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    Stories, glimpses, echoes of New Eridu.


    Each story in the Archive is generally self-contained. Some stories do share light elements of continuation between them, but the intent is to never require that one has to have read a previous story before moving on to the next. What order the stories are read in is completely up to preference.


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    tell me all the ways to stay away;

     

     

    the black-ops company alicent joins is called The Company, and The Company doesn’t give her much— just the things they've deemed to be important. a plane ticket. an address for her new home. a partner she'll have a sham marriage with.

    apparently, they didn't deem it necessary to mention that said partner is a woman.

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    13 Sep 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    symone rec!

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    Failure. Unbearable failure.

    The heartbreak is worse than your wounds, worse than the angry teeth in your flesh, worse than knowing you are moments from death.

    You will die having failed. Your vow broken.

    The vision is already fading, but you haven’t seen enough yet. You force your Sight to remain open, to at least capture more of the eyes that seem to be the source of your torment.

    They belong to a man, a beautiful one, with silver hair and pointed ears. An elf. A spawn.

    The vision snaps closed.

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    Sequel to Unraveling! Astarion has finally reached Tav, but things only get more complicated from there.

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    17 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    ch 9 tired like im tired of these two not kissing properly like omgoodness

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    As the heroes of this story — or rather, survivors — would later reminisce, it’s unclear when exactly this bunch grew out of the innocence of their youth. Maybe they never did, and were simply kids all along. Perhaps innocence was never their privilege, and they were born to face the cynical world as it was. Either way, the tragedy was always there; the interpretation was in the eye of the beholder.

    The Marauders & Co are finally graduating from Hogwarts. Faced with endless possibilities, but threatened by the imminent war shadowing the world as they know it, what turns will their lives take? Can they survive, so long as they rely on each other?

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    11 Aug 2025

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    on ch 3!

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    An exploration of the second time Tav and Astarion have sex from Astarion's POV. Complete with the dawning realization that his little plan may not be going as perfectly as he thought it was, but before he's ready to reveal it to her in Act 2.

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    29 Jul 2025

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  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    Cazador was dead: to begin with. There was no doubt whatever about that. Astarion had plunged a very beautiful knife a dozen times or more into his gut and left him in tattered shreds upon his ritually carven floor. The compulsion which had haunted the farthest reaches of his memory had vanished like mist with his master’s death.

    Mind! It cannot be implied that there is a particular similarity between a vampire lord, who is un-dead, and a dead vampire, despite the mimicking shape of those descriptors. Neither bears real facility of life, true, with a beating heart and a cheek which might yet blush, but the one may wield an un-life never again to be possessed by the other, who will do little more than lie still and rot away into new earth. Cazador was a corpse, mouldering beneath the ground. In all ways he had been flung across that lofty river into the mundanity of real and final death. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing that follows will seem wondrous.

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    29 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    rec from tangledmermaid!