Longing - Loving - Leaving

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Series Begun:
2023-02-24
Series Updated:
2025-11-21
Description:

A pre-canon, three-part series of how the man we know as Captain Lossow from the books Sharpe’s Gold and Sharpe’s Sword came into the English army as someone from the Electorate of Hannover and made a career in the cavalry.
What we know about him from the books: loyal to his friends, a competent officer who values competence and doesn’t judge “a book by its cover” (befriends Sharpe despite him being anything but your typical gentleman officer), homesick for Hannover, wants to return after the war. Loves his fierce and feisty stud, Thor. Never uses spurs. A happy man, easy-going, resting in himself. Interested in new war technologies (remember the telegraph station?). Tends to hero-worship Sharpe. Must have a considerable amount of money to be able to finance himself and his horse.
What we don’t know: does he come from a military family? How rich is he in fact? Where does his love for horses hail from?
This series is to explore these questions, taking into account what we do know about him, though under the premise that he doesn't come from a military family but rather low country nobility. Once I've discovered the Lossow Wiki page, I couldn't resist making him part of a side-line.

Notes:

Longing - Loving - Leaving consist of three parts:

- Part One: Longing (finished)
- Part Two: Loving (WIP, updating monthly for the time being; drafts of several more chapters in various stages, outline generally done, still open to changes though)
- Part Three: Leaving (WIP, basic outline according to history (partly bent history), though still full of gaps, two chapters (not chronologically belonging together) already drafted)

There are also subseries:

- Lost in Lossow's World (which can include anything from missing scenes, a chapter from a different POV, the letters...)
- Far too many Notes (the letters exchanged by Friedrich and Johanna and all the other characters of Part One)

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