History Fanfic / TheLostKing

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12036784/1/The-Lost-King The Lost King]]'' is an ongoing multi-chapter ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6977447/The-Apocryphal-One The Apocryphal One]]. It is written as a companion piece to one of the author's previous works, ''FanFic/TheInvisiblePrincess'', taking place between Chapters 4 and 6 of that story.

* FireKeepsItDead: Nohrian funerals involve immolating the deceased's body. The practice started untold years ago as a response to sorcerers attempting to learn how to resurrect humans, which itself was spurned by the discovery that wyverns could be reanimated with magic. One cannot revive a body that doesn't exist anymore.

* {{Revenge}}: Duke Emeric hired the assassins to kill Garon and Katerina to get back at the king for not properly protecting Penelope and Gertrude, who were the Duke's niece and sister, respectively. While he fails to kill Garon, he still gets his RevengeByProxy with Katerina's death.

* InsideJob: The assassins sent after Garon and Katerina were only able to get into the couple's room using a secret passage that very few know about, meaning that they got help from within Garon's court.

* {{Revenge}}: Duke Emeric hired the assassins to kill Garon and Katerina to get back at the king for not properly protecting Penelope and Gertrude, who were the Duke's niece and sister, respectively.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to ''Invisible Princess''.

** A few days after Penelope's death, her mother is found dead after taking a drink laced with dragon venom. The circumstances lead to Garon not being sure if she was murdered by a competing concubine (as he would normally assume) or if she had killed herself in response to her daughter's demise. Penelope's status as one of Garon's bastard children was the cornerstone of her social status, and it's mentioned that Garon doesn't react kindly to his mistresses failing to protect their children.
** The captured assassin kills himself while in prison, knowing that otherwise he'd be brutally tortured for information about who hired him to kill Queen Katerina.

* {{Revenge}}: Duke Emeric hired the assassins to kill Katerina to get back at Garon for not properly protecting Penelope and Gertrude, who were the Duke's niece and sister, respectively.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When Katerina's assassin is finally captured, Garon has her tortured to get her to reveal the identify of her client. She lasts for about an hour before talking.

** A few days after Penelope's death, her mother is found dead after taking a drink laced with dragon venom. Garon's not sure if she was murdered (as he would normally assume) or actually killed herself; Penelope's status as one of Garon's bastard children was the cornerstone of her social status, and it's mentioned that Garon doesn't react kindly to his mistresses failing to protect their children.

** A few days after Penelope's death, her mother is found dead after taking a drink laced with dragon venom. Garon's not sure if she was murdered (as he would normally assume) or actually killed herself, since Penelope's status as one of Garon's bastard children was the cornerstone of her social status.

* DrivenToSuicide: The captured assassin kills himself while in prison, knowing that otherwise he'd be brutally tortured for information about who hired him to kill Queen Katerina.

EstablishingSeriesMoment: The bleak tone of the story is established by the first two paragraphs, which involves Garon looking over the dead and broken body of his 7-year-old daughter Penelope.
* GoodParents: Since the concubines view their children as expendable tools, Garon tries to make up for it by being as good and loving a father as possible. He ensures that he spends some time with them every day, acts encouraging and friendly even when they do something bad, and keeps a journal about them with personall info (such as their likes, dislikes, etc.) so he can cater to them better.

* DrivenToSuicide: The captured assassin kills himself while in prison, knowing that otherwise he'd be brutally tortured for information about who hired him to kill Queen
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The bleak tone of the story is established by the first two paragraphs, which involves Garon looking over the dead and broken body of his 7-year-old daughter Penelope.

* DrivenToSuicide: The captured assassin kills himself while in prison, knowing that otherwise he'd be brutally tortured for information about who hired him to kill Queen Katerina.

* GoodParents: Since the concubines view their children as expendable tools, Garon tries to make up for it by being as good and loving a father as possible.

* MercyKill: Katerina's wyvern becomes incredibly depressed after her owner dies, so Garon begrudgingly has her put down to end her misery.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Penelope dies at the start of the story, Garon decides that he needs to drink some good alcohol. His attitude suggest it's not [[DrowningMySorrows an attempt to forget his pain]] so much as it is out of resignation of his situation with the concubines.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Garon has become so jaded from the amount of children he's lost that he can't even properly mourn them anymore. When Penelope dies at the start of the story, the only feeling he can muster is the desire to drink some good alcohol.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Garon has become so jaded from the amount of children he's lost that he can't even properly mourn them anymore. The only feeling he can muster when Penelope dies at the start of the story is the desire to drink some good alcohol.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAcident: Garon rightfully suspects that Penelope was murdered, but whoever committed the deed made it look like her death was just due to an unfortunate fall off of a balcony.

Just as ''The Invisible Princess'' was written as a {{prequel}} to ''Fates'' focusing on Mikoto, ''The Lost King'' is a prequel focusing on King Garon before he was killed and turned into a puppet of Anankos. Since Garon is only characterized as the ObviouslyEvil overlord of Nohr in ''Fates'' due to his possession, the fic aims to expand on his true personality that the player is only given small tidbits of. There is also a notable focus on the violent infighting of Garon's concubines and the struggles of Nohr, leading to the fic having a bleaker tone than ''The Invisible Princess''.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12036784/1/The-Lost-King The Lost King]]'' is a multi-chapter ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6977447/The-Apocryphal-One The Apocryphal One]]. It is written as a companion piece to one of the author's previous works, ''FanFic/TheInvisiblePrincess'', taking place between Chapters 4 and 6 of that story.

Just as ''The Invisible Princess'' was a prequel to ''Fates'' focusing on Mikoto, ''The Lost King'' is a prequel focusing on King Garon before he was killed and turned into a puppet of Anankos. Since Garon is only characterized as an ObviouslyEvil overlord of Nohr in ''Fates'' due to his possession, the fic aims to expand on his true personality that the player is only given small tidbits of. There is also a notable focus on the violent infighting of Garon's concubines and the struggles of Nohr, leading to the fic having a bleaker tone than ''The Invisible Princess''.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Garon's concubines constantly plot against each other since they all want power, but don't want to share it, so murder is quite frequent. While Garon knows that his mistresses are killing each other and their children, they cover their tracks well enough that he's unable to prove anything, and thus unable to stop them. When the concubines aren't killing each other, they're engaged in PassiveAggressiveCombat and PolitenessJudo, arbitrary lines are drawn between those of noble birth and those of common birth, and everyone is trying to climb the social ladder, by whatever means possible, since power is prosperity in Nohr.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: What is mentioned in ''Fates'' is shown full-force here. The fic ''[[EstablishingSeriesMoment starts]]'' with a ''child'' of seven being murdered as a casualty of the concubine war. The second chapter goes into more depth about what makes up daily court life; PassiveAggressiveCombat and PolitenessJudo are worn as thin masks for hostility, arbitrary lines are drawn between those of noble birth and those of common birth, and everyone is trying to climb the social ladder, by whatever means possible, since power is prosperity in Nohr.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The author warns in the first author's note that this fic will be darker than ''Invisible Princess'', and proves herself to be telling the truth when, within the ''first two paragraphs'', a child is murdered.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12036784/1/The-Lost-King The Lost King]]'' is a multi-chapter ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6977447/The-Apocryphal-One The Apocryphal One]]. It is written as a companion piece to one of the author's previous works, ''FanFic/TheLostPrincess'', taking place between Chapters 4 and 6 of that story.