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Part 4 of The Accidental Warlord and His Pack [Podfic], in no particular order
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2024-06-25
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2025-03-04
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[Podfic] With Tenderness and Nobleness

Summary:

After the conquest of Redania, Aleksander of Velen comes to Kaer Morhen. He's not sure what his place is there - or even if he truly has a place - and the culture of the keep comes as a great shock. But he has nowhere else to go, and with luck, friends, and the help of a very handsome Cat, maybe he will be able to make himself at home. He hopes. All he needs to do is not offend anyone or reveal his shameful weakness, right?

Aiden of the Cats has no idea why the keep's new nobleman is so fascinating, but he's definitely not going to pass up any opportunity to find out. If only Aleksander would trust him enough to share his burdens.

And Aren of the Manticores and his four Mantikittens are slowly adjusting to the idea of being in a place of safety at last.

Notes:

Thanks again to inexplicifics for blanket permission to podfic. I'm determined to finish most of the multichapter fics in this series, primarily so that I can "re-read" them and clean at the same time.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Chapter 1

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With Tenderness and Nobleness, Chapter 1

Chapter 2: Chapter 2

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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Notes:

Keep listening at the end for a fun new tongue twister I made for this chapter.

Chapter 3: Chapter 3

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Chapter 4: Chapter 4

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Chapter 5: Chapter 5

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Chapter 6: Chapter 6

Notes:

Warning in this chapter for an oblique mention of underage rape - when Aleksander's nightmare starts after the 10 minute mark, skip forward about a minute to avoid it.

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Chapter 7: Chapter 7

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Chapter 8: Chapter 8

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Chapter 9: Chapter 9

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Chapter 10: Chapter 10

Notes:

Much nonsense has happened since I last uploaded, but I'm not giving up on this fic!

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Chapter 11: Chapter 11

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Chapter 12: Chapter 12

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Chapter 13: Chapter 13

Notes:

Oops, I forgot to add time stamps for the smutty bits, I'll add them soon! In the meantime, this is the authors original note: "If you wish to avoid the smutty bit in this chapter, then skip from the paragraph after "Also rather astonishingly aroused, but it’s surprisingly easy to ignore that." to the second asterisk after that."

Second link is for the teen rated version! Alternatively, you can skip 3 minutes around the 28:20 mark.

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Notes:

Notes on differentiating character voices, in a place I won't lose them:
Aiden: leaning against a wall, probably seductively
Aleksander: ANXIETY
Lambert: asshole smirking
Milena: cinnamon roll, but stabby
Livi: cinnamon roll, but librarian
Dragonfly: stabby, but stabby
Leocadie: hot teacher
Dilan: elbowing you to make sure you get the joke
Merten: low
Bricriu: lower