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Title: Lineage, Chapter 2: In So Few Words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Thanks to his magic, Merlin always knew he had a weird heritage that his mother did not liking talking about. What he didn't expect was to find out she was a princess of the kingdom of Dyfed - making him heir to the throne. This changed...everything.
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Morgana
Warnings: mentions of violence, swearing, mentions of sex
Episode warnings: Post-S1 AU, but draws heavily on elements of S2 and S3
Beta: arithilim
Notes: Yes, it's back!

I know I abandoned it, and I was all but ready to give up on it myself, but I finally got myself to just write the last the damn bit, get it beta'd, and post it! :D

I'm getting back to all the things I've abandoned over the years, slowly, working my way backwards. For now it's Lineage, Euphoria, and my old Tarot Project! Later, I will also bring in my older fics, older fandoms, and my original fiction into my main focus as well.

Important notes:

1.) This story is still a post-S1 AU, but draws heavily on elements of S2 and S3 (basically all the events of those seasons, minus the evil!Morgana and Arthur/Gwen story archs, and compressed into one year)

2.) In light of Merlin's father's identity being revealed, the earlier chapters have been edited to fit that in.

Now - to the story!

( Chapter 02: In So Few Words )

Title: Lineage, Chapter 1: A Season's Pass

Rating: PG-13 (for now)

Summary: Thanks to his magic, Merlin always knew he had a weird heritage that his mother did not liking talking about. What he didn't expect was to find out she was a princess of the kingdom of Dyfed - making him heir to the throne. This changed...everything.

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin

Warnings: mentions of violence, swearing, some explicit sex (all later chapters)

Episode warnings: Makes hints to all of Season 1 and some of Season 2

Beta: jusmine984

Notes: On archery and its equipment: crossbows – which Arthur is seen using – were used by soldiers because they were easy to learn how to use and aim with, even though they couldn’t fire many arrows at once, and didn’t have much force behind them. Shortbows had more force behind them, and can fire more arrows in the same span of time in the hands of an expert. And longbows...well, didn’t really exist in Europe at the time, but as anachronistic as the show can be stretched…you couldn’t fire as many arrows so fast out of a longbow, but they had enough force to pierce armor. In other words, Arthur is apparently a terrible archer in canon. ^_^ Anyone else absolutely love that?

Prologue

Masterpost

( Chapter 01: A Season's Pass )