IllusionOfDeath
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CMFTW Appendices by HopeStoryteller, IllusionOfDeath
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
26 Dec 2025
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A collection of appendices, as well as additional author commentary, concerning the fic Carry Me From These Walls. Said appendices will also be embedded into the end notes of relevant chapters, and our commentary here may contain spoilers, so I wouldn't recommend reading it until after you've finished the fic.
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- Part 2 of University of Hyrule Archives
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Deirta Thelyss has six hours left to live. The Bright Queen pays her a visit before the time comes.
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We Will Not So Easily Resign Ourselves to Fate by IllusionOfDeath
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
18 Dec 2025
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On the road towards the Golden Orchard, Lady Aranessa takes a moment to reflect. It is difficult to cling to hope, but not so terrible when Sir Julien is at her side.
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Darkness We Must Face by IllusionOfDeath
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
11 Dec 2025
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After battling the Gibdos in Gerudo Town, Riju struggles with the worthiness of her leadership. Luckily, Link's there to offer reassurance.
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- Part 14 of Cym's Wild Era Cinematic Universe
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The Legend of Trauma: Age of Imperialism by IllusionOfDeath
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
18 Nov 2025
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Considering the stories and contexts of all four Wild-era Zelda games, this essay argues that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment continues the Zelda series' long history of subtly pro-imperialist narratives.
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Cym's Wild Era Cinematic Universe by IllusionOfDeath, pancake_umbreon
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
11 Dec 2025
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- 191,524
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Approach the Darkness With Confidence by IllusionOfDeath
Fandom: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
03 Nov 2025
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- 17,987
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University of Hyrule Archives by HopeStoryteller, IllusionOfDeath
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
26 Dec 2025
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- 230,448
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- 3
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Hope's 2023 Year of the OTP Fics by HopeStoryteller, IllusionOfDeath
Fandom: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
30 Apr 2024
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- 12
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opere et omissione by essektheylyss (divinationwizard)
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
19 Dec 2025
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Essek has to tell Verin, and he has to tell him now.
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19 Dec 2025
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Lady Aranessa Royce on power and entanglements.
Bookmarked by IllusionOfDeath
17 Dec 2025
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outside the world seems a violent place by weareallstardustfallen
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
29 Oct 2025
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Last she'd seen Julien, he'd been standing guard outside, unable to be persuaded that it wasn't necessary. Thaisha wasn't sure if it was because she was the one asking or if he just couldn't stand the idea of doing nothing.
Now, though, he was nowhere to be found. Thaisha frowned and did a quick loop before she went to the next most likely place for him to be.
The door to Aranessa's borrowed room was still half-open, and Thaisha peeked inside to find her not in bed, but sitting on the small couch on the other side of the room, eyes fixed on nothing in particular. Thaisha could see her only in profile, but she could tell that she hadn't slept.
Or: Thaisha gets a glimpse of Aranessa and Julien, in the wreckage of all they've lost, and starts to understand how little she understands him.
Bookmarked by IllusionOfDeath
16 Dec 2025
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you've got a long way to go before you get to lie down by weareallstardustfallen
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
12 Nov 2025
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Everything had, in indelicate terms because the delicate ones simply weren't strong enough, gone to complete shit so fast. It wasn't like she hadn't seen it coming, but she thought they had more time. The Sundered Houses were slow, even in their evil. Their malice was terrible but predictable, their maneuvering insidious but gradual. The wholesale slaughter of two Houses, the blatant bid for absolute dominance—that wasn't how the world worked.
Except, of course, that it was, and that was precisely what Primus Tachonis had done, and now she was sitting in the dark woods listening to Vaelus pace around on guard, wearing a pair of too-big boots that had once belonged to Shadia Fang, because Aranessa didn't currently own shoes, let alone hiking boots.
Or: Aranessa and Occtis talk about sewing, protectors, and where they go from here.
Bookmarked by IllusionOfDeath
16 Dec 2025
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a little water clears us of this deed by jadeandquartz
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
30 Nov 2025
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Plans are afoot. Dire, cruel, and absolute. The Lord Tachonis wishes your House gone.
An attack planned on the Palazzo. All courtiers, generals, scions to be murdered, their corpses claimed for legions of undead. No word on a timeline, of course. Primus Tachonis could be coming for them today, or tomorrow, or sometime next week.
So there was no time to waste. The scales of power are tilting in Dol-Makjar. If one Sundered House has to tumble from them to even out the balance...well, so be it.
That House will not be Aranessa's own.
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Aranessa Royce orchestrates a murder, cleans up the evidence, and tries to go to sleep.
(Alternately: the Macbeth AU.)
Bookmarked by IllusionOfDeath
14 Dec 2025