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“Back up, quickly!” Astarion snapped his book shut and jumped to his feet. Looking up he wasn’t sure what was happening. Gale had his staff ready with Shadowheart reaching for her discarded shield, all while Balro was standing, staring down a twisting crackling portal that had opened out on the beach near camp.
The gang is spending a typical night at camp when a portal opens dumping a mysterious half-elf woman in their lap. None of them know her, yet she knows all of them.
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20 Nov 2023
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He stepped into the light. “It’s not often I’m noticed before I decide to be. You might be more canny than I gave you credit for.”
“So kind of you to admit your low estimations,” she laughed. “You might be more of an ass than I gave you credit for.”
In all his years of servitude, he had only ever been free to pursue and seduce prey that fit his master’s preferences. Not knowing the pleasure of getting lost in a body like hers felt like another way he’d been starved.
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Astarion’s “Nice, simple, plan,” falls apart thanks to quick-witted and full-figured fighter Titania, aka Tav. Moral quandaries are inevitable, but they find common ground in a fondness for lying, violence always being an option, and former bosses from hell— in her case, literally.- Language:
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19 Nov 2023
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You managed to convince Astarion not to go through with the Rite of Profane Ascension. He remains a vampire spawn, and you now offer your blood from time to time to help with his sanguine hunger until a solution is found.
Even though you had both decided to stay as friends back at Moonrise Towers, lines begin to blur once more as other cravings come to the surface… and things with Astarion are seldom uncomplicated.
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Impatience gripped your nerves ferociously. "These things take time, Astarion."
"Oh, my darling… I have all the time in the world, but you only have a limited supply of blood," he whispered softly and you could almost taste his taunting words.
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19 Nov 2023
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Caught in Rage, Goddess Stained by mungeondisaster (Orphic_Gaze)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Dec 2024
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[COMPLETE]
A retelling.
“How … likely is it we can chalk this up to a naughty dream?”
Dropping her hands to her lap, she squints at him. “Well, now that you’ve said it—not very likely.”
He’s still half on her bedroll where’s she’d left him, propped up on one arm, other hand massaging at his throat. It takes her a while to process the wariness in his eyes—a length of time where her silent observation of him only seems to heighten his unease.
Just to be thorough, she briefly touches her fingers to either side of her throat. When she feels only smooth skin, she sighs again, shaking her head.
“… What are you going to do?” Astarion asks in a low and quiet voice, evidently having followed her—soundlessly in the way she knows he can be when he wants to. “What are you … What are you going to tell them?”
Last Edited: April 18, 2025 (punctuation, some typos, and so many missed capital 'H's iykyk)
Rated for graphic depictions of Violence, Trauma, Trauma-related subjects, Sex and a potentially triggering sexual encounter.
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- Part 1 of Caught in Rage, Goddess Stained
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17 Nov 2023
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The Warrior of Light sees dead people.
Oz has a talent. A birthright, as her mother’s ghost is always eager to remind her. The women of her family have passed this talent – this quirk of ability and aether – through their line for as long as records have existed, and she’s never given it much thought. After all, what use is talking to ghosts when Eorzea has need of her other, flashier magicks?
Until the day she kills Emet-Selch, keeper of the Underworld, and her little talent suddenly takes on a whole new meaning.
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13 Nov 2023
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These days, most everybody in camp had learned to wave away Astarion’s advances with a laugh. They found the flirtation titillating, Gale figured, or a bit threatening, or some combination of the two. He wondered if anybody else found it sad.
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Good old-fashioned rumination on choice and compulsion. Gale and Astarion shake off their metaphorical shackles.- Language:
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11 Nov 2023
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If Bhaal’s plans had been derailed, his inheritance rejected, and the Slayer defeated, why were Tav's hands still shaking like he was dealing with another Urge?
Turns out being stabbed through the skull has consequences. Tav has kept the effects of his old injuries from the party, but once he is finally clear of his bloody inheritance, the others start to notice that not all is what it seems.
In which Tav is lovingly bullied into learning how to accept help, and Astarion's cracks are showing. (Stand-alone)
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- Part 2 of Requiems and Recitatives
- Part 19 of Blood and Music (Tavran Gregory, Bard)
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10 Nov 2023
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Cazador gestured down to the man in crippled subordination. “Astarion knows nothing of selflessness. Allow him to ascend in my place and you will be discarded here once you’ve served your purpose, another corpse to litter my palace.”
