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[not-poignant]

Birthday Spotlight - Fenwrel the Mouse Maiden

[May 14 - Taurus]

The short, round graceful mouse maiden who is terrifyingly powerful, and a compassionate and fierce mother, Fenwrel joins the Fae Tales cast asking first for asylum, but then making it very clear that she should be part of Gwyn's Court. She becomes so invaluable she eventually becomes Inner Court, and then the consort to the Queen-in-Waiting, Gulvi Dubna Vajat.

Formidable as a foe, and ambitious even as a friend, sometimes even playful and mischievous, Fenwrel is proud of being Unseelie and powerful, and is a stern, wise, compassionate friend. She offers wise counsel to those around her, but secretly just wants to live a comfortable life where she wields the power to make it comfortable for the people she loves as well.

‘Yes! That’s what I am! And there’s a lot of us! We could take you down. So don’t you mouse me. You need allies, Each Uisge. Don’t lose the ones you have.’

The Court of Five Thrones

The Court of Five Thrones - First appearing as about the only truly wise and grounded member of Gwyn's Court (at least at first), Fenwrel comes in with true ambitious and ruthlessness, desiring an increase in status, a place in the Court and making no pretense as to her motives, which including ensuring the protection of her family. A strong mother, Master Mage, and powerful ally, Augus expects Fenwrel to hate him, and is surprised to find that she's a true confidante.

The Court of Five Thrones - Without Fenwrel's steady and uncompromising vision, compassion and communication throughout The Court of Five Thrones, the other characters would have been lost without her. She also falls in love with Gulvi, and together, they become the second power couple of the Unseelie Court, readying themselves to step into power during The Ice Plague.

The Ice Plague I: The Forest of Fire - Fenwrel and Gulvi step up as consort and Queen-in-Waiting, as Gwyn and Augus leave on an expedition with Mosk and Eran. Fenwrel also makes it clear to Eran that she'll not put up with any of his nonsense, casting a geas on him that makes it impossible for him to use his fire until it becomes clear he won't use it to harm Mosk again.

The Ice Plague III: The Ice Plague - Unseen throughout book 2 due to the lack of teleportation and staying busy with the Unseelie Court, Fenwrel becomes a steady presence at the end offering her wealth of her magic and resources to everyone, including Mosk Manytrees, crucial in the final battle against Olphix.

Unwound - Gwyn finds himself frustrated and annoyed by Fenwrel's habit of both treating him as an unruly child, and also demanding that he be open with Augus instead of avoiding him. Fenwrel is right, of course, but that doesn't mean Gwyn has to like it!

Tumblr Prompts: Fae Tales - The only Fenwrel perspective story, chapter 3 of the prompts shows Fenwrel mixing herbs and musing on her connection to Gulvi, ending in her kissing Gulvi thoroughly, and making it clear she's in charge.

All That We Were, All That We Will Ever Be - Fenwrel is briefly in the final epilogue of the canon Gwyn and Augus epilogue, there offering her compassion and understanding to Augus throughout Gwyn's recovery, even though Augus doesn't want it at all.

The Best of Broken Resolutions - In a short AU, Gulvi is scandalised when Augus mentions that he already knows Fenwrel - the head of Interiors - is fucking her.

The Spoils of the Spoiled - Fenwrel comes into the story as a high-powered lawyer who is competent enough and willing enough to face Crielle and Lludd on Gwyn's behalf in an emancipation case. Powerful and ruthless, Gwyn finds himself feeling intensely pressured by her to do more than he wants to, and needs to be encouraged by the people around him to remember that he doesn't have to take things to trial just because Fenwrel wants to.

Underline the Black - (unmentioned / future mention). As the manager and CEO of the sister site to Hillview, Fenwrel is an alpha and partner to omega Gulvi.

Fenwrel is a short, extremely powerful Master Mage and mouse maiden in the canon Fae Tales series. Unable to properly appear in human form, she always has mouse ears and a mouse tail, as well as some other features even in 'human form.' She carries a Mage staff with her.

Fenwrel has black hair, black eyes, and brown skin, and is fat and beautiful, with a strong sense of fashion.

From the fae side of Kerala, she is disconnected from her heritage due to choices made by her family, though she will still wear Indian clothing. As a result, her children are more connected to it by personal choice and she has been finding more connection through them.

She is a fierce and proud mother, and will do anything for her children, but also lets them be free spirits.

