The Wildness Within

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"*Because I want to see what you become when you’re not being treated like an animal. Because you intrigue me.*"
―Augus Each Uisge[[**The Wildness Within**, Chapter 3: Precautions and Progress]]
***The Wildness Within*** is a *Fae Tales Verse AU*, and part 1 of *The Wildness Within (series)*.

## Summary

Gwyn ap Nudd was supposed to be raised to be one of the greatest warriors of the Seelie Court, but instead - when he is young - he is turned out of his home after a traumatic event, only to be repeatedly trapped and tormented in the neighbouring forest by his cousin until finally...only a semi-wild being remains. Discovered and captured by a young, Unseelie waterhorse, no one knows if Gwyn is capable of recovery - though that doesn't stop two brothers from trying. But the situation is dire, especially with his cousin still out there, looking for his missing prey...

## Details

Still set in the general fae tales verse, but Augus and Gwyn are very young - approximately 300 years old. Gwyn - instead of being raised as a soldier - is turned out of the An Fnwy estate after the incident with Mafydd, and he lives in the forest because he doesn’t know what else to do, and his parents have told him that if he tells anyone about who or what he is, they will murder him.

However, what Gwyn doesn’t know is that Efnisien has been given permission to exercise his ‘malicious urges’ on Gwyn - and begins to ride out into the forest to capture him and trap him. Afterwards, he releases him, and Gwyn is so traumatised that he stops talking. This capture / recapture / escape / recapture continues for decades. Sometimes there are years of respite, sometimes Gwyn is captured a lot. He gets wilier and wilder as time goes by, and Efnisien has to lay traps for him. Gwyn cannot teleport - being too afraid to use his light and too traumatised to learn organically.

Eventually, this is how Augus finds him - trapped in the depths of the woods where he also lives and is only just starting to really build his reputation as a dominant.

*The Wildness Within* is not part of the official Fae Tales canon! If you don't read anything else associated with this world, you *don't need to*, and you can skip past the premise and just leap straight into the story.

## Character Bios

### Ash Glashtyn

Ash is an Unseelie waterhorse and Augus' younger adopted brother.

#### Appearance

Ash 'looked attractive enough in human-form, but overall – ridiculous for a waterhorse. They were all supposed to have long, straight or wavy black hair. Green eyes. Ash was something of a runt – though he’d certainly grown into himself now – his hair persisted in multi-shades of red, brown and blonde, and was so coarsely curled that even when completely waterlogged, they held their cropped shape.' He was also 'covered with stocky, strong muscle' because he worked out all his life.

#### Personality

Augus noted that while Ash had a great deal of compassion, 'Ash’s darkness ran deep', and without the compassion, Ash might resemble Efnisien. He had issues controlling his waterhorse half, particularly when he was high on bloodlust, and self-isolated to protect those he cared about. Augus and Ash 'both didn’t feed as much as their waterhorses were comfortable with. Which meant that they could rise to the killing edge a lot faster than was healthy. Ash was in the habit of regularly starving himself of his true prey to sometimes dangerous degrees. His love for humankind was hard to reconcile with the hunter that he was.' Ash liked humans, even as a child, to the point that he refused to feed on humans when he first needed to. Ash had night terrors all his life; though they occurred rarely, they were encompassing.

Despite Augus' anger over his status promotion, and Ash's support of this, Ash tentatively looked forward to his own promotion.

#### Life

Ash spent much of his time in the human realm prior to the story start, but visited Augus frequently. He made one of the first breakthroughs with Gwyn, encouraging him to be less combative. When Augus discovered Gwyn was Unseelie, Ash insisted they reach out to the Unseelie Court, as the An Fnwy family had broken the law by hiding Gwyn rather than giving him up to the Unseelie Court. He also became very protective of Gwyn. When Augus became more distressed over the situation, Ash comforted him. Augus had to rein in Ash's anger over the Raven Prince's treatment of Gwyn, because Ash wanted to confront the Raven Prince about it, which would have put their lives and well-being at risk. Ash also encouraged Augus not to back away from a relationship with Gwyn. Over time, Ash and Augus entered into a relationship with Gwyn and each other.

#### Skills

Ash was very wise about a lot of subjects, and used some of his knowledge about psychology and animal behavior to better understand how to interact with Gwyn's feral side. He was also quite well-traveled, with great knowledge of different foods and people. He also had a gift for strategy, and was quite good at chess, which he enjoyed from an entertainment and philosophical angle.

Neither Augus nor Ash 'were gifted with a great deal of fae magic, but they were strong at their own innate abilities'. Ash had a gentle dra'ocht that he could ratchet up to calm, even as Underfae. Augus described it as 'warm', and Gwyn noted that it 'made the room warm. It was like…being in front of a fireplace in a room with soft rugs and blankets.'

### Augus Each Uisge

Augus is an Unseelie waterhorse and Ash's older adopted brother.

#### Appearance

At the start of the story, Augus wore a 'green, collared shirt and . . . thin pants.' When Augus went to see the Raven Prince about Gwyn the first time, Augus wore 'his finest clothing, cut to flatter his figure, refining his appearance. There were water-wicking black pants, knee-high black boots that would not be spoiled by water, and had vents cut into the soles to allow water to seep from them. He chose a deep green, long-sleeved shirt, and wore no jewellery.' Augus' status promotion to Court made his body bulk up, had more waterweed grow from his scalp, and his chest became broader. He also had heightened senses, greater stamina, and his innate abilities were stronger.

When Augus went with the Raven Prince to visit the Oak King, Crielle, and Lludd, he wore 'a shirt of water-wicked spider’s silk that had been dyed a deep, murky green and glimmered different shades under shifting qualities of light. In his underwater home, it looked like the roiling deep. His pants were leather and fitted close to the skin, and over that went boots whose thick buckles went to the underside of his knee.'

