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Dragon Age: Battle of the Gods by sailormuffin
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 Sep 2025
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Solas's plan worked, he changed the world. But for the worst, trapped in a world of darkness with no magic... Eleven years later, in the world of ruin, an unlikely group travel back in time with a stroke of luck. Giving them a second chance to save the world. Will they succeed? Or accidentally lead the world onto a path of further ruin with harsher consequences?
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"No, it was a goddess, an elven goddess, his goddess, who was not what the stories the Dalish told said she was. He could sense her, feel her too, within the taint. She was not divine. She was corrupted, just like the darkspawn. Just like him."
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What are we afraid of, anyway? by lusilly
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age (Video Games)
06 Aug 2025
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The taint has taken the Hero of Ferelden further than she realized. She thinks about all the people she failed. She thinks about the horror of martyrdom. And she drops her blood into the mouths of darkspawn, and imagines their bodies as those of the people she lost, and hurt, and failed.
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- Part 2 of lucy's Dragon Age canon
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- English
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- 1,554
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Several months have passed since the battle of Denerim. Aeden Cousland reunites with his friends Daylen Amell and Leliana to seek out his missing love, Morrigan.
Complications arise when along the way they are tasked with investigating a Grey Warden outpost in the Planascene Forest that has gone mysteriously silent. Can they get to the bottom of the disappearances and still escape with their lives?
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Peace be within thy walls by leonidskies
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Apr 2025
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He was trying to talk about it. He usually didn't let anyone so much as mention it, even as the shadows under his eyes deepened and his steps faltered and he coughed black into handkerchiefs he burned as soon as they were used.
Or: five times Ashur tries to get Tarquin to accept he's dying, and one time he doesn't have to.
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where the heart is by birdisanangel
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
27 Mar 2025
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Why should Mahariel have to spend the rest of his life searching for a cure away from everyone he loves when unknowingly a double blight is just around the corner?
He's been asking himself something similar lately.
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- English
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- 9
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Toward a unifying theory of the blight and its effects by RobotBoyfriend, SidneySussex
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
17 Mar 2025
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In this paper, we present a unifying theory of the blight that positions it as a corruption of the ancient isatunoll, or collective hivemind consciousness, of the Titans and their descendants. We propose that this isatunoll, sundered from the Titans and cast into the Fade by the Evanuris and then further altered to incorporate the Taint, constitutes the blight as it is known today. Additionally, we propose that the Joining ritual of the Order of the Grey Wardens serves to inoculate those who survive it against further corruption by the Taint via a sympathetic bond with the archetypal isatunoll. Finally, we provide reasoning to suggest that the Joining can only be survived by those with latent genetic heritage derived from the Titans themselves, whether directly (as with the dwarva) or via the ancient elvhen people who constructed physical bodies from lyrium, the blood of the Titans.
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His Fears (Third Vignette) by sapphylore
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Jan 2025
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Emmrich believes he can find an answer to the Calling, while Davrin knows it's a fool's errand. Third vignette of the His and Hers series.
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After everything we’ve done by inquisitor_larue
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
22 Dec 2024
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Davrin has set up the perfect date night for him and Rook but things take a turn for the worst when she doesn’t turn up.
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- English
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- 976
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- 12
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the calling by Bird (everyoneblooms)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
05 Dec 2024
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“The Warden Commander postponing my Calling so she can keep me around to warm her bed? Oh, the scandal.”
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- Part 7 of this charming man
- Part 23 of world state a
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The Blight Shall Not Take You by Rough_Rabbit_Head for Mando_Cyare
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
30 Nov 2024
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He turned away from the mage for a split second as they became surrounded by darkspawn when his heart dropped into his stomach. He didn’t have to hear Mavrik cry out to know what had happened. He could sense the moment the Blight entered the shorter man’s bloodstream. He screamed out his rage and whirled around to make whatever creature had touched him pay for it and put himself firmly between Mavrik and everyone else.
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Or the one in which Mavrik gets Tainted during the Weisshaupt siege.
