❛ Oh, Look At You, An Attempt At Greatness! Pity It’s Just An Attempt.  ❜ // @spiderwarden

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add + to reverse so receiver is the one cleaning blood off sender.

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"Consider it... a personal blessing."

True Soul Nere of Baldur's Gate III. Independent. Private. Selective. Roleplay/Writing Account. Written by Walden.

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people? caring for me? loving me? sticking around? sounds fake must be after something

“Am I safe with you?” [ @dryadalismagicae ] { Na'elle }

The laugh that follows her question is sudden and sharp and unkind, yet how amusing it all is!

Before, she would have been in peril because he was under the thrall of some mind-flayer scheme. And now? Now, even should he wish to do so—and why would he?—he lacks any and all ability to draw upon the magicks that his pact with the Absolute had bestowed unto him. The laugh is double-edged and slices him, also, to the core.

The reason, how-ever, is not one he intends to share. He had done well covering his powerlessness since leaving Grymforge. He has no intention of revealing his predicament now.

"Safe with me?" he repeats, every syllable measured and serrated.

"I do not think that you could have asked a more insipid question if you had tried to find one."

Let her assume the reason for his scathing remark: that he feels not the slightest indebted to her, that he has no attachment to any of these ridiculous fools, that he would just as soon let them all suffer the consequences of whatever asinine decision they might next make and take the artifact for himself.

She can think whatever she likes. It is no matter to him.

[ He knows the truth. ]

How are you feeling?

I won’t play your psychological games

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐄𝐂𝐘; 𝙺𝙴𝚈𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙳 𝚂𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙲𝙷 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 '𝙶𝙾𝙾𝙳𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂'.

change  pronouns,  tenses  and  other  details  as  deemed  necessary. &  please  specify  muse  when  sending  to  a  mumu.

“It’s  said  the  white  warrior  will  be  able  to  manipulate  fire.”

“For  even  the  very  wise  cannot  see  all  ends.”

“In  order  to  create  light,  you  must  first  live  in  light.”

“On  the  quarter  moon  when  you  hear  the  third  owl's  call,  remember,  only  a  sacrifice  of  blood  may  save  you.”

“The words were: "what  you  dream,  what  you  darkly  desire,  find  it  by  trial  or  by  fire".”

“I  saw  Doom...  but  of  the  most  beautiful  kind.”

“In  a  rain  of  fire  and  from  the  ashes  of  destruction,  an  heir  shall  ascend.”

“One  to  be  a  murderer,  the  other  to  be  martyred,  one  to  be  a  monarch,  the  other  to  go  mad.”

“Wisdom's  daughter  walks  alone.”

“Prophecy  is  slippery,  dangerous,  open  to  fatal  misinterpretation.”

“Either  must  die  at  the  hand  of  the  other  for  neither  can  live  while  the  other  survives.”

“Until  something  is  prophesied,  it  cannot  be  built.”

“The  sky  will  fall,  a  star  will  rise.”

“Mother  of  many,  Mother  of  none,  a  Queen  will  fall  and  a  Warrior  will  come.”

“Run from it all you like, it's pointless. Your future is, and always will, be as it was written... from your first heartbeat to your last, neither you nor I can escape.”

“Beware  the  darkness  of  dragons,  beware  the  stalker  of  dreams,  beware  the  talons  of  power  and  fire,  beware  one  who  is  not  what  she  seems.”

CONCERNING NERE, THE ABOVE, AND THE UNDERDARK // @neredoesnotfail

Unless he has a very good reason to go about in the daytime--responsibilities or someone that he tends to be around who keeps a daytime schedule--Nere will absolutely become a nocturnal being if he stays Above following the events of the game as he decides that he thoroughly hates the sun and the brightness of daytime. Honestly, the sky in general quietly terrifies him the first time he's Above (and, y'know, in his right mind to where he can really pay attention to it). He's used to the "ceiling" of the Underdark, no matter how far up it may go. Being Above and there being just vast amounts of nothingness overhead is kind of a terrifying prospect. He absolutely ended up with some variation of agoraphobia and he was definitely feeling it for a while until he grows more accustomed to it. Even some time after the fact, it still occasionally catches him if he thinks about it. It isn't quite full-blown panic attack levels, but more of a slight tightness to chest and higher awareness sort of thing. [ And if the vast open nothingness of space overhead freaks him out, just imagine his reaction the first time the clouds open up in a total downpour. Drops falling from rocks overhead in the Underdark? Sure. Fine. Water POURING DOWN from the sky? Absolutely horrifying the first time it happened. ] He really never does get fully used to it---the weather, the general brightness, and, specifically, THE SUN---and I think, to some degree or other, he will always miss the Underdark, regardless of the pain and suffering he experienced there. Certainly, he reaches the conclusion that Lolth and the culture he grew up in are Not Great [it takes time, but when the difference of how he is treated is like the night to the day, it happens faster than one might expect, once he decides it's genuine], but the Underdark was and is still where he considers to be home. [ In the case of the self-contained verses and the story I'll never write, I do think that Asha's wonder at the stars makes an impression on him. He likes to hear her talk about the constellations and to tell the stories of them. If there's anything good about the sky, it's the stars, and that is about as far as he'll go. ] Best case scenario? Someone take him to the Arcane Tower and let him make a place for himself there. No bad memories like from Grymforge. Not even close to Menzoberranzan. And it certainly isn't like Lenore will be using it ever again. And he does still want to learn magic, so he would have plenty of space to do so, and, while he learns, the ability to protect against people who already use magic as well. It's really one of the only places in the Underdark that he might feel relatively safe.

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

“Pick your battles. Pick… pick fewer battles than that. Put some back. That’s too many.”

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