assigned_cryptid

a Leyendecker painting of a blond man reading a newspaper. he is wearing a white shirt with green stripes and a black tie.



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  1. Rec 88

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    When the Last Emperor and Lord Magus of Zunidh declares Cliopher an enemy of the world, a threat to peace and prosperity, a Terror to rival those of the fallen Empire, what else can he do but live up to the legends?

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    08 Jul 2024

  2. Rec *

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    The worst part about knowing you will have to shove Merrick Tremayne into the path of an oncoming cannonball is that you genuinely enjoy the man's company. Unfortunately, this becomes something of a recurring theme.

    Or: Keita Mori, inside out.

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    12 Mar 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    Just as Merrick leant more heavily against the door, thinking that he ought, really, to go, it was pulled sharply open, sending him stumbling. He caught himself on the doorframe, just.
    When he looked up, his greeting died on his lips; because before him stood not Keita, but an unfamiliar young man.
    An unfamiliar young man who looked decidedly dishevelled, with an inside-out jumper shoved on over his nightclothes. He held a small candleholder. The wind howled in through the doorway, and the flame guttered in the wax. The man squinted a little as if its insubstantial light hurt his eyes. He had obviously, very obviously, just been woken-up. Well, fuck, thought Merrick, drunkenly and pointlessly.
    ‘Can I help you?’ said the man, sounding both sceptical and unwilling.

     

    (a year or so after the events of Pepperharrow, Merrick comes to Filigree Street to visit Keita, and finds something he hadn't expected)

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    29 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 59

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    “It’s a letter to the Offices of State’s public communications box,” Rhodin said. “With an anecdote about the annual stipend.”

    “Is it?” Cliopher said. They got plenty of those letters, of course; usually reading and responding to them was the first-year secretaries’ job. “And it made its way to you?”

    “Well,” Rhodin said blithely, “it claims to be from Fitzroy Angursell, you see.”

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    In which Cliopher misses his Radiancy, distracts himself by starting a pseudonymous correspondence with Fitzroy Angursell, and develops an entirely academic and rational interest in determining which member of the Red Company is the friend that Fitzroy won’t stop talking about.

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    21 Apr 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    A conspiracy and a curse leave Cliopher Mdang, most beloved Viceroy of Zunidh, far too close to death.
    His Radiancy, not yet departed on his quest, decides to bring him back.

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    20 Apr 2025