Ash Glashtyn

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## General details

### Aliases

* The Glashtyn
* Unseelie King (former)

### Roles or Vocation

Magistrate and diplomat to the Unseelie Court

## Physical description

### Hair color

Auburn/Brown/Blonde

"*I’m a mess . . . I don’t even know. I’m not made for all this high political bullshit. I’m not made for any of it, Augus. I’m just some dude, you know? Just some guy. I’ve been waiting for things to go back to normal ever since you went missing.*"
―Ash Glashtyn[[The Court of Five Thrones, Chapter 24: Listen]]
**Ash Glashtyn** is the current incarnation of the Glashtyn, an Unseelie waterhorse, and Augus' younger brother. He helps dethrone Augus, and then serves as King of the Unseelie for a time, alongside Gulvi Dubna Vajat. After Gwyn ap Nudd took asylum with the Unseelie Court, Ash and Gulvi perform an Inner Court Reversal, and make Gwyn King, while Ash becomes one of Gwyn's Inner Court. He travels with Gwyn, Augus, Mosk Manytrees, Eran Iliakambar, and Julvia Dubna Vajat on the quest to end the ice plague and defeat Olphix. Currently, Ash mostly travels the fae realm with the Gancanagh.

#### Appetite

Humans. Ash has a difficult relationship with his own Unseelie appetite, and prefers to eat the elderly, or the terminally ill. He also eats an uncommon amount of human realm food, including non-human meat, which potentially makes him less powerful than Augus.

#### Heartsong

* Integration or unity

Previously:

* Abundance

#### Status

* Inner Court

Previously:

* King / Co-Monarch (with Gulvi in *Game Theory*)
* Inner Court (pre-*Game Theory*)
* Underfae (pre-*Game Theory*)

## Appearance

### Pronunciation

Ash GLASH-TIN

Ash is a slightly muscular waterhorse of relatively average height (he's shorter than Gulvi, Gwyn, and Augus), with short curly hair in different shades of red, brown, black, and blonde, although it looks predominantly auburn. He grows pale green waterweed in his hair. He has clear, pale skin, and hazel eyes that can glow when he feels hungry or predatory. After activating the Soulbond, he usually wears clothing that leaves it visible on his forearm: it is a dark tattoo with black and blue luminescence.

Although Ash and Augus are often defined by their differences, they share a similar nose and jawline, suggesting Ash has a strong jawline and nose.

Ash prefers to wear clothing from the human realm, and is often most comfortable and often seen in jeans and t-shirts with prints on them.

When Ash and Augus reunited for the first time in *Game Theory*, Ash has, 'long, curly hair and crown atop it, a unique filigree in a fine silver, looking like thin, leaved twigs. He wore human shoes, human clothing, though he looked smarter and neater than he had when Gwyn had last seen him. His shirt had a collar, his face was clean-shaven.' At their next meeting, Ash cut his hair back to its normal length.

At Gwyn's Debut, Ash wears, 'flashy, contemporary human clothing – a collared dress shirt with decorated cuffs, dress pants, shoes that shone a bright red to match the pattern across the weave of his shirt.' During the Masque, Ash wears, 'the mask of some kind of red and black foxhound'.

## Personality

Ash has an outwardly cheerful, warm, and extroverted personality. He is charming, protective, and compassionate. This makes him 'unusual' among Unseelie fae, but instead of being maligned or ostracized for it, he is well-loved, in part because he famously enjoys drinking, and tends to procure alcohol for other fae. Gulvi notes that despite being allergic to alcohol, Ash poisons himself by drinking because he 'enjoys the outcome.' Ash implies that his alcoholism is in part because of his seeming inability to have good dreams (due to the Glashtyn chasing him down in his dreams), and drinking himself into a coma means that at least he won't have *bad* dreams.

Augus says that Ash is 'greedy for affection . . . never surprised by it, always open to it, as though it was his by birthright.' Augus states that 'Ash’s heartsong would exacerbate [depression and anger], it turned everything to extremes, which was great when Ash felt genial, good-natured, compassionate…and would spiral out of control very quickly when he didn’t.'

Ash is very overprotective, and can be malicious when defending loved ones. He can be stubborn, and justify horrendous actions if he feels someone has been wronged. In addition, because he has such a difficult relationship with his own inner waterhorse, he has repression issues with his dark side. The Raven Prince notes that Ash's inability to reconcile his nature with his inner predator is the reason he has so little control over his hunger. Mosk notes that Ash is a torturer, because of how he's treated the Glashtyn, and has been a torturer for 3,000 years.

Ash is unusually soft-hearted. He hates the idea of eating humans as a teenager and tries to avoid it for as long as possible, and gets very upset any time he has to kill a human, because he cares for them. He even decides to mainly live in the human realm and only visit Augus every month/few months, preferring to make friends with humans, something Augus views with disgust. Ash ideally prefers to befriend terminally ill people, or the elderly, and can even ask for their consent before killing them. He sometimes uses his dra'ocht to soothe them, though he says that when he has them in a lake, he's a waterhorse like any other (implying he's a sadist who enjoys tearing apart his prey). The Glashtyn notes that, deep down, Ash enjoys rape, murder, and torture, and is repulsed by the Glashtyn because of that.

Ash is aromantic, and has never been in a canonical relationship. He notably has a very high libido, and is pansexual. He often prefers to have sex with random humans over weekends, using his dra'ocht to let them down easy at the end of the weekend.

Ash is uncomfortable using his fae abilities around others, though he has become increasingly comfortable since being in the employ of Gwyn's Unseelie Court*.*

He is humble and self-deprecating, and quick to encourage others or let them know that he's there for them. If he sees that he's wronged someone, he will apologise and try to make amends.

Ash enjoys reading and traveling.

Augus inadvertently discourages Ash's natural waterhorse tendencies towards caring for plants when they were young and sharing a lake. 'A lake could only have one waterhorse nourishing it, and Augus could not tolerate it being anyone else but himself. Ash had handled that well enough, but it had meant that ever since, he’d never particularly cared for any lake at all. Even his own. It was pretty enough, pleasing enough, but it was obvious that Ash didn’t invest anything of himself into it.' This is likely part of why Ash kind of hates his own lake.

The Glashtyn notes that he and Ash hate the sky.

Since accepting his Glashtyn self more, Ash notes that he's become more vulgar in casual speech. Ash also eats far more than he used to, in part because the Glashtyn isn't convinced being cut off from the fae realm is over, and even Ash worries it could happen again. He also generally enjoys things more in the fae realm, at least because he's with the Gancanagh. He also notes that he doesn't love humans anymore, due to his increased hunting, though he doesn't hate them like Augus does, either.

## Life

#### Early Life through *Game Theory*

Ash is a runt born from the same lake as Augus, and is the current incarnation of the Glashtyn. If not for Augus, Ash wouldn't have survived childhood. Up until Ash is two years old, and Augus is seven, Ash had no name. But at that point, Augus 'noticed that he became fascinated with moths and butterflies for a short time, and his favourite was a very drab moth, wings the colour of salt and pepper spilled on a table. The engrailed moth. And of course they feed on the prickly ash. And I told him that, because I was always telling him things that I’d learned, just as he was always asking me questions. And he fell in love with the word – he couldn’t pronounce engrailed, so he simply said ‘ash’ all the time. I liked the way it sounded, and he already had a connection with the tree. I used it for his colic when he forced himself to change into human-form too early. He was a colicky child. Prickly ash was the only thing that worked.' So Augus names him 'Ash' for the prickly tree.

The Glashtyn stated that, *‘When I was a foal, before my appetite matured, I was ‘allowed’ out all the time. He and I were one and the same. Ash Glashtyn. The only time the name meant anything at all, though I have never needed a name beyond the one I am born to. But when I was a foal, I only ate green things, and even I was unknowing of my need to hunt. I sensed that my sharp teeth and my compulsions were all for something, but all I cared for was… . . . I was a foal . . . I wished to play and rest and make merry. And then my instincts woke, and we were sundered because of his rejection and revulsion . . . And then I was only allowed out to hunt. Yes, this is the most I have been allowed out for three thousand years. When I am weak. When I am starving. When I am exposed to the open sky.’* The Glashtyn also noted, *'They have called me a runt, but I am just as powerful and capable of hunting as any waterhorse, and stronger than most. I have killed waterhorses that incurred on the Each Uisge’s territory if he couldn’t get to them in time.'*

Ash 'nearly died from poison from a were-vilen when' he was young. He and Augus lived an often difficult life in their early years, frequently coming close to starving to death. They routinely tried to sacrifice for the other, with Augus winning out as the older sibling, and forgoing food so that Ash could eat. Ash was so familiar with the An Fnwy estate's hunts - often for fae rather than animals - that he could recognize the sound of their horses crashing through Ethallas forest. As a child, Ash sometimes had terrible dreams that made him 'thrash and cry out and even scream' and Augus struggled to wake him. The Glashtyn explained that, '*Every year he tries to push me further from him. Every year I chase him down in his dreams.’*

Ash and Augus also had a great deal of freedom in their youth, and Ash liked Augus' lake and Augus' company, as well as foraging and 'tending the land'. Ash helped Augus 'try new things'.

