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Mogtober 2023
Corvidae
rating: general audiences
category: gen
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relationships: morrigan crow & hawthorne swift, morrigan crow & unit 919 members, morrigan crow & jack korrapati & jupiter north
characters: morrigan crow, unit 919 members (nevermoor), jack korrapati, jupiter north
additional tags: tattoos
Day One: Morrigan
jim-jams
rating: teen
category: f/f, gen
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relationships: morrigan crow & ornella crow, cadence blackburn/morrigan crow
characters: morrigan crow, ornella crow, cadence blackburn
additional tags: n/a
Day Two: Pyjamas
waiting
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & sofia (nevermoor)
characters: ravi (nevermoor), conall o'leary, sofia (nevermoor)
additional tags: drabble
Day Three: The Basement Nerds
accidental meeting
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: guntram crow & morrigan crow & wolfram crow, guntram crow & wolfram crow
characters: morrigan crow, guntram crow, wolfram crow
additional tags: post-canon
Day Four: The Gossamer
cut it off
rating: teen
category: f/f
no archive warnings apply
relationships: anah kahlo/thaddea mcleod
characters: anah kahlo, thaddea mcleod
additional tags: hurt/comfort, haircuts
Day Five: Favourite 919 Member
the elephant in the gossamer-spun garden
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & sofia
characters: morrigan crow, sofia (nevermoor), ravi (nevermoor)
additional tags: drabble
Day Six: The Gossamer-Spun Garden
Office Hours
rating: gen
category: n/a
no archive warnings apply
relationships: n/a
characters: dulcinea dearborn, maris murgatroyd (mentioned), rook rosenfeld (mentioned)
additional tags: drabble
Day Seven: The Scholar Mistresses
('til our fingers decompose) keep my hand in yours
rating: general audiences
category: f/f
no archive warnings apply
relationships: cadence blackburn/morrigan crow
characters: cadence blackburn, morrigan crow
additional tags: 3+1 things, coffee shops
Day Eight: A Nevermoorian Shop
hook yarn pull through
rating: gen
category: f/f, gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: anah kahlo & cadence blackburn, cadence blackburn/morrigan crow
characters: anah kahlo, cadence blackburn
additional tags: drabble
Day Nine: Hobbies
Does Is There A Wundersmith In Nevermoor? (What's going on with the Fireblossoms?)
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & jupiter north
characters: morrigan crow, jupiter north, gregoria quinn, helix wong, alioth saga, holliday wu, laurent st james
additional tags: newspapers, book 3: hollowpox: the hunt for morrigan crow, diary/journal, academic journal articles, anti wunimal sentiment, jupidad
Day Ten: Favourite Moment in the Series
girls' night
rating: mature
category: gen
major character death
relationships: morrigan crow & chanda kali
characters: morrigan crow, chanda kali
additional tags: unauthorised burial, body disposal
Day Eleven: Favourite Deucalion Inhabitant
control issues
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & ezra squall
characters: morrigan crow, ezra squall
additional tags: drabble
Day Twelve: Unknown Wundrous Arts
an entire universe
rating: gen
category: n/a
no archive warnings apply
relationships: n/a
characters: morrigan crow, ezra squall (mentioned)
additional tags: dark!morrigan crow, drabble
Day Thirteen: Favourite Quote
christmas eve gone wrong [NOTCLICKBAIT]
rating: mature
category: gen
graphic depictions of violence, major character death
relationships: morrigan crow & jack korrapati, morrigan crow & jupiter north
characters: morrigan crow, jack korrapati, jupiter north
additional tags: courage square massacre (nevermoor), mild gore, hurt/very little comfort, ghostly hours (nevermoor)
Day Fourteen: Theory/Theories
can has
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: fenestra & jupiter north
characters: morrigan crow, fenestra (nevermoor), jupiter north, jack korrapati
additional tags: drabble
Day Fifteen: Fen + a cat meme
wrong bottle
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & jupiter north
characters: morrigan crow, jupiter north
additional tags: drabble
Day Sixteen: Headcanon
mother, may i sleep in peace?
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & her mother
characters: morrigan crow, morrigan crow's mother
additional tags: dreams
Day Seventeen: Mother
slipping through my fingers
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & jupiter north
characters: morrigan crow, jupiter north
additional tags: angst, post-book 3: hollowpox: the hunt for morrigan crow, jupidad
Day Eighteen: Jupiter North
Baz Charlton Hate Club
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: hawthorne swift & archan tate, cadence blackburn & hawthorne swift, archan tate & cadence blackburn
characters: archan tate, hawthorne swift, cadence blackburn (mentioned)
additional tags: drabble
Day Nineteen: The Gathering Place
white lilies, wooden coffins
rating: general audiences
category: gen
major character death
relationships: jack korrapati & jupiter north
characters: jack korrapati, jupiter north
additional tags: drabble, wakes & funerals, grief/mourning
Day Twenty: Family
not quite right
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: brilliance amadeo & elodie bauer & ezra squall & owain binks
characters: brilliance amadeo
additional tags: drabble
Day Twenty-One: Past Wundersmiths
ave, soror meus, atque vale
rating: teen
category: gen
major character death
relationships: guntram crow & morrigan crow & wolfram crow, guntram crow & wolfram crow
characters: guntram crow, wolfram crow, ornella crow, morrigan crow (mentioned)
additional tags: grief/mourning, mention of emotional abuse
Day Twenty-Two: Favourite Side Characters
chilly
rating: general audiences
category: f/f
no archive warnings apply
relationships: cadence blackburn/morrigan crow, kedgeree burns & morrigan crow
characters: morrigan crow, cadence blackburn, kedgeree burns
additional tags: tricksy lanes (nevermoor)
Day Twenty-Three: Tricksy Lane
Baz Charlton Hate Club: Elders' Edition
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: gregoria quinn & helix wong & alioth saga
characters: gregoria quinn, helix wong, alioth saga
additional tags: drabble, book 2: wundersmith: the calling of morrigan crow
tasty
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: gregoria quinn & helix wong & alioth saga
characters: gregoria quinn, helix wong, alioth saga
additional tags: drabble, book 2: wundersmith: the calling of morrigan crow, humour
first ever defeat
rating: teen
category: n/a
no archive warnings apply
relationships: n/a
characters: thaddea mcleod
additional tags: book 2: wundersmith: the calling of morrigan crow
Day Twenty-Four: Loyalty Trial
me next?
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: sofia (nevermoor) & original character
characters: sofia (nevermoor)
additional tags: angst, book 3: hollowpox: the hunt for morrigan crow, hollowpox
Day Twenty-Five: Wunimals
you're wrong
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: francis fitzwilliam & hester fitzwilliam, morrigan crow & francis fitzwilliam
characters: francis fitzwilliam, hester fitzwilliam, morrigan crow (mentioned)
additional tags: drabble
Day Twenty-Six: Wunsoc Patrons
trial by fire
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: ezra squall & the kindling (nevermoor)
characters: ezra squall, the kindling
additional tags: drabble
Day Twenty-Seven: A Wundrous Divinity
six minutes
rating: teen
category: gen
major character death
relationships: elodie bauer & ezra squall, brilliance amadeo & ezra squall, elodie bauer & ezra squall & owain binks
characters: elodie bauer, ezra squall, brilliance amadeo, owain binks
additional tags: courage square massacre (nevermoor)
Day Twenty Eight: Courage Square
what can you see?
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: jack korrapati & jupiter north
characters: jack korrapati, jupiter north
additional tags: drabble, witnesses (nevermoor)
Day Twenty-Nine: Witness
all nine
rating: general audiences
category: n/a
no archive warnings apply
relationships: n/a
characters: morrigan crow
additional tags: drabble
Day Thirty: Wundersmith
custody battle
rating: general audiences
category: gen
no archive warnings apply
relationships: morrigan crow & ezra squall, morrigan crow & jupiter north
characters: ezra squall, morrigan crow (mentioned), jupiter north
additional tags: drabble
Day Thirty-One: Free Space
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Saint Guntram the Good, King of Burgundy
Commemorated on 28 March
Saint Guntram (c. AD 532 – 28 March AD 592) was King of Burgundy from AD 561 to AD 592. He was the second eldest surviving son of Chlothar I, King of the Franks, and his wife, Ingunda. Upon Clothar’s death in 561, Francia was divided among his four sons, with Guntram receiving the former Kingdom of Burgundy as well as the eastern part of the former Kingdom of Orléans.
Francia after the death of Clothar I, King of the Franks, AD 561
The preeminent chronicler of the period, St. Gregory of Tours, often called him “good king Gontrand”, as noted in the quotation below from the former’s Decem Libri Historiarum, in which St. Gregory discussed the fate of Guntram’s three marriages:
“The good king Gontrand first took a concubine Veneranda, a slave belonging to one of his people, by whom he had a son Gundobad. Later he married Marcatrude, daughter of Magnar, and sent his son Gundobad to Orléans. But after she had a son Marcatrude was jealous, and proceeded to bring about Gundobad’s death. She sent poison, they say, and poisoned his drink. And upon his death, by God’s judgment she lost the son she had and incurred the hate of the king, was dismissed by him, and died not long after. After her he took Austerchild, also named Bobilla. He had by her two sons, of whom the older was called Clothar and the younger Chlodomer.”
Guntram was eventually overcome with remorse for the sins of his past life, and spent his remaining years repenting of them, both for himself and for his nation. In atonement, he fasted, prayed, wept, and offered himself to God. Throughout the balance of his prosperous reign he attempted to govern by Christian principles. According to St. Gregory of Tours, he was the protector of the oppressed, caregiver to the sick, and the tender parent to his subjects. He was generous with his wealth, especially in times of plague and famine. He strictly and justly enforced the law without respect to person, yet was ever ready to forgive offences against himself, including two attempted assassinations. Guntram munificently built and endowed many churches and monasteries. St. Gregory related that the king performed many miracles both before and after his death, some of which St. Gregory claimed to have witnessed himself.
Saint Guntram, King of Burgundy
In 567, Guntram’s elder brother Charibert I, King of Paris, died, and his lands were divided between the surviving brothers: Guntram of Burgundy, Sigebert I of Austrasia, and Chilperic I of Neustria. They shared his realm, agreeing at first to hold Paris in common. Well endowed with the political skills of prudence and duplicity, Guntram strove to prevent either of his two remaining brothers, Chilperic I and Sigebert I, from gaining too great a power, allying with the one and then the other as circumstances demanded.
