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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nath is offended when Katerina doesn't attempt to murder her, as in Drow courtships allowing a suitor is expected to survive the poisoning attempts of their partner's family in order to prove their worth, and she interprets being denied this chance a sign that they don't consider her a valid candidate for Miri's affections. She also considers eating humans perfectly acceptable, provided they were killed in self-defense.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nath is offended when Katerina doesn't attempt to murder her, as in Drow courtships allowing a suitor is expected to survive the poisoning attempts of their partner's family in order to prove their worth, and she interprets being denied this chance a sign that they don't consider her a valid candidate for Miri's affections. She also considers eating humans perfectly acceptable, provided they were killed in self-defense.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nath is offended when Katarina doesn't attempt to murder her, as in Drow courtships allowing a suitor is expected to survive the poisoning attempts of their partner's family in order to prove their worth, and she interprets being denied this chance a sign that they don't consider her a valid candidate for Miri's affections. She also considers eating humans perfectly acceptable, provided they were killed in self-defense.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nath is offended when Katarina Katerina doesn't attempt to murder her, as in Drow courtships allowing a suitor is expected to survive the poisoning attempts of their partner's family in order to prove their worth, and she interprets being denied this chance a sign that they don't consider her a valid candidate for Miri's affections. She also considers eating humans perfectly acceptable, provided they were killed in self-defense.
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* BlatantLies: The sugary-sweet romance story Nath tells Miri's family.


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* TheUnpronounceable: Drow names.
* UnreliableNarrator: Nath's first day aboveground is told from her perspective, as opposed to the rest of the story, which is from Miri's POV. As such, it's told very much through the eyes of a lost and confused Drow who doesn't know what chickens are, thinks trees are supporting columns holding up the roof, has never been in a tavern and has a panic attack because she thinks the sky is going to collapse and drown everyone.
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* [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels My Hovercraft Is Full Of Cherry Pancakes]]: Miri is not to speak Goblin much good.
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* DeadpanSnarker: ''Everyone'', with the possible exception of [[TheAlcoholic Kadek]]
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The first story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the gradually-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance, with glimpses into their adventures. In true D&D fashion the story also contains countless unobtrusive [[Shoutout shoutouts]] to other media, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoctorWho Doctor Who]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Elementary Elementary]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Discworld Discworld]] and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Supernatural Supernatural]] foremost among them.

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The first story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the gradually-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance, with glimpses into their adventures. In true D&D fashion the story also contains countless unobtrusive [[Shoutout shoutouts]] {{Shoutout}}s to other media, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoctorWho Doctor Who]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Elementary Elementary]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Discworld Discworld]] and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Supernatural Supernatural]] foremost among them.
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* FullCircle: The final scene is a flashback to when Nath and Miri first met, and ends with Miri accepting the invitation to join their party.


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* TeamMom: Allerod to the party; Katerina Thatcher while the group is in Freedale. Rather a given as she's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin actually Miri's mom]] and the matriarch of the family.
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* AerithAndBob: Invoked in-universe by Miri, who goes by the name Miria Scuttleleaf instead of the more normal Miri Thatcher because she's a travelling minstrel, and smart enough to cash in on the 'exotic' aspect of her elven blood.


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* BawdySong: Miri's entire retinue is made up largely of these, a reputation that makes it a bit difficult for her to get more respectable gigs.


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* CasualDangerDialogue: Drizzt Do'Urden is facing off against a furious avatar of Lolth and Miri has the bad feeling he's baiting her successfully. She spends the entire bristling confrontation insulting his clothes.
--> "Why do you have spikes on your boots? [...] Seriously, what are they even for? [...] Did you find the tackiest bard in Faerûn and let him design that stuff?"
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* [[Jerkass]]: Drizzt to Nath. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Rennic]] to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].

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* {Jerkass}: Drizzt to Nath. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Rennic]] to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].

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* {Jerkass}: [[Jerkass]]: Drizzt to Nath. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Rennic]] to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].
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* Jerkass: Drizzt to Nath. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Rennic]] to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].

