Light Casts a Shadow
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The Absolute savors the intricacies of delivering suffering to its prisoners. As a daughter of Shar, Shadowheart knows well pain's physical touch and endures what she must before the party can escape.
But she's not prepared to see her like this.
Circa Act One, but a detour from strict canon timelines for the sake of drama.
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- Part 1 of Light Casts a Shadow
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The survivors of the raid on the grove want to celebrate all they've managed to save.
During the bittersweet evening, Asheera finds Shadowheart sitting by herself on the cliffside. There they share wine, bad jokes, and more.
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- Part 2 of Light Casts a Shadow
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While recovering from her wounds and a night by a waterfall, Asheera spars with her companions.
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- Part 3 of Light Casts a Shadow
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After surviving the raid on the druid grove, the party searches for their missing companions over the course of what Shadowheart thinks are four days. On those four mornings, Shadowheart struggles with what she'd nearly done in the cells of the drow as well as Shar's disappointment in her.
The people she barely knows how to trust at all try to help, but can anything or anyone even help?
"How can you say it so easily?" Shadowheart felt anger growing to match the void that gnawed at her. This was far too simple. There had to be a ploy, some lie hidden underneath this miserable fable she was living. "I nearly killed you, and you hardly bat an eyelash over it? Why?"
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- Part 4 of Light Casts a Shadow
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Within the darkened halls of the Gauntlet of Shar, faith and love are tested in equal measure. Two women whose ideals cannot align, two women whose care for one another is fresh in the face of suffering.
Shadowheart believes her faith is steadfast enough to withstand what she's already endured. Asheera thinks her oath strong enough to stand by what she believes.
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- Part 5 of Light Casts a Shadow
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After a battle in Reithwin, Shadowheart needs to hear those words from Asheera's lips. After exhausting herself healing the others, she needs to hear them. After everything in the Shadowfell, she wants to hear them. To feel them.
Written for Femslash February 2025 for the prompt, "Tell me again."
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- Part 6 of Light Casts a Shadow
- Part 5 of Femslash February 2025: Mostly BG3 Edition
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During the battle atop Moonrise Towers, Asheera thinks she might have found another path for Ketheric Thorm. Not quite redemption, but it could be a chance at something better.
She is wrong.
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- Part 7 of Light Casts a Shadow
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Shadowheart shares a ritual usually reserved for lonely nights.
It's a small choice, but it is her choice.
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- Part 8 of Light Casts a Shadow
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Swimming lessons and sand castles have never been so alluring, so comforting. So freeing.
Or: what happens on the beach for Shadowheart and Asheera.
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- Part 9 of Light Casts a Shadow
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I Never Wish to Stray from This Tranquil Place by anotheropti
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Feb 2024
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Shadowheart is very protective of her hair and who can touch it, let alone who can wash it. In some ways, that vulnerability is an even greater sign of her trust in Asheera than the night before.
Takes place the morning after the "building sandcastles" scene.
Written for Femslash February 2024 for the prompt "Morning after."
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- Part 10 of Light Casts a Shadow
- Part 1 of Femslash February 2024: Baldur's Gay Edition
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On the road to Baldur's Gate, the party finds a recently abandoned farmstead and dead Absolutists. While Asheera insists on searching for any survivors, Shadowheart finds a frightened soul in the cold darkness.
Takes place between Acts Two and Three.
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- Part 11 of Light Casts a Shadow
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While journeying on the road from Reithwin to Baldur's Gate, Shadowheart needs a night of comfort after a day of battle and travel exhausts her physically and emotionally. After everything that happened in the Gauntlet, Shadowheart draws within herself instead of seeking out that comfort.
Luckily, she has one at her side who will not let her isolate herself no matter what mistakes she thinks she's made.
Written for Femslash February 2024 for the prompt "Hands."
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- Part 12 of Light Casts a Shadow
- Part 11 of Femslash February 2024: Baldur's Gay Edition
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One night, with Baldur's Gate waiting for them just on the horizon, Shadowheart sits by herself and fears about what may come when she confronts the Sharrans that once called her sister as well as her former Mother Superior. She thinks herself alone, lost.
With Asheera at her side, she cannot be truly alone. Together, they explore Shadowheart's scars.
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- Part 13 of Light Casts a Shadow
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Sometimes love expresses itself in the relief of submission. All the world's weight vanishes there.
Or: Shadowheart exposes her sexually submissive side to her girlfriend in Act Three.
Reality slipped away and her mind drifted into the world of pure pleasure, to a serene lake. Her private shore where no goddesses or world-ending powers could find her.
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- Part 14 of Light Casts a Shadow
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While resting after defeating the Netherbrain, Shadowheart and Asheera spend an afternoon at a restaurant in the Lower City. A few drinks later, Asheera asks Shadowheart a question.
Written for Femslash February 2025 for the prompt, "Who else but you?"
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- Part 15 of Light Casts a Shadow
- Part 6 of Femslash February 2025: Mostly BG3 Edition
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A picnic date. What could be better?
Well, when Asheera keeps getting pointers in her mind from the rest of her companions about how to behave on a date with Shadowheart, it turns out it's less than fun.
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- Part 16 of Light Casts a Shadow
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As the final confrontation looms before them, Shadowheart searches for solace in the quiet hours of Baldur's Gate at dusk. In a rented room of the Caress, in the pits of a temple to a blood god, and in the shrine that houses her grief. A trio of power exchanges linked by the needs and fears of both halves of the equation.
Or: two times Shadowheart submitted and one time she couldn't. Circa Act Three.
These were the hands that gathered thorns for flowers, carrying her in an open palm without noticing as blood spotted the fingers. The blood-soaked hands that never discarded the painful rose.
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- Part 17 of Light Casts a Shadow
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Spared by the paladin that corrupted Shadowheart, Viconia flees the city and turns her attention to the Sharrans that survived the attack on the cloister.
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- Part 18 of Light Casts a Shadow
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When she thinks everything is gone, Shadowheart can do nothing but cry. Seeing her like this means Asheera can do only one thing.
A fix-it fic for the conclusion to one of the endings to Shadowheart's personal quest. This was written and posted before the Patch 6 change to this ending.
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- Part 19 of Light Casts a Shadow
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While still recovering in Baldur's Gate, Shadowheart nearly forgets to tell Asheera it's her first morn day.
Or: Shadowheart can't remember what it's like to celebrate her birthday.
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- Part 20 of Light Casts a Shadow