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I don't warn for character death, but I do try to flag for triggers. Please let me know if I could do a better job of that.
Title: The Best Interest of Nations
Fandom: Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series.
Length: 18,000 words
Timeline: During and soon after The King of Attolia
Spoilers: For the first three books and the HarperCollins blurb for A Conspiracy of Kings
Rating: T, for some violence
Notes: The discovery of a bronze pen-nib in the ruins of Pompeii indicates that metal pens were in use as early as the first century AD, but they did not become popular until much later than the Byzantine period, and so it seems likely that the characters in The Thief and its sequels would have used quills. Ms. Turner has gone to great pains to assure her readers that the chronology of her world is not quite the same as ours, and as a goose-feather wouldn’t stand up to the magus’ rather unorthodox use of the pen in question, I decided to take a little historical license.
Summary: In which a story is told, swords are drawn, and adventures are planned, but nobody arranges a cart.