Tales of the Guardians
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A group of refugees find a lone Titan out in the wilds while trying to seek the safety of the Last City.
Turns out they happened to stumble across one of the most apathetic Guardians in the world.
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- Part 1 of Tales of the Guardians
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Dallas-13 watched Cayde-6 die. She took up his cloak and hunted his killer until he was no more.
Now there are rumours of his return, and the battle-scarred Exo Hunter won't rest until her vengeance is complete.
For good this time.
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- Part 2 of Tales of the Guardians
- Part 1 of The Legend of the Battle-Scarred Raven
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The Moments In Between: A Raven's Sanctum by BattleScarredRaven
Fandoms: Destiny (Video Games)
23 Nov 2020
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When the going gets tough, even the mighty battle-scarred Raven needs a Sanctum to call her own.
Takes place just after Chapter 4 ('The Sanctum') in 'A Raven's Vow of Vengeance'.
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- Part 1 of The Moments In Between
- Part 3 of Tales of the Guardians
- Part 2 of The Legend of the Battle-Scarred Raven
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With everything on the line, it's time for Dallas-13 to do what no other Hunter will: take up the mantle of the Vanguard.
With everything she's done in the past, however, and her relationship with Zavala and Ikora currently strained, she's got a lot of persuading to do, and not a lot of time to do it in.
Better late than never to come and force the start of a new (and potentially life-changing) chapter in the Last City's history, right?
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- Part 4 of Tales of the Guardians
- Part 3 of The Legend of the Battle-Scarred Raven
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All actions have consequences. As a centuries old Warlock, Ikora knows this all too well.
By the Light, she wasn't expecting *this*, though, and she soon realises its implications likely run deeper than anyone could imagine.
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- Part 5 of Tales of the Guardians
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The Moments In Between: A Shipwright's Suspicion by BattleScarredRaven
Fandoms: Destiny (Video Games)
07 Dec 2020
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Zavala has been acting strange lately. Most people think it's the threat of the encroaching Darkness and the stress of war getting to him.
Amanda Holliday isn't 'most people', though, and has known Zavala far too long to know when something more is up.
It's just... not anything she was expecting.
Takes place between chapters 4 ('Cradle') and 5 ('Nightmare) of 'Blessings of the Traveler'.
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- Part 4 of The Moments In Between
- Part 6 of Tales of the Guardians
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She returns to the village from a Tower afar. The eye swirls above, its purple mist a harbinger of an end fast nearing. The reminder of her incomplete duty rests in her hands. The roar of the storm, her oath fulfilled at last.
Takes place shortly after 'A Shipwright's Suspicion'.
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- Part 7 of Tales of the Guardians
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The Moments In Between: Ragged Insomnia by BattleScarredRaven
Fandoms: Destiny (Video Games)
02 Dec 2020
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Who knows how long Zavala has been awake now? The shadows on the City's walls don't sleep either. They just keep calling him, and beckoning him.
Beckoning him into the Dark.
For the people he protects are just workers, but he's a soldier, and tired soldiers plagued by nightmares are so much easier to break.
Unless someone notices, and intervenes...
Takes place sometime after Chapter 7 ('Hope') of 'Blessings of the Traveler'.
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- Part 3 of The Moments In Between
- Part 8 of Tales of the Guardians
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Saudade - An untranslatable Portugese term that can mean either:
1. Yearning for something long absent, with the (often repressed) knowledge you may never see or have it again, while also acknowledging that going back to this thing would detract from the excitement and joy of the future you are currently building or cause you more pain than happiness overall.
2. Yearning for something you've never had and will never have.
3. The feeling that Siraax had no name for, in either Eliksni or Guardian-speak, for how she felt upon being this close to the Great Machine for the first time since leaving Riis all those centuries ago.
4. Siraax getting that same feeling when staring at a human expecting young, and wondering what could have been had her own life been different.
Takes place around the flashback section of Chapter 8 ('Names') of 'Blessings of the Traveler'.
