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[overthefroggymoon]

When You Lie - Prologue

Warnings: Old Mage being sexist.

Summary: A short history of what is considered in the contemporary age to be among the most abominable spells a mage can place on another living being, The Vow of Sincerity

Word count: 846

According to the great mage Silgrimm I’s acclaimed book, The Mages Influence on the Conjunction of Spheres, the Vow of Sincerity is one of the highest honours that can be ‘bestowed’ upon a mage in all the continent. Despite the 10,000 page textbook being wildly abhorred and critiqued for it’s many inaccuracies by students from Oxenfurt to Aretuza, the novel is still held in high regard by the elder mages and so, any and all mages of respect, young and old, will have read it more than a handful of times in their long lives.

Under most understandings, a vow is a promise one person makes to abide by someone, something or somewhere. The Vow of Sincerity is not like this however. With the Vow of Sincerity instead being a promise to something, somewhere or someone that is made for a person. This person has no say in the matter, and this is where the controversy surrounding the vow emerges from.

The Vow of Sincerity was one of the many parts of this books which students found more than questionable. The vow was allegedly first used by Silgrimm toward his wife, the Honourable Megne, to ensure she would not (and could not) stray from their faithful marriage while he spent the majority of his days doing exactly that. The vow ensured that, while Megne was free to do as she pleased, she could not keep any information demanded of her from her husband, as well as this, she could not tell a soul of the vow – given that these were the terms enveloped in the vow when Silgrimm bestowed it on her.

The specifics of this stories ending and what happened to Megne and Silgrimm has unfortunately been lost to the history of the continent. The only thing we can know now for certain is Silgrimm claimed the vow was the crux of their marriage as it “ensured there was trust in the relationship”. Silgrimm claimed in his aforementioned book “the marriage has been the utmost fruitful, I believe due to the vow I placed on Megne. I believe my previous attempts with Gert and Harriet were failures due to their lack of commitment to me and our relationships. This proves my theory that marriage is a waste of time unless the vow is properly used, both Megne and I are much happier than either Gert or Harriet and I had ever been. With Megne, she smiles each time she sees me and I feel nothing but trustful in her that she is mine and mine alone in all she does”. How exactly Megne felt about the vow was never truly known as no one seemed to have asked her, and even if they had, the vow forbid her from discussing it with anything other than vagueness. And when several years later she left a diary entry reading “I lied” next to her, supposedly accidentally, poisoned body, the truth of the feelings of the one the vow had been placed on left this realm with her.

Because of the vow being claimed to be a high honour for the recipient, there have only been a handful of amateur attempts at placing the vow since Silgrimm and Megne, none of which have had anywhere near the same levels of success the mage and his bride appeared to have from the placing of the vow. In 1001, it was alleged a peasant farmer attempted to place it on a woman in a brothel he had taken a fancy to after learning of it from a class at Oxenfurt he crashed. Given his missing of vital ingredients and only simply knowing the mantra of the vow, it was not successful. Other enacts of the vow include 1289 when it was used on a goat in an attempt to ensure it would return to its magical owner each night before the sun had fallen completely and 650 when it was not yet seen as a ‘luxury’ and chaos weavers under apprenticeships were encouraged to try it on their classmates, and anyone else they came across. This did not end well.

Perhaps the most popular usage of the vow now is the use of the Vow of Sincerity on knights, lords, dukes and mages to stay loyal to their kingdoms before battles. Over the years, the vow has progressed and become something different to what it once was. Now, the vow is still used to keep people from hiding truths but it has also progressed to being capable of controlling the target physically. Placing these more extreme versions of the vow ensures any knight or duke deemed suspicious is unable to enact any modes of treason as well as ensuring those sent undercover to enemy lines do not reveal their truth, and that their quests are enacted fully. The specifics of how this vow effects its target once their missions have ended is a secret each kingdom keeps heavily guarded and under wraps, with most rulers insisting the vow is not in use due to its outdated and harmful nature.

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Unfortunately for us and our heroes, this final, more unforgiving version of the vow is the one which we will be encountering.

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My AO3, where new chapters will be uploaded/updated first. The whole story will follow Jaskier, Geralt and Yen as they travel the continent in preparation for a war between two kingdoms all while trying to figure out who this new knight, Kayleen, is and why she is all over Geralt. 

Despite that summary, the fic is very much a JaskierxOC slow burn story. 

Let me know any feedback you may have, I’d love to hear any of it!!