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I was talking with idreim  about how I’ve misread the name of the book as “Gann of Dreams”, and she said that it’d be awesome to have MotB novellas like in T:ToN and I just

MotB companions backstories in novellas

“Red Thay Hogwarts”: Safiya growing up in the Academy of sorcery and slavery, trying to learn the art of magic in the middle of intrigues from teachers who try to use her as a leverage against her mother. Bright and lonely girl, refusing to participate in power plays and atrocities of other wizards and choosing the symbol of Creation as her emblem, creating homunculi  because it’s the only true friends she can have, and always wondering - what is wrong with her, why she isn’t so cold-blooded and violent as others, and the voices in her head don’t help either.

“Lost Paradise” - Kaelyn growing up on Celestia with such strong unquestioning belief in good vs evil that she loses ability to see colors, just black and white, and then being sent to the mortal world only to discover that she gives a false hope, an Angel of Despair. Rebelling against it and leaving her family, her god and her Paradise for the doomed Crusade against the biggest injustice of the universe. 

And Gann, before he turned into cocky self-sufficient heartbreaker, scrawny kid dressed in fur and stolen clothes, with long unkempt hair because spirits of dead animals are unaware of the concept of haircuts. Watching people from afar, because he’d be shooed away if he got noticed, seeing parents play with their children and wondering what it’s like and why his own parents left him. Discovering dreamwalking as the only way to be closer to people and try to understand them, and becoming sure that it’s the only way he can get any illusion of other people’s warmth

“I see that your feet find the patterns of dirt and sand beneath them uncomfortable, as if you are used to stepping in dreams, not earth. You toss about words like a wind around you, in the hopes that their speed and flurry will deflect questions and prevent you from being seen for what you are. You are hurt… And that pain drives you to hurt others, for you have been taught that that is the wheel that turns the world.”

— Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer