Cruel World, Full of Cruel Things
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None of his whores look like me.
I’m disappointed. I tell him so.Fearing her old mistress, Tav agrees to become Astarion’s retainer—despite how he’s changed, despite how he’s broken her heart. She knows she’s trading her freedom for safety. She knows she’ll be a servant.
What she doesn’t know is how much more he’ll demand—her dignity, her loyalty, her heart. And it will take all her cunning and violence to escape him.Series
- Part 1 of Cruel World, Full of Cruel Things
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“You can come back to me,” Astarion’s specter purrs. “I’ll be furious, naturally—violently so—but I’ll have you. Surely that’s better than starving in some damp cave?”
I glare. “He’ll kill my baby.”
My Astarion adjusts, seems to remember he’s not the real thing. “You can’t know that. He’s a narcissist, darling. If he looks and sees himself, he might raise it like a prince.”
“And if he sees me?”
“Then never give him the chance,” he urges. “Show everyone just how very hard you are to kill.”
Tav ran. She slipped Astarion’s leash, left a charred drow corpse in her place, and went into hiding with their monster growing inside her—one that already has its father’s appetite.
But when Minthara’s supply drop fails to arrive, Tav is left alone, pregnant, and starving in the Underdark.
And the imaginary Astarion she’s conjured for comfort—the one shaped from her best memories—may not be hers at all.
Tav has her Bella Swan/teen mom moment in the Underdark. I doubt anyone will read this, but it was so so fun to write.
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- Part 2 of Cruel World, Full of Cruel Things
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The World, the Flesh, and the Devil by crueldisciple
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
05 Jun 2026
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Tav did everything to make Astarion believe her dead—and to keep him from ever discovering their daughter.
Years later, he murders her former matron—the woman who tormented her as a child.
It’s an apology in their mutual language, but mostly a message: he knows she’s alive.
Now Tav must return to Baldur’s Gate to face him. But how much does he know? And has she come to forgive him, or get her pound of flesh?This is a sequel to Cruel World, Full of Cruel Things, but I’ve written it so you can read it on its own.
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- Part 3 of Cruel World, Full of Cruel Things