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“Oh, the persimmons are out!” she says, and reaches for some on a passing tray. “Have you had one before?”
He has—Torlin had taken such pride in anything he possessed that no one else in the Gate could claim, and such fruit doesn’t grow naturally in places like this, all the rain and so little sun. He’d commissioned a spell to nurture the trees regardless, until late in the year when they’re finally pleasant to eat. But he tells her this will be his first, and she leans close to tell him more.
A thing of patience, and precision. Inedible for all the tannins, if you pluck one too soon, but exquisite if you wait, paying off in indulgent pleasure.
The first bite spills juice over his fingers, and Valas licks it off, slowly, glancing up. It’s perfectly sweet, and he finds Enver’s eye across the room as he takes his second bite.
Valas and Gortash go to a masquerade.
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- Part 8 of Even Horror Has a Home (Valas/Gortash)
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Valas realizes somewhere between strikes, his blade fast, his hands red, life spilled warm across his feet—he’s curious. He hasn’t felt curious, not for ages, not like this.
He’s killed for others before, of course, so many times. For coin, or for practice. For pleasure. It’s often boring, the reasons one might hire the services of a murder god’s cleric: Removal of a threat. Enacting revenge. Indulging envy, or rage, for those held back by coward’s hands. The first few targets for this man, the one he’s killing for tonight, had fit that first neat category. The next few, though, cried for Bane as they died, and begged forgiveness for their failures. The ones after that, Valas hadn’t been able discern a reason for at all, no matter how much he questioned them, snapped their fingers and drove his blades into their sweet, soft places.
He doesn’t understand this Enver Gortash. He’d like to.
Valas’s first impressions of Gortash.
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- Part 2 of Even Horror Has a Home (Valas/Gortash)
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“My dear Bhaalspawn,” Gortash says, sitting back down at his side. He crosses one leg over the other, leaning closer than before. “What’s wrong with taking something simply because you want it?”
Valas can’t help but look, twisting toward him with the smallest turn.
When Valas confesses the name of the person he most longs to kill, Gortash has a plan. For what is this new alliance for, if not working together to achieve their great desires?
But it’s not that simple, for one raised by Bhaal, to admit just who or what he wants. And it’s even less simple to take it.
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- Part 3 of Even Horror Has a Home (Valas/Gortash)
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Orin sees him first on the hill, that twist-turning road fleeing shadows in the east. He looks the same as he squints, scenting the Rivington air: scales like blood-brushed bone, black robe shifting with the breeze.
The Dark Urge doesn’t see her.
Orin is everyone, as she follows the Dark Urge through Rivington’s streets, so many faces and so much skill. So why does she seethe when he seems the same?
Written for the BG3 Women’s Wrongs zine.
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Today’s task is the portraits, the many faces of Raphael leering down from the walls.
Enver hasn’t always been trusted with such delicate work, taking them down one by one to polish their frames—it’s a promotion, from the years washing the floor with his tongue, and it’s a relief, the time away from Nubaldin’s fists. It’s a reward, he suspects, for how he’s begun to suggest new ways to taunt the true debtors, the weak debtors, the debtors who deserve such little cruelties.
For he’s learned some things, in these years of hells’ fire.
Another day in the hells for Enver Flymm.
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Even Horror Has a Home (Valas/Gortash) by anderstrevelyan
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Nov 2025
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Valas is my half-drow Dark Urge—he’s the son of my Gorion’s Ward and Viconia DeVir, and this is a collection of his fics with Enver Gortash.
Haunted One is Valas’s origin story: its first half deals with his falling into Bhaal’s clutches, and the second his entanglement with Gortash. (And is perhaps the best introduction to Valas’s character.) All other fics are arranged in timeline order, though they can each be read on their own.
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Found in an upstairs trunk in Flymm's Cobblers: this scrapbook of letters details the relationship between two agents of evil.
Durgetash 2025. Day 5 Prompt: Religious Guilt
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- Part 2 of Durgetash Week 2025
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- English
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Bookmarked by anderstrevelyan
17 Nov 2025
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In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true?’ – John Wesley
Hal, Hans, and Theresa—chasing ghosts who cannot love them back. Connected character pieces.
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- Part 1 of Below the Storm
Bookmarked by anderstrevelyan
22 Aug 2025
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in an isolated system, entropy can only increase by poseidon
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
03 Feb 2024
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"A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort." - Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
This is what she wanted.
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31 Jul 2025
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“I was Sarevok’s mentor and tutored him in the blackest of rituals. If he were to succeed there is no doubt I would be among the dead, but my name would live on in his wake. There are things beyond death if you die in the right fashion, and how could there not be a place in history for the architect that shaped the actions of the ascending Lord of Murder?” – Winski Perorate, Baldur’s Gate 1
It takes a village to raise a child of Bhaal.
Bookmarked by anderstrevelyan
30 Jul 2025
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To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god.
Standalone stories about the breaking of the world’s divine order by a lord for his page.
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Bookmarked by anderstrevelyan
21 Jul 2025