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The Executioner of Skalitz by wickmachine
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
05 May 2026
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As Executioner he would be a pariah, an outcast. Radzig would never have to look upon the living face of his most embarrassing mishap for as long as he lived. Henry would be off, tucked away; safely outside the confines of town and hidden from the eyes of the world. Not even the latrine diggers would see him...
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After the sack of Skalitz, Henry approaches his father, the noble Sir Radzig, for aid. Though rather than taking on the mantle of squirehood, Henry instead finds himself shunted into the ostracised position of Rattay's local executioner - a perfect locale for hiding one's motifying baseborn son.Exciled and outcast, Henry lives for many years alone. Until a chance meeting with a young nobleman changes everything...
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Back in Prague, the sophisticated Black Bartosch had suffered from an abundance of lovers. Though here in Trosky, there was naught but loneliness and drought. For a formerly decorated tourney champion and soldier of Prague's very own Royal Garrison, the provincial little town seemed a backwater by comparison.
Henry of Skalitz had made for a wonderful divergence from Bartosch's woes when he'd arrived in Trosky. Though when his hopes for a fling are unfortunately dashed by that toff Capon, the only benefit is that the reserved Captain Thomas is spurred into action.
And what did Thomas expect? That the worldly and handsome Bartosch would remain here and unclaimed in Trosky forever? He'd surely been a fool when he'd called time on their fleeting romance. Does he have time to win his Black Cat back?
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This story kicks off on the eve before Nebakov. Minimal Henry and Hans mentioned. This tale is about Thomas and Bartosch.
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Hans was very drunk. They had sat together, side by side by the fire. The young lordling was near dosing; his eyes shuttered at half-mast. His gilded lashes were very long, and cast shadows upon the panes of his high cheeks.
Pretty. He was very pretty. The thought was upon Henry before he could outrun it. The other lad was very drunk, and his eyes were glazed and unseeing. Unchecked, Henry was left to look his fill. And, furthermore, he found himself much too sotted to care, let alone chastise himself for the impropriety.
Hans confided, that he had once fancied himself in love with a bathhouse whore. Her name had been Klara. He had brought her flowers. She had preferred some other fellow though, and now she would not entertain him. He wasn't sad about it, though.
And then, the young nobleman had said the queerest thing. So queer, that Henry had turned his words, over and over in his head since laying down upon his bedroll.
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This works is based around the events of KCD1, with the added element of a romance between Henry and Hans.
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- Part 1 of KCD Stories
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This work is an accompaniment to the larger works Everything is Permitted. Extra Lucas tidbits!
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- Part 2 of KCD Stories
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The Boy with the Thorn in his Side by wickmachine
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
13 Apr 2025
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Were Istvan a superstitious man, he would have supposed the boy to be an omen. The harrowed face of him; pale hair, pale eyes, pale skin. Spectral in his loveliness. As quiet as the grave. He did not even know how old he was. He might be seventeen or seventy. He was old, yet he was innocence. He since stopped belonging to the constraints of time, when everyone who had ever known him had died. Now that there was nobody left to know, Erik existed in a frame that was entirely his own. The world belonged to nobody but himself, and he was a reflection of it.
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This story explores the meeting of Erik and Istvan, and eventually, Erik's healing and redemption.
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In the shadow of my vengeance by LittleHauntedCheese
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
25 Apr 2026
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Secrets live deep within Rattay, and when Henry and Hans are exposed, the fallout threatens to bring down everything around them.
Henry will hang, but Hans will do anything to save the man he loves, and vengeance is a powerful weapon. After all, it isn't only their secret that haunts Rattay.
" You speak of my sin like you have none of your own." Hans whispered. "You spill blood, wage war and murder in the name of righteousness, but somehow my sin of loving is greater than all of yours."
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28 Mar 2026
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"Hang in there, Henry! Don't die on me! You can't! I forbid it!"Hopefully his whispered words reached Henry. If they didn't, then hopefully the silent prayer Hans sent to the Virgin Mary would help save the man in his embrace.
If Henry died because he rescued him… Hans would never forgive himself.
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Maleshov was supposed to be simple.
The plan was straightforward. Sneak inside. Find Hans Capon. Escape before anyone noticed.
But plans have a way of unraveling.
All it takes is one small mistake. One simple wound can cha the course of the future.
The rescue Henry fought so hard to make possible becomes something far more complicated... perhaps for the better?
~/~/~/~/~A Henry/Hans story that (mostly) follows the game’s events starting at Maleshov, but with so much more!
Expect flashbacks, timeskips, expanded character roles, the unexpected return of characters, and plenty of angst, fluff, and smut!
Hansry Forever <3Bookmarked by wickmachine
18 Mar 2026
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Two bows gifted, two arrows fired.
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09 Mar 2026
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They both knew it was goodbye that night in Suchdol. Henry had saved them all, though the one person he could not save was himself.
Hans Capon tried to move on. He had buried his secret lover with his own two hands, though the grave in Skalitz defied all notions of logic. Flowers never withered. Candles placed on that soil never burned down.
Stranger still, a curse had befallen Rattay. A never ending rain and unexplainable happenings leaving townsfolk missing, dead or changed. When Heinrich befriended a raven with an uncanny intelligence and a penchant for showing up at the worst of times - what more could he see but an omen of death?
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08 Mar 2026
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A brutal ambush leaves bodies strewn across the roadside. In the aftermath, Lady Death moves silently between them as she gathers souls for the afterlife.
In Rattay, a desperate Lord calls her name, but she closes her ears to his cries. It is not his time yet.
He'd been too slow to save him, and now he was too weak to join him. Another failure to call his own, another disappointment. His trembling hands dropped blonde hair into the filth that he'd wrung from his stomach. A sickening tableau of his desperation painted on the floor of his chamber.
Somewhere else, Henry of Skalitz sits under a Linden tree in the sun of a new dawn. "All will be well" he tells himself. He just needs to wait. His Lord will come.
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08 Mar 2026