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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    Summer came the closest the Lightkeepers got to an off-season, a scant month when the sun glowed at all hours, never setting. Since the Wild Hunt preferred the cover of darkness, the greatest enemy to Ratniki was boredom, this summer more than any in memory. Only two weeks into the nightless days, Illuga hadn’t fought the Hunt in a month, and it was much the same over the rest of Nod-Krai, a welcome rest after three successive crises, beginning with Rerir and ending with Roland.

    Illuga should be elated. He passed by the graves of Lightkeepers every night on patrol. He shouldn’t want to fight something.

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    21 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 74

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    PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON NOD-KRAIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
    Presented by the Sumeru Akademiya Press, Department of Historical Ethnography
    Volume XII, Issue 3—"The Lightkeepers: Myth, Memory, and the Long Night"

    Selected papers, recovered correspondence, and transcribed artifacts presented at the Third Annual Symposium on Nod-Kraian Cultural Heritage, held at the Akademiya Grand Lecture Hall, Sumeru City. Compiled and edited by Dr. Vireshka Dastur, Chair of Northern Teyvatian Studies.

    Editor's Note:
    The Lightkeepers of Nod-Krai remain one of the most enduring and least understood institutions in Teyvatian history.
    This volume collects several papers and primary source materials presented at the third Annual Symposium on Nod-Kraian Cultural Heritage. Of particular interest is the ongoing scholarly debate surrounding "Ratnik Flins," whose historical existence remains hotly contented and whose relationship with the better-documented Starshyna Illuga Nikitovich continues to generate discussion in fields ranging from military history to folklore studies.

    We trust our readers will find much to consider.

    Flins and Illuga's footprints in Teyvatian history.

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    12 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    “I have a new bumper sticker,” Flins told him, all smiles, as he leaned over the window, refusing to take the damn two Hot Wings he had ordered from Rerir's outstretched hand. “It says I <3 hot KFC workers.”

    “Piss the fuck off.”

    Flins drove away with a laugh, the two chicken wings somewhere on the car’s floor where Rerir had thrown them without a second thought.

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    Diluc pinched the bridge of his nose, right where his migraines used to start. “To be clear, you slept with the Grand Master, Lohen, Rosaria, and God knows who else, all because you thought that I had maybe, one time, several years ago, slept with Varka? Did I get that right?”

    He would try to make it sound unbelievably stupid.

    Kaeya goes on a bender.

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    And maybe it was the length of the expedition, or maybe it was simply the fact that it had been… a great deal of time since he'd been talked to this way. Looked at this way—but for all his fumbling and acclaimed endearing—if not weaponized—awkwardness, he was reasonably certain he could still determine what Phainon wanted, finding his desire reflected by Phainon the same way the starlight spilled across the surface of the water.

    "You should join me," he finally pressed. "Springs are best enjoyed in good company."

    "Flattered," Varka huffed. "You think I'm good company?"

    "I think you could be," Phainon amended, "but it's your move now, partner."

    Varka loses his way in the middle of a snowstorm and finds his guiding star in the most unexpected of places; an uncharted cave, the welcome embrace of a hot-spring, and a siren bathed in moonlight with lidded eyes and a coy smile.

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