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Part 1 of The Tempest
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2020-03-29
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2020-06-24
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now my charms are all o'erthrown

Summary:

PART I: PROSPERO

The hold of a ship contains a mage, locked away in lead, and the power of a long-forgotten god, locked away in wood. Both come to Fjord, quartermaster of the Tide's Breath, and his pirate's life opens to a power he never knew. Caleb is no stranger both to power and to being powerless, but in Fjord he encounters something different than his vicious past, and that something is trust. As the threads of fate draw tight around them, winding through ruined temples and the depths of the sea, both men must claim what is their own or else lose it forever.

Also they bang.

Notes:

This work (and this series) would not exist without all my friends on the Critical #Goals server, including but not limited to Bunce, Lem, Sera, and Zalia. Thank you all for laying the foundations for this tale, and I hope I do justice to what we all envisioned. 💧🔥

Chapter 1: Prologue

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PART I: PROSPERO

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Epilogue, l. 1-20