K'aekniv Sergeivich Yaskanov
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Mirk has lost everything: his noble family, his home, and nearly his life. All he has left is his grandfather’s staff and the K’maneda, the strange band of foreign mercenaries who saved him. He decides to build a new life among them in their wandering City of Glass, dedicating himself to healing the outcast and forgotten men who did everything to protect him. Providence makes no mistakes. And to live is to serve.
Genesis is an expert at three things: binding magic, assassination, and cleaning potions. Everything else is a mystery to him, especially people. Which is a crucial shortcoming, considering his ambition is to launch an insurrection against the corrupt mages who have warped the K’maneda into a machine designed to grind up the poor for the benefit of the wealthy. He will never be free. All he can do is use his chaotic magic to liberate those who can be.
They’re an unexpected team: the unrelenting and inhumanly powerful Destroyer and the kindly healer with the right lineage and a knack for putting the right people in the right places. But will it be enough to ensure the revolution prevails? And is there more to their relationship beyond a mutually beneficial alliance?
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- Part 1 of green grows thy bower
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Being a 300-year-old eldritch horror is hard. Being a 300-year-old eldritch horror in love is even worse.
After an unnaturally long bout of the will-he-won't-he business, Genesis finally summons the nerve to make a move on his long-time friend/not very secret crush, Mirk. However, he soon finds out that the first move wasn't even the hardest part. What is a date, exactly? How does this whole "making out" thing work? And, more importantly, why aren't there any decent books on the subject? Mirk, on the other hand, soon finds that Catholic guilt has nothing on dealing with Genesis's stubborn refusal to proceed unless everything's perfect. Or on attempting to carry on an intimate relationship with someone who's a foot and a half taller than he is.
A sweet, heartwarming tale of a love finally consummated...awkwardly.
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- Part 4 of green grows thy bower
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Dozens of missing mages. A vanished investigation team. Three dead assassins. It’s obvious to all involved that they have a monster on their hands. And when you want to get rid of a monster…sometimes your only choice is to go hire one of your own.
Ordinarily, Genesis doesn’t mind being the monster called in to dispatch with other monsters. However, with this assignment…well. Period costumes are involved. And food service work. And glitter. And a distinct lack of magic. Can he manage to tolerate the misery of a summer spent masquerading as your average bloke working at a renaissance faire long enough to eliminate his target? Or will all the compromising situations brought about by attempting to navigate the mortal world push him over the edge and make him cast the whole damn place into the Abyss?
A (relatively) light-hearted murder-mystery story involving all manner of renaissance hijinks and mayhem.
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After his third failed relationship in as many months, Yule made an ultimatum: no more boyfriends. Sex only. And it’d better be good sex, at that.
He thought he was starting out on the right foot with his first target: K’aekniv, the commander of the First Infantry, a giant half-angel known mostly for living at the bar, being an idiot, and fucking anything that moves. Definitely not boyfriend material. No risk of feelings getting involved whatsoever. And probably a good time, if he’s giant, well, everywhere.
It was a good time. The first time. And the second. And the third. And then it’s twice a week, and then he’s waking up in his bed, and then he’s getting worried when he goes off to battle only to turn up two weeks later half-dead on his operating table. But it’s not a relationship. It can’t be. It won’t be. Yule won’t let it get that far. No. More. Boyfriends.
…maybe.
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- Part 1 of romantic and jackass
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The K'maneda's First Infantry: the most powerful division within the realm's most terrifying mercenary group. It's practically an army in and of itself, comprised of over two thousand fighters and mages who've been tested on the battlefields of dozens of realms. Capable of fighting in the worst conditions and on the most challenging terrain, the First has a reputation for getting the job done when no one else can.
...they also have a reputation for being a bunch of horny, drunken idiots.
This is a collection of stories about the First's denizens and those who, for better or worse, have become attached to them. (Love's a strong word; you've got to be careful with that kind of thing.) Most are humorous, chaotic, and, ultimately, a bit sentimental. Reading the series of works that this collection of one-shots is associated with isn't strictly necessary, but you'll probably have more fun if you do. Because, let's be honest, if anything's going down in the First, Niv is getting himself involved. Which, much to Yule's chagrin, means he's getting dragged into things along with him.
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- Part 3 of romantic and jackass
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Yule is shocked to win the Healers Association's annual research prize, but is even more shocked by what comes along with it: an all-expenses paid cruise for two to the hottest magical vacation destinations, during which he'll present his research to the most brilliant minds in magic. It's a chance for him, after three centuries of work, to prove that both he and the K'maneda are worthy of recognition.
...it's also a chance for him to have sex somewhere other than in K'aekniv's depressing dormitory quarters.
But it's not going to be all fun in the sun. Something is amiss out on the Rim Realms. Something involving experimentation on the Rim Realms' inhabitants funded by some of the richest and most powerful mages, Yule's murderous ex Edwin foremost among them. Can Yule and K'aekniv sort things out before the cruise ends? Will revisiting all the realms he's killed on be too much for K'aekniv to put up with? Will Yule ever be able to prove himself to the Association healers? And will K'aekniv follow through on his promise to find somewhere new and interesting to have sex every day without getting them both killed?
A vacation is never just a vacation. Especially in the K'maneda.
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- Part 2 of romantic and jackass
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Mushroom picking season is one of K'aekniv's most cherished times of year. It has everything he loves: free food, fresh air, going home, and finally getting a break from there always being someone right around the corner who wants to knock him over the head and steal his wallet. How could choosing to add in his other great love -- Yule -- go wrong? Sure, there's been some talk of people going missing in the forest. But that forest has always been weird. It's why the mortals never go there. And why going there always means getting the best mushroom harvest around. It's no big deal for mages. No problem.
Yule has no desire to spend two nights in a hammock freezing his ass off just so that K'aekniv can pick mushrooms. But when he sees how excited K'aekniv is to head back east, he's unable to say no. K'aekniv did promise him a vacation after all. Yule just didn't anticipate it involving slogging through the woods all day. But maybe the fresh air and no patients to harass him will do him some good. As long as there's not any spirits out in the woods too big for K'aekniv to handle.
And as long as K'aekniv's sappiness doesn't finally drive him to making a decision he swore he never would again.
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- Part 4 of romantic and jackass
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A confused boy tries to learn how to people. A headstrong boy-who-was-never-small tries to learn how not to get eaten by spirits. Together, they might just be able to survive the turmoil and violence of 17th century magical England. This story and more await you in the interludes!
Short stories that take place between volumes of Canticle, focusing on character backstory and deleted scenes. Approximate year/point in the timeline will be mentioned in the chapter descriptions!
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- Part 2 of green grows thy bower
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France. October, 1792. The mortals have abolished their monarchy and arrested their king. But the situation among the fledgling Republic's mages is very, very different.
Mirk remains at the head of the d'Avignons, but its present fortunes are just as low as when he took up his grandfather's staff a century ago. With the mortals in chaos, the magical nobility of France has tightened its grasp on power instead of fleeing. But many mages -- those with the least to lose -- are calling for the opening of the guilds. Which leaves Mirk with a decision to make: either help his fellow nobles, or entrust his family's fate to those who stand against them.
Genesis has no doubts. Assisting the low-born French mages is a prime opportunity for the K'maneda to return to its revolutionary roots. Committing the Seventh Infantry to the Revolution could lead the K'maneda in the direction the low-born fighters have been struggling toward for a century. Or it could spell disaster, if the revolution fails.
Behind it all looms a greater conflict: that Genesis and Mirk very well could end up on opposite sides of the fight. Can love help them find a way to bring their causes together? Or will their duty split them apart?
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- Part 3 of green grows thy bower