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The Devil's Tiefling. Following the murder of her parents when she was 16 and the months of torture she endured immediately afterward, a visit from a hooded devil one night granted her both her revenge and her ability to rage. But unfortunately, it also granted her a contract and a new master to serve. Now, as the hired axe for the King of the Nine Hells, she has spent the last 15 years tracking down contract breakers while trying to find a way to get out of her own.
The Pale Elf. A slave for nearly two centuries to both his sanguine hunger and the master who both saved and damned him. Eyes as red as the blood he craves and a tongue as sharp as the fangs he sprouted, his nights are spent prowling the lesser hovels of Baldur's Gate in search of pretty things to help appease the ever short fuse of his cruel and relentless master.
In an unseen twist of fate, both wake one morning to find themselves captured aboard a mind flayer nautiloid, their skulls now playing host to their infernal illithid parasites. With a ticking time bomb in their heads and a growing threat on the horizon, they realize they have no choice but to trust each other if they have any chance of making it out alive.
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Bite-Sized by bluprismwrites
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), The Borrowers Series - Mary Norton
29 Jan 2025
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Meet Ria, a 10 centimetre tall (4 inches) borrower who is trying her best to survive out in the wilderness of Faerûn without being crushed underfoot, squashed, or eaten. Astarion, weak with hunger, manages to catch a whiff of Ria's scent, and driven by his bloodlust he tracks her down with the intention of eating her. Of course, things get a little complicated when Gale becomes involved.
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AITA for messing with my supervisor’s presentation?
I (M, 350) started a position about 2 weeks ago as a Tutor at the university where I recently graduated. My supervisor (M, 32) let me know he has a very busy schedule and that he would mostly be contacting me by email, which is fine with me. I have still not actually met this man in person.
He did however send me a veeeeery long email talking about himself and how smart and important he is. Okay, maybe not in those exact words but essentially he’s a pretentious jerk.Professor Dekarios can't seem to keep up with his workload, or his troublesome new assistant.
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Second Chances by Quillful (QuillfulWriter) for cryogenia
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Dec 2024
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Wyll expected a lot different from Astarion after he drained Tav. But he was wrong. And since the fighter leading their party couldn't see it, Wyll returned the favor Tav did for him with Karlach. They were a team. Everyone was in this together.
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A Falling Star Fell from Your Heart (and Landed in My Eyes) by thebeebard
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Dec 2024
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“How old were you when you were turned?” You ask gently, hoping the push doesn’t cause him to shut down and dawn the mask once again. Every crack in his façade makes you want to peer behind those walls all the more.
“I’m…not sure, to be honest,” he says after a pause.
You stare back at the fire, contemplating. You don’t want to push too far and lose this moment, but something is dawning on you. Even the youngest elven city officials you’d heard about were old enough to have outlived most of their human colleagues twice over. Humans are notoriously bad at estimating the ages of longer-living races, often having trouble telling between even a one hundred year old and a two hundred year old. For an elf to be young enough for most humans to realize they even were young…
“Astarion is still your child name, isn’t it,” you say, more a statement of fact than a question.
Another pause.
“...yes. Yes it is.”
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- Part 1 of Starsong
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That part was easy. Imagining purity, imagining walking into a new life clean, imagining answering the pain of loss with losing even the reason to care. The hard part came with the world outside of his mind and all the rules that had to be followed. He had to survive and to take joy from living. Any long term plans had to be tossed aside to keep the fire burning in the present.
Alternatively; the long and turbulent process of relationships, distance and Astarion getting his undeath un-done. With complications
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Astarion drained Tav, and he thought for certain the fighter would be furious. And he was. But not how the vampire spawn expected.
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Astarion had been entombed for years now.
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The desire to leave this place was always strongest in these moments. It was single minded, heavy, it choked his throat and squeezed his chest, he felt full to bursting with this desire. He felt empty. No amount of begging, pleading, or screaming had helped before but still he managed to choke out a single word between useless hiccupping breaths.
"Please."
For the first time someone answered.
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Written for the prompt in AI-Less Whumptober, this is a microcosm of suffering for Astarion at the hands of Cazador and Godey. Mind the tags and read safely!
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- Part 9 of Whumptober Works
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Injuries Unseen, Habits Formed by Quillful (QuillfulWriter)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Oct 2024
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Halsin can't always tell when he's hurt, and it starts a fight between him and Astarion. The vampire spawn still struggles to express softer feelings without sharper words.
