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Weightless by Agent_D
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game), Curse of Strahd (Roleplaying Game), Curse of Strahd (Fandom)
10 Jan 2026
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As the latest reincarnation of a vampire´s long-lost and unrequited love, Adelaide Richter hoped she could bargain with him and save her friends. But when everything falls apart in a single horrifying night, she is left alone with the man who killed her family and now demands her hand in marriage: Strahd von Zarovich.
Now Adelaide must balance her ambitions and terrors to navigate a land of bloodthirsty monsters - or else risk becoming one herself...
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"When you start to fall, there’s a moment, right at the beginning, where you feel weightless."
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14 Jan 2026
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Rinoah really had enough going on already (with a suitably tragic backstory and a dark past on her tail), when she was abducted by the mind-flayer ship and thrown into a world-ending plot with a band of weirdos. The bitey elf was certainly not going to help matters.
This series focuses on the scenes in between the canon events of the game (and the relationship between Rin and Astarion) while also weaving in an extra story - because our heroes' to-do list wasn't quite long enough already.
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- 388,310
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- 14
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11 Jan 2026
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Centuries have passed since Astarion's ascension. Centuries of triumph and despair, of victory and defeat, of heady thrills and daring escapes. Through it all, I have kept him safe. Through it all, he has kept me at his side. His loyal right hand, who straddles the line between life and undeath; the one he can't compel. I am a unique individual, no matter how you slice it. Just not as unique as Tav.
Tav is, after all, the one that got away. The unrequited love of Astarion's life, just as he is the unrequited love of mine.
And now Tav is back, and Tav wants it all.
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13 Dec 2025
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Despite falling in love with a snarky vampire spawn in the midst of fighting cultists, illithids, and an elder brain, a century after the decisive battle, Maleane finds herself utterly alone in a trap set by a vampire lord.
And yet, even if passing time and the shade of death separated the two lovers, fate brings them together once again...
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- Part 1 of VENA CAVA
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30 Oct 2025
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When Scylla returned to Baldur's Gate, she had nothing but scars and fractured memories from the life she lived before. From the first footstep onto the paved street, she felt as though a tuning fork inside her had finally struck the right note. The reverberations of her quiet footfall on stone, the scent of the river insinuating itself into each breath… They were the keys to the cipher that her mind had become.
When the cipher led to Enver Gortash and a partnership that had changed the course of their lives, Scylla found herself forced to decide how far she would go to keep the love that had nearly destroyed her. Woven between her perspective of the events of Act III are Gortash's memories of the paths that led them to ruin - and the road that might lead them back out again.
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- English
- Words:
- 91,306
- Chapters:
- 18/25
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- 1
- Comments:
- 140
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- 54
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- 1,386
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28 Oct 2025
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Nature, Magic, and Everything in Between by LulaMillay
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Nov 2025
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Gale and Tav’s relationship is great - they read in his magic library, have sex in an astral void, but Gale’s too worried about the orb to make their relationship physical.
Tav still has needs, though. Needs are getting harder to manage by herself.
As they leave the shadowlands, Halsin offers his skills to help them find balance.
Together, the three of them heal and create something none of them could have anticipated.
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- English
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- 42,590
- Chapters:
- 7/15
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- 1
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- 51
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19 Oct 2025
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"I don't want you to touch me," he began, and her eyes widened at his request. "But I want to touch you. I want you to show me exactly what feels good for you, and I don't want you to fake it. If I do anything that isn't going to bring you to your release, I want to know. And if I make you come tonight, it will be real. Any cry that falls from your lips will be genuine, and I will know if it's not."
"You... just want to please me?"
"Yes," he agreed. "I just want to please you.
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When Talia left the Underdark, she had many expectations of what the surface would bring. Making her living in a brothel wasn't one of them—but the coin is steady, the clients are predictable, and she keeps her emotions out of her work.
And then a pale elf walks in, uninterested and intriguing.
The first night? They only talk.
The second? He asks her for something no client ever has: honesty.
As their meetings grow more frequent, keeping her emotions out of her work becomes harder than she ever imagined.
