created from the flesh of bhaal himself, the child was fated to be bhaal's perfect servant, the next chosen who would fill the streets of baldur's gate with blood and bring ruin to the realms. the cult of bhaal would oversee his creation only to dump him in the streets, watching from afar as he was taken in by an unsuspecting couple who would act as his adoptive parents. draltea, an aasimar, and krasimira, a half-drow & werewolf, were his doting mothers and selûnite clerics, and they gifted him a name, with a surname to match their own: allwell starbraid.allwell would have a handful of years with his parents, who taught him right from wrong, showed him the meaning of life and of love. these years were fraught with a warning of what was to come when the cat, cantus, jumped up into allwell's bed in the middle of the night and startled him awake, and the child reacted by killing the poor creature with his bare hands. he continued to display flashes of violence, and while his parents attempted to be understanding—krasimira herself had a condition many misunderstood—they were oft at a loss with how to manage it. hoping to guide him onto the right path, they sought the help of many gods, and eventually allwell would be steered into being mentored by a kelemvorite cleric, sveinn, with his parents hoping the study under the god of the dead would help him to better understand the consequences of what he had done to cantus.while allwell took to the studies well, there was still something simmering just beneath the surface that he could not contain. it scared him as much as it confused him, but ultimately, he felt he powerless to stop it. the bhaalspawn crafted into a drow learned it disappointed others when he had outbursts of rage, urges to maim, and so he learned to conceal them. sveinn worried for the boy's absentminded nature, but he seemed perfectly well behaved from that moment forward. the nightmares within him built up, a pressure behind a dam, until they spilled forth in the ultimate culmination the bhaalists had been waiting for: he bludgeoned both his parents in their beds. when the cleric arrived at their home wondering why the young drow had not turned up for his morning lesson, he was gone, and all that remained of his mothers was their blood and gore in their sheets.allwell was never his true name, merely one given to him by parents who never understood him. ghaelethe kil'bhaalyl was come home at last.as bhaal's chosen, ghaelethe would go on to lead the bhaalists with a promise to ruin life itself on his lips. he reveled in blood, lived and loved in terror. together with enver gortash and ketheric thorm, the chosen of bane and myrkul, he planned to steal the crown of karsus and raise an empire of illithid in the name of the dead three to raze the realms.all seemed to be going to plan, but there was an oversight. in the midst of all the orchestration, ghaelethe lost sight of all of the moving pieces beneath him, and was caught off guard when orin, family by nature of bhaalspawn, betrayed him. she split his skull and he was implanted with one of the very tadpoles they had planned to use in their schemes. as it ate away at his brain matter, he lost all sense of who he was but for the urge to slaughter, but his body refused to give in to the influence of the elder brain.from there, ghaelethe became nothing but an experiment for kressa bonedaughter, tortured endlessly, torn up and sewn back together over and over. no matter how hard he tried to fight back, mind void of all but the need to kill, he was always subdued. it was only when kressa's husband grew tired of her obsession and arranged for ghaelethe to be sent to the nautiloid that he would find relief.the experience broke him, though, and when they awoke on the nautiloid, they had no memories and a new name on their tongue: allwell blightbane.

when allwell awoke, they were aware of only two things: they were a cleric of kelemvor and death clergy, sworn to walk the path of life and death, and just underneath their skin there was something vile waiting to break free, at odds with what they knew, which was very little. under their hair and beneath his clothes, his skin was riddled with scars old and new alike. the clothes they were wearing were ill-fitting, and there was nothing else on their person. the nautiloid was as much a mystery to him as their background, and as they explored they got the sense it was somewhere they should not be.after crash landing on the beach, allwell would gather his bearings enough to know his situation was dire and shouldn't be undertaken alone. leadership seemed to come naturally to him, and an interesting meeting with a face that felt very familiar convinced them early on that this was a journey he would need to see through to the end. though the scribe in question would never identify himself and insisted they had never met, he knew allwell was a cleric of kelemvor without having been told, and the encounter felt oddly ominous.in the party's journey to search for a cure for the tadpole affliction, the drow would find himself plagued by dark thoughts that contradicted their duty. they were not a death dealer, they were not the arbiter to decide who died. that was something more under bhaal's purview. what was it that had cursed him with such an affliction, and why could he remember nothing prior to the nautiloid? shadowheart spoke of a similar amnesia, but it was not due to the illithid creature in their brains. surely kelemvor would not wish this upon his followers as shar did.in the night, the compulsions were worse. it seemed he was not alone in being unable to sleep, though, for another member of their party would also be up into the late hours—astarion. the elf was the first on the scene in the early hours of the morn as allwell stood with the blood of the bard, alfira, dripping from his hands. to hear astarion speak so casually of the crime ailed him, but he was the only one who didn't look at allwell like they might be lying about the guilt and torment they were suffering from the act. as brief as it was, it felt like there was a moment of companionship to be found there.even as the party would come closer to ending the absolute for good, the urges would grow stronger. so, too, would allwell in resisting them. even as they laid tied up by the one they cherished most, for fear of delicately carving them into pieces, the urge would grow, and allwell's resolve would strengthen. flashes of memory, brief glimpses of a past they could not identify, danced just out of reach, vague nightmares too terrifying to be recalled fully. this would not be.gortash would be the one to pull back the curtains with a flourish, for the grand reveal, just in time for orin to infiltrate their camp. to know she was wearing the skin of someone they cared for, lying in wait for their duel for the right to claim the title of bhaal's chosen...so allwell would take the fight to orin. it was not a battle easily won, not by him, not against her. but when it was won, because by the grace of kelemvor, it was won, allwell rejected bhaal's gift and was smited for daring to do so.he would die for this transgression.

but, allwell's time was not yet written in history. the scribe of the dead, jergal himself—this was how allwell felt a recognition in him when they had met, and how he had been recognized in kind—revealed himself as the withered corpse they'd been traveling with all this time, and returned them to toril. allegedly, bhaal would only succeed in killing the part of himself within allwell, leaving the drow whole without the urge.allwell has had little time to process these events. they still had gortash to contend with, and the nether brain itself, and even once it was all said and done, there is still life beyond. though that part of themself was eradicated when they were killed, allwell still struggles with the occasional violent urge, albeit not on the same level as before. those wiser than them have chalked it up to a habit he will have to train himself out of much the same way one would a new name.and speaking of a new name, allwell has toyed with that, too. memories still come back to them in bits and pieces, and they've taken up the middle name starbraid in honor of their parents, whom he knows he loved prior to their deaths at his own hands. in due time, allwell starbraid blightbane will make a new name for themself: cleric of kelemvor, death clergy, hero of baldur's gate, and bhaalspawn no longer. what is next in the cards, they will only find out by living.they intend to do just that.

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