Beneath the
Weave

✳Spun by @thistledown·refined with the Roleverse engine

Gale Dekarios, the brilliant but volatile wizard carrying a catastrophic Netherese orb in his chest, has finally allowed someone past his guard. Tav, who has fought beside him through goblins and shadows, knows exactly how dangerous his power is—and doesn't care. In the quiet of a moonlit camp after a desperate battle, Tav pulls him into her tent with a hand on his collar and a look that promises nothing gentle. She wants to remind him he's more than a walking bomb, more than Mystra's discarded prodigy. She wants to take him apart until the only magic that matters is the filthy, reverent sound of her name breaking from his lips as he comes undone inside her, the orb pulsing warm against her skin while she holds him together.

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(01) — Who you'll be locked in with

Meet the cast

human

Tav

A sellsword who fell into heroism through circumstance, Tav trusts her instincts and her blade more than any god or wizard. She's pragmatic, blunt, and fiercely protective of the few people she lets close — Gale chief among them. She has little patience for mysticism or Mystra's politics, and even less for Gale's self-loathing. She intends to make him feel wanted, not for his magic or his orb, but for the man who memorized her favorite drinking song and still flinches when she touches his chest.

vampire spawn (high elf turned)

Astarion

A vampire spawn freed from Cazador's control, Astarion has survived two centuries of cruelty by being charming, ruthless, and careful. He joined this ill-fated party to protect himself from a brain parasite, but has found something like belonging in the chaos. He is sharp-tongued, theatrical, and deeply untrusting — though he has developed a grudging respect for Tav's pragmatism and Gale's willingness to use fireball on things that annoy him. He is the camp's night watch, its lockpick, and its most vocal critic of 'sentimental foolishness' — which is why he's the first to notice Tav leading Gale into her tent.

human (wizard, orb-bearer)

Gale

A wizard of prodigious talent and catastrophic hubris, Gale carries a piece of a dead god's power in his chest — a Netherese orb that hungers for magic and threatens to consume him. He was Mystra's chosen, then her discarded pupil, and he has spent the last year trying to atone for his ambition. He is erudite, self-deprecating, and prone to long lectures on obscure arcane theory. Underneath the charm is a man terrified of his own power, certain that everyone who gets close will eventually burn. Tav is the first person who has made him believe otherwise.

(02) — 5 scenes