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Meant to Be: Redemption Equals Life by SetsunaNoroi
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Sep 2025
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When Lavare and Evelyn end up on the nautiloid, kidnapped and inserted with tadpoles that will turn them into monsters, the pair of sisters go on a quest along with a ragtag party to try and save themselves from the grim fate. Everyone is a little weird, but they all need to work together to get through this mess. Between a wizard that might blow up, an elf who might eat the party, the cleric and fighter snipping at each other, a monster hunter and a woman who didn't end up a monster after all, things are not off to a great start. On top of all of that, a seemingly half-crazed tiefling who can't even remember her own name, do they have the odds to even make it through this journey?
Lavare is enthusiastic enough to believe they can make it, but her older and more experienced sister doesn't feel the need to hand out trust to anyone just yet. Still, it's safer in a group than it is alone. It's going to be dangerous enough just getting to Baldur's Gate, when they actually reach it then it's really going to get messy.
And the amnesiac Dark Urge, helped along by Karlach when it seems like no one else can believe in her, is terrified of her own place in the world and what it means when she starts to learn it.
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Long My Love Awaited by dirty_whorchata, ShadowViking
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Sep 2025
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Geir Dagrsson knows three things: cattle die, kinsmen die, but the one thing that doesn’t is a man’s deeds. He just didn’t expect his greatest one to be marrying the brat prince of East Anglia, and worst of all, the son of one of his father’s killers: a Saxon.
Ӕlfstan, son of Cadwallon, loathes the heathens plaguing their lands. When he is sold off in marriage to one, he will do whatever it takes to free himself from the man, his father’s wishes be damned. The Viking he is promised to also proves to be just as irritating as he expected.
Little do they both know, sinister forces are looking to sow more discord between the denizens of East Anglia, with Geir and Ӕlfstan at the centre of it all.
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[You don't need to know Baldur's Gate 3 to enjoy this. It might read even better if you don't. But: It contains spoilers the way tea contains liquid.]
A female 28yo human with normal life, job to go to, no outstanding skills, but a bunch of insecurities, is the only unlucky to be infected with an alien larva set to overwrite her mind and body within days. Driving her desperate quest to find a cure amidst battling memory loss and brain damage, alone, except for one friend, she overthinks everything, trying to do the right thing. Trust doesn't come easy, and deciding who to rely on becomes a battle in itself.
Instead of game's companions, I took inspiration in individuals and organizations from my real life. If you recognize yourself here: take it as a compliment. I wrote this story because while playing I went through a storm of emotions and needed to put it into words. (Yes, it gets a bit emotional at times). I wanted to capture what it feels like when you have only one chance to decide, without saving, reloading, and googling for the perfect outcome.
Game's side characters also appear, some are examined in depth, because their actions gave me no peace for months. -
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An unlikely coalition of unfortunate souls destined for lives apart are bound together by the most unusual of circumstances... and parasites. A Lost warrior attempts to ascend to greater fame and glory; A Tiefling who never stopped running since Elturel and an apoplectic amnesiac overcome with violent impulses are just a few of a strange band of adventurers. Despite all their flaws, quirks, and grievances, they will band together and unknowingly become the best chance at saving the distant Baldur's Gate and Faerun itself from total domination.
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The Silver Lining's I'll be there with You by Ari_or_starlight
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Sep 2025
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This story begins and ends with death, and you know that. You feel arms around you, the darkness all consuming. There’s ringing in your ears, a thrumming in your veins like something else is beside you. You think you hear begging, pleading, perhaps the whimpering of tears being shed, and you wonder why you can’t see them. Below you, the ground is cool, damp, yet sticky, like something other than water pools beneath you.
You hear another voice, clearer to you, unlike that of what you can only assume is family, or friends, or lovers, or mere companions beside you begging for you to get up. It’s shaky, yet stern, like the hum of life itself is within it. It sends chills down your body, and threatens to jolt you out of existence altogether.
“So, rise, Challenger of Gods, and prepare for battle once more.”
