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    "First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."

    As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.

    "Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.

    "Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.

    "Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."

    Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.

    "A what?" he asked.

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    03 Feb 2025

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    me: and this is why having absolute power over another person is unsalvageably damaging to all parties involved
    also me: skill issue. I could make it* work

    *versions of characters with compatible trauma

    On a scale of Gale to Zhongli how well are you handling this obligation (other fic: xiao & zhongli, anonymous author) what would we do without guizhong. gale needs one. His cat is trying but that's still not an equal power dynamic

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    Aite let out a nervous laugh. “Of course, Lord Morax, I have coexisted peacefully alongside the Guili Assembly for centuries. I would not dare—”

    “But you did,” Morax cut her off, voice soft but imbued with telluric power. Once again, the limestone beneath his feet shivered. “Their dreams were eaten. This is your work. Your mark is plainly on it.”

    “Allow me to explain,” Aite said, voice sickly-sweet — just like the stench of overripe fruit that pervaded her hall. “I believe I know how this…mistake…was made.”

    “Oh? Then explain.”

     

    Xiao first meets Morax when he is still enslaved to his first master. He does not expect kindness, especially not when his goddess puts him forth as the culprit in the massacre of a human settlement on a contested border.

    Morax, though, surprises him.

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    07 Jul 2025

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    After the defeat of Malefor and the reconstruction of the planet, neither Spyro nor Cynder has much of an idea what to do... but taking a guess on where to go using Spyro's poorly-controlled Aether powers is as good a guess as any.
    They arrive in the city of Brockton Bay, shortly after it's been landscaped by Leviathan, and at a time when Taylor Hebert is wondering what to do.

    What's a purple dragon without an insect friend, I ask you?

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    The noose draws tight around Storm's End, and Stannis Baratheon. But a young man not Stannis wakes in his place, and must navigate the deathly serious realities of war and politics in a land unfamiliar to him, while keeping tight hold of both castle and Stannis' people. No one ever said life was easy, and if they did, they were lying.

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    05 Jul 2025

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    ch 0 /44
    https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/enduring-the-storm-asoiaf-stannis-si.1133392/

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    In whatever twilight form he inhabits now, Maeglin is compelled to obey their every command.

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    “No one will tell me why,” Eärendil says. "I want to know."

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