Tales from the depths of Thabes

Catalog of Works

Recent updates

March 15th, 2025: [Horror] Excerpt from Chapter Fifty-Seven of the Treatise on the Necromantic Arts

December 31st, 2024: [Nonfiction] Giffca oddities in Path of Radiance and how they point towards him having replaced Caineghis as a playable character

Queen Natalie and Mr. Minotaur

Fire Emblem Blazing Blade/Heroes, Teen, Dorcas/Natalie

Dorcas comes home to find that Natalie has made a Halloween costume for him. What could it possibly be?

Red Lion King

Fire Emblem Tellius, General Audiences, Caineghis/Reader

Having finished the job you were hired to do, you're on your way back home to Gallia when you see a familiar face.

Mantle Maker

Fire Emblem Tellius, General Audiences, Giffghis

Unexpected changes to a king’s wardrobe leads to gossip about where his newest accessory came from. The king may remain aloof, but surely his closest retainer would know the answers.

Memories Drawn in the Sand

Fire Emblem Blazing Blade, Teen, Light Gore

Kishuna's return to Nabata awakens memories from long ago, memories of the first question he was asked, and memories of the first time he was betrayed.

Tatanknk

Metroid Prime 3, General Audiences, a practice piece

Samus looked at the Missile Expansion that sat on the floor of the research tank, and then at the Metroids floating in the air just above.

"I wonder how it got there," she thought to herself before immediately moving on.

Ride the Wind

Fire Emblem Blazing Blade, Teen, Heath/Legault, Angst/Hurt/Comfort

Heath has just started to settle in with yet another new mercenary group that he’ll have to leave behind in due time when he receives an unexpected visit from an entirely expected guest.

Follows Heath/Legault A, Heath/Vaida B, Legault/Jaffar B

Written for Nagamas 2019 for kidlightnings

Conjunction of Regulus and Algeiba

Fire Emblem Tellius/Heroes, Teen, Heavy Discussion of Death and Grief, Greilghis

A conjunction is an apparent closeness created by the limitations of our own perspective, a lie we tell ourselves because we can only understand, because we can only believe in what we see before us.

Reunited in the Order of Heroes, Caineghis and Greil must come to terms with the ways things have changed and the ways they have not.

Drang

Fire Emblem Blazing Blade, Mature, Horror

Renault finds a reason to leave Caelin behind.

Or perhaps more accurately, a reason to leave Caelin finds him.

Written for Calamity's Advent

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Fire Emblem Sacred Stones, Mature, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Horror

"You have no time for joy or sorrow. No, best to focus now on this, the moment of your death. I would hate for you to miss it."

Fomortiis challenges Morva to a rematch.

Written for Calamity's Advent

After the Battle

Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon, Teen, Mentioned Child Death

Every victory comes with a cost, but what should you do when that cost becomes an impossibly heavy weight to bear? Do you press on, desperate to make sure that the price you've paid doesn't amount to nothing? Or do you stop your march forwards, desperate to prevent any further losses?

Written for Scores of Heroes, based on the track of the same name from Shadow Dragon.

Tangled Steps

Fire Emblem Tellius, General Audiences, Heather/Titania

Patience is a virtue, and it's one that Heather certainly does not lack.

Written for Fire Emblem Christmas Rare Pair Exchange 2020 for Vault_Emblem

Bright Moon

Fire Emblem Blazing Blade, Teen, Karel/Lucius

It's easier to apologize if you apologize often. Conversely…

Follows Karel/Lucius B, several years after the end of Blazing Blade.

Written for Nagamas 2020 for kidlightnings

Photon Belt Scenic Route

Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon/New Mystery, Teen, Frey/Ymir

In truth, it so very lonely
Though if this is the beginning of a new dawn
Perhaps I can believe

Frey returns to Altea, though not without having to leave some things behind.

Like a Bird

Fire Emblem Tellius, General Audiences

Leanne has had enough, but, like a bird, she can only fly away.

Written for Another Turn Vol. II

Retainer

Fire Emblem Tellius, Teen, Giffghis

Before calling him his shadow, Caineghis used to call Giffca his retainer.

Excerpt from Chapter Fifty-Seven of the Treatise on the Necromantic Arts

Fire Emblem Awakening/Echoes, Horror

Let us learn of thanatophages, Forneus' folly, and, of course, the magical beauty of parasitic wasps.

Written for Calamity's Advent Vol. 3

Kishuna

Fire Emblem 7

Kishuna gets very little characterization by virtue of being completely mute. Let's see if we can fill in the blanks we've been given.

On Matters of Gallian Succession and Cat Powerlevels

Fire Emblem Tellius

Gallia has the strongest become king, but there’s probably more to it than that.

Giffca oddities in Path of Radiance and how they point towards him having replaced Caineghis as a playable character

Fire Emblem Tellius

Giffca's models in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance aren't all accurate to his design. Are these simple mistakes, or a sign of something else?