#setheris nelar

[dreadbirate]

If i was Hesero Nelaran I would be so mad at Setheris. Your beloved husband gets banished from court because he got into a tussle with another court buerecrat, and hes sent to the ass end of nowhere to rot to take care of the Emperor's most hated son, and you spend a decade constantly petitioning to have him returned to court, and then, the luckiest thing ever happens. Not only is the Emperor dead, the new Emperor is that kid that your husband has been taking care of, and by all logic he should think of Setheris as a sort of father figure. Not only is your husband coming back, its almost certain that he will soon be catapulted to the highest levels of government, you two are set for life baby.

It takes a while for him to properly meet with you two, makes sense he's very busy. Eventually you get your audience, and hes a very nice young man, gets a bit flustered at you maybe, but hes very polite and everything seems great. Then he refuses to have any audience with your husband for ages, and gives him a relatively minor post UNDER your husband's hated enemy that prevents him from currying any Imperial favor. Then, your husbands enemy launches a full blown coup against the Emperor, and your husband is arrested due to working for him, not great, but Erdrehasivar almost certainly knows that your honorable husband would refuse to join with Chavar, not just for personal spite, but also for moral considerations. Heck, its a rough patch, but perhaps with Chavar out of the way Setheris has a shot at some more influential office again?

Then the Emperor tells you, while youre begging to have him released, that your dipshit husband spent the last ten years beating him and subjecting him to pointless cruelties. The seemingly shoddy treatment your husband has received thus far is suddenly revealed to be surprisingly generous for a hormonal teenager who has suddenly been given near absolute power. What should've been a First Class Meal Ticket for the rest of your political lives is now going to result at best in some far away functionary position with no real influence. I would've killed him.

[winterinhimring]

I find it absolutely fascinating that, despite the fact that he and Maia mutually despise each other and he's incredibly condescending about it, Setheris gives Maia some really excellent advice about Chavar's letter, which is what sets him on the path he takes for the rest of the book. The only reason he's able to make any of the changes he makes is because he isn't dependent on Chavar, and the only reason he isn't dependent on Chavar is because Setheris warns him. Setheris assumes that Chavar (or someone else) could very well kill Maia within a year if he doesn't take the reins, and we have no reason to doubt him. Not only does he warn Maia, he warns him with great emphasis and makes sure that the lesson goes home. I don't know what it means, it just interests me.

[muppetebbtide]

setheris and chenelo had an extremely similar thing happen to them both (bundled off to fuck-off nowhere with almost no hope of seeing your family again, responsible for a child who is emblematic of your suffering and ruined life at varenechibel's hands) but the middle aged lawyer, given a perfectly well behaved child of eight to tutor, comes off as a massive weakshit baby about it compared to the post-partum teenage girl that was handling a newborn alone. we know maia was pliant and polite as a kid because osmerrem danivaran said so, so it's not even as if setheris was given anything very hard to do. because chenelo had already done all the actual totally unforgiving hard work, and still died so beloved by her son that 80% of maia's decision making was still influenced by her ten years later. setheris would have had the easiest job in the world to get maia to like him or at least tolerate him, but, what, he instantly started abusing him coz he was the only tangible and close at hand bit of varenechibel he could ever get any sort of revenge on? selfish twat and utterly lacking any kind of fortitude or perspective. chenelo should smash him with hammers

[lttrsfrmlnrrgby]

Forever torn as to which is most true: "Setheris Nelar is a man of pride and honor who's angry because he didn't commit treason and so his punishment is unfair and the emperor ruled from pique and not law," or "Setheris is angry because he didn't care if it was borderline treason so long as it worked-- he's mad at himself because he bungled the attempt to oust Chavar and overestimated his influence with Varenechibel," or "Setheris Nelar is a prideful, vain, racist imperialist whose entitlement limits his understanding of either Varenechibel or ultimately his last son, so the knowledge that he missed something and he doesn't quite understand how makes him furious every day of his life, and he'll never do the self-reflection necessary to figure it out, so it will always be a mystery he has to blame on anyone else."

