Icarus to Your Certainty

What would have happened if Astarion had never been abducted, never been aboard the Nautiloid? How would things be different if he met Tav after she saved the city?

Astarion, a vampire spawn shackled by the merciless will of his master, prowls the shadows of Baldur's Gate, a city still reeling from the destruction of the Nether Brain. His existence is one of survival, manipulation, and servitude-until a fateful encounter with Tav, the hero celebrated as the "Brain Breaker."

Tav, a tiefling with a sharp tongue and an unyielding sense of justice, was supposed to be nothing more than Astarion's next pawn. But when his plan to deliver her into his master's hands goes catastrophically wrong, Tav does the unthinkable: she spares him. Now bound to her by tenuous trust and mutual necessity, Astarion is thrust into the company of Tav's eccentric companions and forced to confront the humanity he's long denied.

But freedom comes with a cost. With Cazador's wrath looming and the weight of his dark past threatening to crush him, Astarion must decide what kind of monster he truly wants to be. As the group battles enemies both external and internal, Tav and Astarion find themselves drawn together in ways neither anticipated.

In a world where power is survival and kindness is a gamble, can redemption be more than just a dream?