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Maria is dealing with PTSD after their interaction with Lorroakan at Sorcerous Sundries and finds themself at the Stormshore Tabernacle. They return to the Elfsong to find Gale reading alone in an alcove.
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“I want to see you on your knees for me.”
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- Part 11 of Maria!
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Meleth Nestadui - Healing Love by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Nov 2025
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One-and-a-half years after the fall of the Elderbrain, Rolim and Astarion have settled into a life of quiet domestic bliss.
Rolim is working with a talented druid to confront the scars of his past, though the progress is painfully slow—until the healer suggests that Astarion join the sessions.With new tools to help them navigate the delicate terrain of Rolim's desires, the couple begins a deeper journey of healing and discovery together.
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Yvette is just a maid, who happens to be blind and a vampire spawn and now she got abducted by something she has never encountered before. The smells and sounds of somewhere and something she didn't recognize then something crawled into one of her eyes! Gross!
She has to navigate this wilderness blind with only her specially adapted thunder magic to hear the world around her, and its many terrible yet fascinating smells. One scent stands out above the others, of the person who blinded her over 130 years prior.
Astarion has agreed to keep her from walking into fires in exchange for her blood every night, but what will he do when she gets her eyes healed and no longer requires his guidance?
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After settling into his new life in Baldur's Gate, Astarion encourages Rolim to uncover all the corrupt city officials and sycophantic nobles who ever laid hands on him, thus leading to the most scandalous series of trials to ever take place in Baldur's Gate.
Rolim just wants to get it over with, but Astarion is on a mission:
To finally purge the city's elite and get justice for his lover and all the other people who suffered from the spread of Cazador's depravity.Series
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Fleeting Dreams by LottaVilja
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
14 Nov 2025
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Part two of Fear, Fate, and Fangs, which is an alternate reality and follows Astarion and Tav's love story as it becomes threatened by unpredictable evil forces.
A young woman finds herself lost in dreams with her favorite travel companion and lover, Astarion. The problem? Astarion is a character from her favorite video game. Or is he?
Please mind the tags as well as the warnings in the notes section.
Enjoy.
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- Part 2 of Fear, Fate, and Fangs
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"Do I?" The question came out quiet, almost curious. He tilted his head, and the gesture was so familiar, so perfectly him, but empty of anything real. "Because it rather sounds like I've been fooling myself. Playing pretend at something I can never actually be part of."
"That's not true."
"Isn't it?" His voice rose now, the careful control slipping. "You want children, Tav. You want a family. And I'm-" He laughed again, wild and painful. "I'm a dead thing. I can't give you that. My body doesn't work that way anymore. Hasn't for two hundred years. So where exactly does that leave us?"
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A New Chapter in our Odd Life by everything_bloodweave
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Nov 2025
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Astarion and Gale prepare for their wedding while trying to help their closest friend heal. All while working through their own trauma and handling the bumps in the road of their new family.
This is a direct sequel to "Another Chance", and it is highly, HIGHLY recommended that you read that fic first.
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- Part 2 of Together, Always and Forever
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When Rolim wakes up after the crash of the Nautiloid, he can hardly believe the reality he finds himself in.
The compulsions once forced upon him by Cazador are gone—and somehow, the sun no longer burns his skin.
But freedom comes with a price: an illithid tadpole now burrows through his grey matter and with it, a creeping loss of his vampiric strength and instincts.
He soon finds himself among a ragtag group of survivors, all infected, all searching for a cure. One of them stands out more than the rest: Astarion.
Handsome, sharp, and—unlike most—genuinely respectful of Rolim's boundaries. While Shadowheart hides her own secrets and Lae'zel simply doesn't care to ask, Astarion sees Rolim's need for space... and honors it.
As their journey twists deeper into uncertainty, a question begins to take shape:
What will become of them all when the fate they seek to change refuses to be rewritten?AU where Astarion is a 239 year old mortal elf and magistrate and Tav is the one under Cazador's thumb!
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by the hand, by the hair, i don't care anymore by ofriviq
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Nov 2025
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Gale was steadfast at her side—always. Selina might not be the woman she was when they met, but she was still Selina. He still loved her, even though his never fading feelings choked him with guilt almost every day. It felt entirely too wrong to love the shell that she had become, yet he did. He’d love her in any shape or form, at any age, in any circumstance. If her resentment lingered when her grief waned, he’d happily be her punching bag. If she hated him for caring for her, if she wanted to hurt him, he’d let her. There was not much more to it.
If Selina ever felt the desire to kill him, he’d first find immortality, only to give her the satisfaction of being able to do it over and over again.
It seemed, eventually, she caught on.
. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.
Or, Gale Dekarios has loved Selina (Tav) since the moment she pulled him from the portal—but her heart has always belonged to another. When Astarion dies a year after the fall of the Netherbrain, Gale invites himself into the quiet ruin of her grief. He tells himself he’s only there to help her heal, to guide her through the loss of love. Of course, that's easier said than done.
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“Seems like her memories have a little bite to them.”
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Calyn enlists Gale to help her recover her lost memories, and Astarion takes it upon himself to pick up the pieces left afterwards.
