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In the heart of Shar’s temple, Halsin’s simmering disdain for Shadowheart’s faith collides with a desire he can no longer suppress, leading to a brutal, carnal reckoning that leaves both characters unmoored from their beliefs. As dominance, punishment, and pleasure entwine with spiritual crisis, Shadowheart teeters on the edge of apostasy - caught between the seductive warmth of Nature and the cold demands of her goddess.
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09 Jul 2025
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Something deep inside Astarion urged him to jump to his master’s defence, to punish Shadowheart for what she was saying. Something deeper crawled at the thought of himself plunging Cazador’s own blade into his chest again and again, then breaking down before everyone—his friends, his siblings, his maker’s corpse. At the core of it all was this:
“I miss him.”
Shadowheart recoiled. Fury blazed through her ugly grimace. “Never say that,” she hissed. “Never even think that. Cazador is dead.”After Cazador's death, Astarion doesn't understand why he's drawn back to that point in his life. Shadowheart wants to help him overcome what he's faced.
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26 Jun 2025
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the gang is celebrating a victory in a tavern in rivington. you're not feeling too great because astarion is entertaining some woman and has left you to sulk in the dark. you end up confronting him about it, in turn piercing the mask he wears and exposing the vulnerability he hides beneath charm and cruelty
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18 Jun 2025
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In an alternative canon, both Quil Grootslang and Fist Orvil escaped their dark fates at the hands of the Bhaalists. At Quil's first performance in Baldur's Gate, she finds one audience member can't take his eyes off her. Orvil can't believe his fortune in finally hearing her music again, holding on to the hope that he might find the courage to tell her how he feels...
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03 Jun 2025
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Arcane hunger and intrusive thoughts, pragmatic and almost tempting.
This is inspired by garnetdawn's illustration here.
This one might actually going spin off into a full fic in its own right because I can't stop thinking about feral, dark Gale somebody save me.Series
- Part 2 of Assorted Gale snippets
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01 Jun 2025
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‘You know what,’ said Karlach, plunking herself down unceremoniously in between Shadowheart and Tav where they were sitting by the campfire and wrapping her arms around their shoulders, ‘I can feel a girl’s night coming on.’
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- Part 4 of Winding Paths
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18 May 2025
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He has the gall to look incredulous for a second. Then he raises an eyebrow. ‘You think me a slave to my appetites, I presume.’
‘No,’ she says, sweetly, ‘I think you’re a hypocrite.’
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Or: What is a reunion party among old friends even for if not some good old-fashioned hate sex?
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18 May 2025
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“I remembered something,” Shadowheart finally said, breaking the near silence. “While I was gone.”
Ah. That explained her contemplative mood. “I regret that I couldn’t be there with you for it, my heart.”
She clicked her tongue and shook her head, lightly rapping her knuckles against one of his biceps. “It’s not your fault, love, you know that.”
“Perhaps,” Halsin said with a wry smile, despite himself. “Was it good? Or ill? Or neither?” Though he had a feeling he already knew the answer.
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Shadowheart and Halsin have a conversation in the bath.Series
- Part 2 of Shadows and Honey
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08 May 2025
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Minthara follows the wizard back to Waterdeep, and in a moment of rawness, she contemplates her self-worth.
Minthara has done nothing of value to prove she's worthy of one day donning the matron crown, to feel the unnerving yet beautiful weight of hizagkuur metal upon her head. Her idleness could not warrant the luxury of a meticulously shaped headdress of spindly arachnid legs, one that would delicately curl along her temples like a laurel.
No, because instead of seizing her birthright, Minthara's fallen for the wizard's gentle demeanor. She questions if she's even worthy of that, but she still lets him whisper sweet promises recited in a poetic cadence (words that, if uttered by another, she surely would have called for their end with a swing of her sword), and since following him to his tower, she's allowed him to court her, treat her like some demure Waterdhavian noble maiden.
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04 May 2025
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After Withers' party is rudely interrupted by a pair of the party's enemies, Wyll and Lae’zel find themselves in the freezing depths of Cania. Wyll’s knowledge of the Hells and Lae’zel’s stubborn determination can get them out of here. Probably.
Or: Wyll and Lae'zel get stuck in Cania, work together to get back to the planes they're fighting in, and maybe even deal with the feelings they've never had the chance to talk about, if they can live long enough to get there.
