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Tano’s mother makes a desperate bid to get her young sons to safety from their father.
The prologue sets up how Yaro came to marry Tano’s mother.
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When his mother’s camp is threatened, Ryo offers himself as hostage, in accordance with Lau custom.
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- Part 5 of A Matter of Trust
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Taranis is now king of the summer country. He gives Aras orders that Aras does not at all wish to follow.
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After a disastrous raid in the summer country, Yaro inTasiyo leaves his twelve winters son as tuyo.
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Ryo and Aras meet as prisoners of an unknown but common enemy. They escape and then work together to find and defeat their enemy.
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Esau is on a special assignment for Aras. Captured, he finds himself in a cell with a young Ugaro boy.
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Ryo and Keyova inGara fall into the hands of two Lau lords near Sukarana county. Fortunately, one of them is Aras.
Ryo makes two very different decisions here than he did in canon. Those decisions initially affect also his relationship with Aras, Geras, etc.
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Ryo, Two Sorcerers and a Singer by calicoconundrum
Fandoms: Tuyo Series- Rachel Neumeier
15 Aug 2025
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Garoyo does not offer Ryo as tuyo. Instead, he sends Ryo to warn the camp, while he hopes to draw the Lau after him.
Aras, however, follows Ryo.
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The Eagle Returns (Sequel to Cry of the Eagle) by calicoconundrum
Fandoms: Tuyo Series- Rachel Neumeier
14 Aug 2025
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It is nine years after the events in Cry of the Eagle. The borderlands are peaceful and prosperous due, in large part, to changes Aras instituted.
Ryo is a frequent messenger to Lord Gaur and Lord Kasurat. But one day he brings troubling news regarding the behavior of a tribe far to the west. The inTasiyo, inGara’s most honorless enemy, have begun raiding the Lau.
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It is ten years after the attack on the inGara camp. Relations between the inGara and the Lau of Kasurat county remain somewhat uneasy. Still, Lord Aras is forced to escape attack by fleeing to the winter country.
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- Part 4 of A Matter of Trust
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A very young Ryo and Etta are saved by Lord Gaur’s men when their camp is attacked.
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- Part 3 of A Matter of Trust
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Accompanied by his great uncle, Tagaro, Ryo returns to Tavas Sen with additional messages concerning the Lau sorcerer and the enthralled Ugaro army.
Ryo and Tagaro serve as messengers to help coordinate between Lau and Ugaro as they confront this threat.
POV opens with Geras but primarily is Ryo’s POV
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- Part 2 of Messenger
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This is a bit of fluff. Darra is concerned after her youngest son, intent on becoming a great warrior like Ryo, realizes the import of the tint of red in his hair and is upset.
This is canon divergent in the sense that it is set post-canon. While there is nothing inconsistent with canon as I understand it, it does concern a child born after canon.
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While in Tavas Sen, Aras discovers an Ugaro boy, Ryo, was sent to him as a messenger but taken prisoner by Kasurat’s guard. Once Aras hears the message, he deals with the problem.
Primary point of view is that of Aras.
The message Ryo brought is not the same as in ‘Messenger.’
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In part one of a two-part fic, we meet Ryo just after he has been rescued by Aras and his men from Kasurat’s guards. Ryo has been tortured and deprived of food and water. There is no detailed description of what he suffered.
Part one sees Ryo recover and eventually recall that he had been sent as messenger to Aras with an urgent and critical message from Koro inKarano.
Ryo gradually begins to gain some trust in his rescuers.
Main POV is that of Ryo
Part two will see Aras and Ryo confront the problem that was the subject of the message he brought.
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- Part 1 of Messenger
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This carries on the story begun in Invocation and Song that was continued in Secrets and Sorcery. It is part three of the series Warrior and Sorcerer.
This story begins the morning after the battle with the Lau sorcerer at the inKera mine. As it opens, Ryo and Aras learn whether Soro and the other inKera suspect Aras of using sorcery to defeat the sorcerer, and if so, how they choose to respond. The answer will take them into inGeiro territory and a new threat arising from the Ugaro of the far north, the quarrelsome tribes that look to no king.
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Aras and Ryo first meet when a twelve-winters Ryo attempts a daring gentle raid.
Years later, they meet again under far different circumstances.
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- Part 2 of A Matter of Trust
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Ryo is visiting his inTemara cousins when he is taken up by the Lau of Kanes Sen in revenge for the deaths of Lau.
Fortunately, Lord Aras arrives just in time, but the events at Kanes Sen have a significant impact on Ryo’s life.
Years later, Aras and Ryo meet again, and the memory of what happened at Kanes Sen affects Ryo’s actions in a significant way.
This will be part of a series where Ryo and Aras meet twice in the telling, with the first meeting affecting how the second unfolds, especially with regard to the development of trust.
There are significant references to events in the book “Nikoles.” However, there are many differences here in how events unfold from canon due to Ryo’s inclusion with the inTemara being pilloried and Aras’ more timely arrival. In other words there are some spoilers for “Nikoles,” but not many more than if you read the account in “Tuyo,” given this is an alternate version with substantial differences.
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- Part 1 of A Matter of Trust
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Tomas Todaros came to the borderlands looking for his uncle, Aaron Todaros, only to find he had died. His uncle’s wife, Suelani, was living among the Ugaro with their young son, Aaron, Tomas’ only known male living relative, and thus his heir.
Aaron reluctantly visits his Lau cousin each year to work in the family business. He dreads these visits, and does not feel close to his Lau relatives.
But a time comes when they need his help, and he answers that call. When he does, he eventually discovers that some women are far more active in deciding their own fates than he thought possible among Lau.
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This is set at least six months or so after the end of Tasmakat.
Sinowa inGara tells Arayo inKera that there is no need for a tuyo any longer between inGara and inKera. Arayo is welcome to remain with the inGara or return to inKera.
What will he choose?Like the fic The Other Tuyo, this is largely an introspective piece.