Best Epic Dragon Age Fanfics
Dragon Age fanfics over 100,000 words — the reader-favorite epics that define the fandom. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 Epic Dragon Age Fanfics
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A-Z Female Collection
by Jrobbo117
A simple A-Z work that takes female characters from across the many fandoms and places them in a relationship. It will be character x reader. I am bad at writing and summarizing.Edit: 5/12/24. By results of a vote individuals classed as femboy my appear in chapters. Basically its 'A-Z Female Collect
There and Back Again
by ElyssaCousland
Sierra is a modern-day business consultant who has changed the history of Thedas. Cailan survived, the Blight is over, but will there be a cost to the changes she has wrought? What about the future, still-unknown? Spoilers: DA:O, Awakenings, the Calling, Stolen Throne. Will continue into DA2 and
Dragon Age Prompts (Collection 1)
by jawsandbones
A collection of all the things too small to give their own post - generally prompts I receive. Tags will be updated accordingly!Multiple relationships, but the majority is FenHawke. There is also Dorian x Inquisitor, Cullen x Inquisitor, Zevran x Warden, etc etc. (Too many to fully tag - all relatio
Apples and Apostates
by TheThirdAmell
"The story will go where it wants to go. The characters drive it, not me. A good story, you don't really write. It was always there. You just uncover it."A companion piece to Accursed Ones. This is a collection of vignettes, told in various perspectives by various characters. Requests are always ope
Small, for a qunari [old]
by the_raven_called_iceveins
Katari, an unusually small qunari, wants nothing more than to decipher the meaning of dreams and discover who she was before the Valo-Kas found her bleeding out on a snowy Ferelden mountainside. In a world that views qunari as little more than ogres and her small stature makes her appear as easy pre
Seer of Thedas
by xElusiveFate
When Alyssa falls into Thedas, she brings more than just her modern sensibilities—she carries the weight of foreknowledge that could save or shatter this world she knows all too well. As a player of both Dragon Age: Inquisition and Veilguard, she understands the catastrophic events about to unfold.
Amy Dallon, Herald of Andraste
by Kylia
Amy Dallon. Panacea. A self-loathing, damaged, troubled young woman who's sanity teeters on the edge of a knife. In love with her sister, feeling like an alien intruder in her own family, desperate for the approval of a mother seemingly unable to give it, and overwhelmed by the monstrous potential o
Dragon Age Prompts (Collection 2)
by jawsandbones
A collection of all the things too small to give their own post - generally prompts I receive. Tags will be updated accordingly!Multiple relationships, but the majority is: Fenris x Hawke, Zevran x Warden, Dorian x Inquisitor, etc etc. (Too many to fully tag - all relationships specified in the titl
Thunder and Lightning
by Zerbinetta
Rook dies stopping Solas’ ritual. Fortunately, Inquisitor Lavellan has never been one to leave the most dangerous work to others—especially when it comes to putting false gods in their place and repairing what her former lover has broken for a second time. This is an AU retelling of Veilguard, in wh
Out of Tune
by Calescent
“I like her.”“Daisy, what did we say about strays?”“I remember. But she’s not at all like that cat… I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have fleas.”__Julia's life was just about perfect. Breaths away from becoming a full-time professional musician, she finds herself washed ashore in the most disgusting city
Ask Varric
by theCelticMyst
Varric Tethras is now writing an advice column for The Randy Dowager. Master Tethras receives letters from characters throughout all of Thedas (all games), from both major and very minor characters.
