Night Sly [Nephiah/Shadowheart]
Series Metadata
Listing Series
-
Crashing Your Car, Breaking Your Heart by CigfranFach
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
30 Jan 2026
Tags
Summary
Compilation of all Night Sly stories occurring in Act One!
Failed priestess and chronic womanizer Neffeyla Qil'oussiryn never thought she'd amount to much without Lolth's guidance. So, she turned to the surface instead... until a certain kidnapping and crashed Nautiloid completely threw off her plans. But while the surface is a grim place, a certain dark and mysterious priestess has caught her eye, practically begging to get caught up in her web. And if the tadpole is going to kill them all, why not have some fun on the way out?
Shadowheart is nothing if not loyal to her goddess, Shar, which has often set her outside "good and decent" society. It's never something that bothered her... she thinks. It's hard to know for sure when you don't have any memories. It's also hard to understand what she feels when her mission fails and she's swept into an uneasy alliance with an unfamiliar drow, whose flirtatious intentions seem suspicious at best, and threatening at worst. Yet there's something almost familiar about her that draws her in, sometimes dangerously close. Perhaps it's just because they both follow dark gods, the way Neph never makes her feel so ostracized and alone. Or perhaps it's something else...
Series
- Part 1 of Night Sly [Nephiah/Shadowheart]
-
Tags
Summary
A canon-compliant series of cozy Shadowheart-centric drabbles (or 'Shaddles'!) revolving around the Baldur's Gate 3 Midwinter, months to years after the events of the game. These stories are told non-chronologically, and have relevant dates included! Bundle up for a great deal of coziness, domestic life, holiday cheer, slightly problematic drow-isms, and more.
This story features my tav Nephiah as Shadowheart's partner, though you don't need to read her origin story (Crashing your Car, Breaking your Heart) to enjoy this! Similarly, each piece is standalone. Written for the SWG's Holiday Collection.
Series
- Part 2 of Night Sly [Nephiah/Shadowheart]
-
Mystery Work
Part of Works under Revision
Summary
This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
-
My Killer and my Christ (but I’m the one twisting the knife) by CigfranFach
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Feb 2026
Tags
Summary
A 1950s Southern Gothic Horror AU surrounding Shadowheart, now known as Nightshade, where a surprise encounter with a strangely familiar girl she swears she's never met ropes her into an uneasy, whirlwind friendship. As their friendship grows, however, so do the stakes: the church-school who raised her would never approve of a relation with an outsider, especially not one as close as theirs. To boot, people around Charleston are dying, and strangely, Nightshade seems to be at the heart of it. Unable to trust her own mind, she, an old friend, and one new, are forced to solve a string of entwined murders and mysteries about Nightshade, to solve if she's the culprit, before the next victim turns out to be someone she cares about.
-
No spoilers are present for the Night Sly story in the 'canon' Toril universe, minus characters possessing the same personalities (which, I suppose for Viola, is something of a spoiler, lol). Parallels/AU-ified versions of Shadowheart's personality quest are key to the plot, however, and may include some spoilers.Series
- Part 4 of Night Sly [Nephiah/Shadowheart]