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Son of the Sun by Erm_Thanks
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
02 Oct 2026
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“Lord Helion,” Eris replied crisply. The infant in his arms let out another small whine and wriggled. “Congratulations are in order.”
Helion’s brow furrowed. Eris wasn’t implying-
“Your affair with my mother bore fruit,” Eris said bluntly, lacking much of the courtly manners he usually maintained. “We cannot keep him safe at the Forest House. Father has been suspicious for some time and… we fear what my father will do to him, if he ever receives proof of his parentage, which he’s sure to get with him in the same house. We can’t guarantee what his powers will be, or who he will resemble in time.”
Eris looked down at his brother, stroking his tiny red head with his thumb. His tone softened as he gazed at the tiny babe in his arms. “Mother has already named him Lucien. I know it would mean a lot to her if you would keep his name the same. She sent you a letter explaining everything,” he nodded at the low table in the middle of the arrangement of chairs, where a folded letter appeared with a pop. “She needs you to take Lucien. Protect him, raise him how she wishes she could raise him.”
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AKA - 'A Lucien was raised in the Day Court AU' that tackles canon events slightly differently.
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In the Service of the Spring Court by Erm_Thanks
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
02 Oct 2026
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“No. When Calanmai came along, he refused. He flat-out refused to participate. I replaced him in the Rite, but…”
“You took Ianthe into that cave on Calanmai?”
He wouldn’t meet my gaze. “She insisted. Tamlin was… Things were bad, Feyre. I went in his stead, and I did my duty to the court. I went of my own free will. And we completed the Rite.”
No wonder she’d backed off him. She’d gotten what she wanted.
“Please don’t tell Elain,” he said. “When we- when we find her again,” he amended.
He might have completed the Great Rite with Ianthe of his own free will, but he certainly hadn’t enjoyed it. Some line had been blurred - badly.
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This is one take on how that line was blurred.
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What's Meant to Be by Erm_Thanks
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
29 Apr 2026
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An AU where Lucien and Jesminda fled Autumn to prevent the High Lord's discovery of their relationship.
When Lucien suddenly develops heir markers, he feels a strange pull back to Prythian that Jesminda doesn't share. Can't share, after all she's lost.
After a century, does Lucien still feel that they were meant to be? Or perhaps, does destiny have something else in store that he never could have expected? Will what's meant to be find a way of happening anyway?
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Lessons from the Cauldron by Erm_Thanks
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
12 Mar 2026
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The blast of magic ripped through the room, and Lucien, as he had too many times in his life, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. As Tamlin lunged for Feyre to protect her - or to grab her - she hurled a knife in his direction, with her full strength. Tamlin dived to avoid it. And the blade, forced off target by the continued tide of raw magic, embedded itself in Lucien’s chest instead.
He gasped in pain as the knife found his heart.
He heard little of the ensuing conversation. But he did hear Tamlin’s voice. And the King’s conciliatory response.
And then Lucien was thrown backwards into the Cauldron.
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A one-shot where Lucien was wounded in Hybern's throne room, and to save his life, he was thrown into the Cauldron before the Archeron sisters.
What lessons could be learnt in the Cauldron's depthless waters?
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A Court of Secrets and Flames by Erm_Thanks
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
03 Nov 2025
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The Lady of Autumn looked at the window, and answered in a low, serious voice that Eris had to strain to hear. “He has doubts that the babe is his. He wants to see him first before making an announcement to the court.”
Eris gaped, eyes darting over to the nurse in the corner that was cooing over a babe swaddled in a red knitted blanket. “Why would he have doubts, mother? What are you suggesting to me?”
His mother didn’t look at him right away. She was still just gazing at the sunlight trying to break through the tiny window, eyes a million miles away. Her hesitation told Eris all he needed to know. But still, he asked. “Should he have doubts, mother?”
Eris knew that his mother raising this with him meant something. It meant there was truth to the doubt. He knew his mother well enough by now to know that she did everything for a reason. It was one of the only ways she and his father were alike: both were secretive, both were purposeful. Always.
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A peek into some moments from Lucien's younger years in Autumn, from his birth to his exile. From the POV of Eris, as he watches his youngest brother survive in a cutthroat court that could never fully be his home.
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A Court of Secrets and Flames by Erm_Thanks
Fandom A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
03 Nov 2025
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Synthetic Strands and True Ties by CinnamonPottery
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
08 Oct 2026
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From the moment Nesta had met Cassian, she had felt that intense, captivating, influential thrum of the bond under her skin almost every minute of every day. It consumed her, occupying her mind, impacting her decisions and choices. She could not resist the pull.
There had only been four, maybe five, minutes where she hadn’t felt the bond: during the battle against Hybern.
She later learned those minutes were the exact time that Rhysand had been dead.
AU where Rhysand manufactured the bond between Nesta and Cassian, and her true mate is Eris Vanserra.
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I Know How You Feel, but I Have Never Touched You by ripvanlady
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
17 Aug 2026
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When Lucien shows up at the Velaris townhouse the evening before an important Night Court meeting, he expects Elain to make herself scarce in his presence. Instead, in a series of unprecedented events involving, wine, pastries, and umbrellas, Elain gives Lucien a look at what being a Soothsayer’s mate actually means.
When Lucien finally understands why she has been avoiding him all this time, will it bring them together? Or push them apart?
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She had seen so many versions of them in the future. She had seen him walk into his court, silhouetted by the brightest lights of Day. She had seen him mourn generational losses, fight for her honor, play politics with highest Lords at the highest levels. Not once had his integrity slipped.
And of course, she had seen him die.
She had seen him die a thousand deaths.
Hanged, drowned, burned, pushed-into-depths, fell sick, poisoned, impaled, drawn-and-quartered, beheaded. She had seen it all and it was her curse to see it over and over again until one of these distasteful fates came to pass—or until the cause of this crisis was identified and averted.
If that can even be done, she thought.
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18 Sep 2026
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All the Way Down by dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
19 Dec 2024
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Nesta knew Cassian was a good male, far better than she deserved. But even in the lowest pits of her self loathing, there is a part of her that believed she deserved better than to be a male's property. It rankled her, when she's placed in the house. And after she falls down the stairs, she's forced to confront whether she knows Cassian as well as she thinks she does.
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17 Sep 2026
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The Hand Off by TheSavageGod
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
14 Jun 2025
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Autumn and Koschei's armies have conquered Spring and Summer. Half of Winter is occupied. Prythian's armies are decimated. Prythian's last gambit is to cut the invading army off as they move through Winter's northern passes, and they can't do it without Eris's intelligence. But Eris shows up empty handed. Until Azriel discovers, to Eris's shame and dismay, that Eris does have the plans. They're just stuck inside him.
Azris Week 2025 Day 7: Free Day
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09 Feb 2026
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Something Special, Something Sacred by Vivienne1412
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
20 Jul 2025
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Since the tragic death of her mother, the disappearance of her sisters, and her father's decline into illness, Elain has always tried to be good; to be faithful. As has Lucien, who has found solace in many years of quiet country living as a village priest. But there's only so long they can hold off before impure thoughts take them over...
[Written for Elucien Week 2025 - Free Day]
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