The Tortallan Epic

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Creators:
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Series Begun:
2024-07-22
Series Updated:
2024-08-15
Description:

When I was a teen and first reading the Tortall books, this was my only fanfic. I had taken the characters and plot and dumped them into a universe of my own making. That universe didn’t have gods who interfered in the way canon-verse does, and resulted in some AU pairings. This spring, when I started thinking about putting this on AO3, I thought it would be more accessible if I brought it back into the canon-verse, particularly since I’ve lost the original story for my verse that explained the geography, history, and politics. I’ve cut out a bunch of the boring canon-rewrite scenes that were necessary in my own verse but are suitably covered in canon, so it’s best to approach these as a collection of missing scenes, rather than a continuous story. I’ll put commentary on the stories where they come into play but the two main non-canonical pairings that I couldn’t fix are Keladry of Mindelan / Nealan of Queenscove & Alianne of Pirate’s Swoop / Taybur Sibigat. I don’t recommend subscribing to the series just yet – I’m about to dump >700 pages of fanfic on AO3. If you want actual new content (should any materialize), subscribe once you see “The Grandkids”.

Notes:

I checked "No Archive Warnings Apply" but you should interpret that as "Canon Warnings Apply". In other words: If you consider canon's depictions of battle, war, and injury graphic depictions of violence, consider that warning to apply to this as well. If you consider any of the canonical deaths to be major characters (I certainly do), consider that warning to apply to this as well. I'll add additional notes for the non-canonical deaths (I consider them all to be minor characters). If you consider Jon/Alanna or Numair/Daine to be an abuse-of-power dynamic -- I don't think Alanna or Daine does, but modern professional sexual ethics would -- consider non-con to apply to this as well. Alanna, Daine, Kel, and Aly are all canonically under 18 for most of their series, which by AO3 standards means it's underage, but again, I don't think the characters in question see it that way.

Stats:
Words:
395,540
Works:
7
Complete:
No
Bookmarks:
9

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