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    Fingon tapped a finger once, sharply, upon the desktop. “And do the orc marches sing of me?”
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    on orcs and Noldorin princes, and their academic pursuits

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    03 Feb 2026

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    In which the Valar make a decision about the conditions of Melkor's release from Mandos which is in my view rather better than the one that They actually made.

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    03 Feb 2026

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    Nerdanel drops the bowl she’s holding. It breaks on contact with the floor in a sudden, complete shattering into shards.

    There is a boy sitting in her kitchen, with his knees drawn up to his chest and his arms wrapped around them. He turns his head at the sound. The line of his cheek is achingly familiar. “Mother?”

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    The first son of Nerdanel returns from Mandos.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    When Erestor was young, his father had shown him their family’s heirloom: a primitive map of Cuiviénen and the inland sea scratched out on deer hide in ink made from soot and oak galls, the work of his father’s father. To the east of the Orocarni was written in the ancient cirth, Here be Monsters; a warning that what lay beyond was unknown, and best left unexamined. Erestor knew, as his grandsire had known, that some things were best left unexplored. Yet like his grandsire, he pressed on in spite of this knowledge.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    Something in the shield of the Sect Leader’s face changes. The rigid set of his jaw fades to something softer. Like this, he looks like the man of twenty-one he is, like he isn’t saddled by a weight of responsibility better suited to men three times his age.

    “You could…” he trails off, awkwardly clearing his throat. His eyes flick away. “I’ll find you a horse. Ride at my side.”

    What Meng Yao wouldn’t do to hear those words come from a different Sect Leader’s mouth. He used to dream of it as a boy, curled in the warmth of his mother’s embrace as she wove him tales of a life better than the one they carved out of the dusty brothel floor.

    He wonders if this would be enough for her. If this is enough for himself.

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    Meng Yao’s first hundred days as the Vice-General of the Qinghe Nie Sect.

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    10 Sep 2025