A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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He ought to make the von Valancius protectorate bleed for what the new Rogue Trader did. Instead, Calligos Winterscale and the new blood settle it with a game of Regicide. And then some.
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- Part 1 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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By Right and Duty by Loren_of_Cominantes
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
02 Jan 2024
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“You’re young. That’s all there is to it.” He pops a smaller cut of fruit in his mouth, “You think the xenos isn’t going to pull wool over your eyes one day and kill you. You think Calcazar’s dog can be appeased with enough cunt not to report back to his master."
Or Calligos Winterscale gives the Rogue Trader the biggest reality check about her other lovers in the entire Koronus Expanse.
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- Part 2 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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Wind and Words by Loren_of_Cominantes
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
03 Jan 2024
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Somewhere on Janus, a peasant girl is lying just like this with her beloved. And that peasant girl will have more in her hands than a Rogue Trader ever will.
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A very indirect homage to The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. I love pastorals and juxtaposing them with space is a vibe. This theme appears again in Queen of the Fields.Series
- Part 3 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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Grief gloats enough by Loren_of_Cominantes
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
03 Jan 2024
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She knows that even now Heinrix is thinking of a thousand other things that don’t involve her. Things that are too important and honorable and right to involve her, even if they have space for Rogue Trader von Valancius in the footnotes.
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- Part 4 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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Knight of Flowers by Loren_of_Cominantes
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
04 Jan 2024
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In the light and music of her Magno Ascensio reception, Heinrix van Calox is a prince straight out of the very songs she used to sing. She’s certain it’s why she’s so enamored with him. She’s also certain it’s the reason why she feels uneasy around him.
“You’re what the Fenrisians call a skald then? Before all this?”
“More. I was a dreamer.” Everyone carries their own shield. Her songs were hers. They kept a roof above her head, bought her passage on voidships, and gave her a reason to live again and again and again.
“Tell me a dream then.”
“Alright.” She steps closer to him, the music swelling, “In one of my dreams, there is a Knight of Flowers.”
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A companion to other works, but honestly, it's a turning point that's it's own thing. A mirror to Queen of the Fields (RT/Cassia)Series
- Part 5 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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Queen of the Fields by Loren_of_Cominantes
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
04 Jan 2024
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Voidships have Gellar fields to protect them from the hostile un-reality of the Warp. The Lord Captain has her songs to protect her from the grim darkness of realspace.
This is something Cassia Orsellio understands. More than anyone on the ship, she understands in ways the Rogue Trader can’t begin to grasp.
But what Cassia could not claim to understand, as she watches Aylin pluck the strings of a lute to sing the Lady Navigator a song about the Queen of the Fields and Her Knight of Flowers, was why her heart lurches to the tune.
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A stand-alone in a constellation of related work. A mirror to Knight of Flowers.Series
- Part 6 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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Yesterday, the sunshine made the air glow by Loren_of_Cominantes
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
06 Jan 2024
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Before his acolytes could hand him over to the tribunal, Lord Inquisitor Heinrix van Calox vanished without a trace among the distant stars at the edge of the Expanse. They hunt for him in the slums of hiveworlds, in temples dedicated to false and dark gods. But where he is now, just yesterday, the sunshine made the air glow in his beloved's hair like a halo.
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one star in a constellation of one shotsSeries
- Part 7 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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A young interrogator arrives at Footfall to demand answers from his master. Some misguided part of him, the part that thinks of Heinrix van Calox as a father figure, wants the Lord Inquisitor to deny every accusation levied against him. Instead, he hears the most tender of confessions.
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- Part 8 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry
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7 Transmissions from the Emperor's Vow by Loren_of_Cominantes
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
20 Jan 2024
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Calligos Winterscale had grown past the age of being given to tender words and sending tokens of affection. He had not, as he would later find, grown out of the age of emotion.
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- Part 9 of A love song, a death dirge, a battle cry