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The long awaited (by me ig) Eshra's Lore!
Some explanations before we begin.
It is somewhat important for the full understanding, but you can skip it if you wish, but make sure to read the content warnings.
The character is referred to as both Eshra and Eshar throughout the story.
Eshra is a Dark Urge character, but has later developed a CompanionAU. This is the said companion backstory.
Both are technically canon. The Dark Urge life variation has most of the same events, except for the involvement of Bhaal.
You can never be too careful with the WotC, so for clarification, obviously, this whole thing is only an unofficial fan writing. It’s not created for the sake of gaining any profits (not that anyone would be interested). It is all just for fun, and available completely for free on my social media accounts.
Because I am yet to read all the Forgotten Realms novels and drow related literature I’ve been planning to, the drow clan mentioned in this backstory is not one of the canon or major houses. It is purely created for the sake of Eshra’s background and to avoid clashing with the canon events of drow political history. Menzoberranzan was not chosen for this story to take place in for the same reason.
Luihaulen’tar, however, is a real Underdark city, mentioned in “The Drow of the Underdark” 2E book, but doesn’t have any written lore or location (I have searched for it deliberately to check and there was none). I felt comfortable choosing it to be Eshra's birthplace and taking liberties in descriptions because of that.
I decided to place Luihaulen'tar in Middledark. About 20-25km down, located not far away from Daggerford (For context, Daggerford is located between Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate, about 420km from the latter).
While I tried to not mention anything specific that would clash with established canons and do research before making decisions on important things, I am but a human, who is not an expert in DND. Just keep in mind to not treat this too seriously.
This is something between a summarisation and detailed story. Consider it something like a draft for an actual story. Did my best to make it palatable and not go too deep into details as to write a full blown novel here. I am well aware very few people would want to read a backstory of an original character that predates the events of BG3, when they can go read a fic about actual companions from the game. So the more expanded version that I'm writing will be kept in the vault.
I tried to crop the story, while still giving the good clues on Eshra’s personality and giving her some ties to the plot of the game. There are, however, some more or less entertaining snippets of action and dialogues added here and there.
Should also mention that I am not by any means an experienced writer, not even as a hobby (especially in english). So keep in mind that the quality of this “work” might be subpar and don’t beat me too hard for it, please, lol.
No beta either, we die like the third sons.
Warnings: Pregnancy horror; descriptions of violence, blood and gore; SA, child abuse and abuse in general; transphobia kinda (these are Lolth worshipping drow we’re talking about like c’mon)
Word count: 13500
