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1. Shine and Shade: Laughter by CanonBeDamnd

   Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Multi
   • Work in Progress

   05 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Valga Vinicia/Narri
   • Original Male Character/Original Female Character
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Spoilers - Relationship
   • Female Argonian Dovahkiin | Dragonborn (Elder Scrolls)
   • Original Nord Character(s) (Elder Scrolls)
   • Cicero (Elder Scrolls)
   • Tullius (Elder Scrolls)
   • Narri (Elder Scrolls)
   • Valga Vinicia
   • Mathies (Elder Scrolls)
   • Sinding (Elder Scrolls)
   • Female Listener (Elder Scrolls)
   • Vantus Loreius
   • The Imperial Captain (Elder Scrolls)
   • Ulfric Stormcloak
   • Bjorlam (Elder Scrolls)
   • Aventus Aretino
   • The Night Mother (Elder Scrolls)
   • Solfrid High-Land
   • Hircine (Elder Scrolls)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • other characters to be added - Freeform
   • Slow Burn
   • Dark Brotherhood (Elder Scrolls) - Freeform
   • questlines
   • Unbound questline
   • Falkreath (Elder Scrolls)
   • Ill Met by Moonlight Questline
   • Werewolf
   • Canonical Character Death
   • During Canon
   • game mechanics as lore
   • Listener is Not Dovahkiin | Dragonborn (Elder Scrolls)
   • Dark Brotherhood Questline (Elder Scrolls)
   • Delayed Burial Questline
   • Canon Dialogue
   • Paraphrased
   • longfic
   • Song: Shine and Shade (Beyond the Black)
   • Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags
   • Canon Divergence
   • questline spoilers
   • Eventual Relationships
   • Eventual Cicero/Listener
   • Headcanon

   Summary

   Solfrid High-Land is destined to become the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, but her way to getting there is rather circuitous. Laughter, love, and loss seem to follow her wherever she goes....

   The main plot starts out following canon questlines from the perspective of a young adventurer named Solfrid High-Land, but gradually deviates more and more as the world expands around her. Mainly inspired by my main playthrough of Skyrim, but this story is not tied to the options the character is forced to follow in-game. I'll add more characters, ships, and tags as I write them. Chapters are subject to revision as I write more and edit as I go.

   (Title subject to change, right now it's a reference to the fic's theme song, Shine and Shade by Beyond the Black)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   8,204

   Chapters:

   7/?

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