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1. When The Dust Settles by Cinders (Cinders_Edge)

   Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   08 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)
   • Astarion/Cazador Szarr
   • Gale (Baldur's Gate) & Mystra (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Petras (Baldur's Gate) - Relationship
   • Leon (Baldur's Gate) - Relationship
   • Dalyria (Baldur's Gate) - Relationship
   • Karlach (Baldur's Gate)
   • Wyll (Baldur's Gate)
   • Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate)
   • Astarion (Baldur's Gate)
   • Astarion's Siblings (Baldur's Gate)
   • Cazador Szarr
   • Cazador Szarr's Vampire Spawn
   • Mystra (Dungeons & Dragons)
   • Gale (Baldur's Gate)
   • Seven Thousand Goddamn Spawn
   • Tara (Baldur's Gate)
   • Grooming
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Emotional Hurt
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Break Up
   • Implied/Referenced Abuse
   • Lovers to Enemies
   • Slow Build
   • Traumatised Astarion
   • Stick With Me Folks
   • It Does Get Better (Eventually)
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Bloodweave
   • Updating Tags As I Go (If I Remember)
   • Astarion is Bad at Feelings
   • Gale Is Sad
   • Fuck Mystra and Cazador Equally
   • Yearning For Days (Years)
   • Depression
   • Heartache
   • Self-Preservation At Its Finest (Worst)
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • After 200 Years Of Pure SHIT
   • Hopeless Romantic Gale
   • Gale Just Wants To Fix Things
   • Astarion Killed His Abuser
   • Selective Mutism
   • Spawn In The Underdark
   • Panic Attacks
   • Cazador's Children Getting Along

   Summary

   After finally killing Cazador Szarr, Astarion thought his life would get better, that he would get better and be free to live his life just how he and Gale pictured. Sometimes that's not the case when your abuser of over 200 years dies, leaving you to your own devices, thoughts and feelings. Astarion struggles to deal with his new life, and somehow he fucks it all up even more spectacularly than even he thought. Gale never stood a chance.

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