So I've been reading a lot of ASoIaF recently and thought 'there's not nearly enough bondage in this' so here's an attempt at something of that style. It's not so much a bondage story with a fantasy theme as it is a fantasy story with a bondage theme.
Set on the cusp of the Iron Age in the Ancient Mediterranean, we follow a captain in the Thessalian Army named Penelope as she deals with the political and social circumstances in this fantasy land of rampant slavery and lesdom.
An attack on the Trojan outpost of Mytilene on the Isle of Lesbos (real places, mind you) goes badly, raising questions about why such an attack could have failed.
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A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 1
Set in the Ancient Mediterranean, we follow a captain in the Thessalian Army named Penelope in this fantasy land of rampant slavery and lesdom.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 2
Penelope returns to Larissa to speak with the Queen, who issues Penelope with a new objective once the general is stripped... of her title.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 3
Our heroine's meeting with the Queen is interrupted by the Celt, who is then offered the generalship if she can find the traitor first - thus making it a competition. Daphne has no luck with the city councillors, and Alexis the Binder doesn't fare any better at the arena. Will Penelope find the traitor first?
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 4
The Queen sends Penelope a phallic slave as a taste of what the generalship has to offer, but Penelope finds out some distressing news when she asks him what he knows.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 5
With the information from Logical Phallusy, Penelope now suspects the Celt has been the traitor all along. She decides to regroup with her sworn sisters in the capital, but happens across an unwelcome encounter.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 6
Taken before the Queen, Penelope is officially branded as the traitor. The Celt requests that Penelope be taken into her custody so she is left to suffer in the dungeons.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 7
Penelope is reunited with a familiar face and some new ones as she is transported out of the city and towards a new life in the far away tribe of barbarian pirates, the Histri (modern day Croatia). It remains to be seen how cruel these uncivilised people can be to their slaves.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 8
Penelope recounts her experiences as well as those of her companions within the Histri village. She asks how a woman as strong as Adara became a slave, which gives Daphne a cunning plan.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 9
Following Daphne's plan, the slaves escape their binds and take revenge on their captors.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 10
After their longboat springs a leak, Penelope and her sisters are forced to make land on the banks of the Picene village (modern day... northern central Italy... Ancona? Check the appendix below) where they are greeted as friends until the chieftess learns of their past.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 11
After negotiating a deal with the witch, Penelope obtains the powerful sleeping potion. Then, a battle ensues in the Picene village!
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 12
Learning that the Histri have been torturing their slaves as a deterrent for anyone else thinking of rebelling, Zia the Dacian leaves the group to free them while the rest carry on south. They arrive at an Etruscan city and discover a different kind of rebellion.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 13
After learning about the myth inciting phallic slave equality, Penelope and her companions witness the corporal punishment of an Etruscan woman. Her crime - releasing a dangerous phallic slave upon the land.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 14
At night, Velzna is attacked by the rebel phallic slaves and Penelope must rescue the commander in order to defend the city.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 15
The Celt has been plotting for years. Everything that has happened, she has been the puppeteer behind it. And now, everything falls into place.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 16
The company leaves Velzna after the Battle of Brutes and heads towards a port city. There, the learn of what fate has befallen their homeland and Adara goes her separate way to arrive in Sparta quicker. Penelope, Daphne and their captive Serena set sail south along the coast of Latium when are lured with sweet singing to the island of the Sirens.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 17
Penelope wakes up in a cell on a mysterious island. She meets an old friend and discovers her captors have a cruel and effective way of making her sing.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 18
The wax torture continues for Penelope and her fellow captives on the island of the Sirens until Serena comes out of hiding with a proposition for her former captor.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 19
Daphne is angry at Penelope for not keeping Serena secured. Then, during the night watch, Penelope and Daphne are drugged and kidnapped by teenage pirates.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 20
Penelope and Daphne are carried by the teenage pirates, still bound and gagged, deep into a forest on the island of Sicily where they're tied to posts and left as sacrifices to a fearsome beast
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 21
Penelope and Daphne are taken back to the Cyclops' lair where they're prepared to be eaten.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 22
Penelope and her companions end up in Crete and she is invited to join Queen Adrianne in Her palace. The queen, however, has other plans.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 23
Penelope is lowered into the Minotaur's labyrinth, bound and gagged and lost.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 24
Penelope finds a new friend named Peitho and the two hatch a plan to escape the Minotaur's labyrinth.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 25
Penelope meets with her old friend Adara and tries to petition the Spartan Empress for assistance against the Celt. She then learns that Adara is actually the Spartan princess (much shock. such surprise). Serena has her own ideas, however, and challenges Adara to a duel.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 26
Serena fights off against Adara in a fierce duel of the fates.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 27
Penelope travels to Athens with her small army of Spartans, only to find her rendezvous with Ellisia was non-existent. She investigates Ellisia's disappearance by asking the Athenian lawmakers if they've seen her, but she happens across some very troubling information.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 28
Waking up in a dungeon tied naked and face-to-face with Ellisia, Penelope struggles her way to freedom.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 29
The war begins with a group of Trojan scouts being captured and interrogated. They speak of many things, including the news that reinforcements from Thrace are descending south into Thessaly.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 30
Adara the Spartan leads her force of 200 youths against the overwhelming barbarian numbers.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 31
Penelope hatches a cunning plan to infiltrate the Trojan camp by dressing up Greek soldiers as whores.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 32
Penelope returns to her household estate to wreak cold vengeance on her treacherous younger sister.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds - Chapter 33
Penelope and her Athenian allies launch an attack on the capital city of Larissa, engaging in open battle with the Celt and her sworn sisters.
Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy
A Tale of Ties and Binds
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