After the death of Sigebert I in 575 he protected the interests of the young Childebert II, Sigebert’s son, against the aggressive Chilperic, and recognized Childebert as his heir after his own sons died in 577. When Childebert nevertheless allied with Chilperic against him, he bought off the young king by the cession of territory in 583 and confirmed him as his adopted son—an act all the more necessary as he was also faced with a Byzantine-sponsored usurper, Gundoald, whom he was then able successfully to overcome.
Meeting between St. Guntram and Childebert II of Austrasia
The death of Chilperic I of Neustria in 584 left Guntram master of the scene; he protected the young Chlotar II, Chilperic’s heir, and Fredegund, Chlotar’s mother, but also settled remaining differences with Childebert II of Austrasia by the Treaty of Andelot (587). He then turned his attention to the south in his later years but was twice unsuccessful against the Visigoths.
Francia after the Treaty of Andelot, AD 587
He died at Chalon-sur-Saône in 592, and his nephew Childebert II succeeded him. He was buried in the Church of Saint Marcellus, which he had founded in Chalon. Almost immediately, his subjects proclaimed Guntram a saint. The Huguenots, who scattered his ashes in the 16th century, left only his skull untouched in their fury. It is now kept there in a silver case.
Abbey of Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon
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Brunhild, also spelled Brunhilda, Brunhilde, or Brunechildis, French Brunehaut, (born c. 534—died 613, Renève, Burgundy [now in France]), queen of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia, daughter of the Visigothicking Athanagild, and one of the most forceful figures of the Merovingian age
In 567 Brunhild married Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, changing her religion from Arianism to Roman Catholicism. In the same year, her sister Galswintha married Sigebert’s half brother Chilperic I, king of the western part of the Frankish territory, but in 567 or 568, at the instigation of his concubine Fredegund, Chilperic had Galswintha murdered. Prompted by Brunhild, Sigebert then exacted Galswintha’s marriage settlement (Bordeaux, Limoges, Quercy, Béarn, and Bigorre) as retribution from Chilperic. When Chilperic tried to recover this territory, war broke out between him and Sigebert (573). At first it ran in Sigebert’s favour, but in 575 he was assassinated and Brunhild was imprisoned at Rouen. There, however, Merovech, one of Chilperic’s sons, went through a form of marriage with her (576). Chilperic soon had this union dissolved, but Brunhild was allowed to go to Metz in Austrasia, where her young son Childebert II had been proclaimed king. There she was to assert herself against the Austrasian magnates for the next 30 years. She encouraged the Byzantine-backed pretender Gundoald against Guntram, king of Burgundy, but Guntram made Childebert his heir, placating Brunhild and securing his own position against Gundoald.
After Childebert’s death (595), Brunhild failed to set herself up as guardian over Childebert’s elder son, Theodebert II of Austrasia, and thus stirred up against him his brother Theodoric II, who had succeeded to Burgundy. Theodebert was overthrown in 612, but Theodoric died soon afterward (613), whereupon Brunhild tried to make the latter’s eldest son, the 12-year-old Sigebert II, king of Austrasia. The Austrasian magnates appealed to Chlotar II of Neustria against her. Brunhild tried in vain to enlist the help of the tribes east of the Rhine and then fled to Burgundy. Garnier, the mayor of the palace in Burgundy, was in league with Chlotar, however, and Brunhild’s army refused to fight when it met Chlotar’s on the Aisne River. Brunhild was handed over to Chlotar at Renève (northeast of Dijon). The nearly 80-year-old queen was tortured for three days, bound to a camel and exposed to the mockery of the army, and finally dragged to death at a horse’s tail (autumn 613).
Brunhild’s ashes were interred in a mausoleum erected near the abbey of St. Martin at Autun, which she had founded. Her memory was highly venerated there, but historians throughout the ages have had conflicting opinions about her. Gregory of Tours applauds her for her personal morality and for her political wisdom, whereas Fredegarius treats her with undisguised vitriol. The Franks over whom she sought to rule resented her Gothic origin, and the tragic course of her life has made her a figure of legend.
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MEROVINGIAN REGINAE | Fredegund Regina († 597)
Third principal wife of Chilperich I Rex, to whom she bore five sons, Chlodobert Rex, Samson Rex, Dagobert Rex, Theodorich Rex and Chlothacar II Rex, and one daughter, Rigund Regina. As Chilperich’s wife, she may have lived between several civitates, such as Rotomagus (Rouen), Parisius ( Paris), Sexonas (Soissons) or Brennacum (Berny).
According to Gregorius of Tours, she was already his favourite even before the wedding with Galswintha Regina in 567, and despite the fact he had to put aside his whole women and concubines for this wedding, including his first chief wife, Audovera Regina, he quickly took her back near him. Even if we do not know exactly when or why, it must have been because she bore him her first son Chlodobert Rex, much to the anger of Galswintha Regina, who felt outraged by her presence.
“[...] promittens per legatus se alias relicturum, tantum condignam sibi regisque prolem mereretur accipere. [...] Quae cum ad Chilpericum regem venisset, cum grande honore suscepta eiusque est sociata coniugio; a quo etiam magno amore diligebatur. Detulerat enim secum magnos thesauros. Sed per amorem Fredegundis, quam prius habuerat, ortum est inter eos grande scandalum.
