17 Bookmarks by NovemberDarling
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Astarion Ancunin is a dancer for The Balduran Opera, who in his spare time has been taking voice lessons from a mysterious teacher. Things all seem to be going well as he finally debuts as a singer and reunites with a childhood friend (perhaps... maybe more than a friend), but there is something in the opera house. Something that wants Astarion.
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21 Apr 2024
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Ketheric Thorm and Moonrise Towers have been defeated. On the morrow, Wyll, Astarion, and the others will make for Baldur's Gate to face the other Chosen of the Dead Three and the Elder Brain they command.
While the Harpers and tieflings celebrate, Wyll thinks of his father and all the ways he is not, has never been, good enough. Astarion stumbles his way through sincerity.
And the sun rises on these once-cursed lands for the first time in a hundred years.
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01 Mar 2024
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Wyll Ravenguard is familiar with monsters. Monsters give him purpose: something to fight, a reason to keep moving forward, to avoid looking over his shoulder at the city and the home that he will never be welcome in again.
Then, he leaves Avernus with a mindflayer’s tadpole writhing through his brain. Then, he learns that the fiend he’d sworn to kill is an innocent tiefling. Then, his own personal devil tears the flesh from his bones and warps his body permanently, beyond his recognition.
Then, he wakes up in the calm of an otherwise quiet night to a vampire spawn’s teeth in his neck.
(Or: Wyll Ravenguard reshapes his definition of monsters. And maybe falls in love.)
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25 Feb 2024
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When he wakes, he is on a beach, gold, looking up at the sun.
Ah, he thinks, distant. I'm dreaming.
Astarion is never quite sure, until the moment Cazador lies dead before him, whether this entire adventure is anything more than an extremely vivid hallucination.
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18 Feb 2024
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition
Henry V, Act IV Scene iii
Fifteen years ago, Wyll Ravengard helped save the world. His reward was being left to rebuild his city, soul bound to a devil, while his friends scattered. But he's not the only person they left behind. The Vampire Ascendant, Cazador Szarr, sire of his once-upon-a-time travelling companion, Astarion, who no one's heard from in years.
Bound by his Warlock pact to leave him unharmed, Wyll has maintained an uneasy truce with Szarr for years. But when Tav returns to Baldur’s Gate from the Hells, the winds of fortune blow once more. Wyll has an opportunity to rid his city of the monster that has stalked its streets for centuries.
Except no one knows where Astarion's run off to. Or what secrets Cazador has tucked up in his palace, ready to be roused.
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15 Feb 2024
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the kindest of kisses (break the hardest of hearts) by jellyfishline
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
10 Feb 2024
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Astarion has kissed people before, of course. He’s kissed quite a lot of people, thank you very much. Some of them even survived the process.
Some of them he even enjoyed. Not that that’s here nor there.
Astarion successfully seduces Wyll, but Wyll is less interested in taking Astarion to bed a second time than he is in kissing him senseless. Astarion has no idea what to do with that.
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11 Feb 2024
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“Oh, don’t look at me with that sad little face.” Astarion sighs, looking away. “Imagine a burning vampire spawn standing amidst the heroes of Baldur's Gate, saviors of Faerûn!” He makes a fist with his hand, holding it up high in mock triumph. “Ridiculous. Better to let you all enjoy your victory while I slunk off to the shadows once again.”
“Astarion, damn it. You’re our friend, one of us. Of course we wanted you there with us. We missed you. I missed you.”
Three months after the Netherbrain has fallen, Wyll finds Astarion.
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21 Jan 2024
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In which, at long last, the party deals with both Cazador and Mizora.
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- Part 5 of Priorities
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15 Jan 2024
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Meditation is not sleep, and reverie is not quite dreaming. Fever can shunt humans into a horrible half-sleep. Elves, instead, get one foot caught in memory.
Memory can be unkind.
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05 Jan 2024
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Wyll never expected to find his way back to Baldur's Gate.
He doesn't intend to stay— his mother is dying, his father is still disapproving, and he has his own life now as the Blade of Frontiers.
But his return finds him almost immediately embroiled in the affairs of the influential and mysterious Szarr family.
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Astarion languishes in Baldur's Gate, trapped in the Upper City under the harrowing spectre of Cazador Szarr.
He's sick of vapid conversations with patriars who only see him as inroads to the Szarr family fortune.
And then Wyll Ravengard arrives in Baldur's Gate, and Astarion hatches a plan.
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05 Jan 2024
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A Different Kind of Maker by iswyn for Horns of Mischief (Rinelin)
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man - All Media Types, Thor (Movies)
21 Apr 2015
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Loki has grown up in the Circle of Magi, and she expects to spend the rest of her life there. When she meets a young Grey Warden named Anthony, she realizes that there may be more to the world than just the tower library.
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07 Dec 2017
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i am used, i am drummed into use. by arrowfortea
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
04 Feb 2015
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For the prompt "Snow." TW for suicidal ideation. She smiles weakly. It would work like that, in a clearer world, one black and white as his beloved chessboard. But Cullen doesn’t know it as she does, for it is hers. Its sharpness has been pressed to her back for so long that it’s become a vertebra.
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05 Feb 2015
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Since mortal love betrayed the Maker's bride, mortal lovers have been cursed with the name of their soulmate scarred somewhere into their skin. Sometimes this eases the heart's road.
Sometimes it does not.
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13 Jan 2015
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Just after his first kiss with Ellana Lavellan, Cullen realizes he wants to give more to her and the Inquisition than he is physically able. His lyrium addiction has weakened him and fearing the side effects will overtake him... he makes a decision. A decision that he hopes he will not regret. (Cullen x Fem Inquisitor) *Caution heavy spoilers* Cross posted on Fanfiction.net
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13 Jan 2015
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Anders doesn't want to be seen like this.
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05 Jan 2015
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Don’t get involved, was what her Daddy always told her. Don’t get involved, Mely—folks’ll turn you in soon as smile at you, once they figure out what you are. But Amelle "Miracle Mely" Hawke isn't very good at not getting involved. (Wild West AU)
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- Part 4 of Amelle Hawke
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21 Apr 2014
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The game is over, but it still feels like something is missing.
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20 Aug 2012