The Ascendant Years
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Between the books of The Ascendant Years lie the years nobody wrote down. These are those years: the nights of the Vampire Ascendant of Baldur’s Gate and the consort who chose him, told in the order they happened, from the first great supper Szarr Palace gave after Cazador to the night, long after, when she finally asks.
A promise made over supper and handed back a year later. A lord of Athkatla shown the door to the river. A city bought a bridge at a time, losses kept in a row of stones, games of hunter and prey played by their own agreed rules, and a house that learns, chapter by chapter, what it keeps.
Each chapter stands alone in a gap the five books leave open. Read in order, they are one more book.
Complete, 55 chapters. Written using generative AI. Please see the notes before reading.
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- Part 1 of The Ascendant Years
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- English
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- 64,202
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- 4/55
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Six years after the Netherbrain fell, Astarion Ancunín rules Baldur's Gate from the Szarr palace, and Christessa Vhalcoris rules the parts of it he cannot yet be trusted with. She is his consort by choice: a Bhaalspawn who refused her god and kept on refusing him, who knows precisely what the Ascendant is and stays anyway. What they have built works because neither of them lies about it.
Then a cult that never quite finished dying remembers her name. An old ritual finds her blood and calls it owed. And something begins growing beneath her ribs that no one in the palace planned for, least of all a man who has spent two centuries learning that everything he loves is something he keeps.
A dark romance about possession and devotion, and the distance a man has to travel between them. And a question she has started asking herself: what her redeemed instincts are actually for.
Complete, 25 chapters. Written using generative AI. Please see the notes before reading.
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- Part 2 of The Ascendant Years
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The uncut hours of Blood and Patience: nine nights, expanded and far more explicit, set six years after the Netherbrain's fall and running from the story's first winter to its last summer. The Vampire Ascendant, his consort, and everything the household is paid not to notice.
Each scene stands alone and extends one chapter of the main work, posting only after its source chapter there, so readers following both are never spoiled. The final two chapters follow Blood and Patience into its ending; if you are finding this after both stories have finished, read that story first.
Complete, 9 chapters. Written using generative AI. Please see the notes before reading.
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- Part 3 of The Ascendant Years
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Blood and Keeping by princess_of_doctors
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
14 Oct 2026
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Eighteen years after the Netherbrain fell, the Ascendant of Baldur's Gate rules his city, and the consort who chose him rules the Ascendant, and the arrangement has outlasted every prediction made about it. Then, on a road she has travelled a hundred times, the mists open, and Christessa Vhalcoris wakes in a country that does not let people out, as the acquisition of a patient dead man with six hundred years, a castle, and a use for a creature no taxonomy can hold.
Five nights in Barovia. A rescue that arrives under guest-law. And then the harder book: the coming home, the wanting back, the one door never opened, and the discovery that some things cannot be taken, only given.
One thing the book never says aloud, so it is said here: the woman who came out of that war redeemed is not good any more.
Third work in The Ascendant Years; reading Blood and Patience and Blood and Appetite first is strongly recommended. Mind the archive warning: chapters 5 through 10 contain non-consensual content throughout.
Complete, 15 chapters. Written using generative AI. Please see the notes before reading.
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- Part 4 of The Ascendant Years
- Language:
- English
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- 30,409
- Chapters:
- 5/15
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- 57