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As if nights in the shadow cursed lands aren’t hard enough, Gyn now has to also face a horrifying reality: if she can’t control it, then her murderous Urge will take the life of the one she cares for most.
But she has one chance. One desperate hope for another way out of this.
There may be no stopping the Urge this night…
But maybe it could be diverted…Act 2 kill your sweetheart scene but with Tav as a redirected target.
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She Awoke In Moonlight by MissArthurTelperion
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
16 Dec 2024
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Adding and filling out some scenes of my Durge playthrough; inspired to write by a couple fics here, my friend, and even more by my partner.
Drow Durge with no memory and a troubled attitude towards violence is befriended against her will.
Grudingly she'll become an inspiring leader and maybe save some lives.Series
- Part 1 of She Awoke In Moonlight
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Whispers of Scarlet and Midnight Blooms by SakakiHaruna12
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
15 Dec 2024
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Shadowheart sees him as a godless, traitorous, and highly dangerous heretic who abandoned his oaths for power—a bloodthirsty Oathbreaker unworthy of trust. She should never allow herself to be allied with the likes of him.
Balehrys views her as a self-serving, deceitful, and manipulative worshipper of Shar—a bloody Sharran filled with her Lady’s darkness and secrets. Even with his tattered oaths and his dark urges, he knew she was dangerous. He ought to kill the likes of her.
Yet, he saves her life, and she joins him on a perilous journey for a cure. All despite their mutual mistrust and own prejudices against each other. And neither of them knew that both of them would eventually set each other free.
Spoilers for the following quests: Dark Urge and Game Storyline Acts 1-3, Shadowheart Personal Storyline
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"You don't know what it was like. There was no way out. Once, in the first decade of my slavery, I found a darling boy that I couldn't bear to bring back to him. So I ran instead of hurting that sweet man. After Cazador caught me, the bastard sealed me starving inside of a dusty tomb." - Astarion Act III after the fight with his siblings.
Astarion knows him, he just doesn't know if it's a trick. A very bad trick being played on him. The fic deals heavily with the events of the game, and how they slowly relearn each other.
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Lives, such fragile little things. Isha wondered as she spied the strange people from her corner in the rocks. They shined brightly with hope amidst a dark storm, and like a candle in the wind, they could be snuffed out so easily. All it would take was a small knife plunging into them again and again, and again, and again, and again.
Isha shivered and pressed a cold hand to her own neck, squeezing until the thoughts escaped her mind, and her breath escaped her lungs.
Isha didn’t just think that something was wrong with her, she knew it, could feel it…
And it hungered.
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- Part 3 of Moonlight Burning the Flower
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Micareyl hates those like Alystin.
The fact that she's forced to work with a thinblood is bad enough, without the tadpoles in the others' heads, too. Worse yet, she's growing used to Alystin's presence, the one who dares to question Lolth while simultaneously trying to learn the culture. She's growing used to it, and things she's always known suddenly seem less certain. She beings to care about others, nonetheless. Why her, of all people?
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She is so like you, but makes you feel so unlike yourself.
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Empty/Stolen Memories and Dark Secrets by SwiggitieSwootie
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
10 Dec 2024
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A series of snapshots expanding upon Shadowheart's romance arc throughout Act 1 to Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3. Follows the same somewhat slowburn vibe whilst retaining more of her witty wisecracking side. Using Tav/Durge interchangeably/same character.
(Shadowheart relentlessly bullying as flirtation but he lowkey deserves it.)
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The Blood Whispers by Flevir
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
09 Dec 2024
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Blood sorcerer aasimar Durge crash lands with a traumatized vampire spawn, and everything circles the drain from there. But then flowers grow from the drain. And those flowers are a polycule. Or in other words, what if the Dark Urge was literally inhabited by evil blood that wants out and one of the only ways to stay in control is to remove that blood. Vampires can help with that.
Everything was a blur in her mind, her own sense of self fractured along with her memories. The pieces were jagged when she tried to put them together, cutting her mind in sharp angles and making her vision swim in a maroon haze. It was frustrating, not being able to contribute to the conversations around her, isolated from these others, barely feeling like a person at the best of times, and more like a beast at others. The only time her body felt alive was when she would leap into battle, the bloodlust settling in like the skin she just realized she was missing. Most of them hadn't noticed the shift in her when she fought, or they didn't care, but there was one. One who was watching her even now.
