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Astarion receives an unwanted visitor at camp while the others sleep in their tents.
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08 May 2026
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we color in the world and crown it by stolenglow (xlph) for Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Mar 2025
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Karlach only begins to see colors after she is abducted by mind flayers and gets a tadpole inserted into her eye. This is the story of how each color comes to her, and how they feature in the life she builds with Astarion.
or: a take on the soulmate trope never knew color until I knew you.
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24 Feb 2026
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Karlach and Astarion, on their journey before, beyond, and between.
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22 Feb 2026
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caught between the dark and the dreaming by Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Jan 2024
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Marcus holds the goblet up, still stinking with klauthgrass, and ponders them, clutched in the wretched claws of his undead monsters. "Well," he says, and smiles. "If you will not willingly drink it, I have a manner of encouragement."
And then he raises his dagger, pricks his own wrist until scarlet pools over his pale skin, and lets blood drip into the goblet.
Before he can help it, Astarion stiffens.
Astarion has spent two hundred years with truth as a bitter enemy. Fitting, then, that his choice to say it is taken from him.
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- 18,925
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18 Feb 2026
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Feb 2026
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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- English
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- 234,498
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- 61/61
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03 Feb 2026
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The Greatest of Thieves (couldn't take my love away) by grazimesmo
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Jul 2025
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Forced together on a world-saving mission, Gale and Astarion's animosity burns until a brush with death turns rivalry into quiet devotion when Astarion goes down during a perilous mission and Gale takes on the weight of his recovery. As ambitions tempt their souls and desires complicates matters, they fight the Cult of the Absolute, all the while trying to confront the chaos within themselves.
A kiss before the final battle shakes the very fabric of their fragile friendship, and deciding to live together afterwards only heightens the tensions — Gale fears hurting Astarion, and Astarion feels unwanted, stranded in a home that isn’t truly his.
Love, slow and aching, grows between the cracks, and in the end, it's not fate that will keep them together, but the choice to stay.Bookmarked by IntelligentDemon
20 Jan 2026
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An Exercise in Restraint by ShadowViking, snarknerdytome
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Dec 2025
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Astarion and Gale let their curiosity get the best of them and end up finding much more than they expected while exploring the House of Hope.
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28 Dec 2025
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Cazador surveys what he's made: a vessel perfected, ripening well beneath his hand.
for dead dove kinktober day 16: forced preg
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16 Nov 2025
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After the tadpoles are gone and everyone goes their separate ways, Astarion and Gale realize they can still hear each other’s thoughts. Probably because they’re soulmates.
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- 35/35
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25 Sep 2025
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Gale, once the esteemed Archmage of Waterdeep and now the self-appointed Grand Collector of Magical Misalignments, finds himself stranded in an unfamiliar land with a ragtag group of liars, cutthroats, and aliens. While he manages to rekindle his long-neglected skills in building friendships with most of them, it's painfully apparent that the vampire harbours a profound dislike for him. Given his recent streak of misfortune, it's no surprise that fate dictates learning more about the volatile orb lodged in Gale's chest requires Astarion's begrudging cooperation.
Astarion, for his part, is simply trying to survive.
Thus begins a journey marked by personal evolution, confronting inner and not-so-inner demons and embracing self-compassion—not necessarily in that order.
Oh yes, and they also need to save the world.
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Or the one with over 200k worth of slow-burn dumbassery.May 2026: Re-editing certain parts a little more. No changes to the content, only some rewording and grammar fixes for a smoother reading experience. I’ll mark here when finished.
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- Part 1 of I’d Burn Through the World
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- 251,010
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- 38/38
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21 Aug 2025
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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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- 46,164
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- 6/6
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06 Aug 2025
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Under the Shade of Another Oak by GhostInTheClawMachine
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Jul 2025
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Halsin had stepped valiantly into a portal that blinked out of existence when their party was overwhelmed in combat. They hadn’t been close all those years ago, but Halsin had been the first to die, and Astarion would be the last as he was always destined to be. There was something meaningful in that.