#### Personality

Augus used to like humans, but that changed, and Augus didn't speak of it. Augus and Ash 'both didn’t feed as much as their waterhorses were comfortable with. Which meant that they could rise to the killing edge a lot faster than was healthy. Ash was in the habit of regularly starving himself of his true prey to sometimes dangerous degrees. His love for humankind was hard to reconcile with the hunter that he was.'

Augus had an aversion to being bound by leather restraints, because of his inner waterhorse. 'There’s an old story. It tells of humans who could capture the Each Uisge by forcing a bridle over its head and a bit into its mouth, and then like some perverse, horrendous magic, renders it unable to free itself, until it is freed.' Augus had no idea if the story was true, but did not wish to have it confirmed.

Augus' promotion to Court status angered him for a lot of reasons: it was non-consensual, it made his hand-made clothes not fit, he accidentally hurt Ash with his new strength, and it would turn off a great number of the Underfae clients he'd specifically gone into his profession to aid. He was thankful for it later, with the increased healing, but it was a begrudging thankfulness.

#### Life

Augus was originally invited to the Unseelie Court by a Court status fae some time prior to the series start, and the 'Raven Prince had taken notice of him, offered to make him Court status from, Augus concluded, his appearance and demeanour alone. Augus had refused him, discomfited, sure of his rejection from the Court. He’d been surprised when a second invitation to the Court came, and then another. He’d disdained the Courtiers and their ways his entire life, and knowing that there was pressure for him to accept a higher status never sat well with him.' The invitations stopped two years prior to the story start.

Augus feeds on humans, and started working as a 'dominant and sexual healer to the fae decades' prior to the story start. 'His whole life had been constructed around – first and foremost – helping those who were like him.' When Gwyn hinted at and Augus discovered that Gwyn was Unseelie, Augus reached out to the Raven Prince for aid against Gwyn's family. He was angered when the Raven Prince promoted him to Court status, and sought comfort at home, with Ash, and even with Gwyn. He had to literally drag Gwyn to the Unseelie Court. Augus grew more confident in his protectiveness of Gwyn, even against the Raven Prince. Over time, Ash and Augus entered into a relationship with Gwyn and each other.

#### Skills

In his spare time, Augus reads, harvests herbs, dries foods, cooks and creates 'healing poultices, unguents and ointments', and sometimes wanders Ethallas forest. Augus 'could use fae abilities to make his steps silent if he wished' even as Underfae. He could also shoot ropes of waterweed from his wrists strong enough to at least briefly contain a weakened Court-status fae, poison someone by biting them, and had powerful compulsions that worked on anyone, no matter their status. Augus' dra'ocht is strong, but not naturally calming. Neither Augus nor Ash 'were gifted with a great deal of fae magic, but they were strong at their own innate abilities'.

### Crielle ferch Fnwy

Crielle is Gwyn's mother, Lludd's wife, and Efnisien's aunt.

#### Appearance

When Augus first saw Crielle in the story, 'Crielle was stunning, an exceptional specimen of fae, and Gwyn was a coarse version of her. But in the largeness of her eyes and her thickly curled hair, a certain scrutiny in her direct gaze, he saw echoes of Gwyn. . . . Crielle wore a sundress that was pale gold, blue flowers embroidered at the base.'

#### Personality

Crielle approved of Efnisien torturing Gwyn for centuries.

#### Life

Gwyn hurt Crielle badly when he was born, to the point that she couldn't bear to even look at the injury in a mirror. The Oak King agreed to repudiate the An Fnwy family because of everything they did to Gwyn, which potentially involved a status decrease. Ultimately the Raven Prince took Crielle's verbal language away, which would last for centuries, but left her with her mind. She later went to live at the Seelie palace with the Oak King, leaving the An Fnwy estate to Gwyn.

### Efnisien ap Wledig

Efnisien was Gwyn's cousin, and Crielle and Lludd's nephew.

#### Appearance

During each of Efnisien's visits, he rode a white horse. 'The horse itself was immaculately groomed, the saddle newly polished, the reins embroidered with a pale yellow and blue.' Efnisien closely resembled Gwyn, with the same rich, blonde curls, and 'deep, ocean blue' eyes, as well as golden skin and perfectly manicured nails. He also carried 'a coiled whip attached to one of the saddle-bags, and from the make of it . . . it wasn’t intended for a horse.'

#### Personality

Gwyn noted that Efnisien was impotent, which encouraged his rage. He also seemed hurt, in his way, by Gwyn escaping to stay with Augus and Ash in safety, and Gwyn said Efnisien loved him.

#### Life

After the incident with Mafydd, Gwyn's parents let Efnisien hunt Gwyn down routinely, trap him, and drag him away for torture, for around 200 years. He regularly killed anyone who helped Gwyn, and even those who ransomed Gwyn back to him. When Efnisien first met Augus, he lied that Gwyn had 'escaped' from the An Fnwy estate, and that Gwyn was somewhat mad, and needed to be trapped and returned on occasion for his own good. The Raven Prince noted that Efnisien seemed to have a strong survival instinct, as he took to hiding after visiting Augus a second time, and hadn't told Crielle and Lludd where he went. Gwyn made the decision to leave Augus' home to 'protect' Augus and Ash from the Raven Prince and Efnisien, and sought out Efnisien. Efnisien tortured him, until the Raven Prince appeared, and killed Efnisien.

#### Skills

Efnisien was common fae and Court status.

Efnisien had a very strong dra'ocht that could entice others to him.

### Fluri the Mouse-Maiden

#### Appearance

'She wore a harlequin’s motley of ochre, red and gold, and her long, shining black hair was tied behind her, decorated with flowers and shafts of wheat. She displayed her mouse ears proudly, and they complimented her dark brown skin. She – unlike the Raven Prince – had an obvious staff, and as soon as she was in the room, Augus could feel the presence of her power, radiating strongly despite her diminutive height.' Underneath her motley, she wore a sari.

#### Personality

Fluri seemed fond of the Raven Prince, even in his careless disregard for freewill.

