Dark Brotherhood: Ancient Blood

Introduction

Synopsis:

     This is an illustrated Skyrim story beyond the fall of the Falkreath Dark Brotherhood sanctuary~

     After a surreal event, Cicero is inexplicably thrown back into a clear state of mind and his memories from his life prior to his madness return. We begin to learn who he really is... or was. 
     Mind games begin from external influences in what seems to be a conspiracy way bigger than him or the Dark Brotherhood. He becomes a wild card that all sides want to play against each other.

     With all of this, he has to deal with Jade; a narcissistic Listener who WON'T LISTEN. Cicero's a hypocrite trying to protect her from herself and destroy the demons from her past while running from his own in denial.

     This story also includes: Daedric Prince mischief, the Tonal Architect rising, the curse of the Green Pact Oathbreaker, and lots of secrets, betrayal, mysteries, and messy unrequited love... no seriously-

*This is not a simple love story. This is a story about foolish hearts.

This is a remaster (and "director's cut") of book one of my "Foolish Hearts Saga".

I use both lore-friendly and lore-bending headcanon for the sake of entertainment and story-building. Votes, positive feedback, and speculative discussion are always welcome and highly appreciated! But remember, I'm just doing this for fun! Please avoid negativity.

I am using this site more as an archive at this point unless I gain some sort of active audience. ALL content, old and new, can be found on deviantart.com/foolish-hearts as that is where I am most active. You can also read this on AO3- https://archiveofourown.org/users/Digital_Replicant

Please check out the spoiler-free illustrated character guide after each new character is introduced! More profiles will be added as their respective intro chapters are posted.

*All art in this story and its companion character guide is drawn by me (Digital_Replicant) and was made exclusively for Ancient Blood and is not to be used by anyone else without permission. All OCs were also created by and belong to me.

Content warnings:

*Mild sexual situations

*Occasional strong language

*Violence/murder/assault/death (they are assassins after all). 

*Pregnancy and birth

*LGBT relationships

*Drug/alcohol use 

*And art depicting all of these things to some degree. 

     Some of the NSFW art has been censored or cropped to abide by Wattpad's mature content rules. The full uncensored content can be found on AO3 and DeviantART (links on my profile)