
by LGSlew
"Can you really destroy a history without also destroying its people?" The elven nation of Etnfrandia has been lying to its people. For generations, the House of Tradition has suppressed the truths, the gods, and the magic that once defined them; and Fennorin's father is responsible for it all. Fenn has known from boyhood that he is useless. Awkward and prone to ramble, he is an elf of few friends. The only thing Fenn insists on is finding the truth within legends. Equipped with a century of outside scholarship, Fenn discovered a Door between realms. With three friends and a thief, he must journey through the wild realm of the Fae in search of a long forgotten past. But before the eclectic group can recover the mysteries of the elves, they must first overcome the differences between themselves. [2025 Royal Road Writathon Participant] This story is cross-posted between Tapas, Wattpad, Royal Road, and Neovel, but is most up to date here on RR. It contains LGBTQIA+ characters in a world that does not share modern (Western) concepts of sexual identity, and these aspects of the respective characters are not a major theme.
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