A Missive from the Desk of Magister Bloodsworn

Title: A Missive from the Desk of Magister Bloodsworn
Author: wanda von dunayev (wandavon)
Fandom: Warcraft
Disclaimer: Warcraft isn't mine. Noduh.
Summary: A magister is a master of the arcane. That doesn't mean he's competent to serve in loco parentis.
Words: 2,537
Note: Item number one is, for those of you who are nerds like me, a shout-out to Ansirem Runeweaver's hilarious book in Dalaran on safe polymorphing (and why, for instance, a sickly gazelle should never be transformed into a fire giant).

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Fox Trap

Title: Fox Trap
Author: wanda von dunayev (wandavon)
Fandom: Warcraft
Disclaimer: I don't own Warcraft.
Summary: The Light forgives all things. Mortal hearts are a different matter. Set between TBC and WotLK.
Pairing: Liadrin/Voren'thal. Maybe. A little.
Words: 8,561
Note: I love Liadrin—she's one of the few female characters who hasn't gone the "purely ornamental" route—and I've always been drawn to her story of redemption. Still, I found her sudden heel-face turn a little bit of a stretch, even given the absolute goodness of Velen and the sacrifice of M'uru. Considering just how horrible some of the things she'd done were, I can't imagine that suddenly everyone loved her and was, oh, so happy to have her around Just Because. This was my attempt to trace a line between the Liadrin we leave at the end of the Burning Crusade and the Liadrin we meet at the Sunwell in WotLK—a woman who's broken and wracked with guilt, but beginning to live again.

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