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Meleth Nestadui - The Dancer by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Jun 2026
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One-and-a-half years after the fall of the Elderbrain, Rolim and Astarion have settled into a life of quiet domestic bliss.
Rolim is working with a talented druid to confront the scars of his past, though the progress is painfully slow—until the healer suggests that Astarion join the sessions.With new tools to help them navigate the delicate terrain of Rolim's desires, the couple begins a deeper journey of healing and discovery together.
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How to be mortal by ShandoraTheExplorer for Isntthatrightzach
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Jun 2026
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Rolim is mortal again, with all the joys and woes that come with it.
It means feeling the sun on his skin again, breathing again, feeling his own heartbeat! It means tasting food once more—and discovering, to his horror, that he’s allergic to shellfish and can’t have dairy.
But worst of all...
It means having periods and getting sick again.
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Months after the conclusion of the Szarr Trials, Rolim is still recovering from the toll the Wish Spell took on his body when the council finally reaches a decision about the fate of Cazador's palace.
A visit to the construction site should be nothing special. Instead, it leads to an encounter he never could have anticipated.
Meanwhile, Vincent is struggling to find his place in a world free of cages. After two centuries of vampirism, freedom is both exhilarating and unsettling, leaving him adrift and without purpose.
Neither of them knows it yet, but that chance meeting is about to change everything.
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A Song of Dawn and Silver by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
18 May 2026
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Eight years.
It took Domino eight years to stay sober for more than a few months at a time. Now, fourteen months clean, he's preparing to return to the city where it all began.
Baldur's Gate—where a nosy, one-eyed bard once warned him to lay off the liquor lest a mind flayer found the last scraps of his grey matter worth eating.
Domi had dismissed him as another bleeding-heart know-it-all.
But the bard had been right. So Domi got help. He got sober.
And now he's going back to find him.
To say thank you.
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Why bone broth, Mama? by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
16 May 2026
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A snowstorm plagues the Plains. It's of such a magnitude that not even Syndra can command it to stop. The wind rattles their sturdy tent while inside lies Haryk, sick with the flu.
"Why bone broth, Mama?" Elasha asks.
"Because sick people can't always have solid food," Syndra answers. "But they still need energy to battle their sickness. This helps with that."
Elasha nods, watching as their mother tilts the bowl toward Haryk's lips.
Her brother swallows the hearty liquid, and his breathing slowly evens out into the calm rhythm of slumber.
"Put some more wood into the fireplace, dearest."
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Prophetverse | Astarion is a mortal elf Magistrate, Rolim (Tav) is Caz's Spawn by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Original Work
14 Jun 2026
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The story of Rolim (Tav) and his friends and family.
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Prophetverse AUs by FishindoMai, ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
14 May 2026
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Dora the Vampire Durge by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
05 Mar 2026
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Kilrai the Cambion Durge | The Bronze Devil. by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Jan 2026
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The Absolute has been defeated, the crisis averted. But there is more to rebuild than just the city of Baldur's Gate. Countless minds have been broken, countless hearts injured, including that of the former Archduke. When the dethroned tyrant finds his way into a therapist's office, he is pushed to explore parts of himself that he had once expertly hidden. But will they help him to heal and move forward? Or will they simply stoke his hatred?
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14 Jun 2026
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I'm told my father once declared that he'd prayed to every single god, and none had answered. Lucky asshole, because one keeps answering me. Won't leave me the fuck alone, actually, no matter how far I run or how loud I beg him to stop.
A bhaalspawn returns to the Gate, 80 years after the brain fell, 10 years after Jaheira died, and 2 years after she started finding herself suddenly standing over dead bodies, missing hours or days worth of memories.
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19 May 2026
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“Hells below, Wyll, not everything is about your precious soul,” Mizora says with a huff. She arches one brow, looking him over with faint disdain. “Even if I wanted your mangy, chewed-up soul, it’s not yours to give.”
Wyll keeps his face impassive, but a dreadful foreboding creeps along his skin, making his hair stand on end. “Meaning?”
Wyll Ravengard loves Astarion. In the five years since he claimed the omega as his mate, he’s experienced joy beyond anything he ever thought possible. Duke, husband, father; Wyll wears these titles happily, proud to serve the city he loves, and to raise his son alongside the elf he could never let go. Marriage is work, especially when your husband is the Vampire Ascendant, but, despite the challenges, the past five years have been nothing short of blissful.
But there are things he doesn’t know. Things that will shake the foundations of the life he’s built with Astarion to the ground. Can they rebuild from wreckage once the truth becomes known?
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- Part 2 of Lovefool
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Gale returns to Waterdeep with Tav and Astarion to find a cure for vampirism. If Gale were to become Mystra’s Chosen again, he could cure Astarion himself. What they should definitely not do – according to Gale – is consult his old classmate, Evelyn, a necromancer who casts with the Shadow Weave. Unfortunately for Gale, Tav and Astarion are determined to seek her out.
Evelyn, meanwhile, has never explored the full extent of her magic. Embracing the Shadow Weave cost her dearly, and she fears there will be more to pay. Nevertheless she’ll do her best to help Astarion, even if it means working with Gale, for whom her feelings are… complicated.
***If you like two people who are clearly down bad for each other, but have to work through their hang-ups first, this is for you! Despite angsty moments, this is a light-hearted tale of romance and adventure.***
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06 May 2026
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Yet I feel desire
Deep craving—heat
Hunger
And I fear the day I may
have no choice but to
let it feed.Gortash stared at the poem, at a complete loss for words. And for emotions. And then, the smug grin tugged at his lips. ... She could claim all she wanted that she was no longer the girl he lay in that graveyard with all those years ago. It was clear that in ways, she indeed was.
Durge could talk all she wanted about being nothing but a scion of Bhaal ... and claim until she ran out of breath that it was all she was, all she would ever be...
Ophelia the poet, the lover of life and nature, and the girl who craved a soft touch was still alive in there. And she wanted him.
Gortash tightened his fist around the parchment, crumpling it as he held it to his chest and stared out the tower window, still grinning.
And he wanted her.
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The pre-canon backstory of my Durge, Ophelia. For all the devotion she thinks she should have to Bhaal, she is just as equally full of female rage and desire to be free and to love the childhood friend who treated her like a person when no one else did.
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- Part 1 of Haunted One - Main