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“That Orb in your chest,” Elminster says finally, voice so thick with purpose that Gale snaps out of his self-deprecation. For the first time in months, his mind feels capable of focus. “Is made of Karsite Weave. Mystra will not help because it is a danger to her very existence.”
“I… didn’t know. I swear! I swear I had no idea, Elminster, you have to tell her! I thought – I was told – it was a part of her. I would never–”
Elminster raises a hand.
“Peace. Do not worry about that now, my boy, and listen to me. In Baldur’s Gate there is a wizard by the name of Lorroakan. Some years ago, he came into possession of a book called The Annals of Karsus. In it, Karsus writes about what he refers to as the Regalia of Karsus – a Crown, a Sceptre and an Orb.”or; Gale travels to Baldur's Gate early, runs into a Hag and gets turned into a cat
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04 Nov 2025
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Handle With Care by Iztarshi (khilari)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
08 Oct 2025
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Magic happens anywhere, to anyone, without rhyme or reason. Far more likely to happen with rhyme than with reason, in fact. Most magic items aren’t really valuable, though. A top from a Christmas cracker that can spin forever, a coin that always lands on heads. Tiny, everyday miracles. Spells are even worse, happening in an instant and then over, completely impossible to replicate in a lab.
This doesn't stop Jayce from studying magic, and the artifacts at least are left with magical abilities that remain consistent. So when a man turns up offering to donate an unusually valuable one Jayce is keen. Only the man is donating himself, a living doll, with a sharp intelligence potentially more valuable as a partner in Jayce's studies than as an object to be studied himself.
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09 Oct 2025
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Six years after he and Viktor part ways on antagonistic terms, Jayce wakes up in the Machine Herald’s medical clinic.
Jayce desperately wants to rub at his forehead, but the binding at his wrist stops him. He settles for squeezing his eyes shut. “Why?” he asks.
Viktor is silent for barely a moment. He says, tonelessly, “I assumed this was preferable to dying.”
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23 Jun 2025
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Viktor swore if he ever laid eyes on Jayce Talis again that he would kill him, but he finds him in the aftermath of a werewolf attack with no memory of how it happened. Together, they must confront their makers, lest they be consumed by their new and monstrous nature.
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28 May 2025
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A sequel to isolation.
Jayce gets Viktor out of Piltover, and nothing is as easy as it should be.
“I feel as if I’m not quite myself,” Viktor says.
Jayce is quiet, and the silence stretches between them. When Jayce finally speaks, he says, “I don’t feel like myself either.”
Viktor meets his eyes. It’s a marvel, he thinks, that even when he is most lost to his own mind, Jayce can still follow.
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