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- Part 2 of The Moments In Between
- Part 9 of Tales of the Guardians
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Expecting your first child is bound to make any new mother nervous, but when you're the first ever Guardian mother and one of the most respected leaders of the Last City on top of that? That can be a lot more than even the most strong-willed mind can handle on her own.
Luckily, a certain Warlock Vanguard doesn't have to.
Takes place in and around Chapter 8 of 'Blessings of the Traveler'.
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- Part 10 of Tales of the Guardians
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Bungie cancelled Crimson Days. Time to bring it back with some one-shot writing prompts.
Prompts list taken from here and here.
Day 7: Confessions (and Hugs because why not.)
Osiris tells Ikora the truth about a certain New Light in the Tower.
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- Part 7 of Crimson Days 2021
- Part 11 of Tales of the Guardians
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Bungie cancelled Crimson Days. Time to bring it back with some one-shot writing prompts.
Prompts list taken from here and here.
Day 8: Together.
Alternative working title: "Let the Bones of the Dead Rest".
Zavala comes to terms with the fact he's seeing ghosts. Ikora comes to the terms with the fact he almost became one.
(A re-imagining of "The Restless Dead" lore.)
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- Part 8 of Crimson Days 2021
- Part 12 of Tales of the Guardians
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- 1/1
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Bungie cancelled Crimson Days. Time to bring it back with some one-shot writing prompts.
Prompts list taken from here and here.
Day 11: Partners.
There is a moment where she no longer feels him through the Light and, in one terrifying instant, she believes she is the last.
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- Part 11 of Crimson Days 2021
- Part 13 of Tales of the Guardians
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(A Victory?) Under The Endless Night by BattleScarredRaven
Fandoms: Destiny (Video Games)
05 May 2021
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The City takes a moment to celebrate, both the truce against the Cabal and the winner of the Guardian Games.
Forces beyond its walls conspire against it, however, and it is now they choose to make their play.
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- Part 14 of Tales of the Guardians
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Not all Eliksni are monsters.
And not all Guardians are monsters, either.
The problem is proving that both of these statements are true; that both are just people, more alike than either realise. And it's up to two Kells to meet each other on common ground and provide that proof.
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- Part 15 of Tales of the Guardians
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The City is a ship tossed in stormy seas, and Zavala and Ikora must be both anchor and compass in order to safely navigate to calmer waters on the other side.
But with so much going on, where does one role begin, and the other end? Who is the anchor steadying them, and who is the compass guiding them home?
(A re-imagining/extension of the Compass Rose shotgun lore.)
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- Part 16 of Tales of the Guardians
- Part 1 of Compass Rose
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The storm has passed, the ship that is the City is unmoored, and Zavala and Ikora must pick up the pieces while they struggle to anchor themselves - and each other - against their own fears and doubts.
Direct follow up to 'Compass To Your Anchor' and based partially on the lore for the Forbidden Memory ship.
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- Part 17 of Tales of the Guardians
- Part 2 of Compass Rose
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The Witch Queen has already corrupted one good man. Ikora won't let her corrupt her son, too.
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- Part 18 of Tales of the Guardians
- Part 3 of Compass Rose
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It has been quite the year. Stasis wielding Fallen, assassination plots, Hive gods rearing their ugly heads, old faces returning with new identities, political messes both in and outside the City and an Endless Night that threatened to spell certain doom. But it has not all been bad. The Deep Stone Crypt has been found, House Salvation has been all but dismantled, unlikely alliances have been forged and the Last City, despite everything, still stands, under the watchful eye of Zavala and Ikora.
Yes, all these things and more made this past 365 days exceptional. But none compare to the event that started it all one Dawning evening in Zavala's office, almost a year ago to the day: the gift of a tiny Little Light being born into the world, delivered by Ikora herself.
It's past time, Zavala thinks, that he gave her a gift in return for the wondrous son that was given to him.
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- Part 19 of Tales of the Guardians
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Mars has returned. With everyone stretched thin, Ikora needs someone she can trust to look after her son while she personally puts her boots on the ground to investigate.
She just hates that the one man who is available already has his own burdens to contend with...
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- Part 20 of Tales of the Guardians
