Tales from the depths of Thabes

Contributor preview: raen Handle for socials: giffca (bsky) Pfp: a black cat wearing a purple cape with silver markings Sample fic preview: The sound of movement in the water behind the Airman was quiet and easily drowned out by the sound of his brain being pulled in a dozen directions by every other thought already running through it, but some part of him was able to signal the alarm and he spun around to face it, barely able to catch a glimpse of a massive snake-like, slug-like creature as it retreated back into the shallow water. He stared at the murky water for a long moment, trying to match the little that he saw with any animal he knew of, but… The Airman was already on high alert from the crash, but that thing made his hair stand on end. The preview image is presented like a message in a cracked bottle, floating in the ocean. At the bottom corner, in smaller font: Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine

Contributor preview: Fic by @giffca.bsky.social

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Why can't Caineghis do things? Why is Skrimir the general during Part 3 instead of Giffca? Why did I subject myself to the experience of writing this? Find out all of this (and more)

[fe tellius][meta][5.7k] Gallian Governing and Halfbaked Utopias
Tellius Recollection tells us that Gallia is a nation “without written law or political institutions” and then chooses to not elaborate much further.
...What do you mean it's not self-explanatory?
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Contributor spotlight: raen Role: Writer Handle for socials: giffca (bsky) Pfp: a black cat wearing a purple cape with silver markings About: Dredge hooked me earlier this year and I'm excited to climb aboard and set saild with this zine's crew. I <3 scary fishing Sample work (writing excerpt): The radio in the cockpit crackled to life, panic flooding the airwaves as the tan haze shifted unnaturally, like an irritable beast roused from its slumber. It uncoiled from the mess of trees, its eyeless gaze following the flock of planes as they passed by from a distance that no longer felt safe, and then-- At the bottom, below the spotlight: Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine

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but I struggled with trying to make that work for several years and I think I'm really happy with how approaching it from a different perspective gave it a more clear understanding of what (and how) it wanted to communicate itself.
Be sure to check out the other pieces in the zine!

Wrote this for Volume 3 of @invinciblezine.bsky.social's horror/angst zine, Calamity's Advent.
Really fun character to write. My original idea for this piece would focus more on the direct effects an adult thanatophage has on the local human population,

[nonfiction...?][fe13/fe15][horror] Excerpt from Chapter Fifty-Seven of the Treatise on the Necromantic Arts
Let us learn of thanatophages, Forneus' folly, and, of course, the magical beauty of parasitic wasps.
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I participated in lrt! Check it out

The cover for the zine. The illustration depicts Nyx from Fire Emblem Fates. She is gripping at her face in distress, and her hair flows out in jagged waves around her. On the wall directly behind her is a portrait of herself; the portrait depicts her as aged to the point of decomposition. The Nyx in the portrait stares out directly at the viewer. Text between the two versions of Nyx reads "Calamity's Advent" "Volume III"

Calamity's Advent Volume III, A Fire Emblem Horror/Angst zine, is now available for free download! Check it out here: drive.google.com/file/d/1p9lo...
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^Excerpt from my piece for Volume Three of Calamity's Advent, a horror and angst themed FE zine.
It's an expansion of an idea I had shortly after the first volume and while I've changed a lot of things I'm still quite excited to be releasing it out into the wild soon. (yay)

Any discussion of necroentomology is, of course, incomplete without mentioning Megalara cylindraceus.
Though most well-known for its ecological impact in Archanea, Megalara cylindraceus is nearly ubiquitous, with its larval form found in any world with sufficient ambient divinity. Its growth and met

If there's any compelling evidence that I've missed that contradicts the claims I've made in the second half, let me know! The truth can only be obtained through our combined efforts.

I wrote something new (yay). This has consumed me for over a month but I think I've adequately answered the questions I set out to find answer to with it.

[nonfiction] [fe9] Giffca oddities in Path of Radiance and how they point towards him having replaced Caineghis as a playable character

Have you ever noticed that Giffca isn't actually wearing his own outfit when in combat in Path of Radiance? Ever wonder why?
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Azama continues to frown, but his eyebrows are now furrowed. he appears to be unhappy.