He told the messengers to say that he promised to dismiss all the others, if only he were considered worthy of marrying a King’s daughter of a rank equal to his own. [...] When she reached the court of King Chilperic, he welcomed her with great honour and made her his wife. He loved her very dearly, for she had brought a large dowry with her. A great quarrel soon ensued between the two of them, however, because he also loved Fredegund, whom he had married before he married Galswinth.”
DLH, IV 28. De uxoribus Chilperici
After the death of Galswintha Regina in 568, she officially became Chilperich’s new chief wife and gave birth to all of his other children. Basing on the sources, he apparently remained faithful to her and did not take other significant concubine. Fredegund seemed to have been very popular and loved by the people, and was also known as being a good administrator and landowner, as she was able to raise money and numerous gifts for her daughter’s dowry.
“Sed et mater eius inmensum pondus auri argentique sive vestimentorum protulit, ita ut videns haec rex nihil sibi remansisse potaret. Quem cernens regina commotum, conversa ad Francus, ita ait: ‘Ne potitis, viri, quicquam hic de thesauris anteriorum regum habere; omnia enim quae cernetis de mea proprietate oblata sunt, quia mihi gloriosissimus rex multa largitus est, et ego nonnulla de proprio congregavi labore et de domibus mihi concessis tam de fructibus quam tributis plurima reparavi. Sed et vos plerumque me muneribus vestris ditastis, de quibus sunt ista quae nunc coram videtis; nam hic de thesauris publicis nihil habetur’.
Her. mother added a vast weight of gold and silver, and many fine clothes. When he saw this, King Chilperic thought that he had nothing left at all. Queen Fredegund realized that he was upset. She turned to the Franks and said: ‘Do not imagine, men, that any of this comes from the treasures amassed by your earlier kings. Everything you see belongs to me. Your most illustrious King has been very generous to me, and I have put aside quite a bit from my own resources, from the manors granted to me, and from revenues and taxes. You, too, have often given me gifts. From such sources come all the treasures which you see in front of you. None of it has been taken from the public treasury’.”
DLH, VI, 45. De nuptiis Rigunthae, filiae Chilperici
However she had to face the death of almost all her sons: Samson in 577, Chlodobert and Dagobert in 580 during the Plague of the Gauls, and then Theodorich in 584. The same year, her husband was brutally killed, leaving her alone with her last son, Chlothacar II Rex, who was barely 4 months, and her daughter Rigund Regina, at that time on the road to marry Reccared, heir of Toledo. She seized the royal treasure and took refuge in the Basilica Saint-Étienne de Paris, claiming the role of regent over the regnum Neustria, and placing herself under the protection of Guntchramn Rex and Bishop Ragnemod of Parisius.
“Interea Fredegundis regina iam viduata Parisius advenit et cum thesauris, quos infra murorum septa concluserat, ad aeclesiam confugit adque a Ragnemodo fovetur episcopo.
Meanwhile the widowed Queen Fredegund arrived in Paris. She took with her that part of her treasure which she had secreted within the city walls, and she sought sanctuary in the cathedral, where she was given protection by Bishop Ragnemod.”
DLH, VII, 4. Quod Fredegundis in aeclesia confugit
As Guntchramn was having doubts on the parentage of her baby, she summoned an assembly of 3 bishops and 300 nobiles who all attested of her honorability and officially named the baby Chlothacar.
“Interea Fredegundis regina iam viduata Parisius advenit et cum thesauris, quos infra murorum septa concluserat, ad aeclesiam confugit adque a Ragnemodo fovetur episcopo.
Meanwhile the widowed Queen Fredegund arrived in Paris. She took with her that part of her treasure which she had secreted within the city walls, and she sought sanctuary in the cathedral, where she was given protection by Bishop Ragnemod.”
DLH, VII, 4. Quod Fredegundis in aeclesia confugit
She also managed to save her daughter, who was taken as an hostage by Dux Desiderius after the new of her father’s death, and threaten to be taken in marriage by force by the pretender Gundovald.
“Fredegundis autem his diebus Chuppanem in Tholosano direxit, ut scilicet filiam suam exinde quocumque modo possit eruere. [...] acceptam Rigundem a loco illo reduxit, non sine grande humilitate adque contumilia.
At this time Fredegund sent Chuppa into the Toulouse area to bring home her daughter Rigunth by hook or by crook. [...] so he took Rigunth, humiliated and insulted as she was, and brought her home instead.”
DLH, VII, 39. Quod idem emisit qui Brunechildem lederet
Facing multiple oppositions because of her new position, she managed to secure herself with various allies among the nobiles and neutralized her major opponents, such as Bishop Praetextatus, who resented her for many years. As a regent, she was known as being fearless and cunning, rendering justice, and even challenging her brother-in-law Guntchramn on some matters, such as negociations with Hispania while he strictly forbidden it, or with Brittany in 586.
“Sed et Warocum nuntios dirigit, ut, qui adhuc captivi in Brittaniis de exercitu Gunthchramni regis retenebantur, pro huius vita absolverentur. Quod ita Warocus implevit.
[S]he sent messengers to Waroch, ordering him to set free the prisoners from King Guntram’s army whom he was still holding in Brittany. Waroch did as he was told.”
