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The Garden Of Pawns by Thalistris
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
07 Dec 2024
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Six months after the defeat of the Absolute, Tav, Wyll, and the Emperor work together to uncover a conspiracy that threatens Baldur's Gate. Things go about as smoothly as they expect.
Post-canon. Spoilers for the Murder In Baldur's Gate and Descent Into Avernus books.
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03 Mar 2026
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Tale of an Astral Sailor - A tale of Balduran by Seynne
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
10 Sep 2024
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This story has a few lines which represent a spoiler for Act 3, Wyll quest, and about the true identity of the Emperor. Please skip if you are not already aware of it, or do not like to be spoiled. It's narrated on a first person point of view, the Emperor's POV, to be more specific, and is a long, poetic-prose monologue.
The idea is simple: Tav cannot sleep. The Emperor offers to help, and while he knows a magical sleep may be useful, he also knows it will only be a temporary relief. But he has another idea, which is helping Tav relax solely by the sound of his voice telling a story. Only problem... Tav... is prone to distractions?
(Chapter 1 : English version / Chapter 2 : French -original- version)
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27 Feb 2026
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weight on my soul, undone by your hand by ballofbitter for magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Dec 2025
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"The thing about safety however, the Emperor now realized: is that you could be as safe as a babe wrapped tight and bundled against it's mother's breast, but if you were also alone — the void would always find its way back in to the very corners of your mind, slithering and making it through the smallest of hairline cracks that formed in the silence that being completely safe promised."
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The Emperor has had a lot of places to hide over the passing years, but much prefers to be found.
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- English
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- 3,249
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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21 Feb 2026
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What kind of illithid colony chose not to cull an illithid as outrageously aberrant as the Emperor? How did it relearn the secret to building nautiloids, long-lost technology from the age of illithid dominion? Who was the Absolute, before it was the Absolute?
Tav remembers. They are one of the last thralls of the original colony, from before the madness seized the brain. Soon, they will be reborn as another nameless illithid, another cog in a senseless machine, no past, no present, no future. But then the voice of the Absolute falls silent. The nautiloid crashes. And Tav remembers what was lost.
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03 Feb 2026
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The Fruiting of Impossible Stars by GinaTeeth for magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
30 Dec 2025
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After six failed attempts and one quiet truth in the Underdark, Gale Dekarios finally hears the yes he's longed for. On Simril, the longest night, when stars burn brightest, a wizard and a rogue illithid celebrate their union beneath watching stars and drifting spores. A story of proposals, autonomy, and love that fruits slowly, like mycelium through soil.
Created from the prompt: A Gale and illithid wedding!!! I want to see Gale's grand romantic gestures for his squiddy beloved!
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- English
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- 3,660
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 13
- Kudos:
- 12
- Bookmarks:
- 4
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- 98
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13 Jan 2026
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Just some silly writing about the Emperor and full illlithid tav getting nice bonding time after the ending of the game. I love him so much and he needs more content so here you go, I hope this helps! I'm new at this so mistakes will be there :)
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Now a full mind flayer you take some time to get used to your new form with the help of your partner. Mind smut follows.
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07 Jan 2026
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On the care and feeding of a lonely cleric in the Underdark. Or, how Lenore and Yrre first found each other.
With artwork by Katie (@wildmagickatie) in chapter four.
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07 Jan 2026
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Initially posted at the written date, was deleted then reuploaded later in the beginning of 2025 because of a mistake.
Seven souls inside their pods on the Nautiloid. Seven souls he chose for his plans, seven souls he chose to stop the Grand Design. Everything is going smoothly.
But something on his left catches his attention. Something unpredictable, omething mad.
The voice slipping ideas in him from the beginning protests, very much protests, and yet he hesitates.
Should he turn right and go back to the ship helm, or...Series
- Part 1 of The "Turn left, Emperor" Verse
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Lellar (Tav) has a lot on her mind - and, well, in it. And it's enough to make an adventurer go sleep-deprived.
The Emperor and the rest of the party need a Tav in full possession of her forces - and thus, he tries to help her relax and finally sleep.
And perhaps, enjoy some wordless comfort too?Series
- Part 6 of The "Turn left, Emperor" Verse
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07 Jan 2026
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Initially posted at the written date, was deleted then reuploaded later in the beginning of 2025 because of a mistake.
