Fics like Carmina Pacis

Erondites’s combination of two literary cultures launched him into the poetic stratosphere shortly after he arrived in Ferria. Ferrian love poetry had been ruled by the domina: a married woman or sex worker (sometimes the same woman, depending on how recently she spurned the poet in favor of another). She accepted or rejected the poet’s love at a whim, driving him mad to the point of near death, goddess and whore both. Poets played with the tension of wanting to give themselves wholly to someone whom they could not trust to keep their hearts safe. Erondites came from a different literary background, where the ideals of courtly love reigned supreme. These romances were always set in a distant, mythical past, about famous, long-dead and ever-beautiful kings, queens, and knights. Ephestalian literature lacked the first-person, direct longing that tortured the Ferrian poets. Erondites’s innovation derives from bringing both of these together. His mistress, named “Pacia” for the Ferrian goddess of peace, is not a cruel, married woman. She is the courtly queen come to life, and Erondites the knight who yearns for her from afar. A selection of Eronditean poetry, accompanied by a commentary

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