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30 Dec 2024
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No Paths Are Bound by Cataclysmic_Calamity
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Sep 2022
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Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.
Faith.
His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.
"I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.
I remember you.
I remember you.
I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.
(A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)
(MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE)
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- Part 1 of MXTX - Retellings
- Part 1 of No Paths Are Bound + Extras
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- 152/152
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23 Jul 2024
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A series of stories taking place in an alternate version of BG3, where Wyll and Astarion met seven years before the events of the game -- when Wyll received Astarion as a present for his seventeenth birthday.
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21 Mar 2024
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14 Mar 2024
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With this new sensation, this beautiful sight, he has been distracted from noticing something was missing.
Something has been absent since the worm entered his eye.
The voice, Cazador’s voice. It’s gone.
It’s gone.
It’s gone.
Astarion reels up to his feet, stumbling on the uneven ground in his fine shoes.
Even in his dreams, even in the deepest of trances, Astarion can feel Cazador. The orders, the rules, that tug in his gut that pulls him, like a fish on a hook, back to the palace when he wanders too far. But it’s quiet.
Astarion’s head has never had more physical occupants but has never been so quiet.
His world hasn’t been this foreign in nearly 200 years, but that's what makes him realize with extreme clarity.
Astarion is wide awake.
AKA: Astarion finds himself far from home, safer than he's been in centuries, yet in more danger than ever. If he's going to keep this scrap of freedom he's going to need to fight for it, and he's going to need protection. Thankfully, a war criminal from the hells seems to fancy him. Best of all? She can’t be touched.
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11 Feb 2024
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caught between the dark and the dreaming by Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Jan 2024
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Marcus holds the goblet up, still stinking with klauthgrass, and ponders them, clutched in the wretched claws of his undead monsters. "Well," he says, and smiles. "If you will not willingly drink it, I have a manner of encouragement."
And then he raises his dagger, pricks his own wrist until scarlet pools over his pale skin, and lets blood drip into the goblet.
Before he can help it, Astarion stiffens.
Astarion has spent two hundred years with truth as a bitter enemy. Fitting, then, that his choice to say it is taken from him.
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27 Jan 2024
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"They were an unorthodox group, Shadowheart had to admit; people from very different backgrounds and lifestyles, all forced together due to the mutual desire for survival. Trust was spread thin between them, but the awareness that they needed each other was very much present. The parasite infection that they all shared bound them together, if nothing else, though whether anything else would come of their shared time was still yet to be seen."
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The slow bonding and eventual shenanigans that take place in and out of camp among Team Tadpole. (There is no Tav in this fic, just the origin gang)
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13 Jan 2024
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The Sands will Rise, the Heavens will Part by soveranthur
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Feb 2024
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Hidden in the sands of the Anauroch Desert is a treasure beyond imagining and a mystery 3000 years in the making. But when a ragtag team is gathered to go and uncover it, will this lost and ancient place be the find of their lifetimes... or just their graves?
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(Yes, it is a The Mummy 1999 but make it Shadowzel AU)
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30 Dec 2023
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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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27 Dec 2023
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Astarion: HAHA! I manipulated and tricked you all into liking me and never abandoning me!
The Party: By making well-balanced decisions that met the needs of the group while helping us accomplish our short-term goals and listening to us talk when we were upset and stuff? Despite the fact you didn't always want to do that?
Astarion: Wait....
The Party: That's just friendship, stupid.
AKA: A collection of things that ostensibly happen in the same little mental universe. Loosely based on the events of an Origin Astarion run and the various questions it inspired. Not published in sequential order, but ordered somewhat by the narrative timeline.
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20 Dec 2023
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Caught in Rage, Goddess Stained by mungeondisaster (Orphic_Gaze)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Dec 2024
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[COMPLETE]
A retelling.
“How … likely is it we can chalk this up to a naughty dream?”
Dropping her hands to her lap, she squints at him. “Well, now that you’ve said it—not very likely.”
He’s still half on her bedroll where’s she’d left him, propped up on one arm, other hand massaging at his throat. It takes her a while to process the wariness in his eyes—a length of time where her silent observation of him only seems to heighten his unease.
Just to be thorough, she briefly touches her fingers to either side of her throat. When she feels only smooth skin, she sighs again, shaking her head.
“… What are you going to do?” Astarion asks in a low and quiet voice, evidently having followed her—soundlessly in the way she knows he can be when he wants to. “What are you … What are you going to tell them?”