“No, he-“
“Do you truly think he cares for you? A vampire spawn? Ha!”
Tav recoiled.
“It would be pathetic had you been the only one taken in by him. You are no different to him than the spawn in the cells were. A warm body to find comfort in. To fuck and feed from. A pretty means to an ugly end.”
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Cazador captures Tav and uses her to lure Astarion back to him. Act 3 spoilers obv
*editing my warning to include: this whole fic is trigger-city. Pls use good judgement and consume responsibly*
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- Part 1 of The Pale Elf
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10 Nov 2023
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"All of this is mine now. This dreadful palace I’ve remade. The power he so desperately wanted. The respect and gratitude of the entire city. And do you know what my greatest victory is? What I have that he never had?" Astarion’s thumb smoothed along Tav’s cheekbone in admiration.
"You," he breathed. "I have someone who trusts me completely. Who loves me more than anything. I hope that whatever hell he’s rotting in, he sees what I have. How much more I am than what he tried to make me. I have everything I’ve ever wanted."After Baldur’s Gate is saved, all of Tav’s dreams have come true. Life as a Vampire Lord’s beloved pet is sweet, especially for a bard who only ever wanted to dedicate himself to music and love. And Astarion does love him—doesn’t he?
Astarion is the most powerful vampire who ever lived, poised to rule the city from the shadows with a beautiful, obedient consort by his side who is happy to fulfill his every wish.
Until an old threat reappears, and Tav finds himself a pawn in a larger game. Astarion would never allow anyone to steal his most precious treasure—but when it boils down to a choice between power and saving Tav, could a Vampire Lord truly relinquish power?
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- Part 4 of Blood and Sunlight
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08 Nov 2023
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“I am not eager to throw myself upon another altar for naught but scraps in return.” Gale steels himself with a deep breath. He speaks his peace to the wilds and the cosmos rather than his lover's face. “And yet. Marble skin, silver tongue... eyes like Moonsea rubies. Oh, you cast a fine altar, Astarion.”
With two discerning appetites, a deal to keep each other fed is the one thing that ties Astarion and Gale together. But the proverbial collar slips all too easily around Gale's throat, the lead feels right in Astarion's unchained hands, and both men think they've bested the other in a game neither should be playing.
In any case. As the greats say in lanceboard: there is no shame in losing to a stronger foe.
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04 Nov 2023
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Octavia - Wild Magic Sorcerer - Worth the Trouble by ashesandhoney
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Jan 2024
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After spending her life suppressing and hiding and struggling for control over her chaotic wild magic, Octavia Barrows' very methodical - if highly criminal - life is turned upside down. There's a mindflayer tadpole in her brain threatening to turn her into a monster. She's ass deep in magic and danger and while she is very good at pretending to be a normal and responsible business owner, the cracks are starting to show. The beautiful and casually murderous elf is not making anything easier.
This is mostly me sorting out my Tav and building out her back story. It's the getting together phase of a Tav/Astarion romance.
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- Part 1 of Baldur's Gate - Meet My Tavs
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02 Nov 2023
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Gale runs out of options when Tav has no magic items she's willing to spare and has to make a deal with the resident vampire spawn. Meanwhile, Astarion thinks he's stalking the wizard like prey, but he's actually falling in love.
This story follows the events of the game, but make it Bloodweave.
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28 Oct 2023
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"Patriars may smell better, but it will attract unwanted attention if too many aristocrats vanish while they're out slumming. In the last month you already brought in a Dlusker, a Jhasso and an Oathoon, and now three wealthy families are up in arms. Watch it."
Where Astarion accidentally tries to bring in a patriar and gets rewarded with freedom.
update 11.11.2024 - i have fixed the broken images. turns out sites don't like it when you use discord as an image source link lmao. dig in or whatever
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28 Oct 2023
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He stills for a moment, and then he murmurs against her skin, “Like that, do you? You utter deviant.” He licks a broad path over the bite, then whispers in her ear, “Tell me, darling, did you lure me here hoping for something more?”
