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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
08 Feb 2026
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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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Your Light Remains by championsofthejust
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
29 Jan 2026
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It’s been ten years since the Inquisition disbanded, long enough for the Inquisitor and Cassandra to build a life together, of which the search for Solas is only a small part. All of that is upended when Rook disrupts Solas’ ritual and inadvertently frees Elgar’nan and Ghilan’nain, endangering all of Thedas. The scattered former members of the Inquisition come back together to face the threat, and Evelyn is thrust back into a role she isn’t sure she wants to return to. Now, she’ll have to save the world from someone she once called a friend, and decide if he’s worth saving along with it.
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Extravagant Times by QuelleBelleVie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
17 Jan 2026
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With Corypheus gone, the Inquisition has begun to turn toward its original purpose: establishing and maintaining some modicum of order in the face of a war spanning the continent. That will be its primary means of protecting (and, sometimes, pacifying) mages. But Cordelia Trevelyan believes that her duty goes beyond that; the mere survival of the mages cannot be the ultimate goal. She wants to begin building for her kin what she herself now has: a life worth living.
Would that it were as simple as that.
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- Part 3 of Our Better Selves
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love has a quiet voice by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
31 Dec 2025
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Ophelia Trevelyan didn't imagine spending Satinalia with the Inquisition's intimidating Commander Cullen would change so much, but sometimes quiet words and soft touches and a little warmth are all you need to thaw frozen hearts.
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Solas is gone, taking not only her arm but also her heart and whatever future she imagined she would ever have with him. All that remains is a hollow space filled with grief, loneliness, and phantom pain. As the inquisition slowly disbands, becoming more of a teeny tiny organization that helps Divine Leliana, Cullen Rutherford stays behind to offer help and any support that Elona Lavellan might need.
The dreadwolf himself still lingers within her dreams. sometimes in nightmares, sometimes in good. Torn between the man who shattered her heart and the man who helps her learn how to live again, Elona must choose what love means after betrayal.
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A Lack of Proper Decorum by TheFemPC
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
15 Dec 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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When a catastrophe throws 14 year old Diana from her world into the world of Thedas, she finds herself more lost than she could have imagined. Stripped of her family and everything familiar, she clings to the kindness of strangers in the Chantry of South Reach. With only her voice and spirit to guide her, she must navigate a foreign land, a new language, and the lingering grief of a family torn apart.
*This can be treated as a prequel to an Inquisition story written later.
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Ever in Service by Goldberry_Bombadil
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Frozen (Disney Movies), Dragon Age (Video Games)
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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Dear Mia by Carako
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
29 Aug 2025
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A collection of letters between Cullen and Mia set across his life through all 3 games
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- Part 1 of Rutherfest 2025
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Dancing on the Ceiling (It's All For You) by disasterdrvid
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
29 Aug 2025
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"Like the desert as it prays for rain/It's never enough nough nough/Isolation got me lonely now/What a funny way of finding out/From the moment that I saw your face/Could I be enough nough nough?
We were dancing on the ceiling/I can feel it/Girl you know I love to lose control/Tell me can you feel it/Cause I feel it/Shaking from our head down to our toes/It's you, it's you, it's all for you/You know I'd do most anything/I'm dancing on the ceiling with you." -"Dancing on the Ceiling (With You) by Broadside.
Two moments where Cullen is on the sidelines when there is dancing, and a third where he's all too happy to join in.
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- Part 12 of Noble (Redux)
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They say history is written by the victors - but sometimes it's also written by academics and poets.
Inquisitor Quinn Trevelyan's military commander famously took an unlucky hit during the Second Inquisition's 9:42 siege at Adamant. The event profoundly affected the organization, as the critically injured commander's second was forced to take over the organization's massive force without preparation or guidance.
What follows is a submission of proposed writings for preservation in the Denerim archives: a file which explains in full the events which transpired after Adamant, and paint quite a specific picture of the relationship between the Inquisitor and her Commander. Included are numerous letters, carefully preserved historical documents, White Spire archives from the time of the Second Inquisition, and excerpts from books published in the years since the Chantry regained full control of the Inquisition at the 9:44 Exalted Council.
My thanks for your kind attention.
~ Professor Branson S. Rutherford, III, M.F.H. -
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This is part of an ongoing series: CHARON'S OBOL; this is chapter one of FRAGMENTS OF KIRKWALL, set during the events of DA:II.