Ash and Gulvi met at a *Cockney Rejects* concert in east London, at roughly the same age. Ash viewed Gulvi as prey, but Gulvi rejected him, as she wanted to hear the music. They ended up drinking together and 'wandering the streets, talking about issues with the fae world, delighted [they] were both Unseelie and . . . hit it off.' They both liked getting away from the fae world, although Gulvi still doesn't know why Ash was so tired of the fae world. Some years later, she gave her heart to him because he wasn't 'relevant': she didn't want anyone to use a loved one against her.

It's possible that Ash's first sort of encounter with Gwyn outside of the An Fnwy estate was when Gulvi told Ash about when she befriended Gwyn on the battlefield, to which Ash told her to stay out of warfare, for fear of her death. He and Gulvi got in a fight about it.

Gulvi shared her past with Ash, in confidence: that she'd murdered two twin girls on assignment, which she deeply regretted. Ash told Augus.

At some point in Ash's early life, Ash got Lucky, a human realm dog, from a homeless man named Pascha. After Lucky's death, Ash cried for weeks.

When Augus was imprisoned by the Nightingale, Ash went to the Unseelie Court for help finding him. He was greeted by the Nightingale, who consoled Ash that things would be okay. The Raven Prince refused to see him. Around this time, Ash started having nightmares of the 'dark', which he kept having for around hundred years, into the story present of *The Court of Five Thrones*.

Ash and Augus were often apart while Augus served as advisor for the Raven Prince. Augus was often away from his lake, and missed Ash's visits, and since Augus refused to visit him in the human realm, they simply missed each other.

During Augus' reign as King of the Unseelie Court, Ash carried underworld creatures with him, which helped pollute him. Ash reached out to Augus, and asked if there was anything Ash could do for him. Augus said 'nothing'. When Ash later asked Gulvi the same question, she replied, ‘Can you bring my fucking family back? Murder that misbegotten piece of *shit* that you still dare to love after what he did to me?’, which helped cement Ash's recalcitrance to *ask* before trying to help people. The Nightingale would also hang around Ash after torturing Augus, feeding on Ash's misery of knowing Augus was hurting, but being unable to catch the Nightingale in the act, or help Augus. Presumably it was around this time that Ash and the Nain Rouge became acquainted, and formed something of a camaraderie, as both served on Augus' Inner Court.

Gwyn and Ash met to discuss fighting Augus. Gwyn plied Ash with alcohol, sweet-talked, and showed Ash Terho the Mouse-Lad to 'parade around a victim to show how damaging Augus could be'. Ash ultimately aided Gwyn, Gulvi, and others in defeating Augus. Ash was promoted to King of the Unseelie Court, alongside Gulvi, largely as a machination of Gwyn's to better control the Unseelie Court and help maintain some semblance of order in the fae realm with more stable rulers. Some time before Augus' imprisonment at the Seelie Court, Ash began secretly paying off Augus' 'debts', which wasn't revealed until he accidentally told Gwyn. Gwyn originally agreed to hand Augus over to the Unseelie Court for judgment, but instead, took Augus as his own prisoner, though he swore not to kill Augus. Among other reasons, Gwyn believed Ash wouldn't have been promoted to King if Augus was their prisoner, because the Unseelie wouldn't have trusted Ash to keep him a prisoner.

Ash was distressed over Augus' imprisonment at the Seelie Court, but unable to do much other than get drunk. He was often inebriated and largely useless for managing the Court. Gulvi and Ash were also unable to transform the court, as they never had time or could agree on it, particularly with Gulvi's attention dedicated largely to caring for Julvia Dubna Vajat. Gulvi bargained with Gwyn to allow herself and Ash to attend Augus' Display. Gulvi had to get Ash incredibly drugged up to attend the Display without starting something, to the point that Ash was 'numbed and artificially deadened to his environment'. Ash fled the Unseelie Court after the Display and got incredibly drunk.

Efnisien ap Wledig accidentally ran into Augus in Gwyn's chambers, and talked about a plot against Ash, which caused Augus to kill Efnisien. Gwyn investigated the supposed plot, and discovered there was something concrete to it: Efnisien, directed by Crielle ferch Fnwy as a ploy to unseat Gwyn, supported the rumor that since Ash and Gulvi were co-rulers, their power as individual rulers was weaker than a monarch ruling alone, because they both had to share from one pool of power. As supposedly weaker monarchs, they would be easier to defeat, which would strike a blow to the Unseelie Court. Gwyn knew this wasn't true - co-rulers do not share power: they each have the same amount of power as a monarch ruling alone - but made sure to alert Gulvi and dismantle the conspiracy.

Gwyn later went to the human realm to visit Ash at a bar, to ask for help in getting Augus out of the Seelie Court, particularly in seeking out the Soulbond, which would bind Augus and Ash's lives, relying on the goodwill fae held for Ash to keep assassins off of Augus' back. Ash didn't believe him, and vowed to pay back Gwyn for all he'd done to Augus. Ash *did* follow through on the Soulbond - exchanging it for a life debt with a Mage named 'Firebeard', who was secretly Olphix in disguise. Ash attacked Gwyn at their next meeting and demanded to see Augus. When Gwyn brought Augus to him, Ash revealed that Gwyn had lied about Augus' imprisonment: Ash hadn't refused to keep Augus, as Augus believed, but rather: Gwyn had taken him as prisoner. Ash also presented the unactivated Soulbond, which Augus initially refused. Gwyn presented the terms for the oath he'd drafted to activate the Soulbond, then left them alone to discuss.

They completed the Soulbond. A short time later, Gwyn released Augus into Ash's custody. Ash promoted Augus to Inner Court, and then took Augus to Augus' new lake. Ash later sent Gwyn a letter saying that Augus was happy and wanted nothing to do with him.

With Augus back at the Unseelie Court, Ash leaned on him, and revealed how dire the straits were for the Court, which was bankrupt, falling apart, empty, and bereft of an army. He also revealed the time between his hunts had decreased due to the corruption in his system: from two to three months, down to every three weeks. A messenger arrived to inform them that Gwyn's true alignment was revealed, and the Unseelie Court had a limited time to contest Gwyn's potential execution. Ash disagreed with seeking to interfere with Gwyn's execution, but was overruled by Gulvi and Augus, and left to go drink.

During the parley with Albion and the Seelie Court, when Albion and his Court were tight-lipped about the details of Gwyn's escape, Ash threatened to compel the truth out of Albion, surprising Augus with his vehemence.

Ash later begged Augus not to pursue Gwyn, wanting to protect Augus from further harm. Nonetheless, Augus searched for Gwyn. After Augus located Gwyn and brought him to the Unseelie Court, even Ash was surprised at how bad a state Gwyn was in. Gulvi granted Gwyn asylum, then took him aside for a private conversation. Ash and Augus discussed Gwyn's state, and although Ash at first seemed somewhat more empathetic towards Gwyn, that changed when Augus berated him for only taking pity once he could *see* the physical effects of Gwyn's deprivations, rather than believing Augus at his word or hearing tales of what Gwyn went through. Furthermore, Ash misunderstood Augus' explanation of Gwyn's past, viewing Gwyn's indifference to Efnisien's murder as sociopathy, and Crielle's sending soldiers after Gwyn as evidence of Gwyn's evil - that even his family knew that Gwyn had to be put down.

Ash continued to call Gwyn a liar and abuser, often harassing him in private and using his dra'ocht in a way that would cause Gwyn pain.

Ash ultimately handed over his role as King to Gwyn, as part of an Inner Court Reversal. Gwyn made Ash part of his Inner Court, as well as Magistrate and Diplomat.

#### *The Court of Five Thrones*

When Gwyn transformed the Unseelie Court, he gave Ash a private bar and library in his own rooms. While Augus and Gwyn were arguing afterward, Ash overheard about Gwyn feeding Augus liver during Augus' imprisonment (as punishment for killing Efnisien). Ash threatened Gwyn again, and left. Augus wearing a collar at Gwyn's Debut only further incensed Ash. Ash used his dra'ocht to attack Gwyn at the Debut and pulled him aside in private, where Ash ordered Gwyn to take the collar off. When Gwyn refused, Ash attacked him again. Gwyn defended himself, and they separated. Ash threatened to reveal Gwyn's status as a submissive and that his heartsong was surrender to the rest of the Court.

Ash mostly worked to calm tempers in order to keep tensions at the Court low. When the Nain Rouge interrupted the Triumphal Entry, Ash greeted her warmly, calling her 'grandma', and saying her glamour tasted like pixie sticks.

When Augus was fatally wounded while healing a Blighted lake, Ash went to the Unseelie Court throne room, where he collapsed, knowing Augus was badly hurt, and begged the others to help Augus. As Aleutia the Rat-Maiden and Fenwrel the Mouse-Maiden worked to heal Augus, both waterhorses briefly perished, erasing all the blood-oaths they'd made. But Aleutia and Fenwrel sacrificed some of their lifespans to bring the brothers back. Ash was weak, but woke first, to see Gulvi at his side. As Ash recovered, Aleutia ordered him to go eat something. When he returned, he curled up by Augus' side to sleep. When Augus awoke, he was ecstatic that Ash was hale.

