Summary

All of her marks are slighly shining, like distant stars in the night sky. | | Family | • Grandparents: Cheney and Achlys — Druids of the stars, they met after Cheney made a ritual that invoked Achlys from the Feywilds. She had to leave years later to protect her family from the monsters who were hunting her all this time back in her homelands. Whether she’s still alive or not is uncertain. Cheney died in the war opposing Ketheric and the Harpers a century ago. **• Parents: Merle & Aurora — Halsin found Merle in the rubbles after the war in the Shadow-cursed Lands and brought him back to the grove with him. He grew up without druid abilities, but very close to nature and animals, as a Beastmaster Ranger. Aurora, Cheney & Achlys’ daughter, loved to explore the world and often left the grove, giving it’s leadership to Halsin. She became an Harper to help people around Faêrun, as she hated to hide away in the Emerald Grove. Merle and her became close after doing some scout missions, and eventually she fell pregnant. They were scared of how people would see their union, as their kid would be marginalized as neither Human, nor Elven, just something in between, never fully belonging. • Sibling: Orion — Born as two identical female twins, Vesper and Orion grew up together. Orion came out as trans-masc at a very young age, but people in the Grove helped him in his transition as much as they could, always accepting and loving him. All the worries Merle & Aurora had was unfounded, as the Grove was very welcoming and loved the twins energy, bringing a new breath of fresh air to the Grove. • Lovers: Elwyn (Past), multiple people around Baldur’s Gate and Waterdeep (Past) and Astarion (Current) — Her first lover was a human called Elwyn in the Emerald Grove, but it didn’t last long as they had too many differences. It’s also when Vesper found out she was asexual. She then started a few reletionships with writers, clerics, merchants all around the cities she visited, but it sadly never lasted long. The only long relationship she ever had was with Astarion. They never got married, but it’s as if it was the case. • Child: Saoirse — Dhampir little baby called after the freedom Vesper & Astarion cherish over everything. A little kid full of life and hunger, who became a little menace to monsters as a Monster Slayer Ranger. | | Summary | Vesper and her twin brother Orion were born in the Emerald Grove, living with their parents Merle — a human ranger, and Aurora — an high elf druid.

She learnt how to use staves and glaives with her mother, and archery with her father. While Orion studied scimitars and shield combat, dreaming to adventuring himself in the dangerous Underdark for his mycology studies as a druid of the spores. Born in a Selûnite family, they were sent on their own to fulfill the ritual on a full moon. The woods were so dark, cold and scary… she couldn’t help but wild shape for the first time, as a survival mechanism. Orion ran into her, in her owlbear form, but she didn’t recognized him yet, scarring his face by accident.

Since his transition🏳️‍⚧️, the two twins got even closer. Their multiple differences made them grow. They never left each other’s side for too long, with Vesper visiting him in the Underdark often, and then in Baldur’s Gate when he moved in with his drow husband. Years passed, and Vesper spent most of them studying books, exploring nature in wild shape, practising her parents arts… all in a quite lonely existence. Beside her family — and well, the druid grove, which was like family anyway, she didn’t had many friends. Her chaotic demeanour and rudeness due to her inability of understanding social cues didn’t help bond ties with strangers. When her human father died of elderness, that sentiment of solitude only grew stronger, but instead of reaching out, she shut herself off even more.

Until the day her brother stopped answering her letters, and she knew something was wrong. She immediately left for Baldur’s Gate, and only found his house empty, long dried blood stains on the floor. She tried to find Orion or his husband Tuìn for days, in vain. That’s when the illithid nautiloid appeared and kidnapped citizens, Vesper being one of them. When they crashed near her homeland, she was terrified. Mindflayer tadpoles, her brother missing, the Grove in danger, Halsin disappeared, her mother possibly abducted as well… This was too much. She knew she couldn’t deal with this on her own, and bonded with the other infected people, like her.

Their shared goals and mutual connection help them build a sturdy relationship of respect and trust, some more genuine than others. She finally felt comfortable being herself with them, letting her chaos shine, her questioning values rings and her blade slash when it was required. They were not always agreeing with her actions, but they remained supportive of most, and that was enough.

Vesper started feeling things for Astarion the more he opened up to her, and she opened up to him. Outside of a handful of people, she never shared so much with someone. The anxiety of this situation might have tipped the scales in his favour, as she was willing to do things she normally wouldn’t, for the sake of comfort. She was using him, and he was using her. After their first night together, she felt that he was holding back something and not being entirely honest. That his smiles were nothing but a façade he built over the years to protect himself. And from this moment on, she promised herself to make him smile one day. Not because he felt forced, but a sincere smile of joy.