DLH, X, 11. De infirmitate Chlothari iunioris
Despite their mutual hostility, they pursued diplomatic relationship and she was regarded as the true leader of the west regnum during the whole minority of Chlothacar, even leading military expeditions with him. She was also a pious woman, who made several donations to churches and basilicas.
“Sed cum eum Fredegundis, mater eius, disperatum vidisset, multum pecuniae ad basilicam sancti Martini vovit, et sic puer melius agere visus est.
When Fredegund, the mother of Lothar, saw how desperately ill he was, she vowed that she would donate a great sum of money to the church of Saint Martin.”
DLH, X, 11. De infirmitate Chlothari iunioris
She eventually died of natural causes in 597, in Parisius and was buried near her husband into the Basilica Sainte-Croix-et-Saint-Vincent (actual abbey of St. Germain-des-Prés), in Parisius (Paris). Her grave, which had been identified thanks to a later tombstone, had been moved during the 19th century in the Basilica of St. Denis, where it is still nowadays.
“Anno secundo regni Teuderici Fredegundis moritur.
The second year of Theuderic’s reign, Fredegund dies.”
Chron, IV, 17. De Fredegunde, quod Parisius invasit, et pugna contra Teudeberto
Fredegund’s grave in St. Denis
Detail of the tombstone
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Halloween
Currently thinking of Henriksen, and he doesn’t have to wonder what the Winchesters are going to be doing on Halloween because they’re already there, killing.
“It was like this last year,” he says to Guntram as they fly towards Oregon, towards Portland and three bodies with missing hearts in the last two days, apparent animal attacks but there’s a pattern to it that feels human. ���Not the hearts and the claw marks and bites. That’s just more Winchester theatrics. No, last year they were in St. Louis. Killed a bunch of folks, made it look like vampire attacks.”
“How?”
“Best guess is they stabbed them with a barbecue fork, drained the blood and left the bodies in alleys. Some they kept, and we found those ones later. After Halloween. Fuckers like to pretend to be classic movie monsters this time of year.”
“So if last year was Dracula, this year is…”
“Looks like Wolfman, from the MO. I don’t even want to know what Dean offered Sam to get him to dress up.”
“You think that’s Sam, in the witness reports?”
“Got to be. Too tall to be Dean, although the witnesses must have been exaggerating somewhat. But a man Sam’s size, in the dark, dressed up as a werewolf… Easy to see why they thought he was seven feet tall.”
“They could think that about Dean, though.”
“Except they also mention seeing a man in a leather jacket, light hair, pale skin, watching as the ‘monster’ attacks. Getting his rocks off watching baby brother maul innocent folks.”
“I dunno, boss. It seems like a lot of trouble to go through for some murder.”
Henriksen laughs, a harsh mirthless bark of a sound. “You’re talking about the brotherfuckers who spent all summer last year kidnapping folks and stashing them God only knows where, only to turn around and murder them, leave their headless corpses in a warehouse that they burned down, and we still don’t know what the fuck they did with the heads. Getting Sammy dressed up like some psycho furry freak is probably an average Wednesday night for those assholes.”
Guntram smiles wryly, conceding the point. “Still, it’s too bad about the moon. Bet Dean’s all sorts of pissed.”
“... the fuck you on about, rookie?”
“Just… the moon was full last night. The 26th. Guess the Winchesters figured it was close enough, but…”
“But Halloween’s not until Wednesday,” Henriksen finishes. He’s silent for a few minutes, mulling over the issue. “Fuck. Shit, fuck, damn, and all the rest.” He stands, starts pacing the aisle, wishing airplane seats could be tossed.
“Sir?”
“This whole charade is just the preshow. They’re gearing up to the grand finale… and we’ve only got four days to stop it.”
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They land just after midnight on the 27th, and the first thing Henriksen does is look up at the moon, hanging just past full in the sky. “What do you think, rookie? Winchesters gonna kill some other unlucky soul?”
“They did the last two nights,” Guntram says. “Be a crazy break from the pattern if they don’t.”
A detective is waiting for them on the ground, her face grim. Henriksen nods as the team disembarks. “Just take us to the scene.”
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Another body, covered in claw marks, missing a heart. Mutilated to the point that it’s impossible to tell if it’s male or female, they’ll have to leave that up to the coroner. Blood splashed across the walls of the ill-advised alley shortcut the victim risked earlier that evening, and massive pawprints from the killer - Sam.
Guntram talks to witnesses. No one saw anything, but they heard screaming and “some kinda animal, growling.” Everyone noticed a gleaming black muscle car at the end of the alley, and the handsome man driving it away once the screaming ended, but it’s long lost to the city traffic. Henriksen puts out a BOLO anyway, sets up surveillance on warehouses and motels in the area.
“We’ve got a chance here - maybe our best chance - to catch them. So stay sharp.”
And there’s nothing left to do but wait.
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It’s not a long wait.
The car doesn’t turn up - the brothers seem to have a sense for when Henriksen and his team are in the area, know to stash the distinctive vehicle and stay under the radar - and they don’t stay in any motels, don’t go near the warehouse district.
