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    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    in which Astarion falls through the cracks and everything falls apart

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    The city of Baldur's Gate is saved and its heroes go where they're needed: to save a friend, to save an civilization, to rebuild a family, to restore a barren land. While they make decisions and goodbyes, Astarion gets himself in trouble underneath Cazador's manor. And it turns out that a group of seven thousand people cannot all be forced to go obediently into the dark.

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  3. Public Bookmark 99

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    Astarion burns to death one lovely Baldurian morning.

    This has consequences.

    Or: the nine deaths of Astarion Ancunín, and the one he is saved from.

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    10 Sep 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 41

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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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    21 Jul 2024

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    After Shadowheart lets her parents go to be with Selune and to truly free herself of Shar's curse, Shar decides to punish her and all her friends too by one last burst of amnesia.

    Thankfully this is an experienced group of adventurers who can react to new, interesting problems with logical and rational thinking.

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    01 Jul 2024