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Always Read the Fine Print by paraparadigm
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
20 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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19 Dec 2019
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When Argis is made housecarl to the new thane of Markarth, what he expects is a boring life, trailing after a spoiled, disdainful nobleman. What he wants is a brave warrior, a friend he can fight alongside.
What he gets, though... is one surprise after another.
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- Part 1 of A Warrior's Heart: A Skyrim Love Story
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08 Sep 2018
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Blood Ties by Dordean
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
13 Jan 2019
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“CIRILLA FIONA ELEN RIANNON, alias: The Icy Flame of the North, born in 1253; Queen of Cintra, Kovir, Poviss, Talgar, Velhad and Narok, suzerain of the Skellige Islands, Brugge, Sodden, Attre, as well as Temeria (1282, vide: Anaïs La Valette), and Lyria and Rivia (1288, vide: Meve of Lyria). (...)"
“Rulers of the North and South”
Group publication under the auspices of the Faculty of Middle Ages, University of Lan Exeter
***This is a story of a witcheress and a vampire. A story of a journey, of facing the past, of choosing a future. A story of growth, of healing, a story of friendship. A story of love; of different kinds of love.
Now also available in Russian over on FicBook thanks to Liadan Foley. ❤️
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- Part 1 of Swallow's Song
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09 Mar 2018
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The Barber-Surgeon of Ard Skellig by TheCraftyWriter
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
18 Dec 2023
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"[This ring] is actually mine, I received it from a dear old friend. You might call him a humanist."
Regis, young and determined to overcome his blood addiction, finds a mentor in an enigmatic vampire known as The Humanist. Taking place several centuries before the Witcher books and games.Bookmarked by caffeinatedmusing
19 Oct 2017
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Simra Hishkari - 1 - Rag & Bone by Sunderlorn
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
30 Sep 2015
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It is the second century of the 4th Era. Born to ashlander parents, a young Dunmer grows up in Windhelm's Grey Quarter. He scrabbles for some semblance of luxury in dark times and dingy places, and tries to reconcile himself with his parents' culture: a birthright belonging not to him, but to a lost place and a lost time.
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- Part 1 of Simra Hishkari: Dunmer of Skyrim
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02 Jul 2017