Rearrangements
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tales_of_faerunRearrangements (300 words) by senmut
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Forgotten Realms (Legend of Drizzt)
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: Drow plotting, implied murder, memory manipulation, forced gender change
Characters: Vierna Do'Urden
Additional Tags: Canon-Divergence, Snippet fic
Summary:
There was only ever going to be one ending for Zaknafein. He'd known that from the first time Malice was actually gentle with him after a severe injury. Matrons were supposed to give Lloth anything that they cared about, after all.
Someone forgot to tell that part to Vierna. From the first time Zaknafein had shown pride in her skills, she had looked for the way to change it all. He was the first person she chose to care about, to the delight of a certain god.
In order to protect him, and further her god's agenda, changes would need to be made. The necessity of Briza's death, first-most, had to be reconciled against the tenet of not shedding drow blood without cause. Vierna assuaged her guilt over that for how many male lives she would save.
Then Malice complicated things by growing pregnant, with a certainty of a third-born male for sacrifice. Vierna calculated the ways to manipulate events around that. Convincing Malice to send Maya on the strike was the first step. The second one involved a memory draught.
Malice would be weak, expending that much energy, and pregnancy affected the innate protections of all beings. Vierna would have to follow through with a risky spell as soon as possible after, but in the end, Vierna would have stronger control over the House, and have a sister to coax into her path.
All of her plans made, Vierna contemplated the future of the soon-to-be Ninth House. With Zaknafein as her Weapon Master, the new child being raised fully under her own influence, Vierna would be in a much stronger position to effect change.
And eventually, Malice would make a mistake, one she could use or apply pressure with. Vhaeraun would have a House in Menzoberranzan by the end.
senmutChapters: 1/1
Fandom: Forgotten Realms (Legend of Drizzt)
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: Drow plotting, implied murder, memory manipulation, forced gender change
Characters: Vierna Do'Urden
Additional Tags: Canon-Divergence, Snippet fic
Summary:
Vierna decides to rearrange life to her liking
Rearrangements
There was only ever going to be one ending for Zaknafein. He'd known that from the first time Malice was actually gentle with him after a severe injury. Matrons were supposed to give Lloth anything that they cared about, after all.
Someone forgot to tell that part to Vierna. From the first time Zaknafein had shown pride in her skills, she had looked for the way to change it all. He was the first person she chose to care about, to the delight of a certain god.
In order to protect him, and further her god's agenda, changes would need to be made. The necessity of Briza's death, first-most, had to be reconciled against the tenet of not shedding drow blood without cause. Vierna assuaged her guilt over that for how many male lives she would save.
Then Malice complicated things by growing pregnant, with a certainty of a third-born male for sacrifice. Vierna calculated the ways to manipulate events around that. Convincing Malice to send Maya on the strike was the first step. The second one involved a memory draught.
Malice would be weak, expending that much energy, and pregnancy affected the innate protections of all beings. Vierna would have to follow through with a risky spell as soon as possible after, but in the end, Vierna would have stronger control over the House, and have a sister to coax into her path.
All of her plans made, Vierna contemplated the future of the soon-to-be Ninth House. With Zaknafein as her Weapon Master, the new child being raised fully under her own influence, Vierna would be in a much stronger position to effect change.
And eventually, Malice would make a mistake, one she could use or apply pressure with. Vhaeraun would have a House in Menzoberranzan by the end.
