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“In this the truth is found. Blessed are they who stand before the corrupt and the wicked and do not falter. Blessed are the peacekeepers, the champions of the just.”
Broken, angry and in the throngs of dependence on lyrium, Knight-Captain Cullen Rutherford has the weight of Kirkwall on his shoulders. Whispers are spreading of Knight-Commander Meredith’s unfitness to lead the templars, tensions between the mages and templars are quickly coming to a breaking point, and dark secrets linger in the halls of The Gallows.
Neria Surana, Cullen’s closest friend in Kinloch Hold - Ferelden’s Circle Tower - finally convinced the heads of the tower to let her transfer to The Gallows. Determined to help her friend, despite her hurting heart, Neria finds herself in one of the darkest places in the world. Unprepared, unprotected and undaunted, Neria vows she will help him.
An Unbreaking AU where Neria makes it to The Gallows, finds Cullen very much changed and very much broken. Will she be able to break through Cullen’s prejudices? Will she be able to discover what haunts the footsteps of the mages and convince Cullen to help her? Can she find a way to bring the templars and mages together before it’s too late?
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He Can Be Stong For Somebody Else - Act 2 by nekojinrogue
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
18 Dec 2023
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It's a daily struggle, a grind toward salvation.
Right now it feels impossible, there's no resolution and no end in sight, but at least Cullen is staying busy.
He has remembered what it is to try to be proactive. Or as proactive as one can be while insomnia and depression and anger and trauma all push and pull in every direction at once.But Cullen is trying his best. Thankfully, his best is pretty damn good.
Especially in the face of adversity.Plus, he's realizing...things that he accepted as truth... It really isn't. And these mages have a really shit time in Kirkwall. Even he has to admit that.
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- Part 3 of Saga Of A Templar
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Where the Journey Ends by JellyDishes, Lavellanvibes, little_abyss
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
19 Aug 2023
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The Winter Palace holds many surprises for the Inquisition, and the Arcane Advisor to Empress Celene is not the least of them. But the more Dorian finds out about Anders and his past, the more he realizes that the man's ambitions may outstrip his own. Can Anders be trusted? There's more than one way to find out.
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After a Mage Underground task goes awry, Hawke shares a moment with Justice in their escape.
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A Templar has gone missing on patrol. His body won't be found. Beneath the city, Darktown residents look the other way as something retreats to its lair.
Anders and Justice deal with the aftermath of a moment of indulgence. This is not the first time. It won't be the last.
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- Part 15 of The State of Thedas, Built and Reborn
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Butcher, Cutter,- by miraculan for Luddleston
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
15 Mar 2023
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A mage underground veteran joins the party up Sundermount to make a very important delivery to the Dalish, and proves himself both useful and intriguing along the way.
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- Part 5 of Dragon Age II- Hawke/Anders
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Late summer, 9:38 Dragon
A trip to Antiva to find refugee mages takes a turn for the dangerous when two elves fleeing slavery in Tevinter stumble right into Anders and Fenris. Dealing with the bounty hunters chasing them is easy for Fenris. Dealing with the emotions and memories brought forward by the surprise is much harder.
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- Part 21 of One and the Same
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A Rare Thing by anderstrevelyan for venartohru (venatohru)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games)
20 Dec 2022
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Jowan thought he knew how to escape from the Circle—he's only been watching Anders fail to stay out for years. But when everything falls apart, and he tries to repent, to help as many people as he can, he finds himself in Kirkwall. He definitely doesn't expect this, the feeling he gets when he looks at the mage at the heart of his new world.
Written for the Secret Sanders Exchange 2022.
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That was when they took their first breath of free air; still stinking, because it wasn’t exactly Hightown or Sundermount, but it felt different. Lighter, clearer. Shit and smoke and beer, but… well. It was shit and smoke and beer, not terror and the bitter bite of lyrium. No dusty books or musty robes, just life. People living free.
Anders' favourite part of freeing mages is leaving Darktown.
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Blood, Steel, and Light by betagyre
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
13 Oct 2022
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A dystopian AU influenced by the Cold War and Iron Curtain. Also, rebel mages with guns. And desperate revolutionaries in love. Enjoy!
By the Fourteenth Age, Thedas is a different place. Democracy and religious freedom reign in the Free World. But unfortunately, there's another part of Thedas that is not free: the authoritarian states in the Marcher Pact.
