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These will be a series of oneshots, flashbacks, and other such drabbles including smut and soft things involving my Breton Thief/Conjurer Circe and the two men she fell for. This is not beta read, these are just things I think of and write on a whim. There is no planned storyline or end to this series, so just enjoy what's written and don't press me for more cause I AIN'T DOIN IT.
Unless I feel like it.
Then I'll do it.
Series rated Mature+. If you don't want toxic relationships, power imbalances, impure thoughts, and other such NSFW themes then... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1T8eh-qWkgo
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Twenty years of enforcing Thalmor law have left Ondolemar with few illusions and fewer friends.
Now officers are dying, rebellion is brewing, and the woman assigned as his aide is Elenwen’s spy, waiting for the first crack in his armor.The closer he studies her, the thinner the line between control and surrender becomes.
In a fortress built on suspicion, desire is just another weapon and the sharpest one might already be at his throat.-
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Always Read the Fine Print by paraparadigm
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
21 Jul 2021
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Vera's world ended not with a bang, but with a whimper: the year is 2095, the world in the throes of late-stage climate change. The Earth will keep going, the humans - not so much. As it turns out, the apocalypse is contagious: either that, or she has spectacularly bad luck. Waking up naked on a bloody altar isn't the best introduction to a new place, but you make do with what life hands you. After a rocky start, Vera finds herself in Markarth, trying to make a new home for herself amidst the violence, corruption, and Thalmor zealotry. But just when things are finally settling down - as much as they can in the city of blood and silver - a Nord and a Dunmer roll into town with the mother of all bad deals. Always read the fine print.
This series starts about a year before the events of the game and will continue through the timeline and the DLCs. This fic is the first installment. Canon-compliant(ish), but skews towards a lot of original content. Narration is in 3rd person limited; the protagonist is not the Dragonborn.
Please note: content warnings applied to individual chapters.
With deep gratitude to efmrider and polymorphic for their keen beta-ing eyes and supportSeries
- Part 1 of The Errant Souls Archive
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Always Read the Fine Print
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Vera's world ended not with a bang, but with a whimper: the year is 2095, the world in the throes of late-stage climate change. The Earth will keep going, the humans - not so much. As it turns out, the apocalypse is contagious: either that, or she has spectacularly bad luck. Waking up naked on a bloody altar isn't the best introduction to a new place, but you make do with what life hands you. After a rocky start, Vera finds herself in Markarth, trying to make a new home for herself amidst the violence, corruption, and Thalmor zealotry. But just when things are finally settling down - as much as they can in the city of blood and silver - a Nord and a Dunmer roll into town with the mother of all bad deals. Always read the fine print.
This series starts about a year before the events of the game and will continue through the timeline and the DLCs. This fic is the first installment. Canon-compliant(ish), but skews towards a lot of original content. Narration is in 3rd person limited; the protagonist is not the Dragonborn.
Please note: content warnings applied to individual chapters.
With deep gratitude to efmrider and polymorphic for their keen beta-ing eyes and support -
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An excellent Skyrim story with a complex narrative and well-developed characters, prequel to the main game.
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That really good post apoc-oc in skyrim fic
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Season of Ending by Tyranidlord
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Elder Scrolls, Forgotten Realms, Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Apr 2020
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Nodding in agreement, Kaius’ breathing was slow and controlled. “I need to face Alduin and stop such an event from happening, but even if I am successful you all are faced with a much darker threat.”
“Just what is this ‘darker threat’ you speak of?” Asked Jarl Korir. While younger than most of the other Jarls, his health and strong build was somewhat a contradiction to the relative small size and wealth of Winterhold. There was also no doubting the authority he had in common with the others.
Without batting his eye, Kaius spoke nothing more than a single word. “Falmer.”
Story completed! - 24 Apr 20
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- Part 17 of Sos do dov (Blood of Dragons)
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Journey's End, Lovers' Meeting by CalSantiago, FanficsbyVe
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
14 Nov 2020
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A chance meeting in Arkngthamz leads to a life changing adventure. FINISHED.
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A kind, self-assured, wandering orc and an unhinged, self-depricating, inter-dimensional human teenager is not a combination one might expect.
"What are you doing?"
"It's called dying."
"You just swung a sword a couple of times."
"Yeah. And it's killing me."
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Sos do dov (Blood of Dragons) by Tyranidlord
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Forgotten Realms, The Elder Scrolls: Legends
01 Aug 2025
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Some Legends Fade. Others refuse to die.
For two hundred years Kaius has cheated death, defied fate, and outlasted time itself. He is the sword behind countless victories, has bled for emperors, slain monsters and demi-gods alike and altered the course of history but such triumphs always come at a cost. His friends. His family. His flesh. Even his very soul.
Now, Skyrim teeters on the brink and threatens to drag the rest of the world down with it. Civil war stains the land red, vampires prowl the night and for the first time in 4,000 years, dragons are returning as harbingers of the greatest of their kind; Alduin, the World-Eater. Yet, while all eyes turn skyward a darker horror stirs beneath their feet, one that makes dragonfire merciful in comparison.