#### Life

The Raven Prince brought Fluri in to remove Gwyn's aithwick. She was playful, but also blunt, and actually gave the Raven Prince orders to assist her in removing the aithwick, which he followed.

#### Skills

Fluri is a Master Mage and member of the Raven Prince's Inner Court.

### Gwyn ap Nudd

Gwyn is the son of Crielle and Lludd, and Efnisien's cousin, and born Unseelie to a Seelie family.

#### Appearance

When Augus first met him, his 'body was formidable, even hunkered down against the tree trunk. Broad shoulders, a wiry, muscly strength, and long limbs that spoke of height. His hair was a matted leafy tangle of bark and twigs and bits of leaves. A chunk had been pulled out at some point, and was still growing back. Augus could pick that he was blond, but there was so much muck in his hair that he couldn’t be certain what shade. Pale lashes blinked at him'. Once clean, Gwyn was incredibly pale. 'His waist was narrow, taut, his shoulders broad. Augus had the sense he once had more musculature than he wore now. He was a wasted version of himself and still broad, his arms and legs showing ropey, thinner muscles in sharp definition. But like this, Augus could see more of his ribs than he cared to. His collarbones stood out too sharply. His ankles and knuckles were bony.' He had blue eyes, and his hair was richly curled once clean. Ash stole 'a plain navy t-shirt' and jeans for Gwyn to wear from the human world.

#### Personality

Gwyn 'was proud, . . . he came from a good family but he had no perception of himself as good'. Gwyn called the Raven Prince 'the Bird King' for a time. He'd also hum to comfort himself. Gwyn referred to Ash as 'the warm one' and Augus as 'the cold one'.

Over time, he became more confident around Ash, Augus, and the Raven Prince. He also continued to love his parents and Efnisien, even after everything that happened to him, in his own way. Gwyn enjoyed learning calligraphy.

#### Life

He had a gift for magic, but went untrained, and his family placed an aithwick on one of his ribs to hide his true alignment. When Gwyn was six years old, he used his innate power, and then didn't use it again until the Raven Prince made him over 200 years later. When Gwyn was 17 years old, something happened with Mafydd at the An Fnwy estate, and Gwyn fled, then spent around 200 years running from Efnisien, though he was sometimes helped by other fae, to no avail. His parents lied and said that he died in an accident before he could be added to the Seelie Registry. Augus discovered him caught in a magicked iron bear trap in Ethallas, feral and largely mute, but for screaming. Ash and Augus slowly coaxed him into being more comfortable around him, discovered he was secretly Unseelie, and Augus sought help from the Raven Prince, to protect Gwyn from Gwyn's family. The Raven Prince discovered Gwyn's magic, and got Fluri's aid in removing the aithwick, then decided to train Gwyn as an apprentice. Over time, Gwyn entered into a relationship with Ash and Augus. Gwyn also fled to Efnisien, to 'protect' Augus and Ash from the Raven Prince and Efnisien, which only led to Efnisien's death at the Raven Prince's hands, and Gwyn returning to Augus and Ash. When Augus realized he wanted some time and space to himself, in his own home, Ash set up a schedule so that he and Gwyn wouldn't be there all the time, and Gwyn built a cabin for himself outside Augus' lake. After much anger at the Raven Prince, Gwyn ultimately decided to become a Mage.

#### Skills

Gwyn has a gift for strategy, which Ash encouraged by teaching him board games, including chess, which Gwyn loved. He is a skilled hunter and trapper, even without gear. When Gwyn made a charm that would encourage plants that didn't flower 'to grow and flower and seed' for Augus, it made a great deal of silver sorrow grow: a plant that could be made into a drug that would soothe grief and loss, and was highly prized in the fae realm. Gwyn was very good at calligraphy, even after 200+ years of no practice. Gwyn was trained to resist compulsions prior to his exile into Ethallas.

### Lludd Llaw Eraint

Lludd was the husband of Crielle, Gwyn's father, and uncle to Efnisien.

#### Appearance

When Augus first saw Lludd in the story, it 'was obvious . . . that Gwyn took most after Lludd – his height, the heavier features, the jawline that was heavy and square, the broad shoulders. . . . Lludd still wore his navy uniform'.

#### Personality

Lludd seemingly approved of Efnisien torturing Gwyn for centuries.

#### Life

Lludd tortured Gwyn at times. The Oak King agreed to repudiate the An Fnwy family because of everything they did to Gwyn, which potentially involved a status decrease. When the Raven Prince confronted Lludd, the Raven Prince took away Lludd's verbal language, which would last centuries, but left him his mind. He later went to live at the Seelie palace with the Oak King, leaving the An Fnwy estate to Gwyn.

### Mafydd Brant

Mafydd was the primary reason Gwyn was turned out from the An Fnwy estate. Gwyn seemingly still felt guilty for whatever happened to Mafydd 200+ years later.

### The Mage

#### Appearance

'He was a tall, stiff creature whose eyes were black and compound beneath his eyelids. His dragonfly wings fluttered every now and then, stirring a breeze. He wasn’t a dragonfly shapeshifter, but one of the rare bro’das, keeper of insects and flight.'

#### Life

Augus hired a Mage to better ward his lake from Gwyn's family. He 'was the best Mage that Augus could source on short-notice to deal with permissions and wards in his house.'

#### Skills

The Raven Prince noted that the ward which the Mage placed was of 'good quality'.

### Maelan

Maelan was a friend of Augus', who seemed to provide similar services to fae in need. When a cow shifter sought Augus' help while Ash and Gwyn were staying with him, Augus sent her to Maelan instead. Her calling card was 'a splinter of coal coloured apatite.'

### Malarkey

Malarkey was one of the Raven Prince's soldiers, 'a sharp-faced, vicious looking man with eyes of silver and a mouth of pointed teeth' whom the Raven Prince appointed to take Gwyn back beneath Augus' lake to his home.

