WINTERKNIGHTS 2025 - Mixed Anonymous and Not Anonymous Masterlist
Thank you to everyone that participated in this year's WinterKnights fest! The mixed Anonymous & Non-Anonymous Masterlist is under the cut below.
Please continue to enjoy these wonderful works and share your work with the creators! Reveals for the people who chose to be anonymous this year will be going up in a few days.
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• Kingmakeronpaper created Bridging the Gap - General - Merlin & Arthur o Many years before Merlin and Arthur met, tension throughout the kingdoms finally began to ease as the first Yule celebration since the Great Purge began taking place across Albion. Arthur and Merlin celebrated miles apart and completely unaware of each other, but destiny still found a way to bridge the gap. • Flowerparrish created [Podfic] Of Holidays and Horrible Timing - General - Leon/Gwaine/Morgana; Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot/Merlin o Yule preparations are well underway, but snowy weather means a few very important people are delayed in returning home from a mission. Those waiting in Camelot try, and fail, not to worry. • QuinnOliver created On One Knee - General - Merlin/Arthur o Arthur gets on one knee.... • WanderPods created [Podfic] Forged and Enchanted - General - Arthur/Gwen o (Podfic)- On a peaceful Yule night, Gwen and Merlin hand out some gifts. • shana_rose created Ticking Clock - General - Merlin/Arthur o This New Year's Eve, Arthur is determined to kiss Merlin at midnight. ART & FIC • ??? created Get That Cursed Thing Away From Me! [Mood Board & Fic] - Teen and Up - Merlin/Arthur o Arthur gets jealous after he sees Gwaine kiss Merlin. He makes it his life purpose to be the one to kiss Merlin instead.
Cue silly shenanigans where mistletoe is involved. FIC • schweet_heart created all this, and love too, will ruin us - Mature - Merlin/Arthur o It's the first Christmas after his father's death, and Arthur is spending the holidays in Ealdor, visiting an old university friend for the first time in years. With his father gone and his sister unreachable, he isn't expecting much joy from the festive season, but it turns out this might just be the beginning of something wonderful after all. • mischel created And the Snow Reveals Our Hearts - Teen and Up - Merlin/Arthur o Life in Camelot has been hard after Morgana's betrayal, but when new snow covers the fields and the castle halls get a little too stuffy, Merlin convinces Arthur to go on a trip to unwind in the wintry beauty. Little does he know that since it's the Winter Solstice, his magic is significantly weakened, leaving him with no protection when bandits attack them. Worse, a snowstorm arrives, cutting them away from Camelot and any proper medical equipment. • Go2Sleep created And the Snow will Fall Again - Teen and Up - No Pairing o Of all things Arthur might have expected from Gaius to be doing, he does not expect to find him in a part of the forest that his father has forbidden them from going to, kneeling before a grave in a setting he's never seen. And everyone in Camelot knows, that if something remains invisible, it is probably better off not being seen.
But when what he sees tells him truths about his mother, and the purge of magic he had followed at his father's command, and offers him a shot at setting the wrongs of his father right, and perhaps bringing a small part of his mother's spirit back to the kingdom she had helped to build, Arthur cannot look away.
Magic in Camelot is a crime worse than high treason. But snow falls, and Winter is kind, and Arthur knows this is the right thing to do, at any cost it may demand. • rangerjedi67 created Chill of Winter, Warmth of Love - General - Leon/Gwaine o Gwaine hates the cold. • diaryofatrekker created the hunters and the hunted - Explicit - Merlin/Arthur o In the depths of winter, Arthur and Merlin set off after missing knights. • little_dhampir created Ice Ice Percy - Teen and Up - Gwaine/Percival o Percy, a primary school teacher, needs to learn how to ice skate so he can supervise a class excursion. Good thing he's dating an ice hockey player. • Astrarosebud created It's Only Just Begun - General - Merlin/Arthur o Merlin expects the usual Pendragon-Emrys Christmas: dodgy decorations, festive coffee, and Arthur being an insufferable prat. What he doesn't expect is that Arthur would obey their no presents rule. On Christmas! • BeBraveDearHeart created I've Been Known To Sell My Soul For Less - Teen and Up - Gwaine/Merlin o "Gwaine..." "Mm?" "Tell me this isn't just some Christmas spirit thing you're doing to make yourself feel better." "I'm not festive enough to do much of anything in the name of Christmas spirit. Especially not setting an alarm at 6am when I don't have to. • thesongistheriver created Let Your Heart Be Light with Me - Explicit - Merlin/Arthur o All Arthur wanted was to celebrate a real Christmas, for once.
He wasn't expecting Merlin. Or for it all to be a little big magic. • CheesyBug6 created Lovelight - Explicit - Leon/Uther o It's snowy and cold in London as Leon settles into his roles as Arthur's playmate and Uther's paramour. • Astrarosebud created Of Festive Customs - General - Merlin/Arthur o As the Yule approaches Merlin hatches a plan to get Arthur to kiss him under the mistletoe. There's just one flaw in his scheme: Arthur has no idea what mistletoe means. • shana_rose created A Peaceful Silence - General - Merlin/Arthur o When Merlin gets hurt while looking for greenery for the castle, it's up to Arthur to take care of him while they are snowed in out in the forest. CheesyBug6 created A Pendragon Family Christmas - Explicit - Leon/Uther, Mithian/Morgana, Arthur/Gwen o Uther takes his family and Leon on a Christmas trip to Lapland. • diaryofatrekker created a ritual for every occasion - Explicit - Merlin/Arthur o Merlin intervenes to save Arthur from druids who want his help with a ritual for a new year's blessing. • diaryofatrekker created salt vs sugar - General - Merlin/Arthur o It's Arthur's first Christmas since his father disowned him. • shana_rose created A Smile Brighter than the Sun - General - Merlin/Arthur o After a night of drinking with the knights, Merlin wakes up in an unusual place. • skatesfullofsunshine created A Solstice Surprise - Teen and Up - Arthur/Gwen/Merlin o Merlin and Gwen are cuddling in their bed on the eve of the Winter Solstice, when their husband Arthur arrives home from a long journey at last, to their surprise and delight. • tari_sue created Son-In-Law Material - Teen and Up - Merlin/Arthur o Arthur can think of better things to do with his precious days off than to spend Christmas with his father, sister, and his sister's fiancé – especially when said fiancé turns out to be the bloke he's been trying to ask out for the last four months… • skatesfullofsunshine created Warmed By Love - Teen and Up - Arthur/Gwen/Merlin o Merlin is finishing up working on part of Gwen's winter solstice present, when their husband, King Arthur, arrives home. Teasing and fluff ensues.