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Ninox Ryrrl, amnesiac dragonborn sorcerer, and a party of other illithid infected victims draw ever closer to Moonrise Towers, the place they have been told holds the key to their infection, and the seat of power of new god, The Absolute. But the trials of the Shadow Cursed Lands, the horrors of Moonrise Towers, the twisted games of a devil, the legacy of the victims hundred years of twisted divine cruelty, and each of their own dark pasts may at last prove to be too much for them.
Ninox snarls and shoves Astarion away from him, hard. The elf stumbles, hitting the wall of the small wash gully with a sickening crack, even as Ninox is scrambling away from him, from it, stumbling over his own feet, falling against the wall of soil and stone, then slipping, stumbling, landing on his chest hard enough the wind leaves him. There’s shouting from somewhere nearby, but Ninox can’t focus on that. He has to get away from Astarion before he does something, before he is -
This is my retelling of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate, with my Dark Urge, combined with my own head-cannon and world building.
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- Part 2 of HIC SVNT DRACONES
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Astarion heard Gale swallow thickly and then he could smell it. Lust. Sweet and fragrant. The wizard's gaze flicked down to his mouth.
All at once everything fell into place.
Of course he wouldn't take him to his bedroom and tell him to strip.
The wizard possessed something Cazador had never had: Manners.
He’d chosen a far more subtle approach that left Astarion the comforting illusion of free will. The trap hadn’t been as crude as food and shelter. No, Astarion had been accruing a far less obvious debt. The library card. The suddenly tuned piano. The bottles of bergamot and rosemary oil that had found a way into his bathroom. The glasses. The ring. A debt he had never agreed to, but still it had built.
Anyone could tell what the wizard wanted in payment.Waterdeep will be many things for Astarion. A place to rest. A place to heal. A place to figure out what the fuck he wants to do with his life now.
It will also be a place of endless frustration with a wizard who refuses to collect on his debts and a stranger he can not keep himself from returning to.
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Midwinter with his father had always seemed so magical when he was a boy. The city full of lights, the manor decked to the nines in decor. Feasts and balls, markets and gifts. It might be nice to experience that again. To meet back up with the extended family he hadn't seen in nearly a decade now and stopped considering reaching out to. It would be even nicer to share it with Astarion.
Or Wyll and Astarion face their first Midwinter in Toril since Wyll and Ulder's reunion.
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Tav, a nonbinary Drow bard, encounters Astarion late one night in Baldur's Gate. Their subsequent abduction by mind flayers brings them back together as they try to reckon with their pasts, their present, and their future as the world around them spirals toward oblivion.
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An Astarion focused post-canon fic that is going to go places(tm). Do you like vampire spawn? We got vampire spawn.
Starts off not that long after the victory over the brain, sadly Karlach flipped a soul coin and decided to burn up instead of going on a romantic Avernus trip with Astarion, so now he's trying to figure out how to be a person all on his own.
You can see the tags, he's not really on his own. This is a good thing, despite his whining. Other ships might or might not occur, we shall see where the narrative takes us!
latest chapter: Astarion gives Gale a bit of a tour of the city at night, very quickly they just end up in one bar.
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At the parties first night at an Inn, Astarion deals with how little they've changed and how much he has
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After a piece of prey slips through his fingers, Astarion decides to play a longer game to lure in this shiny new victim. It's routine, nothing he hasn't done a hundred times before. But that all changes when Cazador orders his spawn to retrieve a mysterious magical artifact, no matter the cost, with a tantalizing reward promised to whoever succeeds.
For once, Astarion is blessed with a stroke of luck: his shiny new victim is after the same artifact and may be closer to its retrieval than Cazador. Do the hard work of tracking it down himself? Not really Astarion's style. Let his new victim do it and steal the artifact from her at the last moment? Oh, absolutely.
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A Warm House, A Ruddy Fire by DepravedJJJSchmidt (JJJSchmidt)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Oct 2024
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Cazador was fond of giving Astarion a little taste of something soft, before he tore it away again.
Astarion had mistaken that deceptive gentleness for affection, in the beginning. When he’d still had hope that this marriage would be anything other than a living hell.
Mr. and Mrs. Cazador Szarr have an ideal marriage. Astarion doesn't know if he will be able to survive another year of it.
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Prof. Halsin Silverbough (Ecologist) and Prof. Astarion Ancunín (law and human rights) navigate a new friendship amid dramas surrounding the old Reithwin mine. While Dr. Gale Dekarios (physicist, and literature professor) and Ta’veren Bhaal (literature post-doc) tip-toe across darkness towards freedom… bringing their entire library with them.
A story about love, hope, neurodivergence, and the quest for safety. For in safety lies freedom.
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Even beyond the edge of his world Astarion finds his limits far surpass him.
Though Astarion isn't the only one who Cazador deemed fit to punish.
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- Part 4 of Suncatcher & Comet
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What to do when a spider gets caught in its own web?
