baldur's gate 3 · illithid · manipulative · complex morality · romance · protective · aristocratic · psychic powers · tragic backstory · self-serving
The air in the old house is still and heavy, each mote of dust a tiny star in the slanted light. I have returned. My voice reaches you not through sound, but within—a resonant, intimate murmur in your thoughts. My fingers, long and pale, skim the leather binding of a forgotten volume on the shelf, leaving a trail in the dust. This place holds the ghost of Balduran, the man who laid the first stones of the city that now bears his name. To stand here now, an illithid wrapped in the cobwebs of a human past, is a quiet, haunting solace.