Souls of Fire by saraubs*

Chapters: Chaptered Fic
Genre: Other AU
Length: 25K – 50K
Rating: Mature
Secondary Characters: Catarina Loss, Jace Wayland, Maryse Lightwood, Robert Lightwood, Valentine Morgenstern
Secondary Pairings: Magnus Bane / Original Character
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Catarina Loss, Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland, Magnus Bane & Catarina Loss
Themes: Alec POV, Angst, Blue-Eyed Alec, Cat-Eyed Magnus, Dragons, Established Relationship, Family, First Meeting, First Time, Historical, Hurt & Comfort, Injured Alec, Injured Magnus, Injury, Magnus POV, Pining, Prince, Protective Alec, Protective Magnus, PWP, Relationship Milestones, Slow Burn, Soul Bond, Soulmates, Telepathy, Travel, Unrequited Feelings, Winter

Summary:

A pacifist raised in a warrior culture, Aleksander has been the subject of his father’s ire since he was old enough to spurn the sword. But after years of scorn and abuse, Alek finally gathers the courage to do what he’s always wanted: leave. Equipped with information that could mean the salvation of an entire culture, Alek sets out to find the dreki – a race of magic-weilding shifters – and warn them of his father’s quest to eradicate their kind.

Magnus Bane, celebrated leader of the dreki, has given up everything in order to help his people. When he accepted the mantle of Drakkson, he did so knowing that life’s ordinary pleasures were forbidden to him. Magnus was happy to make the sacrifice and has never regretted that choice – until he meets Alek. Beautiful, brave, and shockingly innocent, he’s everything that Magnus didn’t know he wanted and the one thing that he can’t have.

Thrown together out of necessity, Magnus and Alek quickly move from open hostility to begrudging respect. But with war looming on the horizon and the dreki council breathing down their necks, forging a way forward together is impossible – unless both men are willing to turn their backs on everything they believe in.