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The Death of Kings by La Reine Noire (lareinenoire)
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
24 Jul 2016
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It is a story from a song--a fair maid stolen in the dead of night, and her brothers and her betrothed riding to her rescue. They will tear a kingdom apart, pull a king from his throne, and crown another in his place, all in the name of the fair, stolen maid.
It is a tale that comforts men and reassures them. Even though the knight is too late to save his lady, he gains a kingdom and a queen even fairer than the maid he lost. But the truth is not so simple. A war is not one story; it is thousands speaking at once. We do not know what the maid thought, or the prince’s wife, herself a princess by birth. And other ladies too, whose parts in this tale are further obscured, as often happens when histories are written by men.
This is their story. This was their war.
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- Part 2 of Within the Hollow Crown
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14 Mar 2019
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What I like best about it is that as gently as Rhaegar’s folly and unfairness is treated here, it is still an indictment. He’s his father all over again, but where Aerys saw treason, Rhaegar saw ways to fulfill his prophecy.
And Elia too. She saw him for what he was, and loved him anyway. She danced close to consciously realizing that all her efforts on his behalf- to keep him, really- were for naught and then died because she would not let go.
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In which there's a girl, a dragon, and a castle, and Arthur resolves not to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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28 Oct 2022
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and coming events cast their shadows before by egelantier for Damkianna
Fandoms: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
25 Dec 2017
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Merlin runs out of time, so Mage pays the price for more.
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28 Oct 2022
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my hand is fate, my word is law by words-writ-in-starlight (WordsWritInStarlight)
Fandoms: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms
21 Aug 2020
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“Appreciate it, Maggie,” Arthur had said, gripping her shoulder with a calloused hand, like she was any of the scruffy loyalists who stormed the castle on his word. “And it’s Arthur, by the way.”
“Of course, my lord,” Maggie had said.
And then she hadn’t talked to him again for a week.
Maggie learns the shape of her new reality, in the wake of Vortigern's death.
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27 Oct 2022
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The mage comes to him in the dead of the night, six days after he is crowned.
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28 Oct 2022