#Martha toegold

[moon-warlock]

Just some mamas having a get together <3

[quitepossiblybamboozled]

Martha Toegold my beloved

[whamber]

Adding Bev to the childhood swap AU, I'm also retroactively adding the Crick Hardwon AU to this universe LOL

AU thoughts under the cut:

Moonshine:

-In the wake of the war and the high elves losing so many of their young people, opportunistic traffickers attempt to steal Crick and Field Elves to "adopt" to the high elves and hoping they'll be too desperate to ask questions

-The traffickers are caught by Lucanus and Erdan coming into Gladehome and they attempt to pass off Moonshine as an orphaned highelf but they recognize that its a scam and kill the traffickers but aren't able to determine the origin of the baby.

-Lucanus takes in Moonshine as his daughter without knowing they're actually blood related

-Moonshine grows up with a love of reading and learning, but doesn't actually thrive academically because she's too creative for the stiff academic curriculum so she feels stifled, because of this + lucanus' still marred reputation she doesn't mesh well with the upper crust high elves and starts to learn about alternative elven societies

-Finds out about Crick rot and once again uses it as a reason to avoid being groomed into a leadership position (Lucanus wanting her to take over as headmaster) And pitches leaving to go find the source of crickrot as a "study abroad experience"

-Class wise i think she would take to Necromancy from erdan but a Fungal flavoured one since she's naturally drawn to studying earthly decay and the life that comes from it

Bev:

-Bev Sr was posted near Irondeep during the war and Martha Toegold came around the time Bev was born so he could meet his son, but then they get attacked (by the chosen maybe?) and Martha and Bev Sr are killed. Eventually, baby Bev is found at the base of the mountain, and they assume he's a dwarf child and he gets sent to the dwarphange.

-He would get made fun of a lot like Hardwon but take the class clown "I'll make them laugh WITH me not AT me" approach and probably become a bard/entertainer and eventually go be a traveling bard

-Close relationship with the Bronzebeard sisters, esp Jaina since she's such an ideal Dwarf even without a beard, they find him charming because he makes them laugh and makes up songs for them.

[operationslipperypuppet]

Hello! Shaking my little tin can for beverlin dad lore please, you have very very good takes.

oh wow thanks! this might be a little more about the kid than about beverlin so sorry in advance if so

also shoutout to han, we had this conversation last night so some of these ideas were theirs or are inspired by theirs

beverly is terrified, when the idea takes hold, when he first sees a tiny little halfling baby that he is completely responsible for. but then he holds the kid. and the fear becomes less prominent.

it’s martha, and no one else, who reminds bev at one of his lowest and most terrified moments that he saved the world at 16 and this is slightly (only slightly) less scary than that. it helps. it wouldn’t have, if it came from anyone else.

moonshine is the one most aware of erlin’s struggles with confidence surrounding fatherhood. because she’s always in tune with others’ emotions and because he keeps stepping outside at night, where she happens to already be. when she addresses it, she turns him to cobb, because cobb had been a pretty damn good “father” to her and gives great advice. erlin is lighter after those conversations.

seeing hardwon holding a tiny halfling child melts many hearts. he swears up and down to protect that child from any harm that may come their way, but also knows he’ll have to get in line if it happens.

a few months into their life, baby toegold-kindleaf makes the trip to shadowfell to meet their other grandparents. redd says “that sure is a baby” in the proudest, most choked up voice possible. erlin hugs him for three minutes in response. bev sr won’t stop crying. lydia is also enamored by the child.

bev and erlin know that if they get overwhelmed, there are several people willing to swoop in and help them out. it takes a village and they have a damn good village.

this baby’s best friend growing up is big bev. a whole freaking dragon. they share the three most powerful and terrifying grandmothers in all of bahumia. their mischief worries and entertains their parents to no end. the toegold-kindleaf is the only official dragon rider for big bev.

bev retires from the green knights when he becomes a dad. it’s so early, but he wants to be there for his kid. his dad was good but he had so much doubt about his dads love at his lowest moments. he’d do anything to make sure his kid never had those thoughts.

