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Current fic: Darth Nox: Volume One - Rise to Power Main pairing: Nox/Ashara, for now

Read on AO3: [AO3 link]

It’s the first volume of a completed trilogy, the Darth Nox trilogy, and I’m planning to post the whole thing on AO3 over the coming months. The current plan is three chapters a week, usually updating on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Rise to Power is heavily inspired by the game. It follows it fairly closely at the start, then diverges, though it still reaches the same ending.

The next two volumes are AU, taking Darth Nox through his time as a Dark Lord and, eventually, Emperor.

AO3 is still the main home for the fic, but I’ll post chapter updates, excerpts, occasional lore/meta, and answer spoiler-safe questions here.

Please read first: this is an Explicit / 18+ work containing graphic violence, slavery, torture, psychological manipulation, childhood trauma, and incest.

Full tags are on AO3, please check them.

Nox has to face whatever came out of that shuttle.

“I took it from a hoarder. A deviant man. A slaver. And who says Sith must only use red? I quite like this color.”

-Nox

Before Korriban, before the trials, before the name, there was a boy born to a slave and the Sith Lord who owned her. He was never meant to know. This is the story of Darth Nox from the beginning: the childhood the galaxy never saw, and the choices that carved a Lord and then a Darth out of a slave called Jed. Told from inside his head. It gets dark, but it also gets really fun. Volume One of a completed trilogy.

If you like a dark protagonist, slow-burn power progression, real SWTOR worldbuilding, very messy relationships, start here.

There are 42 chapters live already, so there's plenty to binge.