EDIT 1/6/25: Parts of this story have been rewritten to incorporate story details about my Rook that have changed while writing of "Bring Me Peace" (I.E. Him actually being possessed by a demon.)
**Potentially Contains Spoilers for The Siege of Weisshaupt quest. I don't go into full detail and this deviates from in-game canon a bit. Just be warned anyways!**
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- Part 2 of Misadventures of Mavrik de Riva
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Veilbound Drabbles 2024 by pinkishhorror
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II
31 Oct 2024
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Drabbles written for the #Veilbound writing prompt challenge created by @/nympthi and @/citadrells on twitter!
Tags will be updated as I go but I’m new to posting on AO3 so if I miss anything that needs tagged pls feel free to let me know!
!Contains Spoilers for Dragon Age: Inquisition!
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You Will Always Be on My Mind by zailorofthezea
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
03 Oct 2024
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Crysanthe, the future Rook, has been a Grey Warden for 3 years now along with her three, living siblings. Now, one of those siblings has started to undergo the horrible curse of the Wardens, the Calling, prematurely. These are their last days together. Prompt fill for Veilguard30.
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- English
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- 1,691
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Aisles of Memory and Regret by midnightprelude, oftachancer
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age
08 Sep 2024
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With the return of the Deep Roads expedition, the Kirkwall crew experiences some changes. The Hawkes have made their fortune, but at what cost? Anders continues searching for a cure for Karl's Tranquility.
This series is the fourth part of The Mortice and the Tenon, following the tale of Karl Thekla and Anders. To follow their history to this point, please enjoy the earlier parts of the Arc. Thank you!
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- Part 5 of The Mortice and the Tenon
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The Path of Most Resistance by leggywillow
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
29 Aug 2024
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After (supposedly) killing Corypheus alongside her partner Carver Hawke, Warden Adara Surana is determined to cure the Taint that dooms them to an early grave. When Anders blows up the Kirkwall Chantry, however, her plans are thrown into chaos. Carver rushes to Kirkwall to help his sister, Champion Vivial Hawke, and Adara chases after him.
Templar Dacre Trevelyan is lost and grieving. He’s determined to drag Anders to Starkhaven to face justice, and he’s willing to go through Hawke—and anyone else—to do it. He crosses paths with Adara Surana instead. It’s kind of a disaster.
This is Part 3 of Warden Surana’s story, to cover DA2 endgame events and the immediate aftermath. POVs from Adara Surana, Dacre Trevelyan, and Carver Hawke.
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- Part 3 of The Mistakes of Men and Monsters
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Вкус скверны горький by fandom Dragon Age 2024 (Dragon_Age_World), luboznatelnaia
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins
24 Aug 2024
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«Его отец некоторое время помогал растить Кирана, но события так сложились, что ему пришлось нас покинуть» Морриган о Сером Страже.
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Is it still you? by fandom Dragon Age 2024 (Dragon_Age_World), luboznatelnaia
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins
24 Aug 2024
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It's Only Forever by SidheLives for Settiai
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
09 Jul 2024
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Bartrand is a right bastard, leaving them for dead in the Deep Roads.
Anders hates the Deep Roads.
At least things can't get any worse.Written for the Black Emporium Exchange 2024
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- Part 2 of The Black Emporium Exchange 2024
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Fading Through Time by TinaOnTheAstralPlains
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Tabletop RPG), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
05 Jun 2024
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Inquisitor Isabeau Trevelyan has relived the events of the Inquisition over 400 times after encountering a couple of Magisters experimenting with time magic. Through it all, Cullen has stood by her side.
Now, she has found herself wading through the complications of a new love affair with Solas that began in a lifetime when she thought at best, Cullen was possessed by a demon, and at worst, he was dead.
Will the Inquisition find a way to stop repeating time? Will Isabeau resolve the torn nature of her heart between Cullen and Solas?
In Chapter 1: The Aftermath
Cullen deals with the aftermath of a Darkspawn horde attack on Skyhold. A friend asks the Templar in Cullen to look the other way. A decision faces the Inquisition's advisors regarding the care of one of Skyhold's most beloved family members.
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- Part 2 of Inquisitor Isabeau's Tale