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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Aurelia (Baldur's Gate), Leon (Baldur's Gate), Dalyria (Baldur's Gate), Violet (Baldur's Gate), Petras (Baldur's Gate), Yousen (Baldur's Gate), Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Genderfluid Tav (Baldur's Gate), AFAB Tav (Baldur's Gate), Politics, Vampire Bites, Location: The Underdark (Dungeons & Dragons), Post-Canon, Hurt/Comfort, Codependency, Drama, Dysfunctional Family, Explicit Sexual Content, Blood Drinking, Blood Kink, Bard Tav (Baldur's Gate), Vampire Spawn Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Drow Tav (Baldur's Gate), Emotional Manipulation, Polyamorous Character, Established Relationship Series: Part 4 of Astarion and Zynatheri Summary:

Heroism has consequences.

After saving the world, Astarion is left with seven thousand and seven vampire spawn with nowhere to go. Somewhere deep in the Underdark is what remains of his beloved's family legacy- a ruined Drow city full of monsters. It's not a safe destination, but what other choice do they have? They're losing more spawn by the day.

Centuries of forced familiarity, torture, and starvation have left them all at each other's throats; not even Astarion and his siblings are immune to their deep-seated dysfunction. A single mortal in a sea of vampires is in enough danger, but with the jealous machinations of his siblings, Zynatheri's far from safe. And if they hurt her...

If the Underdark doesn't kill them, they might kill each other.

Unfortunately, it's not only monsters and traps they have to worry about, but the more dangerous denizens of the dark. Seven thousand vampire spawn are a ferocious fighting force, and as everyone knows, a vampire spawn is nothing but a slave. Can they truly claim the lost city, protect their sovereignty, and somehow manage to survive despite the marks Cazador's evil left on them all?

Will their dysfunction and conniving still doom them?