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weavefroze · 4 months

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act i. the nautiloid from hell.

elsa , eldest daughter of agnarr & iduna , was born with an extreme affinity for the arcane arts , so much so that it seemed that magic wove itself into every fiber of her being. magic followed her wherever she went , manifesting itself in the ice & snow that accompanied her presence , almost without elsa even trying. it ebbed & flowed with her emotions , as did her control over it. everything she touched would turn to solid ice beneath her hands , & frost followed her every step. to contain herself was no small feat , & as such , the duke's daughter isolated herself & took to studying as much as she could , in order to learn how to control the untamed magic she carried & protect the people she cares about , namely her younger sister , anna.

by age twelve , elsa's magic had only grown stronger & more wild , & on her birthday , her father gifted her a pair of embroidered gloves , meant to put a barrier between the world & her magic. it was a gift elsa appreciated , as it allowed her a bit of freedom from the fear of freezing everything she touched , on accident or otherwise. elsa studied her father's books on magic endlessly , & when the knowledge in her father's library was not enough , she pleaded with him to allow her to study further , & he enrolled her in blackstaff to further her knowledge of the arcane , where she met gale ( @weavesick ).

meanwhile , the magic that seemed to make up elsa's entire being was also wreaking its havoc on her physical form , having influenced her appearance from birth. her skin always seemed to be covered in a thin layer of frost , cold to the touch & worst over her hands , covered by the gloves. the weave was freezing her from the inside , & she sought answers , a means to control her magic before the worst happened.

the worst happened before elsa could control her magic , the very thing she wanted to avoid. with her magic growing more unstable by the day , it was only a matter of time before she lost control entirely , lashing out with her magic & striking her sister's heart. enshrouded in frost , elsa desperately sought a cure for her sister , willing to do or trade anything to save her.

elsa's pleading drew the attention of the being who would later be her patron , offering the ability to save her sister & control of her innate magical abilities. in exchange , elsa sold her soul to a less than metaphorical devil. her sister was saved , but in response , elsa was all but banished from her childhood home when her father found out about her warlock's pact. though she saved her sister's life , elsa was cast out of her home , & returned to her schooling in waterdeep in shame.

only a few years later came the deaths of her parents , lost in a storm that claimed the lives of several others along the swords coast. heartbroken upon hearing the news from her sister , elsa left blackstaff to handle her father's estate , only leaving a letter behind for her closest friend. she returned to schooling a year later , only to find herself being shut out , & feeling all the more miserable in the wake of her parents' deaths.

all but alone in the world , elsa disappeared once again , traversing the lands , studying what she could find & keeping as much distance between herself & others for fear of hurting them. frost has climbed over her hands & forearms , & she is rarely seen without her gloves. with the aid of her warlock pact , elsa is better able to control the wild magic woven into the very fiber of her being , albeit only marginally.

far away from her home in baldur's gate , elsa was captured by the mind flayers & infected with a tadpole , something she assumed was a death sentence from all she'd learned. but when she wasn't a mindflayer within days of the nautiloid crashing , she knew something was different. not only was she alive & herself , but her magic was different , more controlled. the ice & frost still followed her wherever she went , but it was less volatile , made her less dangerous. selfishly , elsa desired no cure for the creature in her head , but didn't approve of leaning so much into the powers it offered either.

nevertheless , when reunited with her old friend , elsa decided to follow him , trusting him enough to follow him to the ends of faerun should he decide to walk it. & if a cure for the tadpole in their heads is what he sought , elsa would lend him her power.

surely , two ticking time bombs in a single group is a good idea , right ??

#╰ * ❄️ : 𝑴𝑨𝑰𝑵 𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑬 ━━━━━ down by the river .#╰ * ❄️ : 𝑴𝑬𝑻𝑨 ━━━━━ strike for love & strike for fear .#:)#part 1 baybee !!#this is a LOT of exposition rlly. im gonna write up her list of approvals/disapprovals next :)

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