugee, in the shadow of Cousland, who risked his life and freedom to stand before the Qunari during their invasion, who worked with the Mage Underground to protect innocents caught in Meredith’s growing paranoia and tyranny.
Their paths crossed, many times. But as Cousland’s star rose, Hawke’s did not. And when Anders attacked the Chantry, they found themselves on opposite sides. What happened then, changed the course of history.
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- Part 1 of In the Shadows
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I Made Loving You a Blood Sport I Can't Win by SK_Morello
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
23 Aug 2026
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Hawke swayed.
“A Tevinter Supremist Cult, you said?”
“Hmm,” Dorian said, “Following the wishes of some Elder One, who has rather grand plans for ensuring that they succeed in subjugating the whole world to Tevinter. The rebels here in Redcliffe are just the start.”
Kirkwall had never been kind to Hawke, and the night Anders attacked the Chantry remained the single worst night of his life.
The mage rebellion was meant to be better - was meant to be fighting for a future where mages weren’t broken and abused. It wasn’t meant to be filled with cowards, run by leaders unwilling to be bold.
It certainly wasn’t meant to be taken over by the Imperium.
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- Part 2 of In the Shadows