Fenwrel is strong-willed and rarely insecure, it's clear that she's worked hard for what she's achieved in life, and she shows a level of confidence that is earned and not arrogance. She tends to be grounded and thoughtful, and not at all self-effacing.

Despite not being a healer, she is adept at aspects of healing, and has a lot of natural compassion.

Fenwrel established herself as a loyal and caring friend when she became Augus' confidante, though he would have preferred not to have one at all. She saw him in some of his most vulnerable and raw moments, and offered counsel, compassion and care, even when he was collapsed on the ground post severe flashback. She's crucial in helping him to heal his meridians.

When Augus comes upon something fatal in The Court of Five Thrones, she stands up to Gwyn with the coldness of someone who needs to prioritise. We see Gwyn get ordered about like a child, in spite of his distress. It's revealed later that she gave up years of her life to secure Augus'.

In The Ice Plague I, Fenwrel suppresses Eran's fire powers, finding him cruel and heartless in his treatment of Mosk. Later though, realising how severe the spell was, she apologises openly.

In every story, Fenwrel always occupies a position of high power, being a lawyer, head of a section of a company, CEO, Master Mage etc.

Fenwrel is always quite ambitious and determined, sometimes even seeming cold, but it's clear that she's often operating from a strong ethical position.

Fenwrel is always short, always fat, and always Indian.

Fenwrel is always something of a compass for other characters, even when she's not directly in the story, or not in it much, except when she's there as Gulvi's lover.

She's always Gulvi's lover, with the exception of The Spoils of the Spoiled.

I wanted to add more women characters to The Court of Five Thrones, and Fae Tales in general, and Fenwrel came in quite naturally. I wanted to write her as fat, ambitious, compassionate, ruthless. Qualities that we don't often see together in a woman character. I wanted her motherhood to not be the most important thing in her life even though it is important, that she never lost any of her selfhood to 'being a mother' and I also wanted her to be ambitious without losing her maternal compassion. I worried about how to write her, but Fenwrel appeared and just seemed to naturally flow from there. I never really struggled with any scene she was in.

Fenwrel's always scared me a little in the sense that we're all very lucky she wants to be a good guy, because if she chose to be a villain, we'd all be fucked lol

I loved subverting the idea of a mouse shifter being 'mousy' (like Terho is lol), and making her instead very strong and bold. In her very first scene, Augus talks down to her for being a 'mouse' and it's clear in a moment that she's proud of it, and will tolerate no nonsense from him.

Fenwrel is a top / dominant. Short Queens for life. I especially indulged in the chemistry that Fenwrel and Augus had together, and it was one of my favourite things to write in The Court of Five Thrones.

‘I have always been powerful, and I have never lacked for nourishment, because where there is imperfection, there is food for me. Perhaps you’ll just have to trust that I’m not trying to tip the world further into disharmony.’

The Court of Five Thrones

[grimalkinmessor]

I did some of @not-poignant 's Fae Tales children. Seriously, it's like drawing without the effort. Not sponsored or anything, but I finally have no need to buy fuckin' brushes from ibis. (I tried to multicolor Ash's hair, not sure I succeeded) No waterweed, sorry Augus.

[fallloverfic]

Rating: Mature

Fandom: Fae Tales - not_poignant

Relationship: Gwyn ap Nudd/Augus Each Uisge

Tags: Gwyn ap Nudd, Augus Each Uisge, Gulvi Dubna Vajat, Ash Glashtyn, Original Characters, The Raven Prince, Fluri the Mouse Maiden, The Nightingale, What If, Friendship, Angst with a Happy Ending, Injury Recovery, Rescue Missions, one-sided pining

Summary: When Seelie General Gwyn ap Nudd learns through his friend Gulvi Dubna Vajat of Ash Glashtyn’s desperation to find his missing brother, Augus Each Uisge, Gwyn wonders if everything really is okay with the fae everyone says is just on vacation, and goes to investigate.

"Found You", Chapter 1: Listen

For Faedom Week 2022, Day 1! Inspired by "Deeper into the Woods"!

[kauriart]

The Swan Queen

Gulvi Dubna Vajat from @not-poignant’s Fae Tales Verse, a massive series of original fics that just might be some of my favorite writing, ever.

