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The Fortress of Highever by howlsmovinglibrary
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age (Video Games)
12 Jan 2021
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Ismene Cousland knows that the only way Alistair can win the throne is with her help. But after finally escaping the confines of her noblewoman’s life, is marrying him to guarantee his success at the Landsmeet a sacrifice she’s willing to make?
Particularly when she knows that, no matter how she feels, their union will never be anything more than a marriage of political convenience.
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Arranged marriage AU, slight canon divergence, an angry Cousland with extreme first world problems.
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17 Dec 2021
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The Half-Life of Element Zero by GraphiteGirl
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Mass Effect
02 Sep 2020
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After her discharge from the Alliance, Commander Helen Trevelyan joined the Andromeda Initiative, wanting to leave her personal tragedies and a psycho ex-boyfriend behind her. She expected to sleep for 600 years, and wake up in a med bay. Instead, she crash-landed on a snow-covered mountain, ten-thousand years later. She is alone, confused, and dying from eezo radiation. And the only sign of civilization is an old church in the distance.
A Post-Modern Girl on Thedas fic.
Many, many thanks to my betas, Dreadlordcherrycake and Duinemerwen, who have advised me on all matters of lore, plausibility and verb tense. If it wasn't for them, this story would still be in cryo. Any mistakes are mine, not theirs.
I have a regular work schedule IRL, which means I don't have a regular update schedule on AO3. This story is visually supported.
I sometimes tumblr at https://unhealthynpcobsession.tumblr.com/
Bioware owns all/legal boilerplate/blah blah blah.
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- Part 1 of The Half-Life of Element Zero
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12 Apr 2021
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Borrowed Time by CollectorOfWonder
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
16 May 2020
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Evelyn Trevelyan only came to the Conclave at the behest of her cousins, who feared disruption by one or more agents of the smugglers who stood to profit from chaos. Nothing could have prepared her for what happened there or what followed, leading her down a path of grief but also hope - hope in finally letting go of her troubled past and the shadowed guilt consuming her, and hope to build a better world.
When someone like the Commander of the Inquisition forces believes in you with such strength and conviction, after all, it's hard not to stand a little taller.
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- Part 1 of Mark of Destiny
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24 May 2020
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The Revelation of All Things by EllenEmbee
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Aug 2020
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Haunted by the mistakes of her past, Evana Lavellan feels (reluctantly) compelled to stay and help the newly dubbed "Inquisition" close the Breach. But no longer than that. After all, they only care for her welfare because of the mark on her hand.
Unfortunately, every mission seems to take her further away from her goal instead of closer to it. But each refugee saved and disaster averted also brings with it a sliver of tranquility, a fleeting taste of atonement for past wrongs. Surrounded by new people - new friends - she discovers a wider world than she'd ever imagined with her clan, a world in which she has the power to improve the lives of both elves AND mages.
Strangest of all, she finds herself drawn to an unlikely friend and confidant in Inquisition's ex-templar military advisor who, like her, is all too familiar with the bitter taste of regret... and the fragile touch of hope.
**Game scenes/dialogue included but also tons of original "in-between" moments, dialogue, character development and introspection. Super mild AU for shuffling conversation locations and tweaking the order of events. Quizzy is my own.
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- Part 1 of Revelations
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15 Apr 2020