The Emperor and you, Tav, are resting together after the events with the big brain, within the Elfsong Tavern - and you're both pretty much taken with each other. After some well earned rest, you wake up snuggly wrapped in his arms and.. and with some natural desire pretty much powerful within you. Now, it's true your connection may not be as strong as it was before due to the very recent events, but does it change something between you two, that's up to you to find out.Series
- Part 7 of The "Turn left, Emperor" Verse
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07 Jan 2026
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Vaussur took you in as his thrall for what feels like a long time ago. Despite being a mind flayer, he had surprise you at every turn, acting unlike how you expected an illithid to act- like how the rest of the mind flayers in his hive acts. Lenient and forgiving with you, letting you roam with your mind free (for the most part), you find yourself unexpectedly getting attached to him.
What do you do, when all of a sudden your mind flayer ‘master’ asks you to tell him about human love? When he asks you to show him more directly? And most importantly…
Would you kiss a mind flayer?
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30 Dec 2025
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Golden by TheDorkyMagician
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
17 Mar 2025
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Ansur, searching for Balduran across Faerûn, grudgingly enlists the help of a crew who will not call themselves adventurers. Years later, the mind flayer called Balduran searches Baldur's Gate for signs of his long-lost dog, Rascal.
This story is a Baldur's Gate 3 prequel that wonders about Ansur and the mind flayer that would be called the Emperor. How did their relationship deteriorate? Was it purely due to Balduran's ceremorphosis, or did it just make them both re-evaluate who they thought the other person was? In considering those questions, this fic theorizes about who and what is/isn't remembered in legends, the value of treasure and wealth, the power of a broken oath, what it means to be "worthy," and whether being considered "worthy" is really worth anything at all.
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29 Dec 2025
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Seafoam & Stardust by magmethius
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
01 Oct 2025
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This is the series for Surround Sound and related works. They are in chronological order, but can all be read stand-alone.
SS is a directly-post-game slice-of-life series of vignettes about a Tavflayer (named Moss) and the Emperor. It focuses on character development for the pair and their companions as they work on rebuilding the city, with Moss learning how to be a proper illithid and the Emperor learning that he doesn't need to be such a guarded self-sufficient loner all the time. A little bit of drama and hurt/comfort, but mostly fluff, as the point of it was to give the Emperor a happy ending.
TM takes place 5 years later, and has a more serious long-form/plot-focused storyline. It involves the squids and a selection of their companions journeying to the country of Tethyr as they attempt to reclaim the Shield of Silvam for the Knights. Heavy on the hurt, but there will be a happy ending. If you prefer the Emperor's more detached, pragmatic, 'gaslighting girlboss' side, he resumes those shenanigans in this one.
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19 Dec 2025
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Illithid Anatomy: Comparative Analysis of Pre- and Post-Ceremorphosis by elsenova
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Mar 2026
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I wanted it to be published on ResearchGate, but they declined, so I made an account on AO3. Just kidding, it’s a fantasy story.
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Infected with an alien larva that will overwrite her body, Talula — a wizard whose spellcasting has grown rusty — has only days, a kleptomaniacal companion, and her analytical mind to find a cure, but each of her well-considered decisions breeds a worse disaster.Notes:
– Tav1 (Talula) is tadpoled and Tav2 (Yu-On) isn’t, to have two characters to interact with the world from different perspectives.
– All other OCs are my other Tavs who needed to be honoured as well, but they got only roles of “the mob” for completing the side quests and driving the plot forwards, since Tav1 is a confused fellow.
– There are no canon party companions because this story is devoted to the Emperor, out of my disappointment with how he has been sidelined by the game developers. Source:the gameBaldur’s Gate III and the Queer Politics of Monstrosity -
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A short story about a moment of pleasure between an unwitting Necromancer Tav and her dominator Omeluum.
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18 Dec 2025
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Adventurer, Mindflayer in disguise, and warlock of Cthuhlu, Zevodur discovers a strange group of people infected by his kin's offspring. But these tadpoles are surrounded by strange magic and act differently than any he's encountered, sparking his curiosity.
Now he finds himself spiraling into a new sort of madness as he attempts to keep his secrets all the while babysitting a bunch of idiot adventures trying to cure themselves...only to discover a massive plot to take over the world. What else is new?
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- Part 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Idiots
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18 Dec 2025