loaded_march

Title: The Dragon Rises
Author: loaded_march/Footloose(AO3)
Artist: mushroomtale/Mushroomtale(AO3)
Pairings/characters: Arthur/Merlin, Morgana/Leon, Gwen/Lancelot, Gwaine/Elena, full cast, OCs
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 120,000

Summary:






If Into the Badlands met The Once and Future King, this is the story that would be told:

Merlin has three strikes against him: he's one of the last surviving members of the grove of Ironwood, he's renowned as the dread sorcerer Emrys, and there's a large reward hanging over his head like a Damocles' sword. After decades of running, there's nowhere left to go. His dream of peace -- Ironwood's dream -- seems impossible to achieve until he meets the young son of a thane whose greatest secret is a traitorous desire for more than the tyranny that runs rampant throughout the Kingdoms of Albion.

It was disaster that brought the world to this. It's war that will cleanse it of its sins. But it is prophecy that heralds the day when the guardian of the realm can wear his mantle once again, and when the King of Kings will rise to take the throne that is rightly his.







Story link: On AO3
Art link: On AO3




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I was pretty bleary-eyed this morning at 0400 when I hit refresh on my Tumblr dashboard and saw that there is now a Loaded March website in addition to the Loaded March wiki.  This amazing fanwork is by kamihana (coldsilvertanuki on Tumblr), who compiled all sorts of information from what looks to be a lot of various sources and also includes fanwork -- posted there with the artists' permission, of course.

Please take a minute to visit the Loaded March website.  I'll warn you now, one minute isn't enough, though; it's several hours later and I keep going back to click on more pages.

kamihana/coldsilvertanuki, the website is amazing and I can tell you spent a lot of time on the site to pull everything together.  The amount of work you put into it is absolutely mind-boggling.

Thank you so much!

For those of you who would like to see their works included (and I'd love that, to be able to go to one place to find all the links for fanworks for LM, but no pressure!), please get in touch with the awesome website admin.