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Spellbound by FlightsFancy (Nos4a2no9), ilisidi
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
20 Apr 2023
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When the Redanian government decides to revive the ancient legal tradition of Correctional Marriage, Eskel is forced to take on his strangest Witcher contract yet: he must marry and "rehabilitate" a convicted smuggler who also happens to be a bard, a Viscount, and the longtime companion of Eskel’s best friend, Geralt of Rivia.
Jaskier expected to waste away in a dark prison cell under the streets of his beloved Oxenfurt. Instead, he is given a simple but impossible choice: agree to marry a strange Witcher, or hang for his crimes. Jaskier soon finds himself handfasted to Eskel, a man he barely knows and cannot afford to trust.
Bound together by fate, marriage, and a powerful spell known as the Ringbound Curse, Eskel and Jaskier’s destinies were linked long before their first meeting. Now they must learn how to work together, break the deadly curse, and find Geralt of Rivia before it’s too late.
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12 Jun 2026
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Jaskier doesn’t actually know how much time has passed since the black-cloaked Nilfgaardians grab him after a performance in a shitty tavern in the backcountry of northern Kaedwen. He’d assumed--foolishly, apparently--that he was far enough north that any Nilfgaardian soldiers would be few and far between, likely just scouts or even deserters. It would have been hard to actually get any further north--the little backwater town where he’d been singing was just a day from the mountains. Anymore travel, and he’d find himself skirting the Trail up to Kaer Morhen, the Warlord’s Keep, and, well. He’s brazen, but not that brazen.
(or: a wandering bard bites off more than he can chew with the political ballads, accidentally makes friends with a princess in exile, and finds the Warlord of the North in his debt.)
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- Part 1 of the roads we walk
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To pluck wild mountain thyme by amberlo133
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
08 Apr 2022
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About to be married to Velen, Milena makes a run for it, straight into Lambert.
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11 Jun 2026
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Let’s wander (till the fuckers demand an encore) by Chrissy22
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
13 Mar 2023
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“Here I was just trying to make friendly conversation –“ Jaskier began.
“We aren’t friends," said Lambert.
“-And you went and slipped something in my drink.”
“I poured it into your drink right in front of you. Didn’t make you drink it.”
“Does Geralt know you tried to poison me?”
“Does Geralt know you let strangers spike your drink without asking what’s in it?”
“…Fair enough,” said Jaskier. “I won’t tell if you won’t” he smiled, holding out a hand.
In which Jaskier runs into Lambert in the early days of his travels with Geralt. A friendship grows over two decades of encounters on the Path.
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10 Jun 2026
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“Can’t afford it,” Geralt grunted.
“It’s not that expensive to rent a bed -” Jaskier started.
It stings to have it pushed in his face that his life isn’t normal, so far beyond normal that someone like Jaskier can’t fathom it.
“It’s expensive to rent a private room,” Geralt couldn’t keep the snarl out of his voice. “Or do you think anyone wants to sleep near a witcher?”
When Geralt meets Jaskier in Posada, he is jaded, bitter and so lonely some days he thinks he might kill him. Jaskier is young, bright, and not afraid of tarnishing his reputation by standing by a witcher.
Years later, Geralt repays the kindness.
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10 Jun 2026