Afterdawn | +18
Summary:
"...What you need is a friend..."
Baldur's Gate is rebuilding, the companions are drifting back to their own lives, and Astarion is left with a victory he can't stand in the sunlight to enjoy. Elowen chooses not to move on. Instead, she walks the road with him as another traveling companion, sharing tents, watch shifts, and late-night honesty.
What follows isn't a grand prophetic quest, but a quieter, stubborn one: Elowen begins chasing half-whispers and forgotten lore about why the sun burns a vampire spawn who refused ascension. Ruins, odd priests, strange books, wrong questions in the wrong temples and little threads she calls "research" and he calls "madness," even as he continues to follow her lead.
Afterdawn is the stretch of road where nothing huge seems to happen from the outside: campfires, small jobs, detours, close calls, and two people circling something they have no words for yet. Underneath, Elowen is pulling on something old and bright and dangerous. By the end, that thread is tight enough that it's not going to let either of them go.
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A/N: Idk. I just finished the game after playing it for 3 months, sparingly.
This is post BG3. I sat and admittedly? felt surreal after 🤪. And got inspired(?) Anyways, my hands itched for a continuation. This is my WIP.
ALSO. This is unromanced astarion... but OC chose to still stay with him. if anything its romanced/fling Halsin back in their hey days lol.
ALSO i could not find for the life of me the source of my cover pic. found it on tiktok though? I couldnt credit the artist 🥲