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Many years after defeating the Netherbrain, Astarion still struggles keeping the vampires in his sanctuary in check.
To maintain order and prevent a massacre on the surface, he has enforced a strict decree: The Five-Year Purge. Only once every half-decade are the spawn eligible for release, and only after passing a series of grueling examinations.
Astarion’s latest challenge comes in the form of Thiriann, a spawn whose mind has been utterly ravaged by bloodlust.- Language:
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12 May 2026
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Nearly two years ago, Astarion and Valdrey missed their chance to get together after the fall of the Absolute. When Valdrey invites him to the city of Westgate to find the Ring of the Sun-Walker, they both see it as the perfect opportunity for a do-over. If only the hardest part of all this was confessing their feelings to one another or even finding the ring itself. Now they're off on another adventure across Faerun to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
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05 May 2026
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Astarion's Nice, Simple Plan That Fell Apart by UsuallyDyingInside
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Apr 2024
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Astarion had a plan. A nice, simple plan: seduce Tav, sleep with her, manipulate her feelings so she'd never turn on him.
All she had to do was fall for it.
And all he had to do was not fall for her.Which is where his nice, simple plan fell apart.
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Exploring Astarion's POV throughout the game while romancing Dark Urge/Tav. Canon is followed in most cases, including with lines of dialogue from the game, but Act 2 and 3 break off from canon a few times in fun ways.Content warnings are listed ahead of the more intense chapters. Overall this fic (like the game) explores what healing from abuse looks like and has a lot of references to those themes.
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- Part 1 of Astarion Isn't the Best at Planning
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- 438,332
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- 200/200
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24 Mar 2026
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In which Astarion and his mysterious, bloodthirsty little friend, Ophelia, navigate complex feelings for each other, murderous tendencies, and worms in their brains.
A (loosely) canon-compliant longfic retelling of the Astarion/Durge romance arc that only focuses on the main story beats with some creative liberties and differing interpretations.
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- Part 1 of Of Monsters and Mulled Wine
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13 Mar 2026
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You hadn't seen Astarion all evening, and wondered why he had been sequestered in his tent instead of at your side. Turns out, he just hates the cold. A lot.
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12 Mar 2026
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05 Mar 2026
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Based on a prompt given to me by a wonderful anonymous tumblr user:
Astarion/reader fic where he finds out she's never had a lover 'finish the job' so she doesn't see what all the fuss is about, and he decides to use his skills to ruin her for anyone else and show her what she's been missing out on?
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04 Mar 2026
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Astarion has mastered seduction, manipulation and survival. She’s mastered silence. Between them lies a question neither dares to ask: tell me what are my words worth?
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23 Feb 2026
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Love doesn’t erase darkness, but maybe it provides enough light to survive it.
Malis wakes up on a crashing Nautiloid ship with no memory of how she got there—just a tadpole in her skull and a splitting headache. Add a murderous dark urge that whispers sweet nothings about bloodshed in her ear causing her to want to murder everything in sight, and things only get worse.
Enter Astarion: the eternally dramatic vampire spawn with a knack for trouble and a smile as sharp as his daggers. They meet by knife-point, naturally. And while she rather enjoys that he’s only slightly less murdery than she is, their spicy, messy entanglement becomes the least of their problems.
Thrown together in a mess of illithid horrors, crazed cults, ancient gods, and highly questionable blood drinking, the two wrestle with love, power, and the darkness within.
“We’re the same, you and I,” he once told her. “Monsters.”
If you’re into epic battles, biting banter, shameless smut, and two broken people trying (and failing) to keep it together, this is one such story.
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- Part 1 of Firestar / Malistarion
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22 Feb 2026
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Astarion Ancunin used to be a name that opened doors, launched careers, and wrote shows that ran for years. But after a public meltdown and catastrophic failure with his former writing partner, his career took a swan dive into the orchestra pit.
It’s been thirteen years, and he’s been growing more bitter and cunty ever since. A bizarre and random encounter causes him to reevaluate his career. Is he truly ready to be done with it all? Forever is a long time to spend avoiding your mistakes.
A new show be just the ticket to put the polish back on his star. The problem is that no one who is anyone will work with him. In order to stage his show he has to reach out to people he's slighted in his career and people who cheered when his star burned out.
He has one shot at pulling himself out of the ashes - but he's going to need a writing partner from his past.
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Astarion thinks if Beetlejuice can be a Broadway success, then clearly Anything Goes.- Language:
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22 Feb 2026
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On the Subject of Moral Certainty by atypical_author
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Dec 2025
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After discovering a capacity for violence she cannot explain, Tav resolves to govern herself with distance and discipline. It is the only way she knows to remain safe, to herself and to others.
Unfortunately for her peace of mind, Astarion is there, and needs a friend too.Bookmarked by RavenousMuse
18 Feb 2026
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Songs No One Sings by CordycepsCat
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Baldur's Gate, baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
22 Feb 2026
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She smiled sweetly at him. “Still not happy about travelling with a pig?”
