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Where The Stolen Roses Grow by Bumbleerie
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
01 Apr 2025
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Summary
The white rose is a symbol of Ilmater, a deity of compassion, perseverance, and the easing of pain. He is the patron of the oppressed, the abused, and the tormented. Doctrine of his church may focus on suffering and bloodshed, but ultimately he is a deity in service of living and loving life.
This is likely the source of old wives' tales about roses and vampires. The scent repels them and the petals burn their skin. A rose placed on a vampire, be it on their body or the lid of their coffin, will bind them in place for eternity.
Astarion hates flowers, and he hates the rose inked into the palm of the hand he shakes when he agrees to trade Cazador's severed finger for his head. Astarion hates how there might be some credence to those tales after all, and his prayers have been answered so late.
(This was inspired by the game letting me give my tav the same facial scars as Sebastion, blissfully unaware of what they meant. Once I found out things spiraled from there.)
Title from Stolen Roses by Karen Elson)
Series
- Part 1 of Stolen Roses