The secularization of the Templars did not mean the end of mage persecution there. It's just conducted by the state, and it's far worse than the Circles were. In Marcher Pact states, death squads relentlessly hunt down mages.
There was no mage rebellion in the Dragon Age, after all. Hawke and Anders wouldn't be born until 500 years later. They are doing everything they can to get Kirkwall mages to free countries, but they also intend to start a revolution. And since each day could be their last, they make every private moment count.
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Extortion by DontTellJim
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
15 Apr 2022
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A short fic exploring Samson’s brief dealings with poor Feynriel. And with his supplier.
Written for @chaos-company‘s Angstpril 2022, Day 13 - Never Enough
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a shared cause is the best aphrodisiac by andy_deer for Settiai
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types
14 Nov 2021
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"Only a true master at secrets can pass a note that would seem innocuous to a templar but would convey both a message about a required mage rescue and a dirty limerick about one's lack of undergarments. You have no idea what a gem you have in your family."
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Marian Hawke is a rising journalist in a modern day Kirkwall. When Varric brings her the next big story she must navigate dangers she had not perceived and feelings she thought herself incapable of. At the same time, Fenris must learn to let down his walls and embrace those who wish to help him in his quest for freedom.
“Sitting up in my suite is our ticket to the next biggest story.” Varric continued motioning his free hand in a dramatic flare, “His name is Fenris. Came across me through one of my contacts-a jumpy fellow named Anso. Point being, the broody bastard is an escaped slave from Tevinter. He's been on the run from his former master for nearly three years and...Hawke...he’s willing to spill all of the Imperium’s dirty secrets. He’ll be anonymous of course and in exchange we have to make him a legal citizen. I already have my guys working on getting him fake identification. But, this is it Hawke. The story we’ve been waiting for… and I want you to write it.”
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You're the Best Thing I Never Knew I Needed by TheMoments (TBs_LMC)
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
23 May 2021
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The same day Anders, Varric, Fenris and Hawke return from the Deep Roads, Hawke’s world spirals out of control, complete with betrayals from unexpected corners. The one man she turns to suddenly becomes the best thing she never knew she needed…and not entirely through his own doing.
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Instead of Anders killing Karl in the Chantry, Justice cured Karl of Tranquility. Free again, eyes opened to the worst that could happen to a mage, Karl took up the cause beside Anders.
No Templars would be able to tear them apart.
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Serenity: Kirkwall by Fuzzybuttkins
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
12 Aug 2020
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During the events of Dragon Age II, Serenity finds Cullen in Kirkwall, dedicates herself to searching for a cure for the Calling, and tries to save Anders.
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- Part 3 of Dragon Age: Serenity
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Telin lands in Thedas -- in Kirkwall, specifically -- after an encounter with an abandoned Eluvian on her way home.
With the mark of the "Kirkwallers" on her forearm, and visions of past and future events, but no real memory of the world she fell into, she tries to piece everything together to find a purpose to her presence in Thedas.
One last question remains, though: why is everyone in Kirkwall either incredibly attractive or a blood mage? -
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Early summer, 9:37 Dragon
Fenris arrives with Anders in Starkhaven, where some of Anders' old allies have gathered to discuss the future of the Mage Underground. In meeting these would-be revolutionaries, Fenris has a few revelations about himself.
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- Part 8 of One and the Same
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A Tower on the Lake by NoC6H12O64u
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
17 Aug 2019
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After the events of Kinloch and Kirkwall, Eliza Amell returns to Ferelden to help the rebel mages. Caught up in the events of the Inquisition, she has to decide if she can forget the past in order to help, even if that means reconciling with a templar she never expected to see again.
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Heart Like a Hand Grenade by Paperclippe
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 Jul 2018
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“Nothing up this sleeve, nothing up this one.” Keeping her hands in the air as the captain rose, she said, “You folks gonna arrest me?”
Leanne is a mage, and a Ferelden refugee. Struggling to find her place in her new home, she takes a job in a clinic working for the notorious upstart mage Anders and tries to hold it all together and hold the people she loves close while everything else is falling apart.
A modern retelling of select parts of Dragon Age: II, focusing on the Mage Rebellion and asking: What if Anders had had help?