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  1. Blood and Keeping by

    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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