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Chapter 78 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Another very long and very eventful chapter. It's also suitably late. I'm dead tired, so forgive me any mistakes. Lots of people die in a suitable ASOIAF fashion, so enjoy (or try and poke me with a pitchfork or something).

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Summer Portrait third place - Visenya Targaryen

The first image fitted best in my opinion, but the rest can be a different rendition of her at different ages, including the last one being a cute maiden Visenya, I suppose.
I will release one or two extras in the next seven days or so.

On a side note, the last two Robb PoVs have been softly rewritten to smoothen the narrative and plug a small plot hole/inconsistency I noticed.

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Chapter 77 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Another rather long chapter. I wanted to write more, but I already went over my limit, and my next PoV was a drastic change in shift and not insignificant in size. Oh well. Not fully edited, so hit me up if you see something off.

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 34 of Convergence of Fates (CoF) is out for Squires!

A long chapter. Things are slowly begin to ramp up. He-he.

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 76 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Shit hitting the fan, volume N+1. Once again a late but significantly thick chapter. Plenty of action, even if its in a short timespan. The next chapter is probably going to be the same...

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Summer Portrait Poll, second place - Robb Stark from Shrouded Destiny

And Grey Wind as a bonus, cause it came out well.

I experimented with Robb's hair quite a lot since it was supposed to be brown-red.

Visenya and the some bonus will come the next week.

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Summer Portrait Poll first place - the Carrow Twins

And so I'm back to Midjourney. Visenya and Robb will tickle in the following weeks.

After I failed to get a nice photorealistic image of them, I turned to anime style and behold... Hestia and Flora in their eerie glory!

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Chapter 75 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Another thick chapter. On a side note, I fucking hate the Tetanus shot, don't be like me and avoid stepping on rusty nails, folks!

Anyway, this, along with the previous and possibly the next two chapters are one of the most action packed chapters I have. A lot of turning points happen in a relatively short period of time, and while I want to cram everything into a single chapter, it wouldn't do it justice. I legit struggle to choose which plot to unwrap first, because so many things ar...

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Chapter 33 of Convergence of Fates (CoF) is out for Squires!

Here's some Juno, who, despite her outward maturity is barely thirteen. The stakes are slowly rising.

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 74 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Been a long, busy week for me irl, but I like how the chapter came out. A nice, decently-sized piece of over 7k words again (and that's after I failed to cram another of the PoVs I wanted)

Anyway, you can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Summer Portrait Poll (June-July-August)

Top three will be chosen (tho if I find the time, I'll generate for the fourth one too). Suggestions for decent AI image generators are appreciated, since I'm not too happy with Midjourney V6 so far.

Note: the AI won't do scars well(that I know of), and kids come out kinda funky so any children characters might or might not be aged up. BTW, for this poll only, you can multi-vote.

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Chapter 73 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

This chapter is long (again) and it came out less late this time (yay). I want to note that in hindsight I'm not happy with how the previous Jon PoV came out in ch 72 and might add and rework parts of it to make it smoother and expand on the things in Warg Hill. I don't feel I did everything justice. (you can expect this before the next weekend, will announce on Discord).

For all those wondering, all chapters go through one or two more couple of cold edits (98% cosmetic/flow and in th...

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Chapter 32 of Convergence of Fates (CoF) is out for Squires!

So, upon some feedback, I decided to cut down on my sweeping PoV style of storytelling. Doubly so that its purpose was fulfilled in establishing all the characters that I wanted to set-up. So from now on, it will be the main one-two PoVs, with the occasional interlude every now and then.

Let me know if you like it or not.


It's all in all a long chapter. Could have cut it out a few hours ago and post way earlier, but I wanted to get the school year intro outta the way, and do...

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Chapter 72 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Another thick chapter, and my brain is mush after a night of writing. I don't think anyone saw either of the PoVs coming in their current form. Things are progressively going to shit for everyone and the war enters yet another phase that is somehow uglier than the last.


