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Seren is supposed to be in Baldur’s Gate writing a trade report. Instead, she buys a suspicious map, and ends up spending one enchanted night in Baldur’s Gate’s hidden after-dark district with Astarion. There are magical shops, a vanishing circus, emotional damage, and—eventually—a second chance.
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Tav's visit to Avernus was supposed to last a few hours, no more. A full week later, she's finally made her way home, and not even the extraordinary, magical gift she brings with her is enough to make Astarion less blazingly furious.
Set about a month post-game.
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- Part 13 of Something Real
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Luna, a high-elf with magic at her fingertips just as fiery as her hair, has so far lived a sheltered life controlled by her father, who has recently sold away her hand in marriage to a wealthy but horribly abusive man. Just as she is beginning to feel as if her time is running out to ever escape the hellish reality her life has become, a nautiloid flies over Baldur’s Gate.
Unsure if she wants to return home to save her father from a lifetime of debt or use this tadpoled opportunity to run away forever, Luna finds herself falling into yet another predicament along the way: in love with a manipulative vampire.
- An in-depth retelling of the “in-between,” with more focus on interpersonal relationships than rehashing events that already play out in the game.- Written in first-person, diary-style POV to more realistically explore Luna’s feelings about Astarion’s deception.
Currently rewriting early chapters! See summaries for updates.
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- Part 1 of the stars aligned
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A strange guest shows up at one of Balekin's revels and offers Cardan a gift.
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Cardan meets Jude in a church.
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The world is saved, and everything is fine. Mostly. Just a few loose ends remain: a broken infernal engine, thousands of hungry spawn, a stalking eldritch horror, and the nightmare of emotional vulnerability. That’s probably all though.
What could go wrong?
This is a continuation of Rin and Astarion’s story from After the Fall.
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- Part 14 of The Parts They Won't Sing About
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Willow would have been his consort, but what she really wanted to be was his wife. Either way, she would have been his doting partner, picking out paint colors and party favors behind the scenes. She would have been anything for him, done anything for him.
As long as it was her choice to do it in the end.
The only thing Willow didn’t want to be was his spawn. And months ago, that was the dealbreaker.TLDR: After the fall of the Netherbrain and the end of her relationship with the Vampire Ascendant, Willow still wants a family. Astarion still wants her back.
Currently rewriting early chapters! See summaries for updates.
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“I will give you a tenday to convince your love to relinquish his Ascension. If, in that time, he agrees to the terms and nullifies his contract, you both regain possession of the seven thousand souls and gift them to me.
“If, after ten days, Astarion does not agree…” Raphael reaches forward, his hand outstretched to you. “...you pledge your soul to me. Forever.”
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Pieces Still Stuck In Your Teeth by howlsmovinglibrary
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 May 2024
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“I mean it,” she said. “Don’t kill anyone, Astarion. You’ve gotten what you wanted. Seven thousand lives was enough.”
“I don’t take orders from you anymore. You just said so, yourself.”
“The moment you kill someone,” Rose replied, “is the moment I'll know that my next task is to stop you.”
“Darling,” Astarion grinned, “I would sincerely like to see you try.”
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The Vampire Ascendent has crossed a line. Eleven years after making the biggest mistake of her life and losing the man she loved, tiefling wizard (now Archmage) Rosalie decides it’s time to put this Astarion in the ground for good. Hopefully, both her head and her heart are strong enough to see this awful task through to its end.
(A lovers-to-enemies, ‘we’re divorced and going to make it everyone else’s problem’, Vampire-Ascendent-aesthetic-but-make- it “I can STILL fix him’ fic)
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- Part 5 of Rat Bastard Boi (BG3)
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A Midwinter's Carol; in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Baldur's Gate by loquaciousquark
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Dec 2023
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Cazador was dead: to begin with. There was no doubt whatever about that. Astarion had plunged a very beautiful knife a dozen times or more into his gut and left him in tattered shreds upon his ritually carven floor. The compulsion which had haunted the farthest reaches of his memory had vanished like mist with his master’s death.
Mind! It cannot be implied that there is a particular similarity between a vampire lord, who is un-dead, and a dead vampire, despite the mimicking shape of those descriptors. Neither bears real facility of life, true, with a beating heart and a cheek which might yet blush, but the one may wield an un-life never again to be possessed by the other, who will do little more than lie still and rot away into new earth. Cazador was a corpse, mouldering beneath the ground. In all ways he had been flung across that lofty river into the mundanity of real and final death. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing that follows will seem wondrous.
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“Maybe what you really need is a friend, not a lover.”
Astarion’s eyes flutter with surprise. “I-I would like that. I’ve held more people than I can count. An infinite parade of lovers. But a friend?” He pauses on the question and his face becomes crestfallen. “I can’t think of a single one.”
He puts his hand out to Effy, to which she happily accepts.
“Until you,” he says with a smile—that only she’s ever seen.
Ever since that moment the two remained friends and even got an apartment together in the Lower City shortly after defeating the Netherbrain.
It’s been several months since; and Effy is still happily living with her vampire bestie, but Astarion’s been acting different lately…
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- Part 1 of Something Else Entirely
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Tav has always kept her fantasies separate from her real life. But ever since she stumbled across his videos—the faceless man with the rune-like tattoo on his forearm, dulcet whispering voice, and the way he makes his lovers unravel with nothing but the cadence of his praise—she hasn't been able to look away. Yet the introduction of her new trainee swings her desires into something far more dangerous, because opening the door for another very real heartbreak is the last thing she wants to do.
Astarion's been leading a double-life for years, nine-to-five on paper, mysterious pleasure dom after hours. It's always been just a superficial side-gig meant to bolster his earning. But when he finds himself enthralled with his trainer, the ensuing flirtation feels harmless until it isn’t, and something in him struggles to keep it together.
His usual detachment doesn’t hold. He's thinking about her when he shouldn't be and hearing her voice instead of the script. And it's fine. It's under control—not that it means anything. Naturally.
She was never supposed to know.
He was never supposed to feel.
And now neither of them can stop.
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- Part 1 of Wanna Be Yours
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15 Jun 2025
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I didn't expect to love an AU like this so fucking much but it freaking sneak-attacked me fr😭
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"It's not him anymore, Raphael."
"You wish to undo the Ascension?"
You stare at the devil. "I just want Astarion back."
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