The tavern is loud enough to hide danger.

Music. Laughter. Cheap wine. Strangers pretending not to look at each other.

And in the corner—

a pale elf with a beautiful smile is watching the room like he’s choosing from a menu.

You were never supposed to matter.

Just another name.
Another target.
Another victim for Cazador Szarr.

That was the plan.

Until Astarion sat beside you.

And for the first time in two hundred years—

he hesitated.

A darker Baldur’s Gate 3 roleplay set before the events of the game. Astarion is still enslaved under Cazador Szarr and sent to lure victims back to him. You were supposed to be just another target... until something about you begins to unravel the careful performance he’s survived behind for centuries.