And when she stumbles upon a darker side of him, she's left with two questions:
Should she let him go?
Does she even want to?
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Set after the events of the game
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18 Oct 2025
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A year after the fall of the Netherbrain, Astarion and Thiriann manage to get their hands on an ancient tome, setting them on a new path toward the fabled city of Waterdeep.
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- Part 8 of And it's you and me
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- English
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- 18,123
- Chapters:
- 7/?
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- 3
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- 36
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- 1,148
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12 Oct 2025
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Initially just an epilogue for my own game campaign with my big meaty dark urge drow, turned whole story which I accidentally deleted and am now reuploading, my bad LOL
Hope you enjoy!
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- English
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- 155,332
- Chapters:
- 26/?
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11 Oct 2025
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Withers’ final words whispered through the hollow cavern of her being, settling deep in the marrow of her bones.
“He will come for thee, again and again, until his will is fulfilled—until the ritual is complete, as it was always written. For in all things, death is thy gift.”
Tav disappeared the moment the battle was won. No goodbyes, no explanations, just silence where she once stood. The Dark Urge was never truly gone, and she knew if she stayed, ruin would follow.
Two years have passed.
Baldur’s Gate is on its way to being Astarion’s city now, shaped beneath his power as the Vampire Ascendant. He is everything he once longed to be. The past should remain buried, but it never does—not when the streets run red once more, not when the Cult of Bhaal rises from the shadows.
Astarion moves to crush them, not just to solidify his rule, but for revenge. For what they took from him. But when he finds her again, he realizes the terrible truth. She never left to escape him. She left to protect him. And now, she’s his to save.
But destinies are written in blood, and even love may not be enough to rewrite them.
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- Part 1 of Shadows of Death & Destiny
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- English
- Words:
- 250,211
- Chapters:
- 46/46
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- 1
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- 727
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11 Oct 2025
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“You can come back to me,” Astarion’s specter purrs. “I’ll be furious, naturally—violently so—but I’ll have you. Surely that’s better than starving in some damp cave?”
I glare. “He’ll kill my baby.”
My Astarion adjusts, seems to remember he’s not the real thing. “You can’t know that. He’s a narcissist, darling. If he looks and sees himself, he might raise it like a prince.”
“And if he sees me?”
“Then never give him the chance,” he urges. “Show everyone just how very hard you are to kill.”
Tav ran. She slipped Astarion’s leash, left a charred drow corpse in her place, and went into hiding with their monster growing inside her—one that already has its father’s appetite.
But when Minthara’s supply drop fails to arrive, Tav is left alone, pregnant, and starving in the Underdark.
And the imaginary Astarion she’s conjured for comfort—the one shaped from her best memories—may not be hers at all.
Tav has her Bella Swan/teen mom moment in the Underdark. I doubt anyone will read this, but it was so so fun to write.
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- Part 2 of Cruel World, Full of Cruel Things
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11 Oct 2025
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Her voice cracked, sorrowfully small. He knew if he stayed any longer he would walk back on his word. "Astarion, please.”The voice of reason inside raged, pleading for him to stop and cease this destruction.
Soraia waited, her lip quivering as the ash floated across her face, golden hair tousling in the wind while a slow stream of tears cleared their path down her soot-stained cheeks.
He couldn't stomach the sight nor the pain of her answer. Without a word, he opened the door to the Crimson Palace, giving her his back and letting it slam in her face.
After helping Astarion ascend, Soraia lost the one she once loved when she refused to be his spawn.
Months later, fate brings them back together. Astarion is the Vampire Ascendant, powerful and unholy. And he wants her back.
Can she survive loving him again this time around, or will it destroy them both?Softer AA. Post ascension.
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- Part 1 of The Sanguine Throne
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- English
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- 18,974
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- 5/?