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Shadowheart bit back a gasp, and stared at the back of Isha’s head, who was shamelessly walking away. It wasn’t the first time, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last that Isha would somehow make her clash internally between swooning over her lover, and ripping her clothes off.
But then again. They had company.
Shadowheart was delighted to see Jaheira. She truly was. But Isha had a promise to keep, and this would only get in the way.
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- Part 2 of Moonlight Burning the Flower
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Tav returns from Avernus to take his place at Shadowheart's side, but the past proves harder than the Hells to leave behind.
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Something is wrong in the mind of the Lloth-sworn.
The half-elf feels it. The Vampire knows it.
Regardless, they need each other.
Perhaps more than they'd like to admit.
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The damage Isha had done to the Netherbrain was immense, and without it being so crippled, no one would have survived that day. But the effort had crippled Isha in turn.
Gale had examined her after the dust of the battle had settled, and confirmed Shadowheart’s fears. No mind that wasn’t at least partially Illithid was supposed to connect to the hivemind, and it was only because Isha was literally born from a god that she wasn’t killed outright from the feedback effect. But something had buckled in Isha’s mind when she fought the Netherbrain, and no amount of time or magic could heal it.
Somedays it would manifest as a stutter, and Isha would struggle to finish a sentence, or she wouldn't even be able to say a word, even as her mouth moved to speak them. Other times it arrived as it had now, in sudden, often violent seizures.
On good days, it would just remain in her hands. On bad days…
Well… they were called bad days for a reason.
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- Part 1 of Moonlight Burning the Flower
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- English
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- 2,451
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 22
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- 268
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You should kill them, said the voice of bloodlust which nested within his mind. Rake your knife through their sweet flesh, trace rivers down the lines of their veins...
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In which Durge is a gentle giant dragonborn and is immediately overprotective of Shadowheart.
Rated mature for descriptions of gore and violence.
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Ilara started out wanting her own freedom, and continuously sacrificed it to save the people she cares for- somehow always fumbling everything in the process.
Was it worth it?
Can she save any of them still?
Can she even save herself?
-- the second and final half of the story about a Bhaal-spawn who is only trying to figure out what freedom, choices, power, and love even mean.--
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- Part 3 of Daisies On My Nightstand
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Exile (Or: How you learned to stay) by astarionfreak
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Nov 2024
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You turned away from everyone after defeating the Netherbrain. You spiraled out of control. Then, at your very lowest, Astarion, the Vampire Ascendant, found you. You gave him everything. But your heart still belongs to Shadowheart -- and Astarion will never let you go.
You kiss him like you need him. You grab him like you’re holding on for your life. He returns the favor.
Your lips are moving against his, but you’re thinking about her.
Her hands on your hips, not his. Her mouth on your lips. The way she whispered your name as you held each other in the dark.
But she’s not here. He is.
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Wyll Ravengard, the righteous only son of a duke who was all too quick to cast him aside when he misstepped. Aedith the Black, scion of Bhaal and bather in blood, misplaced and forsaken for casting her gaze too high when it should have been at her feet.
Stranger alliances have formed. How far will one go for the other when an expanse of ideals, deception, and expectation lies between them?
(What's better than a devil you don't know? A devil you do.)
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The Cult of the Absolute tadpoled thousands of people across the Sword Coast in the years leading up to the Absolute Crisis. When our titular hero awoke aboard the nautiloid, they were one of dozens who were unfortunate enough to be abducted that day - but what if there were others who survived long enough to stumble into the Emperor's protection, and join Tav on their fateful journey?
Chapter prompts drawn from Whumptober and Fictober fic challenges, chapters tagged with specific trigger warnings. Relationships to come.
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An unlikely coalition of unfortunate souls destined for lives apart are bound together by the most unusual of circumstances... and parasites. A Lost warrior attempts to ascend to greater fame and glory; A Tiefling who never stopped running since Elturel and an apoplectic amnesiac overcome with violent impulses are just a few of a strange band of adventurers. Despite all their flaws, quirks, and grievances, they will band together and unknowingly become the best chance at saving the distant Baldur's Gate and Faerun itself from total domination.
- Language:
- English
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- 5,806
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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- 36
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The story was meant to center on Tav or the Dark Urge, possibly intersecting if fate allowed. Yet, with the possibility of an unknown force intervening, she was not Tav, but she did rewrite their story.
(A revision of my old fic, many thanks to Rosa for volunteer to be the Beta reader)