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"The way the body reacts after birth is unavoidable. All his siblings experienced it: searching for a baby that was no longer there, raging and screaming at everyone and everything in the vicinity as if the child was hidden like a sick parlour game. They all knew what would happen after the first time, but every subsequent time might as well have been the first.
What would’ve happened if one of those children had survived?"
Or: what if the spawn having spawn was a requirement for the Black Mass? What if the mindflayers captured Astarion with one of those children in tow?
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02 Jul 2026
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Carrying Your Love With Me (and so much more) by MercyInReach
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Mar 2026
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The night after the Final Battle, after months of sexual tension, pining, and fevered kisses, Tavi and Gale finally made love. Tavi was on cloud nine. Until several days after their first time together Gale disappeared, leaving only a short letter behind with no real explanation. Tavi was devastated.
Especially some weeks later when she realized she's pregnant, and it's definitely Gale's.
He obviously doesn't want her, so she doesn't try to find him.
But Astarion and Shadowheart have invited everyone to Baldur's Gate for their wedding. Tavi wonders if Gale will even show up and if she should tell him.
If she does tell him, where will they go from there?
aka: Gale is a lovable bastard, unplanned pregnancy, much angsty romance. LONGFIC that will continue even after the initial conflict is resolved, following Gale and Tavi's lives, with slice of life and more potential conflicts. I write wordy messy romantic smutty filth that goes on forever, you've been warned.
NON CON TAG: is in reference to Mystra.
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01 Jul 2026
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Tav meets his wood elf again, in the most haphazard of circumstances. But Halsin is not the same.
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- Part 2 of The Glance of a Curious sort of Bird
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01 Jul 2026
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A Harper for the Duke by totally_irritated
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
30 Jun 2026
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The Absolute Crisis may be over, but Baldur's Gate is a mess.
The city cowers under martial law as its remaining leaders struggle to reassemble the government and direct rebuilding efforts. As the memory of the Absolute's threat begins to fade, old and new tensions simmer, threatening to boil. And at the center of the mess and controversy, the grand duke's son, Wyll Ravengard, has been elected as a duke of the city.
As a former Flaming Fist and the eldest daughter of a High Harper, Rion knows better than most just how deep corruption runs in Baldur's Gate. So, she's surprised—and suspicious—when the Gate's newest duke wants her for his personal bodyguard. Are the Harpers yet another faction vying for the new duke's heart and mind—or perhaps his head?
When does duty become love? When does service become tyranny? And who gets to choose?
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01 Jul 2026
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The Way of the Wanderer by weepingdawn
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
07 Jun 2026
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It all started with the Nautiloid. There was a before, certainly. Isotta had been a scholar and a storyteller—an ethnographer—but not a mage. She had traveled the whole of Faerûn, exploring and cataloguing the people who called the material plane home. Where a wizard might hoard knowledge, Isotta sought to share it. Everything around them was just one big story, after all.
There was also a magnificent wizard named Rolan who had the misfortune to be born a tiefling. He also had the misfortune to meet a bard who claimed to be a scholar, named Isotta. Despite his best efforts to evade her, she repeatedly inserted herself into his life until he finally had no choice but to tell her he loved her, in his own way, and ask her if she might love him too—because why else could someone be so insistent on meddling if not for love? And then, dear reader, she rejected him.
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The Way of the Wanderer is my love letter to Baldur’s Gate 3 and the grumpiest wizard deserving of love.
Or: Never write anything down that you don’t want Volo, the capitalist opportunist, to steal and publish.
Includes plot from Acts 1-3, and then continues after the events of BG3.
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25 Feb 2026
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In the afterglow of the tiefling party, Rolan and Dammon collide.
Weeks later, in the midst of the Shadow-Cursed Lands, Rolan learns of the consequences of that night.
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24 Feb 2026
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Ambrosia (or: How Gale Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) by mercurial_cool
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Apr 2024
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“Why does your blood smell so strange?”
The question startled Gale, who looked up from where he sat cross-legged in front of his tent, organizing his scrolls in preparation for their upcoming “visit” to the goblin camp. He’d given Astarion a wide berth since the revelation of his vampiric condition a few days earlier, so he was surprised to see the pale elf looming over him now, a peculiar expression on his face.
“You know,” Gale offered with a smile, “in my extensive journeys across manifold realms, I do believe that is not a question that I’ve ever been asked before. I honestly can’t decide whether or not I should be offended.”
