#man astarion wasn’t nearly the worst guy she’s ever dated by a long shot

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Morgan Lore Time! Under a cut because it got long.

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Morgan only knew Elven for most of her life; an obscure Feywild dialect that gives her an accent which immediately marks her as outsider to other Baldurians. This was deliberate. Her cult leader didn’t want his followers to be able to communicate with outside humans if they happened to encounter others somehow.

She still speaks with an accent and sometimes slips into elven when flustered or swearing. I don’t know what Elven sounds like in forgotten realms, so I’m not sure what to compare her accent to.

Learning Common and Chondathan took time and for a little bit, the only people she could communicate with were elves or other races that spoke the language.

At 16, Morgan was a newcomer to both human and faerun culture. Her wild magic, recently unleashed, was still volatile. She got kicked out of multiple temples she attempted to receive charity from because of unlucky and dangerous surges. (Maybe one is the temples has a hole in the wall now….the place was falling apart anyway)

She ends up at a brothel, eager to get paid for sex as a repressed teenager dealing with hypersexuality, but to their credit they see a child who barely speaks Common and hire her as a maid instead. She gets adopted by the elven sex workers who become her first friends and help her with her language skills (as well as keeping unsavory patrons away from her).

About a year later, she decides to learn more about controlling her magic better; at this point she’s never cast a spell deliberately, only had them randomly manifest from her wild magic. She takes the little bit of money she earned cleaning rooms and went to Sorcerous Sundries to see if she could find an instructor.

This is where she meets Lorroakan. But he didn’t go by Lorroakan at this time; and he wasn’t the owner of Sorcerous Sundries yet. She found him standing outside hawking potions (snake oil) under the name Alvan. He sees an easily manipulated attractive girl and talks her into hiring him to teach her magic.

(This is all entirely my own head canon in regards to Lorroakan, as in my story he is a fraud who stole a prestigious wizard’s name and title and conned his way into the tower. Also he seems like a creep that would date teenagers as an adult.)

She doesn’t have much money, so he extracts payment in sex. Which is all well and good to her at the time, but she is too young and naive to understand the giant red flag this man is and that he has zero respect for her. She takes him at his word that he’s a powerful wizard.

But Morgan isn’t stupid, and realizes eventually he’s not as powerful as he said he was, and really hadn’t been teaching her anything useful at all. He always seemed to be wheeling and dealing with shady people and took advantage of her willingness to explore her sexuality. While out in the markets together, one of the older merchant women hands her a Detect Thoughts scroll free of charge and tells her to watch out for that man.

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