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Latest Chapter Excerpt: Act III - More Like Worship Than Love
"Loving someone is not thinking they’re perfect, it is knowing they aren’t and loving them anyway. Sometimes, the way you treat me, it feels more like worship than love."
“I…am afraid I may not know the difference.”
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A wizard and a druid, one's life shaped by love and the other by its lack. Both defining their worth by their magic. Can love show them they are more than just magic, and will they be able to accept it? A collection of new and extended scenes spanning the whole game as Aster (gnome druid Tav) and Gale's relationship blossoms.
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People like this just loved to walk in like they owned the place, trying to ‘shake things up.’ He’d seen enough of this type in his 9 months here; they never lasted, and Astarion made sure of that.
Astarion's unlikely escape from Cazador has him holing up in the Lower City, working nights at the local pizza place. Things are going just about as fine as they could for a person in hiding, when a new shift lead gets hired on - a chef, ready to make some changes.Astarion is not a fan of change.
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When Enna Peregoy begins her new job as sous chef de cuisine at one of Baldur’s Gate’s hottest new fine dining establishments she has one goal in mind: do NOT let down Executive Chef Gale Dekarios, the world-renowned chef and restaurateur whose career and tumultuous personal life she’s admired and followed for years. Gale and Enna are both running away from their pasts, but when instead they run headlong into each other, an attraction quickly develops and threatens to derail both of their careers. As chefs Enna and Gale are no strangers to balancing hunger and satisfaction, obsession and apathy, indulgence and sacrifice, success and failure. But when those things start to bleed from their professional lives and into their personal lives, the smitten chefs must determine if they can handle the heat or need to get out of the kitchen.
A sexy, sensual, modern AU. Bon appétit.
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After a long year of rebuilding from rock bottom and crashing on Karlach’s couch, Astarion has finally saved enough from tattooing to afford a place of his own. It’s small, but all he really needs is a mirror, a locking door, and a housemate who won’t mind how he dresses—or that he sometimes screams in his sleep. When Shadowheart convinces Gale to rent out his spare room, he’s just hoping to ease the mortgage and maybe partake in some conversations more stimulating than what his aloof cat offers. But Astarion may turn out to be far more than Gale bargained for—and exactly what he needs.
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Regret and Redemption by MartletSable
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
21 Sep 2025
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”Mr. Dekarios… what happened?”
”I - I don’t know Tara. I opened the book, then everything went black. When I woke up I felt a tightness in my chest and,” He jestured to his left side “This had appeared.”
- Or -The Netherese Orb absorbs life energy and now Gale kills everything he touches. After a year of fruitless research in his tower, he goes to Baldur’s gate looking for answers. He takes a job as a cook in a seedy tavern so he can use the animals on the menu to feed the orb.
Astarion is out on the prowl and his latest hunting ground shows promise. It’s a shame the handsome guy in the kitchen is so shy. He would be excellent prey.
**This fic updates around 1 to 2x a week. Chapters are on the shorter side (1500 to 3k), but you get them quick!**
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Well, now he definitely wanted her. Her blood rushed to his lower body, making him hard again. Morg’s eyes went down to admire the effect of her words, a satisfied grin on her lips. “Looks like this round goes to me. Or would you like to disagree?”
The vampire shook his head. “I won't argue with you. You shall have your little victory. But I'll keep the lock thing in my mind, sweet Morg.” Who knew...?
She smiled. “Are you admitting defeat?”
“Why should I, darling?” Astarion gave her a haughty look. “That was a lucky shot, nothing more. I'm not as susceptible to your games as you think.”
A wicked smile appeared on the bard's face. “You think so? We'll see. Your turn.”
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Drow poison is a potent sleeping drug. An innocent little question reveals a special kink and brings a new freedom. Morg calls for a flattery challenge. Astarion receives an unusual compliment and struggles with some disturbing feelings. The sweet trap snaps shut.Series
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Last night was the tiefling party. Because Tav drank too much, they ended up not sleeping together and instead spent the night joking around and being silly (see Nobody Expects the Vampirish Inquisition for this story).
Astarion wakes up from his rest with Tav holding him in her sleep and he is having a lot of complicated, messy feelings, and everything is made more confusing when he smells Gale's cooking in the air and it reminds him of something from his past but he can't quite place it. Astarion goes through a rollercoaster of emotions.
Should he stay lounging in his bedroll with Tav, or go see the sunrise?
TW: He succumbs to some old habits and bad thought processes, trauma and dissociation apparent. Nothing is explicit and is hopefully overall a positive story.
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- Part 3 of The New Dawn (Preview Chapters)
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Shadowed Remembrance - A "Haunted One" Outtake by Victoria_Strangelove
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Aug 2025
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Ophelia, reeling from all she's learned thus far about her lost past, keeps filling in the pieces while off alone at camp. The Prayer For Forgiveness, and her past poetry journals, are quite enlightening...
