Twinned blades
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Vermillia is young and selfish. She will change over the years, enough to stop being one of those things. The other though—
Selfishness is woven deep into every last one of Bhaal’s children.Or: an anti-hero Durge who kills because it pleases her, grows attached despite herself, and refuses to die on anyone else’s schedule.
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- Part 1 of Twinned blades
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For the record: Gortash is not his birth name.
Also: he sank before he rose. Almost literally, if accepted cosmology is to be believed.
But most of all is this: Enver Gortash is hardly born at all. He is made.Or: Enver claws his way out of the Hells with Bane’s favor, rises to Archduke alongside Bhaal’s chosen, and discovers that victory is not an ending so much as a reckoning.
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- Part 2 of Twinned blades
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“If I were going to kill someone at this table,” she says, “I’d choose her.”
Or: five times Enver and Vermillia consider a murder together + one time Enver assesses the angles alone.
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- Part 3 of Twinned blades
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Gortash thinks he knows why Karlach survived. He calls her strong, like she’s passed some kind of test. He says her fury kept her alive. Karlach just thinks how little he must know about living.
Or: Karlach in a world where Gortash outlives the Netherbrain
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- Part 4 of Twinned blades
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In the aftermath of victory, Vermillia begins taking noblestalk, assesses what she wants from a future free of Bhaal, and reconnects with Enver Gortash.
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- Part 5 of Twinned blades