#### Appearance

'The Oak King was a robust man, wearing a combination of muscle and fat well, ruddy-faced and eyes gleaming the pale blue-green of the dryad that he was. His hair, beard and moustache were wild and red-brown, and beneath the tangling hair on his forearms, Augus could see bark growing. From his head, several twigs sprouted, growing leaves. The Oak King beamed at them like a pleasant father, but beneath that, Augus could see a canny, judgemental gaze. He could see that this was not a King who had kept his power by simply being genial and paternal to others.' The Oak King had a 'deep and rumbly' voice 'that would sound overwhelmingly good if he started laughing. The sort of man capable of a deep, genuine belly laugh.'

#### Personality

The Raven Prince and the Oak King seemed to be friends, albeit with some antagonism, possibly predating their Kingships.

#### Skills

Augus noted that the 'Oak King was one of the better rulers, for all that he tried to turn Seelie sentiment against the Unseelie in a way that no other ruler had before.'

### The Raven Prince

The Raven Prince is King of the Unseelie and a powerful Master Mage.

#### Appearance

'The Raven Prince carried a cold glamour around him, pushed an eldritch, destabilising energy onto anyone around him.'

'He was a tall creature – even taller than Augus – white and pale, as though his skin never saw the sun, which wasn’t true. He was slender, lean, nose aquiline and his large eyes were black – a raven’s eyes. His chin was pointed, jaw square, and despite the strength he carried in his face, he gave the impression of being as spindly and yet magically reinforced as the furniture in the antechamber. He was dressed in the fashion the others tried to mimic. A floor-sweeping coat of raven’s feathers. Black leather pants, angular boots with sharp heels, a simple black shirt set off with a thin, silver chain, charms at its base.' Augus described his feather coat as 'oily'. When Augus and the Raven Prince visited the Seelie Court, the 'Raven Prince wore his silvery crown of metal leaves and twigs. His hair was tufted and wild as always, feathers jutting every which way. It was strange, Augus mused, to see wing and tail feathers growing from the Raven Prince’s head. But they gleamed bright, iridescent, blue and jade and violet shimmering all the way through. . . . and a black and silver rapier sat neatly over his right hip.'

#### Personality

Ash said that the Raven Prince 'doesn’t care about [anyone], beyond power and ambition'. The Raven Prince didn't seem to like 'his bare flesh to ever touch the ground, so he frequently wore garments that covered his arms, his legs, wore boots that wouldn’t let his toes touch the soil', possibly because as a bird shifter he developed a phobia of walking on two feet.

The Raven Prince considered his subjects his property. As such, he manipulated them at his pleasure, such as when he decided to remove Gwyn's language, as a lesson, which didn't go well. The Raven Prince was seemingly disgusted by Ash and the Glashtyn, and thought he was 'simple'. Augus noted that the Raven Prince didn't find Ash pretty.

'The Raven Prince would do whatever he wanted. He was fine as a King, but not exactly someone you wanted to have as a friend or even a personal acquaintance. He was dangerous. . . . Because what else did the Raven Prince do, when he was offended or personally slighted? He reminded people just how much power and control he exerted over them. In an instant, he was able to let anyone know that he was far stronger than anyone truly knew.' After Gwyn's apprenticeship with the Raven Prince began in earnest, the 'Raven Prince seemed to find some new lease on life around Gwyn. He was exuberant about the subject of magic, and whenever Gwyn found him in a melancholy mood, he only needed to ask a question about a theory he didn’t particularly care about to rouse the Raven Prince into excitement once more. It was like being around a wise and overpowered immature child.'

The Raven Prince and the Oak King seemed to be friends, albeit with some antagonism, possibly predating their Kingships.

#### Life

He had a soft spot for Augus prior to the story spot, which Augus relied on to request an audience about Gwyn. He was intrigued by Augus finally appearing at the Unseelie Court, and agreed to see Gwyn and discover if he was actually Unseelie, then promoted Augus, demanding Augus visit the court at least three times a year in future. When Augus brought Gwyn to him, the Raven Prince discovered the aithwick and that Gwyn was an untrained magic user, then goaded Gwyn into running away. Despite his disgust at touching the ground, he mirrored Gwyn's position on the ground at one point to lull him into calm. The Raven Prince also continued to goad and touch Augus. He insisted on Gwyn becoming his apprentice, and was impatient with Gwyn's fears. He later brought Augus with him to confront the Oak King about the An Fnwy family's crimes, and then confronted Crielle and Lludd himself, punishing them by removing their language for centuries. Shortly after he started trying to train Gwyn, Gwyn fled Augus' home, unintentionally leading the Raven Prince to Efnisien, and the Raven Prince killed Efnisien. The Raven Prince continued teaching Gwyn, and their relationship was difficult, but improved over time.

### Taronis

Taronis was a Mage and one of the Raven Prince's teachers. Taronis told him 'that a true apprentice will challenge their master'. Taronis also told the Raven Prince that the Raven Prince was to permit some dissent from Gwyn, though Taronis himself did not permit dissent from the Raven Prince.

## Locations

#### The An Fnwy estate

The An Fnwy estate is a Seelie estate, formerly run by Crielle ferch Fnwy. The estate was 'a charming villa that looked welcoming . . . Golden wisteria wept yellow flowers everywhere, bees humming musically. Augus caught at least one hundred separate species of poisonous flowering shrub and herb in carefully tended garden beds that harmonically framed the massive entry road that led to the columns before the estate itself. It was all made of a creamy sandstone, and on a wide reaching verandah, so many tables and chairs and flower arrangements – this was a house of entertaining on a grand scale. A house that had its own secret in the dark woods behind.' After the Oak King repudiated the An Fnwy family for their crimes, sometime after which Crielle and Lludd went to live at the Seelie palace, and the Raven Prince killed Efnisien, the estate passed to Gwyn.

