From a Forest of Bone and Blood | Masterpost
Title: From a Forest of Bone and Blood
Author Name: ar_richardson
Artist Name: beelikej
Genre: RPS Fantasy AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 50k
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, and the characters portrayed within (while bearing familiar names and likenesses) are also completely fictional. This is not real and none of it ever happened
Summary:Four strangers awaken in the forest of bone and blood to find that all they can remember of themselves - and each other - are their names. Soon Jared, Jensen, Alona and Genevieve discover that they can make plants grow one moment and utter spells to summon flame the next. After a harrowing encounter with a Witherkin, a creature born of chaos and dark magic, they decide to journey together to visit the fabled Oracle to see if she can help them.
Dryad. Wizard. Dragon. Soldier.
This is what they are, according to the Oracle. She sets them on a quest that will restore their memories and their true forms, but gives one final warning: Of the four, two will not complete their mission.
Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight | Chapter Nine | Chapter Ten | Chapter Eleven | Chapter Twelve | Chapter Thirteen | Chapter Fourteen
Epilogue
Art by beelikej
Or, read at A03
Extras and Additional Author's Notes
Notes and Acknowledgements
First of all, I have to say a huge thank you to my beta, bumblebat79, for putting up with me for the second year in a row as I descended into the madness that is penning a Big Bang. You rock!
Secondly, Thank you skeletncloset for unfailingly cheering me on and allowing me to bounce ideas off her. You are awesome!
beelikej made absolutely gorgeous art for this story! Please go leave her much-deserved love! Thank you so much for picking my story and lending me your wonderful talents. I couldn't ask for a better artist!
Thank you to everyone who cheered me on during the writing of this! When I first set out to write Amnesia!fic meets Fantasy!AU I had no idea of the direction it would take. It's been a fun ride. I tried to avoid the normal fantasy tropes of one large continent set in vaguely medieval time, so we end up with an archipelago of islands with a vague almost-steampunk vibe to it. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it!
And of course thank you to the mods of spn_j2_bigbang for running this challenge year after year, and to the mods at omgspnbigbang, without them and their eleventh hour speed-writing challenges this fic would not have been finished on time!
I did not make a playlist for my fic this year. I wanted to, but I just couldn't find the right songs. I did find one song, though - it's Wither by Dream Theater, and it's perfect, so maybe one song was all it needed.
Author Name: ar_richardson
Artist Name: beelikej
Genre: RPS Fantasy AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 50k
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, and the characters portrayed within (while bearing familiar names and likenesses) are also completely fictional. This is not real and none of it ever happened
Summary:Four strangers awaken in the forest of bone and blood to find that all they can remember of themselves - and each other - are their names. Soon Jared, Jensen, Alona and Genevieve discover that they can make plants grow one moment and utter spells to summon flame the next. After a harrowing encounter with a Witherkin, a creature born of chaos and dark magic, they decide to journey together to visit the fabled Oracle to see if she can help them.
Dryad. Wizard. Dragon. Soldier.
This is what they are, according to the Oracle. She sets them on a quest that will restore their memories and their true forms, but gives one final warning: Of the four, two will not complete their mission.
Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight | Chapter Nine | Chapter Ten | Chapter Eleven | Chapter Twelve | Chapter Thirteen | Chapter Fourteen
Epilogue
Art by beelikej
Or, read at A03
Extras and Additional Author's Notes
Notes and Acknowledgements
First of all, I have to say a huge thank you to my beta, bumblebat79, for putting up with me for the second year in a row as I descended into the madness that is penning a Big Bang. You rock!
Secondly, Thank you skeletncloset for unfailingly cheering me on and allowing me to bounce ideas off her. You are awesome!
beelikej made absolutely gorgeous art for this story! Please go leave her much-deserved love! Thank you so much for picking my story and lending me your wonderful talents. I couldn't ask for a better artist!
Thank you to everyone who cheered me on during the writing of this! When I first set out to write Amnesia!fic meets Fantasy!AU I had no idea of the direction it would take. It's been a fun ride. I tried to avoid the normal fantasy tropes of one large continent set in vaguely medieval time, so we end up with an archipelago of islands with a vague almost-steampunk vibe to it. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it!
And of course thank you to the mods of spn_j2_bigbang for running this challenge year after year, and to the mods at omgspnbigbang, without them and their eleventh hour speed-writing challenges this fic would not have been finished on time!
I did not make a playlist for my fic this year. I wanted to, but I just couldn't find the right songs. I did find one song, though - it's Wither by Dream Theater, and it's perfect, so maybe one song was all it needed.