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  1. Rec 6

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    Astarion swallows. “What makes you think I even want such a thing?”

    “With ambition comes a certain… loneliness. One must often sacrifice the bonds of friendship, family, love, lest they slow you down on your way to greatness. You are lonely, Astarion. No friends to call upon for nights of revelry. No lovers to hold when the wind grows cold.” A clawed finger traces gently along his cheek. “I can relieve you of that loneliness. For a night, anyway. And once you’re sitting high above the silly mortals that infest this plane, casting your judgment down upon them, you’ll remember the devil who granted you a favor and return the kindness.”


    Astarion Ancunín works as a junior prosecutor in Baldur's Gate, but he has dreams of more. He struggles to advance in a city that rewards corruption over hard work. One night, after a summoning ritual goes wrong, opportunity knocks at his door, offering a helping hand. In more ways than one.

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    15 Mar 2026

  2. Rec 3

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    “Of all perches, under another boot is the last I’d expect to find you, Astarion.”
    He took a breath. Drank long from his glass and turned with a smile already in place.
    “Darling. What a lovely surprise.”
    “You look well,” Raphael said, his eyes making a careful inventory from pearly collar to boot. “Lordship agrees with you.”
    “As does disappointment with you.” The words came out before he could stop them. “And those jewels—almost a crown, if one squints.” He gestured toward Raphael's horns.
    “Almost is but the beginning of always.” Raphael smiled.

    Forced to attend a masquerade in the frozen hell of Cania, Ascended Astarion plays his part as Mephistopheles' prized pet. But the tedious affair presents an opportunity in the form of a familiar devil. He and Raphael have a shared ambition, and in the privacy of a forgotten chamber, they forge an alliance.
    A pact sealed not in ink, but in the brutal, desperate confession of their flesh.

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    19 Nov 2025

  3. Rec 19

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    Hope is the cruellest lie a devil can sell, but Astarion bought it anyway.

    A hundred years in the Underdark have left him collecting bounties on feral spawn and drugging himself to sleep. Seven thousand mouths he swore to save, and most of them are dead or worse. When Raphael resurfaces with coin, a map, and the promise of a relic that could fix everything, Astarion follows him into the deepest dark he's ever known.
    Something down there should have stayed buried. So should the kiss.

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    05 Jul 2025

  4. Rec 12

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    “How long?”
    The plug sat exactly where he had set it. The carved obsidian base caught the light when he shifted, just visible between his cheeks, the rest buried deep and holding him open.
    “Since...” Astarion swallowed, his throat clicking.
    “You flee across three districts. You change venues nightly. You make me hunt you through this hole's frozen bowels.”
    “All while wearing me inside.”
    “Since the second night.” His voice dropped. “When you did not come.”
    Raphael stilled. “Since the second night,” he repeated, slow and exact, his thumb tracing Astarion's lower lip and catching on the split he had bitten earlier.
    “I wore it so you could find me. So I would know...” His voice caught. “So I would remember who I belonged to. Even if you never came.”

    The cost of coming for him grows heavier each time.

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    25 Sep 2025

  5. Rec 56

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    A month after the events of Baldur’s Gate 3, the city’s saviours find themselves gathered outside The Devil’s Fee at dusk, summoned by the diabolist Helsik to do a job.

    Their task? Deliver a high-value infernal ‘package’.

    The problem? The package is tall, horned, and winged – and not at all happy about it.

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    05 Jul 2025