A/N: The rape/non-con warning is a safety net because it refers to their backstories. Read safely!
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- Part 8 of Whumptober Works
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But the rest of him was buried, buried, buried, the unshakeable fear of a recurring nightmare, of having been once again left to starve for twelve moons, curled on one side in the unfeeling embrace of marble, death and ancient mould his only companions.
astarion gets buried in a cave-in. staeve digs him out, and deals with the aftermath.
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- Part 7 of staeve multiverse
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It had been a long time since Sebastian went to the Underdark. Astarion figured it was only fair to see how he was doing, and perhaps give the man a chance to properly curse his name. Another heroic deed to help counter what he'd been forced to do as Cazador's spawn.
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- Part 1 of Sebastian and Astarion
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The outcome of the fight against Cazador can alter the course of Astarion's life forever. No matter what he chooses, the half-elf bard Rayna will stand by his side. The party fights for their life to free Astarion from the ritual, from Cazador's evil clutches...but what happens if the vampire lord sets his sights on Rayna?
A short 'what if' scenario that I couldn't stop thinking about until I wrote it down.
I don't own Baldur's Gate or anything related to it. I just like writing about the hot vampire man. Thank you Larian Studios and Wizards of the Coast for your service.
Thanks everyone for reading!
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Astarion awakes from a nightmare and needs to test out a theory of his. He never expected that you would wake up, nor did he expect the effect you would have on him.
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Cazador has been defeated. but why is there a spawn locked inside a room off of his own, far away from others?
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Two Rescues at Baldur's Gate Harbor by atlanas_e_kildarin, Skyla Ladona (atlanas_e_kildarin)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
22 Mar 2024
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Gular doesn't want to hurt anyone anymore. But even if he doesn't want to, he will forever be compelled to murder. In an attempt to free himself from the Urge, he jumps into Baldur's Gate Harbor.
But a bystander with their own unwanted compulsions steps in to save him.TLDR
Astarion saves The Dark Urge’s life before the game begins.Series
- Part 1 of Turning Ever Towards the Dark
- Part 1 of A Druid, a Cleric, and a Paladin Walk into a Bar
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Caught in Rage: Ruthless by mungeondisaster (Orphic_Gaze)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Mar 2024
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CAN BE READ AS A STAND-ALONE. NO SPOILERS FOR THE MAIN FIC (just the game)
A wretched series of snippets following the first 90~ years of Astarion as a spawn. I wrote this as another companion piece to the main story of this series, intended to help put a timeline to events with the lore and dialogue provided, which were littered with some conflicting inconsistencies. I dabble here with the trope of sire bonds, but only to the extent that I think makes sense. I tried to cover some of the main points of what we know of Astarion's backstory, and made a lot of inferences along the way.
There is no romance in this. No sweetness.
This is NOT a fun read. It is not even a necessary one. The main story can be enjoyed with or without reading this piece. You will not miss anything related to plot by skipping this installment. I did include some relevant world events that Astarion would have been alive for, to show the contrast of all the things he missed while he spent trapped as Cazador's spawn.
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- Part 4 of Goddess Stained
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“I may be your spawn, but you forget—I was Bhaalspawn first.”
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Fuelled by newly-acquired power, Astarion seems to have overestimated his own authority. Mýre tires of it.or
The missing third option in response to Astarion's ascended arrogance and self-importance: durge edition.
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Not every artist has a muse, but for Nulihn, their work is almost entirely centered around theirs. They don’t know his story or even his name. As far as they know, though, he’s a character that their mind created when they were fifteen. Yet somehow, the pale elf of their art and the glimpses they see in their head feels more than that. He feels like a person.
Struggling with migraines isn’t an uncommon thing for Astarion. It’s something that he’s been dealing with all this life. He tries to hide it, to mask what he’s feeling, to not let anyone see any weakness that he has. It’s usually easy to put a practiced smile on his face, but there are… certain migraines. When they come, he can only hope that he only hears a tune being played in the background or sees a reassuring and gentle smile. He doesn’t want to lose himself in the others.
Neither had any idea that the other existed until a small art show in a bookshop called Tara’s brought them together.
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Everyone's favorite vampire gets a taste for something other than blood.