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The Mabari Chronicles by Emarild
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Sep 2025
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Cassandra’s eyes grew wide. “Inquisitor- I mean, Morgan. Are you asking me what I think you are asking?”
“I understand that rebuilding the Seekers here in the guise of the Divine’s honour guard is a rather demanding task, so if you are not…”
“Are you mad? I would be honoured to… Although, won’t Sera be expecting to be your maid of honour?”
“I can assure you, she was perfectly content at the prospect of getting to throw flower petals and possibly cakes during the celebration. I still need to let Cullen know about that, though…”
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A few months have passed since the Inquisition was unanimously disbanded during the Exalted Council. Now it is time for everyone to move on.
After their long overdue visit to Cullen’s family, former Inquisitor Morgan Evelyn Trevelyan and her husband settle into their new home. Between mabari training lessons and wedding preparations they manage to find a new purpose – or rather, it finds them, when a desperate Ser Delrin Barris arrives at their doorstep.
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- Part 2 of Cullen and Morgan
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Queenside Knight by ImaSleepyBear
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
25 Sep 2025
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Cullen's new assignment just got a lot more complicated.
After the events at Kirkwall, the continent is on the verge of a political reckoning. Mages are rioting. Elves are being targeted by hate crimes. Public opinion is turning against the Templars. The world hinges on a precarious balance between the pro-mage and anti-mage factions. And when that balance tips, all hell will break loose.
In an attempt to quell the unrest, the Chantry has resurrected the Inquisition. The newly-appointed Inquisitor finds herself at the center of this political maelstrom. She is the target of every group that wishes to tip the scales in their favor. She needs a bodyguard. She needs Cullen.
His mental health has already been pulled taut by his time in Kirkwall and his lyrium withdrawal. Falling in love with the woman he is supposed to protect may be what finally does him in.
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- Part 2 of Queenside Knight - Modern AU
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Deeper than the Ocean Itself by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
26 Sep 2025
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The Inquisition is done, the battle is won. The only thing to do now is continue. But Cullen Rutherford is only a shell of the man he once was, lyrium claiming more pieces of his body and his mind with each day. On a journey to Val Chevin, his ship wrecks upon the Waking Sea and Cullen finds himself at the mercy of the waves. Until a creature known as a siren rescues him and reminds him of what it means to be brave. [AU, semi-canon compliant]
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Ever in Service by Goldberry_Bombadil
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Frozen (Disney Movies)
24 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.
*Updated at least 2x weekly.
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Let the sword return to its sheath by IrinaPalmova
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
23 Sep 2025
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Before the young woman’s eyes, fine red lines began to etch themselves into her skin, stretching from her elbow down to her wrist. She could hardly look away, her heart pounding in her chest as the words appeared, written in blood like some sacred covenant.
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Fragments of Us by Nunaiswriting
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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Inquisitor Ophelia Lavellan never asked for power—but war, loss, and duty have made her stronger, and more vulnerable, than she ever expected. Commander Cullen Rutherford stands at her side, steady and distant… until the weight of their pasts begins to draw them closer.
Fragments of Us is a slow-burn, Cullen x Lavellan romance that unfolds between battles and quiet nights. It explores healing, trust, and the kind of love that grows in the silence between two survivors.
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Far Kinder, Far Gentler by Syrina
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
21 Sep 2025
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His gaze returned again to the drawer at his desk, to the quick snap of the lock that would take but a moment, at the relief that was guaranteed, an end to his self-inflicted torment. He could feel sweat upon his brow, beading on his upper lip, forming, somehow both balmy and cold, under his armor.
“Are you listening to me, Cullen—?”
He was pinned between two forces. The lyrium and her. Stretched taught between them to the point where he could feel his sinews straining. One force had to give, the lyrium or her—
He surged from his chair, taking the choice from one victor, giving it to the other.
One addiction after all was far kinder, far gentler.
“Can I touch you?” was out of him before he could preface it, arrange it to be better-worded.
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Or Cullen goes through lyrium withdrawal and uses "servicing" Inquisitor Lavellan as a way to cope.
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- Part 1 of Crimson Rites
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Of Lions and Serpents by Lorna_k
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
21 Sep 2025
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You ever watched two mabari circling each other, all raised hackles and bared teeth, neither willing to be the first to back down? That’s what it was like when those two met. Commander Cullen Rutherford, Fereldan to the bone, a former Templar who’d spent half his life bracing for the next magical catastrophe, and Dorian Pavus, a Tevinter noble who wielded magic like a second skin and arrogance like a well-tailored cloak. The two were like oil and fire, and let me tell you, neither had any interest in mixing.
-Excerpt from notes of Varric Tethras from his time in the Inquisition.
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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
21 Sep 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:
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"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.”
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“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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A Measure of its Living Flesh by thedragonagelesbian
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
20 Sep 2025
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Hawke has a terrible secret. Meredith Stannard catches her. Neither of them know where to go from here. What they are certain of, though, is that they both have a lot to atone for.
