The Continent · A Company of the Cast-Off
The Band of Exiles
“The ones nobody else would keep — keeping each other.”
The Band of Exiles · a Library line
The ones nobody else would keep — keeping each other.
A cursed queen, an exiled emissary, a resurrected human commander. No court, no kingdom, no banners. Just the misfits the Continent had no use for, gathered against the deathless thing in the lake. A fire with people around it. We'd pull up a chair.
The company · Cast-off and kept
Made of who was left over.
After Hybern, three people with nowhere to go fall into orbit around each other. Vassa — cursed by Koschei into a firebird by day, a woman only by night, tethered to his lake. Jurian — resurrected out of the eye Amarantha kept, alive again in a body that should have stayed dead. Lucien Vanserra — Tamlin's former emissary, a son no court wants and a mate he refuses to press. None of them fits anywhere. So they fit together. It's annoyingly perfect.
The cause · Against the deathless
A war that didn't end when the war ended.
Theirs is the slower, stranger fight the great courts of Prythian mostly look away from: the human realm's survival, the mortal queens' scheming, and Koschei — the deathless sorcerer holding Vassa's curse. Lucien moves between the band and the Night Court, one of the few faces welcome on both sides of the sea. Someone has to do the unglamorous work. It's them.
The feeling · Found family
Defiance with a hearth in the middle.
What makes them a band and not a list of names is the warmth. They tease, they bristle, they cover for each other. Lucien — the least-wanted son of the cruellest court — finds something close to ease here, and we are not okay about it. No banners, no oaths. Just the particular gold of people who all got thrown away deciding, instead, to be each other's. That's the whole thing. That's why we're here.
The band itself
Who you'll find around the fire.
Swipe to meet them all
The File
- Where
- The Continent — the mortal lands across the sea from Prythian
- What
- An informal company of allies, not a sanctioned court or army
- Core
- Vassa, Lucien Vanserra, Jurian
- Cause
- Aiding the mortal queens and the human realm; opposing Koschei
- Bound by
- Exile, displacement, and a war that left them without a home to return to
- Tone
- Found family forged out of leftover loyalties
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