#dwell within

🌺M a r a I s B a c k🌺

Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s story is far from over in the Solavellan Epic Dwell Within on Archive of Our Own.

Chapters 36 & 37 will be published soon!

💫The Dwell Within Series is a collection of Dragon Age fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, featuring mature stories of Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s journey post-Trespasser as a prelude to Dragon Age 4.

🌺Bound to the Rebel God🌺

Inquisitor Mara Lavellan & the Dread Wolf from DA fanfic Dwell Within

“In the dark, another god and mortal loved and warred, even as they had met their end together. And in the light? What could a god and his equal sew into the threads of time?”

—Dwell Within Chapter 35: The Dread Wolf Taken

💫Dwell Within is a Solavellan Epic on Archive of Our Own, a mature tale of Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s decisive action after Fen’Harel’s reveal in Trespasser.

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☀️ Art commissioned by fish_tobio on Insta.

⚜️First of Clan Lavellan⚜️

Mara Lavellan

Before the love of an ancient god, before the mark that would shape her fate, Mara watched history unravel only to find herself drawn to make history herself.

This is her story.

🌺 archiveofourown.org/works/23937004

💫Gifted by juleselenaart on Insta

💫The Dwell Within Series is a collection of Dragon Age fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, featuring mature stories of Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s journey post-Trespasser as a prelude to Dragon Age 4.

✨ Ko-Fi: Altoclefgirl | AO3: Altoclefgirl

✨ Insta: Alto.Writes | Twitter: AltoWrites

(To Hold in My Protection Until Death)

🏹 Felassan & Mara Lavellan 🌺

As if it were a slow arrow to the heart, there is more to unfold in Mara’s tale. While this moment is yet to be told, revel in the curiosity of the First and Felassan.

💗 My gratitude to @theluckybard for creating this moment held in my mind.

💗 And my thanks to Patrick Weekes’s and their incredible writing in The Masked Empire.

And as the plight of the fandom rings, #saveFelassan

💫The Dwell Within Series is a collection of Dragon Age fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, featuring mature stories of Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s journey post-Trespasser as a prelude to Dragon Age 4.

Themes of hope, redemption, prevailing through fears, and all the feels. 💗

Inquisitor Mara Lavellan & The Dread Wolf

🌺Giving in to her liberated the melancholy of his scarred soul. And if anything, in this moment and everlasting, his ancient heart worshiped her.🌺

Dwell Within Chapter 25: Everlasting

Commissioned art by Zchhaeus on Insta.

💫The Dwell Within Series is a collection of Dragon Age fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, featuring mature stories of Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s journey post-Trespasser as a prelude to Dragon Age 4. Themes of hope, redemption, prevailing through fears, and all the feels. 💗

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23937004

The Fade Kiss

🌺Inquisitor Mara Lavellan & Solas🌺

💫Art gifted by @thedreadwolfswhisper of the first kiss between Dreamers.

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In their first kiss in the Fade, flutterings whispered of her greatness. Only an inkling then, and yet his words rung true. You change everything. And since their first kiss, the roar and hunger warred, entranced by her mind and her heart. Someone so remarkably genuine that she made him doubt his course. Her blue eyes brimming in newfound love, a mirror image of his own, who saw him more freely that he dared to see himself. She could be his demise. She could be their savior.

And if anything, in this moment and everlasting, his ancient heart worshipped her.

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Excerpt from Dwell Within Chapter 25: Everlasting

💫Dwell Within is a Dragon Age fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, a mature story of Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s journey post-Trespasser as a prelude to Dragon Age 4. Themes of hope, redemption, and all the feels. 💗

✨ Ko-Fi: Altoclefgirl | AO3: Altoclefgirl

✨ Insta: Alto.Writes | Twitter: AltoWrites

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23937004

🌙 While his pride overshadowed him, she was the sun. ☀️

Dwell Within Chapter 11: The Sun

The Dread Wolf & Inquisitor Mara Lavellan

🌺The days to come for us and the Dread Wolf are uncertain, but whatever we are to face you do not have to do so alone. 🌺

| “You’re to be feared, to be hated.

To do what must be done... There is no honor in what I have to do. Memorialized as a villain or else forgotten among the accolades.

I vow myself to you and our fight.” |

(A string of musings post-Game Awards. Mara’s vow to the Dread Wolf)

🌟 My sincerest gratitude to @fish_tobio for being so delightful to commission, for honoring and understanding my vision, and for your unique craft and expertise. You have captured Inquisitor Mara Lavellan so eloquently.

Dwell Within is a Dragon Age fanfiction on Archive of Our Own, a mature story of Inquisitor Mara Lavellan’s journey post-Trespasser as a prelude to Dragon Age 4.

Themes of hope, redemption, and all the feels. 💗

✨ Patreon: Altoclefgirl | Ko-Fi: Altoclefgirl

✨ AO3: Altoclefgirl

✨ Insta: Alto.Writes | Twitter: AltoWrites

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23937004

👑A Herald of the Elves: Inquisitor Mara Lavellan🌺

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Over the years he had grown to admire her formidable strength and pure heart. At some point he began to adore her face flushed with freckles, the invisible crown that lay upon her long and beautiful ears. He adored the way she spoke with kindness and integrity, and never wavered in opposition.

She saw the world for what it could be, even as she was the only hope to change it.

(Excerpt from Dwell Within Chapter 21: Foolish Heart)

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💗Endless praise and gratitude to @fish_tobio (on Insta) for this remarkable commissioned portrait of my Inquisitor Mara Lavellan. 💗