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- Part 4 of Two Sides of the Same Coin
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These Old Familiar Rooms by Roselees for sconesforsupper, monkaydun
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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'You're worse than him. You're worse than he ever was.' Astarion hissed, voice dripping with malice, laced so thick with distrust and betrayal and hurt that Willow didn't know if she was ever going to be able to look him in the eye again. His bottom lip curled into a snarl, looking in that moment every bit the monster he feared, 'Because at least he never gave me the illusion of choice only to steal it away. At least he never pretended to care.'
'I was trying to be considerate! I was telling the truth, I swear, I just wanted you to know you didn’t have to do anything you didn’t want to--'
'Liar.'
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It was supposed to be simple.
Astarion had been on edge ever since they arrived in the city. So, naturally, sending Cazador on an impromptu trip to the Hells was priority number one.
Right up until Willow took one look at Szarr Palace and the universe suddenly decided to remind her why her parents had shipped her off to Waterdeep all those years ago.
(Or; Tav knew Astarion before. Neither take this realisation well.)
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- Part 1 of The Gods Will Roll The Dice
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We Could Be Heroes (But Legends Must Suffice Instead) by Deathpetal
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
31 Oct 2025
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Obbryn Lothlyl, a cynical rogue assassin for most of her life, never thought the distinction between legends and heroes was something she would ever be concerned about, nor that it was going to hurt so much. Gale had tried to explain it before; what’s of utmost importance to note is that while both commit heroic deeds of bravery, heroes are alive and legends are dead. She was always more practical than scholar, but she never thought Gale would offer a real
lifedeath example, nevertheless that she could feel so desolate for being the one to survive. Mystra might have ordered his sacrificial death and Gale might have complied, but why does Obbryn have to live with any of that?Written for Whumptober 2025 days 10, 11, 12, 17, 21, 24, 25 (prompt details in notes because summaries have a character limit 🙃 )
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- Part 5 of Whumptober 2025
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In a previous life, Dara was the eldest daughter of House Eberranth, a wealthy minor noble family from Menzoberranzan. One day, her ambitious family fell from grace, leaving her no choice but to flee to the surface where her kind is not welcome. Coming to terms with losing everyone in her life – including her beloved husband Vaszair and brother Malaguyren – Dara learns to survive alone off of her own wit and ingenuity.
Years later, Dara finds contentment in her solitude. That is until she meets Gale, a handsome albeit peculiar wizard from Waterdeep, on his way to the Underdark. Their paths would later cross again when they become thrusted into an alliance of misfits, all suffering the same mysterious affliction.
As Dara and Gale’s attraction grows, harrowing secrets reveal themselves and haughty ambitions threaten to rip them apart. But hope is on the horizon, if they are only brave enough to confront it.
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- Part 1 of Dara Eberranth (BG3 Tav)
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The party has made it to the Emerald Grove and things are not getting better. But the poison and the child and the dead goblins are the least of their issues.
Because something is wrong about Gale, Maria knows this for a fact, and they finally confront him about it.
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- Part 3 of Maria!
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The night felt syrupy, gentle, effervescent. He let his guard down, his attention occupied with halcyon reminiscence and low-stakes emotional dilemmas.
A quick glance at the plaque on the way in stated, ‘House of Healing’. How fucked up could it be?
Very, he learned.
Silly question.
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“I suppose it was foolish to expect a mortal to understand”
Those words wracked Tav's brain for something more than a year. After months spent with Gale by their side they would never expect such a kind man to regard her with such disdain? Hate? Nevertheless, they decided it would be best to be left alone and promptly separated from the saviors of Baldur's Gate they had grown to love. Some more than others.
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Jenevelle works for her parents’ little bakery and florist shop. Everything is just how she likes it; every day is the same.
Isha just needs to buy some flowers for her parents’ funeral. Her life is suddenly different, but every day is still the same.Her friend Karly recommended a small flower shop just down the road. After the funeral planning, endless messages from family, and the silence of a suddenly empty house, it shouldn’t have been that hard. It was just another item on the long list of things Isha had to survive.
For Jen, it was just another day.
Neither of them knew how that damp Monday afternoon would begin to change everything.
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A year after the Netherbrain’s defeat, a vengeful Bhaalist finally tracks down and captures Astarion and Carlyle. She intends to tear them both apart in honour of the Lord of Murder and his fallen chosen one, and she starts with Carlyle.
Astarion isn’t the one being tortured this time, but that doesn’t mean he’ll come out of it mentally unscathed.
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Written for Bad Things Happen Bingo
Prompt: Take Me InsteadSeries
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Adil never should've trusted him.
He never asked to be part of any war, least of all one led by a cult Leonel swore he had left behind. Trapped between a man who won't let him go and another who might be his way out, but the city is closing in, the Absolute’s power is rising, and he's running out of time to bring back the man he once thought he loved.
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* i should take off my armour now, to rinse off the blood first, that makes the most sense. but i need to wash the fabrics first, otherwise they won't dry in time. i need to start. i'm so hungry, do i have enough time, i'm wasting time *
A lonely and exhausted Tav tries to decompress after a long day, but what should be simple tasks become huge undertakings, and it's hard not to get crushed by the emotional weight of it all. An ode to overwhelm, executive dysfunction, and having to power through anyway.
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