Aleutia eventually kicked Ash out of the sickroom again, to get some exercise and eat something, but mostly so that Gwyn could remain in the room with Augus without Ash's presence.

Ash returned to spend time with him, and Augus eventually questioned what was going on with him and Gwyn. When Ash downplayed it, Augus could tell he was lying, and when Ash was dismissive of Augus' feelings towards Gwyn, Augus kicked him out.

Ash worried about Augus' mental health, and encouraged him to leave the Court, despite Augus' lack of a desire to do so. Ash also began meeting with Ifir in secret, convincing him to rebel against Gwyn. The final straw for Ifir was that Gwyn's heartsong was surrender.

Augus visited Ash's rooms at the Unseelie Court, where Ash insisted that the magic of the Unseelie Court itself had formed the rooms to Ash's tastes, while Augus emphasized that it was *Gwyn* who had done so, given Augus' knowledge of how the transformation magic worked. Ash showed him his plant collection, which Gulvi had suggested, and Fenwrel had encouraged. Ash also explained that his control of his inner waterhorse was getting worse, to the point that he couldn't sate it through sex, because he was too dangerous, and Augus theorized it was possibly due in part to the underworlds poisoning. When they met again later, Ash hinted that he'd been working on something with Ifir to unseat Gwyn.

When Augus refused to explain how he'd dealt with the Raven Prince, Gwyn ejected him from the palace, which further incensed Ash as going too far. After Augus eventually explained the story to Gwyn, Gwyn welcomed him back, though Ash was still pissed off.

After Ifir's mutiny failed, Gwyn confronted Ash, revealing his treachery to the Court. Augus talked to Ash, and Ash stated that he saw Gwyn's seeming non-reaction to Ash's abuse as evidence that it was hard to 'get a rise out of' Gwyn. Augus detailed the abuse Gwyn faced throughout his life, made Ash confront his own decision to help defeat Augus - for which Ash was displacing his guilt onto Gwyn - and reiterated that he cared for Gwyn without excusing Gwyn's misdeeds against himself. Augus explained how Ash's abuse of Gwyn hurt *Augus* as well, and Ash realized how close he was to losing both Augus and Gulvi, the latter of whom was upset with him for an assortment of reasons, including defending Augus and inciting the mutiny.

Gulvi and Gwyn sat down with Ash to discuss Ash's treason. Gulvi took point for much of the conversation, demanding answers when he hedged. Ash blood-oathed to Gwyn to talk about his concerns before acting on them. Ash was demonstrably remorseful over his actions, particularly once he realized that Gwyn was an abuse victim, himself. Gwyn also asked what Ash wanted to do, since Ash was so obviously uncomfortable at the Unseelie Court. Ash agreed it was probably a good idea for him to see a human therapist again, and did end up seeing one.

Ash pulled back on any use of his dra'ocht around Gwyn, to the point that it even made Gwyn uncomfortable. Ash ran into Gwyn during the Masque, where Ash mentioned he was cutting back on the alcohol. They discussed their mutual love of dogs, their dislike of courtiers, and Gwyn's childhood, before parting ways amicably. After Gwyn spoke with Kabiri, who hinted that 'Firebeard' was more than he seemed, Gwyn spoke to Ash about it with Gwyn's other Inner Court and advisors, where they reasoned that 'Firebeard' was Olphix, and that Ash's life debt to the Mage was more dangerous than they realized. Gwyn also noted that it was likely that Ash's use of dra'ocht at the Masque had encouraged a number of families to donate to the Unseelie Court, and that Ash should use his dra'ocht on the Court's behalf.

Ash participated in a battle with the Seelie Court, where he used his compulsions and dra'ocht to lull Seelie fae into being more vulnerable to Augus' more powerful compulsions, giving the Unseelie military an easier time in combat. Despite Ash's willingness to jump into a fight or brawl on behalf of those he cares about, both Augus and Gwyn could tell he was unsuited for warfare.

During the last Wild Hunt, Ash stayed by Mikkel's side in the Reader's final moments, even holding his hand when asked.

Ash began searching for a dog for Gwyn to raise, in the hopes that it would cheer him. He spoke with Gwyn, putting his various mental health concerns on the table, as well as where he stood in regard to how he'd acted with Gwyn. Gwyn stated that he was jealous of Ash's charisma, and the seeming ease he had in making friends.

Ash ultimately obtained Grip for Gwyn, so that Gwyn could have a guard hound, and a dog to care for.

Gwyn sought Ash's advice on multiple occasions in managing his own relationship with Augus. Gwyn noted at one point when Ash was smoking pot to relax that Ash seemed stressed about something, hence, the pot, though Ash evaded answering directly what was wrong.

When Munciello began badmouthing the Unseelie Court's wine at the Winter Court, Ash took him aside and talked things over with him. Over time, Ash learned that Munaciello was seeking to fulfill a 'debt' that Augus supposedly owed to the linchetti. When Ash tried to fulfill it in his stead, his glamour was impacted, because he couldn't fulfill it. He sought Thursday's help, but was denied because it involved Augus. So Ash reached out to Gwyn, and explained the situation, particularly about how Ash had been paying off Augus' 'debts' in secret. Gwyn explained that Augus didn't owe fae life debts for killing or otherwise harming them, but that if Augus accepted the debt anyway, that made the debt real, so Ash's actions were actually manifesting non-existent debts, and making things worse for Augus. Gwyn advised Ash how to deal with the situation, and also spoke to Ash about the use of his dra'ocht, and said that Ash could use it around Gwyn. Gwyn also noticed that Ash was very unhappy, and had the Unseelie trows start keeping an eye on him.

Ash confronted Gwyn about the surveillance detail, and they talked about their mutual love of cartography. Gwyn explained that Ash kept Gwyn 'accountable', to which Ash delicately explained that it wasn't Ash's job to do that (particularly via abuse). They talked more, and Ash realized that Gwyn was being surprisingly open and vulnerable in sharing about things he cared about.

Gwyn later invited Ash along on Gwyn's quest to find and free a simurgh. Ash was able to sneak along with Gwyn, and tried to help when Gwyn was injured. They ultimately sat together for a time, with Ash soothing him while Gwyn fought back a curse. They were ultimately successful, and Gwyn set the simurgh free.

#### *The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire*

When Olphix cut off access from the fae realm to the human realm, it cut off access to Ash's primary food source, and he began to slowly decline as he starved. After King Oengus Og broke through Olphix's communication spell to contact the Unseelie Court, Ash traveled with Gulvi, Fenwrel, and Julvia to Oengus' Tower to discuss what Gwyn and the others had discovered about the ice plague. There, Ash reunited with the Gancanagh, an old bedpartner, and the two went to the Gancanagh's rooms while the rest talked strategy. Ash noted later that he needed to redirect his bloodlust, which the Gancanagh was happy to oblige. Ash remained with Gwyn's party while Gulvi and Fenwrel returned to the Unseelie Court. He also accompanied Gwyn and Augus on excursions for supplies, using his dra'ocht to aid them in getting better deals. He briefly chatted with Eran Iliakambar about his own life and the human realm, and offered Eran his condolences for Eran's family.

When the ice plague took Oengus' Tower, Ash used his compulsions to help drag everyone through Oengus' portal, and personally dragged the Gancanagh out. When the Gancanagh left the group to go check on Oengus', Ash demanded that the luchorpan keep to his promise to return. Ash spoke more with Eran and Mosk Manytrees, explaining Gwyn's background, as well as his own. He also used his dra'ocht to convince attacking fae to leave their party alone.

When the Nain Rouge ambushed them, then settled down with them to discuss terms, Ash greeted her somewhat warmly. When she talked about how Olphix and Davix had killed the dragons and hid information on them using a geas, Ash mourned the dragons. Ash spent a good portion of their journey looking after Julvia in particular, including picking her up when she hurt her ankle. When Gwyn later told Ash to take Julvia and Augus ahead of Katel's posse attacking them all, Ash got them to safety. Mosk discovered a verkhwin, and Ash, following Mosk, negotiated with the verkwhin to allow their group to take shelter in the verkhwin's territory. In private, Julvia confided in Eran that Ash needed more care than he was getting, similar to Mosk and Eran.

Ash had to use his dra'ocht to get Eran - who was a fire fae terrified of the sea - mobile. When the group fought on the beach while Gwyn called for Ondine and the Mantissa, Ash used his compulsions to try to keep their pursuers back, though his increasing lack of health due to hunger made him struggle. He also helped Augus make a dome to protect them all. He had to use his dra'ocht again to coax Eran to shift back to human-form, and then onto the Mantissa.

#### *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas*

As a freshwater fae, and dealing with immense hunger, Ash struggled aboard the Mantissa, and had to spend a great deal of time resting. The healers noticed his heartsong was very frail. He was able to participate in some activities on the Mantissa, and even danced with Awan and Ondine. He helped keep watch on the Raven Prince when the latter was tied up. While talking with the Raven Prince, the Raven Prince used his dra'ocht to force Ash to obey him, though Ash fought back, semi-successfully.

