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Oathbound chapter 3 tomorrow

Titled “A Devil You Do”

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#like. in about 20 hours considering I should be in bed

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Horizon Wyll/Zevolr Explicit, 2700 words

TAGS: T4T, Trans Male Character, Redemption, Romance, Marriage, Scissoring, Tail Sex, Anal Sex

SUMMARY:

Short vignettes of Wyll and Zevlor bonding a little more each time they meet. They decide to spend their lives together.

NOTES:

I've been wanting to write Zev/Wyll for months. Just a simple piece while I get the hang of writing them, but I hope I can do one that better encapsulates them. Either way, hope you enjoy.

#one more go <3

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when i finish oathbound i think i might. like. add an additional work or a link to a document of oathbound and oathsworn mixed together.

i wrote oathsworn without having a full idea about yuta beside like, hes a wide eyed rapunzel/cinderella self insert Creechur and i wanted to kiss zevlor. but now i have a much better grasp on him and his side of the adventures while i post oathbound chapters. plus it'll give me a better integration between chapters i think if i mix them together later.

if i post the sort of "final edit" or whatever on AO3 i'll change the publishing date to be older so i dont mess w people who search works by date. we'll see.

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Horizon Wyll/Zevolr Explicit, 2700 words

TAGS: T4T, Trans Male Character, Redemption, Romance, Marriage, Scissoring, Tail Sex, Anal Sex

SUMMARY:

Short vignettes of Wyll and Zevlor bonding a little more each time they meet. They decide to spend their lives together.

NOTES:

I've been wanting to write Zev/Wyll for months. Just a simple piece while I get the hang of writing them, but I hope I can do one that better encapsulates them. Either way, hope you enjoy.

#a new fic <3 #trans allegory if you squint

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my mad ravings about raphael, gortash, the crown, mephistopheles, orpheus, the emperor....... everything......

vlaakith originally tried and failed to make a pact with dispater of dis, but it didnt go well. instead she had mother gith went instead and was captured by tiamat, imprisoned in dis, and tiamat gave vlaakith red dragons.

vlaakith (well, voss actually) bested orpheus and orpheus became imprisoned by infernal chains.

there's no real timeline for the gith and mindflayers and the like, it's pretty much Older Than Nigh Anything Else in dnd lore.

that said, i wonder how early raphael made the orphic hammer. we dont Really know how old he is, at the very least hes 1500~2000 years old if we go by the fact he Saw netheril fall. its Called the orphic hammer and his note says it can break any infernal chain, but it's very obviously made for Orpheus himself. I wonder when raphael had it made, how many chess pieces ahead he saw, or if he was able to get it forged in the short timeline of the Absolute cult's ascension.

At some point, whether he knew it would be Gortash or not that would lead to the Crown in his hands, he had "a warlock" (Korrilla I assume) buy Gortash as a child to serve as his personal servent, severely abuse him, make him live in the dungeons tortured by Nubaldin, and thus likely how Gortash learned to speak and talk the way he does - his outfit even looks like it has the same aesthetic as the House of Hope.

And from there through association with Raphael, directly or indirectly, a "misplaced" note or an overheard whisper Gortash could have learned about the Crown of Karsus enough to try and take it for himself. It's Power but it's also Power that Raphael wants very badly. What better than to steal the one thing your warden wants that would happen to give you absolute power?

Mephistopheles had the "Accelerated Grand Design" plans in his vault that just so happened to be next to the Crown of Karsus, where Gortash just so happened to see.

The Accelerated Grand Design (AGD) was written by a "mad alhoon" according to Gortash, which is a type of Illithid Lich.

I wonder if Raphael had any particular curation involved with Mephisto's vault, especially as his son - the Canian archives probably wouldn't bat an eye at the son of their Archdevil who has a penchant for theatrics and an eye for art and presentation ordering certain things be put in certain places.

So Gortash re-establishes the cult of Bane, then he happens upon the Bhaal cult led by Durge. They exchange letters and plan to heist the Crown together, obtaining the AGD as well.

After the heist, they are given dreams of being Bhaal and Bane's Chosen and need to find Myrkul's Chosen.

Upon finding Ketheric, they learn Moonrise Towers has a mindflayer colony inside of it (which is where the Emperor was tadpoled). Gortash realizes he can make the AGD.

After making use of the AGD Gortash just so happened to have a dream about gith being in the way of his plans, and that dream was enough to push him to research the gith to find out about the Astral Prism.

I wonder if the dream was sent by the Emperor, who had broken free before but at the same time was still under the Elder brain's control at this time. I don't think Raphael is one to send prophetic dreams, I feel like his choice of theatrics is much more obvious, and his choice of chess-play is much more subtle.

That dream led Gortash to send the Emperor on its quest to the Nautiloid to find the Artifact, which was then learned about by Viconia and the Sharrans who were researching the Absolute cult.

Thus, Shadowheart was also sent to the Nautiloid where she obtained the artefact with the Emperor and thus Orpheus in it.

Orpheus of course being key to the ruination of the Absolute via Raphael producing the Orphic Hammer to free him, which would allow him to acquire of the Crown of Karsus after likely gently guiding Gortash unknowingly into using the Crown to create a Netherbrain as per the Accelerated Grand Design being next to the Crown in the Vault.

As far as I'm aware (I haven't found notes or dialogue about it), Gortash didn't have an actual Plan for the Crown, which makes me think he wanted it for a) power in general, and b) to piss off Raphael.

