“Man should toil and rise through his own efforts – not divine magic. So sayeth the Mother.” I am Michael – a mage short in stature, but well endowed with magic and dick – and that “toil, not magic” crap has been the stupid, _stupid_ refrain of my life. I’d escaped my shitty country, with its tiresome dogma and Paladin thug enforcers, as soon as I became a man, but on a return visit I got mixed up in a bit of trouble. OK, I witnessed a little massacre. Wasn’t my fault. But read on if you want to hear about my revisiting old asses, breeding new ones, and getting deeply entangled in paladinic nonsense. Sexy nonsense. Fantasy with deep worldbuilding, m/m, gay, highly explicit, dom/sub and dubcon elements, top’s POV