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* Jerkass: {Jerkass}: Drizzt to Nath. [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Rennic]] to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].
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* BlueBlood: Nath is from an aristocratic background, as evidenced by her formal introduction of herself.
--> "I am Nathcyrl, of the House Auvryren. May the gods smile upon your household, madam; your daughter has spoken of you with great respect."


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* CommonTongue: Averted; while most of the main characters speak Elven with varying degrees of fluidity (except for Kadek), Nath often needs Miri to translate things for her, and Miri can't understand anything she says in Drow or Undercommon. They actually use this to their advantage; as only the two of them know any Goblin, they often use it to make aside comments to each other on things they don't want the others to understand.


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* FiveManBand: Works well, other than the fact that Nath is technically the leader of the group, as she's the one on a quest.
** TheHero: Allerod, despite playing a very small role in the first story, fits the calm, gentle, levelheaded, reasonable and more importantly Good-aligned archetype to a T.
** TheLancer: Rennic is everything Allerod is not, namely a good person, pleasant to be around, and according to WordOfGod actually ''invited''.
** TheSmartGuy: Nath's Intelligence score is actually frightening.
** TheBigGuy: Kadek's weapon of choice is a warhammer with an axe blade on one end, and he enjoy smashing skulls almost as much as drinking.
** TheHeart: Miri, who also keeps Al from being the OnlySaneMan in the group.


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* MadeOfEvil: Nath's Wraith sandwich.
* MeaningfulEcho: The opening paragraphs of the two sections dealing with Nath's nightmares are extremely similar.
** "Shiny" originated as a LanguageBarrier when Nath didn't know a Goblin word for "pretty", and became something of a loving in-joke used to reassure each other during stressful situations.


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* OhMyGods: "Nine hells."


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* ReligionOfEvil: Lolth. Duh.
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* TheHeckler: A righteous Crusader calls Miri a godless heathen for singing [[Discworld the Hedgehog Song]]. She responds by cheerfully informing him that he left out the part about being a [[SelfDeprecation bastard half-breed]].

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* TheHeckler: A righteous Crusader calls Miri a godless heathen for singing [[Discworld [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Discworld the Hedgehog Song]]. She responds by cheerfully informing him that he left out the part about being a [[SelfDeprecation bastard half-breed]].



* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Allerod mends cloaks and makes fruit bars in his spare time. He's also, well, [[Elfeminate a half-elf]].

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* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Allerod mends cloaks and makes fruit bars in his spare time. He's also, well, [[Elfeminate [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Elfeminate a half-elf]].
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* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: Miri nearly blurts it out while trying to make up with Nath after [[MindRape violating her mind]] but cuts herself off because it's not the right time.



* AttemptedRape: Chala's intentions toward Miri were pretty clear.



* InterspeciesRomance: Nath and Miri, obviously.
* IntertwinedFingers: Miri likes to do this a lot.



* ShipTease: Al and Rennic at an inn in Freedale, hints at [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Alice and James]] in the future.



* YouAreWhatYouEat: Wraith sandwiches are not compatible with Neutral Good alignments.

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* YouAreWhatYouEat: Wraith sandwiches are not compatible with Neutral Good alignments.alignments.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: Marvin is actually female. Nath decides not to tell Carter.

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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy And His Undead Skeleton Mouse]] (See also: CoolPet, ShoulderTeammate.)



* ConstantlyCurious: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Carter]] wants to know everything about everything.
* CrossCulturalKerfuffle: In spades.



* TheHeckler: A righteous Crusader calls Miri a godless heathen for singing [[Discworld the Hedgehog Song]]. She responds by cheerfully informing him that he left out the part about being a [[SelfDeprecation bastard half-breed]].



* TheHeckler: A righteous Crusader calls Miri a godless heathen for singing [[Discworld the Hedgehog Song]]. She responds by cheerfully informing him that he left out the part about being a [[SelfDeprecation bastard half-breed]].



* Jerkass: Drizzt to Nath. Rennic to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].

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* Jerkass: Drizzt to Nath. Rennic [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Rennic]] to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].


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* KidsAreCruel: Subverted beautifully in Carter and Alice, who accept Nath instantly and make tentative efforts to make her feel safe and welcome.
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* DefiledForever: How Nath views herself at first.
* DisappearedDad: Miri's father was a travelling Elven bard she's never met.


