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Gale has always dreamt of Mystra, until lightning cuts through the blue.
A tempest sorceress who doesn't want his lectures, only his respect.
And maybe, if he can manage to chew and swallow his Wizardly Pride? His heart.--
Day 3 of Fuwafest 2024
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- Part 3 of Fuwafest 2024
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It Is The Season of the Heart by pretty_sick_actually
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Dec 2025
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Gale and Astarion are sent on a last minute work trip to Neverwinter over the holidays. Will these combative coworkers become merry and bright or will they turn into a pair of Scrooges?
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Edith moved to Baldur's Gate a year ago, after her shop in Waterdeep burned to the ground in the middle of the night. And just when she declared she would remake her life, the mind flayers came. Now, she's traveling with mysterious strangers who all have their own secrets, even as she buries her own. The one perk to all of this is that one of those strangers happens to be Gale of Waterdeep, an old acquaintance and old crush of Edith's.
Except, now, after a year apart, Gale seems... different. Something is wrong. Will Edith figure it out or will she be kept in the dark? Can they work together to cure their tadpoles, or will their personalities keep clashing until their relationship turns to dust?
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this beauty that pleases too well by PouroverPaloma
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Dec 2025
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He unexpectedly turned as he closed the door and caught Daphne observing him. Their eyes met, she blushed in embarrassment, and—
Every time he smiled, really smiled with his whole face, the world around him seemed to dim in comparison. He made her want to take up painting again. Or pastels, or any of the other art forms she’d left behind when she graduated from RISD and started her first bookmaking apprenticeship. She’d never felt compelled to make representational art, but Gale Dekarios in the full bloom of joy was absolutely worth representing.
In which tiny, remote Icepeak College mysteriously hires a massively overqualified antiquities scholar in the middle of term, and its book arts workshop director finds herself inexorably pulled into his orbit. In her defense, he's really fucking hot.
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Us Against The World (Act 1) by sargriff
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
15 Dec 2025
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Sylvara is a practical and wise cleric of Mielikki from a remote wood-elven village when she gets abducted by mindflayers. Gale is an over-enthusiastic and brilliant wizard from Waterdeep, if slightly arrogant. Sylvara begrudgingly allows him to travel with her to find a cure for their parasite when his knowledge proves to be useful. But there's more to him than meets the eye, and Sylvara finds herself falling for the charming wizard, despite herself.
*This is based on my duo-run with Gale. It includes Wyll, Karlach, and Lae'zel in the party as well in certain situations, but primarily focuses on Sylvara x Gale.
*Formerly titled "The Wild and The Weave"
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- Part 1 of Us Against The World
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ArcaneArrangements.com by Anonymous for AlwaysMauria
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Dec 2025
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Once CIO of a major arcanotech firm, Gale is looking to spend his time and money on the finer things in life.
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Gale accidentally creates a profile on a sugar-baby dating site.
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The Exquisite Heat of a Dying Star by LikethelightfromOrion
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Dec 2025
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The reunion of Enver Gortash and Bhaal's former chosen proves far more dangerous than our hero's could have anticipated.
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Baronet Dekarios is a man of science, but the supernatural is as much a science as anything else, isn't it? He's also a man in need of a new patron. So, when an old university friend offers entrance to a party held by one of England's most secretive societies — a club of the country's richest men, rumored to dabble in the occult and the satanic — he sees the opportunity to kill two metaphysical birds with one stone. And all he needs to do to gain entry is secure the approval of the club's mysterious leader, the enigmatic Lord Ancunin.
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PART 2:
After the events of Good Things Come.Astarion and Tav have solidified their roles in the Underdark with the other Spawn, as well as in Faerun. They realize there is still much more they can do to stop another Vampire lord, and help another of their Companions in the process.
A snippet of things to come:
Except Tav beat Astarion there and reached him first, and a wet SMACK sounded as Astarion's chest collided with her shoulder blades where she stood solidly between them.
For a moment, Astarion only saw red.
For a moment, Astarion heard nothing but the roaring, rushing sounds in his adept ears - that of the rolling sea, and Tav's blood catapulting through her arteries with her own anger.
Astarion's eyes focused and traced her form and up her extended arm, his lip twitching with the beginning of a snarl at the action that had been denied him, but the scent of Gale's blood hit his nose then. The odor was strong despite the pervading smell of salt in the surf that lapped along the shore at their feet.
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- Part 2 of All Good Things
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Astarion wasn’t sulking, nor was he hiding from Gale. He was simply taking a relaxing moment to himself. A relaxing moment in the dark, pressed between boxes in what was presumably a storage room.
Sometimes it's easier to ignore an issue when you've got more imminent problems to deal with. Now that he's finally safe, Astarion finds it might be harder to ignore said issues.
This is a direct continuation of 'Bat'tered by the Storm. Updates on Fridays.
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- Part 2 of 'Bat'tered
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A reckless, mischievous sorcerer meets an initially Pre-Orb Gale. Their relationship goes from fun and flirty to dangerous and enabling.
