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Incise by unintelligiblescreaming
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), The Mighty Nein (Cartoon)
03 Jul 2026
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“It is Kryn spellcraft. Evil stuff, I’m afraid,” Ikithon tells Bren’s parents, dripping with sympathy. “One of them must have bound your son’s soul to theirs. Injuries and other ailments are transmitted through the bond. But don’t worry. We know how to take care of cases like his, here at Soltryce.”
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Exposure to dunamis has unpredictable effects. Two people can become entangled across vast distances in space, their future connection echoing backwards through time. The elite of the Dynasty call this phenomenon the soulmate bond.
Trent Ikithon calls it an excellent strategic opportunity.
(In which Bren thinks he's cursed, Astrid and Wulf think he needs protection, and Essek has never met him, but he knows Bren is in danger.)
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02 Jul 2026
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“Seduction?” Gale sputtered. “You think me capable of seduction!?”
“Don’t sell yourself short, my boy,” Elminster said, “seduction is only the first step. You’ll be a vampire’s consort by the end of Nightal, or my name isn’t ‘Elminster Aumar’!”
“Oh, this is going to be good,” one of the Sages whispered, and Gale was mortified to feel his face flush a deep red.
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There is a new type of vampire in Baldur’s Gate: an Ascended, not seen for centuries. The staff of Blackstaff Academy in Waterdeep—known for cutting edge research into magics and mysticism of all kinds—are desperate to know more about this once in a lifetime phenomenon. And they know just the wizard desperate enough for the job.
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27 Dec 2025
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Astarion Ancunin is the newest academic to walk through the doors of the Baldurian Museum of Natural History and Peoples with the intent of studying a rare set of enchanted garments from nearly 450 years prior.
When he arrives at the museum, he finds a passionate staff, woeful attendance, and a looming threat over the entire facility.
Astarion, despite himself, steps in to help save this place that has been kept alive via passion a donated time, and finds some new connections along the way.
City wide corruption, an endangered species, and romance, what more could you want
This is a sweet, fluffy Hallmark movie romance, with a little smidge of angst & some canon-typical violence, and some smut scattered about. Warnings for both will be included in chapter notes.
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22 Apr 2025
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The vampire's eyes are wide and round, full of amazement. They dart wildly around the sights below, as if trying to see everything at once. The lights of the city reflect upon his face, soft shadows dancing across his elegant features. The very tips of his fangs are visible from his parted lips.
The radiance of the city pales in comparison.
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧
Two months after the brain falls, Baldur's Gate has picked up most of the pieces. The heroes that saved Faerûn have been there through most of it, helping the city get back on its feet. But now it's time to move on. Old lives and families to return to. Gale is going back to his tower in Waterdeep, back to the quiet, back to being alone; or at least, that was the plan. But plans change.
This is a story about falling in love.
(Fanart included)
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- Part 2 of Stumble and Fall
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21 Feb 2025
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Baronet Dekarios is a man of science, but the supernatural is as much a science as anything else, isn't it? He's also a man in need of a new patron. So, when an old university friend offers entrance to a party held by one of England's most secretive societies — a club of the country's richest men, rumored to dabble in the occult and the satanic — he sees the opportunity to kill two metaphysical birds with one stone. And all he needs to do to gain entry is secure the approval of the club's mysterious leader, the enigmatic Lord Ancunin.
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20 Dec 2024
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27 Oct 2024
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After finding himself nestled amongst a group of a adventurers, Gale is drawn like a moth to a flame to the mysterious pale elf.
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He wanted to know more about him – he needed to. He wasn’t sure if it was the charm or the mysterious air Astarion played up that peaked his interest more, but Gale was eager to pry him open – to get past that book cover and discover what secret knowledge he would uncover in those pages.Series
- Part 1 of sated
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02 Aug 2024
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The Choices We Make (always seem to lead straight back to Hell…) by Hulk_Stanner
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Jan 2026
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Gale was all set to take the Crown of Karsus for himself and become a God, deal with the Devil and Mystra be damned. But then Karlach was suddenly dying right in front of him and all of his plans went right out the window and straight into Avernus with her instead…
(Full Summary In Notes.)
Series
- Part 1 of The Choices We Make.
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27 Jun 2024
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The hand removed itself from his forehead. “Temperature is normal,” Gale announced, before using its fingers to gather some stray drool that had trailed down Astarion’s jaw. Before Astarion could register the pitiful jolt of arousal at the sudden skin contact or the sheer absurdity of what Gale was doing, Gale had stuck its fingers in its mouth.
