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Canes and riding crops; expensive, split leather paddles and tawses with a lot of bite. I like to think he's very ambitious about kink, often over-rating his capacity for pain (but also enjoying the challenge of pushing it). There's something about loving the arcane that lends itself to ritual... and of course, he does like to study. Learning to take a hard spanking well would be a point of pride - if he could just stop whimpering and groaning all the way through it. Discipline is essential in an Archmage, after all ;)

When he's in a bratty mood though - provoking his partner just so they'll snap and drag him over their lap or the desk and spank him right there demands some rather more spontaneous instruments. A hand, a belt; that kind of thing. Heat of the moment, so Rolan can barely catch his breath before his partner is spanking out a sorry from him.

What he wouldn't like? Anything that's a bit too "crass". I think he likes humiliation, but he'd probably look askance at a paddle that says "slut" or whatever on it as being tacky or ridiculous. And if a particular spanking is pre-meditated instead of spontaneous, he probably prefers something precise and “fancy”, like a cane or crop, over a belt. Honestly though, I think you could work him up into being into getting spanked with anything if you just taunted him enough about it. He might grumble that "you're never using that wretched paddle ever again" and that he's going to burn it, but really, would he risk missing out on more spankings in future?

And finally, I think Act 3 Rolan in particular uncovers a layer of warmth and vulnerability, steadier and less brash than before - and from time to time being lovingly, tenderly spanked bare hand to bare ass before he offers his mouth to please his partner, is exactly the kind of intimacy he craves - especially if you've just done something dangerous together like defeating a fiend or casting a powerful, exhausting spell.

(Incidentally, I've answered a similar question to this before! You can read that ask here, but I LOVE going on about spanking Rolan, so thank you for giving me an excuse again!)

(and if you enjoy Rolan spanking, you might want to check out my fics Short Shorts (And Cold Beer), and chapter 3 of Sharess's Sundries. Damn. Have I really not written more spanking than that?! I think about it constantly. Caning and flogging will absolutely be coming up in both In Service of Magic and Fae Bindings soon though!)