#### Ash's lake

Ash's home had a green dome over the house beneath the lake, though it was all smaller than Augus'. It 'was built of brick and mortar, wooden windowsills and frames and a red wooden door with whorls of woodgrain still visible and a golden doorknocker upon the door. . . . [and] filled with bric-a-brac and piles of cushions and blankets and looked cozy but smelled dusty. It had an unlived-in feel, despite the fact that it had been designed for comfort.'

#### Augus' lake

Augus' lake was Augus' parent and located in Ethallas forest. At the bottom was Augus' home, protected by a 'green, insulating dome'. Inside was a foyer, where Augus kept towels for Ash to dry off, and down a corridor were at least three rooms, some of which contained dungeon equipment. It also has a bathroom that contained a shower, a basin, a large bath, tiled flooring, a window to the lake, cabinets, and a chair. Augus made all his own bath products. Ash, Augus, and Gwyn all had their own rooms. Gwyn's room had a large bed and a chair in it. Augus' home also had a large pantry and a 'magically powered fridge'.

#### Ethallas forest

The forest where Augus' lake was located, and which was also adjacent to the An Fnwy estate. 'It was a forest lightly populated with fae; bordering on Seelie Courtlands . . . and more often used for the richer fae to do their hunting, than anything else . . . It is a woodland of strange noises. Of screeches in the night. Howls that sounded like wolves, even though Augus had never come across wolf spoor in these particular woods. He’d hear strange cackling in the shadows and suspect fellow Unseelie fae, only to see nothing at all. Whatever the Ethallas woodland was – it was certainly eldritch. . . . Yet very few fae gravitated towards this place. . . . Like many fae forests, it had a sense of being folded in on itself, far bigger on the inside than it would appear on any map. It played with physics, the senses, could entrap and enfold even fae into its being. . . . Here, the remnants of leaves on the deciduous trees were even more stunning in the mostly-dark. Vivid reds and crimsons, even violets and blues on the fae species.'

'Winter was hard in the Ethallas forest. What was so charming and woodsy in spring and summer would become a barren, snowy, unforgiving wilderness as soon as the Autumn Equinox passed and the Winter Solstice neared. There were times when Augus and Ash nearly hadn’t survived Ethallas, its snows and frosts.'

#### Human realm

The realm where humans live. Ash spent a lot more of his time there prior to the story start. He still visited at the story end, along with Gwyn. Ash noted there were many unhappy people there. Ash took Gwyn there after Augus kicked them out of his lake. They stole clothes for Gwyn and visited a bar, which Gwyn found overwhelming.

#### Seelie Court

When the Raven Prince teleported himself and Augus to the Seelie Court, they landed 'at the beginning of a wide, golden road leading towards a creamy confection of a palace. . . . Around them, tall and stately oak trees, ancient in power and wisdom, radiating an essential sense of goodness and something that was generously natured. The whole effect was of warmth and welcoming, which was somewhat ironic, given that the Oak King’s Court was one of the most intolerant towards Unseelie fae, of any of the Seelie Courts. As they walked down, fae watched them from either side of the road. Fae that needed to live closely to the King, who were attached to the oaks themselves, who enjoyed the landscape, who were also visiting. Diminutive fairies with their tiny moth and butterfly and dragonfly wings flitted from tree to tree, keeping pace with them. Deeper in the warm and friendly shadows, a heavy, lumbering bear-type creature with spiralling horns upon its head groaned a sound that could have been a warning or a greeting. They made their way down the road, which widened until it could fit at least twenty horse-drawn carriages side by side. In front of them a golden wrought-iron gate, and set into the middle of it, a wooden round that was polished and gleaming, the knotwork representing the Oak King – an oak tree with a crown in the canopy – carved in a delicate hand.' Guarding the gates 'were great soldiers, one wearing the golden-brown wings of a gryphon in human form, eyes gleaming raptor yellow at them, his hair a crest of feathers. He held a huge spear that towered another five feet above him, and by his side hung a shield in the shape of a diamond. Beside him, another fae who had a sword hanging at his side, covered all over in white fur with lamb-like eyes watching them. For all that he looked soft and approachable, he was a trusted warrior to be guarding the gates like this. . . . They were led down another golden road into a giant throne room columned with oaks and marble alike, trees reaching up to create a broken canopy that allowed the sun to pour itself in through shafts of light where it was able. Where it fell, the white marble of the throne room itself blazed brightly. All around, fae in finery mingled.' The Oak King had a 'white marble throne, imposing on its dais'. The Oak King met them in a side room filled with food, including books for the Raven Prince.

#### Unseelie Court

'The Unseelie Court was an intimidating place. Underfae had to be granted permission to enter'. There was a 'lake situated in the Gwylwyr Du, the outer barrier to the Unseelie Court forested in large, black trees. The trees were stern sentinels that lived under the cover of a constant night sky, all manner of poisonous creatures lurking within.' Augus used the lake to teleport to the Court the first time he visited on Gwyn's behalf. 'Silent guards wearing mail and spider-silk, holding long spears, ringed the lake of the Gwylwyr Du when Augus arrived. . . . The magic of the Unseelie Court stretched thick around him. A night sky enchanted to never show the sun, a sense of welcome for the creatures of the dark, those who had feral and foul appetites. It wrapped around him, encouraged him to walk towards the pale blue, crushed gravel stones of the central path through the Gwylwyr Du. . . . In front of him, giant, double wrought-iron gates were embedded into a wall that soared almost as high as the trees themselves, constructed of a forbidding, dark grey stone. Beyond the wrought iron gates was a hillock with a stately tree upon it, an illusion. . . . Guards stood at the imposing gates . . . Behind the guard, the gates were drawn open . . . The hillock and its tree vanished, a palace replacing it. The palace was impossibly tall, held together with magic rather than any feat of engineering. Spindly turrets twisted high towards the constellations.' The throne room had an 'antechamber filled with fragile-looking chairs, a table that shouldn’t have been able to balance on its delicate, wiry legs. All of it would hold his weight and the weight of much more, magicked to be strong and unyielding, despite its appearance.'