Fate demands Kaius rise once more to challenge it, but this time even a legend won't survive alone.
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Blood in Marsh Water by MelancholyAndBlithe
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
29 Oct 2019
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When Aicantar leaves Markarth to see Skyrim and help people along the way, he and his roguish companion bite into a sinister chain of events in Morthal and hope to stop the corruption from spreading to other innocent lives.
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She was falling—weightless, no backup plan; this was the backup plan—locked in a struggle for choice against a man wearing an old friend's face. He had dived after her, determined to drag her back to The Order, back to a fate worse than death. She wouldn't give them the satisfaction. Never again.
His grip was strong, but her bloodied hand slipped free. His armor was sturdy, but her knife found the delicate circuits of his booster. They were both plummeting toward the streets below, and now neither of them would escape.
Her mission was done, she had won her freedom, and she had ripped victory for her people from the bitter jaws of defeat. If this was how it had to end, so be it—she would take a traitor with her.
Fate had different plans, however, as a golden portal opened in the air below the dueling pair and swallowed them up.
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The Errant Souls Archive by paraparadigm, polymorphic
Fandom: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
30 Nov 2023
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The land of Skyrim founders in the wake of a shattered empire, and there are those who would split it more—patriots, profiteers, and warmongers fresh out of jobs. With competing ambitions growing more costly to bear, some say the land is ripe for a hero. But who should it be? Not this particular Dragonborn.
An exploration of power vacuums and some of the more underbaked elements of TES lore.
[Works in the Errant Souls (Always Read the Fine Print) universe.]
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What Might Have Been by LadyTanithia for PurritoSupreme
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
18 Nov 2022
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This is an alternate (and greatly abbreviated) story where Miranja marries Talvas – the stupidly happy ending Miranja would have preferred. This story syncs up more with my actual playthrough, in that Miranja joined the Legion and fought in the civil war BEFORE having to do the peace conference and hand over Markarth to the Stormcloaks, so Ondolemar is still alive and well.
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The Forsworn terrorise the Reach, yet Jarl Igmund can only let them run rampant as he sends his armies to fight the Stormcloaks, and The Empire rewards his loyalty and sacrifice by signing an armistice which hands Markarth to the enemy. Over his dead body. He and his court must defy the Empire and stop Ulfric Stormcloak taking the city at all costs, but there are worse enemies in Markarth than Stormcloaks. Can a city known for its filth and corruption stand strong in a world of cruel enemies and worse friends?
A spy, a noblewoman and a silversmith’s wife entangle themselves in intrigue and espionage and uncover secrets that threaten to topple Markarth; Ancient powers below the city are disturbed; A woman risks all to reclaim her home; The court wizard’s nephew, a Thalmor emissary, an Orc smith and her apprentice become unlikely friends in battle and politics; Holy war looms as temples are defiled; In the city of Solitude, murder and plot shake all of Tamriel, but what does that matter when the enemy is already at the gates? And across Skyrim the deposed Jarl of Riften finds herself without family in the cold and heartless city of Windhelm.
War is easy, but how could it not be when peace costs so much more?
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I can't believe I have to set down these rules in addition to the official code of conduct, but the need exists and here I am. Yes, we have an official code of conduct. Enthir, I'm looking at you.
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Every single one of these rules is amazing; my favorite may be 38.2, however.
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When a mysterious Telvanni wizard sends Calcelmo an unnecessarily hostile letter regarding a Dwarven artifact, what is he to do! Will he write back? Expand the scope of his books? Or will he show up on a potentially dangerous wizard's doorstep? Find out on this week's episode of: 'Centurion Dynamo Cores: A Study'.
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The Captain and the Machinist by VvardenfellVixen (TheBloodofAges)
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
22 Mar 2025
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Zenotha Aedius couldn't have fathomed what being captured by Imperial forces would lead to. She quickly finds out.
(This is the wackiest of my fics- I didn’t want to use boring, stilted fantasy speak in it so I use colloquialisms and swearing where they wouldn’t normally make sense)
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The Necromancer and the Thief by VvardenfellVixen (TheBloodofAges)
Fandom: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
20 Feb 2023
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There's a holiday celebration in honor of some visiting dignitaries. Markarth celebrates.
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Experiments With An Ancient Dwemer Sex Toy by Anonymous
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
23 Oct 2022
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Day Two: Fucking Machine
The Dragonborn's lifelong passions for Dwemer technology come in handy when Calcelmo and his nephew can't figure out their newest find.
It turns out to be a several millennia old sex toy in working order. So, she gives it a ride for science.
[Can be read as a nameless OC or first person POV reader insert]
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After the death of her parents, Larina Devereaux is taken in as a ward by the Jarl of Markarth: after the transfer of his mentor, Corrilian is sent to Markarth to replace Ondolemar as the Justiciar. The two have to decide what their true allegiances are during The War..
((lots of slow-burn, my first time writing a Skyrim fanfic and I desperately wanted to write something inspired by the Thalmor ! ))