The aim of this series is to write a better character arc for one Cullen Rutherford, who, despite a confusing amount of fandom love, has an arc across three games that isn't wholly coherent or consistent. Parts of this series may appear with other POV characters, and usually will be written within the context of a specific quest or part of the game in question's arc.
Finally, this series is written with a female circle mage Grey Warden, Iðunn Amell. An additional OC, Ser Griseldis of Starkhaven and Kirkwall, also plays a large role in the entries to this series.
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- Part 2 of CHARON'S OBOL
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Rylen follows his best mate from Kirkwall to work for the Inquisition. When Rylen finally answers one of the many missed calls from Cullen's sister Mia, he forges a bond he never expected to find with a woman he didn't even know existed.
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The Lion's Words by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age
04 May 2025
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Cullen Rutherford keeps a journal throughout DA:Inquisition. He struggles with lyrium withdrawals, guilt, and trauma, while desperately trying to keep the Inquisition from falling apart.
"so poignant...it's heartbreaking."
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"far more intelligent than some...best sellers."
"legitimately one of the best character studies I've ever read."
"It's become a fandom classic - something that i'll be able to come back to time and time again and enjoy it even more each time."
"This is absolutely, fucking brilliant."
"It's Canon in my head now."
"Your writing style is beautiful and you get into cullen's character and personality so, so well. I adore it, honesty"
"I demand more! It's so good!"
"...extremely refreshing. I dearly wish more people wrote Cullen like this"
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- Part 1 of The Lion's Words
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Thirteen years after entering Kinloch Hold and three months after the fall of Corypheus, Cullen Rutherford and Evelyn Trevelyan make a visit a long time coming, and Cullen is forced to reckon with the question haunting him for the past decade: just how unconditional is a family's love?
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december came, something changed - culrian "naughty or nice" 2024 by nicolasthedickolas, rubes
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
23 Dec 2024
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25 days of Culrian sort-of-Kinkmas content with a twist, set in a modern-but-still-magical alternative universe. Enjoy the misadventures, horniness and tooth-rotting fluff of Cullen and Dorian celebrating their first proper Christmas together in their new apartment.
Not all chapters will be kink -- in fact, every other chapter will be without smut. Hence "Naughty or Nice"! Tags for the fic will be updated as necessary.
Co-written by two gay husbands who love Culrian a little too much.
Day 22 - Quickie
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Surviving the Fifth Blight by Amaraldane
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
18 Sep 2024
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The Last Ten Years by pdlbean
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
19 Aug 2024
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A lot has happened since the Inquisition disbanded. We follow Former Inquisitor Evelyn Trevelyan and her husband Cullen Rutherford over the course of ten years, starting from the missing moments of Trespasser and ending with the pursuit of Solas across Thedas to stop him before his ritual begins.
Eventual spoilers for what we currently know about Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
The rating is subject to change in future chapters.
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The Last Days of the Herald by s1lk
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
12 Jul 2024
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Tevra took off her glove, and squinted at her palm. It didn’t look any worse than it had that morning or the day before, but ... she had admittedly stopped looking at it too closely in recent months. If she really thought about it there was never any guarantee that beating Corypheus would free her from the Anchor, but they had all collectively assumed it would do the trick. The fact that it didn't hurt her worse than any actual physical injury she sustained fighting him, and now all she could do was ignore the way it spasmed and withered her, and the fact that the only person who seemed to know what it was decided to vanish into thin air. Leliana had sent some of her people to find any information they could on the kind of magic that could be eating her alive, but so far ... no luck.
She heard her name on the breeze, but when she looked around, there was no one there.
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Elharen is a Tranquil, and Tranquil do not have desires. They do not make decisions of consequence. They do not feel emotions.
But the more Cullen is around her, the more he starts to wonder if those strange little moments - moments when she says too much, or hesitates too long, or looks at him directly in the eyes and holds his gaze - aren't maybe indications that she's in there somewhere, pounding against the doors of her captivity.
There is someone there, beneath the brand, begging to be seen. He wants to see her but the shadow of Tranquility is deep and frightening, memories of its misuse in Kirkwall darkening Cullen's nightmares.
Word of a cure comes, and changes everything.
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- Part 8 of lucy's Dragon Age canon