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"A drow does not love, and does not trust. These things are weapons that can be turned against you, weaknesses that can be driven into your heart with more surety than any blade."
Ryme'dra Ulutar loved once - and swore to never be so foolish again. Raised by poor crafters in the lower levels of Ched Nasad, she lost her love to the conniving machinations of a Daughter of a noble House. Declared a murderer and a traitor, a life on the surface seemed too miserable to contemplate... but she did not know that living would prove the harder choice.
Gale Dekarios loved once - and it seems very likely to have signed his death warrant. Ambition has always been his greatest folly, and with his days quite literally numbered, he has tried and failed to embrace a noble, lonely death. Now infected with an illithid tadpole, he has limited time to work out how to cure his newest affliction, or risk a newly risen god from taking control of the city-leveling bomb in his chest.
But first of all, there's a sullen and amoral drow with a similarly terrible secret in their party, and he's never been one to resist a mystery.
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The Cult of the Absolute tadpoled thousands of people across the Sword Coast in the years leading up to the Absolute Crisis. When our titular hero awoke aboard the nautiloid, they were one of dozens who were unfortunate enough to be abducted that day - but what if there were others who survived long enough to stumble into the Emperor's protection, and join Tav on their fateful journey?
Chapter prompts drawn from Whumptober and Fictober fic challenges, chapters tagged with specific trigger warnings. Relationships to come.
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You were once a girl named Midnight. Before that, you were Ariel Manx. But before that, you were Mystra.
You want to be Midnight. You need to be Mystra. The world will not let you be both.
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The Golden Reign of Gortash (Tumblr Challenge July 22nd - July 28th 2024)
Seven moments in the life of Enver Gortash. Seven stories to grapple with the man who would have been a god, the boy who would become a tyrant, and the paths he took - or didn't take - to get there.
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In 1482DR, Bhaal's triumphant resurrection comes at the cost of the life of his daughter. For Enver Gortash, aspirational Banite caught in her orbit, that cost is unacceptable - and the bargain he makes to undo her death will have repercussions across the years and across the planes
In 1492DR, the Absolute Crisis teeters between chaos and collapse, undone by the workings of the courageous and charismatic paladin Carmela Tavares. Amongst her ragtag group of unlikely heroes is a woman without a past, and a voracious hunger for blood and death. To save the people of Baldur's Gate, and protect the Sword Coast from ruin, she must uncover her history with the city and the man who rules it, before Tavares calls for both of their deaths
Two people, ostensibly villains, drawn together across the years and despite the forces aligned against them. They'll fight gods and their own sense of self preservation for each other, but will that be enough?
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What if the Dark Urge didn't have to kill Gortash or side with him? What if she wanted answers about her past so badly she spared him? What if the Dark Urge just couldn't bring herself to kill Bane's Chosen?
But really, does Gortash have to die in every single ending?
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05 Mar 2024
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The papers talk of Archduke Enver Gortash, rebuilding the city in accordance to his glorious vision. For Tamasvi, a new life without the oppressive control of her divine father lies before her, her first opportunity to find out who she is without his bloody influence. But the city still has the scars of a past she does not remember, and obligations made in love and duress still keep her close to those she would rather avoid lest she fall back into the seductive web of lies and secrets that so impressed the Chosen of Bane over a decade ago.
No slate can be truly wiped clean, and the nightmare of her heritage could never remain hidden for long. There are divine consequences after all, when one commits ten thousand deaths for Bhaal...Bookmarked by Defira
05 Mar 2024
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He buried it all; the letters, the memories, the hope that the future they built together would ever see fruition. But then a spark of hope comes by way of Orin's meddling (once again). On the far end of the Sword Coast, a bloodied chosen rises once more, hoping to find the answers to the missing memories in her mind... and if her true nature would prevail once more.
Durgetash romance with a Bhaal-accepting Durge. Graphic elements in later chapters, messy relationship dynamics, this isn't so much a love story as it is a tragedy about two very stubborn people.
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04 Mar 2024
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Tav woke up in an unfamiliar bed, with a bad headache and a bed companion in the shape of an archduke. Unfortunately for Tav, her memories were quite muddled. So when the lump next to her called her "wife", she may have been more than a little bit freaked out.
Or,
Enver Gortash woke up to find his wife trying to kill him. Again. This was all very inconvenient.
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A story of love, one might say. But not these two. No, these two would say that their story was built upon death threats and late night barrelmancy negotiations, and Disintegration spells that missed and the Power Word Kill that didn't. Love was only the ambush Gortash walked into once, and Tav walked into twice.
**Now updated with Bonus Extended Epilogue Chapter**
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fortune's expensive smile by softagenda (cricketbone)
Fandoms: TOUCHSTARVED (Red Spring Studio Visual Novel)
25 Apr 2023
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“Now, who could use some good luck?”
Leander spun on his heel, surveying the tavern with a grin as his hounds cheered, slapped their hands on tables, jostling bottles and glasses, some leaning in and tugging at the end of his cloak to plead with him. He resolved to pick a recent client to further the good tides from good business when an unfamiliar face peered up from the crowd.
Once he’d met her gaze through the dust and dusk of the tavern, a strange charge had settled in the air.
( Introduction to Leander, told through his eyes)
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02 May 2023