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* TheHeckler: A righteous Crusader calls Miri a godless heathen for singing [[Discworld the Hedgehog Song]]. She responds by cheerfully informing him that he left out the part about being a [[SelfDeprecation bastard half-breed]].


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* LameComeback: "''You'' shut up." Miri is a ''Bard''.


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* MindRape: Backfires [[LaserGuidedKarma with extreme prejudice]] on Miri.


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* RapeAsBackstory: Nath. Dear gods, Nath. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that her recovery from the experience makes up a large portion of her character arc.


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* SpiderSwarm: Nath can't really help it. Spiders just sort of show up around her.
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* EvilTastesGood: Literally.


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* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Allerod mends cloaks and makes fruit bars in his spare time. He's also, well, [[Elfeminate a half-elf]].


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* SiblingRivalry: Chala takes it way too seriously.
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* AllBeerIsAle: At least as far as Kadek is concerned.



* [[AnimalsHateHim Animals Hate Her]]: Nath somehow managed to kill a pet skeleton.



* CompleteMonster: ''' ''Fileth.'' '''
* CreepyCute: Nath is described as looking [[UncannyValley unnaturally pretty]], regularly kills and eats human beings, and has flat pupil-less blood-red eyes. And she is ''adorable''.



* InsistentTerminology: Miri is ''Chaotic Neutral''.



* NoodleIncident: Miri has one she relates to Nath while the drow is trapped in a traumatic nightmare, in an attempt to ground her.
--> "So, bit of advice, Crusaders don't like it when you agree with them, apparently. To make a long story short he pushed me off my chair, and I might have kicked him in the balls on the way down, and somehow three Paladins, a Cleric with really good aim and a bobcat got involved…"



* RedemptionInTheRain: The second time Nath has a nightmare about her stepfather, Miri knows what to do and doesn't accidentally make it worse. WordOfGod says that the Drow phrase Nath whispers afterward was the couple's first "I love you."



* TeamChef: Nath, to everyone's misfortune.



* VillainProtagonists: We really ''shouldn't'' be rooting for Nath.

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* VillainProtagonists: We really ''shouldn't'' be rooting for Nath.Nath.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nath is offended when Katarina doesn't attempt to murder her, as in Drow courtships allowing a suitor is expected to survive the poisoning attempts of their partner's family in order to prove their worth, and she interprets being denied this chance a sign that they don't consider her a valid candidate for Miri's affections.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nath is offended when Katarina doesn't attempt to murder her, as in Drow courtships allowing a suitor is expected to survive the poisoning attempts of their partner's family in order to prove their worth, and she interprets being denied this chance a sign that they don't consider her a valid candidate for Miri's affections. She also considers eating humans perfectly acceptable, provided they were killed in self-defense.


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* CombatPragmatist: Miri's chosen fighting style is to grab the nearest object, fling it at her opponent's head and hope for the best.


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* RedEyesTakeWarning: All the drow.


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* ToServeMan: Miri just decides to pretend she doesn't know. In fairness, their food was trying to kill them ''first''.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Nath is offended when Katarina doesn't attempt to murder her, as in Drow courtships allowing a suitor is expected to survive the poisoning attempts of their partner's family in order to prove their worth, and she interprets being denied this chance a sign that they don't consider her a valid candidate for Miri's affections.



* DarkMagicalGirl: Nath. And ''how''.
* GlassCannon: Nath can be knocked over by a light breeze, but also channels Lolth and splits the earth open enough to cause a major earthquake when mildly pissed off.
* GodsInHumanForm: Or non-human, as it happens.



* TokenGoodTeammate: Allerod.

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* TokenGoodTeammate: Allerod.Allerod, after Miri's shifts.



* UnstoppableRage: Sorry, Unther.

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* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Don is just trying to keep his family safe.
* UnstoppableRage: Sorry, Unther.Unther.
* VillainProtagonists: We really ''shouldn't'' be rooting for Nath.
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* Jerkass: Drizzt to Nath. Rennic to everyone. It's even [[AllThereInTheManual on his character sheet]].
--> '''What a total bastard, am I right? Eh? Eh?'''
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Characters are aware of the existence of alignments, and Miri makes a mental reference to her 'level' at one point. All major characters have character sheets in a bonus second 'chapter', but while none of them does anything that would be impossible at their given level no other awareness of game mechanics appears.
* MoralityPet: Miri to Nath.


