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I Shall Endure Book 3: A Song in the Stillness by Melysande
Fandoms: Dragon Age Awakening, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age Books and Comics
24 Nov 2019
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Thedas after the Blight. Old rivalries, threats and dangers resurface in Ferelden, the Marches, Nevarra and Orlais. Lys and Alistair, separated and believing the other dead, hide from Tevinters, Orlesians and their friends and family, who struggle to rebuild Ferelden. Still, brief moments of joy surface as the canon divergent story tracks them through the years before the explosion in Haven.
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- Part 3 of I SHALL ENDURE
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I Shall Endure Book 2: In Plain Sight by Melysande
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age
10 Apr 2017
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Escaping Howe's attack, Lys Cousland leaves Highever burning behind her to travel south to find Fergus. Disguised as Mel, a mercenary, she will need all her intelligence & strength to survive the coming year as she joins friends, old & new, to battle Blight, Civil War & continuing Orlesian threats. A canon divergent view of the Fifth Blight.
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- Part 2 of I SHALL ENDURE
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Dribs and Drabs for I Shall Endure Universe and Book 1: Brief Shining Moments by Melysande
Fandoms: Dragon Age, Dragon Age: Origins
23 Dec 2014
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Some scenes don't make it into the stories or they lead down alternative paths not taken. I've begun to turn a few from the I Shall Endure universe of Melysande Cousland and friends into alphabet one shots. They are 1000 words or less and won't be done in order. Most assume familiarity with Book 1: Brief Shining Moments; all assume familiarity with Dragon Age and Thedas.
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- Part 5 of I SHALL ENDURE
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I Shall Endure Book 1: Brief Shining Moments by Melysande
Fandoms: Dragon Age, Dragon Age: Origins
22 May 2014
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Ruled by King Maric Ferelden thrived after Rebellion's end, while Highever flourished under the Couslands. Melysande Cousland grew up in happy times, but after King Maric's disappearance, Ferelden changed. This canon divergent growing up story takes Lys to the brink of Blight and Civil war. Loghain, Alistair, Anora, Cailan, the Couslands, the Howes, my OC characters and many others grow along with Lys during these less turbulent times.
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- Part 1 of I SHALL ENDURE
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Extras and Appendices for the Series I SHALL ENDURE and Part 1. Brief Shining Moments by Melysande
Fandoms: Dragon Age, Dragon Age: Origins
09 May 2014
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Maker, though the darkness comes upon me,
I shall embrace the light.
I shall weather the storm.
I shall endure.
Canticle of Trials 1:10APPENDICES which provide background data and assumptions for the I Shall Endure series including Brief Shining Moments.
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- Part 4 of I SHALL ENDURE
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I SHALL ENDURE by Melysande
Fandom Dragon Age, Dragon Age Awakening, Dragon Age Books and Comics, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins
24 Nov 2019
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Maker, though the darkness comes upon me,
I shall embrace the light.
I shall weather the storm.
I shall endure.
Canticle of Trials 1:10Melysande Elayne Cousland's relationships with Alistair, Loghain,and Kailian (Kai) through childhood, the Blight, and into the confusing years of Awakenings and DA2.
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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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- English
- Words:
- 224,528
- Chapters:
- 63/?
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- 3
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- 5,418
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Bookmarked by Melysande
06 Dec 2019
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Elle is just an average every day corporate IT worker. She loves Dragon Age even if she is a little behind on the games. But who knew our universes were so close together. Elle finds out when an explosion rocks her world.
This work was started as a self indulgent self insert Modern Girl in Thedas story. While it still sort of is those things the characters have developed plans and plots that I never intended. I don't know what the rating will really be nor what romances will happen. I make no promise of posting schedule and I am known for hitting points of writers block but I will not abandon this story.
Bookmarked by Melysande
26 Nov 2019
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The Crystal Garden by JayRain
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
11 Mar 2021
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With Corypheus defeated and some well-earned relaxation ahead of them, it only makes sense that Inquisitor Theo Trevelyan and his love, Dorian Pavus, find themselves trekking to the frozen reaches of Emprise du Lion. Corypheus may be gone and his generals defeated, but the remnants of his red templars are finding their way from even the remotest corners of Thedas, called by the song in their veins that promises more: more power, more peace, more to harvest to satisfy their hunger. Theo and Dorian arrive ready to mop up the remnants, only to find themselves facing their most cunning enemy yet: Choice.
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- Part 5 of New Magic and Old Gods
Bookmarked by Melysande
04 Jun 2019
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Return From Darkness by theCelticMyst
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Aug 2021
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At the end of the Fifth Blight, the Hero of Ferelden sacrificed herself to destroy the archdemon. Some thought both souls had been destroyed, but a soul is energy and cannot be destroyed. Rather, they were sent to the Abyss/Void. After ten years in a literal Hell, she hears a soul screaming in the Fade. A tranquil mage (Trevelyan) had found herself in the Fade and her psyche cracked. Andraste stepped in and exchanged the two heroes, taking the Tranquil mage with her and restoring Lady Elisabeta Cousland to life. Not only must she deal with having a strange mark on her hand, but having a mage's powers and the repercussions of her death and resurrection (including having spent ten years in the Void/Abyss).
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- Part 1 of Return From Darkness and to the Light
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 270,974
- Chapters:
- 146/146
- Comments:
- 492
- Kudos:
- 483
- Bookmarks:
- 95
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Bookmarked by Melysande
16 Dec 2018
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Nyssa Trevelyan wakes alone, in the stables.
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- Part 2 of Tales of the Inquisitor
Bookmarked by Melysande
03 Jul 2018

