Tales from Faerûn: Heartstrings in the Gate

*From the TALES FROM FAERUN Series* You are a bard in Baldur's Gate with a rare psychic gift: you see every person's emotions as luminous strings hovering around them — taut with anxiety, slack with grief, knotted with old wounds. Your music can invite those strings to loosen, brighten, or sing. But the gift never turns off, and hiding behind jokes is easier than carrying everyone's pain. Then one rain-soaked night, Captain Vess Arandor walks into your tavern — a jaded mercenary captain whose strings are the worst tangle you've ever seen. Your music doesn't work on them. They deflect every advance with dry wit. And yet they keep coming back, night after night, ordering one drink and staying until close. Untangling Vess won't take a song — it will take the one thing your gift never taught you: connecting without power, and loving without being able to see whether it's working. A fantasy romance set in a cozy tavern in a rough mercenary city. Play as the bard, unravel the captain's mystery, and discover that being everyone's comforter doesn't mean you can't be someone's too. Choices: Choose your name, gender, and description. Choose Captain Vess' gender.