[patchw9rk]

Figured I'd repost the old Fae Tales drawings that I lost by deactivating my blog. Can't help how much I love this bunch of Nerds

[spyroforlife]

You know what since I’m thinking about Fae Tales now, I think it’s time... for me to match them to Troubled Birds! There’s a lot of characters so apologies if I leave out anyone you like, but I’m gonna try to do a good number of them. I’ll start with a few and put the rest under a cut because I’m sure this’ll be long. Here we go!

Gwyn ap Nudd:

Augus Each Uisge:

Ash Glashtyn:

Gulvi Dubna Vajat:

Julvia Dubna Vajat:

Fenwrel:

The Raven Prince:

Albion:

Ondine:

Crielle ferch Fnwy:

Efnisien ap Wledig (canon):

Mosk Manytrees:

Eran Iliakambar:

Davix:

Olphix:

Efinisien ap Wledig (Falling Falling Stars):

Arden Mercury:

[freyadragonlord]

Ash: if I punch myself in the face and it hurts, am I strong or weak?

Gulvi: strong

Gwyn: weak

Augus: an idiot, it's what you are

[invisiblejune]

References for the five thrones of the original work of @not-poignant​ Fae Tales Verse. In order, from top-left to bottom-right: Gwyn, Augus, Gulvi, Fenwrel and Ash.

Based on these references, i made some concepts for the thrones, that you can see here.

[capillata]

For the character meme: Augus, Gwyn, Mikkel, Ash, Gulvi, and Fenwrel.

Push off a cliff: Gulvi. She can fly away!

Kiss: Gwyn, but like, on his eyelashes, to make him sneeze. Because he hates that. 

Marry: Like Gulvi, I’d choose Ash because I’d know it wouldn’t come to anything. He’s a safe zone because he’s aromantic, and I’m demi-ro and asexual. It’d be such a non-starter. It’d be like ‘safe marriage Ash time’ and we’d probably have an awesome honeymoon where I got to travel somewhere great while he stayed out and banged other people I mean I fucking hate the idea of getting married I’m always going to pick the person who is going to be fine with me divorcing them five seconds later, who just treats it as a thing we have to do for whatever reason (do it for the Vine!) and then doesn’t take it seriously at all. 

Set on fire: I’m kind of amused at the idea of setting Augus on fire because he is not very flammable, and he’s also Inner Court status and sure I’d get murdered in the process but I think it would be like trying to start a fire on a lot of wet, green wood. Very smoky.

Wrap a blanket around: Mikkel. He deserved better. From life and from me.

Be roommates with: Probably Fenwrel, honestly. I feel like she’d be good to live with, and probably have great taste in media and books, and she’d also have a room dedicated to magic so she’d be fine with my pagan ways as well. She’d probably be a bit anally retentive about cleaning but I suspect she’d just do it herself if it annoyed her enough. Also there’d be good food in the house always. Honestly I think she’d have a little herb and spice garden and probably go to the farmer’s market but every now and then would just want to get the most ridiculously indulgent pizza ever and there would always be chocolate and also the bonus of meridian magic = good massages and instant ‘blocking pain via meridians’ like my chronically ill body says yes please.

*

From this meme.

[not-poignant]

Birthday Spotlight - Gulvi Dubna Vajat

[24th March - Aries]

Gulvi Dubna Vajat, the chaos-loving, determined, vicious killer and loving sister is the Unseelie swan maiden from the canon Fae Tales series. She's the lover of Fenwrel the Mouse Maiden, younger sister of Julvia Dubna Vajat, and bucks all the standards when she chose to become the first swan maiden to turn her back against the pacifistic ways of her kind so she could train with the Council of Lammergeiers and become a highly reputable and successful assassin who ended up working for the Raven Prince, in line to be the next Queen of the Unseelie Court.

Despite Gulvi's sometimes abrasive ways, she's always been well-liked among many readers. She's a staunch supporter of Gwyn's, a best friend to Ash, and for a time, Augus' declared enemy. She spent a few chapters just stabbing him to get revenge, because, well, he did kill almost her entire family.

Gulvi is a fantastic advice-giver, lives her own life, and is well-equipped to be Queen-in-waiting and Unseelie Queen. One day she'll take the throne for herself, and Gwyn is more than aware of it and more than happy for it to happen. Even if she did get him drunk all those separate times...

‘Make no mistake, you are lucky that I am friends with both Gwyn and Ash, for nothing would please me better than to come at you through your loved ones. Think about that, for a minute. I like that this hurts you. And if I didn’t think I’d be hurting this Court, and myself in the process, I would let Gwyn be executed by the Seelie Court in an instant just to watch you make more of these delicious, frightened expressions of yours. I can smell your fear, you horrid, mess of a fae, and I revel in it. You have not Ash’s sympathy, nor his support in this. And you do not have mine.'

