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Bookmarked by Masked_Rose
03 Dec 2024
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This is the story of how the Antivan Crows - and House de Riva - gained a new Spellblade.
This is now part of a series!
Eventual Lucanis/Male Rook.
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- Part 1 of The Rook and the King
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03 Dec 2024
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Did it Hurt? When You Fell From the Heavens? by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Oct 2024
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Following a smidge of time-line fuckery, Gale meets a handsome stranger in the Yawning Portal - a stranger who seems to know far too much about him, to be far too invested in his life and his happiness, and to be far too attractive to let slip through his fingers.
The stranger also happens to be an incredibly welcome distraction from the otherwise miserable and confusing hellscape that is Gale Dekarios's personal life. His mother worries about him constantly, his familiar won't talk to him about anything that matters, his mentor won't tell him anything useful, and his goddess is making cryptic and increasing demands.
OR: Gale meets a handsome vampire in 1487 who seems deadset on making all his problems go away, with some strings attached.
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- Part 2 of One Wish, For The Road
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26 Oct 2024
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Astarion has only ever known bitterness at the feet of his master. Thrown into sudden freedom, he starts to find a taste for the sweet.
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27 Aug 2024
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At night, alone in his bedroll, Astarion’s mind wanders. Away from himself, his body, his own recursive and increasingly irritating patterns of thought—it wanders and it wanders until it, eventually, ends up back where it started. Astarion on his knees, entertaining someone else.
He has spent two hundred years fantasizing about freedom—ludicrous dreams, where he is fed, where he is warm, where he parts Cazador’s head from his neck with his fangs—the stupidest, most basic, crudest ideas of what he might do if only he had the power to control himself. And now that he has that control, he fantasizes about someone taking it away again.
Specifically, he fantasizes about Wyll.
For some time, now, Astarion has fantasized about Wyll Ravengard putting him in his place. This isn't a problem, until suddenly it is.
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07 Jul 2024
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After a year spent in seclusion, former professor Gale Dekarios is convinced by his tressym to travel to Ioma. Not just to research the magical crystals there, mind, but to pick himself back up following a string of failures.
Suddenly freed by the death of his master Cazador, Astarion has fled as far as possible from Baldur’s Gate to seek solace for the first time in two hundred years, armed with nothing more than a broken sunwalking ring.
At a romantic seaside getaway, the last thing either of them expect to find is love.
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07 Jul 2024
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Shadowheart has told Astarion that the TV show set she’s working on needs a costume supervisor. Astarion has been in and out of the industry for years, but he’s always wanted to get into working with costumes. Everything changes when he discovers that his old, abusive ex's production company is funding the TV show. Of course, deciding that Cazador can't keep controlling him like this, he takes the job. Then he meets famous actor Gale Dekarios on set one day. Things like this tend to get complicated, don’t they?
Once again, no non-con between the main pair, it's really just canon typical stuff. You know. Cazador and Mystra being Cazador and Mystra.
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- Part 1 of In Media Res
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07 Jul 2024
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"You want me, yes? But you've never tried to initiate anything. Never demanded I get you off. You're completely content with waiting for me to make my move. It's been weeks. Why?"
"You haven't wanted to, and that's fine."
"Did you ever consider asking me? Perhaps get my opinion on things?" Astarion snapped, shoving their hand away.
Tav's face was deeply flushed, and they refused to look at him. He had never seen them like this. "I didn't notice we stopped having sex..."
He was in disbelief. "You didn't notice?"
Astarion knows how to be what people want, and Tav knows how to be what people need.
He's seen himself reflected in Tav on a number of occasions, and he's ashamed at how long it took him to put the pieces together.Or, Astarion and Tav are two people in a relationship that neither of them are ready for. They fuck, talk, and stumble their way into something resembling a healthy relationship in the end.
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04 Jul 2024
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"Sure, he’s glad, relieved, to learn Wyll is still alive, but how? Wouldn’t ceremorphosis have been their fate, if not for the artifact, and since Karlach and Wyll parted with it when they left the party, they—
Oh.
Astarion wants to blame the hit to the head because, surely, he isn’t usually this slow? Wyll and Karlach must be following them, since for all they probably hated their guts after they spilled the refugees’, they still wouldn’t fancy turning into mindflayers."Or, Wyll leaves with Karlach, and Astarion stays with an evil, cruel leader. Their paths still cross, and, perhaps, change.
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Bookmarked by Masked_Rose
04 Jul 2024
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The pale elf stood stock-still. His eyes betrayed no alarm.