When the Raven Prince teleported himself, Gwyn, and Augus to a room in the Court to study Gwyn, the room they landed in had 'a stone floor, [and] could have easily been a cell, for all that it had a single wooden door and was surrounded on all sides by stone walls with no windows. There wasn’t a single item of furniture in the room.'

While running through the Court after the Raven Prince and Gwyn, Augus 'ran through a maze of stone corridors, wooden doors, and the further within the palace he moved, the more he saw tapestries and maps, parchments and more hanging on the stone walls. Rugs began to appear. The doors became more ornate and outside some of the doors he spotted a pair of boots, a leaning umbrella, a gilt cage with a tiny midnight blue bird singing brightly within, its eyes and beak gleaming like stars. . . . The palace altered and he found himself amongst bare stone corridors and stone doors. He was taken down spiralling, winding staircases, one that appeared so frail he knew it only bore his weight due to the strength of magic within the palace . . . Windows began to appear down newer corridors marked with cool tones of marble, his boots clipping across the stone. He looked through stone archways through to night gardens, werelights floating within, landscaped gardens melding seamlessly into urgently wild forest. He caught the glint of feral, animal eyes watching him; the Unseelie beasts of the fae world that required the palace’s protection, too. He took wide stone steps down onto a delicately lit cobbled path that quickly gave way to moss and compacted sawdust. He passed night-blooming jasmine, roses, the scents of medicinal and ornamental flowers both coating his senses'.

## Magic

Throughout the story, the Raven Prince taught Gwyn a bit about training his innate light, as well as his magical capabilities. The Raven Prince taught Gwyn that he was a psychopomp: he was able to use his light to kill fae and send their souls to the upperworlds or underworlds as needed, while feeding himself in the process. The Raven Prince also intended to teach Gwyn how to use his light to teleport.

Gwyn underwent testing by the Raven Prince to see which magic he had an aptitude for, and displayed varying amounts of skill in a range of magic, including:

* **Animal Calling:** Gwyn could summon animals to himself, and send them away, particularly mammals, and even specify how many. He could also detect what kind of animals were in his vicinity. He could summon fish but noted that it was harder than mammals. He could send insects away and also summon birds.
* **Charms:** Gwyn could charm objects, which came easily to him, although it also took him some time to perform. He could recognize the purpose of charms created by others and could remove the magic from charmed objects. Gwyn thought of the spells on charms as music.
* **Dowsing:** Gwyn could sense out water, even on a map, and could find lost objects.
* **Enchantment:** Gwyn could bespell writing and maps.
* **Illusion:** Gwyn could see through illusion and had the beginnings of an ability to work illusion himself.
* **Sigils/Runes:** Gwyn had an aptitude for sigils and runes, but no other form of divination.
* **Wind:** Gwyn had some minor ability with wind magic.

\*While Gwyn seems to share some capabilities with his canon counterpart, Pia's stated that their abilities/destinies are not entirely the same, and the universe is greatly different than the canon, so it's quite possible at least some of Gwyn's abilities are unique to this AU.

The Raven Prince was a powerful Mage, and demonstrated the ability to teleport, use and detect the magic on charms, ward creation, dispelling, illusion, and some version of compulsion. He also didn't fail the test for telekinesis, indicating he could potentially perform it, despite some Mages believing telekinesis was a myth.

