SWG of Holding
SWG of holding is a collection for works written by the Shadowheart's Writer's Guild Discord group.
(Open, Unmoderated)
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Shadowheart remembers little of her past. But she knows this: she is an assassin, and she has never failed a mission. Her newest target is Clara Whitfield, a British PhD student hiding a painful past in Berlin.
The assignment should be simple enough: 1. Get close. 2. Earn her trust. 3. Kill her.
But the more time Shadowheart spends with Clara, the harder it becomes to remember where the performance ends—and who she might be underneath it.
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After kissing that pretty cleric, sorceress Viva Faintree must use her illithid and non-illithid powers to get through the Shadow Cursed Lands and achieve her ultimate goal: go home and be done with this. And if her old friend Jenevelle would just talk to her, that would also be nice.
Sequel to Accident Waiting to Happen. A bit more artistic liberty taken in this one. Act II is complete and will post weekly.
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- Part 4 of Accident Waiting to Happen
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Everything I Wanted by fogno
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
13 Sep 2026
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Every night when she sleeps, Mother Superior Shadowheart is taken back to various moments in her past as a tadpoled adventurer. The flashbacks are quickly proven to be more than dreams, as she discovers whatever she does in the past changes the events of her present.
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Shadowheart scours the beach for the familiar beaten barrel. She confidently plucks a set of rusted lockpicks, exactly where she knew they would be.
Cypress watches her curiously. "How did you know those were there?"
"Divine intuition," she deadpans.
"Blessed by the god of happenstance?"
"What do you–oh, right. I worship Shar. You don't care."
Cypress blinks at the apathy. "I mean you're right, I don't, but...?" -
And through her, I am reborn. by the-hymn-ofdeath (wasted_words)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Sep 2026
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Shadowheart is a Dark Justiciar, Chosen of Shar, Mother Superior of the Cloister of Sombre Embrace and the highest regarded Sharran on the Sword Coast. Yes, Shadowheart is all of that, and above all?
Above all she is lonely.
One day, in a moment of weakness, she wishes for a friend. And the “friend” that shows up for her is… unexpected, to say the least.
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- Part 3 of The Hymns of the Universe
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My Killer and my Christ (but I’m the one twisting the knife) by CigfranFach
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
10 Sep 2026
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A 1950s Southern Gothic Horror AU surrounding Shadowheart, now known as Nightshade, where a surprise encounter with a strangely familiar girl she swears she's never met ropes her into an uneasy, whirlwind friendship. As their friendship grows, however, so do the stakes: the church-school who raised her would never approve of a relation with an outsider, especially not one as close as theirs. To boot, people around Charleston are dying, and strangely, Nightshade seems to be at the heart of it. Unable to trust her own mind, she, an old friend, and one new, are forced to solve a string of entwined murders and mysteries about Nightshade, to solve if she's the culprit, before the next victim turns out to be someone she cares about.
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No spoilers are present for the Night Sly story in the 'canon' Toril universe, minus characters possessing the same personalities (which, I suppose for Viola, is something of a spoiler, lol). Parallels/AU-ified versions of Shadowheart's personality quest are key to the plot, however, and may include some spoilers.Series
- Part 4 of Night Sly [Nephiah/Shadowheart]