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Here is a collection of stories I've written about Alevar, his family, his friends, and his lovers. I've daydreamed/written/refined these stories over the course of many many years, since I was a teenager (I'm now pushing 40), so the story is a continuous work in progress, and there will certainly be a whole lot of inconsistencies (I often go back and edit, but nobody's perfect).
I'm still deciding how best to organize it, but at the moment I've arranged things in roughly chronological order by category.
Information
Timeline
!!EXTREMELY SPOILERY!! Rough timeline outlining Alevar's story.
Family Tree
!!EXTREMELY SPOILERY!! Family tree, set decades after 1492 DR.
Main Storyline
Before the Silence
Vignettes from Alevar's childhood in Kimishi. A boy grows up in a palace full of people and can't find anyone who wants to listen.
The Exhibition
Astrid, the queen of Kimishi, evaluates Ardanrion tel'Dorasain of House Spiral at a gathering in Leuthilspar and proposes a consort marriage she frames as entirely political.
Chapel
Astrid and Ardanrion's first decade of marriage, from the wedding night through years of failed conception to Sage's birth.
The Beginning
Astrid delivers her second son.
The Rock
Alevar's mother has decided he is too old for toys. He finds a rock in his father's garden, and it becomes his best friend.
The Gallery
Alevar finds a room at the top of a tower that nobody has opened in a century. He fills it with an audience that cannot leave.
Aeli and the Thornwood Prince
Everyone in Alevar's life is trying to make him into something else. Then he reads a love story about a woman who doesn't.
Malawain
A young Alevar is sent to the Temple of Corellon Larethian by his mother to find the divine connection that came so easily to his family, his peers—everyone but him. In the silence, he's left wondering: why has Corellon never answered?
The Observer Effect
Alevar is too smart for the Academy of Arcane Arts in Leuthilspar and too proud to hide it. A shadar-kai diviner named Belertzyd shares his interest in asking questions the Academy would rather not answer, and the conversation between them leads to something more.
Weavewright's Anatomy
During a school break in Kimishi, young prince Alevar sneaks into the Shadowfell to see his shadar-kai girlfriend and discovers a book that will change the course of his life.
The Second Unhuman War
During the Second Unhuman War, four lives converge at an elven research facility where forbidden magic is being rebuilt from wartime dispensations. What they choose inside those walls will determine which of them survives the war, and what the survivors become.
Uninvited
Lolth breaks into Alevar's trance on Evermeet and offers him exactly what she thinks a bitter, godless prince wants to hear. She's wrong about what he wants, but not about what he's becoming.
Qalb al-'Asr
In the heart of Huzuz, Alevar enters a cluttered oudh seller's shop in search of a magical artifact and crosses paths with Dezlyn, a sharp-witted earth genasi who's never left home. After quietly saving Dezlyn's sister, Alevar earns an uneasy place in their world. What begins as cautious curiosity between the two men slowly deepens into something neither of them expected.
Stress Lines
A wizard's apprentice follows his teacher through a door into a broken place where reality can't resolve itself, and realizes the same might be true of what's growing between them.
What Remains
A necromancer reaches for godhood as his lover tries to hold on. This is the story of how they fall apart.
Pookie
Alevar intervenes when a nightwalker nearly kills Valden's party in Nemausus. It's the first time they've seen each other in a hundred and fifty years, and Alevar leaves before the conversation even starts.
Short Stories
Tivvum's Antiquities
Alevar walks into Tivvum's Antiquities in Sigil looking for gate keys and finds the only other person in the planes who knows what he is.