C: "...How so? Azama has begun to submerge himself into the hot spring, the water now reaching his mouth.

G: "I died, Caineghis. I died after I ran away. I died without explaining anything." Azama has lowered himself further into the water, everything below his furrowed brows now submerged.

G: "Surely that's worth at least some discussion? Surely there are things you want to ask me, to satisfy your obligations to your country if not to satisfy yourself?" Azama has now nearly fully submerged himself, with only his hair being visible. His expression is hidden, but he seems to be at least somewhat displeased.

part two

azama rests alone in an open-air hotspring at night, a content smile on his face. (an image assembled using feh assets)

some text is overlaid over the previous image. they are color-coded based off of greil and caineghis, and they appear to be speaking somewhere off-screen G: "Hey." C: "Hm?"

Azama is now frowning, the quiet night having been interrupted by the other guests. His eyebrows are raised, indicating slight interest towards how the conversation will unfold.

G: "I think we need to stop pretending that everything's fine."

i mcfreakin forgot that i made some promo images for this piece when i first posted it. spoilers for the third chapter i guess?

The cycle is eternal, and we will never escape.

My most recent Piece. For now.
I started writing this, had the thought "this would be more fun to write if it were a story", started writing *that* instead, got stuck a few chapters in, came back to this after a few years and finished it, and now I kinda want to go back and finish the story.
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[fe tellius][meta] On Matters of Gallian Succession and Cat Powerlevels
How *does* Gallia determine who is king?
This piece also delves heavily into my headcanoned backstory for Caineghis and Giffca.
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Astute viewers may have noticed that this is the piece I alluded to in my comments for Memories Drawn in the Sand. This is a little-known literary technique called "foreshadowing", where objects closer to the camera appear larger. Be sure to use it in your next piece to excite and wow your readers!

[fe7][meta] Kishuna
What's the deal with Kishuna? Why does he show up where he does? What drives him as a person?
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I don't have a whole lot for them publicly available anymore, but it's hard to say Giffghis isn't my main pairing. This piece is short, sweet, and to the point (which is to its benefit, of course), but I have some longer ones in mind that might see the light of day sometime this decade :P

[fe tellius][giffghis] Retainer
Before calling him his shadow, Caineghis used to call Giffca his retainer. On a day that could've been like any other, Giffca learned why and gently persuaded Caineghis to use something else.
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I like Frey. Wish he wasn't the canon sacrifice but it gave me enough material to write this so it's not all bad👍

I heard they changed how Ymir looks again when they added him to Heroes. It's bad enough that his ingame and promo art only vaguely remember each other, so I hope it's not too different

[fe11/12][frey/ymir] Photon Belt Scenic Route
In truth, it so very lonely
Though if this is the beginning of a new dawn
Perhaps I can believe

Frey returns to Altea, though not without having to leave some things behind.
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Wrote this for Calamity's Advent, a horror zine.
This is probably my favorite piece out of anything I've ever made. I probably won't do a Horror (with a capital H) piece again, but it's a genre I like a lot and it was fun to stretch my wings and see how far I could fly with a character I love.

[fe7][mature: horror] Drang
Renault finds a reason to leave Caelin behind.
Or perhaps more accurately, a reason to leave Caelin finds him.
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ready to address parts of their relationship and parts of themselves that only became apparent after Greil's death.

This isn't a fluff piece, but I don't think I've done either of them a disservice either.

This piece is fourth in a series that centered around making Az/ama miserable... well, that wasn't the primary intention, but it's what the end result often was. Oops.
You can skip 1-3 though.
This one focused less on him and more on two guys sitting in a hot spring 15 feet apart because they're not

[feh][fe tellius][greilghis] Conjunction of Regulus and Algieba
Reunited in the Order of Heroes, Caineghis and Greil must come to terms with the ways things have changed and the ways they have not.
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