Clarion, Branwen, PG

Title: Clarion
Author: Blueinkedpalm
Fandom: Baldur's Gate
Rating: PG
Warnings: Violence
Prompt: #88, Mary McLeod Bethune (not used)
Summary: One who serves warfare must cross the earth to seek it, even after the end. Branwen.

Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valor
extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames
once we fought against the empire of heaven...
- La Strage degli Innocenti, Giambattista Marino, trans. RT

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Shape of a Paladin, Branwen, PG-13

Title: Shape of a Paladin
Author: Blue-Inked Frost
Fandom: Baldur's Gate
Rating: ~PG-13
Warnings: reference to violence, brief reference to sexual violence
Wordcount: ~9K

Summary: Phandalyn of Baldur's Gate meets a party containing evil members. As a paladin, he finds it his duty to fight them. No paladin's a perfect archetype. Branwen bears witness.

Author's Notes: Phandalyn's that knight in that tavern in the south-east of the city. He'll attack any evil characters.

A quote is lifted from the North American Medical and Surgical Journal 1826, 2(3), from Project Gutenberg.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. --Hannah Senesh (or Chana Szenes), prompt #48

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls. --Elizabeth I

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