## Quotations

* Augus to Ash, about Gwyn: 'His fight and flight instincts are too finely honed. He’s obviously dreaming about someone hurting him, and he tends to become disoriented easily. If he doesn’t hurt us, he’d run. And for whatever reason…I find I want him to stay.'
* Augus: 'He could never quite parse the extortionate prices that Mages charged for their services. He knew they trained hard, he did, but it seemed that a long time ago they’d just started charging prices that exclusively suited the wealthy upper classes of fae, and never negotiated their prices down for those of lower status.'
* Ash: 'Augus, we have to take him to the Unseelie Court. . . . [That] family have broken the fucking old laws. They’ve…I dunno, there might not be any consequences Seelie-side for their actions, but you know the Raven Prince wouldn’t stand for something like this.'
* Augus: 'We cannot…live in such proximity to the An Fnwy estate and not expect some form of retaliation. Even if the barrier stays intact, they will not permit this secret to be known.’ ‘So we blow it open,’ Ash said'.
* Augus, to Ash, about Gwyn: 'Fragile? Yes, of course. But resilient. And I think we do need to ‘blow this open,’ as you say, Ash. That family is hiding behind a great deal of wrongdoing. They cannot go after him without breaking further laws, once this is exposed. It doesn’t matter what status they are. If being Seelie wasn’t enough to stop them; then clearly nothing is.'
* To Augus: 'You said…it was boredom,’ Gwyn said, his voice rough. ‘What happens when you are bored of me?'
* The Raven Prince: 'But look, how rude I am being, young Each Uisge. Did you know, I knew your predecessors? Two of them. The Each Uisge before you was quite beastly, almost no mind to speak of. Whatever intelligence he had, he cast only towards hunting. The one before him? Intriguing. I had him in my Court for a time. You’re the only one, I believe, who has ever found the title Each Uisge inadequate enough that he needed to give himself a name.'
* 'Never mind, I was bluffing,’ the Raven Prince said, laughing quietly. ‘Of course I shall help. And of course you’re becoming Court status. I’m the Raven Prince, and I’ve indulged your reluctance before now, but you really do need to be a higher status to deal with beloved Court families of the Seelie King, don’t you? Augus Each Uisge, I – the Raven Prince – remove your status of underfae and hereby award you with the status of Court. There. Simple. . . . It is as I suspected,’ the Raven Prince said minutes later, as Augus gasped through the power that just kept swirling into the room, a green landscape at their feet. ‘You are possibly the most powerful Each Uisge that has existed to date. And you would deny this privilege? This status? Shame on you, young creature. You don’t even know what you are capable of. And nor – I have the satisfaction to admit – do I.'
* To Augus: 'I’m really fucking mad at the Raven Prince,’ Ash said quietly, as though even now he was aware that expressing such dissent even when he couldn’t be overheard was still risky. ‘He shouldn’t have done that to you. You’re a healer, and he fucking ripped you away from most of your clients. And you bet your ass he knew exactly what he was doing. . . . You think the fucking King of the Unseelie couldn’t have figured out a way around that? You think the great miracle worker himself, the Mage of Millennia, couldn’t figure that out? He gonna change you back after? . . . I’m mad at him . . . He shouldn’t’ve done that, and you know it.'
* 'What good is your anger?’ Augus said, voice cracking like a whip. ‘What good will it do? Why rail against something we can’t change? I only have control over my responses; not his, not yours. Why not get yourself under control and-’ ‘This isn’t about losing control,’ Ash said calmly, staring at him. ‘Does my anger look like loss of control to you? You think I’m gonna go up there and throw a tantrum at him when I know it’ll do jack shit? No. It’s not a waste of my time to care about you and what you wanted out of life. It’s not a waste of your time.'
* Augus: 'He gave Gwyn many opportunities to pull away, listened to the broken apologies, knew how very hard Gwyn was pushing himself, how brave he was being. Gwyn couldn’t stand much more of this before he’d regress again. Just talking with Augus in a way that didn’t require him to abase himself every single sentence cost him so much energy. He shouldn’t have to do it alone.'
* To Gwyn: 'This is not painful,’ the Raven Prince said, faintly condescending. ‘Bear it better.'
* The Raven Prince, about Gwyn: 'I do not like it when people take things that are mine and lie to me about it. I like it even less when they take something of value. He should have been trained in the School of the Staff years ago. They’ve wasted decades of potential. Centuries. I think I shall be having words with this Court family, and the Oak King himself. How I hope Quercus knew nothing about this crime, for if he did, I may even have to nullify what bond we have that resembles friendship. I somewhat doubt the Oak King would like the results of that.'
* 'I wanted to see if he’d do what most wild creatures do when distressed, which is – usually – get outside as quickly as possible. Very predictable. Also,’ the Raven Prince smiled wickedly, ‘I am a predator, and sometimes I just want to make the frightened thing run.'
* 'And my brother’s status?’ Augus said, hesitantly. ‘Ah, him,’ the Raven Prince said, mouth curling again. ‘I suppose he might visit in two weeks also. Though I never thought I’d see the day when I’d bequeath a Court status on the *Glashtyn*.'
* To Augus: 'I’m not treating him like a fucking idiot,’ Ash said, a bite entering his voice. ‘I’m treating him like someone who’s maybe been tortured and treated like shit all his life, okay? You have your way of dealing with him, and I have mine. If my way didn’t work, you’d be fucked right now, you know that?'
* 'It’s the Unseelie King,’ Augus said . . . ‘How much say do you think we really have?’ ‘Yeah,’ Ash said, and Gwyn could hear the frown in his voice. ‘That’s not good enough. Look, I get that you don’t want to upset him, but I don’t really have much to lose, and-’ ‘Except your voice, or your life,’ Augus said. ‘I’m still thinking about what to do about all of this, but I’ll not let you put yourself further in danger. And this is something I’ll put my foot down over.'
* The Raven Prince: 'You are very pretty, Augus,’ he said, and he looked at Augus with the savouring gleam a raven might behold any bauble.'
* The Raven Prince, to the Oak King: 'Then, yes, let’s make this a military matter. Better yet, let us bring magic into it too, the greatest might we may have to strengthen us. Tell me how many Seelie are currently serving the Thirteen and I will make my appeals to the Unseelie, and we will see what sort of game we might have on our hands then. You want to fight me with metal and blood, but metal rusts, and blood has already rusted through. Do you think I stand here so defenceless, cowed by your threats? Do you think I do not know ways to make your oak’s blood boil beneath your skin? Do you think I am only the Word Smith? Do you forget that I am also the Lord of the Night and of Mysteries for a reason? Do you think they call me the Peacekeeper because I achieved peace in my Kingdom through weakness? . . . By all means, Your Majesty, try to justify to me how this crime was fairly committed. Try, as a *Seelie* fae, to sell an Unseelie such a lie. Look me in the eyes and sense how well that might go. You cannot protect them, Quercus. You must think fast about what you will do. You cannot even go to one of your primary advisors in this, for she is the poor creature’s mother.'
* To Augus: 'Out with it, darling,’ the Raven Prince said, his eyes gleaming bright. ‘Say it to me while you still have the free will to do so, for you know that I can rip whatever words I like from your craven mouth if I choose. . . . Speak any more prettily and I’d forget you are baseborn, belonging to the lowest reaches of lakes.'
* Ash: 'So Efnisien is still out there. Crielle and Lludd could try and get revenge. I guess. Maybe they won’t. I kind of just want them dead, brother. Could we do it? Could I? If they’re dropped down to a lower status, I’m sure that-’ Augus shook his head, even as he squeezed Ash’s hand again, this time in warning. ‘They’re too valuable, and they’re not ours to kill,’ Augus said. ‘If the Raven Prince wants to engineer their deaths, he will.’ ‘Fucking hell,’ Ash muttered. ‘So Gwyn’s never going to be rid of them basically. I’d fucking tear them apart, man, I can’t even…'
* To Ash: 'Come on now,’ Augus whispered. ‘We’re all here, not going anywhere.'
* To Gwyn, about Efnisien: 'I’m going to fucking kill him,’ Ash said, staring at Gwyn, his eyes unblinking. The hand on Gwyn’s back went still. ‘He can try to take you away, but there’s something that a lot of people don’t know about me, which is that… . . . I’m good in a fight,’ Ash said, his voice muted now, as though he had caught some creature inside of himself and made it listen to him. ‘Very good. Better than Augus, actually.'
* Augus, to Gwyn: 'Thank you for being clearer. I know it’s hard for you to find the right words sometimes. I know there are things you don’t want to say to me.'
* The Raven Prince, to Gwyn: 'That explains why that great power of yours is so malcontent. I suspect you’ve never fed with it before, either. You don’t teleport. You don’t feed properly. You don’t use your power. What use are you, again? I forget.'
* Augus: 'I regret to say that I…may have taken the Raven Prince to task.’ ‘Good!’ Ash exclaimed.'
* To Augus: 'Don’t make me leave,’ Gwyn said, his cheeks already pinker than before. ‘Don’t let me escape you. I don’t want to. I don’t know how to fight myself.'
* Ash, to Gwyn: '*You’re not going to fall anywhere we can’t catch you.'*
* To Gwyn, about Efnisien: 'I’ve never loved anyone the way that you loved him,’ the Bird King said, bemused. ‘Perhaps it should have occurred to me that you would sacrifice yourself for him. However misguided the act. They would never want you – the Thirteen. But I think that’s why they need you.'
* To Gwyn: 'That mad, golden lad was going to torture you to death,’ the Bird King said. ‘These things you knew, and so went to him anyway, perhaps went to him because of it. You might wish for the sweetness of it, but I will not let you have it. If you want death, you may only take it when you feed upon others. I am invested in you, despite your gawky, awkward clumsiness. If I can turn you into something worthwhile, I can parade you in my Court, and the Seelie might always be reminded of their crimes. They do so like to lord it over us, you see. The Oak King in particular, what a didactic, quibbling creature he is. Hung up on a morality that hardly exists. That one day I could have you as my Champion, my light in the dark, my death-bringer – you are not to throw yourself away like this again.'
* To the Raven Prince, about Gwyn's parents: 'Are you going to kill them?’ Gwyn said. ‘I can’t, they’re not under my jurisdiction. But if they are returned to the An Fnwy estate, I will find a way. It’s not even that I particularly want to kill them, it is that I cannot trust you.'
* To Ash: 'How much does someone receive in their lives before it’s too much, do you think?’ Augus said pensively. ‘How much good? I have you, I have my home, I have so many things that together make me feel as though nothing is lacking. I never felt lonely before I met Gwyn, and now I wonder if my house would be lonely without him. I risk so much of my equilibrium with this. I hate that I want to.'
* Ash, to Gwyn: 'Home is where my family is. And you guys are my family.'
* 'I killed so many people . . . Hundreds,’ Gwyn gasped. ‘Hundreds and hundreds. They could have been the last of their species. They could have. Maybe they had…language and c-culture and religion and gods and stories and folklore and more. I don’t care if they were begging to die. If they’d been fighting for seventy five years. I don’t want to end things.'
* Ash: 'You’re Gwyn ap Nudd, Unseelie fae, and part of my family. You’re a bit strange sometimes, and I don’t always know what you’re thinking or what you’re going to do next, but I know that I like you a lot and I think you’re worth it even when you’re sure you’re not.'
* 'Efnisien loved me,’ Gwyn said, staring at the dandelions. ‘But it didn’t look like that to anyone else. Even to me, sometimes. It’s hard to love people when they don’t return it, or when their love is so corrupt.'

