Happenstance_And_Algorithms
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Honnleath by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - Various Authors
12 Jul 2026
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Cullen Rutherford fell in love with Inquisitor Lavellan, even though such selfish and undisciplined lapses in judgement go against everything he thought he knew about himself. That was bad enough. After the Inquisitor and Solas spent two straight nights together in an all-too-public tryst in Skyhold, Cullen knew that he and Lavellan were just not meant to be. Now, there is nothing left to do but cope.
His work is his safe haven, but reminders of the Inquisitor and Solas mock him everywhere he looks. In his beat up old journal, Cullen tries to escape his heartbreak by going to the first and last real home he ever had.
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- Part 3 of The Lion's Words
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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
31 May 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, and all he has to keep himself sane is a beat up old journal.
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- Part 2 of The Lion's Words
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Kill It Away/Remember Everything by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Oct 2025
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It's been two and a half years since the events of Broken Circle, and Knight-Corporal Cullen Rutherford has reintegrated in the Gallows of Kirkwall. His roommate, Raleigh Samson, is a welcome change from the rowdy and often judgemental general corps of Free Marcher Knights. You see, Cullen can't sleep without screaming. With no relief and no refuge but his job, he has had little choice but to pick up as much work as possible to keep intrusive thoughts and unwanted rest from getting in. That is, until a fateful day in the senior mage wing. Cullen is about to find out that more is going on in the Gallows--and within himself--than anyone has yet guessed.
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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.
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"Your writing style is beautiful and you get into cullen's character and personality so, so well. I adore it, honesty"
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- Part 1 of The Lion's Words
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The Lion's Words by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
Fandom Dragon Age, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age - Various Authors, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Jul 2026
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No one is safe from the temptations of the demonic when blood magic disrupts the lives of an Elven scout, an Orlesian Circle mage, and two Templars on a secret mission from the Inquisition to bind fade rifts. Be it Rage, Pride, Despair, or Fear there is a weakness in all hearts ready to be exploited by the evils of the fade.
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22 May 2025
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She Looks Right Through Me by Fiber_Punk
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
26 Jan 2025
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It seems a simple task. Just another landsmeet to determine the fate of the still half destroyed Circle Tower, Kinloch Hold. But when King Alistair is faced with the one thing he desperately wanted but couldn’t have distraction plagues his proceedings.
Warden Commander Tabris on the other hand is finally hitting her stride in leadership. With rebuilding efforts underway in Amaranthine and Vigil’s Keep she prepares to join the Landsmeet along with a fellow Warden and mage at her side to help support the efforts of the circle and prevent it from falling further into disarray. She’s certain she can keep her head down and her mind focused on the task at hand and not let old feelings get in her way. New feelings on the other hand…This work is complete.
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- Part 8 of Warden Tabris World State
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14 Oct 2024
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Hoseok is a film student looking for muse, and Yoongi is a tattoo artist looking for money. When they meet, the two find that they could give each other far more than creativity and cash, but soulmate isn't spelled p.e.r.f.e.c.t, and Yoongi's tattoos cover up more than just his skin.
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Looking Into the Abyss by iduna
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
27 Aug 2023
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Zarah Addar was born into the Qun. Taken by her mother when she was young, she was raised as Tal Vashoth. Working as a mercenary, she was hired to provide security for the Conclave called by Divine Justinia V. The Temple explodes, she falls out of the Fade, and she becomes the Herald of Andraste. Then she meets The Iron Bull, and shit starts to go sideways.
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- Part 1 of In Her Arms Lies Eternity
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He had shut himself into his bedroom and avoided his fellow vessels for the past three days. The only time he leaves is late at night, sneaking into the sparsely stocked kitchen to soak some Weetabix in milk before he returns to his self-imposed isolation.
In all this time, none of the others had come to knock on his door, to ask about him, and the fact hurts more than he would like to admit, feeds that dormant something until it grows to fill his entire body. It confirms the fear that had dug its claws into his gut since he was a child.
No one truly cares about you.
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Bookmarked by Happenstance_And_Algorithms
14 May 2023