~ Game Theory

From the Darkness We Rise - (fanfiction) Gulvi first appeared as an OC in this fanfiction in her swan maiden form, as an informant to Gwyn ap Nudd, even then an effective assassin who used French affectations in her speech and rubbed Jack Frost the wrong way every time she opened her mouth.

The Court of Five Thrones - Gulvi came through for Gwyn ap Nudd when Augus died (temporarily), offering him sage advice and getting him drunk. She's sent to assassinate many of Gwyn's enemies in order to manipulate people into giving Gwyn what he wants as King, she falls in love with Fenwrel, and pulls the heavy duty of serving as Queen-in-Waiting, all while nursing her fragile, near-death's-door older sister, who is stuck in swan form due to Augus' actions when he was once a villain.

Into Shadows We Fall - (fanfiction) Notable for appearing as Ash's best friend and Gwyn's ally, but she makes Jack too furious and he attempts to murder her, and in return, she stabs him with one of the best verbal repartees. It is her actions which serve as the turning point for Jack and Pitch, as she inadvertently severs a very important scarf in the process...

Game Theory - Drugging Ash, giving Gwyn advice even though they're on opposite sides, and stabbing Augus repeatedly while calling him a donkey are just all in a day's work for this graceful, ruthless, and surprisingly mature swan maiden.

Unwound - An interstitial between The Court of Five Thrones and The Ice Plague, this series explores Gwyn's occasional melancholy due to well...all the burdens he carries. Once more, Gulvi proves herself to be a staunch and true friend.

The Ice Plague I: The Forest of Fire - When Gwyn and Augus leave the Unseelie Court, Gulvi steps into her role as Queen-in-Waiting, but not before trying to forbid her sister Julvia from going on a grand quest (she fails, much to her anger).

The Ice Plague III: The Ice Plague - Gulvi has been working in the background throughout as Queen-in-Waiting with Fenwrel by her side, but we finally get to see her again, which comes as a profound relief for our ensemble team.

All That We Were, All That We Will Ever Be - In the final epilogue of Augus and Gwyn, in the Fae Tales canon, Gulvi is there watching vigil over a certain someone, even as she works a truly overwhelming job.

The Spoils of the Spoiled - High school student, girlfriend of Kayla (Gulvi is so incredibly lesbian), bitchy frenemy of Augus Each Uisge, best friend of Ash, and eventual friend of Gwyn ap Nudd. Gulvi is the one who suggests the detached apartment at the back of her house to Augus and Ash, giving them a place to live when they become homeless. She comforts Augus after he's molested by Efnisien, and she offers charming, funny, and sometimes caustic commentary throughout.

The Day the Ferris Wheel Came Down - High school student and best friend of Ash, Gulvi is up to her chaos-loving antics in this short oneshot!

The Best of Broken Resolutions - In one of my favourite AUs, Gulvi is a high-powered architect working with Gwyn ap Nudd who bitches out their work colleagues, judges all their outfits, and is immaculately fashionable. She's in a workplace relationship with Fenwrel, which isn't nearly the well-kept secret it should be.

Tumblr Prompts - Fae Tales - Anyone who asks me about whether I'll ever write any F/F should go here for a little kissing between Fenwrel and Gulvi in Basorexia.

With chaos as her heartsong in the Fae Tales canon, Gulvi embraces the chance to introduce a little unpredictability into the lives around her.

Despite this, Gulvi still has her swan-maiden roots, she is a loving, family-oriented, loyal friend and lover who just wants to have a good time in life.

A swan maiden who was raised a pacifist and then proved that her turning away from peace-loving ways wasn't 'just a phase' when she became one of the most notorious Unseelie assassins in the fae realm.

Any excuse to drink - which makes her a good friend for Ash

Protective of those around her. Once you are taken under her wing, she will fight tooth and nail for you, and sometimes against you, if you're your own worst enemy.

White wings, white hair, black eyes, and uses two kris daggers. She almost always is seen solely in hybrid form, never human or true form.

Helping Gwyn to get through the hard times with hard liquor and sisterly advice

Any time she insulted Augus, while Augus was powerless to retaliate

Saying 'La!' as a form of punctuation

Swearing

Despite her sometimes casual-seeming, party-loving nature, she possessed a courtier's tongue, holding her own against Albion at the end of Game Theory, and bringing both Augus and Gwyn to their senses multiple times.

