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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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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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    08 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    ON HIATUS?

    I'm pretty sure I will finish this before I pass away from old age, because I've been circling back to these two every eighteen months or so for a decade and I have hundreds of thousands of words down, I just keep adjusting plot points and throwing everything off. But old age is still a fair way off, so... maybe don't read unless you just love an unfinished WIP.

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    Alena and Cullen are unexpectedly thrown back together in the wake of the Conclave. But in the thick of war, the tangled mess of their histories is hard to reconcile.

    Everybody's trauma is being laboriously worked through! Also a little plot, a little politics, a little porn. Anti-Templar Order but pretty pro-Templars; some minor canon divergence; freely tossing out the lore when it suits me.

    The previous fic in this series, An Unmarked Place, sets up the preexisting relationship between Alena and Cullen. It's not too long and this probably won't make a ton of sense without it.

    Will update tags as we go along and drop trigger warnings in the notes when the tough stuff comes up.

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    22 Jan 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 79

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    A slow burn novelization of Inquisition with a heavy focus on the romance between Cullen Rutherford and Kaitlyn Trevelyan.


    Was she pretty?

    He rolled his eyes at the thought. Either way, it didn’t matter. She was a mage: an apostate, at that. Once the Breach was sealed and an Inquisitor chosen, he was certain she’d take her leave, perhaps going to join the other apostates at Redcliffe. Cullen closed his eyes, his mind slowly letting go of all the reports he’d read, of all the people they’d lost, of the pounding pain behind his eyes.

    There were more important things to worry about than Kaitlyn Trevelyan.

    CURRENTLY BEING RE-WRITTEN - REWRITE IS DONE AND AVAILABLE HERE

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    07 Sep 2015

  4. Public Bookmark 32

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    As king and sovereign of Aravalle, Stanton Olivie Carlisle Rutherford has placed all of his hopes and dreams within his son, Cullen. He needs his son not only to ascend to the throne and lead their people, but also to marry an appropriate woman who can rule at his side. It is the king's hope that his son makes a quick match, preferably before he is crowned as king in one week's time.

    Cullen is resistant to the idea on the grounds that he should be concentrating on being king and prince, not on romance. Stanton, however, knows his son and understands that having someone at your side is worth more than all the gold in Tevinter.

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    20 Aug 2015

  5. Public Bookmark 57

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    She winces and tries desperately to correct people when they call her "Herald". If he were a crueller man, he’d find it amusing. 

    A cynical, awkward mage who lost her faith a long time ago, a worn-down ex-templar and an unlikely friendship. The Inquisitor and her commander, through each other’s eyes and those of the Inquisition.

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    29 Mar 2015