As Ash's health worsened, he increasingly lost what little control he had over his inner waterhorse. He hunted another fae as if they were human, and prey. He was only stopped when the Raven Prince knocked him out of it. The Raven Prince berated Ash for not communicating with his inner waterhorse before, to better understand himself and get control over his appetite, and accept who he is, in entirety. Ash started spending more time with Julvia, to relax.

Ash was reading in a ship library when Mosk ran into him. Ash used his dra'ocht to check in with Mosk, and also make sure that Mosk wasn't up to anything nefarious. Ash discovered that Mosk was deeply sad and suicidal, and promised to keep watching out for him in the future. Ash later confided in Eran about it.

The Raven Prince summoned the adar llwich gwin to ambush and mortally wound Ash. The Raven Prince then used Mosk's healing magic to save Ash's life, whereupon Ash owed the Raven Prince a life debt, which the Raven Prince used to nullify Olphix's life debt. Ash thanked him. The Mantissa healers theorised that since Ash was doing much better than Augus due to Mosk's healing, it was possible that his 'energy through the Soulbond might be one of the things . . . keeping Augus so functional.'

When they returned to land, Ash ran into a freshwater river and stayed submerged for over an hour.

#### *The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague*

Ash reached out to Eran on several occasions to try and help with Eran's mental health struggles, particularly in regard to Stertes, but was almost always brushed off. Ash often comforted Julvia as she mourned leaving Ondine on the Mantissa.

When Gwyn decided to follow the Raven Prince's advice and visit the Ratcatcher of Hameln so that Augus and Ash could feed, Ash went along. The Ratcatcher demands a life debt of all who visit him, so it's unclear what the Ratcatcher demanded of Ash. But Ash was able to feed, and was much healthier for the experience. They later reunited with Mosk, Eran, and Julvia.

Olphix discovered the group while they were traveling to Taronis, and made everyone sleep (though Mosk used his magic to wake himself up), so that Olphix could speak to Ash alone. Olphix said that Augus would stop Gwyn from taking back his light, and Ash was to stop Augus. Because of the Raven Prince's actions, the debt was already nullified, which Ash explained, without referencing the Raven Prince by name. Mosk fought Olphix off, and the Mage disappeared.

As the group's journey continued, although Ash could still be jovial at times, he grew 'quieter than he used to be. He often fell asleep first, and the sleep was deep and didn’t seem to restore him. He was harder to rouse in the mornings, sometimes he seemed as grumpy as he’d been on the Mantissa.' When Eran asked about it, Ash noted that the Glashtyn was 'there all the time', unlike in the past, when he'd been easier to deal with. Ash noted that the Glashtyn wanted 'to take over and prove that he’d be better at finding food for us.' Ash grew so distressed that he admitted he'd 'renounce hating eating humans' if only to make the Glashtyn quieter, because of how awful the Glashtyn was.

Ash would sing with Eran in the evenings to their party, and sometimes lead the group in singing. Eran noted that Ash looked even more tired and defeated, and the singing and joking seemed to be an effort to lift himself up as much as the rest of the group. Ash operated as a translator for the group in Trowna, as he was one of the few group members besides Gwyn who could understand the trow language, at least to some extent. Ash looked steadily more tired, and Augus gave Ash the walking stick Augus had used on the Mantissa. Even Ash's voice began to sound different. Ash still loved Trowna, despite his worsening state.

As Ash's condition continued to worsen, he noted that he missed his lake. During the henk they attended in Trowna, Ash asked Augus, once again, what his heartsong was. And since it was gone, Augus finally told him that it had been abundance. Ash began to weep and leaned into Augus, and his glamour became mournful. Augus comforted him as best he could.

When Augus' inner waterhorse took over and attempted to eat Mosk's arm, Gwyn and Ash arrived to take Augus off of Mosk. Ash comforted Mosk. As they left Cleat, 'Ash walked separately to all of them, using Augus’ walking stick and staring – eyes haunted – into the thick pine forest that closed up around them.'

After Augus collapsed because of using his waterweed against Davix, Ash went to his side along with Julvia, Gwyn, Mosk, and Eran. Ash acknowledged that they had to keep traveling, and rejected Gwyn's offer to carry Augus, since Gwyn was one of only two of their party who could fight. He also rejected Eran's suggestion to carry Augus, as they might need Eran's fire. Ash hesitantly suggested he change into the Glashtyn, to be able to carry Augus, though Gwyn was shocked and worried about Ash's ability to do so, and said they'd 'give it a day. If [Augus] doesn’t wake, [they'd] revisit the situation then.’

When the gelding Julvia bought refused to go near Augus because Augus 'smells too much like death', Gwyn and the others finally decided that Ash had to change into the Glashtyn to carry Augus. In the afternoon, Ash and Gwyn spoke privately before Ash went off to shift into the Glashtyn. Ash 'looked sad, haggard, and he offered a weak but real smile to all of them. But the expression vanished when he saw Julvia.' He asked her not to think less of him. After Julvia promised, Ash went into the woods to shift. He reemerged as the Glashtyn, who was patronizing to Gwyn and the Each Uisge. The Glashtyn mocked the Each Uisge some more, then bit him in the shoulder. Gwyn and Mosk attacked him, making him shy away, though the Glashtyn 'kicked at one [of Mosk's wooden tentacles] with his hooves, splintering it. He burst into bright, evil laughter, dancing away and out of reach as Gwyn approached him, sword drawn.' Gwyn reminded him of the Soulbond between Ash and Augus - that if Augus withered, so did Ash. The Glashtyn noted he was aware, and that he would carry Augus until the Glashtyn could feed, at which point he would attempt to kill the Each Uisge. The Glashtyn noted, *'I’m the strongest I’ve ever been, and I’ve always been strong.'*

When the Glashtyn mocked how injuring Augus made things harder for the party, Gwyn punched him. The 'Glashtyn didn’t make a sound, but his eyes flashed so brightly it was like they left a streak of light behind as he swung his great head. He reared up; the growl so terrible that Eran felt as though his guts had turned to liquid.' He seemed enlivened by Gwyn's threats, and said, *‘I bet you’ll taste even better. I do hope you’re not planning on sleeping around me, Your Majesty.'* He then made joking threats about attacking and assaulting Julvia. After Gwyn ordered him to be quiet, Julvia told Eran, 'Ash is inside him somewhere, hating all of this, trapped, and we can’t get to him. He hears it all, you know . . . Eran, he’s not like Ash at all. And he’s been…forcibly kept down and repressed by Ash for thousands of years. He’ll- He’ll not want to cede any control back to him.’ Gwyn then picked Augus up and carried him to the Glashtyn. The Glashtyn shied away because Augus smelled awful, but after talking, Gwyn got him to stay still, and Gwyn placed Augus gently on his back, and ordered the Glashtyn to stick Augus to him.

While on their journey, the Glashtyn enjoyed sneaking up and startling Tora (the gelding), making Gwyn threaten, ‘I don’t need my light to put a bridle on you'. This seemed to intimidate the Glashtyn slightly, though he was still patronizing to Gwyn. When Mosk and the Glashtyn talked later, as Mosk noted that the Glashtyn, 'didn’t like it when [Ash] changed his hunting patterns', the Glashtyn said, *‘If you were human, I’d rip your throat out, little boy.’* When Mosk appeared unintimidated by this, and even seemingly wistfully thought about being human and thus not having to undertake the quest against Olphix, and/or being killed by the Glashtyn as a human and thus the same thing, the Glashtyn seemed a bit surprised, laughed, and moved away.

The Glashtyn did not turn back to Ash for the next week, and would regularly drop Augus without telling the others. 'He was hostile, mean, and surly' and regularly joked/threatened to assault all of them. He began targeting Eran due to Eran's history, and Mosk warned him off. Gwyn also stood as a barrier to the Glashtyn. 'Though he mocked Gwyn frequently, and though Gwyn didn’t have his light, he was wary of him.' After using his dra'ocht to cause the others to be aroused, Gwyn drew his sword and fought the Glashtyn 'until the edge of his sword was against the Glashtyn’s neck, and a line of blood appeared.' Gwyn ordered him to stop using his dra'ocht against the group. The Glashtyn then mocked Gwyn by talking about Crielle, and used his dra'ocht to lull the group into sleepy complacence. Only Gwyn was seemingly unaffected, and pressed his sword into the Glashtyn's neck. The Glashtyn was seemingly shocked at Gwyn's resistance.

'The next day, the Glashtyn was surlier, laughed bitterly more often, but baited them less. He seemed wary of Gwyn and his sheathed sword, and the wound at his neck hadn’t healed, sometimes opening up and oozing blood again.' Mosk realized this was because he was ailing as much as Augus was. The Glashtyn was wary when Mosk approached him to befriend him, but talked with him. The Glashtyn noted, *‘My dra’ocht and my compulsions are for hunting . . .* *Not for all the petty reasons the other one uses them for. And while I play my own games, I will not use my sacred abilities. The King will kill me.’* They talked for a time about the Glashtyn, Ash, Augus, and the Each Uisge, and Mosk sympathized with the Glashtyn's imprisonment inside Ash. The Glashtyn then threatened him away, before eating some of the marsh marigolds Mosk made for him.