It’s a panicked call from Beaverton that reveals their location, the morning after Halloween, from a family that went on vacation and came back to a crime scene in their garage, obvious burglary in the rest of the house. Henriksen sends Guntram ahead, already talking with state troopers about putting up roadblocks and checkpoints for the next few days because they have to be in the area and he’s tired of playing catch-up.
In the house, in the garage, there’s the body of a woman who went missing three days earlier. She’d been kept alive, collared and chained, subjected to torture. What looks like chemical burns around her neck, up her arms and down her legs, and signs of repeated electrocution, a car battery sitting on the nearby workbench. She’s been dead less than eight hours, killed just before the homeowners returned.
Like all the other bodies, her heart is missing, a gaping wound left that the coroner declares to be postmortem.
And the Winchesters are in the wind.
“Stick around, Guntram. Brotherfuckers aren’t done with this town yet. They’re planning something for tomorrow.”
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#currently thinking of henriksen#serial killer au#serial killer dean#serial killer sam#wincest fanfic#outsider pov#tw: torture#tw: murder#sweet little serial killers#having all sorts of bloody fun for the holiday
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The passing cyclist tries to learn something of the history, economy and culture through which he passes.
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is named for John the Baptist. As Wikipedia further informs me,
After Saint Thècle reported from Alexandria (Egypt) the relics of St. John the Baptist which are the three fingers represented on the arms of the city, as well as on the Opinel knife blades, the town was raised to the rank of diocese by Guntram, grandson of Clovis I.
Here are the three fingers of the arms of the city. They look to me like two fingers and a thumb. I may raise this later with the Lord Lyon.
As for Opinel knives: the Opinel company's headquarters is in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, and its eponymous knife, originally for the working man, has become (I learn) emblematic of French culture. Fifteen million are sold annually, and Picasso is said to have used one as a sculpting tool.
Another trip notes mystery solved, then. We were advised to look out for a roundabout with a giant knife in the middle. It was exactly as described.
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May 10 in Music History
1697 Birth of French composer and violinist Jean-Marie Leclair in Lyons.
1705 Birth of composer Gallus Zeiler.
1760 Birth of French composer Claude-Joseph Rouget de L'Isle.
1760 Death of German composer Christoph Graupner.
1776 Birth of English composer, conductor, violinist George T. Smart.
1780 Birth of Italian soprano Angelica Catalani in Senigallia.
1780 Birth of composer Peter Lichtenthal.
1783 Birth of composer Niccola Benvenuti.
1798 FP of Boieldieu's "Zoraine et Zulnare" Paris.
1800 Birth of composer Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov.
1824 FP in US of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro sung in English, at the Park Theater in NYC.
1825 Birth of composer Rudolf Viole.
1839 Birth of German operatic singer Amalie Weiss.
1840 Death of Italian composer Catterino Cavos in St. Petersburg.
1843 FP of Thomas' "Amgélique et Médor" Paris.
1854 Death of Spanish soprano Joaquin Garcia.
1856 Birth of composer Johann Müller.
1858 Birth of American composer Frederick Zech, Jr.
1876 FP of Richard Wagner’s Centennial Inaugural March at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA. He was paid $5,000 for Festival March conducted by Theodore Thomas.
1880 Birth of Russian soprano Lydia Lipkowska in Bessarabia.
1881 Birth of English tenor Frank Mullings in Walsall.
1881 FP of Delibes revision of Offenbach's "Mam'zelle Moucheron"
1885 Birth of Italian tenor Giulio Crimi in Paterno.
1888 Birth of Austrian-American composer Max Steiner in Vienna.
1894 Birth of baritone John Gross.
1894 Birth of Ukrainian-American composer and conductor Dimitri Tiomkin.
1894 FP of Richard Strauss' opera Guntram Strauss conducting at the Hoftheater in Weimar.
1897 Death of English organist and composer William Thomas Best.
1898 Birth of American composer Herbert Elwell in Minneapolis.
1900 Death of composer Joseph Dubetz.
1904 FP of Hugo Alfvén's Midsommarvaka 'Midsummer Vigil', in Stockholm.
1905 Birth of composer Louis Kaufman.
1907 FP of Paul Dukas' opera Ariane et Barbe-Blue, with Georgette Leblanc in Paris.
1907 Birth of composer Harilaos Perpessas.
1913 FP of Draeseke's "Merlin" Gotha.
1912 Birth of composer Erik Jorgensen.
1914 Birth of English tenor Richard Lewis in Manchester.
1914 Death of American soprano Lillian Nordica.
1914 FP of Humperdinck's "Die Marketenderin" Köln.
1916 Birth of American composer Milton Babbitt in Philadelphia.
1917 Death of tenor Ivan Alchevsky.
1919 Birth of Swiss conductor Peter Magg in St. Gallen.
1919 Birth of composer Tibor Sarai.
1920 Birth of Italian tenor Antonio Annaloro.
1922 FP of Busser's "Les Noces corinthiennes" Paris.
1923 FP of Britten's "Owen Wingrave" on stage at Covent Garden.
1930 Birth of Bulgarian tenor Nicola Tagger in Pazarjic.
1933 Death of soprano Selma Kurz.
1935 Birth of American soprano Judith Beckman in Jamestown, ND.
1935 Death of American bass Herbert Witherspoon.
1938 Birth of American composer Phil Winsor.
1938 Death of English Irish pianist and composer Hope Temple aka Dottie Davies in Folkestone.
1938 Birth of Russian conductor and pianist Maxim Shostakovich.
1942 Birth of American composer Ingram Marshall in Mt. Vernon, NY.
1943 FP of R. Glière's Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra, in Moscow.
1949 Death of Spanish-American baritone Emilio De Gogorza.
1951 FP of John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for 12 radios, in NYC.
1954 FP of Rautavaara's A Requiem in Our Time Cincinnati Brass Choir, Ernest N, Glover, conducting. First Prize in the Thor Johnson Composition Contest.