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23 Mar 2025
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Three goblins who love art and poetry create a club to celebrate the finer things in life.
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The only positive thing about Shadowheart forgetting her time and time again is that there is no ‘before’. In her best friend’s mind, Nocturne was only ever Nocturne. Would only ever be Nocturne.
But even that is the smallest of comforts. And it doesn’t make it hurt any less.
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Three times Shadowheart forgot Nocturne, and one time she remembered.- Language:
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19 Feb 2025
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Every God needs a Chosen. One day the greatest painters of Faerun would capture Gale with his.
The Seduction of Dekarios. The maiden in the river, bathed in holy light across underdark waters. The God whispering promises in her ear. The forging of new love, in fires of the only mortal left on this plane with ambitions as great as his once were.
Minthara Baenre with blood still on her teeth as she kissed him and, one day, said yes.
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18 Jan 2025
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She will burn the nest of poison vipers that calls itself House Baenre to the ground and their monstrous goddess with them. She will take control, reshape their world in her image, and she will smile as her mother rots in a sunlit flowery grave.
And then, once their conquest is complete, she will return to Waterdeep with her wizard and lay in this bed with him (annoyed, because he didn’t close the curtains properly and the sun is creeping in through the crack). It will be so, it will be good.
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Ketheric waits anxiously to hear from his daughter after her resurrection. Meanwhile, a delegation of Menzoberranzan drow led by Minthara Baenre arrives at Moonrise Towers.
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30 Dec 2024
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What You Made Me by Denesmera
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
04 Jul 2025
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It's been almost 6 months since they defeated the Elderbrain. Everybody seems to have found a purpose in life. Except Maeva. Should she stay with Halsin and become a 'mummy' to the refugees (something that frankly terrifies her) or leave and find her own adventure? Maybe with her best friend Astarion, down in the Underdark...
'I'm going to miss you.' It was true. And not just as a friend. They'd been good together in battle too, their movements and weapons enhancing each other like a paired set of steel blades. She bit her lip. And they had fucked - as he so eloquently put it - twice, until she'd had a flash of conscience and finished that particular source of enjoyment.
Sometimes she was such an idiot.
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12 Dec 2024
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After a rather embarrassing experience at the reunion party, you have been nervous to see Astarion again. You manage to gather the courage to visit his tailoring shop for dress alterations—and to be a better friend to him.
And maybe there is just a little part of you that still hopes for something more.
But he couldn’t possibly want that—or could he?
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- Part 1 of A Fitting Romance
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06 Dec 2024
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Zoraya Naelgrath is gearing up to start her own legal practice when a call from her past unexpectedly places her in the offices of Astarion Ancunin, a young magistrate known for his racial prejudice and various sex scandals that have made him the laughing stock of his colleagues. Tasked with preventing his dooming expulsion from office, Zoraya has no choice but to face the man who was once her best friend in the entire world, as well as her childhood crush. A crush that is, of course, ancient history now that Astarion is a perpetually hungover, selfish bastard interested in little else than cementing his standing among the elite of Baldur’s Gate – most notably Lord Cazador Szarr, an enigmatic nobleman with pale skin and an unsettlingly keen interest in Astarion.
"Beauty and the Beast" meets "Suits"
Or: What if Magistrarion had a badass half Gur childhood bestie who's definitely not in love with him and starts working for him right as a certain pale-faced, red-eyed nobleman gets ready to make his move?
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01 Oct 2024
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Baldur's Gate Fandom Data and random thoughts by FartasticDurge
Fandoms: No Fandom, Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Aug 2024
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You know that moment when you're down in a rabbit hole and you find some cool info and then you wonder about other random things?
Yeah, that's how this came to be.
You probably have seen those big fandoms like Harry Potter get cool stats. Well, Baldur's Gate may be up and coming, but we have some cool stats, too.Check us out, yo!
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09 Aug 2024
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Deep Haven: An Archive of Historical Records by Professor_Rye
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Jan 2025
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Centuries after The Absolute Crisis, a historian works tirelessly to hunt down and gather any and all documents relating to Deep Haven, The Under Gate, and The Shade Way that connects them.
Or: How the Tad-fools and friends help a little under 7000 vampire spawn start a new life