The multiTAVerse and its love stories has grown so much since patch 8 that it deserves its own post now, so buckle up friends, story time!
I will successively post more detailed lore, VP and OSs but have a fresh (updated) overview about the ships for now (I linked the respective ship tag behind the ship names from my bluesky if you want to read more about them) 🤍 I worked a lot on #folktav ship lore through tavQOTDs on and VP sets/OSs in the last weeks/months. Also by preparing my very first zine contributions✨ | my memes and writing masterpost
Welcome to the multiTAVerse – Ship Edition✨
Tav (i) – The burdened druid – Tav of Reithwin
Human [They/Them]. Druid. Circle of the land.
Gale. Lost to godhood. #greenweave
[If not stated otherwise are VP taken by me!] Gale leaves Tav by the docks behind [on the right] by the incredible @swordsbardkat
Karlach. Saved in Avernus. #copperburns
Friends to Lovers to Spouses.
Happened somewhere between hell, the return to Reithwin town and fixed broken hearts.
Tav (ii) – Faithwarden – Tav Dekarios
Human [They/Them]. Druid. Circle of the land.
Gale. Married and insufferably happy in Waterdeep. Crown in the river. #natureweave
Tav and Gale at their wedding by the wonderful @skelvron-keiman
Karlach and Tav (ii) are besties, joined at the hip, completely platonic! She is alive and well in Avernus with Wyll and they eventually fixed her heart!
Tav (iii) – The Sunlit Paladin – Tav Dekarios
Human [They/Them]. Paladin. Oath of Devotion.
Gale. Adventuring across the realms as an obnoxiously blissful, married couple. Crown with Mystra. #devotionweave
Tav and Karlach had a very odd relationship, always dancing on the edges of romantic/sexual attraction and tension. They never really acted on it and believed to be ‘just friends’ until the end. Letting Karlach die like she had wished to was the paladin’s last act of love for her in this life. I like to call them #DevotionFireThatNeverWas
Tav (iv) – The star-crossed druid – tbd (currently in mid act 2)
Human [They/Them]. Druid. Circle of the stars.
Gale. He knows these hands, he knows this magic, brimming with life and so welcoming and generous that pulls him out of the portal he was stuck in. He knows these eyes, he knows these lips, he knows… Tav! And the world held its breath as it witnessed their reunion #ConstellationWeave
Karlach. Smitten by the druid with starlight in their eyes since the moment they met. But how does she know what the druid feels like in her arms before they could even touch one another? Why does she see Reithwin free of the curse bathed in sunlight, rain and snow and flowers in her dreams and Tav older and wiser in between it all? #ConstellationFire
Tav. Remembers. The pain, the love, the desperation. The joy. The endless heartbreak. And the journey ahead thrice, the decisions and the darkness of the curse four times now. If it is their fate to carry the load of four lives then they deserve to be selfish for once. Tav wants both, the soulmate who holds their happiness in his hands and the adored friend who will never be just a friend again, not when they remember a life in her arms! #FireConstellationWeave