WIP: The Hunaid - A TES Story of Huna and Pelinal
I've had the notion of the exploring the idea of a 'Song of Huna' to go with the Song of Pelinal for many years. I just feel like the one sentence we have about Huna the Hoplite is replete with storytelling potential, as yet unrealised. But since the beginning of the year, I've been working on my first ever fanfic, the Hunaid. And it has grown in the telling from a fragmentary epic to a full-on novelisation of an epic poem that doesn't exist.
It's nearly finished now, and if anyone is interested in reading my take on the story of Pelinal and Huna, I'd love to hear what you think!
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Hear me, Flower of Memory: I do not name here the White-Strake, Though his shadow crosses every page; I do not first sing the Bull of Kyne, Nor Perrif on her height, Nor the kings broken in their white towers. I sing Huna.
Summary: In the long shadow of the Alessian Rebellion, a grain-slave named Huna is pulled from the granaries of the Ayleids and forged into a hoplite of the rebel host, where he becomes the still point in war, the keeper of the line, and the man Pelinal Whitestrake loves beyond oath, ration, or battle-share. As Huna rises from bondage into bronze, the bond between them deepens from hard won trust into fierce, ruinous devotion, until love itself becomes part of the making of legend - the heart inside Pelinal’s wrath, and the wound from which his madness will one day break open the world.
