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1. The Serpent and the Heretic by T3rm1nal_V3l0c1ty

   Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   09 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Il Dottore/Pantalone (Genshin Impact)
   • Il Dottore (Genshin Impact)
   • Pantalone (Genshin Impact)
   • Fatui Harbinger Members (Genshin Impact)
   • Pierro (Genshin Impact)
   • Capitano (Genshin Impact)
   • Minor Character Death

   Summary

   Freshly branded Zandik—heretic—and cast from the Sumeru Akademiya, the young scholar who will become Il Dottore watches his life’s work burn in the desert. Salvation arrives in the form of Pierro, the First Harbinger, who offers a blank cheque written in frost and blood. Years later, as the Fatui’s Second Seat, Dottore meets Pantalone, a dying banker with an obscene fortune and a plea for artificial life. Pantalone presents himself as a lamb begging for the knife, but behind his submissive devotion coils a greed so patient, so absolute, that it will one day devour even the Doctor’s heart. What begins as a monstrous experiment in control becomes a slow, exquisite unmasking—and the lamb, the reader will discover too late, was never the prey.

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Serpent & The Heretic

   Language:

   English

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