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• The Erroneous Assumption That There Will Be A Tomorrow by sith_shenanigans

  Fandoms: Fallen London | Echo Bazaar  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  30 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Amias Arling | The Calescent Inquisitive & The Honey-Addled Detective
  • Amias Arling | The Calescent Inquisitive & Isabell Lamb | The Cordial Huntress
  • Amias Arling | The Calescent Inquisitive & The Last Constable
  • Amias Arling | The Calescent Inquisitive (Fallen London Player Character)
  • Isabell Lamb | The Cordial Huntress (Fallen London Player Character)
  • The Honey-Addled Detective (Fallen London)
  • The Missing Comtessa (Fallen London)
  • The Last Constable (Fallen London)
  • Original Fallen London Character(s)
  • Case Fic
  • POV Second Person
  • The Case of the Disappearing Heiress
  • The London Horticultural Show
  • Body Horror
  • Unhealthy Relationships
  • Gender Identity
  • help this one’s a novella

  Summary

  Unjust fortune. Normalcy bias.

  A young Comtessa goes missing at the worst possible time. In the way of her pursuer stand the woman’s Society friends, the secrets of the Clay Men, and—worst of all—London’s sudden enthusiasm for vegetable life.

  All things a good detective can work around. Right?

  Series

  • Part 1 of To Win Twice the Stake, or Not at All / The Hope That Drives You to Destruction

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  43,126

  Chapters:

  10/12

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  9

  Hits:

  167

• An Ending of Words by sith_shenanigans

  Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  27 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Male Nerevarine/Voryn Dagoth | Dagoth Ur
  • Implied Male Nerevarine/Vivec
  • Past Male Nerevarine/Original Male Character(s)
  • Male Nerevarine & Caius Cosades
  • Male Nerevarine & Ilmeni Dren
  • Male Nerevarine & Jiub
  • Male Nerevarine & Varvur Sarethi
  • Referenced Past First Council Relationships
  • Male Nerevarine (Elder Scrolls)
  • Voryn Dagoth | Dagoth Ur (Elder Scrolls)
  • Vivec (Elder Scrolls)
  • Caius Cosades (Elder Scrolls) - Character
  • Ilmeni Dren (Elder Scrolls)
  • Jiub (Elder Scrolls)
  • Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Ensemble
  • Novelization
  • Epistolary
  • Autobiography
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Reincarnation
  • Past Lives
  • Slow Burn
  • Character Study
  • Politics
  • Fictional Religion & Theology
  • Moral Ambiguity
  • Horror
  • happy(?) ending
  • POV First Person

  Summary

  How do you explain to the people who loved you that you discovered you were a sainted ancestor, took over the government, and overturned a religion?

  Ilor Vandlen was, by his own estimation, relatively unremarkable for most of his life, this life. He could be stubborn and sometimes intense, but he was quiet. Not given to flights of fancy or temper. The journal he kept after being deported to Vvardenfell would be an unsuitable and unsatisfying explanation for how any of this happened. So—a few years later—he begins collecting his records and recollections into something more like a memoir. Or a letter. Or an account of what happened at Red Mountain. One story has been missing from the records for a very long time.

  He’s still not sure he can tell it, but it’s the only way to put the whole damn thing to rest. So he’s going to try. If you’ll bear with him.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Tail in Teeth, the Dragon

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  24,152

  Chapters:

  3/?

  Kudos:

  5

  Hits:

  90

• The Thirty-Six Lessons of Vivec, Sermon Thirty-Eight by sith_shenanigans for aetherius (BadWolfGirl01), SweetxNightmare

  Fandoms: Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, M/M
  • Complete Work

  11 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Indoril Nerevar/Voryn Dagoth | Dagoth Ur
  • Female Nerevarine/Voryn Dagoth | Dagoth Ur
  • Indoril Nerevar
  • Female Nerevarine - Character
  • Voryn Dagoth | Dagoth Ur
  • Vivec (because he wrote this)
  • The First Council a little bit
  • 36 Lessons of Vivec
  • Fictional Religion & Theology
  • Vivec’s Extremely Strange Metaphysics Takes

  Summary

  …or possibly thirty-six and a half.

  One of Divayth Fyr’s experiments gets away from him. There are six Walking Ways for a reason (and perhaps a few more no one has discovered). A thousand strange things have happened and everyone—which means only the people who could be saved—was saved.

  This is the sermon Vivec struggled to write after the Sharmat was no more.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,682

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Kudos:

  4

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  53

• The Shrine of Akatosh by sith_shenanigans

  Fandoms: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M, M/M, Other
  • Work in Progress

  27 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Hero of Kvatch | Champion of Cyrodiil/Martin Septim
  • Hero of Kvatch | Champion of Cyrodiil
  • Martin Septim
  • Jauffre (Elder Scrolls)
  • Baurus (Elder Scrolls)
  • Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Ensemble
  • Original Characters
  • Novelization
  • Oblivion Main Quest
  • Mostly Canon Compliant
  • Romance
  • Tragedy
  • Loyalty
  • Getting Together
  • Bigender Hero of Kvatch
  • Dunmer Hero of Kvatch
  • POV Second Person
  • Not Reader-Insert
  • Eventual Smut
  • Not a Fix-It (yet)
  • Only Ever Debatably A Fix-It In Later Works
  • The Hero of Kvatch is doing their best
  • But the world is ending and they’re mentally ill about it
  • They would still be mentally ill if the world wasn’t ending but they would handle it better
  • Martin is also doing his best but unfortunately Glorious Destiny has it out for him specifically

  Summary

  Tanvyr Vandlen—as known to the Imperial City’s illegal fighting pits—is a hedge wizard, a brawler, and if you ask them, a s’wit who doesn’t know how to shut their mouth unless someone shuts it for them. But only Arena-sanctioned fights are supposed to end in death. An accident with a dubious spell later, they find themself unlucky enough to see that enforced. They’re slated for execution as a murderer—until the Emperor walks into their cell instead.

  To their guilty conscience, having the Amulet of Kings shoved into their hands is an opportunity to make something of their life. To their adrenaline-seeking impulses, it’s a thrill to throw themself into an Oblivion Gate. But for all Tanvyr is trying to be the hero the situation deserves, the priest they were sent to save sees through their fronts.

  Martin terrifies them, most of all for his insistence on seeing them as an equal. Being the Emperor’s sharpest Blade is simple. Being his friend is more difficult—and wearing his love openly, unthinkable. Not because of what they’ve done, but because of who they are. And the longer they stand beside him, the less certain they are of who that is.

  Which has to be a good thing, given everything. Right?

  Series

  • Part 1 of Tail in Teeth, the Dragon

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  113,969

  Chapters:

  12/23

  Comments:

  38

  Kudos:

  38

  Bookmarks:

  6

  Hits:

  945

• First Drafts and Scraps by sith_shenanigans

  Fandoms: Archived Drafts - Do Not Add To Fandom  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No category
  • Work in Progress

  01 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

  Summary

  A place to store the original versions of chapters I’ve significantly overhauled so that readers can continue to access them. Not really in order of anything but edit date—they’re linked off the new versions.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  24,819

  Chapters:

  5/?

  Kudos:

  1

  Hits:

  42