While in Dharnam, the Glashtyn harassed and attacked Julvia. She fled from him.

Mosk believed that the Glashtyn 'disappeared at night', because Mosk could sometimes 'hear him laughing, the sound echoing and strident even through the walls of the building.' The Glashtyn suggested Mosk use his magic to grow humans. After Mosk grew the fleshfruit tree, Gwyn gave some of the fleshfruit to the Glashtyn, which seemed to improve the waterhorse's mood.

When Mosk visited the Glashtyn one last time, the waterhorse used compulsions on him, just before Ash finally returned. Mosk fetched Augus for him, and Ash said, ‘I hated it, I hated it'. Gwyn and the others, save Julvia, came to visit Ash, and Gwyn noted he needed Ash in the final battle, and to help Augus in making 'a charm or similar protective magic' so that Mosk wasn't 'as debilitated' by compulsions. Mosk later talked with Ash alone, insisting Ash let himself hunt properly, and work more in cooperation with the Glashtyn, and noted, 'you’re hurting each other, and he’s so much more powerless than you are. I’ve come to understand that you try not to be a monster to anyone else, but you are a constant, *constant* monster to him.’ Mosk also noted that Ash spending his life hating himself simply because of what he was wasn't the answer. Ash was grateful for Mosk's bluntness, but also mad at him for what he was saying, though they seemed to generally be on okay terms when Ash turned the conversation back on Mosk's suffering, noted he would at least think about what Mosk said, and then the Gancanagh appeared. Ash and the Gancanagh stood side by side during the mourning bonfire during the festival of Evale.

When Gwyn's group left Dharnam, Ash was sometimes quiet, but spoke with the Gancanagh about various adventures they'd had together, some of which even Augus didn't know about. Ash shared a tent with the Gancanagh while they traveled.

During the battle with Olphix, Ash used his dra'ocht to try to 'keep Olphix feeling overwhelmed, overloaded.' When Augus used waterweed to trap Gwyn from rushing towards Olphix, Ash interceded, freeing Gwyn and fighting Augus back. Augus was so distraught he cried, ‘You betrayed me once and now you’re doing it again!?’ Then Augus transformed into the Each Uisge, and Ash changed into the Glashtyn to continue blocking him. They began fighting.

Eventually, the Glashtyn left the fight, and the Each Uisge changed back into Augus, who proceeding to shout and kick at Gwyn's corpse. Ash pulled him away, reminding him that Gwyn was King and might still come back, and that he and Augus needed to feed (now that they could teleport to the human realm again). Augus was still distraught, but turned to one of the newly formed pools of water and teleported away, and Ash followed him.

After Ash had a feeding spree, Ash and the Gancanagh continued to travel together. Ash noted he needed 'to make peace with himself', and was keeping a wary eye on Augus. Ash and the Gancanagh visited Eran in the Aur forest two years after Olphix's defeat. Augus and Ash's relationships was contenious, and Augus refused Ash access to Augus' home. Ash encouraged Eran to move on, but was interrupted by the Gancanagh pointed out that *he* understood Eran's grief, and that Ash wouldn't have moved on when everyone thought Augus was dead. Ash also said he was trying to stop torturing the Glashtyn, and that he had a glimmer of a new heartsong. Ash hunted more often, and resided in the fae realm rather than the human realm.

In the fifth year after the battle with Olphix, Augus noted that Ash seemed to have gained the ability to divine his own heartsongs, and possibly has a heartsong of integration or unity, and that Ash was doing better with the Glashtyn, and was still traveling with the Gancanagh and not seeing Augus much. Ash and Augus were still working on rebuilding their relationship, though Ash noted that their acknowledgment that the Glashtyn and the Each Uisge *wanted* to kill each other, and yet Ash and Augus refused to actively do so now that the battle with Olphix was over, while Ash was embracing his Glashtyn side, changed things.

By the ninth year after the battle with Olphix, Ash was visiting the Unseelie Court sometimes, and Augus' lake, but still traveling with the Gancanagh. Augus noted his relationship with Ash was slowly improving. Ash told Augus that since he'd accepted his Glashtyn self, he'd stopped having night terrors.

## Species: Waterhorse (Glashtyn)

*See: Glashtyn*

In his true-form, he is 'a large, dappled reddish-brown pony, with glowing malevolent hazel eyes and a curly, cropped mane and tail shining in red, brown, and blond. From its mane and tail grew pale green waterweed, and where a regular horse’s teeth should be, sharp fangs caught the light and gleamed with thick saliva.' He also has 'long, thick lashes coloured like his mane, brown and gold and blond and auburn and bright red.' He also has 'a long, sharp tongue'. He is considered against type, as previous glashtyn used to have black hair and green eyes, like Augus does. He is often described as a runt. In this form, the Soulbond appears 'sparkling of iridescent blue [on one of his forelegs], looking like it had been burnt into him, fringed in a charcoal grey-black. Against his red and orange hairs, it gleamed almost prettily, like jewels set into his hair and skin.'

In his true-form, Ash talks in a 'true voice', which is always shown in italics.

The Glashtyn is considered to be more of a sexual sadist than the Each Uisge. Like Augus, he needs to feed on humans and then tear them apart in a lake (preferably one with a home base) before needing several days to digest his meal. The Glashtyn noted that Ash has to shift to his Glashtyn form to feed properly. Human liver is deathly poisonous to him.

Personality-wise, the Glashtyn is a sadistic, playful creature who enjoys hurting the Each Uisge and taunting others. Mosk noted he is opportunistic. Although he starved, too, during the ice plague, eating the fleshfruit and thus assuaging his hunger a bit seemed to make him 'calmer and more mischevious'.

## Special Abilities

#### Fae Abilities

**Compulsion:** Ash is very competent and powerful with compulsions. Augus and Ash are immune to each other's compulsions.

**Glamour/Dra'ocht:** Ash has the strongest glamour/dra'ocht of any fae except for Crielle. It's so strong that he can use it to calm populations *en masse.* Ash sometimes uses his glamour without realising, and he doesn't always have an idea of just how much he's influencing other people. He can also use it to create grief. Ash said it's meant to calm people down. He can also use it to force arousal, or at least the Glashtyn can.

**Waterweed:** Ash has an ability to grow waterweed and presumably to shoot waterweed from his wrists, like Augus.

**Dome:** Ash has an ability to create a magical underwater dome to shelter a more 'human' or dry cottage/house at the bottom of a lake. It is said that waterhorses can only make one of these in their lives. As far as we know in the canon, Ash has only made one.

**Growth:** An innate plant-growing ability.

#### Skills

**Hand-to-hand combat:** Ash has trained in many human realm martial arts and has been known to brawl in pubs. He has strong skills in hand-to-hand combat and is not afraid to fight and defend people he needs to protect. Even Gwyn was surprised when they fought, and Ash used his dra'ocht to aid him.

**Musician:** Ash can play the guitar and the violin, and he's a robust singer.

**Polymath:** Ash frequently plays down his intelligence, but he has attended many universities in the human realm and knows a great deal about a great many subjects, something that he reveals to Gwyn on matters of cartography in *The Ash and Gwyn Interludes*. Ash has many skills across many different disciplines, and many don't expect this from him. He also knows multiple languages, including at least one version of sign language.

**Fae Relations:** Ash has demonstrated frequent skill as a mediator and diplomat, especially in intra-court matters.

**Intelligence:** Ash's ability to cultivate relationships with other fae and to grease the wheels with alcohol a lot of the time, combined with his dra'ocht, has made him unusually resourceful in getting intelligence for the Unseelie Court.

**Arts and Crafts:** Ash can embroider.

**Survival:** Ash is good at stealth, and can fish.

## Relationships

### Ach'for

Ash seems to have a friendship with Ach'for. They care for Grip together or at least share the responsibility when Gwyn is busy.

### Augus Each Uisge

Augus raised Ash as a reluctant pseudo-parent, though they consider themselves brothers. They have a very close, complicated relationship. They currently share a Soulbond, whereupon if one of them is badly injured or killed, the other will experience it as well. The link also allows them to keep each other alive during *The Ice Plague*.

### Awan

Awan and Ash seemed to get along well, as they danced together, and Awan laughed as Ash dipped him. Afterward, Awan playfully scruffed up Ash's mane.

### Eran Iliakambar

Ash noted that Eran is great and he likes Eran a lot. Ash looks out for Eran's welfare when possible, or tries to. Eran was friendly towards Ash aboard the Mantissa, and often sought him out for support, but has maintained a distance from him recently, out of fear of talking about his mental health. Eran was shocked by the Glashtyn, to the point that he 'was beginning to wonder how any of them had trusted Ash so readily, knowing this was always inside of him.'

