The Darkened Wheel
...is a Minthara-centric epilogue to BG3 in which she and Tav (F!Drow) return to Menzoberranzan for the purpose of conquest and vengeance. Across decades they navigate a deadly world and its precarious trappings of politics, war, legacy, and religion. As the power of their new House grows, Minthara is targeted by the ultimate authority of drow fate: Lolth herself. An inscrutable surfeit of evil temptations, powers, and omen-dreams shadow her, demanding that she return to the Spider Queen's fold or face an eternity of torment. The harder Minthara resists Lolth, the harder it becomes to free herself of her influence. For the horrifying nature of the spider in possession of prey is to not let go.
Rated M Length: 200k+ words (WIP)
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Darkness befell the world, then from a sinister pale light unspooled a magnificent form in the shape of drow perdition. This specter of Lolth perched upon the discarnate paling of doom and creation. “My fascinating little Baenre,” she hummed, her voice an atrocity. “You come to submit to me. As would any seeking the key to my domain. Embrace me now, and your reign will surpass a millennium if you wrest control from your kin. I would make a majestic thing of you.” Fear rattled Minthara’s chest. She defied its grip to reply solemn and tremulous, “And if I do not submit to you?” “Then your reign may last a century. And when I return to this city in meteoric might and calamity, my blessèd apostles will deliver you to me, flayed and bereaved of all that you ever loved.”
LOLTH TLU MALLA • JAL ULTRINNAN ZHAH XUNDUS LOLTH BE PRAISED • ALL VICTORY IS HER DOING