A few cute dates, a world-ending orb, and a high cost.
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"All right," Astarion says slowly. "And what does this mean, exactly?"
He thinks he might already know, but he wants to hear Gale say it.
An unexpected job offer. A sun holiday. Astarion never stops looking for the fault line, he'd once told Gale. The point where the centre gives way. Things fall apart.
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- Part 3 of diminishing returns
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To Err Is Divine (to forgive is human) by Lame Wizard (Chocofake)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
10 Dec 2025
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“Tara. What in the Nine Hells happened to my beard?”
Gale had gone on a great adventure with a band of tadpoles misfits to save the world from the Absolute. That much, he was certain of. So why and how did he find himself back in Waterdeep, a year before that whole venture, and just days away from committing the mistake of a lifetime? Did the friends from his vision indeed exist? Or better yet, did they remember? What could it all mean?
A bit of time traveling shenanigans and the threat of Absolutists to defeat anew... But just how much does everyone recall from that glimpse into the future exactly? Find friends and foes alike back in an adventure with much more to offer than you’d first wager![Act 1 of this fic fully written]
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When Rolim wakes up after the crash of the Nautiloid, he can hardly believe the reality he finds himself in.
The compulsions once forced upon him by Cazador are gone—and somehow, the sun no longer burns his skin.
But freedom comes with a price: an illithid tadpole now burrows through his grey matter and with it, a creeping loss of his vampiric strength and instincts.
He soon finds himself among a ragtag group of survivors, all infected, all searching for a cure. One of them stands out more than the rest: Astarion.
Handsome, sharp, and—unlike most—genuinely respectful of Rolim's boundaries. While Shadowheart hides her own secrets and Lae'zel simply doesn't care to ask, Astarion sees Rolim's need for space... and honors it.
As their journey twists deeper into uncertainty, a question begins to take shape:
What will become of them all when the fate they seek to change refuses to be rewritten?AU where Astarion is a 239 year old mortal elf and magistrate and Tav is the one under Cazador's thumb!
Have fun!Series
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The Weave That Devours, The Heart That Remains by ZoroAbarai
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Dec 2025
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Azariel told himself he could endure Mystra’s silence. That devotion was its own reward, that faith did not require being seen.
Then he met Gale of Waterdeep.
Gale knew what it meant to be cherished by her, carried it in his bones. He was living proof that Azariel’s devotion had never been enough. Azariel hated him for that, hated that Gale was cherished when he was ignored. Worse still, he hated himself for the inescapable reverence he felt toward Gale.
Now both abandoned, both bound to hungers they never asked for, Azariel walks beside the man Mystra discarded, haunted by the thought that even in ruin... Gale was still chosen once.
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Gale coddles a cat that turns out to be Tav in their Wild Shape form. How will he ever recover from the humiliation?
Starts in Act 1. Minor spoilers so far.
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Badger at the Gate by No_one_of_account
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
07 Dec 2025
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Lena was heading home from her day job as a software engineer when an llithid nautiloid kidnapped her. Luckily, she's a honey badger shifter, and honey badgers are best known for taking on big cats, hyenas, scorpions, and venomous snakes, and surprisingly, surviving! Unluckily, her new companions might want to murder her because she's decided that she's going to go completely unfiltered. Luckily, her liger best friend, Edie, will help her stay alive. Sorta.
This reads mostly as a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough with in-game dialog as a jumping-off point for lots of non-canon dialog that I think is funny. Your mileage will vary.
Oh, and awkward attempts at emotional depth and smut. It's not deliberate: I just forget how normal people react. And if you're looking for good smut, look elsewhere. But I'm going to just keep on chugging despite the lack of external validation. Though I do love me some external validation (nudge, nudge).
I also post what amounts to a first draft to be fixed. Later.
'Happy' reading!
There's an epilogue for anyone who wants to punish themselves further!
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- Part 1 of A Honey Badger in Baldur's Gate
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Mr. and Mr. Ancunín-Dekarios by completelyrotten, Roarshack
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Dec 2025
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A wave of guilt crashed against Gale as he walked home. It was barely their first day together and he already brought so much danger to Astarion. He could only hope that this wouldn’t happen again, but knowing his line of work, it was highly unlikely. How much longer could he hide this?
That wasn’t a question he wanted an answer to. It had to be forever; Astarion could never see the blood on his hands.
The entire time Astarion cleaned the blood and mess in the room, his heart was hammering, ears twitching at any sound that might be Gale walking in. Guilt kept trying to worm its way into his head. Not even one day and already he was proving to be a massive danger to Gale. No, there was nothing he could do about it now. He needed to focus, he needed to hide this.
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'Say say my playmate, won't you lay hands on me / Mirror my malady, transfer my tradegy?'
Werewolves were sent by Cazador to bring Astarion back, but in fending them off, Gale gets bit by one and hides it from everyone. How long will this secret remain until it's revealed?
And how long until he completely loses himself to the curse?
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Gale has mixed feelings as he arrives home from Baldur's Gate.