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• When the Flame Weeps by Randomhuman119

  Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • Work in Progress

  21 Jul 2026

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  • Tarnished & Inquisitor
  • Tarnished & Cassandra
  • Tarnished & Solas
  • Tarnished & Varric
  • Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age)
  • Female Lavellan (Dragon Age)
  • Solas (Dragon Age)
  • Tarnished (Elden Ring)
  • Varric Tethras
  • Cassandra Pentaghast
  • Cullen Rutherford
  • Leliana (Dragon Age)
  • Crossover
  • My First Fanfic
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst
  • Trauma
  • Solas Being Solas (Dragon Age)
  • Culture Shock
  • I'm Bad at Tagging
  • The Tarnished is Tired
  • Varric Tethras' Chest Hair
  • Frenzy flame
  • Friendship
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Gods
  • Dalish Elven Culture & Customs (Dragon Age)
  • Child Loss
  • Religion
  • everyone is suspicious
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • victorian language
  • For one character's dialogue
  • The Fade (Dragon Age)

  Summary

  A Tarnished.
  Branded by a flame she can't escape, haunted by memories she cannot name. She walked through a world of ash and gold, carrying a grief older than any god. One step from the Erdtree, everything changed. A rift tore open, and she fell, not into death, not into victory but a world she did not know.

  In Thedas, they thought her a demon. The Chantry calls her an abomination. The Inquisition sees something else entirely.

  Haunted by loss, driven by a strange new purpose, and haunted by powers that do not belong to this world. She must survive and help this world and give it the chance she never had.

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