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The Way of the Wanderer by weepingdawn
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
07 Jun 2026
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It all started with the Nautiloid. There was a before, certainly. Isotta had been a scholar and a storyteller—an ethnographer—but not a mage. She had traveled the whole of Faerûn, exploring and cataloguing the people who called the material plane home. Where a wizard might hoard knowledge, Isotta sought to share it. Everything around them was just one big story, after all.
There was also a magnificent wizard named Rolan who had the misfortune to be born a tiefling. He also had the misfortune to meet a bard who claimed to be a scholar, named Isotta. Despite his best efforts to evade her, she repeatedly inserted herself into his life until he finally had no choice but to tell her he loved her, in his own way, and ask her if she might love him too—because why else could someone be so insistent on meddling if not for love? And then, dear reader, she rejected him.
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The Way of the Wanderer is my love letter to Baldur’s Gate 3 and the grumpiest wizard deserving of love.
Or: Never write anything down that you don’t want Volo, the capitalist opportunist, to steal and publish.
Includes plot from Acts 1-3, and then continues after the events of BG3.
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Astarion’s coming to your tent every night with honeyed nothings on his tongue. Trouble is, you’re starting to smell hints of bullshit. The closer y’all get, the further apart you feel. And then there’s the fucking brainworm cult.
These two losers must cheat, stab, and flirt their way to the heart of a cult. And to…whatever it is between them.
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- Part 3 of these two shitheads
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She wants this, truly. The thought of Gale spread out beneath her, flushed and writhing as she takes him the way that he does her sends a bolt of heat between her legs. It is a desire she would be more than content to keep filed away in the archive of her fantasies, but Gale is both an open book when it comes to his pleasure and a voracious student when it comes to hers, and she tries to match his enthusiasm. After so many years spent in the service of others, asking does not come easily for her. But she tries.
Or: Octavia pegs Gale for the first time
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Fate, destiny - none of it seems to matter much when you're under the yoke of an endless infernal debt. Finally free, Niamh sets out to begin a new life. She will find out just how much it matters when she's abducted by mindflayers and thrown into an uneasy alliance with a group of strangers.
Gale isn't a big believer in fate, but he does believe his death is close to hand when the illithid ship takes him. He'll learn just how wrong he is - and just how much life can offer - when he meets Niamh.
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Slowburn friend-to-lovers romance, heaps and heaps of pining, eventual smut (check my oneshots if you'd like a sample) and a bonus minor Bloodpact on the side.
This fic is intended as a semi-novelization of the game, with some expansions to canon, some filler for plot holes, and a lot of Forgotten Realms/tabletop lore with a big focus on bards and artificers.
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- Part 1 of The Warp and the Weft
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Grace Through the Veil by CynicalCivet
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
20 Jul 2025
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Ripped from one world into another, Grace is left lost, insubstantial, and all she can do is watch and listen and long to be seen.
Until one day she is.
Emmrich Volkarin discovers that there is another spirit, apart from the Caretaker and flickering wisps, haunting the halls of the Lighthouse. And what a wonderful, curious creature a Spirit of Grace is.