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  1. Rec 5

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    For many decades, Rhyme's life hasn't exactly been a stroll in the park. After escaping her tormentors, defeating the Netherbrain, and finally regaining her body half a year later, she is now happily married to Gale and enjoying the quiet, almost boring days of domesticity. Life is better than it has ever been.

    So what if the little magic home improvements that Gale has installed start failing one by one? That's nothing to be upset or worried about… right?

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    28 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    It's my girl and she's PERFECT because the author is PERFECT

  2. Public Bookmark 22

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    Wherein the Dark Urge discovers the truth behind her memory loss, goes on a journey of self discovery that ends up being more of a trail of corpses, and decides to take over the world.

    Everything can be read as a standalone, and everything is in chronological order.

    Where to start reading:
    1: Pre-canon Dark Urge. One-shots prior to the longfics are pre-tadpole and pre-canon stories. Expect the usual atrocities.

    2: Ruin's tale: The two longfics are an arc with a 1st POV of post-tadpole Dark Urge. Begin with Under the Black Hand, which is an Act 3 revision (starts off where you think, does not end where you think) and is the only story taking place during the events of the game. Closing the Fist picks up one month post-canon (how actually will you take over the world? it's complicated).

    3: Gortash's tale: POV third, picking up on trauma from House of Hope and continues the post-canon journey, starts with Down Comes the Claw.

    4: Multi-POV (Minthara/Ruin/others): Alternating POV 1st and third, The Grip of Steel starts 1 year post-game. This longfic will bring this tale to its finale.

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    12 May 2025

  3. Rec 6

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    A little way ahead, she can see Gale already waiting; he’s half-leaning, half-sat against a low wall, leather satchel at his side, an open book in hand. She feels it, then, the slow-spreading bloom of warmth in her chest at the sight of him.

    She thinks of slowing her pace. An attempt to suspend or hold back the march of time as she indulges in a brief moment of observation to remind herself, once again, that this is real, he’s real—but she calls out to him before she can stop herself.

     

    A little slice of post-canon life in Waterdeep for Gale and Rhyme.

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    04 Apr 2025

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    Most beloved

  4. Rec 33

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    What if the Dark Urge didn't have to kill Gortash or side with him? What if she wanted answers about her past so badly she spared him? What if the Dark Urge just couldn't bring herself to kill Bane's Chosen?

    But really, does Gortash have to die in every single ending?

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    05 Mar 2024

  5. Rec 8

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    The papers talk of Archduke Enver Gortash, rebuilding the city in accordance to his glorious vision. For Tamasvi, a new life without the oppressive control of her divine father lies before her, her first opportunity to find out who she is without his bloody influence. But the city still has the scars of a past she does not remember, and obligations made in love and duress still keep her close to those she would rather avoid lest she fall back into the seductive web of lies and secrets that so impressed the Chosen of Bane over a decade ago.
    No slate can be truly wiped clean, and the nightmare of her heritage could never remain hidden for long. There are divine consequences after all, when one commits ten thousand deaths for Bhaal...

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    05 Mar 2024