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Astarion Ancunin is a dancer for The Balduran Opera, who in his spare time has been taking voice lessons from a mysterious teacher. Things all seem to be going well as he finally debuts as a singer and reunites with a childhood friend (perhaps... maybe more than a friend), but there is something in the opera house. Something that wants Astarion.
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21 Apr 2024
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Ketheric Thorm and Moonrise Towers have been defeated. On the morrow, Wyll, Astarion, and the others will make for Baldur's Gate to face the other Chosen of the Dead Three and the Elder Brain they command.
While the Harpers and tieflings celebrate, Wyll thinks of his father and all the ways he is not, has never been, good enough. Astarion stumbles his way through sincerity.
And the sun rises on these once-cursed lands for the first time in a hundred years.
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01 Mar 2024
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Wyll Ravenguard is familiar with monsters. Monsters give him purpose: something to fight, a reason to keep moving forward, to avoid looking over his shoulder at the city and the home that he will never be welcome in again.
Then, he leaves Avernus with a mindflayer’s tadpole writhing through his brain. Then, he learns that the fiend he’d sworn to kill is an innocent tiefling. Then, his own personal devil tears the flesh from his bones and warps his body permanently, beyond his recognition.
Then, he wakes up in the calm of an otherwise quiet night to a vampire spawn’s teeth in his neck.
(Or: Wyll Ravenguard reshapes his definition of monsters. And maybe falls in love.)
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25 Feb 2024
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When he wakes, he is on a beach, gold, looking up at the sun.
Ah, he thinks, distant. I'm dreaming.
Astarion is never quite sure, until the moment Cazador lies dead before him, whether this entire adventure is anything more than an extremely vivid hallucination.
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18 Feb 2024
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition
Henry V, Act IV Scene iii
Fifteen years ago, Wyll Ravengard helped save the world. His reward was being left to rebuild his city, soul bound to a devil, while his friends scattered. But he's not the only person they left behind. The Vampire Ascendant, Cazador Szarr, sire of his once-upon-a-time travelling companion, Astarion, who no one's heard from in years.
Bound by his Warlock pact to leave him unharmed, Wyll has maintained an uneasy truce with Szarr for years. But when Tav returns to Baldur’s Gate from the Hells, the winds of fortune blow once more. Wyll has an opportunity to rid his city of the monster that has stalked its streets for centuries.
Except no one knows where Astarion's run off to. Or what secrets Cazador has tucked up in his palace, ready to be roused.
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15 Feb 2024