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• Cursed Blessing: Walpurgis by DukeVonPumpkin

  Fandoms: Original Work  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  24 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Original Character(s)/Original Character(s)
  • Dark Fantasy
  • Political Intrigue
  • Found Family
  • mythic themes
  • Emotional Slow Burn
  • Magic

  Summary

  Rieka Lupus, the young head of one of the kingdom’s most powerful families, purchases a boy condemned for his parents’ crimes, she doesn’t expect the decision to alter the balance of her world. The child, Cuan, bears no memory of freedom, only chains and whispers of inherited sin. Yet within him sleeps something that even the gods fear.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,834

  Chapters:

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