In the Shattering of Things
by LuckyWizard
Lady Rose Trevelyan is in over her head. Her attendance at the Conclave was only meant to distract her from her failures as a daughter. And then it blew a hole in the world. Marked by an unknown magic, armed with only a few relevant skills, Rose fumbles and fights her way across Thedas with a band o
Just Reach Out for the Light
by lottielovebuzz
Talia Cousland had always wanted more from her life. She wanted respect, position, love...but not just from her name or because she was Bryce Cousland's youngest child and only daughter. Yet never, in all her life, had she wanted it like this. Her family dead, her home destroyed, a Blight tearing th
The Path Forged by Fire
by Silverite_Pride
Fen'Harel is powerful. He is cunning. He is wise. Fen'Harel is ruthless. He is fierce. He is terrifying. Fen'Harel does not cry. He does not crack. He does not break. But sometimes, when the weight of his burden becomes too great, when he feels like he is crumbling beneath the mantle of Fen'Ha
Let Love Conquer Your Mind
by lottielovebuzz
When Aellyce Lavellan was sent to witness the events of the Conclave by her Keeper, the last thing she expected was for it to blow up and her life to be turned upside down. Now, she finds herself with a strange mark on her hand, leading the Chantry's Inquisition and trying to stop the world from bei
Standing in Blood (It's a Taste of Bittersweet)
by lottielovebuzz
When Maeva Hawke fled from Ferelden to Kirkwall, the last thing she expected was for her life to change so drastically. Not just because she and her family have nothing to her name, nor because of the strange group of friends she's ended up with...but because of the odd, kind-hearted Warden mage tha
Seven Weeks
by CrimsenKhalessi
Seven Weeks charts the volatile, intimate aftermath of Ivy “Rook” Ingellvar’s near-death and the slow rebuilding of a life with Volbank’s CEO—Emmrich Volkarin. In the glare of corporate crisis and city gossip, the line between work and love thins to a wire. Rook moves into his penthouse after the fi
Bring The Light
by ms_katonic
Fourteen years after the fall of Corypheus, and the continents of Tamriel and Thedas discovering each other, the Dragonborn Inquisitor has gone on to become Empress of Tamriel, deal with her Dominion archrivals, and raise her also Dragonborn children, the oldest of which is now grown-up, a universit
Slow Arrow, Lost Elf
by WhatsElvenforRegret
A diversion from Veilguard, with Lavellan and some old friends returning to take up the hunt for Solas. Pretty quickly diverging from the canon. Rating may change as things progress. Spoiler Warnings etc. Quick Look: Dorian grimaced, “We’re not taking her back there. Tell me that’s not the plan. He’
Eye of the Tempest
by Lyla_Mahariel
Lyla Mahariel, Interim Warden Commander of Ferelden, has saved the sacred ashes of her lover's god, but can she save herself and her world? The Archdemon still looms over them, taunting her in her dreams and after losing her eye, will she recover in time to defeat the blight? A tale of war and love,
As Constant As A Star
by cuppapai
Ella Cousland only ever wanted the freedom to choose how she'd live her life. That choice was taken from her the night her parents were murdered and her home destroyed. Promised to the Grey Wardens in exchange for her life, Ella finds herself right in the center of the Fifth Blight as a leader gathe
Hearts Yearn to Remember
by cuppapai
Forced to attend the Conclave being held at the Temple of Sacred Ashes, Ember Trevelyan is doing her best to get out of the situation when a magical explosion changes everything. With no memory of the event that leveled a mountain, or how she survived it, she's suddenly stuck with the responsibility
Ivy & Twine
by merrills
Maybe there wasn’t a perfect time to let yourself be loved. Maybe there were only the people who would love you when you were well, and the people who would love you when you weren’t. After the Exalted Council, the Inquisition will never be what it has been before.While Cole is ready to move on, Jos
Preso no quebra-cabeça (Stuck on the Puzzle)
by winterayla
Antigamente, quando morava em Kirkwall, Cullen tinha um acordo com um membro da guarda da cidade que satisfazia suas necessidades. Mas o tempo mudou tudo, e ele já havia perdido a esperança de encontrar um acordo semelhante novamente — isto é, até conhecer Iron Bull. O problema é que Bull parecia se
Blood Promise
by Zelara80
In order to escape the Blight, Jordan Hawke takes her family to the city-state of Kirkwall in the Free Marches. There, she needs to make a name for herself in order to keep her family safe. She decides to partner with a dwarven merchant to go into the Deep Roads on a expedition that could help to br
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This list of 25epic Dragon Age fanfics spans 7,248,321 total words. Kudos range from 38 on the newest entries to 2,921 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Explicit (13 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Romance · Slow Burn · Eventual Smut · Modern Girl in Thedas · Fluff.
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