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When the crew of the Reliant captures the Amitie and the dragon egg it carries, Captain Will Laurence is set ill-at-ease—not because he is unfamiliar with dragons, but rather the opposite. For, over a decade ago following an injury aboard the Shorewise, he discovered he bore a curse, one that would cause him to awake from his dreams as something other than human, if ever his attentiveness slipped. He was a weredragon.
But then the hatchling Temeraire chooses him as his Captain, and the course of his life is forever altered, to become an aviator of His Majesty's Aerial Corps...at least by day. By night, the question of his nature remains quite up in the air.
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- Part 3 of Dragons Together
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The Ways of Heaven Are Tranquil by AltocumulusJay for Lordbrezel
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
30 Jul 2025
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The history of the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty was indelibly intertwined with the Celestials who were their companions. Lung Tien Qian's grandfather witnessed the founding of a dynasty, her mother its great rise to prosperity and power, and herself what many thought its zenith. But now famine and floods rage beneath continually hazy skies, and revolt and rebellion follow in their wake, believing them to be proof of Heaven's disfavor...and Qian fears her granddaughter may oversee the dynasty's end.
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His Majesty's Aerial Corps holds many secrets, but none are more closely guarded than the Plague and the Change. A century ago, amidst the War of the Spanish Succession, disease ravaged the British Isles, bringing about the death of a majority of dragons—a tragedy of the highest order kept hidden from the public eye. Even those that survived were left unable to fight or breed new offspring. After the Plague, all that was left to carry forward to future generations were the surviving eggs yet unhatched and a single healthy formation kept away in isolation. But these were insufficient in number to make a sustainable population, and besides, there was the more urgent problem that England was still at war and still needed her dragons. The alchemist Sir Issac Newton approached the Corps, however, and proposed a solution, one that won them the war and one that is still carried forward to this day: the Change. Dragons need not be hatched, when they can be made.
Captain Will Laurence, of His Majesty's Navy, knows none of this when the hatchling Temeraire chooses him as his companion. But to Loch Laggan they have been sent, and to Loch Laggan they must go, unaware that some people go there not to train, but to become dragons.
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- Part 2 of Dragons Together
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Napoleon is defeated and Lien is slain. A continent rejoices, but one dragon does not, for Laurence is dead. But death need not be the end of the story for a dragon and his companion.
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- Part 1 of Dragons Together
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Whether after the Napoleonic Wars by means of dragon-rebirth, amidst the events of the war via alchemical transformation, or from the very beginning, these are each stories united by the theme of Laurence as a dragon...that he and Temeraire might be dragons together.
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