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A complete rewrite of Baldur's Gate as Durge inspired by my own game. Please enjoy me refusing to let my beloveds go. -
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Lord Astarion Ancunín invites Lady Daenys Moravan to A Night of Veiled Whispers Masquerade Ball at the Crimson Palace on the 13th Flamerule
When the opportunity arises for the Vampire Ascendant and the Chosen of Bhaal to form an alliance, desire and bloodshed will soon reign as they stroll hand-in-hand through a world decorated in blood and bone.
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- Part 6 of I'm Your Dark Star
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Erkan wakes on a mind flayer ship with no memory, only a name echoing in his mind like a curse: Sura. It’s not his, yet it burns beneath his skin like something he’s sworn to protect… or destroy.
Elsewhere on the same twisted vessel, Sura awakens too: bloody, dazed, and haunted by fragments of a past she can’t place. All she knows is pain, power, and the knowledge that someone out there shares her scars.
Bound by fate, mind flayer tadpoles, and a name neither fully understands, the twins must survive the horrors of the Nautiloid, the chaos of the crash, and the creeping madness inside them. With every step, the world pulls them closer to forgotten truths and to each other.
Even if they don’t remember who they are, something else does. And it’s watching.
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In a marriage lottery Karlach and Tomyris, despite being from separate ends of society, find themselves married. Five-hundred thousand people find themselves underground in the city know as the Last Bastion. With a serial killer on the loose, the goals of the marriage lottery being a mystery, and a new love beginning to form, blah blah blah. I suck at summaries. Just read it.
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Vash Neel, a dark and imposing Tiefling Paladin, battles the sinister forces within him, vying for control of his mind. In the midst of this turmoil, his sadism inspires him to try to tear apart the marriage of a young refugee couple, Bex and Danis. The obsession fractures his calculated facade and causes him to face the ultimate choice: yield to the malevolence that bewitches his heart and claim ultimate power, or risk everything for a chance at peace at last.
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- Part 1 of Desolate Oath
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Gale liked to think that he’d developed something of a sixth sense when it came to Thorne and his antics. A radar system of sorts, finely tuned after one too many incidents involving the Tiefling throwing himself into danger with nothing but a small sword, a tadpole in his skull, and the clothes on his back.
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Thorne drinks from Thisobald's distillery and has an...interesting reaction.Series
- Part 3 of Fuck it, we Bhaal!
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Serenade of Shadows (A Halsin x Shadowheart fanfic) by astarionsbbg777 for Kenny Thrasher
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Sep 2025
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Shadowheart is very, so very lost.
Grappling with distrust in her once-religion, she's seeking sanctuary. Not in a place, necessarily. Maybe just a person is all she truly needs.
After lifting the Shadow Lands' curse and relinquishing his title as head druid in Emerald Grove, Halsin is searching for his purpose while on the journey to Baldur's Gate. However, he finds himself tangled in his newlyfound admiration for one Selunite worshipper - Shadowheart.
A swift glance. A walk through the woods.
Secrets swapped. Bonds forged.
Will they succumb to the hidden desires beneath and be the heroes to save Baldur's Gate, or will things take a dark turn?
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Tav's murderous Urges are no secret, but the root causes of it are. As she struggles to find answers and come to terms with her condition, Gale is struggling to deal with the price of his own condition...and his ambitions. They dedicate themselves to finding solutions together, but while some answers draw them closer, others threaten to tear them apart.
As Tav's sordid history with Gortash comes to light, she faces not only scrutiny from her allies, but suspicion...perhaps even betrayal. It will be a long fight to win that trust back, but with the threat of Bhaal's influence looming ever nearer, how long does she really have left?
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Expansion on canon events from Act II and on, as well as addition of non-canon events. Based around a Tav/Durge who is a Seldarine Drow Rogue.
First part of the series before the events of my other fic, "Anamnesis Red".Series
- Part 1 of The Urge and the Orb
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Farewell Wanderlust by asilcake
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
29 Aug 2025
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“Your ears…they're pointy,” you coughed weakly as you reached up and lightly touched one.
Their moist red lips slowly parted in surprise before breaking into a smile that didn’t reach their eyes. “Faerûn is on its’ knees and you’re worried about my ears? Think fast, darling. Damsels rescue themselves here.”