1957 FP of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. USSR State Symphony, Nikolai Anosov conducting, composer's son, Maxim, soloist.
1957 FP of Cikker's "Beg Bajazid" Bratislava.
1958 Birth of American composer Lori Dobbins.
1959 Death of Italian tenor Giuseppe Taccani.
1960 FP of Karlheinze Stockhausen's Kontakte for electronic instruments, piano and percussion, in Cologne.
1962 FP of Fortner's "In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimlín Belisa"
1964 FP of Roy Harris' Epilogue to ‘Profiles in Courage' for orchestra, in Los Angeles, CA.
1968 Birth of Yugoslavian composer Milica Paranosic in Belgrade.
1967 Death of English tenor Arthur Carron.
1974 Death of Italian soprano Valeria Manna.
1985 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise for orchestra with bagpipe solo. Boston Pops conducted by John Williams.
1987 Death of German bass Wilhelm Strienz.
1992 Death of Austrian mezzo-soprano Polly Batic.
1997 FP of Philip Glass's opera The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four and Five. From the sci-fi novel by Doris Lessing, at the State Theater in Heidelberg.
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Guntram Merl Named General Manger for the St. Regis Atlanta
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Guntram Merl Named General Manger for the St. Regis Atlanta
The St. Regis Atlanta announced the appointment of Guntram Merl as the new general manager. Guntram is an established leader in the hospitality industry with a career spanning over two decades. He will be responsible for all aspects of operations and day-to-day management of staff and guests, as well as provide leadership and strategic planning to all departments to ensure maximized operations and guest satisfaction. Working in some of the world's leading hotels and desirable locations allowed Guntram to gain valuable experience and an appreciation for the incredible opportunities the industry provides. Prior to joining the team at The St. Regis Atlanta, Guntram worked at several high profile hotels within Starwood Hotels, now part of Marriott International. Formerly, he was the hotel manager for Westin Charlotte from 2013 to 2017. Prior to this position, he was part of the opening team for The St. Regis Bal Harbour in Miami Beach and served as the director of food & beverage from 2011 to 2013, helping the hotel earn the coveted Forbes Five-Star Award and AAA Five Diamond Award. In addition, Guntram also worked at the renowned The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman as director of food & beverage from 2008 to 2011. "With more than 25 years of international hotel experience, Guntram is the ideal candidate to join the team here at The St. Regis Atlanta," saidDirector of Sales & Marketing Rosa Romero. "His expertise in hotel management will be instrumental in continuing the culture of excellence and exceptional customer service the hotel is known for, allowing the hotel to be preeminent in the luxury market both locally and beyond." Guntram was born and raised in Carinthia, Austria, where he began his career in the culinary arts at luxury five-star, Five Diamond, and boutique hotels from London to Gstaad, Switzerland, and Austria. He earned a diploma in hotel management with excellence in Austria. Logos, product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
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Currently Thinking of Henriksen masterpost - now complete!
Victor Henriksen has one goal: to catch the Winchester Brothers and end their cross country killing spree.
Agent Matt Guntram just wants to impress his boss.
And the Winchesters? They’re just enjoying the game.
Valentine’s Day, 2/14/2007
Mardi Gras, 2/20/2007
St. Patrick’s Day, 3/17/2007
Easter, 4/8/2007
Happy Birthday Sammy, 5/2/2007
Mother’s Day, 5/13/2007
Father’s Day, 6/17/2007
4th of July, 7/4/2007
Halloween, 10/31/2007
Anniversary, 11/2/2007
Thanksgiving, 11/22/2007
Christmas, 12/25/2007
New Year, 1/1/2008
Happy Birthday Dean, 1/24/2008
Valentine’s Day Part II, 2/14/2008
Jus in Bello, 2/21/2008
What happens when Dean is kidnapped, and Sam wants him back:
Don’t Forget: He Has A Brother, 8/31/2007
Valentine’s Day III: timestamp, 2/14/2009
bits and baubles, not part of the main fic but related - not all of these are canon to the universe:
st patrick’s day ask
henriksen’s evil twin
ways henriksen doesn’t catch the winchesters: tax evasion
henriksen and adam ask
winchesters and adam ask
ways henrkisen doesn’t catch the winchesters: parking in a red zone
ways henriksen doesn’t catch the winchesters: getting distracted
#currently thinking of henriksen#serial killer au#victor henriksen#serial killer dean#serial killer sam#masterpost#tw: blood#updates on holidays in the current year#not the year of the setting
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As an accidental Francophile how much interest do you have in the Merovingian period? basically about after the collapse of the WRE/conversion of St. King Clovis I but before Charlemagne
The two names that immediately come to mind from that period are St. Clodoald of Paris and St. Guntram of Orléans, followed of course by the rise of the Carolingians under Charles Martel and Pepin the Short.