Immortality leaves one with rather a lot of years to keep track of. 150 years since saving the realm. 146 years since marrying Wyll. 79 years since becoming a widow. 13 years since the last of his former companions passed on without him.
Of all the things Astarion has suffered in his long life, the one blow he's no longer capable of weathering is suffering all on his own. When he finds his way to the Shadow-Cursed lands in search of place to waste away in peace, the last thing he expects to find is a kindred spirit in similar need of healing.
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03 Aug 2025
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”Are you sure,” she managed to speak between kisses, “you want this?”“You’re asking me? You’re the one,” he murmured, nibbling her lower lip, “getting married, darling.”
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“Maybe what you really need is a friend, not a lover,” she’d told him.
Tavya's with Gale now; Astarion is just a very close friend.
So it’s definitely not a big deal when she runs into him the night before her wedding… right?
Or, a story about Tav and Astarion becoming more than friends again in the messiest way possible.
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- Part 1 of you and me, we got our own sense of time
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- English
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- 34,342
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- 9/9
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13 Jul 2025
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It gets embarrassing how often Astarion thinks that this will be the time his master has hit his limit for sadism and cruelty, this will be the largest cock to be found in all of Faerûn, only to be flipped over and fucked raw with his lack of imagination and a severe underestimation of Cazador’s resources.
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- English
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- 5,150
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- 1/1
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24 May 2025
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After the battle in Baldur’s Gate, Astarion finds himself unwillingly back in his master’s home, but something’s changed between them.
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18 May 2025
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A Blazing Star by Moonmaiden86
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom, Bg3 - Fandom, Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
31 May 2026
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This work will alternate POV between Astarion, Gale, and Halsin, and focus on character exploration, and expanding on a lot of sub-plots from the game regarding the three of them. The canon events will still occur, but a little out of order, and sometimes for different reasons.
The main plot will revolve around Astarion’s gradual discovery of the Black Mass Ritual, and all the Infernal implications of its completion. His past trauma will feature heavily in this fic, and all that entails. The basic idea is that the Black Mass has been centuries in the making, and there are those in the Hells who would rather not see it succeed… at least not as Cazador intends.
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- English
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- 413,899
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- 78/?
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05 Jan 2025
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Between the beats of Tav’s heart, the world winked from existence. Astarion lurched in confusion, clawing at his own throat when he realized that he couldn’t hear himself scream. He could feel someone’s grip squeeze his wrist painfully tight. They tugged him towards some random direction, and he tripped over his own feet, tumbling to the ground.
Five years post-game. While headed to Gale’s tower, Astarion is cursed by a vicious spell that sends him reeling. Tav is immediately captured by the mysterious woman who cast it--someone angry and powerful, with a vendetta against them both. Blind, deafened, and terrified, Astarion soon finds himself caught up in the throes of a vast conspiracy that involves his haunting past, the Urge’s many sins, and the very future of Waterdeep.
(Meanwhile, Gale has problems of his own...)
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- Part 1 of Falling In Chiaroscuro
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11 Dec 2024
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He could say later that he stepped forward because of the silence spell. His arsenal smothered. He had no choice.
But Gale knows that even if he had the entire Weave at his fingertips, for once in his miserable life, he’d go without.
He’ll use his hands.
- Language:
- English
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- 42,577
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- 28/28
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- 512
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02 Dec 2024
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Sequel to Tooth and Nail but can be read as a standalone.
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- Part 2 of Astarion spawn stuff
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29 Nov 2024
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"You just want me to break up with Loviatar so you can have me all to yourself," the elf whispered, face still pressed to Gale's shoulder. The warm body beneath him rumbled with laughter.
"I certainly wouldn't object to that course of action."
[A story about dealing with mental health, trauma old and new.]
If this looks familiar, worry not! This is the edited and adjusted (hopefully more polished) version of my previously published works Only Then, I Am Clean and The Rats Are Singing. Unlike the old versions, this one is in past tense rather than present tense and also includes additional formatting changes and a few extra footnotes that weren't there before.
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- Part 1 of Who's Blood To Spill?
Bookmarked by IntelligentDemon
29 Nov 2024