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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Acknowledged in the foreword in the case of the cameo by Drizzt Do'urden, who is portrayed as heroic in his source material but whom the authors strongly disliked.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Acknowledged in the foreword in the case of the cameo by Drizzt Do'urden, who is portrayed as heroic in his source material but whom the authors strongly disliked. Artistic license was also taken with place names and the nature of the Drow and their society so as to make the mechanics of the world more believable.
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The first story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the gradually-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance, with glimpses into their adventures. In true D&D fashion the story also contains countless unobtrusive [[Shoutout shoutouts]] to other media, [[DoctorWho]], Elementary, [[Discworld]] and [[Supernatural]] foremost among them.

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The first story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the gradually-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance, with glimpses into their adventures. In true D&D fashion the story also contains countless unobtrusive [[Shoutout shoutouts]] to other media, [[DoctorWho]], Elementary, [[Discworld]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoctorWho Doctor Who]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Elementary Elementary]], [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Discworld Discworld]] and [[Supernatural]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Supernatural Supernatural]] foremost among them.
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The first story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the gradually-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance, with glimpses into their adventures. In true D&D fashion the story also contains countless unobtrusive [[Shoutout shoutouts]] to other media, {DoctorWho}, {Elementary}, {Discworld} and {Supernatural} foremost among them.

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The first story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the gradually-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance, with glimpses into their adventures. In true D&D fashion the story also contains countless unobtrusive [[Shoutout shoutouts]] to other media, {DoctorWho}, {Elementary}, {Discworld} [[DoctorWho]], Elementary, [[Discworld]] and {Supernatural} [[Supernatural]] foremost among them.

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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1173747/chapters/2391075 All The Dwell Within Your Gates]]'' is a 50,000-word collaboration between fanfic authors [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/guardingdark guardingdark]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/mylordshesacactus mylordshesacactus]], taking place in an interpretation of the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Forgotten Realms]]/[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]] universe.

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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1173747/chapters/2391075 All The Dwell Within Your Gates]]'' is a 50,000-word collaboration between fanfic authors [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/guardingdark guardingdark]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/mylordshesacactus mylordshesacactus]], taking place in an interpretation of the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms [[ForgottenRealms Forgotten Realms]]/[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Realms]]/[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]] universe.



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* BerserkButton: Don't hurt Miri in front of Nath. Also, don't taunt her about her stepfather. [[RuleOfThree Actually, don't mention her stepfather at all.]]
* BullyingADragon: Chala ''really'' should have known better than to taunt a Favored Soul of Lolth.
* PietaPlagiarism: Nath cradling Miri in her arms to heal her, after the latter was injured in a fight with a Paladin.
* TranquilFury: Nath is a ''master''.
* UnstoppableRage: Sorry, Unther.

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The story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the slowly-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance in the first place.

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The first story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the slowly-revealed gradually-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance in romance, with glimpses into their adventures. In true D&D fashion the story also contains countless unobtrusive [[Shoutout shoutouts]] to other media, {DoctorWho}, {Elementary}, {Discworld} and {Supernatural} foremost among them.

Word of God has stated that ''All That Dwell Within Your Gates'' will be
the first place.of a series, though given the lengths of each installment the second has yet to be released.



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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1173747/chapters/2391075 All The Dwell Within Your Gates]]'' is a 50,000-word collaboration between fanfic authors [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/guardingdark guardingdark]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/mylordshesacactus mylordshesacactus]], taking place in an interpretation of the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Forgotten Realms]]/[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]] universe.

The story technically follows the ongoing quest of a traditional five-member D&D adventuring party, but centers almost exclusively around the two main characters--half-elf bard Miri Thatcher and drow necromancer Nathcyrl Auvryren. The narrative splits through the frequent use of timejumps and flashbacks between the primary storyline of Nath being introduced Miri's extremely normal human family, and the slowly-revealed backstory of how the two met and developed a romance in the first place.
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