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You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth by Ankheg
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 May 2026
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(part of a series but is a stand alone work - that's just to keep everything together)
Following Elorin the kind-hearted drow sorcerer through the events of Baldur's Gate 3 as he collects some extra companions. He's desperately trying to leave his past behind him, but it's hard when he's trying to save everyone - especially a deep gnome who knows the drow all too well, a drider he has far too much in common with, and a worshipper of pain he just can't get out of his head.
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- Part 5 of Elorin-verse
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Astarion’s coming to your tent every night with honeyed nothings on his tongue. Trouble is, you’re starting to smell hints of bullshit. The closer y’all get, the further apart you feel. And then there’s the fucking brainworm cult.
These two losers must cheat, stab, and flirt their way to the heart of a cult. And to…whatever it is between them.
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- Part 3 of these two shitheads
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After tripping a mad wizard’s trap, Astarion—now blinded—must navigate the Underdark with Eleanor back to their crew. These two shitheads must cheat, stab, and flirt their way through flooded caves, monsters, and something hunting them in the dark. All while very confusing feelings begin to muddle up Astarion’s Very Simple plan.
Sequel to Feeding Alligators
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- Part 2 of these two shitheads
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Ever since Eira took the first breath of her second life, everything had been about death. Her resurrection left her skin a pale, hypothermic blue— a permanent brand ensuring she would never forget what happened to her. She never sat at a gambling table, but she'd still traded her life for necromantic talent. Nobles paid her adoptive family well for it: resurrections, funeral rites, conversations with the dead. The work brought her family money and respect. It brought her nothing but travel— the only freedom afforded to her. Necromancy was hers only because they couldn't take it.
But when she meets a pale elf with some interesting features, studying him is easier than admitting why she sees so much of herself in him.
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I’m currently in a Master’s program and this is the only thing giving me life atm but I’m doing my best to update regularly. Rn it’s a new chapter every few days.Smutty chapters will be marked with *
Warning: I’m a slut for Gale conflict and jealous Astarion.Warning 2: I can never seem to write under 5k words, averaging 7k a chapter rn
Also you can rip em dashes from my cold, dead hands. Enjoy. <3
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At the Shambali Monastery, it is customary for everyone to lend a hand. Human residents and Omnics work together, and tasks are distributed fairly. Unfortunately, this gives you and Ramattra a headache, because what are you - the monastery's cook - supposed to do with a grumpy Ravager as your kitchen assistant?
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"I am not without my faults." When you catch up with Ramattra, his voice is less cold than before. You feel a little sorry for calling him arrogant - it's not like he chose kitchen duty. And to be honest, he'd probably be better off in the archives! "But I think it's an exaggeration to call me arrogant."
"We all have to work on ourselves a lot," you agree. "And we have to do things we don't like. But let's be honest -" You give him a sideways glance, which he deftly ignores. "Sometimes you think you're better than the rest of us, don't you?"
"I-" At first he seems to miss the soft, playful undertone in your voice, but then he relents. "Like I said, I'm not without my faults."
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Yesterday, Linda was on her way to Target to buy a birthday present for her granddaughter.
Today, Linda is infected with some parasite in the most horrifying environment imaginable. Even worse, she's surrounded by a band of misfits: a magical bearded man who talks too much, an odd little Goth girl with bangs that desperately need a trim, an angry alien lady who won't quit sharpening her sword, a disturbingly pale elf who needs some bronzer, and a heroic young man with one eye.
This can't be real... can it? Surely she's having a psychotic break.
Tomorrow, she'll wake up and this will all be some kind of nightmare. She's sure of it.
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- Part 1 of Back to Yesterday
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You remember him the way he was when you met, the way you watched him grow up. Your teenage years weren’t beautiful the way they’re supposed to be. You were awkward in your own body, thick and clumsy and unsure. Wyll, however, was always graceful. His limbs lengthened, his voice deepened, and all of it seemed to happen so smoothly, at just the right time. He was pretty and he was perfect. Neat and tidy next to your messy tangle of string.
But you’ve knitted yourself together over the years, and he’s frayed a bit. Now you’re sitting on a beach together, making each other laugh. Feeling comfortable, impossibly so, even as your heart sits high in your throat. Feeling seen and understood. Feeling…a lot of things. Too many, more than you can identify.