bev teaches the kid silly little pranks. they drive erlin up the wall but he’s always so happy to see them happy. hardwon is a little less enamored with the pranks. vows vengeance (on beverly). and absolutely gets him back through his child.

the kid is a divine soul sorcerer. all the gods who love beverly and erlin knew they didn’t want to fight over who their pact would be to, so they combined powers and gifted them some innate magic. this is another terrifying thing, as parents. innate magic in your toddler. jolene is a great source of advice on this.

big bev also teaches the kid how to swim. this was not a well thought out plan, black dragons are amphibious. after some scares, it works out eventually. beverly is not allowed within 100 yards of swimming lessons.

hardwon teaches the kid how to braid hair, with moonshine and cobb’s help. turns out flowers are similar to mushrooms when it comes to braiding. but a bit easier.

when the kid decides they want to learn how to fight, they have a lot of offers for who will teach them, including jolene’s pragmatic suggestion that they just learn from some crick rangers without bias. the kid asks auntie moonie to teach them. hardwon is livid. bev is hurt. erlin laughs for ten minutes.

at the end of the day, this child is loved by everyone around them. but especially their dads. who wrap their child with so much love and support that they never for a second doubt any of that love.

ooooops this got so long. oh well here you go. thanks for the ask!!!

[naddpod-arc-tournament]

Realized I left out a lot of great Bahumian parents by focusing on the dads!

[naddpod-encounter-tourney]

Reborn:

Truly what can one say about Reborn?

It begins, beautifully, with Hardwon getting a real chance to meet Lydia and explain to her what she means to him as a person, even without her direct influence on his life.

We then get the reincarnation. Almost rolling a gnome. Seeing melora again, getting tattooed. "I've been a half elf ever since I met you." The hammer taking hardwon back. The wrestling match. The fact that the audio was nearly lost to the ages, but Emily was able to recover it with a years-old forum post.

Entering Hill Home. Bev stopping to buy a comic about a cleric (Emily's cleric) to give to Erlin. Finding out that Erllin and Egwene have been off on their own adventures with Red and Gunther.

Bev’s devastating truth. Erlin’s natural, yet painful, reaction. Egwene reassuring Bev. Balnor’s reaction, making sure Bev knew this happens to people, and that things can still work out.

Moonshine meeting Lucanus. “Hey mom and dad!” Hardwon tackling Denny. Denny getting polymorphed into a boot because he’s just that weak. The conversation with Meemaw. The actual introduction to Lucanus. “A man who never thought he’d have a child, holding his child.”

Talking to Martha Toegold. The fact that she knows already what happened to Bev IV. Telling Bev about the tree in the back. “A Bestiary of Devils and Archdevils by the paladin Beverly Toegold I”. “Your father has given you an instruction manual on how to beat him”.

Every single goddamn thing in between. Goddamn.

Heart of the World:

The Boobs take the Stormborn to the Court of Gods. They write letters to their loved ones and put them in the contingency cubby.

After a bit of a difficult trek, they happen upon a wall where they can hear the wishes and prayers of the citizens of Bahumia. They offer a “We are here for you” in return, and are rejuvenated by the reaction to their presence.

Once they get close, they call their berserkers. Moonshine turns them into elephants, then summons pixies to make the elephants fly. The Titans of Bahumia fly into battle Thiala on elephants. (Murph is given the chance to leave Emily over any of that bullshit if he so pleases).

The battle with Thiala begins. She brings back Galad. Hardwon does 297 freaking damage in the first turn. 1,082 total by the end of the fight. Moonshine uses cantrips where they count. Bev takes on his own fungal form, and eventually casts a bonus action revivify on Hardwon. Balnor dukes it out with some angels.

They see what the mind of Thiala wants them to experience. I cannot do the flashbacks as much justice as @misslevel , so here are those comments on them from a previous round.

Thiala takes a second form. Uses Alanis and Ulfgar to harness their energy and make things worse. Tries to actually destroy Melora’s heart, holding the world together. Moonshine uses Handy Andy to steal Erlin, he’s freed from the gem, and able to help heal everyone. Bev, Balnor, and Hardwon keep swinging.

Nearing the end and fearing things will get so much worse (Balnor and Hardwon keep going down), Moonshine casts Shapechange and turns into a Gold Dragon. She eats Thiala.

