I'm honestly not a fan of Haer'Dalis's ballad. It's too obvious, it doesn't leave anything to the imagination. "For I travel with a son of Bhaal"? Really? You're just going to come out and say it?

Rather Inspirational chapter with some of the definitely interesting character trait. I have recently developed a fond of thieves, and to my surprise, realized that they could be good and neutral. I say, this introduction is what may be seen as stereotypical convention-breaking heroic fiction, but does it such way that is not much considered by many regardless. Please keep up with your works!

Congratulations on finishing this piece. I did really enjoy it. Reynard is an interesting and well-developed new character, and I did enjoy the different slants you took on the plot. At times, the drama did seem a little ham-fisted, but you managed to refine it much more as the story went on, so well done.

I'm looking forwards to reading the sequel. :)

Oh no. Not Minsc. That's all I can say right now... damn, I think losing him is hurting more than losing Jaheira. :(

I have to say, I love how you made Aerie much more mature and wise in this one, as I think is reflected in her ability scores. I love that she's not falling to Haer'Dalis either. Awesome work.

Wow, that was a twist. Aerie in the Underdark... very nice work!

I'm enjoying this more and more, though I can't wait to find out what Harrian and the Shadow Thieves' past is. :D

That was a very, very, endearing chapter. And I don't mind that you skipped the Thrall Quest - I've never yet found a story where each and every quest was detailed, so you're doing well.

Just started reading this story based on the recommendation on TV Tropes... I'm really enjoying it so far, just wanted to let you know. :) Harrian seems like a very interesting character, and so far the slants you've taken on the original NPCs suit them well too.

no...you killed Minsc...one of the most beloved Video Game chracters of all time...and what will happen to Boo?

I know this story is "ancient" by current standards, but I admit to only having discovered it recently. I read through it as I've had time over the last week or so. I'm very pleased to see that you did do a ToB sequel as well! That's next up on my list :-)

I have to say, this was a very well done story and a remarkable effort to see it through over the end. Selfishly I can say I am glad I wasn't reading this while it was in progress, I imagine the wait for new chapters was *almost* as hard on your fans as it was on you to actually write them :-) Truth be told, I've only played SoA (and ToB) once. In my game I felt railroaded into the Aerie romance more for being nice to her than anything else, and I managed to get Anomen to attack me after I made some mocking comment when he failed his trial and was venting about how he should go back in and slaughter everyone. So I had to kill him, and then see his dead body on the sidewalk everytime I came back by the Radiant Heart building. And while I saved Haer-Dalis, I never used him in my party. Anyway, all of this is to say that it was interesting reading your take on characters I was familiar with but to a lesser degree, and I was impressed with the amount of depth you gave them. The interpersonal dynamics of the party was by far the strongest element of the story.

I only had some minor criticisms (I haven't even looked at the other reviews, so I don't know what anyone else said). The most obvious one is also the most understandable - the ending had a rushed feel to it, as a lot of the detail that was present in earlier scenes fell by the wayside in favor of moving things along. But yeah, I imagine after more than a year of working on the story it was a lot of mental effort just to finish at all. I congratulate you for not leaving it incomplete, like a majority of long stories on this site seem to end up. Other than that, nitpicks would be things like misusing the term "decimate," which admittedly is a bit of a silly pet peeve. Technically that means to wipe out a tenth of something, not the level of obliteration people commonly use it to mean. Definitely a nitpick though. And at times I felt like the party members were more callous to each other than made sense, even given the tension of the circumstances. But on the whole I feel like you handled the relationships well (as I said before).

Oh, and thank you for not hooking up Haer-Dalis and Aerie. Based on an author note on one chapter I thought you were going to fall into the trap of feeling the need to pair everyone off into a happily ever after existence. I think this particular pairing would have been completely forced, so I was happy to see that you let them go their separate ways.

Anyway, outstanding work!

I can't stop reading this! I normally read this on your website. This is such an amazing story! I hope you do more Baldur's Gate fanfics in the future. You're my all time favorite author.

This is a very enjoyable story.

A few points, I think Jaheira's romance in the beginning was a little too fast. Afterwards, the pacing was good.

There are also some oddities here and there, like how they manage to beat dragons and yet have such a hard time against the Baalor.

Or how Quint(or whatever his name was) and his lackeys are able to get the drop on a party of supposedly experienced adventurers.

Other than how you portrayed the party member's relative power, everything else seem very good.

Oh there is also the Aerie thing, I find it hard to believe that Harrian would tell Aerie about Imoen being a Bhaalspawn, since Imoen specifically told him not to tell others.

I'm just reading through this now having seen the name Harrian pop up in various places, and the bit about his plane...

"’Get spellcaster, Find job, Talk to Cowled Wizards’?"

...just made me laugh *so* hard :) I just wanted to say that :)

First off Slide, I would like to congratulate you - I was fortunate enough to get to this story when it was complete - rather than 'in progress', so I didn't have the wait time that others had for each astounding and well compiled part.

There were a few, very minor spelling errors, but none I can remember to be able to point you in the right direction of. I suppose it's more the story that matters than the spelling, and the mistakes were few and far between.

The characterisation of each individual character was stunning, to say the least. The relationships, trials and tribulations of each character was a wonder to me, and very well put together. I also loved the development of Harrian Corias - he's become one of my favourite characters and for someone who is so critical of stories (which I am) 'tis a rare thing to have a character touch my heart so. I also think I cried three times - also not an easy feat on my behalf - when jaheira died, when jaheira was ressurected (and consequently broke Harrian's nose, which brought me to tears of happiness and laughter) and when Minsc died. I've always loved Minsc as a character, and although you thought you weren't doing that good a job at portraying him, I have to disagree.

Well done on all accounts, and I look forward to reading some of your other stories and sequals. ;)

Til then,

Alara Kiranor