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It's March of 2020. With the pandemic locking down people all over the world, Astarion Ancunin has a problem. It's awfully hard to charm people into sharing a bite when you can't get within six feet of a stranger. Luckily, he's thought of a solution - hire a live-in blood donor.
Things are going swimmingly. He does a few interviews and finds a perfectly suitable candidate. And then she walks through his door.
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- Part 1 of What We Lost in the Shadows
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You Can't Spell Coquette Without a Coq by chaus_cobolorum
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Aug 2025
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The Vampire Ascendant has been on Earth for 182 years since Gale's teleport spell went awry and tossed him across the planes.
He's built riches. A business empire. While he may not be titled, he's earned a place in high society, despite his eccentricities. Created a life, of sorts, for himself. Dabbles in trysts from time to time, but he's never found anyone who sparked something deeper.
And then he read a little book of poems. Self-published. Utterly indecent and cheeky.
Of course, he had to go and meet the author.
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- Part 3 of What We Lost in the Shadows
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When Gale finds out that Astarion has never had a birthday party, he decides that not only is he going to make it the best, most perfect party ever, he's going to do it as surprise. Because spending all the money you managed to gather on your quest is a totally normal thing to do for a man who is just your very good friend.
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When you lose everything - your lover, your love, your friends, your home, your very identity - how do you even start to rebuild a life?
He’d been hiding since the funeral. But after a tenday, he couldn’t stay away any longer.
The headstone was rough against his thumb as he rubbed his fingers over the letters of her name absently, wishing it was her skin he could trace, longing for her heat and sweat and violence. This cold silence was everything she wasn’t.
“What am I supposed to do now, love?” He whispered into the dark, knowing there’d be no response, still hoping despite himself.
This is a follow-up to Taters, from Astarion's POV.
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- Part 2 of Taters Means I Love You
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For Whom the Bell Tolls by chaus_cobolorum
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
20 Jul 2025
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Following meeting with Raven's group, Nora realizes she's going to be tied up on the material plane for a while. She decides to pay her consort, Lord Kelemvor, a visit while she still can in his home in the Crystal Spire on the Fugue Plane.
This is mostly smut and part character study. Who is Nora? What does it mean to be a goddess?
Occurs during Chapter 26 of A Murder of Ravens - by LA_Knight
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When Tav is murdered in Shar's domain by a power-obsessed Shadowheart, the lodestone that had been keeping the tadfools together and working is ripped out.
Without her, companions die permanent deaths, poor choices are made, and Astarion has to make hard choices so she didn't die in vain.
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Stories based around the AU created in Taters.
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A collection of stories featuring my original character, Ailionora Lathanyll Feyre.
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Surround Sound by magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
30 Jun 2024
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Adjusting to life as a mind flayer is difficult, especially when Moss feels emotions with their entire body, and the thoughts of strangers keep physically bumping into them. The mixed opinions of the public - and of their companions - certainly aren't helping, either. But the battle is won, and at least the Emperor is here to mentor them as they help him rebuild the city.
Maybe he'll even hold their hand.A post-game fix-it story about learning to be illithid, but also rebuilding, reconnecting, and rediscovery. Everyone deserves to be happy, the Emperor most of all. Grab a page of acrostics, a bowl of soup, and maybe a toothbrush for the nauseatingly teeth-rotting fluff of this absolute character worship novel I've written for you.
Established post-game Emps/illithid genderless Tav, second-person POV via Tav, NOT a reader/self-insert/blank slate Tav story.
M rating is only for chapter 11. Updated with better formatting and a bunch of art! Complete. <3Series
- Part 1 of Seafoam & Stardust
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15 Aug 2025
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Sophia, once a cleaner on Earth, played a game with her nephew that thrust them both into Sanctuary, awakening latent Nephalem powers that forged her into a saviour amid a war between angels, demons and humans. Now immortal but haunted by guilt over those she couldn't save, she years to return to Earth, where her powers might fade, yet dreads facing her past.
Abducted by a mind flayer ship midway via returning home, she's hurled into Faerun, navigating a world of hidden dangers. Among a motley crew led by Tav, a noblewoman with a silver tongue and veiled motives, Sophia faces treachery and deception. Astarion, a vampire with a razor wit, trades barbs with her, their sparks kindling an unexpected bond.
As a dark force stirs within, Sophia's choices could save two realms - or doom them forever.Sorry to add this next part, but I've had quite a few of these on this story, and I'm not interested:
NO COMMISIONS, NO COMMERCIAL OFFERS.
Thankyou.Series
- Part 1 of Act 1
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Gathering Souls by paraparadigm, polymorphic
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
09 Nov 2023
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Skyrim founders in the wake of a shattered empire, and there are those who would split it more—patriots, profiteers, and warmongers fresh out of jobs. With competing ambitions growing more costly to bear, some say the land is ripe for a hero. But who should it be? No one can agree.
In the year 4E 201, it’s up to a band of misfits—a Blade without a Septim, a priestess without a temple, an outlander without a soul, and a sellsword without a choice—to stop the world from careening off its axis. The Wheel turns, but with souls serving as the favored currency between mortals and the planes, one gets caught in the spokes.
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- Part 2 of The Errant Souls Archive
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16 May 2025
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Always Read the Fine Print by paraparadigm
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
21 Jul 2021
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Vera's world ended not with a bang, but with a whimper: the year is 2095, the world in the throes of late-stage climate change. The Earth will keep going, the humans - not so much. As it turns out, the apocalypse is contagious: either that, or she has spectacularly bad luck. Waking up naked on a bloody altar isn't the best introduction to a new place, but you make do with what life hands you. After a rocky start, Vera finds herself in Markarth, trying to make a new home for herself amidst the violence, corruption, and Thalmor zealotry. But just when things are finally settling down - as much as they can in the city of blood and silver - a Nord and a Dunmer roll into town with the mother of all bad deals. Always read the fine print.
This series starts about a year before the events of the game and will continue through the timeline and the DLCs. This fic is the first installment. Canon-compliant(ish), but skews towards a lot of original content. Narration is in 3rd person limited; the protagonist is not the Dragonborn.
Please note: content warnings applied to individual chapters.
With deep gratitude to efmrider and polymorphic for their keen beta-ing eyes and supportSeries
- Part 1 of The Errant Souls Archive
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14 May 2025
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When you've been alive 300 years and you're not even middle aged yet, and your immortal ex shows up at your art show like he didn't skip all your mutual friends' funerals, and you're mad at him but a bunch of the paintings are of him... we've all been there
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30 Apr 2025