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The sun at sea by alfgifu
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
16 Feb 2026
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They called Kip Mdang many things: pirate, freebooter, folk hero, villain. Imperial lapdog, now and then, although I'd never heard that twice. Nor did anyone who’d met him tend to repeat the epithet 'Seafarer King', though it was popular in Solaara.
What if Kip went back to the pirates instead of the Palace, after his long voyage home?
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The Roses of Katharmoon by alfgifu for rattyjol
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Red Company & Red Company Reformed - Victoria Goddard
14 Feb 2026
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The Red Company are on the run, seeking a safe route out of Ysthar, and Pali Avramapul is glad for the company of her first and best friend.
Fitzroy is also there.
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Finding that you were real by alfgifu for SunInGlory, crownedrooster
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
11 Jan 2026
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Following the events of Like Falling Through a Cloud, the Last Emperor of Astandalas and his relatively newly-appointed Hands have a great deal to figure out about their newly-acquired magic bond and their future plans.
Fortunately they have already decided to keep it entirely secret, an ambition that (in court) is normal to want and will no doubt be easy to achieve. 😌
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- Part 2 of Falling through a cloud
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Fire beneath by alfgifu
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
09 Dec 2025
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Unexpected news comes from the Vangavaye-ve, and the Lord of Zunidh ponders on what it might mean for his secretary.
(A challenge fic for Fitzroy's birthday.)
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Inksnipvember 2025 by alfgifu for Crackfoxx, praycambrian, justjourneys
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard, Greenwing & Dart Series - Victoria Goddard
01 Dec 2025
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A discord-message-length snippet once a day for 30 days 😂 this is something of an erratic collection, not least because I stopped for a chunk of time in the middle & then came back and wrote eleven connected snippets on a long train journey.
There were three prompt words per day, one each selected from words characteristic of the text of the Lays, Greenwing & Dart, and Red Company series. I've put these in as chapter titles, for reference.
NOTE: this fic isn't rated and I've chosen not to use archive warnings because the snippets are so varied. I've added notes at the start of the one nsfw chapter and the couple which have a brush with graphic violence.
Huge thanks to the Fic Challenge Mafa for everything you did to bring this together, and for the whole Tales by the Fire community for taking part! It's been amazing. 🤩
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Falling through a cloud by alfgifu, crownedrooster
Fandom Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
11 Jan 2026
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Short fluff fics from the Nine Worlds by alfgifu
Fandom Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearthfire - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
12 Oct 2025
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- 10,368
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- 7
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- 8
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Kip Thistlethwaite by alfgifu
Fandom Greenwing & Dart - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard, The Red Company Reformed Series - Victoria Goddard
01 Sep 2025
- Words:
- 40,610
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- 5
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- 52
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Tenebra by alfgifu
Fandom Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
01 Sep 2025
- Words:
- 254,784
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- 3
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- 13
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Alternative pov fics from the Nine Worlds by alfgifu
Fandom Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
27 Apr 2025
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- 7,867
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- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 6
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Embers series by alfgifu [Podfics] by Rhea314 (Rhea)
Fandom Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
30 Apr 2025
- Words:
- 352
- Works:
- 7
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Bookmarked by alfgifu
01 May 2025
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say I'm doing just fine by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Lays of the Hearth-Fire - Victoria Goddard
24 Dec 2024
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Cliopher saw it the moment he stepped into the clearing.
His Radiancy had not described the creature that stole his memories at any point to Cliopher. Still, Cliopher looked at the winged creature before him, its head slowly tilting from side to side, forked tongue flickering through its lips as if to taste the air, and he knew.
The creature hissed, “What is it that you want?”
It was a little irritating that everybody had been right to insist that Cliopher go nowhere alone while they’d still been hunting for his Radiancy’s memories.
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Or, three encounters Cliopher has with the creature after Fitzroy gets his memories back.
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- Part 5 of fake a smile
Bookmarked by alfgifu
24 Dec 2024
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Embers by alfgifu [Podfic] by Rhea314 (Rhea)
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
03 Feb 2025
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Kip Mdang returns to Solaara, hardly confident that the Imperial Service will take him back but sure that there is no place for him in the Vangavaye-ve.
The City of Cities is still expanding from the backwater village it was before the Fall; the work of reconstruction continues but it is no longer a simple crisis. In the Palace the big political beasts are circling for position under the newly awakened Emperor.
Despondent and determined to bury himself in work, Cliopher finds his former patron disapproving and the new Master of Offices openly hostile. But he is still a fifth degree secretary, and some problems are easier to solve when you feel that you have little left to lose... and don't care which enemies you make along the way.
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- Part 1 of Embers series by alfgifu [Podfics]
Bookmarked by alfgifu
20 Dec 2024
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A conundrum, one might say a pickle by alfgifu for breadandroses
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Red Company Series - Victoria Goddard
06 Dec 2023
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In which Fitzroy resolves a problem, with Jullanar's help. Sort of.
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Falling by alfgifu
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
18 Nov 2023
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Kip curled at the edge of the great bed of the Emperor of Astandalas and wondered why his stomach still lurched as though he were falling.
It was nothing physical. The surface of the bed was secure beneath him, the coverlet warm, the pillows astonishingly comfortable.
He had not known what to expect when he asked the Emperor to continue this pretence of taking him as a concubine. All he knew was that there was a danger to himself, his home, and his family if the nobility of the Empire saw him rejected by the Sun-on-Earth. And so Kip had asked, and the Emperor had agreed.
Series
- Part 2 of Temptation