### Fenwrel the Mouse-Maiden

It's unclear how close Ash and Fenwrel are, given they work together as Inner Court, both reside in the Unseelie Court, are both close with Gulvi, and Fenwrel helped save Ash's life, but 'as far as Fenwrel knew, Ash had not only given [Fenwrel and Gulvi] his blessing, but was actively, enthusiastically encouraging. It turned out that Ash believed the same as Fenwrel; that Gulvi was still capable of love. It may not be the core love that a swan maiden gives to a single other, but love existed all the same.'

### The Gancanagh

Ash and the Gancanagh are fond of each other, have a long-standing physical relationship, and Pia has suggested they might become partners in the future. When the Gancanagh was distressed after Oengus' death and repeated 'My love! My **only** love!', Ash was notably upset. Although Oengus is still the Gancanagh's true love, the Gancanagh seems protective of Ash, in the way Eran is of Mosk.

### Grip

Ash owned Lucky as an adult dog, so he likes dogs, and liked Grip as a puppy, and finds him cute. Ash seems to be one of the few members of Gwyn's advisors who actually likes dogs. He also helped take care of Grip in Gwyn's absence, and sometimes walks him with Gwyn (or gets walked *by* Grip).

### Gulvi Dubna Vajat

Ash's closest friend. Ash and Gulvi have blood-oathed to each other. Gulvi gave her heart to Ash, not intending to love him romantically, and greatly enjoys the platonic love they shared for each other. She was the one who suggested Ash start collecting and raising plants in the Unseelie Court. The pair have seemingly started drifting apart, at least since Augus killed her family, though Ash has worked to mend the relationship. Ash encouraging Ifir's mutiny and abusing Gwyn only made her angrier.

### Gwyn ap Nudd

Although they worked together against the Nightingale, they became enemies due to Gwyn's treatment of Augus. When Gwyn arrived at the Unseelie Court in *Game Theory*, Ash frequently harassed him, to the point that Gwyn likened him to Efnisien. After Ash became Gwyn's Inner Court, Ash's rage at Gwyn resulted in Ash encouraging a mutiny against Gwyn, prompting Gwyn to retaliate. With Augus' intervention - revealing Gwyn was also an abuse victim himself - as well as Gulvi's anger, and Gwyn and Ash both carefully working around each other, the two later reconciled and became friends.

### Ifir

Ash said that he'd been having drinks with Ifir for years, likely before planning the mutiny with Gwyn.

### Julvia Dubna Vajat

Ash and Julvia are fond of each other, and Ash often calls her pet names, such as 'Princess', and often comforts her. He is also very protective of her throughout *The Ice Plague*, and he's generally the first to remind her to rest, and when she is in trouble, he's often the first to aid her, despite the fact that Julvia's life debt is actually with Augus. Julvia is able to see through at least some of the facade he uses to hide his mental and physical pain, and comforts him, as well.

### Mosk Manytrees

Ash has an uneasy friendship with Mosk, and interrogated Mosk with dra'ocht, which made Ash one of the few members of the party to know many of Mosk's inner struggles. Mosk enjoyed Ash's dra'ocht so much that he didn't mind being interrogated. Ash is uncomfortable about manipulating him, and tries to help Mosk as he can. Mosk finds the Glashtyn interesting, and tried to befriend him, sympathizing with his captivity inside Ash. He knows the Glashtyn is dangerous, but doesn't fear him in the way he worries about Olphix, as the Glashtyn's monstrousness is understandable and part of his species. After getting to know the Glashtyn better, Mosk became more detached from Ash, feeling more for how the Glashtyn had been imprisoned for 3,000 years. After Mosk came back to life, Ash noted he's still angry with Mosk.

### The Nain Rouge

Ash is oddly fond of the Nain Rouge and often semi-jokingly calls her 'grandma.' She in turn seems to gravitate between tolerating him and possibly being at least tickled by it. They both share a love of the human realm and pop culture, which means that when they are both present in the same scene, they're often making pop culture references that can seem incongruous with the rest of the dialogue. Ash once offered her some of his dra'ocht, which she refused. He also likes her taste in music, and seems to share it.

### The Nightingale

The Nightingale torments Ash during the Nightingale's visits to the Unseelie Court while Ash is present. Ash has often said that since this was nothing in comparison to what Augus went through at the Nightingale's hands, it was nothing at all.

### Old Pete

Ash notes that Old Pete would be upset at missing Eran and Mosk's arrival at the Unseelie Court during *The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire*, which implies they might be close.

### King Oengus Og

Ash seemed friendly with Oengus, even embracing him like they were old friends, and Oengus was happy to see him.

### The Raven Prince

The Raven Prince finds Ash ugly, poisonous, and a 'misbegotten wretch', and has said as much to his face on multiple occasions. The Raven Prince noted, patronizingly, that the Glashtyn's previous incarnations were 'vile sexual sadists', but 'still possessed of stronger heart and conviction' than Ash, and that Ash's current incarnation is 'a smear across the very heart of what it is to be Unseelie.' The Raven Prince even noted, 'I’ll never understand why the Each Uisge didn’t just kill your misshapen form when you came out of that lake.' He's also called Ash 'the worst excuse for an Unseelie fae [he's] *ever* seen', as well as a coward, and the Raven Prince has no patience for him. The Raven Prince appears to respect how powerful Ash's dra'ocht is, and noted with some pleasure that Ash *might* be stronger than the Raven Prince is, but Ash appears untrained in it, at least in comparison to the Raven Prince. Ash once seemingly thought of the Raven Prince as a 'headcase'. Ash tolerated and seemingly accepted the Raven Prince's verbal abuse, partly due to his own self-hatred. The Raven Prince nullified Ash's debt with Olphix, possibly to save himself, Augus, and/or the Unseelie Court, but Ash is grateful nonetheless.