“No, no.” He assured her, relaxing a modicum once his dagger was safely sheathed at his hip. “The pig is great. A blood-thirsty, monster-stomping pig. She’s darling, let’s keep her.”
Since she was a child, Shay's increasingly less-than-idyllic life in Baldur's Gate was haunted by a pale, red-eyed stranger lurking in the shadows. When she found the very same man on a beach, drenched in sunlight and infected with the same parasite that now wriggled in her own brain, she was forced to set aside her dreams of vengeance in hopes of surviving another day. They did survive – not just the next day but for many more after – forging an alliance that forced Shay to confront the possibility that there was more to the man than she thought.
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08 Feb 2026
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The Crimson Heir by StarshineMoonbear
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
23 Feb 2026
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Cazador Szarr did not want a child. He wanted a legacy.
Serah Szarr is raised as heir, experiment, and proof—trained in etiquette and cruelty before she’s old enough to understand either. Through the years, Astarion bears witness from the shadows, caught between horror at what she will become and dread of the day she learns to truly see him.
Astarion has survived centuries by being overlooked.
He isn’t sure he’ll survive being noticed.Bookmarked by RavenousMuse
07 Feb 2026
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A year after the fall of the Netherbrain, Astarion and Thiriann manage to get their hands on an ancient tome, setting them on a new path toward the fabled city of Waterdeep.
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- Part 8 of And it's you and me
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06 Feb 2026
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Sometimes not everything can be fixed, but the thought of him finding comfort in your embrace lingers...
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"You lifted your head to meet his gaze, but he averted it. Raising your hand, you glided your fingers along his cheek, “Astarion,” you called to him softly, and he lowered his head, nestling it in the crook of your neck, exhaling quietly."
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Timing: sometime after the events of the game
Characters: Astarion (Spawn) and Reader
Location: your home in Baldur's GateBookmarked by RavenousMuse
03 Feb 2026
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Calypso is a Bhaalspawn, just beginning to find the tattered edges of her past as violent acts reveal her true nature to herself.
Unable to combat the dark urges that scream within her mind, struggling for a semblance of autonomy, she begins to hide more and more of herself from her new friends after spending weeks attempting to search for any shred of her past life.
And she's not the only one clawing at the seams of this fragile exterior in an attempt for control. Astarion is finding himself rather quickly at wits end with his own emotions - as they rise and fall to the beat of his favorite drow's heart, his stone cold one finds a warmth he can't quite stomach at the thought of her demise.In an attempt to feel real and whole, Calypso leans into the fear of falling for someone new in search of being found worthy.
In an attempt to feel safe and protected, Astarion leans into the fear of losing someone new in search of the power he set out to claim.
And indulging in these choices may very well destroy them both.Can they conquer the darkest depths of their own psyche, despite everything?
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02 Feb 2026
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To Live Again by adogonstilts
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Baldur's Gate 3 (Video Games)
05 Apr 2026
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The scars on Astarion's back burn like hellfire, like they're trying to writhe free of his skin. The ritual’s power was never meant for him, but he can take it anyway. He has a blade, and the perfect canvas—all he needs is a second pair of eyes, and he’ll be able to write this last sonnet himself. Cazador will get the ‘mercy’ he deserves, and Astarion will have the sweet pleasure of carving it into his flesh. The sun, unimaginable power, his freedom—he's about to have it all.
Until, like most things he wants, it is unceremoniously ripped away from him.
As it turns out, godlike power from an ancient, infernal ritual is far from the worst thing Astarion could've lost that day.
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02 Feb 2026
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The Book of Belonging by turbulentangel
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Ascended Astarion - Fandom
30 Jan 2026
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One year after the defeat of the Netherbrain, Tav, once the lauded savior of Baldur's Gate, has been all but forgotten. Whiling away her days at the Last Light Inn, drinking, gambling, and mourning a myriad of losses--her Oath, her friends, her love--she is thrust back into the throes of adventure when she is sought out by an old acquaintance.
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30 Jan 2026
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There is a ghost within the walls of the Szarr palace. Not one who was killed there, but one who was born there, created there, one who belongs to the palace as much as the palace does to his lordship, and will never be allowed to leave.
The hidden baby daughter of Cazador Szarr is pulled from her deceptively lavish captivity by the hesitant hand of a vampire spawn. Astarion comes to realize that one good thing has prospered within the palace, and Cazador wishes to hoard it for all eternity.
Cordelia is innocent, raised in a manufactured oblivion designed to keep her a child forever, and Astarion has seen every bit of her father's cruelty firsthand. He hates the tyrant blood in her veins, and she is too meek to look him in the eyes.
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27 Jan 2026
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Maybe you carry the only sun that could never hurt him.
— A relationship study of Astarion and a cleric of Lathander.
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26 Jan 2026