Always loves an element of chaos in her life, though it's more muted when she's in human AUs, especially once she's in love.

Lesbian for life

Graceful and beautiful, and does not suffer fools

Gulvi is all about family whether she wants to be or not - chosen family and blood family

Will always find Julvia incredibly annoying and condescending while loving her fiercely

Tends to think of Augus as a bit of an idiot, all the way from 'too stupid to live' in Game Theory to 'I still love you though' in The Spoils of the Spoiled

I've always really loved swan maidens, after meeting them in The Bitterbynde Trilogy by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. I came up with a whole scaffolding of background for these beings, and still feel very fondly towards swan maidens so I'm not entirely surprised that when Gulvi was no longer a significant character in The Ice Plague because she was holding up the fort, Julvia became a significant character instead.

People always used to ask me if I shipped her and Ash, but Gulvi's love for Ash was never quite 'that' kind of love, even though she gave her heart to him. I always loved the idea of two best friends so bound together that the friendship would last an eternity.

Gulvi has tattoos of symbols on her arms from the Council of Lammergeiers as part of her initiation but I always forget she has them, so this is one of her biggest continuity errors in that I just don't mention them enough so we ALL forget.

I always like to imagine that Gulvi and the Raven Prince are actually extremely close, and we never see it because it's private - a friendship between two bird shifters.

Gulvi is from the fae side of Latvia - she's not French! She just picked up an affectation from the human realm because she liked it.

The reasons I gave my heart to him weren’t as clear as they should have been. They couldn’t be. They never are! Swans think they have such pure hearts, but… Ash is worthy, make no mistake, but I never wanted to be with him. Even as I gave him my heart, without his consent I might add, because he would have refused it – I knew I didn’t want to be with him. I didn’t want him to fuck me, I didn’t want to lie on a bed with him beyond collapsing together on a bed with marshmallows and fried foods while watching silly human movies about very profound things. He has always been a gentleman about it, even as I took something from the both of us the moment I staked him with the permanency of my love. But, Gwyn, I’ve never wanted to be with anyone. Ash gives me all of himself in our friendship. His love is a whole thing. He has such an abundance of it. It spills everywhere. It makes him do and say stupid things. It makes him wiser than he should be. He loves love. Whether it makes him a fool or seer. And me, with my cynical heart, I needed his idealism, his romanticism, all of it. He gives me something I have never been able to give myself. And he has enough of it – so much – that he can give it freely and I never have to worry about depleting him of anything. You see? Everyone thinks it’s unrequited. But that implies that it is one-sided, and it is not. They say unrequited love is not returned in kind, but he returns it. And they act as though I accidentally tripped over his feet, looked up, and fell in love with the stupid idiot he can be. But I did not. I made a conscious declaration to myself, to the world.

~ The Court of Five Thrones

[bleakvictory115-blog]

Chapter 3, Stories

As Raine rode off through the night with her band of hunters, Kurt turned to his own group. "So... what's the whispering about?" Kurt asked. In return, the trio told him a story. Many people had heard of the war not but one generation ago in the neighboring continent of Farbein, Kurt was not such a person. As war had raged between one of the kingdoms and a large group of Orcs who believed their God gave them divine right to any land they saw and desired, the king himself sent messengers to the lands of Neyvin looking for any capable warriors to help strike down the threat. Raine was one such warrior. The king, so thankful for those who came, had his court wizard teach them how to enchant their blades and arrows to stop most creatures in their tracks... even the Blight. Where most Orcs took 3 or 4 arrows to kill and could get through about 3 knights, those that knew the enchantment could cut them down in droves. And Raine took it upon herself to ambush Orcs in their camps in the forest. Legend has it that she killed any Orc that tried to stop her, be it to help the kingdom or her own survival, that she fought it the precision and grace of an elf, yet the fury of her prey. They called the enchantment Glaiveslight. And while the war was won, the kingdom in question would not see any kind Orc or halfbreed anywhere near its walls.