Last Edited: April 18, 2025 (punctuation, some typos, and so many missed capital 'H's iykyk)
Rated for graphic depictions of Violence, Trauma, Trauma-related subjects, Sex and a potentially triggering sexual encounter.
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- Part 1 of Caught in Rage, Goddess Stained
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- English
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- 629,556
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- 92/92
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20 Dec 2023
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If the Cross on the Door Doesn't Scare You by Aylwyyn228
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Jul 2024
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There was a problem with Astarion.
Well, in all likelihood, there were quite a few problems with Astarion.
He was abrasive and flippant and self-serving, and Gale was in no doubt that his quick fingers were skimming at least a little out of whatever chests Tav had him picking.
Oh, and there was the fact that he was a vampire. Yes, there was that little detail.
Or, Astarion getting outed by the shadow-cursed lands.
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- Part 1 of Holes in your Coffin
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- English
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- 19,113
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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20 Dec 2023
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With Their Hearts Still Intact by CassioP
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Oct 2023
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The War of Wrath rages, mortals and immortals have united against the might of Angband, the fate of Beleriand is changing day by day…
And in the midst of it, Elrond, overworked healer’s apprentice and recently of age, is simply trying to do his best.
Trying to put his secret, burdensome past behind him. Trying to serve his new King faithfully despite their increasingly complicated relationship. Trying not to dwell on the recent painful fallout between him and his twin brother Elros.
Maglor’s message changes all of that.
Featuring: scheming and treachery of all kinds, embarrassing crushes, the power of friendship, and one highly illegal midnight excursion.
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20 Dec 2023
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Old enough to learn by unknownlifeform
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 May 2023
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Gil-Galad has a conversation with one of his young Half-Elf cousins, during which Elrond learns some things and Gil-Galad tries to wrap his mind around Half-Elf aging rates
Written for Aspec Arda Week 2023
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20 Dec 2023
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Why can I not care? by caeciliusestinforo
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Jun 2023
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After Elrond attempts to find Maglor in the aftermath of the war of wrath, Gil-Galad forbids him from doing so again and the two have an argument that results in mild treason and a little attempted murder.
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20 Dec 2023
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He sees a red glint in the darkness and Astarion leaps up, nearly stumbling over his injured ankle.
He almost falls back into the hearth, his fingers catching himself on the mantle, his foot hitting something metal. He reaches down, fingers scrambling to grab the fire poker, holding it out in front of himself even as his hands shake.
“Master—” Astarion gasps, and what does he hope to do against him? He should have never picked up a weapon, never should have run in the first place—Cazador will make make him regret it, will break him in a way Astarion hadn’t even thought was possible—
The figure shifts and Astarion can’t breathe as it walks further into the room, now lit by the warmth of the fire.
It is not his master that Astarion sees.
(Or, Astarion escapes from his master. He finds a devil in the process.)
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- Part 25 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
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20 Dec 2023
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After Zuko's Agni Kai with Ozai and he learns of his banishment, Zuko flees the Fire Nation afraid, confused, and alone, leaving his uncle behind who has a chance to grow close to Azula. Zuko understands much sooner that his father never loved him and finds himself in an Earth Kingdoms forest surrounded by boys who want to free their kingdom from the Fire Nation. Zuko joins the Freedom Fighters claiming to be a nonbender from the Earth Kingdoms, growing in confidence in himself. When it is reveled that he is a firebenders, Jet is forced to understand not all members of the Fire Nation are war mongers and both boys are significantly less angsty when the Gaang shows up.
THIS HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED AND RESTARTED, LEAVING IT UP DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND
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24 May 2021
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Jaskier, the Boy Witcher by Pineapplemoon
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
04 Jan 2022
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"I get to watch you grow up now
And make me proud
Make all of the mistakes that make me laugh
Oh darling lord how you make me laugh
Get drunk for me, sing louder than you've sung for me
Grow young each time that thunder in
Your lungs begins to rumble at the world" -Welly Boots, The Amazing Devil******
What if, instead of meeting in Posada at eighteen, Jaskier meets Geralt when he's nine in a little town called Blaviken.
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- Part 1 of Soldier, Poet, King
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10 Nov 2020
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i cannot find the words (to keep you) by tyirie
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
23 Jan 2022
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Geralt meets Jaskier once again. The bard is as loud and insufferable, as Geralt remembers him, but.
But.
Something is amiss.
(can be read as stand-alone)
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- Part 2 of i’ve been waiting for you to come home
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04 Nov 2020