Fennecs, Firearms and Fairybread: Ardat Resurgence - Prologue
Misunderstood.
This is an unofficial, non-canon story set in the wonderful and terrible Korps universe authored by @korpspropaganda.bsky.social. I will forever be a hopeless fan-dog-girl for Karen and all the authors of the Monster Fucker Book Club. If you would like to understand more about this universe, you can read the Brief Korps Primer or read some of the AMAZING canonical stories from this universe over in the MFBC Korps Shared Story Timeline. Additionally, you may find more unofficial/non-canon tales like this one in the KEU Public Index. My own introduction to this universe was through @syntaxtakes.bsky.social’s amazing Redline’s Downfall Book 1: Induction. Though I would be remiss to mention the equivalently inspiring writing of @runafjord.bsky.social and her To Crack a Geode Book 1 and 2: Dissolution and Crystallization. Then I read @mabelgreysmoke.bsky.social’s Greysmoke Rising and my world fell apart as I was shown everything broken and wrong with how I’d survived into my 20’s. Damn relatable writing and characters… And so began this whole journey… Thank you all, especially to those I have not named here, for you will forever be a part of my queer identity. I commit all my future villainy in your honour.
There are names and characters in this story that may bear resemblance to people in real life. These characters are purely fictional and purely fantasy of my own abstract mind, please do not take any of the writing here as fair representation of these people.
Fennecs, Firearms and Fairybread
Book 1: Ardat Resurgence
Prologue: Misunderstood
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After heaven and earth had separated and man had been created; after Anu, Enlil and Ereshkigal had taken charge of Heaven, Earth and Nether World; after Enki had set sail for the Nether World and the sea had raged and foamed in honor of its lord; on that day a Huluppu-tree which had been planted on the bank of the Euphrates and nourished by its waters was uprooted by the South Wind and carried off by the Euphrates.
A goddess wandering along the bank seized the floating tree, and at the word of Anu and Enlil she brought it to Inanna’s garden in Uruk. Inanna tended the tree carefully and lovingly, hoping to have made of its wood a throne and bed for herself.
After ten years had passed and the tree hat matured, Inanna, to her chagrin, found herself unable to realize her hopes. For in the meantime a dragon had set up its nest at the base of the tree, the Zu-bird had placed his young in its crown, and in its midst the demoness Lilith had built her house. But Gilgamesh, informed of Inanna’s distress, rushes to her aid.
Making light of his weighty armor, the giant slays the dragon with his huge bronze ax, seven talents and seven minas in weight. Thereupon the Zu-bird flees with his young to the mountain, while Lilith, enraged and empowered by Ereshkigal’s boon, sets to war with Gilgamesh. For what Gilgamesh and his men had accomplished was the vigilante punishment of the husband of Lilith. War-horror and unbridled rage poisoned the landscape for many Mu. The Euphrates twisted upon itself to escape the tortured soil, and many a crop perished to the air of Gilgamesh’s war. A calamity not even the Djinn could overcome.
When the Sumer marched at the foot of the Overlord, Gilgamesh did not come.
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“This world is a hive of villainy, how a state have we let it become?”
“The gifts of Anu, Enlil and Ereshkigal corrupted.”
“Lilith was right.”
“The Ardat-lilǐ and the Lilītu?”
“The balance of light. The curse of power”
“They were defeated.”
“We did not understand what we fought.”
“Steady your tongue, spirit, or Ereshkigal may take it.”
“We all see the wisdom of the ‘Nun An-ki-a’, surely brother.”
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“How might you right our transgressions?”
“Revive the ardat-lilǐ. Serve the mušḫuššu.”
“You seek to tip the balance. This will not go unnoticed.”
“Just enough brother. We will tend to the gardens.”
“If she notices, there will be nothing left.”
“We bide our time. We grow slow. By the time she notices- they ALL notice- they will see we are right.”
“Kur help us all.”