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Book One: Dawn by OptimisticGrey
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
07 May 2026
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Born beneath whispers and raised on suspicion, The Dark Urge learned early that love is often optional in a cruel world—and that survival, more often than not, demands something sharper than wit.
Long before she was ever named the Savior of Baldur’s Gate, she was a cursed child: feared by those around her, rejected by the one meant to protect her, and stalked by a hunger she could neither name nor master.
In the years that followed, The Dark Urge became many things—some chosen, some forced upon her: prodigy, exile, weapon, thief, lover, hero. She walked the fragile line between salvation and ruin, fought battles both divine and personal.
And beneath it all, constant and unyielding, was the truth of her making.Series
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All we have is each other - Part 2 by OptimisticGrey
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 May 2026
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You wake up in your own bed, on Earth, after you know slayed the Netherbrain. Gale proposed - on a different world.
Now what?Series
- Part 2 of All we have is each other
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While you are occupied by OptimisticGrey for rdekarios
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Apr 2026
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A silly little gift for Rachel who turned it into a stunning video
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- Part 3 of Art Trades and Gifts
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You wake up to the feeling of missing someone you have never known. Not a face, only a dream and a stubbornly lingering feeling.
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You have been playing too much Baldur's Gate and you know it, but honestly? It's Gale, what can you do?
A love declaration to all of Galemance
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here by OptimisticGrey
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
07 May 2026
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Originally, this was based on this ask for Dekariosclan and her beautiful answer, I tried to write such an intro.
As I am writing this to entertain you, I asked for input. The Tumblr Council has spoken.
The idea is a (female) read from our world - who has played BG3 - being thrown into Faerûn.
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A Song of Love and Loss by LilyHeartsGale, OptimisticGrey
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Feb 2026
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These are the stories of Celeste. She was born a living descendant of Bhaal, the God of Murder.
What follows are the glimpses into her life—woven through the great events of Baldur’s Gate 3 and the quiet moments that came between and after. They speak of the darkness in her blood, ever eager to claim her, and of the long, harrowing road she walked to wrest herself free, step by step, into a life filled with song, with love, and with kindness.
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An unsettling scene of a conversation/connection between God!Gale and his Chosen.
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
31 Oct 2025
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Marginalia from the Edge of the Divine- The Memoir of Gale Dekarios by LilyHeartsGale
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
07 Jul 2025
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In this lyrical and haunting, Gale—once Mystra’s favored Chosen, now a scholar of elven high magic—unspools the tale of his extraordinary life: from his childhood in the alleys and libraries of Waterdeep to the moment he stood on the brink of apotheosis, ready to sacrifice himself for the world.
Written two decades after he found a quiet life in Evereska, Gale reflects on love, ambition, and the unbearable intimacy of magic. He chronicles his early enchantment with the goddess of magic and the seductive ruin of their affair, his missteps with power, and the redemptive weight of fatherhood.
But above all, it is a story of love—the love that saved him from destruction, the mother of his child, the one heart he could never let go. From their battles against the remnants of Netheril to quiet nights beneath Evereskan stars, Gale writes with aching beauty of a love both profound and impossible.
Part elegy, part confession, this is a story of one man’s reckoning with divinity, legacy, and the fragile threads of the heart.
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05 Jul 2025
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You get to see a side of Akoryrr that you haven’t seen before.
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04 Jul 2025
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What if Gale was still in a relationship with Mystra when he met his modern day Tav at a bar one night, and they both made some questionable choices? What if a quick flame only had one night to burn?
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- Part 3 of the clove/gale multiverse
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
05 Apr 2025
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Dekarios Family by Tynithia
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
10 May 2026
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The Dekarios lineage, may not be eccentric as the Harpells or as well known as the Silverhands, they are no less important.
This series starts in Luskan 1379 DR, a couple years after the Host Tower's destruction with Gale's great-grandfather Gaius. We follow how the family moved from Luskan to Waterdeep, how they got their fortune, and who the Dekarios family are today.
The stories are mostly led by original Dekarios characters and several named Forgotten Realm's characters make prominent appearances. Of course, everything is still centered around our favorite wizard of Waterdeep, and my muse, Gale.
I am adding new stories and one-shots all the time.
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Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
30 Mar 2025