[searchingforserendipity25]

au where setheris nelar tripped down the stairs of an edonomee hunting lodge while drunk off his ass and broke his neck. possibly he was tripping down the stairs drunkenly to menace maia. who is very shocked and somewhat guilty and deeply relieved. a

and also just. well. never actually writes to inform anyone at cort this happened. the last time he was moved around during relegation was very much not an improvement.

plus, of course: who is to say verenechibel won't be quick to have him tried for killing setheris? a witness for the dead might show matters plain, but maia knows, with a cold sinking sureness, that his father the emperor would not bother to deploy a witness of the dead.

there is some hysterical laughter. kevo the cook wastes some of the little sugar the household has into a cup and makes him drink it until he stops shaking, just like she did when setheris threw him into the firescreen and he bled through three layers of bandages.

still and cold, setheris bleeds very little on the faded carpet. maia isn't sure this is much better. he prays to cstheio czireizhasan and prays and the setheris - the body - is still there.

the stars press down against the windowpane dully. a mist-covered night, that made one step badly in the near-dark - if it was csetherio czireizhasan's favour that made setheris trip, maia can't dwell on it much.

better to leave it be. haru the groundskeeper and pelchara the manservant help him bury setheris out in the marshes where the bogs swallow anything mammalian assiduously. they make their way back to the lodge in silence, nearly.

only, by the time they make way near enough for the lodge to be seen, the old clogged shingles are gleaming with pale light. daybreak, and the last of the stars, stubbornly hemming it in.

and kevo is waiting by the door. aäno too, and maia had been half-sure one of them at least would have gone to town, made to inform someone.

haru and pelchara join them. lined up and weary, in the light of the new morning, and none of them look grieved, or angry, or horrified. the household of edonomee stare at him only with expectation. none of them had cause to love setheris, and all of them knew, well, his cruelty.

archduke maia drazhar, relegated from birth, is relegated still. but not, perhaps, quite as alone as he had been.

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

So you know those manhwa where people get isekaied as a some shitty minor antagonist in a book they like and have to navigate the setting armed with their knowledge of the plot?

Imagine some overworked office worker dying and waking up as Setheris Nelar. I'm thinking maybe a year or two into the relegation at Edonomee. Our protagonist knows that the Wisdom of Choharo is going to crash but also that there's nothing that they, as Setheris, can reasonably do about it (Setheris already got relegated for trying to influence the emperor; he really doesn't have a leg to stand on even if he could communicate anything without looking sus as hell). So they use their own knowledge of the book, what they learn about the court from letters from Hesero, and maybe some of Setheris's own things (if he had some books or a journal or something) to do the best they can to prepare themself and Maia for what's going to happen in a few years.

They don't have all of Setheris's knowledge, so there are a lot of gaps in what they know, but they teach Maia as best they can. And most vitally, they are nice to him.

So on that dark and stormy night when Csevet shows up, Maia is more prepared than he would've been and knows that he has "Setheris" in his corner. Our isekai protagonist, relieved that they managed to get to the canon start without fucking anything up, braces themself for an unimportant government job and obscurity, like Setheris got in canon. They got Maia where he needed to be, so they can take a break now.

And then they are completely bodied when the newly crowned Edrihasivar VII offers "Setheris" the position of Lord Chancellor.

[paradoxspaceheater]

a couple of minor tge characters i have strong pictures of in my head but haven't drawn: setheris nelar (left) and orchenis clunethar (right)

[omnisvirlupussicfiatdraco]

HELP I CAN'T FIND - Goblin Emperor Fanfiction

There's one particular fanfiction on Ao3 I encountered a while back which I sincerely beg the aid of anyone to find.

In brief, Csethiro finds out what extent of a shit Setheris was and has a lovely private chat with Beshelar, Cala and Csevet about; A) Why Setheris isn't dead yet.

B) How they can make that happen without upsetting Maia. It's been plaguing me, that little interaction and I cannot for the life of me find it. Any help appreciated. -Omnis