This was a long while back supposed to be a scene toward the end of part two of my long WIP. I've since changed my mind about many things so this has to be completely cut. But one of my beta readers felt like it's too good to be left to rot in my outtakes folder and that it can almost stand on its own so here it is.
If you want to start your end you can
Building on the past you have to stand
Unveil us your soul
Take us soon home
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Memories apart--Twin Tribes, VII, 2019
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- Part 1 of Haunted One Outtakes and Extras
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Here and Now by LittleLemonRat
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
03 Aug 2025
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After their long journeys and trials are left behind, Astarion and Gale can now take full advantage of their new leases on life.
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- 520
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After joining forces in camp cooking duties, Jaheira and Gale's relationship transforms into something else.
As they reckon with the Absolute, the stew pot, and their histories, Jaheira is forced to ask herself if she could find herself caring for a *Wizard*?
Karlach, Minsc, and Astarion watch and wonder what there is to do when the wizard with his heart on his sleeve falls for the hero that keeps her love under lock and key?
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- Part 1 of When Words Fail
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But … But that would mean …
That would mean everything might have been real. The villagers might have been right. And Gale …
Gale might have just found a fae in his backyard.After his divorce, Gale moves to the countryside in search of a quiet life.
He finds more than he bargained for.
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Welcome to the second installment of Baldur's Book Club!
Characters: Gale, Wyll, and Shadowheart are the readers, with appearances by Astarion, Karlach and Halsin.
Book: A mermaid smut novel I invented.
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- Part 2 of Baldur's Book Club
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"So it looks like all three of us have thrown off the shackles of an undeserving goddess," Shadowheart said. "Perhaps we should form a book club."
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And then they did. This fic is the first in what I hope will be a lengthy series following different meetings of the club. (If you want to be notified for future episodes make sure to subscribe to the series, not this work!)
Each meeting will have a different grouping, and discuss a different book, though Gale will be present for all of them as he is the organizer. This episode features...
Characters: Gale, Lae'zel, Shadowheart (Team Religious Trauma)
Book: a dry, boring bit of theology. Surely this will not lead to violence.Series
- Part 1 of Baldur's Book Club
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Charcoal Croissants and Dead Doves; A Mother's Day Story by DolceFulmine
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 May 2025
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It's Mother's Day. Astarion and his daughter Lune want to give Eleanor (Tav, F, Drow) the best day ever. Their plan? A perfect breakfast. They decide to cook together, but of course everything goes wrong. Will some magical assistance save the day and the kitchen?
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- English
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- 1,939
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Solanum Tuberosum by Heidschnucke for misslillianvalentine
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Apr 2025
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After a tuber mix up Professor Dekarios designs a lesson to remind Astarion that not all potatoes are created equal. His student may not be taking this as serious as the good professor would like him to.
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Astarion thought this stupid hot sauce show would last a season or two before it was cancelled. Ten years later, he’s still Cazador’s sidekick, taking potshots for laughs and enduring worse abuse when the cameras stop rolling.
An upcoming guest—famed magician Gale Dekarios—has never seen an episode of Hot Mess, and he’s about to shake things up.
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- Part 1 of Sauce
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Dietary Requirements 2: Gluten for Punishment by SpellSparkler
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Mar 2025
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Gale couldn’t quite believe that Astarion had actually agreed to go out with him. In public. Where other people could see. He’d asked him twice if it was a joke before Karlach had smacked him with a tea towel and told him to stop trying to talk him out of it.
He’d let Astarion pick where to go for dinner. All of his favourite restaurants were not exactly Astarion-friendly. And, of course, Mystra frequented most of them, and he didn’t want to risk violating a restraining order just by going on a date.
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Gale and Astarion go on their first public date. A direct sequel to Dietary Requirements.
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- Part 3 of March of the Elders
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Wyll was a monster hunter. Astarion knew this on a logical level, of course. Hells, Wyll had practically introduced himself that way. But it was quite another thing to see Wyll put the puzzle pieces together.
And gods, Astarion had no earthly idea of what he was to do, if Wyll decided to divulge what he had learned.
[Or; tips and tricks for encountering a vampire on the road]
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A Parasite Shared is a Parasite Halved by dazenguile
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
24 Feb 2025
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title is a placeholder i'm not good at naming things. anyways hi im back at it with oc-based minifics. this one might be a series as i do sid's playthrough cuz i have a handful of little moments i wanna write out w him
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- 2,148
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Gale is busy running "The Orb" and hiding his feelings from the sexy delivery driver Astarion. But they exchange books and they are flirting (aren't they?) and maybe this could be something good. Of course Gale's soulmate died before he was even born, but that can't mean he will be alone forever, right?