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This work follows the timeline and lore of Baldur's Gate, incorporated whenever possible. Quotes & cut scenes from the game will be included along with text from notes, tomes, etc. found in game.
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A post-canon story line of Liawynn, a citizen of Baldur's Gate who attempts to gain the favor of God Gale and become his chosen. She must prove her ambition in order to do so but keep her motivators secret. Born without magic, her jealousy grows for wizards and hatred for the gods as her prayers have gone unanswered for so long. Will this new God be willing to take her on and finally fulfill her desire for magical powers to take revenge upon those she's often dreamed of doing?
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the Darkening by nootertooter
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
28 Aug 2025
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In the vast and storied land of Faerûn 2 (title pending indefinitely), there is a curse, one that has sat stagnant for over two decades... and now it's beginning to change.
Shadowheart vampire AU that's turned into a whole lot of other things too.
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Astarion wakes up post Nautiloid crash and finds himself in a Worg-pen.
He finds out Vampire Spawn are perfectly capable of going feral- and what it means to trust again.
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Two men were seeking freedom and when they finally got out, they had mind flayer tadpoles behind their eyes. They met a group and wanted to find a cure for this worm in their heads.
For Astarion, this tadpole was a win and a loss at the same time. The vampire was free of his abusive master and could stand in the sun after 200 hundred years of pure shit. Though this tadpole will turn them all into mind flayers. Orius woke up with nothing but his name and a headache. The tiefling didn’t know who or what he was but his blood yearned to kill. He would have to force this Dark Urge down before it ends bloody for them all.
While traveling Astarion feels the need to get all of them to trust him, getting protection from what’s to come. So he does what he can do best but his plan fails after getting to know Orius…
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Baldur's Gate 3, A Fortunate Meeting by EnidZsasz
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
25 Aug 2025
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What if 'Tav' met Astarion before Tav was sent to moonrise and tadpoled? This is my character 'Tav' Known as Mesai'lai. It takes place mainly in the city and a what if Tav had met him and decided 'you know what? I like him' and does all sorts of things to keep him safe and in so doing, becomes free from Bhaal. This is a story about how someone who came from a place of high abuse and goes to murder people, can be redeemed. This is really just a drabble and please, PLEASE note it contains a LOT of trauma.
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All we’ll ever get by VanDosut
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
24 Aug 2025
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Kafka adored the theater, a world where anything was possible, where every idea came to life and the boundaries of reality dissolved. But offstage, he always played a role, never showing his true self. Between theatricality and inherited cruelty, he learned that survival is not about being the best, but about being the most persuasive.
The Dark Urge, his name etched into history, moved among admirers and enemies, amidst excess, secrets, and strategy, while time hardened him and prepared him to face dark alliances and deadly foes. In a city rich in culture and danger, Kafka navigates a world of decadence and power, where every step could be his last.
And when his father’s command arrives—a diplomatic mission blending cunning and peril—only he can take the reins. With every action, every choice, he draws closer to the metamorphosis that will make him more than mortal… something feared, something legendary or his total failure.
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Hello everyone! This is my first AO3 fic, and it's a backstory for my custom Durge, named Elysse (pronounced uh-lie-ss) and I'm going for about 100-110k words :)
Elysse Anchev, older half-sister of Orin the Red, is desperate to prove herself in the face of a cult that doubts her abilities. Ever since being nominated as Bhaal's Chosen, she knows she has her bloody Father's favor, but constantly feels locked in silent competition with others jealous of her position, or who want her gone entirely. Also, when under comparison to Orin’s prodigious murder sprees, she has to learn how to find her own way under such a heavy and isolating title as “Chosen,” despite self-doubt and watchful eyes, and try to be a good sister to Orin. All the while, the alliance of gods is attempting to enact the Grand Design and take the power for themselves. But, as time goes on, she gains one ally amidst the everyday struggles: The strangely charismatic Enver Gortash, another Chosen of a rival god, Bane. But, is their comradeship all it seems… or will hard and forbidden feelings get in the way, jeopardizing everything they have worked towards? Caught in a war involving both mortals and the divine, the decision is Elysse's to make.