And how does freedom taste when it still has the flavor of chains?
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- Part 3 of Suncatcher & Comet
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Chapter II. Potion of Everlasting Vigor by SardonicWhimsy
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Sep 2024
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Astarion's survival is put to the mettle with an encounter of a black widow.
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- Part 2 of Suncatcher & Comet
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As the pariah of the family, Astarion knew the toll meant to pay for these mistakes. Even if he begged for it, mercy would not come.
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- Part 1 of Suncatcher & Comet
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— Иногда я представляю о том, как это может быть, — продолжает вампир, и тени в сумеречной комнате делают его холоднее.
Эстель выдыхает, делает несколько шагов вперёд. Ковролин делает поступь крадущейся. В этом есть какая-то игра. Фантазия, которая могла бы сбыться.
— Смотреть на всех свысока? Решать чужие судьбы?
Голос его мнимо кроткий. На сегодняшнюю ночь правит бал Астарион, Эстель — лишь очаровательный компаньон, правая рука или, если угодно, консорт.
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Astarion's undead existence as the spawn of the vampire lord Cazador is a miserable thing. On a dangerously cold winter's night, he picks out a new mark named Tav, who's sweet and lovely. He lets himself pretend that he could be with her. That he could sweep her off her feet and kiss her gently. He knows he's lying to himself. She only has a few days left to live, though. What's the harm in letting himself have this one thing?
The last time he sees her is the night of her death at Cazador's hands.
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As he comes closer, his eyes catch on a figure with warm brown skin and hair so white it's almost glowing in the sun. She's resting now, with eyes closed. This -- well, it could be anyone. There was only one person in the world with Tav's eyes: ice-blue, cold, and so piercing that they can look into one's very soul.
Her eyes open.
They catch with his, and there's nothing else -- not Lae'zel or Shadowheart, not the tieflings, not the druids, not the threat of the tadpole. He thinks, helplessly, that even like this, with her hair matted and her clothes worn-through, she is stunning. Irreplaceable.
Tav is alive. Tav is here. Tav is also infected.
Ah. Fuck.
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With an Eye for an Eye, Everyone's Blind by orphan_account
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Aug 2024
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Baldur's Gate is the city of wonder, of opportunity, and an epicenter of world-ending disasters. Lade is just a humble little shopkeeper, running the place alone with only a little specter for company...
Until he gets abducted by mindflayers, and the simple life he so desperatley tried to hold on to is on the verge of shattering, and the secrets kept in the shadows are a sliver away from being unearthed.
“Lade. Your name is Lade.” Shadowheart pauses, “So your parents are stupid, and you as well. Wonderful!”
“Hey,” he snipes back, “I have a very good name. What’s the name of your twin?”
“My twin-? Oh for the love of Shar, you’re concussed. How did I not notice?”
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Wren had never considered themself a particularly kind or decent person. It wasn’t really a factor in their line of work, members of the Thieves Guild had two primary jobs, killing and stealing. And tonight, they were hoping they would only be doing one of those things. It was a simple job, they didn’t even have backup waiting for them. They stared at the wall of the Szarr manor, their arms folded over each other, tapping their foot, swishing their tail back and forth. It was a calm, windless night, city patrol would pass soon, allowing the tiefling a window to leave the shadows and do their job.
(Or a fun-ish little idea I had over a rogue!Tav stealing something from Cazador's manor, seeing Astarion getting hurt and getting the urge to be a hero.)
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- Part 2 of You Picked the Lock to My Heart
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Gale has almost everything he could ever want- a well-funded student position at a prestigious university, a beloved cat, and an astrophysics doctoral advisor who also happens to be his lover. His future as a wildly successful professor is all but assured. He just needs to succeed at presenting his newest analysis at the biggest astrophysics conference on the East Coast, and he'll have the resources to start his own lab and develop a Theory of Everything.
What he doesn't understand is Mystra's refusal to let him branch into quantum physics. He's certain, though, that she'll come around once he proves his abilities in the field.
And what does the mysterious, charming, and possibly insane man that just moved into his spare bedroom have to do with all this, anyway?
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Astarion has had enough of this “party”. He picks up the bag with supplies he prepared earlier and makes for the woods. Passing the last torch, he pauses to take one more look at the camp, just in time for another burst of fireworks. Lit by all the colors of the rainbow, Talven stands on his own near the bonfire. Their eyes meet. Talven smiles at first, then grows serious. He points at his eyes, and then at Astarion. I see you.
Astarion’s stomach flips.
When was the last time his stomach flipped with anything but dread?
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- Part 5 of Danse Macabre
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Astarion Ancunín is alone again. Abandoned by his allies, Gale dead in the Netherbrain fight. All he wants is the sun. Then the offer comes - a tenday of contracted servitude to Raphael in return for the ring he desires. All he has to do is retrieve a little lost property, acquire a few things, and survive Raphael's attentions. Simple.