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Wrong Side of Glory is a Web Novel independent of Cacoethes' other series based in the Aether Aevran Universe. It takes place in a land called Aishold, divided into five major territories each ruled by opposing or allied factions of magicians. These factions are often monarchal in nature with an emphasis on the importance of blood. These five major territories are ruled by clans, and they are the oldest clans, so they are thus called the Five Legendary Dynasties.
Not everyone is lucky enough to be born into a clan. Not everyone is lucky to be born magical or even human. The clans originally came together to purge the humans from the sentient beasts that would seek to prey on them, literally called Beasts. These aren't the only threats either. Depending on internal and external, feminine and masculine, energies -- monsters and gods alike can be created from common folk, powerful magicians, and lone animals minding their own business in the woods. The clans focus on fighting all monsters and beasts -- the things they consider evil or without use to their society.
Wrong Side of Glory focuses on a young magician boy whose mother dies, named Nilhin.
Content Warnings: kidnapping; sexual assault; attempted sexual assault; past mentioned/referenced sexual assault; underage sexual content; explicit depictions of cannibalism; explicit sexual content; dubious consent; graphic violence/gore; severe mental illness; attempted child sexual assault;
Genres: Dark fantasy, LGBT+, Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Dark Romance, Romance, Adventure, War, [TBD]
Curren summary projections:
Part One Summary:
To obey his mother’s dying wish, young Nilhin goes on a journey out of his home to find a man -- his supposed father -- who he has never met or seen. He finally arrives and is thoroughly disappointed. By the time he returned to give his mother the bad news, she had passed. With no one left to save him by himself, Nilhin strives to get stronger, but no matter how hard he works and how honourable he tries to be, obstacles keep standing in his way. He soon realises that the greatest obstacle is himself. Somehow, all of his flaws make him very valuable to a very peculiar man.
Encompases Chapters 1-22.
Part Two Summary:
TBD (Still under construction)
Encompases Chapters 23-?
Part Three Summary:
TBD (Still under construction)
Encompases Chapters ?-?
Chapter Directory
Part One:
Summary: Nilhin is forced to leave his dying mother, Nilbi -- a prostitute at Ya Brothel -- to find his father. He leaves, but only so his father, a wealthy man in a different territory, will pay for a doctor since he is poor. Nilhin undertakes this adventure with only a few necklaces and a handful of money while he is still only thirteen (nearly fourteen) years old.
Summary: Friendly merchant Nehe gives Nilhin a ride to Villas, a town closer to the destination of Capvita, where his father lives. They do some things, like cuddle and Nilhin eats baneberries that have never poisoned him before despite their toxicity to humans.
Summary: While Nehe and his wife, Tsani, aren’t all that meets the eye, Nilhin makes a friend during unfortunate circumstances. A boy named Maer.
Summary: After Nilhin is held captive, he refuses to remain that way. He uses his limited magical knowledge to escape. Something strange occurs, but it is easily chocked up to his emotional haze. Together with Maer, Nilhin helps rescue and release the other confined children, but they have no real place to go.
Summary: Despite losing a fairweather friend, Nilhin makes it to Capvita to see his father. Only his father is a clan leader of a legendary dynasty with no time for bastards. Nilhin’s humiliation doesn’t sit right with him, but he has no way to retaliate. His only option is to return home empty handed and hope his mother can overcome her illness.
Summary: After a harrowing journey, Nilhin returns to Ya Brothel. His mother… The Madam wishes to see him, and in the end, he is left without any home at all. Now he must do what his mother said, and join a clan just so he won’t die once exposed to the elements come the winter season.
Summary: Once Nilhin arrives at Storkott, the home of the Hvit Clan, he is faced with new faces and old challenges: being hated by those who are supposed to be his allies. His subunit of recruits, the Orikani, already has an intense opinion of him solely based on the jealousy of one young master.
Summary: To escape his bullying, Nilhin had found solace in the Hvit Library. The main librarian just wants to help the boy who lives between her aisles, but it’s clear that there’s some secret he’s keeping, even from himself.
Summary: The Orikani sub-unit is sent after a squirrel beast. After attacking and assaulting Nilhin, the group leader gets what he deserves, but what will happen to the beast that saved Nilhin?
Summary: Ogar wasn’t killed by the squirrel beast, but a fox beast. That could only mean…
Summary: Xiu Ming is a legendary figure and the only fox paragon known to survive past adolescence. His power was unimaginable, and is the reason that fox paragons are so feared.
Summary: Nilhin faces more discrimination at the hands of his team mates, and is rushed to the infirmary after an attack. He is healed, but his newly found secret comes to light, putting him in even more danger than ever before. Not only will he be hated for what he isn’t, but for what he is.
Summary: General Gronjas lays his hand flat, displaying everything for Nilhin to see. He’s the only person not willing to put Nilhin to death, even if Nilhin didn’t have anything good to say about the man he thought was his friend.
Summary: Nilhin finds safety in the mountainous depths of the Zaw Clan’s cities and fortress, Neuma, but his new freedom comes at some costs. Are these costs -- and the accompanying threats -- worth it?
Summary: After over six months of working in Neuma as a servant, Nilhin gets a ‘promotion’ that nobody could foresee. Someone in a higher position of authority has taken an interest in the mysterious new servant that slipped right through the cracks and scrutiny of the clan leader.
Summary: Those employed in the dungeons are called to celebrate at the high table with the clean leader himself. Rejoice! The clan leader takes an uncomfortable interest in Nilhin for his unorthodox interrogation techniques.
Summary: The clan leader has known all along, hasn’t he? Otherwise, why else would he do what he had done? Nilhin has nowhere else to go, and his only chance for sanctity is within Neuma… That’s why his second promotion is most unexpected.
Summary: Clan Leader Rronov educates Nilhin in the ways of fox spirits based on the Zaw clan’s study of the creatures. A proposal to increase his magical ability is put forth, and despite the discomfort it brings Nilhin, it is undeniably effective.
Summary: Zaw Rronov visits Capvita for a meeting with the clan leaders, and upon seeing the Daha Clan and their unending internal conflicts, comes to a realisation that could one day change the whole of Aishold.
Summary: Still in Capvita, Zaw Rronov is informed of his new prodigy’s true origin from the wine-loosened lips of Luc Gallus. More conclusions are drawn, and Zaw Rronov has never been anything but determined in his stubbornness.
Summary: The Second Prince of Zaw returns early from his tour of his clan’s territory. He proceeds to do what he’s good at: causing problems.
Summary: Zaw Rronov returns from his meeting and proposes a specific alliance with Nilhin. Seeing the benefit for them both, neither Rronov or Nilhin could disagree with starting such a relationship.
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