## Trivia

* Before Augus knew Gwyn's name, he called him 'Gannaid'.
* Ethallas is referred to as a 'forest' 68 times in the story, and 'woods' 21 times, so 'forest' has been used for this entry.
* Efnisien's horse (or perhaps second horse in the story) was named Alice. He was very cruel to her.
* There were ellyllon in the Oak King's throne room: 'the elven folk who wore their economy on every part of their body and decorated themselves with bells to boot.'
* Augus once got drunk with Ash and played card games with some gnomes in a pub. Ash also once taught him how to play 'Monopoly' the board game. Ash kept a DS, which ran on magic in the fae realm. Ash also taught Gwyn numerous board games, some of which Gwyn enjoyed, and which allowed him to forget about Efnisien.
* On top of Mages having a monopoly on most healing and magic generally, Mages also had control over information, and controlled the fae world printing presses, and what books were published with them.
* 'The Guochak-Mellcham curse' was an endless battleground. A group of fae once angered a Mage, and 'he cursed them with dual fates. That they would be compelled to battle forever, and that battle wounds would never fell them. They cannot leave the battleground, and they cannot kill each other. . . . They’re permitted to stop for two hours past the stroke of midnight. There, in their respective areas, they’re allowed to sleep or eat. The sleep will never be refreshing. And the food – which replenishes blood and sweat – will never sate them.' They remained in that state for 75 years, until Gwyn devoured them.
* It was considered rude for a Mage to break another Mage's curse, but not necessarily for a non-Mage to do so. The Raven Prince also said it 'does not do for Mages to know exactly what charms other Mages use in their day to day.' Mages also had a policy to hide any descendants, even from each other, as their descendants could 'be used, kidnapped, abducted, *tortured*'.

## Gallery

Fanart of Augus Each Uisge and Gwyn ap Nudd by Kaza999 from "The Wildness Within", Chapter 5 https://kaza999.tumblr.com/post/104217816304/gwyn-stared-at-augus-palms-looked-to-augusFanart of the Raven Prince by Kaza999 https://kaza999.tumblr.com/post/103949754784/never-mind-i-was-bluffing-so-the-wildnessFanart of Augus Each Uisge and the Raven Prince by Kaza999 https://kaza999.tumblr.com/post/103949754784/never-mind-i-was-bluffing-so-the-wildnessFanart of the Raven Prince's insignia by invisiblejune https://invisiblejune.tumblr.com/post/178730899234/they-were-by-the-cold-ones-lake-augus-gwynFanart of Efnisien ap Wledig by Allrenn https://budapester-pflaume.tumblr.com/post/630174899039879168Fanart of Gwyn ap Nudd, the Raven Prince, Augus Each Uisge, and Ash Glashtyn by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/134492865521/okay-so-i-finished-the-court-of-five-thrones-and-i
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