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After the death of the Belyi Tsar and the Tsaritsa’s departure, the fae nobility has risen, shaping courts of power and law.
Kyryll Chudomirovich Flins, Custodian of the Dusk Court, guides the delicate currents of legality.
Having taken interest in a young squad captain, the Custodian seeks out Illuga.
(…Or Flins recruits Illuga as a knight.)
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25 May 2026
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Lanterns. Caged flames, tamed into obedience. Cursed to burn only where they’re told and no more than they’re allowed to. A tool.
Flins is a Lantern Fae, the only one of his kind. Known as the Azure Flame, he is feared by both fae and humans. Stripped of his name and memories by the Tsar, he exists as little more than a weapon: a hunting hound bound to its master, a flame condemned to burn only where commanded. For centuries, he has accepted this as his fate.
That is, until in the midst of a routine and merciless task, he encounters a Captain of the Lightkeepers: a faction that dares to resist the unyielding dominion of the fae over humanity. Mistaking Flins for a human who has lost his name to a cruel fae, the Captain offers him a place among the Lightkeepers. Giving the Tsar an idea for Flins’s next mission:
To infiltrate the Lightkeepers and destroy them from the inside.
But could a creature feared even by his own kind truly pass as human? Especially with that insufferably persistent Captain refusing to leave his side, hovering, prying, and dragging him ever closer to a life he was never meant to have.
Could something born in a cage ever learn how to be free?
Bookmarked by tw1ddledee
25 May 2026