“Astarion,” Halsin huffed. “My apologies. I thought myself alone, and must not have been aware of my surroundings. I hope I didn’t startle you.”
Astarion smirked, his frame breaking into the languid, theatrical stance Halsin found familiar. “My dear druid, I live for surprises. And you,” he purred, his eyes sweeping over Halsin’s expansive torso, “are a pleasant surprise indeed.”
Halsin felt his face grow hot. He disregarded the reaction. Astarion wore his flirtation like a cloak; to be donned when useful, and otherwise set aside. He chuckled, “Well, then, I bid you goodnight. If we’re to tackle the Gauntlet of Shar tomorrow, we’ll sorely need our rest. Walk safely.” He sidestepped the smaller elf and made to continue his walk back to camp.
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04 Jul 2024
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Sail away, and find a world to call your own.
Four years after the defeat of the Absolute, Gale and Astarion embark on a new adventure to distant lands. To fulfill a promise made one night in the Weave. And help Arabella on her own journey to understand her magical gifts.
Along the way they'll encounter dinosaurs in the Chultan jungle, the treasures of Calimshan, devils in the mithral mines of Shanatar—and on occasion, old friends.
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- Part 1 of Hollowed Kings
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Bookmarked by Masked_Rose
04 Jul 2024
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This story takes place after the issues in game, and after another story of mine called Never Say No. (please see notes)
Story so far is that after attempting to live in the city with Astarion, it became obvious that Halsin’s calling was in the renewed and healing shadowlands that were liberated in game.
Astarion, in effort to make Halsin happy, agreed to Halsin setting up a grove there for the people that get trampled underfoot in the streets of Baldurs Gate.
Halsin is throwing himself into his work, rather than deal with the traumas he faced from Cazador (and more besides), and Astarion is feeling out of his depth and also struggling.
Druids arrived and started throwing their weight around, which resulted in their leader Harben letting own prejudices get in the way.
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- Part 1 of After Game Era
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04 Jul 2024
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After two centuries of torment, Astarion has given up hope of escaping Cazador's clutches, until a chance encounter with a stolen book introduces him to the disembodied voice of a wizard named Gale of Waterdeep. With the fate of Baldur's Gate in the balance, they must confront their demons and win their freedom - together.
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04 Jul 2024
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"So here he is, he thinks with dark, nauseating humor. One of the glorious heroes of Baldur’s Gate—hungover and lightly crisped, sprawled on his back in the one place he had wanted more than anything in the world to leave behind forever—
The great Szarr palace. Home sweet home."
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The villains are defeated. The heroes claim their victory. Astarion sinks down to exactly where he started. Gale plots his apotheosis. Somehow, they meet in the middle.
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Bookmarked by Masked_Rose
15 May 2024
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Astarion is in need of a protector, and who better than a man who became a devil to save a woman he didn't know? How much further would he go for someone he did know? Astarion resolves to seduce Wyll before Karlach can.
Except Wyll has his own infernal problems, which Astarion is dragged kicking and screaming into caring about, and worse, worse is the growing realization his feelings for Wyll might be genuine.
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21 Apr 2024
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The Vampire Spawn with the Green Hand and a Tadpole by Monkey_Madness123
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
29 Jan 2025
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Astarion wakes up with his hand glowing an eerie green and a relentless tadpole squirming in his mind with no idea where he is. He's thrust into a heroic quest to save Thedas, but his path is filled with peril. He not only battles external threats but also grapples with his unrelenting thirst for blood. Whispers and speculations swirl around him, labeling him as a possible demon from the Fade or a runaway slave from Tevinter. Regardless, he's known as the infamous Herald of Andraste, a figure whose mere presence sparks chaos, uncertainty, and awe.
Trouble is bound to ensue with a vampire at the helm of the Inquisition.
[This fic has been abandoned, but it is long enough to still be a good read.]
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Bookmarked by Masked_Rose
20 Apr 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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29 Feb 2024
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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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Bookmarked by Masked_Rose
11 Jan 2024
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He watches, his thoughts a jumbled mess of malice and mirth, as the poor vendor sweats and stammers.
Every needle and thread he ever owned he did unspeakable acts for, just to keep the clothes on his back from fraying, from flaying the way his skin so often did.
He sees as his companion lowballs the merchant and yet the trade is made, and the fine satin fabric is hers for the taking.
She gifts it to him with a smile, and he knows not how to react.
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Or: Five times Astarion is reminded of owning nothing, and five times his traveling companion gifts him trinkets to change that.
Bookmarked by Masked_Rose
08 Nov 2023