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- Part 2 of the debt of blood
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Drifting through Memories by Bigolmacncheese
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
19 Sep 2025
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~~ If you're just here for the sex (and welcome, friend), chapters 4, 12, 18, 19 and 27 are for you~~
After finding out that his father had, shall we say, more than just a hand in the death of the boy he loved, 18-year old Dorian Pavus flees his home with the sole goal of getting as far away from Tevinter as possible, eventually finding himself lost in the inhospitable Frostback Mountains.
Lucky for him, 19-year old Cullen Rutherford, Templar Recruit, is part of the search party sent out to bring him home. Their fates collide when they are trapped together in a cave deep in the Frostbacks, with only each other to rely on for survival, and enough time to bring them close.
But the following decade is hard on the two men - Dorian's father completes his blood ritual, leaving his son irreparably changed, and Cullen's time trapped in Kinloch Hold has instilled in him an unwavering hatred for mages. When their paths cross again in the Inquisition, there's little left of the two boys who had fallen in love in the Frostbacks.
But perhaps they will learn to love and accept one another as they are now, scars and all...
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The Light You Still Hold by briannasroger
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
18 Sep 2025
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Convincing the Inquisition of her innocence was hard enough when she was newly marked, let alone a month after fleeing from their custody. Ophelia Trevelyan has no wish for history to remember her as just one more mage to ruin the world, but when her choices are stay and die or run and live, she knows which option to pick. She doesn’t know how she’ll convince the Inquisition to believe her this time, but maybe closing the rifts and making friends with them all is a start.
Until closing the rifts becomes less about proving her own innocence and more about saving the world one rift at a time. Until becoming friends with them means starting to love them.
A story in which the Herald flees from the Inquisition, winds up right back with them, and somehow finds happiness throughout all the trials to follow.
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My Dear Commander by Lyssarah
Fandoms: Cullen Rutherford - Fandom, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
18 Sep 2025
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The world was crumbling around them, nothing but fear and horror as the sky ripped open as they were on the precipice of the end of the world. Lyssarah Evelyn Trevelyan, a Mage from the Circle of Ostwick was the answer they were searching for. In the mist of a Templar-Mage war, with a magical anchor that was slowly killing her, she is willing to do anything to bring the crisis to an end. When an ex-Templar, now Commander of the newly reformed Inquisition meets the soon to named leader of their organization, he cannot help but fall hopelessly in love with her, despite her being a Circle Mage —Something he once deeply feared and despised.
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为《审判》Cullen补上心路历程 by 常夜 (Tokoyo_000000)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
17 Sep 2025
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他在DAO对法师是激进鹰派，之后态度逐步缓和，到DAI升格为LI，竟对这些PTSD和观念转变过程避而不谈，唯一核心事件只有戒毒，随便哪个圣殿武士都能演这出戏码。
换成新角色这么干没问题，但这么处理卡伦就完全是浪费前两代的积淀，越想越气，遂自己动手补全其心路历程，附赠对DAO无果初恋的感慨。原以为一千字能搞定，结果接近三千字，按原作全语音逐行显示的做法，这稿子太长了。
- Language:
- 中文-普通话 國語
- Words:
- 2,595
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 7
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Inquisition - The Lion Of Ferelden - Act 4 - Part 2 by nekojinrogue
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
12 Sep 2025
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Continuation of Saga Of A Templar
Cullen Rutherford has issues.
He has been demon possessed, he has been tortured, he has been turned on and abandoned and forsaken by those he trusted, those he cared about, those he worshiped.
He has also has found true friends where he least expected them.Cullen is now the Teyrn of Western Ferelden and serving the Inquisition. He has forsaken the templar Order and founded his own order of the Verumque where mages and knights are treated as equals and work together toward a common cause - To Serve Ferelden. Or, that's the intention.
His demon Wrath has now become Valor after making an accord with a feral mabari lost in the Frostback mountains. Valor is at Cullen's side as his guard and companion now.
Cullen is still restling with his remaining demon which he has named Reverie. He's realizing his mistake.Can his companions help him find true freedom and salvation before the Elder One comes for him?
Will they even figure out what he truly suffers from?
Can he even ask for the help he needs?Posts will come a bit slower for this part.
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- Part 6 of Saga Of A Templar
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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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A Lack of Proper Decorum by TheFemPC
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Sep 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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You Call Me By My Name by SidheLives for librarypirate
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
08 Sep 2025
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Five times Inquisitor Evelyn Trevelyan came to see Raleigh Samson.
One time he was brought before her.Written for the Black Emporium Exchange 2025
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The Edge and the Tether by PhillyImpala
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
07 Sep 2025
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The Inquisition demands three things of its army’s commander: humility, fortitude, and courage. One thing it does not demand, however, is patience, and testing it in every direction is the Herald of Andraste. Denouncing his strategies, ignoring his experience, flouncing important duties to pick elfroot: the one Andraste sent to lead the Inquisition to victory might instead lead Commander Rutherford to insanity, all the while dragging him though the morbid details of his past. He may survive the war, but Cullen doesn't know if he can survive confronting all the ugly parts of himself that he's hidden for decades.
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Fractured Souls: Frozen Hope by macha1313
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
04 Sep 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