10 Bookmarks by Marsbar221
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Wyll stood in the cool squalor of night, nursing a sad goblet of the tiefling refugees’ best wine as he stewed in his own misery.
Just days ago, he had been nestled among them, teaching their children the necessary tools of defense. In the days after the mind flayers had forced an Illithid tadpole into his eye, Wyll found himself scrambling for purpose — to find a way to prove himself useful despite the horror that had chased him. He had been a piece of a larger puzzle, a valiant hero fulfilling his sacred duty: he had been the Blade of Frontiers!
Now, in the biting air of the night, he just felt spurned.
Provoke the Blade, suffer its sting.
Wyll kicked the tip of his foot against the sandy soil of the riverbed. Then he kicked it again, for good measure.
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- Part 1 of What's Become of You
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15 Aug 2024
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Astarion knows what it’s like to be free - or, at least he can remember when that was the case. He was a conqueror of the seas, an apex predator; now he’s little more than an exotic pet, put on display for Cazador Szarr’s esteemed guests to gawk at. He’s almost resigned himself to his fate when one of the esteemed guests isn’t quite like the others. Wyll Ravengard is the son of the Grand Duke; after a lifetime of living in his father’s shadow, he is finally finding his own path.
When an invitation arrives for a charity ball, Wyll finds himself thrust into a world littered with political deals gone sour, bribes, and the most beautiful creature - no, the most beautiful man - he’s ever seen. However, things aren't always what they seem, and it isn't long before Wyll has questions about Cazador's intentions - as well as the truth about the mysterious Star.Bookmarked by Marsbar221
12 Aug 2024
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“Pink?” Shadowheart offers, “I don't understand this aversion to one of your favorite colors. Shouldn't they get to know the real you?”
Astarion considers the question a beat too long. What does that even mean, the real Astarion?
Is that the precocious creature clinging to her mother's skirts with a mop of ringlets down her back? Is that the honor roll student who pretended to be failing to have an excuse to flirt? Is that the fashion major with a minor in embroidery? Is that the girl who has always wanted to kiss a girl, but was always a magnet for boys?
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HarvardBlackstaff - What, like it's hard?)Bookmarked by Marsbar221
29 May 2024
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In the modern world of Toril, magic and devils and the like are believed to be relics of the distant past. But 34-year-old Wyll Ravengard knows all too well that these things still lurk in the corners of his own city, Baldur’s Gate, where he fights every day in the arena of the courtroom for his clients who have no one else by their side. One mundane morning, he meets one of his semi-regulars in lockup, Astarion Ancunín, a rare elf remaining in this world. What seems like one of Astarion’s usual street-level run-ins with the law explodes into something much more—something touching the highest levels of the city-state’s government and infernal planes beyond. Wyll struggles against the forces in and out of the system that wish to use Astarion, and at the same time contends with his own long-sleeping pact with a higher power which will lead him and Astarion on a journey far beyond the familiar confines of the Gate.
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- Part 2 of Advocatus Ardens
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20 May 2024
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Three months after the fall of the Netherbrain, Astarion and Gale embark on their second adventure together.
Nobody told them that it would include inter-dimensional travel, hot dogs, and a weird store called ‘IKEA’.
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- 1/1
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06 May 2024
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Ripped from the climax of their fight with Cazador Szarr by a wayward spell, Gale and his companions must determine where (and when) they find themselves. The fate of Faerûn relies on their abilities to outwit and outmatch some of their greatest foes yet: a half-elf who won't stop touching Wyll's horns, a drunk and disorderly archmage, and a familiar high-elf magistrate with his own designs for our heroes. Finding their way home without destroying history itself means they must face the horrors of the past and, even worse, confront their hopes for their future.
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A brief history of Astarion and his uncanny ability to vex Gale in any timeline.
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20 Apr 2024
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The Royal Baldur Ballet's upcoming season is poised to be the most dramatic yet. With seven gorgeous ballets to stage, first soloist Astarion Ancunín is convinced this will be the season he finally shines bright enough, worthy of the rank of principal dancer. Enter Wyll Ravengard, stage left, and everything is about to change.
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Wyll Ravengard is most definitely not an apprentice. Astarion knows that name, Wyll Ravengard. He won the Prix de Lausanne five or so years ago, the most prestigious competition for ballet students. Even as a student, it was clear that Wyll was going to be the ballet world’s next big star.
And now he’s here, in Astarion’s barre spot. In his rank.
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- Part 1 of grand adage
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- English
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- 34/34
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14 Apr 2024
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Ulder Ravengard wants Wyll to enjoy more of the pleasures of youth, and Cazador Szarr has a solution: an enticing present for the young lord's birthday, in the form of an irresistible pale elf. To Astarion's surprise, Wyll is more interested in companionship than carnal pleasure. Their budding friendship sends ripples through the Gate's elite. But as that friendship begins to blossom into something more, the Grand Duke is called away to Elturel...
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- Part 1 of Nothing Like the Sun
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- 33/33
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Bookmarked by Marsbar221
07 Apr 2024
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Wyll never expected to find his way back to Baldur's Gate.
He doesn't intend to stay— his mother is dying, his father is still disapproving, and he has his own life now as the Blade of Frontiers.
But his return finds him almost immediately embroiled in the affairs of the influential and mysterious Szarr family.
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Astarion languishes in Baldur's Gate, trapped in the Upper City under the harrowing spectre of Cazador Szarr.
He's sick of vapid conversations with patriars who only see him as inroads to the Szarr family fortune.
And then Wyll Ravengard arrives in Baldur's Gate, and Astarion hatches a plan.
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- 23/23
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Bookmarked by Marsbar221
02 Apr 2024
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Astarion is in need of a protector, and who better than a man who became a devil to save a woman he didn't know? How much further would he go for someone he did know? Astarion resolves to seduce Wyll before Karlach can.
Except Wyll has his own infernal problems, which Astarion is dragged kicking and screaming into caring about, and worse, worse is the growing realization his feelings for Wyll might be genuine.
- Language:
- English
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- 119,103
- Chapters:
- 23/23
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Bookmarked by Marsbar221
30 Mar 2024