Vlad fic: Lady of Ten Thousand Names

This is one of the stories I wrote for the Dragaera Ficathon 2005, archived at AO3.

Title: Lady of Ten Thousand Names
Written for: gisho
Rating: PG-13
Set in/Spoils: early Vlad, Orca

Author's Notes: "Lady of Ten Thousand Names" is a reference to Isis of Egyptian myth, because Isis's grief is a major part of her story. Casting Vlad, future assassin, as Osiris, Lord of the Dead, works out well that way. Isis was called the Lady of Ten Thousand Names because she became the single goddess of which all other (Egyptian) goddesses were mere aspects. I liked that because this story hinges on a double identity.

Usually, in a Vlad story, I aim to write either seventeen or thirty-four sections. This time, I wrote eleven. The mystical significance of the number eleven is: it's the age at which Vlad met Kiera.

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Vlad fic: Pomegranate Seeds

This is one of the stories I wrote for the Dragaera Ficathon 2005, archived at valabars.populli.net.

Title: Pomegranate Seeds
Written for: niqaeli
Rating: PG-13
Set in/Spoils: Taltos, Jhereg, Viscount of Adrilankha

Author's Notes: "Pomegranate Seeds" is a reference to the Greek myth of Persephone, who was kidnapped by the god Hades to be his queen. She ate six pomegranate seeds while she was in Hades, and therefore could not fully return when she was rescued--she had to spend six months of the year in Hades, and six months on earth. I. I was having a kind of pretentious day. I'm sorry.

I'm also sorry for the present tense. I don't know what came over me.

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Vlad fic: A Treatise etc

This is one of the stories I wrote for the Dragaera Ficathon 2005, archived at AO3.

Title: A Treatise on the Political Machinations of the Dragon Council Between the End of the Interregnum and Empress Norathar's Coronation, as read by Kragar e'Terics
Written for: vonbrigthi
Rating: PG-13
Set in/Spoils: Jhereg

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