VERY RARE BORROWER AU WITH MY OCS, DON'T MISS THE CHANCE TO READ IT 🗣️‼️‼️
So the AU goes something like this
Borrowers have been living in secret for centuries now. I’d say "secret" because Merlin, who is really really old, he's around 10,000 years old, he knows that borrowers exist and knows that for safety reasons they have been hiding in the same way that the fairies have been, which is in some sort of dome/barrier made with magic that prevents other species or animals from entering the borrowers' territory, and they live hidden that way.
All the higher-ups (it’s a monarchy, so the king and some important people) know that Merlin is a patron, which means that he’s like a very, very important person—A patron in my lore is like a vital magic user that is the physical representation of a magical element—essentially, he's really powerful. In the past, he offered himself to help when the borrowers needed it in extreme cases, so the higher-ups know that Merlin knows that they are alive and that they exist. And they also know that if they have any trouble that they cannot fix, they can call him.
The borrowers have a magic crystal that has been holding this dome of safety. However, it has started to crack and lose its magic. So now a group of three inexperienced but well-intentioned borrowers have to go on a mission and look for another crystal.
Here comes the important part. These three borrowers—and all the other borrowers, besides the higher-ups, for that matter—don’t know that other species know about their existence. Supposedly, only Merlin knows, and that would be like the ideal scenario, but no. Rumours spread, and somehow, because that’s how the world works, the word is out that borrowers exist, and in the black market of this world, they could be quite valuable because it’s not like common to see, it’s actually really fucking hard because <<most>> don’t come out of their safety dome. Whatever, the point is that borrowers firmly believe, and have been for centuries, that nobody else knows of their existence and that they absolutely cannot come in contact with "giants" or "monsters".
Because the higher-ups don’t want to lose the trust that their people have in them, they go and contact Merlin and ask him if there is a way that he can help this group get the crystal and back safely without revealing that other creatures know about the existence of the borrowers. And also the higher-ups know that even if they revealed that other species know about them, the borrowers wouldn’t be willing to work with the creatures that they have been told for hundreds of years are evil monsters that are out to get them, eat them and kill them. So they ask Merlin if there is something he could do, and luckily enough, there was.
He gets the other two patrons that were available, which would be Koa, the fire patron, and Asher, the nature patron. Merlin gets these two guys, and he quickly briefs them on the situation, the gravity of it and that they need to protect these 3 borrowers in their mission to get the crystal. For that, Merlin has figured out the way to use his magic to shrink them both so that way the borrowers will trust them and they would just think that they were fellow borrowers who decided to leave the dome because yes, those exist.
The higher-ups are notified about the plan that Merlin has. They agree, and Asher and Koa go to where the borrowers live. They introduce themselves to them as outside borrowers and then tell them that they were called by the higher-ups to help these three borrowers in their adventure to retrieve the crystal.
And in this whole adventure they're embarking on, you can bet your whole life savings that things go wrong. And of course they end up revealing that they are not borrowers and reverting back to the original sizes, which leads to an amazing drama that I don’t want to spoil because I wanna post it well written, but that’s like kind of the AU. I wanna post this AU more well written with dialogs and drawings so let me know if you like my silly idea that came to me in my dreams bcs yes, I literally dreamed ts 😭