Upon reuniting with Halsin, who’s always been more than a leader to her — a grandfather, somehow, as he took care of Merle since he was a child; they wandered in the Shadowcursed Lands. Praying Selûne to guide her, she reached Last Light Inn and met Isobel, a well-known cleric she’s read about in many books before. Halsin told her about the war that occured in these lands a century ago, when he found her father. About Isobel’s death, too. But Vesper also read about Ketheric Thorm, the Selûnite who turned his back to the Lady of Silver for Shar. This land was cursed with shadows and sorrow as thick as Gale’s gooey soups, and she would help the Moonmaiden light pass through the darkness again.

Afer reaching Baldur’s Gate and helping Astarion fullfil his revenge with Cazador, she took her own with Orin, when she discovered the Bhaal Chosen herself was behind Tuìn’s murder. Shadowheart, finally arriving the Shar Temple she wanted, got not-so-surprising revelations: she was a Selûnite, like her. Vesper suspected it since the moment Shadowheart shared some memories with her. But more surprisingly, over meeting Viconia DeVir, she saw Orion, dressed in a black sharran ceremonial outfit. The loss of his husband got the best of him, and he preffered to forget, give in to Mistress of the Night. She couldn’t lose her new-found sister and twin brother to Shar’s fate, now. Vesper delivered them and their memories. Just like she delivered thousands of souls from the Absolute’s power, her own too.

While Astarion was still a vampire spawn avoiding the sun, they continued to move on with their recently recovered freedom. But her mother was still missing, and the four of them — Vesper, Astarion Ancunìn, Jenevelle Santos Hallowleaf & Orion; went to look for her. Khaga was apparently involved in her disappearance, as Aurora was supposed to take leadership of the Grove if somethingwere to happen to Halsin. They looked for Shadow Druids hideouts, sent other druids to her research too. And after perillous journeys across Faerûn, they finally brought her back, alive.

Decades of adventures awaited Astarion and Vesper, throughout the Forgotten Realms and the different planes of existence. They even reached out to Karlach & Wyll in Avernus for a while. The two of them also attented as “teachers” for a week seminar at Gale’s school to share their adventures, and Vesper’s latest research about plants and potion making.

Vesper eventually reached the point where she could have Timeless Body, making her close to immortal, to Astarion’s greatest relief. But after more than a century together, another “normally impossible” thing occured. Vesper fell pregnant of a dhampir daugther they called Saoirse: Freedom. And suddenly the thought of living a “normal” life wasn’t just a foreign dream. They were scared for their child, as most books about dhampir depicts way to recognize and kill them, but never how to raise one. Doing their best while remaining their chaotic selves, they make sure she would never feel lonely, unloved or miss anything — at all cost. They also helped her understand her dhampir hunger and ways to manage it. Ways to become stronger and use it as an ability, and not an affliction.

Years later, Saoirse became a ranger, like her grandfather, and choose to adventure like her parents. People might think vampires and dhampirs are monsters, but she was a good one. Willing to fight other monsters for the well being of others, she became a monster slayer and a bounty hunter, hunting all sorts of creatures with her shapr senses, feeding her hunger on them to avoid killing good people.

Saoirse also eventually met Xan, as Lae’zel and Vesper stayed in contact through the planes. Xan visited Faerûn often to learn more from its people, before going back to the Astral Plane to help his mother in their fight against the Lich Queen, Vlaakith. The two of them became an item, first flirting to tease him as he acted very calmly and seriously at all times, but finally falling in love when he showed her his most vulnerable sides. |

Vesper’s Gallery

Saoirse's Lullaby by Somni.mp4

[Saoirse’s Lullaby composed by Somni! (+ this wonderul PicMix of Vesper lmao)](https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/f77d01cc-6911-4b92-9061-43f85f5570ca/621c2b11-4962-4cfa-ae7b-82a2c8aea85d/Saoirses_Lullaby_by_Somni.mp3)

Saoirse’s Lullaby composed by Somni! (+ this wonderul PicMix of Vesper lmao)

[Vesper’s Theme composed by **Somni** as well!](https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/f77d01cc-6911-4b92-9061-43f85f5570ca/57cd72aa-3c20-4ed6-a49a-177939a17dd7/Vespers_Theme_by_Somni.mp3)

Vesper’s Theme composed by **Somni** as well!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78TJwF66Fs7UrWMvqATntI?si=0b9f3596ee914227

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Main Themes

Prologue

✦ Astarion’s Past

✦ Vesper’s Past

Act I

✦ Taste of Freedom

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✦ Need // Want

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Act II

✦ Taste of Love

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✦ Shadow-Cursed Lands

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