## Quotations

* 'No one in the world wanted to put their life on the line for Augus, except Ash. And Augus had made sure that had never needed to happen.'
* 'You don’t take the weak people out of power,’ Gwyn said angrily, ‘You leave them in power. You make them aware that you put them there. Then they are easy to manipulate.'
* To Gwyn: 'One day . . . I will revisit on you everything that you’ve done to Augus. People think I’m not really capable, and you know, I didn’t think I was either. But give a guy enough incentive, and it turns out revenge fantasies are really . . . satisfying. I don’t care how strong you are. I don’t care what your reputation is. You will never see me coming. I don’t even want you dead anymore, I just want you hurting.'
* 'Augus, I could hardly survive these months without you in my life, and I knew you were alive. How do you think I’m gonna handle it if you’re fucking killed by some fae, randomly, and I can’t protect you? This gives me a chance to protect you. Like...I dunno, like I haven’t been able to in the past? And it’s not like I haven’t thought about this. It’s something I’m willing to do. Okay? I’m not an idiot, I know it puts me at risk. I just happen to think you’re worth it. Y’know, because I love you and you’re cool.'
* Gwyn to Augus on Ash: 'He betrayed you! And you don’t want to blame him for that, because you forgive him, you will always forgive him, because of who and what he is to you! You want a scapegoat because it’s easier. Because you like the easy way, Augus.'
* To Augus: 'I blindly believed you all my life . . . And that got you kidnapped and hurt. I don’t blindly believe anything, anymore.'
* To Gwyn: 'I just want you to know that I know, and I’m onto you,’ Ash said, shoving his hands into his jeans pockets, thumbs out and tapping several times. ‘I don’t know what he sees in you, honestly. But hey, he’s been conditioned to believe the best in a monster before. I see you for what you really are.'
* Gulvi (speaking to Augus about Ash and Gwyn): 'I almost want to set them off against each other again. Have you seen how Gwyn sparks up in anger when Ash is around? Oh, it’s not often someone doesn’t like Ash. That’s novel.'
* 'One day,’ Augus said, closing his eyes. ‘One day we’re going to have to have a talk about what you did. What you did to me. Even if you were right to do it. Even if I gave you permission.'
* Gwyn: 'Do you know what annoys me most, about all this, Ash? It’s not that you could have ruined the fragile grip I already had on that military, because gods know they don’t want to trust someone who has been in the Seelie military for three thousand years. It’s not even that you told them the truth. It’s that in the space of a handful of hours, you appear to have gone from maliciously trying to ruin me, to this level of contrition. Which makes it all feel cheap. It makes it seem as though those deaths? They didn’t really need to happen. Ocypete had children, sisters! Ifir has two daughters, two sons, a wife. Vane wears most of his wealth and a lot of it was destroyed, along with the agony he suffered during the attack. Kyoufu was already chafing at me about the destruction of war and now his remains will be returned to his people, with the knowledge that I killed him.'
* The Nain Rouge: ‘There are musician’s musicians . . . There are artists beloved by artists. There are fucking Pokemon Masters who make other Pokemon Masters look like newbies. That’s mostly about stats and Pokerus. There are sculptors every sculptor wants to be. Gunslingers that other gunslingers look up to. And you’re like me, bitty baby pony. You’re a monster’s monster. You think the fae don’t know how dark you are? Even though you hide it? Why do you think you’re beloved by the *Unseelie* for fuck’s sake? That’s called overcompensation, honeycrunch. You’re all rolled up into a sweet little package of candy. People crave you, but you’ll still give them a disease once they’re done.’
* Gulvi: 'Ash gives me all of himself in our friendship. His love is a whole thing. He has such an *abundance* of it. It spills everywhere. It makes him do and say stupid things. It makes him wiser than he should be. He loves love. Whether it makes him a fool or seer. And me, with my cynical heart, I needed his idealism, his romanticism, all of it. He gives me something I have never been able to give myself. And he has enough of it – so much – that he can give it freely and I never have to worry about depleting him of anything.'
* 'I looked up to you,’ Gwyn said. ‘In truth, I thought – selfishly – perhaps if I could learn how to be your friend, I could…maybe share in that- whatever it was you gave to others. Maybe other fae might realise I’m not so bad. . . . You would never have…been able to hurt me so much, I think, had I not…admired you so. That you would give everyone else so much, and then see in me something that…they saw in me. Because you’re not the first to have insulted me since my childhood, not…by a longshot. But I gave all your words such tremendous weight. You are Augus’ brother. Gulvi’s closest friend. The world adores you. I thought it was like a kind of magic.'
* Augus: 'Gwyn has not known a real and stable love, not a shred of it, until he met me. You got it from the beginning. I adored you – perhaps not from the first second, no – but once I had accepted you into my home, I adored you. You have absolutely no concept of what it’s like to live without love and neither do I – but he does.'
* To Gwyn: ‘I hate that they got to you like this,’ Ash said, sitting next to him on the couch. ‘But that’s how it works. The bad stuff is always a lot more convincing than anything good. But that doesn’t make the good stuff a lie. Just because something’s hard to believe, doesn’t mean it’s a lie.'
* Ash: 'I’m not like super stressed. I can always go to Gulvi if I need to.’ ‘Can you?’ Gwyn said. . . . ‘Yeah,’ Ash said, ‘I still can. I just don’t as much. Feels weird, whining about stuff that you guys are all used to.’
* Gwyn to Ash: ‘You don’t get used to it. I hope you never do. This is not the kind of life anyone should get used to. And you? They’re all aware of it you know. All those fae who knew the life you used to lead. They think you’re sacrificing yourself, that you are giving of your greatness for…for the Unseelie Court, for your brother. And you are. You don’t think that’s stressful?’
* To Ash: ‘You are *very* strong,’ the Raven Prince said, like he’d never been more pleased. ‘You might even be stronger than me. You must need it to make up for a lake that spat you out unfinished and too ugly to use your beauty to charm a single soul.'
* The Raven Prince: 'You are an Inner Court fae with more than enough capacity to control your own bloodlust. Your problem, Glashtyn, is you have no ability to own yourself, you misunderstand your monstrousness, and through your cowardice, your waterhorse breaks through uncontrolled. . . . Even your predecessors, vile sexual sadists that they were, were still possessed of stronger heart and conviction than you. Own yourself, Glashtyn. . . . Of course you accept your monstrousness, you overcompensate with saccharine attempts to be the nicest Unseelie fae in the history of Unseelie fae, in the human world no less. Oh yes, I’m aware of your incarnation, a smear across the very heart of what it is to be Unseelie. You – young waterhorse – cannot accept your own goodness. I don’t know what it is in you, or in you growing up with the Each Uisge, that has done this to you. But if you accepted what it truly was to be Unseelie, if you communicated with your Glashtyn self, this would never have happened. And you cannot learn it now, on a ship, while your body tries to convince you that you are dying of starvation when you are not. . . . You not only know you’re a monster . . . You think you’re the worst there ever was. And so? Who cares? But you are aboard the Mantissa and this is not your hunting ground. . . . How anyone who professes to care about you has let you get away with this for so long is beyond me. It likely has something to do with that dra’ocht of yours, constantly convincing everyone – including yourself – that all is well when it is not.'
* 'Augus, that’s cool. I want fire powers!’
* To Eran about the Glashtyn: ‘He’s getting louder,’ Ash said, staring doggedly ahead. ‘I used to hate feeding, but I swear to god, I’m ready to renounce hating eating humans if it means I’ll get to not feel like this anymore.’
* To Eran: ‘When are you going to learn you’re in fairy land, already?’
* To Ash: ‘*Stop* making debts with people!’ Augus hissed. ‘The Raven Prince just got you out of one.’
* ‘Hey, Augus?’ Ash said, his voice breaking. ‘What’s my heartsong?’ [Augus]: ‘Well. It used to be abundance, but I don’t know what it is anymore.’ Ash stilled, then his eyes widened slowly. A single tear spilled down the side of one cheek, and for a moment he couldn’t seem to move at all, and then he took a huge breath and turned to face Augus. ‘Really?’ he said, his voice wet. ‘Yes,’ Augus said, smiling sadly. ‘You made it so beautiful, Ash. It was my favourite heartsong.’ ‘Abundance,’ Ash whispered. . . . ‘You were always too much of everything, weren’t you?’ Augus said, eyes bright. ‘You spread everything in abundance. And what a joy that was for the world around you, with you spilling your love of life everywhere.’ ‘And now it’s gone,’ Ash said, desolate. ‘I regret, so much, what the last few decades have done to you. I regret, so much, my role in that.’
* ‘There are two of us who are still well enough and skilled enough to battle when we’re in danger,’ Ash said soberly. ‘It’s Mosk, and it’s you, Gwyn. You can’t have your hands full with Augus. Julvia is too weak to carry him.’
* [Mosk]: ‘You know how we talk about the fact that there are Unseelie fae? And then there are *Unseelie* fae?’ ‘Yes,’ Eran said slowly. ‘Well, as I understand it, Augus and Ash are like, regular Unseelie when they’re in human form. But ah, their waterhorse form? It’s…different.’
* ‘Ash,’ Gwyn said. ‘How are-’ *‘Glashtyn,’* said the waterhorse, with no lazy cheerful informality. It was like they were meeting an entirely new fae. His voice reverberated with some deep truth, as though the soul of something profound were speaking, instead of a voice box and vocal cords. *‘Do not desecrate me with that name.’*
* To the Glashtyn: ‘Use all your power to heal that,’ Gwyn snarled. ‘You want to take me on, Ash Glashtyn? Go ahead. I’ll have no problems with you.’
* ‘Oh, the Glashtyn’s work is never done, he’s never sated and so well hung! Ohhh, the Glashtyn’s work is never easy, he’s always hungry and a little sleazy. . . . Oh . . . the Glashtyn’s work is never over, he’s oh-so-starving and sadly sober. Oh, the Glashtyn’s work is never done, be careful Gwyn ap Nudd, or he’ll make his own fun.’
* Mosk to the Glashtyn: ‘Why doesn’t Ash accept you? There’s no shame in needing to eat humans. You need to *eat.’*
* To Julvia: ‘I know I said it before, but you have to remember Ash chose this,’ Mosk said. ‘He chose it for his brother, and while the Glashtyn agreed for selfish reasons, Ash’s reasons were- I mean- Shit. Wouldn’t you say they were made with the kind of love that isn’t terrible?’
* Mosk to Ash: 'as the only person who actually had quite a few conversations with the Glashtyn, you’re destroying yourself. Whatever you’ll become after another three thousand years of keeping a huge part of yourself prisoner… That will be worse than what will happen if you simply let him hunt the way he wants to.’
* Mosk: 'Ash, I *hurt* for him. It hurts, seeing you back, and not knowing when the Glashtyn will be allowed to come up again. It hurts, knowing he’s trapped in a cage constantly, abandoned, and unwanted by his very self. Of course he’s a monster, and a villain, and exploitative and mean. But that’s not all you are. The Raven Prince was right, you need to have more faith in your goodness, and trust that the Glashtyn isn’t going to take over your entire personality. It didn’t with Augus.’
* The Gancanagh, to Eran, on Ash: ‘That waterhorse, too, is a being of many secrets. More than he can ever share, and so many with those strange creatures – the humans – therefore so many fae will never want to know. He is a book written in a language most no one wants to read.’
* Gwyn to Ash about Ash's new heartsong: ‘What does it feel like?’ ‘Like…being connected to myself,’ Ash said, ‘and being more connected to the world around me because of it.'

## Trivia

* Like Augus, Ash can be calmed by placing a hand on the back of his head, something he regularly does with himself and his brother as a form of reassurance. If a human he's hunting manages to touch the back of his head, it will stop a hunt in its tracks.
* Ash implied he's at least around 3,000 years old in *The Ash and Gwyn Interludes.*
* While visiting Ash in the human realm, Gwyn noticed Ash was wearing his Unseelie crown, which is against fae law: fae cannot take such artefacts into the human realm.
* Ash still has his childhood lake, which is poorly maintained, and which he 'kinda hates'.
* Ash's room at the transformed Unseelie Court is open plan and 'housed in one of the palace towers. There was a bar, complete with an array of alcohol . . . and a selection of glasses; shot glasses, wine glasses, and goodness knew what else. There were overstuffed couches in warm, earthy tones and reds, the floors were covered in opulent rugs, the walls covered in paintings of landscapes; each featuring a lake.' Behind a sliding glass door, he has a large stone balcony covered in planter boxes.
* Around the time Gwyn banished Augus from the Unseelie Court palace, a frog appeared in Ash's balcony garden. He named it Croaky. Augus noted that Ash has a habit of naming pets things that end in 'Y'.
* Ash saw human therapists multiple times before he agreed with Gwyn that he should do so again.
* For a time on the Mantissa, Ash also made use of a walking stick. He used it again in Trowna.
* Ash ran into some trow henks by accident earlier in his life.
* Pia stated originally that Ash would only learn his heartsong once it was gone for good. Gulvi actually discussed it with Gwyn - seemingly unknowing to Gwyn, and possibly to Gulvi, as well - in *The Court of Five Thrones*.
* The Glashtyn noted that when Ash talks like Augus, he's a better hunter.

