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The Necromancer and the Orchid Prince: Part 9

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The good end is here! Caoilfhionn’s last fight is soundtracked to This Game from No Game No Life! I really like the piano arrangement by Animenz, better than the original song actually. Really short chapter, because the story actually continues from here. And in fact we’re starting to head towards the end of the fic? I’ve still got story arcs for the boys to go through but from this point on the game story started to interest me less so you’ll see less of it. I’m still loving the areas in PoF, and exploring them, but the plot still hasn’t quite grabbed me yet. It would help if I could figure out whether I’m shipping Damara with Faren or Canach… or both, one after the other… and if Faren had more screen-time to make that sort of feasible. But anyway.

Btw, I’m not having Trahearne be giant-sized in this story. I’ve seen some really nice art of ‘Trahearne post-HoT’ and I really like that idea, but I’m going a different route.

Part 7: The Bitter End

 

Part 9: The Strength to Fight

He woke to find himself lying upon damp earthen ground, and sucked in a heaving gasp of air. How sweet it was, after such exertion! Even down here, where it smelled of decaying plant matter. He had truly pushed himself to the brink and it was good to wake and rest.

But Trahearne! He sat up, a little woozily as his sap took a moment to adjust its flow, and then pushed himself shakily to his feet. Continue reading →

The Necromancer and the Orchid Prince: Part 8

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Okay! The ‘bad end’ is here, with all the drama and suffering that entails. What, I cried myself to sleep for a week after I found out how HoT ends, I’m not gonna waste that emotion even if I’m going to fix it in the ‘good end’! I may have gone too far in the future since I don’t even know how PoF ends but I couldn’t let my poor boy be shattered forever. If you’re not here for sadness, then skip to the next chapter! : )

Caoilfhionn’s catharsis gets soundtracked to Petrichor by The Rise Undaunted and also to Answer by Bump of Chicken.

Contents:
– 1: Tiachren
– 2: Caladbolg
– 3: Canach

Part 7: The Bitter End

 

Part 8: The Strength to Live

1: Tiachren

He woke to find himself lying upon damp earthen ground, and sucked in a heaving gasp of air. How sweet it was, after such exertion! Even down here, where it smelled of decaying plant matter. He had truly pushed himself to the brink and it was good to wake and rest.

But Trahearne! He sat up, a little woozily as his sap took a moment to adjust its flow, and then pushed himself shakily to his feet. Continue reading →

The Necromancer and the Orchid Prince: Part 7

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The rest of HoT up to the final battle, but not the final moment. I’m writing two endings, a ‘bad end’ because I don’t want to miss out on the delicious drama that comes with it, and a ‘good end’ where Caoilfhionn overcomes even the final obstacle preventing him from being able to earn a happy ending. Schrödinger’s Trahearne, if you will. : P

Soundtrack for the Mordremoth fight is Between Heaven and Earth, both Rain and Thunder (although I think it’s actually the Storm track, not Thunder as it says in the video), though the only YouTube source I can find that has both also has Blue Skies and a Battle mixed in because they’re variants of each other. It’s all good!

Contents:
– 1: Farewell to Ruadhan
– 2: The Final March
– 3: Hearts and Minds

Part 6: The Agony of Hope

 

Part 7: Hearts and Minds

1: Farewell to Ruadhan

The Exalted allowed the Pact to rest at their city, and the army came in gratefully, eager to catch a bit of rest and a couple good nights of unstressed sleep after more than three weeks of constant fighting. The quartermasters and cooks got together to prepare a veritable feast, and morale was as high as it had been since they left Camp Resolve. The Priory members, naturally, rambled the city, asking questions of every Exalted they came across, and Annhilda had to caution them not to be annoying. Continue reading →

The Necromancer and the Orchid Prince: Part 6

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The first half of HoT, because doing the entire thing in one go was 45+ pages long and that’s a bit much even for me. (After editing it’s come down to closer to 40 pages but still splitting it up is probably nice.)

I did not kill off Eir, because she’s too cool to kill off like that; she deserved better even in-game. Can’t believe she couldn’t fight back even a little. I’ve been getting further into LW3 and I realize this is going to change Braham’s storyline drastically, but I don’t see a real problem with that yet. I guess it gets labelled ‘canon-divergent’ at that point.

Another canon-divergent bit: Malyck. I was disappointed not to see him again. But if he does come back in future story updates, I can always edit!

Contents:
– 1: The Agony of Hope
– 2: What a Lark This Is!
– 3: Eir
– 4: The Golden City

Part 5: The Dragon’s Reach

 

Part 6: The Agony of Hope

1: The Agony of Hope

He was numb as he knelt helplessly on the clifftop; before him flickered an endless sea of leaves and flames. His sap was frozen within his veins, his breath choked off in his lungs, and there were tears in his eyes. All he could do was stare in disbelief and fear. The Glory of Tyria was impaled in three places, held aloft by vines of the same girth as the Pale Tree, her lovely dragonfly wings shattered. She was lying on her side, no sign of movement on her decks, and the fire still burning within suggested that there were no survivors on her now. Continue reading →