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Of the many side effects Gale has faced as a result of his whole “being physical host to an imminently destructive magical orb” problem, he somehow never anticipated his blood now apparently smelling irresistible to vampires (or at least, one particular vampire) to be one of them.
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23 Feb 2026
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“Oh,” Astarion breathes, eyes drooping into glassy little crescents. Well, if this is how he dies, Astarion thinks, this is how he dies. A shame that he’ll never get to plunge a stake through Cazador’s chest. “Death is so beautiful.”
“...Precisely how much of this spider’s blood did you consume?” Gale asks, his hands brushing Astarion’s hair off his soaked forehead. The touch makes the unbearable, painful heat in his body squeeze around him like a heavy chain. “You’re scorching. You could give Karlach a run for all her gold.”
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20 Feb 2026
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Casmir x Astarion Fics
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20 Feb 2026
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Feb 2026
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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19 Feb 2026
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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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19 Feb 2026
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When Astarion awakens in the aftermath of the Nautiloid crash, it is not to a friendly face but the press of goblin steel against his cheek.
Now a captive of the Absolute, he is left starving and huddled in the corner, waiting for the beast that shares his cell to finally strike.
Bears, after all, are not known to be the most gracious killers.
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20 Feb 2026
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Deep in the heart of an ancient forest, there is a cottage that is alive with magic and whimsy.
Far away from the spires and libraries of the Sorcerers Guild, former sorcerer Lyric Tav is trying to rebuild her life. As she tries to adapt to the life of a forest witch, what she can’t understand is why she is seeing bears in her tea leaves, the clouds, her pies, her pumpkins, her freckles…. There is a bear in this witch's future, now she just needs to figure out why?
After coming to terms with her new life, will she choose the bear?
A cottagecore, cozy, fated mates, low stakes, enemies to lovers romantasy. A passive aggressive squirrel familiar.One bed?
A reluctant witch and a protective druid driven mad by her scent.
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- Part 1 of Honey and Salt
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19 Feb 2026
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The Journal at the End of the World by TeylaWhite34
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Mar 2026
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When she's ripped from her place in the world for the second time in her young life and thrust into a fatal journey of potentially apocalyptic importance, Dorothea needs some sort of outlet. So, she picks up an old habit that used to help her when she was a child: writing a diary.
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19 Feb 2026
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10 Aug 2025
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Astarion smirks. "No worries, I will gladly accept your praise.”
“Please do,” Gale says. “I fear an excess of praise has only ever led me to ruin.”
Astarion can’t help himself. “And what if I’d like to ruin you?”
He is close enough that he can sense Gale’s heart beat faster. Gale gives him another admonishing look, but there’s a smile pulling at his lips. “Then you’ll have to try harder than that,” he says.
Astarion fears that if he still had a functioning heart, it would beat faster, too.
Or, Astarion and Gale attend Lord Gortash's coronation masquerade together. Platonically. As allies. Yes, it's a decadent ball full of masked strangers malevolent and benign; yes, Astarion has spent tendays summoning all of his willpower to resist the urge to make out with Gale in the middle of the Elfsong. Never mind all that. Everything is going to be fine.
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07 Aug 2025
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All That Could Have Been by Tristania
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
31 Mar 2026
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A love story featuring The Dark Urge and Alfira.
He is a trained killer who wakes up with no memory, a book containing the oaths and tenets of a paladin order, and an inescapable urge to indulge in violence and depravity. Yet he craves that which is most forbidden to him—genuine love and affection.
She is a refugee bard looking for a knight in shining armor to inspire and protect her. In her eyes, he is a hero—but what will she do when she learns the truth of what he really is?
All That Could Have Been is a remix of Baldur’s Gate 3, following the Dark Urge (Dirge) as he wrestles with a forgotten past and a blood-soaked present. When Alfira’s faith stirs a quiet rebellion in his fractured soul, it may be just enough to alter the fate of both a man and a world teetering on the brink of illithid enslavement.
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06 Aug 2025
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It's been three years since they foiled the Absolute plot and defeated the Netherbrain, but a shadow from their past has resurfaced, threatening to upset the balance once again.
Three years since he last saw his travelling companions, Gale has settled back into a life in Waterdeep as a professor at Blackstaff Academy. That is until he spots a familiar face in the crowd.
Octavia "Tav", druid of the Circle of Stars, hasn't been seen much since they said their good byes in Baldur's Gate. So what brings her to Waterdeep?
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- Part 1 of When Stars Align
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05 Aug 2025