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1. Necrotiade by oneinspats

   Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Lord Downey/Havelock Vetinari
   • Lord Downey/Others (past)
   • Havelock Vetinari/Others (past)
   • Lord Downey (Discworld)
   • Havelock Vetinari
   • Roberta Meserole
   • Made-up background characters
   • snapcase
   • is like a weird background character? somehow?
   • regular appearance of canon characters like Vimes and Sybil and various Selachii etc.
   • illogical use of magic - don't worry about it
   • Transformation
   • Body Horror
   • Illness
   • descriptions of the results of gun violence
   • or gonne violence as the case may be
   • Slow Burn
   • too much philosophical meanderings too little time
   • POV Alternating
   • Downey has a daughter who is twelve and a menace
   • light descriptions of torture - but it's not to any canon characters
   • and it's in the historic past
   • i want to be explicit that the body horror is not Vetinari's wound
   • because disability isn't body horror
   • etc etc - Freeform

   Summary

   One blustery morning, a short note arrives on Downey's desk that says: Patrician. Sektober 13. Soon after Vetinari receives an old newspaper clipping about the death of a colleague's father that occurred forty years ago. It doesn't take long for things to go a little wahoonie shaped with a dead girl in a tree, a two hundred year old mystery, and a creature stalking the streets of Ankh-Morpork.

   Of course, throughout all of this, Vetinari is fending off unsolicited advice from his aunt (buy a lint roller!) and begins to worry that he might be developing an approximation of something like maybe feelings, for a limited value of feelings, for one Master of the Assassins Guild.

   Naturally, nothing is every entirely straight forward and some families have old secrets.

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   Note: The title is an anagram.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Decreation

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   141,978

   Chapters:

   36/36

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