---Astarion decides to manipulate Emerie into caring about him the only way he knows how- with sex. He miscalculates badly.
*an exploration of trauma responses and healing in a relationship. Angst with periodic relief and a happy ending.
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- Part 1 of Mirrors
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26 Oct 2023
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“Hmm,” the leader hums. “You do have a…busy tongue. Perhaps we can keep you quiet if we put your mouth to better use?”
While alone at camp, Gale happens to surprise some thieves looking for an easy score. Afterwards, he finds comfort in an unexpected place.
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26 Oct 2023
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Some part of him could picture it then, could imagine telling her everything - speaking til dawn on his whole history. Spending the next day in this same spot, diving into what he knew of hers. Asking how it felt to gore that bard. Instead, he mirrored her smile - his own wicked grin for seducing and scheming.
“I’ve wanted to taste you since I first felt that pretty neck under my blade.”
And as her head fell back in a laugh, the white expanse of her neck on full display at his easy, overused line, he watched the golden girl fall into the palm of his hand.
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COMPLETED.Astarion had known the woman's face immediately - Halia Dhune, the golden daughter of Baldur's Gate. The princess of the upper city. How many times had Cazador sent him after her - wanting to claim the socialite as a trophy to add to his awful collection? At least now he wouldn't have to go back to his master empty handed, should the tadpole situation not work out in his favor.
(or: what if the Dark Urge was a noble woman, perfect and popular, and her father's favorite fox in the henhouse. and of course, what if our dear vampire knew of her before the crash?)
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24 Oct 2023
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Set post-canon, and endgame spoilers abound!
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After saving Baldur's Gate and losing her love, Petra hides away at her father's house, refusing to see her friends or return to her previous career as a stage performer. After a year of hiding, Astarion tracks her down and insists she move into his house with him, so he can care for her better than her distant father is. As Petra begins to navigate the world again, she becomes obsessed with avenging Karlach, and so she comes up with a plan: she's going to go to Avernus and kill Zariel.
Oh, and Petra and Astarion are desperately in love with one another, and everyone knows it, save the two idiots pining for one another.
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- Part 15 of Petra Silverscale
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23 Oct 2023
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Your Heart Beats in Another's Chest by ThePaladinProse (shockdowndefiance)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Oct 2023
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What’s a vampire lord to do, when one of their spawn has no heart?
Kidnap the next best thing, of course.
After a failed attempt to bring Astarion back by way of a Gur monster hunter, Cazador learns that Astarion has begun to care for one of his companions and sets in motion a plot to get Astarion to return to him.
If it means he can have a little fun with a half-elf in the process, all the better.
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The slap hits her, shocks her. She’s been in bar brawls before, taken many a punch to the face when dealing with drunks or misdirected anger, felt the bruises rise hours before they’d become visible, but a slap is different.
A slap is a burning red mark upon her cheek, twisting her head around off balance, intent on humiliation rather than harm. A slap sounds louder around the cold stonework room, drawing everyone’s attention to it, some sneering at her in glee.
A slap was to corral an unruly child – and that, standing in front of Cazador, shame burning bright, is exactly what he’s looking for.Series
- Part 9 of The Blood That Sings In Your Veins (Astarion/Tav)
- Part 1 of Careful With Your Vulnerable Heart
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20 Oct 2023
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“How old are you, Astarion?”
Astarion is not expecting the question, Halsin can tell by the way he jerks upright, spine straight, shoulders strong.
“Two-hundred-and-forty,” he answers without hesitation. “Give or take a few years.”
Halsin swallows, rewords his question. “How old were you when you were turned?”
Astarion goes quiet. Extremely, cacophonously quiet.
“Thirty-nine,” he finally says, a bolt straight into Halsin’s heart.
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Halsin discovers Astarion was turned before his maturity and all the sacred elven rites that come along with it. Including the sex one.
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20 Oct 2023
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Gale fantasizes about Tav after their magic lesson.
An embarrassed Tav lets Astarion sink more than his teeth into her.
Astarion tries to navigate an unfamiliar feeling.
[At the request of some very thoughtful and concerned readers, I have decided to change the warnings on this fic.]beta-read by Ao3 user Snailpals
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18 Oct 2023