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In the final battle against Nemesis, the people of the tribes are alarmingly overwhelmed, and Aloy is faced with the reality that they have failed. In the last moments left, she finds Beta amidst the battlefield, desperate and grieving what they are set to lose.
Instead, Beta reveals a plan she has set in place, a failsafe if all should fall to ruin. Her final words to Aloy are those of a desperate plea to be found, to not be forgotten.
Before Aloy can even question her sister, she wakes in Rost's cabin in the Nora sacred lands, left with nothing but a recording from her sister and a head filled with memories that haven't even happened yet.
Now, she has to get the gang back together, and fast. They're going to need all of the time they can get to prepare for Nemesis, and this time, they can't fail.
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27 Feb 2026
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Hands reach out from the audience, grasping blindly as Gale walks the perimeter of the stage. Faintly, someone shouts out their undying adoration. Another screams their need to taste his sweat. Try as he might, Astarion simply cannot reconcile this man with the buttoned-up and bookish wizard he’s known for five centuries.
“Now, this next song is a personal favourite of mine.”
Gale tosses the barely-burnt stick to the ground, grinds it beneath a boot. His voice goes sinfully low as he presses his lips up against the mic.
“Worship,” he breathes out, lids fluttering. “With me.”
Five hundred years of freedom has prepared Astarion for anything. Except, as it turns out, his old friend Gale somehow ending up as one of Faerûn's hottest rockstars.
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22 Feb 2026
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What if Aloy had accepted Nil's offer of partnership? This fic explores canon storyline, but if Nil traveled with Aloy as his companion. How would her story differ with this honorable serial killer under her command? It's considerably hornier, that's for sure. Follow along as Aloy discovers the truth of the world, Nil the truth of himself, and they learn that maybe they are not so different as Aloy would like them to be.
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06 Feb 2026
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It's just fabric and a little machine metal, made to measure by a most discreet seamstress. There's absolutely no reason it should knot Avad's stomach like this or set a Glinthawk fluttering madly behind his ribs.
Or, Avad works through his grief and discovers something about himself in the process. He's also driving Erend to absolute distraction.
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11 Jan 2026
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There’s a new writer in the Karsite Weave fandom, and Gale is sick of him. Things turn sideways when they meet at a fan convention.
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03 Jan 2026
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After a long year of rebuilding from rock bottom and crashing on Karlach’s couch, Astarion has finally saved enough from tattooing to afford a place of his own. It’s small, but all he really needs is a mirror, a locking door, and a housemate who won’t mind how he dresses—or that he sometimes screams in his sleep. When Shadowheart convinces Gale to rent out his spare room, he’s just hoping to ease the mortgage and maybe partake in some conversations more stimulating than what his aloof cat offers. But Astarion may turn out to be far more than Gale bargained for—and exactly what he needs.
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15 Dec 2025
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Daughter of Mine by AuntieCoagulant
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West, Horizon (Video Games)
10 Nov 2025
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A dying Tenakth tells Aloy "I’d have taken you for my daughter.” and it changes...almost everything.
In which Aloy accepts Ullia's offer, tell the Nora to go fuck themselves, and finds herself along the way.
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29 Nov 2025
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Drakka's paint is different. And apparently that means his ass is open for all.
Whenever.
Wherever.
Aloy is ..... intrigued to say the least.
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Pure. Unadulterated. Filth. Seriously.Bookmarked by melodiclyrics
28 Nov 2025
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“Last question, Astarion. Would you ever hurt a living thing?”
Astarion stares blankly ahead, “No. Of course not. Not unless they had it coming.”
“Astarion,” the man laughs, and slides his fingers on the glass and light. “In your present build: Would you harm a living thing?”
“No.”
“Good boy,” he smiles.
Some part of Astarion appreciates the words, even as his emotional subroutines are suppressed. He is a good boy, sometimes.
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22 Sep 2025
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Ten years after the Netherbrain, Astarion has cobbled together a perfectly stable life in the Underdark. Gale, in the throes of a mid-life crisis, comes to him with a ludicrous scheme to rob a Drow noble by infiltrating a weekend of debauchery at her manor.
It's a Bloodweave Heist Fic
(The tags might make this seem dark but it's absolutely a sex farce romantic comedy)
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19 Sep 2025
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Astarion discovers Gale's secret kink and decides, apparently on a whim, to indulge him in it. Even though Gale doesn't trust Astarion, he finds the rogue quite impossible to resist.
Immediate smut, slow burn romance
Chapter-specific tags in notesNow includes cover art!
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11 Sep 2025
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“Gods, I—” Astarion swallows visibly, throat bobbing. “I—”
“I know.” Gale bats his eyelids. Reties his scrunchie, rests his palms on Astarion’s trembling knees, then slips two sly fingers through a rip in his jeans. “Your turn?”
“Please.”
Astarion’s response comes without hesitation. Gale leans forward, catching his zipper between two teeth, before dragging it down, fishnet and denim.
“So many have used me,” Gale rasps. “But you’re all I’ve thought about tonight.”
A hitched breath.
“Darling,” Astarion murmurs, thumbing his lower lip. Gale whines, tongue darting out to lick his finger.
Darling. Oh, that’s a new one. Gale likes that.
Gale couldn't be happier with his friends, his little froyo shop, and his after-hours... ah, proclivities. That is, until a certain red-eyed elf shows up and throws a wrench in his carefully crafted plans.
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07 Sep 2025
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The secret to surviving is simple. It’s the execution that poses problems.
Don’t die.
It’s that easy.
auri knows people, and that's how she can tell; astarion is deeply, deeply fucked up.
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30 May 2025
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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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30 May 2025
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The hand removed itself from his forehead. “Temperature is normal,” Gale announced, before using its fingers to gather some stray drool that had trailed down Astarion’s jaw. Before Astarion could register the pitiful jolt of arousal at the sudden skin contact or the sheer absurdity of what Gale was doing, Gale had stuck its fingers in its mouth.
“What the —”
“No new bacteria detected,” Gale went on, “Ruling out food poisoning.”
“Oh, Gods,” Astarion groaned. “And to think that these things are what’s sending our workforce into a tizzy. What next, 'droid? Are you about to give me a rectal examination too?”
“There is no need for one at the moment,” Gale said, confused. “Unless you are seeking prostate stimulation—”
“No!”
Amidst the softly thrumming melancholy of a dystopian, cyber-punk city, former corporate-rat Astarion Ancunín, who has long since lost the will to live, finds himself in possession of a G-413 or "Gale" - an amnesiac android who, strangely enough, enjoys living.
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30 May 2025