The Titans of Bahumia return their divine heart fragments to Melora, as they were just borrowing it. They give Pelor his heart back, resurrecting him. They save the last one for the Dusk Mother, and give her rule over the one hells, renaming it The Ruby Dawn.

Old Alanis, the traveler, returns, and asks Balnor if he’s ready. He says tearful goodbyes and returns to his timeline, ready to destroy the hounds and save his village. “It’s okay, Balnor. I knew like all the most powerful things in this world, I was only borrowing you.”

We move forward in time. They start finishing off Akarot. Set up the ritual to destroy the Hellfire Crown. Hardwon visits his father in Kord’s Great Hall. Bev and Erlin get to be kids.

A year later, they return to Moonstone for the Jamboreen.

Moonshine reacquaints herself with the dragon she hatched and invites him to live with her at the Crick. Hardwon asks for the same offer, and it is given quickly. They read Balnor’s letter by the fire. Our story then ends where it began, in The Hungry Trout Tavern.

[kindleaf]

in this universe instead of the Everything happening with the toegolds like in canon bev sr. and martha are just in the midst of the world's strangest divorce which is why their son is just kinda chilling with these two 27 year olds most of the time. bev two miller lites in voice they still love each other. it's just like they forgot how to say it i think. hardwon eight miller lites in voice i bet if i took a running jump out of the eighth story window my quads would absorb the force of the landing and i'd be fine. moonshine on acid and good vibes voice pawpaw young beverly's fingers are NOT food.

[loumulousrocks]

when morning comes, i will be by your side

fandom: naddpod characters/relationships: beverly & hardwon & moonshine, martha toegold, minor jolene & lucanus rating: G tags: mild hurt comfort, post-c1, minor c3 spoilers (just for setting, no actual details), minor panic attack, bev centric summary:

bev and hardwon are this close to pulling off a surprise party for moonshine, but somehow their presents have gone missing?

read here!

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this was written for han (@stone-stars) for the naddpod gift exchange (@naddpodgifting)! i really enjoyed writing this and i hope you enjoy!!

[regina-cordium]

BEV YELLING “MOMMY!!!” WHEN MARTHA TOEGOLD SHOWED UP AT HIS LIL CEREMONY TO MELORA 😭😭😭😭😭

[triflingshadows]

1: moonshine, hardwon, and pawpaw half asleep on beverly's much too small bed. beverly stands in the doorway with a distressed expression and says “rise and shine we’re in the shit again”

2: martha and bev the fourth, martha is holding a tray of steaming sticky buns and bev has his thumb hooked on his belt

3: bust of galad rosell

4: sketch of egwene in her armor and snake helm holding her bow in one hand and a cigarette in the other

galaderon saga doodles!

[lexicled]

complicated relationships made more complex by the tragedy of war my beloved

[chompe-diem]

martha toegold <333

DWARVEN DADDIES FINALLY FINISH THEIR ARC WOOOOOO ALL IS WELL

[fesenmoon]

bev and martha doodles! i can hit them with the iranianification beam as a treat

[operationslipperypuppet]

Headcanon question: What do you think Martha Toegold does after the end of campaign 1?

oooh now this is interesting

i’d like to think she has a nice quiet life after the cataclysm. that she’s able to relax in hill home. i think i’ve said this before but i think bev lives with her for a while, and that they kind of fall into patterns of him being an actual kid for a while. instead of summering in hill home, she summers at the crick, her son’s newer home. she spends time with jolene, and they have dinners where they talk about their crazy kids. she goes all out when it comes to bev’s wedding, and is pleasantly surprised by her husband showing up, a gift from some gods who owe the boobs 10,000 favors. it’s the last time she sees him while she’s still alive, but they don’t dwell on that. they have a wonderful day.

the rest of her life isn’t what she expected when she married a man on the track to become captain of a major paladin order. but it was full of life and love and happiness. and it was a perfect kind of imperfection.

[seabeddancefloor]

I have so many thoughts and almost everyone of them is loving the Toegolds

Anyway this post is for the bitches that love found family trope but also wish their biological family would evolve alongside them