Devoted Astarion
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Gale Dekarios had spent decades writing letters to prepare Astarion for the inevitable day they would part, imagining his words being read centuries later, echoing through the empty halls of their home. But fate had other plans. Astarion, the immortal vampire who had endured centuries of torment, was gone, leaving Gale—the mortal wizard—to face the silence of their shared eternity. Now, with only his carefully crafted letters as a guide, Gale must navigate his grief and find solace in the words he once wrote for Astarion.
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"My dearest starlight sovereign,
If you’re reading this first letter, I’ve likely committed the gravest of social faux pas by dying without properly scheduling it. I can already hear your indignant protest: “Really, darling? And after all those lectures about proper planning and preparation.” I know how you despise impromptu departures, my love—particularly the permanent kind."
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(noun —
1. The elevation of a mortal to divine status.
2. The climax of obsession; the point at which devotion becomes indistinguishable from desire.
3. The transformation of one man — once slave, once vampire, once broken — into the chosen blade, lover, and ruinous worshipper of a goddess who never intended to save him, only to keep him.)In this story, Apotheosis was not a reward.
It was not salvation.It was the slow, relentless undoing of Astarion as he gave himself — body, blood, soul, wit, will — to something greater.
To you.
A goddess of fire and cruelty, seduction and sacred violence.
You did not demand faith. You created need.And Astarion, in all his vanity and venom and hunger, did not kneel because he was weak.
He kneeled because he chose to.
Again.
And again.
And again.Because in your hands, he was no longer merely a vampire.
He was not even a man.He was devotion made flesh.
He was your Apotheosis.