You find yourself wondering how it feels to be kissed kindly, by someone who laughs at your jokes and knows things about your father and thinks you’re smart. By someone who’s thought about it before, for all that it may have been years ago.
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Really, what’s the worst that could happen?
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The Heroes of Baldur's Gate... and me by Pixiegirl696
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
11 Apr 2026
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I watch Tav as she strides through camp, her fiery red hair flowing around her shoulders, sunlight glistening off her golden breastplate. She is strong, determined, and brave. The whole camp love her, the men tripping over themselves to be close to her, ready to follow her into battle at a moments notice. She is beautiful, the epitome of grace.... What a bitch
I shake my head, ashamed at my petty thoughts. Jealousy has always been a weakness of mine. But I cannot help but compare myself to Tav, everything I am not.
Surely there was a mistake? Why would the Dream Visitor help me? A 36 year old mother, her adventuring days behind her? I'm just a regular person, a nobody? What benefit could I possibly bring to this group of incredible heroes? There has definitely been a big mistake.
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No Gods Worth Kneeling To | Astarion / Gale / OC by Aluesaeri
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Jun 2026
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Rowena was bought, trained, and branded to serve a powerful man who preferred his weapons sharp and obedient.
She fixed the last problem with a dagger.
But freedom proved short-lived when a mind flayer ship crashed into the Sword Coast and left a parasite burrowing behind her eye. To survive, Rowena was forced into uneasy alliances with strangers she should not trust: a silver-tongued vampire who saw far too much of himself in her violence, and a wizard whose quiet kindness hid the kind of ambition that once nearly destroyed him.
Both men carried ghosts of their own—one haunted by a master who refused to release his hold, the other by power he was never meant to wield.
Both offered something she had never known before.
Neither came without a cost.
And as the road to Baldur’s Gate grew darker, Rowena would learn that killing her master had only been the beginning.
Because some ghosts refused to stay dead.
And some of them remembered exactly how to find her.
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Outlasting These Trials by DingusDofus
Fandoms: Outlast (Video Games), The Outlast Trials
14 Apr 2026
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Just when I thought these trials were starting to get boring. I had done each trial more than once, rebirth wasn't available anymore either. Not that there was much for me to return to outside of this facility. However in recent times more strange things been happening during the trials. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't enjoying how strange recent events have been. Hopefully that doesn't bite me back in the butt.
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Atlas Sterling, a reagent taken out of the trials following behaviour logs and a set of missed diagnoses that should've rejected his application during the onboarding process. Using 'saving costs' as a justification and the death of Clyde Perry, Doctor Easterman has Atlas removed from the trials to evaluate his potentional elsewhere in the Sinyala Facility.
Atlas fits the 'Delinquent' Archetype. He's a deviant and liar. But a father loves his child no matter how badly they misbehave. With the recent sting of Amelia's betrayal and rebellion against Murkoff, Easterman has a point to prove. The delinquent and bad influence. The shit stain of a legacy Amelia left behind will be rewritten into something Easterman can use.
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Nancy Deveraux was a good FBI agent. A really good one. But a woman who speaks out of turn too often is ought to have her tongue cut out.
In the spring of 1960, unemployed, unemployable, and desperate to sink her teeth into anything, she meets a CIA agent with too much whisky in him and too many secrets to spill. One of them is a woman deemed the Angel of Leningrad: a murderous prophet, and the only spark of hope a woman once shunned from God could find.
She also just so happens to be headed to a Murkoff facility in the Arizona desert, which just so happens to be seeking new patients.
And what better way to conduct an investigation than from the inside?
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When Lord Enver Gortash claims a bastard-born nobleman's son (Kade'solyn Southersby) as payment for his father's debts, he expects a pliant pawn: in public, a pretty face for a loveless marriage to improve his image, in private, his own personal political weapon to wield. A protégé forged by his own hands.
But Kade is not at all what Enver expects: half-drow outcast, idealistic revolutionary, scarred by years of neglect, he carries a steady flame of defiance Gortash can't seem to drown - nor resist.
Their relationship becomes a battle of wills and reluctant fascination as Kade learns to navigate the manipulative world of Baldurian politics under Gortash's cruel tutelage.
