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23 Feb 2026
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At 18, Xaden's future is bright. He's following in his father's footsteps, his friends are more like family, and he has a girl he loves more than anything.
At 33, Xaden has it all, on the outside looking in. He's a firefighter. His friends are more than family. He has a beautiful woman on his arm. But he's drowning in recent grief, his father is long since gone, and the girl he loved more than anything? He hasn't seen her in 15 years.
When she's suddenly back in his life, can he find a way back to himself? Can he find a way back to her?
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- Part 2 of From The Embers
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19 Feb 2026
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Løfte by Bonami27
Fandoms: Fourth Wing, Iron Flame - Fandom, The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm - Fandom
11 Apr 2025
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As the Venin launch their assault on the Kingdom of Tyrrendor, Violet hurries back to aid those she holds most dear. Her arrival coincides with the Blodmåne, a Tyrrish celebration that engulfs her in its fervour before she even realises. Amidst the chaos of suitors seeking her affections, Violet and Xaden stumble upon an... unorthodox solution to the unwelcome advances.
A solution that could, in turn, create even more complications.
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19 Feb 2026
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"...What you need is a friend..."
Baldur's Gate is rebuilding, the companions are drifting back to their own lives, and Astarion is left with a victory he can't stand in the sunlight to enjoy. Elowen chooses not to move on. Instead, she walks the road with him as another traveling companion, sharing tents, watch shifts, and late-night honesty.
What follows isn't a grand prophetic quest, but a quieter, stubborn one: Elowen begins chasing half-whispers and forgotten lore about why the sun burns a vampire spawn who refused ascension. Ruins, odd priests, strange books, wrong questions in the wrong temples—little threads she calls "research" and he calls "madness," even as he continues to follow her lead.
Afterdawn is the stretch of road where nothing huge seems to happen from the outside: campfires, small jobs, detours, close calls, and two people circling something they have no words for yet. Underneath, Elowen is pulling on something old and bright and dangerous.
Eventually the thread catches and by the end, the road looks nothing like it did at the start.
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- Part 1 of the after
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05 Dec 2025
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Eirela Rainheart was in danger of loving Astarion the moment she felt the storm inside of her reach out to him. But as an elven noble living in Baldur’s Gate, she had a duty to perform. A duty of matrimony. When Astarion confesses he feels something for her, Eirela hesitantly suggests that they should remain friends instead. But a friendship as thick as thieves falls apart when Eirela announces she’s entering an arranged marriage after they beat the Elder Brain.
Five years later, Eirela’s life as she knows it flips upside down when her marriage comes to an unexpected end, and is outcasted by her family. In her despair, Astarion finds her shattered and broken by her impending divorce. When Astarion decides to assist Eirela in finding herself again, she finds that repairing her friendship with him is easier than she thought it would be. And it was even more effortless for the feelings she’d repressed for him to resurface yet again.
Basically, a friends-to-lovers story about my storm sorcerer Tav finding herself with the help of Astarion. Chapters alternate between a five-year time skip and Acts 1-3 (plus epilogue) in the game. Mostly from my Tav's perspective with some POV from Astarion.
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18 Sep 2025