User blog comment:LilyheartsLightning/Author Ex Maraudia — A Review of Marauder Shields/@comment-4950455-20121008004303/@comment-24174486-20121008223802

I've read quite a few fan works where it didn't stick rigidly to the lore, where it made some liberties with canon, and I found them to be good stories. That's mainly because those fan works didn't claim that they were completely accurate to the lore established in the original works.