The Thousand Stories by herenortherenearnorfar
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Summary:
They're important, the myths people tell about themselves, about their histories. You can learn a lot from a tale or seven.
Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Easterlings, Southrons
Major Relationships: Original Character/Original Character
Artwork Type: No artwork type listed
Genre: Experimental
Challenges:
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings, In-Universe Racism/Ethnocentrism, Violence (Moderate)
Chapters: 7 Word Count: 19, 513 Posted on 28 January 2020 Updated on 12 July 2021 This fanwork is complete.
Table of Contents
The first of hopefully seven stories for Atani week (of varying relevance to the prompts). They're in non-linear order, so for reference this one is set around 1729 SA.
A little late but hopefully still acceptable. This one would be set around... 1734 SA? Give or take a few years. Also, I cannot stress how much death is in this one, and how terrible it is to be living in this atmosphere. The coping mechanisms are bad and the state oppression prevalent.
1711 SA. Sorry Numenor, I love you, it just so happens that you're a horror story for unsuspecting humans, especially when there's some cultural mistrust on top of that.
roughly 1703 SA? This one is weird because it's very orc centric but orc views on humanity, if you know what I mean. (I do have a lot of orc creation myths in mind now, including thematic star fixations, but they are not for this day.)
Warning for general orc behavior and some soldier songs (cut off).
1718 SA. Finally, some largely uncomplicated fluff.
1702/1703 SA. The animal Zikiti describes is actually a Sarkastodon. Given the timeframe of the first few epochs of the Silm (much shorter than our own) it makes sense some megafauna would manage to survive into the time of humans.
1749 SA. The final chapter. For the record, the kids do have names it was just a hassle to put them in and Cytise is the sort of old lady who does not bother.
Also I have a tag of some character moodboards here.
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