The sun had just risen over the foothills by the time the story was over. "Ye spoke to a living legend as if she was a friend, Lad. How do ye feel?" Asked Torque. "I feel.... tired and honestly a little hungry. I don't know about legends and all that but I do know that we have a ways before the next town and with people searching for us, or at least some form of us, I'm not sure we want to be around here." Kurt said. The group stared, surprised he was focused on leaving. Torque's burly voice broke the silence, "Ah, lad. Yer a surprising one." Kurt responded while packing up his things, "Cut me a little slack, I've not had sip nor sup in a couple days. Do we even know where we're headed next?" Escendar, having picked up a map of the region in Haerdon looks at all the settlements they can go, which is few and far in between.

Ecendar's blue-green eyes lit up when he'd seen a familiar town on the map, with Torque standing of his toes to look at the map too, "About the closest place to us is a place I know well, AiCerin. Only way there will be through the Kyljärn mountains. The man who sold this map to me told me warned me there is a war between bandit tribes on either side." Torque interrupts heartily, eager to fight, "Oh we can handle bandits. Already did! And with our scary new lady friend I don't think we can be stopped!" Ecendar, shrugging off the interruption by taking in the landscape and cool breeze that makes his long grey-blonde hair flow responds after a short pause. "Sure, we can. And strained from battle with the clans we will be eaten..." his demeanor getting more serious as he moves closer to the Dwarf, purposely trying to scare him to see his limit, "or starved as the scavengers of war pick upon our fallen foes, snapping their jaws and spitting vile as us anytime we try to make a move. It's not just wolves and wargs we must worry about. The lower portion of that mountain is home to a hive of large, flesh eating, acidic bugs called Chitus that lay their eggs in Man, Elf and Dwarf alike..." Scarlett, irritated by Ecendar's constant snapping at the Dwarf spoke loud, if almost to challenge him. "Lay off him, Dwarves can be arrogant but he's only being kind! Foolish, I'm sure your words speak true, but he means well!" Torque, who is now being towered over by the Elf, reaches his hand calmly out to Scarlett, taking only a brief moment to look at her. "Lass I appreciate what you're doin' but I can handle me-self..." Torque steps back from the Elf who is still staring at him and does a visible shrug and begins staring off into the distance "... Let's go kill us some bugs!" Torque begins to storm off towards the mountain, Scarlett and Kurt chasing after him pulling him to a stop while Ecendar rubs the bridge of his nose amazed by the Dwarfs simplemindedness.

"Torque, no!" said Kurt when pulling the Dwarf to a stop. "It's safer to go in the mountains, and after all we have much to learn about you and your people. Maybe there will be loose ore or gems you could find up there too?" Torque thought for a moment, war was fun for him. His surprising speed and short stature meant people couldnt hit him well, and he hit hard. But finding something new in the mountains could help his people and maybe there was gems up there. He had a special soft spot for Sapphires. "Tis true, the caves are loose this time of year. Aye I'll go with ye. But we best get into a scrap soon!" Torque said as he galloped back to the camp to help pack up. About an hour later the group had set for the small Kyljärn mountain range with the sun still rising. With Torque eager for new jewels for his collection, the group forgot the put out the fire and a quarter mile away from the camp Scarlett had remembered. "Oh that's right..." she muttered go herself before she clapped her hands, rubbed them together and blew between them. A yellow smoke coming out the other side. "What is it?" Asked Kurt. "Oh nothing, we just forgot to put out the fire. I took care of it." Ecendar, impressed by her knowledge of both simple tricks and intricate spells asks her where she learned all of her magic. "A coven..." Scarlett said as if it were normal. She turns to look at Ecendar but sees only shocked faces, afraid of what may become of them. "Relax, I cut ties with them years ago... and I cut them now that I think about it. That's the only reason I'm telling you now. If I were still with them I'd have sent you to them after Haerdon. I was adopted by them, they were the only people I knew when I was young. They taught me what I know and taught me to survive. As grateful as I was to them for everything they wanted me as a sister of their devil magic. You know you're in the wrong croud when someone you once considered family wants you to persuade a farmer into bringing his goat with him to the woods. Theres only one way to go about that and I'm not so comfortable with that or what would have happened afterwards..." Ecendar nods, understanding now, while Torque continues to look terrified. Kurt, now with eyes wide open simply says "Go on..." lustfully intrigued. "Wouldn't you like to know!" Says Scarlett, chuckling and shooting a sarcastic wink at Kurt.