## Folklore/Mythology

The Glashtyn, glashtin, glashtan, or glashan is a creature from Manx folklore. The Manx are a Celtic ethnic group from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.

'The glashtin is said to be a goblin that appears out of its aquatic habitat, to come in contact with the island folk; others claim it takes the shape of a colt, or equate it to the water horse known locally as *cabyll-ushtey*. Yet another source claims the glashtin was a water-bull (*tarroo-ushtey* in Manx), half-bovine and half-equine.

Some tales or lore recount that it has pursued . . . women, ending in the stock motif of escape by cutting loose the skirt-hem, although in one modern version her escape is achieved by a rooster's crowing; in that tale the glashtin pretends to be a handsome man but is[,] betrayed by his horse-ears.

. . . Although the glashtin may assume a normal horse's guise, it had hooves which "were back to front", writes Wiltshire native folklore author Ralph Whitlock, writing in 1979. The reversed hooves has been ascribed to the Shetlandic njogel by James A. Teit back in 1918.

. . . Train claims the glashtin to be a water-horse, and that this sea-glashtin would at one time emerge from his marine habitat, mingling with the local land-roving ponies, and cross breed to produce foal.

Train drew similarity to the Manx water-bull . . . which also shared the trait of mingling with land livestock. In fact the water-bull attempts to mate with domesticated cows as well, only unsuccessfully, according to George Waldron (1731).

The glashtin, it was said, ceased to appear after the islanders started cross-breeding their native horses with breeds from the outside.

. . . German mythographer Karl Blind noted that Manx glashtin or elashtan "attacks lonely women" as is the case with the Shetlandic nuggle and the Scottish kelpie.

The creature was known to have great curiosity for women and pester them in rather picaresque manner, and would grab hold and tear off pieces of women's attire.'

## Image Gallery

Fanart of Augus Each Uisge and Ash Glashtyn in waterhorse form by sic-sempervirens https://sic-sempervirens.tumblr.com/post/662895079676100608/whatever-happened-here-i-feel-we-can-reasonablyFanart of Ash Glashtyn by MorbidLizard https://morbidlizard.tumblr.com/post/53373674505/as-much-as-augus-claims-he-doesnt-like-humans-orFanart of Ash Glashtyn and Augus Each Uisge by sic-sempervirens https://sic-sempervirens.tumblr.com/post/650114881031405568/started-picturing-naptime-for-sleepy-ponies-duringFanart of Ash Glashtyn and Augus Each Uisge in waterhorse form by sic-sempervirens https://sic-sempervirens.tumblr.com/post/651913801311158272/sliding-into-mermay-on-a-technicalityFanart of Ash Glashtyn by neostrophic https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/57511070558/neostrophic-because-i-still-cant-draw-pitch-orFanart of Ash Glashtyn by Em / Papayaparty https://thedoublepp.tumblr.com/post/135367155756/hey-girl-happy-birthday-3Fanart of Ash Glashtyn by treizedoodles https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/154142614958/ash-glashtyn-from-not-poignants-fae-talesFanart of Ash Glashtyn by atrilam https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/168602918513/look-at-him-look-at-his-face-look-at-that-littleFanart of (left to right): Ash Glashtyn, Augus Each Uisge, Gwyn ap Nudd, Gulvi Dubna Vajat, and Fenwrel the Mouse-Maiden by MorbidLizard https://morbidlizard.tumblr.com/post/648930519130767361/i-guess-i-realized-i-never-really-uploaded-theFanart of Augus Each Uisge and Ash Glashtyn by nelkitty https://nelkitty.tumblr.com/post/180592578493/drawing-practice-redhead-is-liessa-a-characterFanart of Ash Glashtyn by atrilam https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/167768018813/the-runt-glashtyn-who-didnt-look-like-a-runt-atFanart of Ash Glashtyn by atrisart https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/149025355758/ash-glashtyn-from-not-poignants-fae-talesFanart of Ash Glashtyn's Unseelie Court throne under Gwyn's reign by invisiblejune https://invisiblejune.tumblr.com/post/180461444294/a-concept-of-the-five-thrones-of-the-original-workFanart of Gulvi Dubna Vajat and Ash Glashtyn by blackstoneirregular https://blackstoneirregular.tumblr.com/post/84763220280/if-life-were-fair-to-gulvi-leave-me-alone-i-haveFanart of Ash Glashtyn by atrilam https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/144958298713/i-told-myself-id-eventually-draw-not-poignant-sFanart of Ash Glashtyn by alliwantismoore https://alliwantismoore.tumblr.com/post/60032497245/not-the-same-its-just-not-the-same-seeingFanart of Ash Glashtyn by Chi-Arts https://dabbinghawks.tumblr.com/post/141846830701/i-love-love-love-it-when-ash-playing-on-his-ds-isFanart of Ash Glashtyn by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/143763642406/listen-buddy-you-dont-want-to-mess-with-meFanart of Ash Glashtyn by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/136775851161/precious-babe-aka-ash-fucking-glashtyn-wellFanart of Ash Glashtyn by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/152494512926/practicing-my-digital-painting-with-the-man-of-myFanart of Ash Glashtyn by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/131675667256/ash-glashtyn-by-raesalander-my-here-is-my-ownFanart of (left to right): Ash Glashtyn, Augus Each Uisge, the Nain Rouge, Gwyn ap Nudd, and Gulvi Dubna Vajat by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/141402640371/omg-im-done-my-hand-is-dead-yay-anyway-i-hadArt of Augus Each Uisge and Ash Glashtyn as children by Pia Foxhall https://not-poignant.tumblr.com/post/174460618847/would-you-ever-try-to-illustrate-one-of-your-ownFanart of Augus Each Uisge and Ash Glashtyn by Ravenemore https://www.deviantart.com/ravenemore/art/Brothers-567880819
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75. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 20 February 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/54544681. Chapter 26: In a Dark And Quiet Place.
76. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 28 May 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/58918213. Chapter 33: End of an Era.
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78. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 1 January 2021. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/69779910. Chapter 10: Innocence and Accidents.
79. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 15 January 2021. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/70548654. Chapter 11: Debts Unclaimed.
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84. ↑ 84.0 84.1 84.2 84.3 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 6 January 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/90349834. Chapter 23: Collapse.
85. ↑ 85.00 85.01 85.02 85.03 85.04 85.05 85.06 85.07 85.08 85.09 85.10 85.11 85.12 85.13 85.14 85.15 85.16 85.17 85.18 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 20 January 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/91136179. Chapter 24: Glashtyn.
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87. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 31 March 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/95108674. Chapter 29: Invention.
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89. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 7 July 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/100527858. Chapter 36: The Light Fades.
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91. ↑ not\_poignant. "All That We Were, All That We Will Ever Be." *The Fae Tales Verse - canon extras. Archive of Our Own,* 11 August 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/40955040/chapters/102635832. Chapter 1.
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93. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 18 November 2013. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2101316. Chapter 27: Compulsion.
94. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 24 August 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/36709188. Chapter 27: A Bad Turn.
95. ↑ 95.0 95.1 not\_poignant. “Unwound.” *The Fae Tales Verse - canon extras. Archive of Our Own,* 25 July 2016. https://archiveofourown.org/works/7562599/chapters/17251441. Chapter 2: II.
96. ↑ not\_poignant. "Tumblr Prompts - Fae Tales." *The Fae Tales Verse - canon extras. Archive of Our Own,* 29 November 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/5309705/chapters/12258824. Chapter 3: Basorexia.
97. ↑ 97.0 97.1 not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 9 December 2017. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/29615421. Chapter 10: The World Forest.
98. ↑ not\_poignant. "Under the Influence." *The Fae Tales Verse - canon extras. Archive of Our Own,* 24 October 2019. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21153683.
99. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 1 December 2017. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/29432541. Chapter 9: A Meeting.
100. ↑ not\_poignant. "Fae Tales - Alternate Perspectives.” *The Fae Tales Verse - canon extras. Archive of Our Own,* 16 December 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/16269527/chapters/39984627. Chapter 3: Trade (Augus POV).
101. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 9 June 2022. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26266345/chapters/98951628. Chapter 34: Our Losses - Our Gains.
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103. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 16 April 2020. https://archiveofourown.org/works/17959874/chapters/56856169. Chapter 30: Helpless.
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