There's quite a lot in the middle I don't think Raphael himself made happen, but I'm sure he was giddy with excitement to see everything was leading to the Crown being taken to the Material Plane and thus closer to his claws, and all he has to do is find a way to corner the happenstance adventurers who are holding the Astral Prism a way to defeat the Brain: Orpheus. From the Orphic Hammer he personally commissioned.

Mephistopheles doesn't seem to bother doing anything about the Crown. Usually, Meph is plotting how to rule other places, take over Baator/The Hells, and the like. Granted, he did send Haarlep to "distract" and spy on Raphael, who of course showed interest in the Crown and possibly was known by his father to want to be Archdevil Supreme (and perhaps.... learned to wan that sort of thing from Mephistopheles,and ironically passed on similar to Gortash while "raising" him)

It is noted that Meph gets obsessive with a particular fixation, so the Crown could have been something he didn't care about at the moment versus Raphael's obsession with it.

Also, I like the irony that Raph basically has the same obsessive attitude Meph does, a cool and collected facade hiding a wildly vitriolic and vengeful personality.

The Crown is very powerful, but it could also be that Meph wouldn't care what mortals would do with it as long as it doesn't mess with him. Or, potentially, if BG3 considers Neverwinter Nights canons, Meph in potential endings for it means he could have been banished to stay in Cania or otherwise banished from stepping foot on Toril (and thus Faerun).

#pls look at my mad ravings i spent the past 3 hours looking up notes to piece this together for myself

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Horizon Wyll/Zevolr Explicit, 2700 words

TAGS: T4T, Trans Male Character, Redemption, Romance, Marriage, Scissoring, Tail Sex, Anal Sex

SUMMARY:

Short vignettes of Wyll and Zevlor bonding a little more each time they meet. They decide to spend their lives together.

NOTES:

I've been wanting to write Zev/Wyll for months. Just a simple piece while I get the hang of writing them, but I hope I can do one that better encapsulates them. Either way, hope you enjoy.

#zevlor #wyll #bg3 wyll #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanfic #baldur's gate fanfiction #bg3 fanfiction #zevwyll #zevlor x wyll #wyll x zevlor #my fics #trans allegory if you squint

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i Love writing slice of life little things. i am Never going to get to the tiefling murder plot in this fic.

#im only slightly joking i do have it all outlined #i just also keep writing scenes of zevlor and yuta being Domestic with each other and need to figure out where to put them

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Picking this back up now that Ive rested from it a bit

#sketches #sketch

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Practice Haarlep/Raphael Explicit, 2300 words

TAGS: Oral Sex, Rough Oral Sex, Face-Fucking, Tail Sex, Foot Fetish, Humiliation

SUMMARY:

Raphael enjoys the fantasy of Haarlep as a better, prettier version of himself. Haarlep enjoys putting Raphael in his place — on the floor with a cock down his throat.

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Silly little warm up I wrapped up as a fic. Hope you enjoy.

#henlo wrote this yesterday

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Filigree Welts

Gortash/Raphael (pining, implied) Gortash/Haarlep Gortash/Durge Mature, 3k words

SUMMARY:

Short vignettes of Enver's stay in the House of Hope. Gortash had been tortured by Raphael for decades. At times, he secretly uses Haarlep to relieve his frustrations. In secret, he wishes the Bhaalspawn's claws on his back were Raphael's.

TAGS: Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied Sexual Content, Torture, Blood and Injury, Blood, Implied Relationships, Pining, Character Study

#I should write more raphtash

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Oathbound (x) Chapter 2: Fat-nosed quim

Sequel to Oathsworn Zevlor/Tav, Mature (for now)

TAGS: Tiefling Tav (Baldur's Gate), Named Tav (Baldur's Gate), Trans Male Tav (Baldur's Gate), Action/Adventure, Drama, Drama & Romance, Fights, Blood, Gore, Blood and Injury, Blood and Gore, Location: The Underdark (Dungeons & Dragons), Past Child Abuse, Past Domestic Violence, Self-Esteem Issues, Childhood Trauma, Pining

CHAPTER SUMMARY:

Duergar underestimate the adventuring party.

FIC SUMMARY:

Midquel & Sequel to Oathsworn. This story begins where Yuta and the party split from Zevlor's caravan at the Temple of Selûne in Oathsworn. Yuta is a tiefling who lived a neglected, sheltered life. Upon his first taste of freedom, he is kidnapped by mindflayers. On a shared quest with allies, he finds he has a boyish crush on the dutiful paladin protector of the exiled Elturel tieflings. He and Zevlor find companionship in each other, but there is another still that haunts Yuta's heart and mind: the devil Raphael. The cambion prince desires only the power to ascend, but sees no harm in using the young tiefling's admirations to his advantage. Yuta must overcome not only the Absolute, but balance between overindulgence and oversacrifice, and learn his actions, words, and even misguided affections have consequences. Will add tags as they come up.

CHAPTER NOTES:

I'm not totally certain exactly how many chapters there will be, I do have most of the plot drafted I just need to sit down and finalize them. I assume about 20~25 chapters if they're 1-3k words each and I currently have 30k words drafted, but that's without some bigger chapters written out fully yet. I believe I have about 15k words worth ready to post, so about half is ready to go right now give or take some editing. Hopefully by the time I post them all, I'll be finished with the rest of it.

#henlo i posted ch 2 #gunna try to post every Thursday <3