You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 71 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

A bit late (as usual), but another thiccc chapter (also as usual, I suppose, but I was mega tempted to tap out at 4,5k words and call it a night hours earlier). Oh look, we're making a full collection here. Operation Four Horsemen is a go~

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 31 of Convergence of Fates (CoF) is out for Squires!

Another long chapter, some tension appears, and I managed to reach the Hogwarts Express as promised... hurray! For once, I'm happy with the chapter, though some of you might be disappointed--but do let me know what/why/how. Legitimate feedback and critique is always appreciated.

Warning: chapter has yet to be fine-combed for edits, so some things might have slipped through.

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Chapter 70 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Bit late again, but the chapter is thick, along with a new(old) PoV. I decided to keep storylines of lesser importance and summaries in the Zelyne's observer format, otherwise my fic will probably stretch far too much. Let me know what you think of it.

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 69 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

A bit late, and the chapter is humbler this time. I'm not entirely satisfied with it, but I'm already far too late, and might add some flavour/polish later. Summer decided to come with a vengeance and it's nearly impossible to sleep.

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 30 of Convergence of Fates (CoF) is out for Squires!

I'm late, but it's with another long chapter. Getting the right amount of interaction in the bday party was messy, and I could probably have slammed another 1-2k words there.

Anyway, you can read the previous chapters at the collection.

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Chapter 68 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Wisdom Tooth is still being a pain in the arse(well not exactly, but I imagine you get the gist!) but less than before. Here's a nice, thick (not too thicc) chapter.

Also, you can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 67 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Normal sized chapter for once-I did say I won't be able to keep up the pace of writing thicc chapters indefinitely. Worse, this weekend felt like the world conspired against my attempts to write-I managed to get a wisdom tooth growing out and annoying constant pain with no dentist working in weekends nearby, technical difficulties with google docs that just decided that it wont let me or my editors access the chapter I just finished writing, and many more, if smaller and no less annoying rl t...

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Chapter 29 of Convergence of Fates (CoF) is out for Squires!

Summer be wilding. I know some considered the last chapter's developments unsatisfactory, but I believe I tied up most of the loose ends now. Next chapter should be able to wrap up the summer to my satisfaction.

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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May Portrait Poll Winner: Fleur Delacour

I'm not happy with Midjourney as of late, so I subbed to Genecraft to try it out. Well, here are the results. I'm not entirely happy after generating gazillion images either. Might try Stable Diffusion next. If anyone has suggestions about proper AI to use, hit me up.

P.S: CoF Chapter is ready, but i'm waiting for editors. Too sleepy to remain awake, so I'll wait for the edits and post it tomorrow. (Expect before noon CET)

I could post right now, but I don't want a repeat of t...

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Chapter 66 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Chapter is bigger than I expected(over my limit again), for words just kept flowing and I didn't want to stop. Alas, it means I'm late again, and it's not fully edited (might have wonky prose or small mistakes at places).

Anyway you can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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May Portrait Poll

As you know, I don't do any scars, and neither does midjourney (or whichever AI image generator I try to experiment with next)

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Chapter 65 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out!

Alright, this one was a doozy to write, and the two brand-new PoVs had me swamping. Predictably, I couldn't keep up with the monstrously long chapters forever, and we're back to normal-sized ones (still over 5,5k).

You can read the previous ones in the collection.

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Chapter 28 of Convergence of Fates is out for Squires!

Oh look, a dark lord and a summer gala!

You can read the previous chapters in the collection!

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Chapter 64 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

This chapter turned out to be an absolute monster size-wise, approaching nearly 10k words. Hence the reason it's rather late. But writing such big mega chunks is getting exhausted, and I might actually return to my self-imposed limits lest I burn out(if expanded to ~7k instead of 6k)

That being said, you can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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Chapter 63 of Shrouded Destiny (SD) is out for Squires!

Again an overly long chapter, and this was after I cut off the next PoV after I realised it would take me another six thousand words to finish lmao.

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Chapter 27 of Convergence of Fates (CoF) is out for Squires!

An overly long chapter because I wanted to get the set-up out of the way. Problems are brewing.

You can read the previous chapters in the collection.

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