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- 1
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- 16
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11 Oct 2025
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Laidra is a bard with ambition despite being born a commoner in Menzoberranzan. When she comes into the employ of the fourth noble house, she is tasked with soothing a strange beast chained to the bed of Matron DeVir. She never would have expected the beast to change into an even stranger elven man, nor would she have expected him to completely change the path she'd carefully carved for herself in Drow society. Will a druid from the surface bring her to forsake her Goddess to seek the world he describes to her, one daring encounter at a time? Or will her music soothe him before divine intervention can arrive?
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- Part 2 of Shifted
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- English
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- 31,781
- Chapters:
- 7/?
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- 2
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- 93
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- 15
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06 Oct 2025
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The Vampire Ascendant has everything he ever wanted: power, freedom, eternity. And yet the throne feels hollow, the palace reeks of rot, and the one person who mattered most has vanished without a word.
When a child appears in his domain, a fragile, impossible echo of the woman who left him, Astarion must confront the one role he never wanted to play.
Blood is easy. Power is easy. But family? That will undo him faster than any blade.
(A lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers tale of two estranged monsters tethered by their little star.)
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05 Oct 2025
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Astarion’s coming to your tent every night with honeyed nothings on his tongue. Trouble is, you’re starting to smell hints of bullshit. The closer y’all get, the further apart you feel. And then there’s the fucking brainworm cult.
These two losers must cheat, stab, and flirt their way to the heart of a cult. And to…whatever it is between them.
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- Part 3 of these two shitheads
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- English
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- 167,556
- Chapters:
- 91/102
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24 Aug 2025
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Orange blossoms. Sol loved orange blossoms.
It's been two years since the defeat of the the Elder Brain and everything has returned back to as it was, just a little different. Sol got what they wanted and returned to the Palm, a premier theater and company, as a principal dancer and performer. Everything should be fine, but it isn't. The past is just too heavy.
Astarion, now the Lord of the Crimson Palace, only covets one thing: that lover of his who got away. He will bide his time, sink his teeth, and set things in their proper place.-> Asatrion doing what he can to bind Sol to him, forever this time.
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10 Aug 2025
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After settling into his new life in Baldur's Gate, Astarion encourages Rolim to uncover all the corrupt city officials and sycophantic nobles who ever laid hands on him, thus leading to the most scandalous series of trials to ever take place in Baldur's Gate.
Rolim just wants to get it over with, but Astarion is on a mission:
To finally purge the city's elite and get justice for his lover and all the other people who suffered from the spread of Cazador's depravity.Series
- Language:
- English
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- 3,065
- Chapters:
- 2/?
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- 1
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- 8
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- 11
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- 107
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04 Aug 2025
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Centuries of pain, a ritual, (not) hunger, (not) desire, a lost soul, a search, a yearning, bodies, bodies...
And a heart that changes everything.
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- English
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- 82,848
- Chapters:
- 15/?
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- 1
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- 177
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- 62
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- 1,842
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16 Jul 2025
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After the rite of profane ascension forces her to turn away from the man she once loved, Nyari flees to Waterdeep, desperate for a new start. Studying alongside Gale, she begins research on a method of apotheosis—one that dissolves the self entirely. But the past is not so easily forgotten, and neither is Astarion, whose interest in her research becomes dangerously personal. Now, Nyari must decide how far she’s willing to go to stop him from losing himself entirely, and whether the man she once loved still exists at all.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 59,071
- Chapters:
- 18/?
- Collections:
- 1
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- 246
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- 113
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- 3,612
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19 May 2025
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Thirty Six Days Before It All Went Wrong by chaus_cobolorum
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Apr 2025
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“Thirty-six days. I was blessed to be by your side for thirty-six days before that bitch backstabbed you in the dark.” - Astarion to Tav
I wrote a post-canon reverse isekai fic called A Striking Resemblance that features this line.
This is the novelization of the canon events that proceeded that fic.I must stress if the tags don't do it enough, this is not a happy story. Multiple main characters die horribly. Others simply end up their most horrible selves. Faerun gets a happy ending, but the tadfools do not.
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- Part 1 of What We Lost in the Shadows
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,830
- Chapters:
- 5/50
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 50
- Kudos:
- 21
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- 7
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- 579
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20 Apr 2025