Failing the Wyrmway
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Golden by TheDorkyMagician
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
17 Mar 2025
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Ansur, searching for Balduran across Faerûn, grudgingly enlists the help of a crew who will not call themselves adventurers. Years later, the mind flayer called Balduran searches Baldur's Gate for signs of his long-lost dog, Rascal.
This story is a Baldur's Gate 3 prequel that wonders about Ansur and the mind flayer that would be called the Emperor. How did their relationship deteriorate? Was it purely due to Balduran's ceremorphosis, or did it just make them both re-evaluate who they thought the other person was? In considering those questions, this fic theorizes about who and what is/isn't remembered in legends, the value of treasure and wealth, the power of a broken oath, what it means to be "worthy," and whether being considered "worthy" is really worth anything at all.