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Uneven Odds by DracotheDeathEatingCupcake
Fandom: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
12 Jan 2026
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Forgiveness Is The Lesson (He Cursed You To Learn) by DracotheDeathEatingCupcake
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
22 Dec 2025
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Jaskier has been acting strange all day. Footsteps stumbling. Body trembling. Eyes blank. He’s not sick. He’d be able to smell it if he was. Neither is he injured, nor ensorcelled. Geralt doesn’t know what’s wrong with him at all.
And, despite himself, he can’t help but worry.
He doesn’t know why.
Companion piece for chapter 8 of Uneven Odds. This will not make sense without having read that fic first!
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- Part 2 of Uneven Odds
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Uneven Odds by DracotheDeathEatingCupcake
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
12 Jan 2026
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"The missive reaches Jaskier two weeks after it was dated. Two weeks after the ink had dried, the fated, dreaded words stark against white paper, haunting in its contents.
Two weeks after King Consort Eist had apparently passed, with Queen Calanthe not too far from following."
Or, following a deadly plague in Cintra that claims the lives of the reigning monarchs, Jaskier is tasked with taking care of the young Cintran princess, at least until it is safe for her to return home to claim her throne.
Will he be able to successfully raise the young girl, despite his misgivings about his ability to do such a thing? Or will his doubts win out, especially once they meet up with a certain reticent witcher, who not so long ago wished him dead and then abandoned him without a word in the middle of the night? Only time, he supposes, will tell.
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- Part 1 of Uneven Odds
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In ancient times there were Lindar, individuals with the power to call on great magics through their voices. It was said that their laughter was capable of raising the spirits of an entire room, their battle cries would always lead armies to victory, their mournful wails were unavoidable portents of death; and their songs… their songs, it was said, could shape and change the course of history. But well, those are just old legends, right?
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The Leshy had been the final fucking straw.
For decades, Eskel had found himself increasingly sick of walking the Path and living the life of monsters and money.
He had spent most of his life being hated for something he had no choice in: becoming a mutant.
It was thankless work, people didn’t want to pay even when he’d bested their monster, and everyone was afraid of him.
But winter came yet again as Eskel made his way up to Kaer Morhen, badly injured by a fucking Leshy, of all things,
And by the time Eskel was deemed free of the Leshy and able to rest, everyone else in the Keep was wrapped around the fingers of Geralt’s daughter, Ciri.
So when the pass was clear enough for travel in the spring, Eskel had made up his mind: he was done with doing what was expected of him.
Eskel wanted to retire.
In years bygone, Eskel had spent some time in Oxenfurt, sitting in on whatever classes at the University that allowed mutants, and he’d thoroughly enjoyed that pursuit of knowledge, though he could never afford the tuition to attend as a student.
And that is how Eskel found himself sneaking silently into a lecture on music theory given by “Professor Julian Pankratz”.