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• A Pale Elf & the Misadventures of Falling for the Insufferable Hero by BeatrixBea

  Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  30 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate)
  • Gale/Tav (Baldur's Gate)
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Frenemies to friends to lovers
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Eventual Smut
  • Blood and Violence
  • Slow Burn
  • Romantic Fluff
  • Humor
  • Background Relationships
  • Drinking
  • Blood Drinking
  • Overuse of italics
  • Sword Coast (Dungeon & Dragons)
  • Original Character(s)
  • Side Quests
  • Slice of Life
  • Barbarian Tav (Baldur's Gate)
  • Flashbacks
  • Healing

  Summary

  A Pale Elf has found himself playing caretaker to his savior whilst navigating his own centuries long trauma. All he wishes for now is a life of leisure and luxury. Accompanied by the now broken former hero, they both quest to start living and hopefully achieve the life of leisure they both deserve. If only this barbarian would stop putting on their hero pants for every godsforsaken sob story they encounter.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  41,997

  Chapters:

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