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Confessions Beneath the Stars by ShadowViking for Kalaide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Jun 2026
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Not far from Creche Y'llek, Gale sits near the edge of a ravine contemplating what to do about Mystra's directive on using the orb. But as he stares at the night sky, his mind focuses on Astarion, the man he is hopelessly in love with.
Concerned for Gale's well-being, Astarion leaves camp to search for him across the craggy terrain. It doesn't take Astarion long to find Gale and join him on the mossy rocks, discussing the drastic choice presented to him regarding the orb.
After travelling together for almost two months, feelings that had steadily grown bubble to the surface, prompting a long overdue conversation between them.
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Following the acquisition of Aumar Technology Group by Ascension, Astarion gets saddled with managing the worst product imaginable: a smart bed. To make matters worse, the lead engineer, Gale Dekarios, is a thorn in his side.
Gale feels much the same now that he works under the clueless and tempestuous Astarion Ancunin who doesn’t know the first thing about engineering. They are constantly butting heads, and now have to create a ridiculous product no one asked for.
When Cazador sends them off to the Faerun Electronics Expo and Trade Show (FEETS for short) to demo the smart bed, things quickly go awry— and so does any professionalism between them.
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The Path to Netheril by Bronze_and_navy_is_creating, ShadowViking
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
25 May 2026
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The Brain has fallen. Cazador was defeated. Mystra (barely) pacified. Yet, Astarion desired more than a life in the shadows of his new home in Waterdeep. He wanted sunlight, and knew just the wizard who could help him achieve that- Gale. Unfortunately for Gale, it would cost him everything that made him the wizard he was, leading the pair on a complicated adventure to regain what he lost. One filled with danger, the dead and undead alike, and romance neither of them anticipated, all on that Path to Netheril.
(Inspired and loosely based on The Road to El Dorado- and it is entirely the song's 'It's tough to be a God' fault that this exists.)
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Every Rose Has Thorns by grazimesmo, m00nbun, ShadowViking
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 May 2026
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Gale is eager to show Astarion everything Lliira's Night has to offer, but a chance encounter with an old schoolmate seems set to derail those plans before they can even begin.
As jealousy spikes high, Astarion may just have to remind Gale exactly who he married, and ensure the past remains in the past.
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Geir Dagrsson knows three things: cattle die, kinsmen die, but the one thing that doesn’t is a man’s deeds. He just didn’t expect his greatest one to be marrying the brat prince of East Anglia, and worst of all, the son of one of his father’s killers: a Saxon.
Ӕlfstan, son of Cadwallon, loathes the heathens plaguing their lands. When he is sold off in marriage to one, he will do whatever it takes to free himself from the man, his father’s wishes be damned. The Viking he is promised to also proves to be just as irritating as he expected.
Little do they both know, sinister forces are looking to sow more discord between the denizens of East Anglia, with Geir and Ӕlfstan at the centre of it all.
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Rival Professors AU by Jokerkundesu (lukarios), ShadowViking
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01 Aug 2025
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In the House of Hope, Gale takes the deal with Haarlep to give his body for information on the Orphic Hammer.
Unforseen complications arrise and Astarion offers to help Gale through it.
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Gale's No Good, Very Bad Adventure by Dracoscriptor
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 May 2026
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Seven times Gale died and one time he had to choose.
Note: If the Non-Con archive tag is putting you off, know that it occurs in Chapter 4 and can be skipped by reading the summary notes at the end of that chapter without impacting the rest of the story.)
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Six months after the fall of the Netherbrain, Gale and Astarion have gone their separate ways. Astarion is coming to enjoy the simple things in life. For once, he’s murdering, threatening, and intimidating the right people, and earning a tidy amount of gold at the same time.
In Waterdeep, Gale is working hard to find his place among the realm’s most prominent wizard academics, but can’t bring himself to publish a single paper.
When Astarion’s sister Dalyria brings him stories of disappearing vampire spawn children, Astarion is forced back into close proximity with the Waterdhavian wizard he’s tried in vain to get over. Together, Astarion, Dal, and Gale find themselves facing a new threat in the Underdark, one that proves the most depraved schemes in Faerûn did not die with the Dead Three’s chosen.
A story about figuring out who you are after trauma, what happens when you begin to heal, and how to rediscover yourself after turning down untold power.
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"He’s too obvious, thinking he’s bluffing, but the moment the suit jacket came off, so did some of the veneer of the powerful, calculating businessman and it was so easy to see the eager softness beneath. Astarion’s learned never to underestimate the power of a costume, or of removing it."
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Expert art and antiquities fraudster Astarion Ancunin knows what he does best - the long con. After weeks of careful planning he's zeroed in on his latest mark, the famous, handsome, billionaire venture capitalist: Gale Dekarios. Gaining access to his luxury penthouse full of priceless works is easy enough. What he didn't bank on being difficult is keeping his focus on his job, and not on his target's gorgeous eyes and far-too-talented mouth.
A short, modern AU Bloodweave fic that is a shameless vehicle for filth.
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The only comfort Astarion had in the years of hell he has endured under Cazadors control has been a golden ring with a chip of fire stone. No matter how many times Cazador has thrown it away, burnt it, or sold it, it always returns to him, good as new. His master gave up after a decade and told him to hide it, lest it impact his ability to lure unsuspecting victims back to his lair. Astarion has no memory of who gave him the ring, and the inscription "May we always return to each other" offered no help. But still, it is a comfort.
When the tadpole is forced into his skull, and he has to join a ragtag group of weirdos just to survive while he figures out his new found abilities, he finds himself fiddling with it more often now that he won't get punished for it. But the wizard, Gale, keeps staring at it, and it makes Astarion uneasy. He tries to hide it, but the need to touch it, to hold it, is too great.
So he endures the stares, and hopes that whatever the wizards reasons, he can use it to his advantage to finally be free from his masters clutches, and maybe find out who gifted him the only item he has of his life before he was a spawn.
And they may be closer than he knows.