I’m also vaguely familiar with Sts. Sigebert and Dagobert of Austrasia, though it’s been a while since I’ve taken a look at them.
TL;DR there are a lot of blank spots in my knowledge of the Merovingians, sadly.
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Saint Judicael, King of Domnonia, High King of the Bretons
Comemorated on 16/17 December
According to Saint Gregory of Tours, the Bretons were divided into various regna (subkingdoms) during the sixth century, of which Domnonia, Cornouaille, and Broweroch are the best known; they had been under Frankish suzerainty during the time of Clovis I. This they had thrown off by the time of Childeric I, who subdued them and their chief Waroch II, at least in the east of Brittany. Guntram, Childeric’s brother, retained his lordship over Waroch and the Brittani formed a Frankish tributary-vassal state through the reign of Dagobert I.
Brittany in the 6th and 7th centuries
Judicael was the eldest of the fifteen sons and five daughters of Judael, King of Domnonia, and his wife Prizel, the daughter of Count Ausoch of Léon in the northwest of Brittany. With the death of King Judael in 605, the throne was usurped by his younger brother Haeloc, whose foster-father, Rethwal, wished to rule in the name of his ward. Rethwal had seven of the fifteen brothers executed, with seven others managing to escape, including Judicael, who took refuge in the Abbey of Saint Jean de Gaël.
After the death of Rethwal in 610, Haeloc came into opposition with Saint Malo, Bishop of Alet, destroying a small monastic community under the bishop’s jurisdiction. Haeloc was then stricken with blindness and, after submitting to Saint Malo for penance, regained his sight and restored his elder brother Judicael to the throne, who would rule the Bretons for the next twenty years with authority and wisdom.
Detail of a stained glass window of St. Judicael
In 635, during the reign of Dagobert I, King of the Franks, the Bretons began to encroach on the border with Francia. Threatened with the intervention of the army of Burgundy, King Judicael agreed to come and meet the Dagobert in his villa in Clichy. Judicael exchanged gifts with Dagobert and acknowledged his suzerainty, but as he was "a very religious man and had a great fear of God," refused Dagobert’s hospitality due to the licentiousness of the royal court.
St. Judicael, High King of the Bretons meeting Dagobert I, King of the Franks
Around 640, he retired to the monastery of Saint John at Gwazel, not far from the monastery of Paimpont that he had founded. He died on 17 December 658, at the age of 56. After his death, he was buried beside his abbot, Saint Méen, and declared a saint. He was succeeded by his son Alain II, known as Alan Hir (the tall). He is also said to have fathered Saints Judoc and Winnoc.
Statue of St. Judicael in Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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Saint Guntram (AD 532-592) was King of Orleans and Burgundy from 561 until his death in 592. Guntram received these territories in the quadripartite division of the lands of his father, Chlotar I, which took place on the king’s death in 561, and added further territory when his brother, Charibert of Paris, died in 567 or 568. Well endowed with the political skills of prudence and duplicity, he strove to prevent either of his two remaining brothers, Chilperic I and Sigebert I, from gaining too great a power, allying now with the one, now with the other. After the death of Sigebert of Austrasia in 575 he protected the interests of the young Childebert II, Sigebert’s son, against the aggressive Chilperic, and recognized Childebert as his heir.
King Guntram had something of that fraternal love which his brothers lacked; the preeminent chronicler of the period, St. Gregory of Tours, often called him "good king Guntram ", as noted in the quotation below from the former's Decem Libri Historiarum, in which St. Gregory discussed the fate of Gontrand's three marriages:
The good king Gontrand first took a concubine Veneranda, a slave belonging to one of his people, by whom he had a son Gundobad. Later he married Marcatrude, daughter of Magnar, and sent his son Gundobad to Orléans. But after she had a son Marcatrude was jealous, and proceeded to bring about Gundobad's death. She sent poison, they say, and poisoned his drink. And upon his death, by God's judgment she lost the son she had and incurred the hate of the king, was dismissed by him, and died not long after. After her he took Austerchild, also named Bobilla. He had by her two sons, of whom the older was called Clothar and the younger Chlodomer.
Guntram had a period of intemperance. He was eventually overcome with remorse for the sins of his past life, and spent his remaining years repenting of them, both for himself and for his nation. In atonement, he fasted, prayed, wept, and offered himself to God. Throughout the balance of his prosperous reign he attempted to govern by Christian principles. According to St. Gregory of Tours, he was the protector of the oppressed, caregiver to the sick, and the tender parent to his subjects. He was generous with his wealth, especially in times of plague and famine. He strictly and justly enforced the law without respect to person, yet was ever ready to forgive offences against himself, including two attempted assassinations. Guntram munificently built and endowed many churches and monasteries. St. Gregory related that the king performed many miracles both before and after his death, some of which St. Gregory claimed to have witnessed himself.
He died at Chalon-sur-Saône in 592, and his nephew Childebert II succeeded him. In the sixteenth century, Huguenots scattered his ashes, but his skull remained untouched and is kept in a silver box in St. Marcellus Church. St. Guntram is the patron saint of divorced people, guardians, and repentant murderers. His feast day is March 28th.
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