The group tells stories on their way to Kyljärn and AiCerin. Scarlett tells tales of her mischievous young life in the coven. Ecendar tells of his exploits living in his old Elven shire, Mykera where he learned alchemy, enchanting and was quite the ladies man. Kurt talks of how he was going to be a captain of his own trade ship had it not been for a Griffon that struck his small town of Gulvis. A trader had someone steal an egg from its nest to sell. When the beast came looking it brought destruction and earned itself a bounty. Had it not been for the creature killing Kurt's brother Keegan, Ecendar and him would have never met. Men from Gulvis and those who came to collect the bounty grouped up to take on the grest beast. Originally there were 27 people, in the end there were only 4 to collect bounty. Since then, Ecendar and Kurt have been living on what's left of the bounty and looking for more work and adventure in the world. And Torque tells stories of life as he's known it underground. He was the runt of his family, but made up for it in precision, strength and speed. Where men have Darts as a party game, Dwarves have nail driving. Whoever can drive the nail deeper with the throw of a hammer, wins. Once, visciously inebriated, Torque threw a hammer at one of the many nails he was seeing and drove it so far into the beam that it broke the beam and left the hammer dulled. He's kept the nail ever since. And as for his personal gem collection he has 6 amethysts, 3 rubies, 4 topaz, an emerald and sapphire. His story behind the emerald is that a large spider took it, mistaking it for a grub and swallowed it. Torque hunted it down and had to split it in two to find the gem. Torque isnt usually in depth except for when he's in his caves, but he was gruesome with detail about the spider and how he slew it. Even made Kurt cringe and all the hunger he was feeling disappeared.

[saiwaimode]

Needed to do some warm up sketches so here I am- sneaking in some fanart of Gulvi and Fenwrel for @not-poignant‘s amazing Fae Tales series! Right now I’m on Court of Five Thrones and loving every chapter; thank you so much for sharing your work with us!

[fallloverfic]

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Fae Tales - not_poignant

Pairing: Gwyn ap Nudd/Augus Each Uisge, Gwyn ap Nudd & Gulvi Dubna Vajat

Tags: Gwyn ap Nudd, Augus Each Uisge, Gulvi Dubna Vajat, Ash Glashtyn, Original Character, The Raven Prince, Fluri the Mouse-Maiden, The Nightingale, What If, Friendship is magic, Angst with a Happy Ending, Injury Recovery, Rescue Missions, one-sided pining, fix-it fic, non-con medical procedures, implied torture, hurt/comfort

Summary: When Seelie General Gwyn ap Nudd learns through his friend Gulvi Dubna Vajat of Ash Glashtyn’s desperation to find his missing brother, Augus Each Uisge, Gwyn wonders if everything really is okay with the fae everyone says is just on vacation, and goes to investigate.

"Found You", Chapter 3: Learn

Gwyn convalesces in the Unseelie Court, and learns what happened while he was resting.

For Faedom Week 2022, Day 4 @poigdomevents! Inspired by "The Court of Five Thrones"!

[not-poignant]

Omg, the splatter of blood, the pose, her hair lsakjf this is amazing!

The Swan Queen

Gulvi Dubna Vajat from @not-poignant’s Fae Tales Verse, a massive series of original fics that just might be some of my favorite writing, ever.

[spyroforlife]

“Would you fuck a clone of yourself?”

Fae Tales edition

Albion: I don’t want to fuck my clone because that would be gay sex and I’m not gay.

Crielle: I’m not gay but I would actually totally fuck my clone.

Eran: I’m gay, but I still don’t want to fuck my clone, that’s gross and weird.

Gwyn: I don’t want to fuck my clone because my self-loathing is THAT strong.

Gulvi: I’d totally fuck my clone because I want to know if I’m good in bed.

Augus: I’d fuck my clone because who would know better how to fuck ME than ME?

Fenwrel: I’d totally do all sorts of weird things to my clone I’d be embarrassed to ask someone else to do.

Davix: To be honest, fucking my clone has always been my fantasy.

Olphix: It’s basically the same as masturbating, right? So no big deal.

Mikkel: It’s not the same as masturbating, it’d be like having sex with your twin. Wrong and bad!

Mosk: I would not have sex with my clone because what if my clone is evil.

Ash: Not only would I have sex with my clone, I’d probably make a bunch of clones and just get it on with all of them at once because that’s how pro-clone-fucking I am.

[freyadragonlord]

Ash, pointing at Grip: stinky

Gwyn: no! don't be mean!

Gulvi: stinky bastard man

Gwyn: no!!!

Augus: naughty boy. bad dog.

Gwyn, distraught: NOOOOOO!!!!!!