Yet even as he's forced to play the game, he refuses to surrender his conscience - or his belief that the man who once saved him might be worth saving, himself.
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Kade and Gortash make their introductions and Kade begins to learn just exactly what the shape of his future will be. -
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In which Astarion and his mysterious, bloodthirsty little friend, Ophelia, navigate complex feelings for each other, murderous tendencies, and worms in their brains.
A (loosely) canon-compliant longfic retelling of the Astarion/Durge romance arc that only focuses on the main story beats with some creative liberties and differing interpretations.
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- Part 1 of Of Monsters and Mulled Wine
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Fifty years before having a tadpole stuck in her brain, Svera signed a contract with a devil named Raphael. After waking up on a mindflayer ship with a wriggling behind her eyes, she just hopes her patron might have a solution for her, not knowing his sights are set on a prize with a direct link to her current predicament.
Patron/Warlock Raphael/Tav
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A Song for the Damned by SgaileSith
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
05 Jun 2026
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"The first time you meet the Devil isn’t near the druids’ grove. It’s in a rundown tavern in a forgettable town on the outskirts of Baldur’s Gate."
Tired of his eternal stalemate with Hope, Raphael invites another player to the game: a broken bard with a haunting voice he intends to wield as a weapon. But Raphael knows better than to make the same mistakes twice. And by the time this songbird sees through his gambit, it'll already be too late.
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Learning that his ex-wife is infected with an illithid brain-worm, Raphael can't help but be a total jerk about it. And of course, what better way to try and reignite the spark than invite her to a private den within a brothel?
Ingrid Thomas has no intentions of letting her annoyingly charming ex-husband derail her mission to destroy the Netherbrain and protect her found family from an untimely illithid demise. Unfortunately, there was a reason she fell in love with him, and he's doing his damndest to remind her at every turn.
All the while, the ragtag group of companions have to tolerate watching their adopted mother fight like an old married couple with the insufferable devil attempting to trick her into signing away her soul.
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Tav wakes up on the beach with no memories and a power that grows stronger when he bleeds. His memories come back in brutal flashes, revealing his time in Baldur's Gate as a captive zealot of Loviatar and a test subject of Cazador Szarr. Tav must fight to regain his memories and keep his companions safe from illithids, devils, his enemies, and himself.
TLDR; Tav is the Chosen of Loviatar, the goddess of torture and pain, and must be brought to the brink of death to remember his past or see his future. Had he met Astarion before, in Baldur's Gate? Why does he seem to remember Szarr Palace? How will his dark past affect their relationship? Only time will tell...
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After the fall of the Netherbrain, Tav had enough adventure for one lifetime and wanted to finish writing her memoir and retire in peace. After her musical troupe was attacked en route to Athkatla, Tav finds herself sold into slavery and purchased by Mammon, the Lord of Minauros. While brokering deals with devils to secure her freedom, Tav ends up on the wrong side of a political scheme that threatens to tear the Third Hell apart. She needs to beat the devils at their own cruel games to ensure her survival before the greed of the Endless Bog swallows her whole.
Mephistopheles hated mortals. They were pawns. Currency. Pathetic. Upon a diplomatic visit to the Third Hell, the Lord of the Eighth discovered something that he had been searching for for centuries. Mammon has his filthy claws on the one thing he wants, and he will do anything to get her back. Once she is in his clutches, he is never, ever going to let her go.
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To the rest of the desperate adventurers, Raphael is a nightmare, a creature to be feared and resisted. To Morgana, he is her most favored critic. Their contract isn't about souls, but about stories. As the eyes and ears of the House of Hope, she translates the chaos into a narrative worthy of a very demanding patron.
But familiarity with a cambion reveals truths that terror hides. This is a collision of two ambitious, vain minds who find comfort in each other’s intellect, proving that the only thing sharper than an infernal contract is a sorcerer holding a pen. Morgana knows that beneath the theatrical monologues and the grand ambition, there is a desperate need to be heard. When you look past the fire and the rhymes, his life is a loop of lonely perfectionism.
Or:
Raphael is desperate for an audience, Morgana is desperate for her art to be remembered. A devil and his muse. A writer and her patron. Or just two souls who can find comfort in each other's mind and art.