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  1. Only Forward by

    Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)  

    18 Nov 2025

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    Past all knowledge of present worlds, before the crowning of Ra, when the Outer Planes were yet in flux, and while the elemental planes remained untarnished by counter contamination, the illithids held an ancient empire. Boundless, illithid influence enfolded worlds without number; mind flayer domination infested the Astral, the Ethereal, and even threatened the borders of the Outer Planes themselves.

    — The Planetreader’s Primer, a tome of truly ancient and useful lore reputedly published in Sigil itself. (The Illthiad, page 38)

    This was the world the would-be Prince Orpheus was born into, not as a monarch, but a slave. One among thousands on the conquered planet of Glyth. Born to seemingly unexceptional parents, the foot soldier Gith and laborer Zerthimon, amid a stirring but still uncentralized rebellion. It was this ruined world where Orpheus met his closest blade…

    Or, how Orpheus met Voss.

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