#written words

Veravin Ward, whose mother was a moon elf so good at a specific type of murder that Bhaal was tripping over himself to have her as his worshipper even though the Cult of Bhaal was humans-only. Whose mother was happy to bear the child of Murder and wouldn't have hesitated for a second to sacrifice her daughter in order to bring Bhaal back from the dead.

Veravin was raised as a Bhaalist, at first, convinced her mother adored her and that she was a good daughter, that she would be the BEST daughter, for her godly Father. Her mother taught her how to be a Bhaalist starting in the crib, and took meticilous care of Veravin. Little Vin was a little brat, spoiled as long as she behaved within the behaviour frame set by her mother, and Veravin would have done (nearly) anything for her parents. Both of them.

And then the Time of Troubles happened. And the temple Veravin grew up in lost all contact with their god. Not knowing what was going on, it was assumed Bhaal was dead.

Fortunately, Veravin’s mother knew exactly what to do in such an event.

Veravin did not want to die, and Gorion had one hell of a sense of timing, bursting in just in time to save the little girl from what would have been her end.

Unfortunately for Gorion, that meant Veravin latched onto him like a barnacle and meant that he was running around the Sword Coast with a 10-year-old Bhaalspawn newly-not-a-Bhaalist that was being extremely bratty about everything AND refused to answer to the name her mother gave her.

And then, once they settled in Candlekeep, the said brat decided to test everyone's limits in all the ways she could while ALSO completely repressing all her memories of her first 10 years of life.

It's a wonder and a testament to Gorion that Veravin turned out as well-adjusted as she did.

(This is spawned from my belief Gorion saved his Ward from actively being sacrificed instead of just saving them (her) from being groomed to be a sacrifice, and the fact the ToT took place 10 years before the Iron Crisis as before that the sacrifice wouldn't have happened, AND it having to have happened BEFORE Bane killed all Bhaalist assassins to fuel himself. That is what spawned my "Gorion running about the Sword Coast during the Time of Troubles with a 10 year old bratty Bhaalspawn in tow" agenda.)

All this to say that Veravin hasn’t entered reverie for around 10 years, she has been sleeping specifically to avoid reverie, because she does not want to remember.

You need trained...

Wow really?

Guess what...

I'm too feral of a human being

To be trained, by a man on the internet.

Well it may be a man..

Everybody hides behind a blip on a screen.

People can't handle honesty and reality.

Instead they want to

Tell you you need trained

I'm in my fifties.

I'm not a dog.

I'm not an animal.

I don't need trained.

I need people

Who know how to speak

to another human being.

If you can't respect me,

Respect my boundaries,

Respect me when I say no,

Then I guess I'm too feral to be trained.

©08/06/2026, by Jodi Harsh, My Harsh Words™

The one source of light in our tiny home

Casting us into hours of darkness

I know it’s our last barrier

It separates us from the reality

Of the outside

But you need the sun

And we

We need you

happy snippet sunday monday wednesday lol