“What the —”
“No new bacteria detected,” Gale went on, “Ruling out food poisoning.”
“Oh, Gods,” Astarion groaned. “And to think that these things are what’s sending our workforce into a tizzy. What next, 'droid? Are you about to give me a rectal examination too?”
“There is no need for one at the moment,” Gale said, confused. “Unless you are seeking prostate stimulation—”
“No!”
Amidst the softly thrumming melancholy of a dystopian, cyber-punk city, former corporate-rat Astarion Ancunín, who has long since lost the will to live, finds himself in possession of a G-413 or "Gale" - an amnesiac android who, strangely enough, enjoys living.
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27 Jun 2024
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To Gale, flipping through his sketchbook is like strolling down a well-trodden path through the luscious woods of his mind, basking in the warm light of his favorite people, places and comforts. It's one of the reasons he keeps the book near his chest, literally and metaphorically close to his heart.
And thus, having Astarion peruse his art is terrifying, indeed.
“Gods, you draw everyone so happy." There is, for once, no bite in it. It's almost gentle.
“I…” Gale fidgets with the pencil still in his hand. “I draw what makes myself happy.”
Astarion runs his finger along the outer edge of the drawing of himself and Scratch strangely reverently.
“Sentimental,” Astarion chides, harmlessly. “How very you.”
In which Gale catalogues the entire journey since the crash of the Nautoloid in a sketchbook he hasn't drawn in since his exile and Astarion has enough confidence in his art for the both of them.
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24 Jun 2024
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Astarion consumes human blood because vampires must. He consumes human flesh because...well, he's developed a fondness for it. But when he joins forces with prodigious but troubled criminal profiler Gale Dekarios to apprehend the notorious Dark Urge, his carefully crafted existence is turned upside down.
Aka the one where Astarion is a serial killer down bad.
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22 Jun 2024
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Quit Dragon My Heart Around by Lunarwench for galactimbibe
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Apr 2024
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Gale is quiet as he maneuvers slowly over mountains of treasure, pausing whenever his steps jostle loose a few coins or jewels. His trek is uninterrupted and when he reaches the peak of one particularly large mound, he peers over the top and sees it.
There, in the very heart of this immense hoard, is a dragon.
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In a lonely mountain, somewhere in a far-off forest, hides a place Gale has been searching for his entire life. What he finds there ends up being more than he can handle, in more ways than one, but that won't stop him trying. It's dangerous and foolish, and everything he's ever wanted.
(NOW INCLUDES FANART)
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21 Jun 2024
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Gale created a concoction meant to ward off the monsters in the cursed shadowlands. It works...with the minor side effect of attracting large, unstable spiders.
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21 Jun 2024
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“There are better ways to go about this if I wish to speak to someone anonymously,” Gale points out. Shadowheart shrugs, winking at him.
“Sure, but this is possibly the most satisfying one,” she says, and fine, Gale can’t argue with that. But still. Such conversations are surface level at best, and transactional at worst. Besides, it’s not in his nature to consume live internet pornography. He has no desire to share such an intimate act with a complete stranger.
“I would really rather see a therapist,” he says.
Fresh out of a messy divorce, disgraced academic Gale Dekarios finds himself biting off more than he can chew when a seemingly innocuous encounter with an enigmatic camboy, Star, leads him down a precarious path of lies, liberation and eventually—love.
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21 Jun 2024
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Gale Dekarios was once the most infamous gunslinger in the West. But when he finds himself a fugitive after double crossed by his outlaw gang, he stumbles on a mysterious mining town.
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20 Jun 2024
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After two centuries of torment, Astarion has given up hope of escaping Cazador's clutches, until a chance encounter with a stolen book introduces him to the disembodied voice of a wizard named Gale of Waterdeep. With the fate of Baldur's Gate in the balance, they must confront their demons and win their freedom - together.
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19 Jun 2024
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Astarion burns to death one lovely Baldurian morning.
This has consequences.
Or: the nine deaths of Astarion Ancunín, and the one he is saved from.
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- Part 1 of dark fruits and purple rain
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12 Jun 2024
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After the fall of the Absolute, with the Crown of Karsus dutifully delivered into Raphael’s hands, Gale is left abandoned by Mystra.
For months he fights the effects of the Orb, but eventually is forced to succumb — hiding himself in a cave away from civilisation so the Orb can ‘safely’ consume him.
His dearest friend cannot simply let
him go without overturning *every* stone — and seeks out the new Archdevil Supreme.Bookmarked by Caprisonne
09 Jun 2024
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Good Men and Monsters by Linnetagain
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)
07 May 2024
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“The world seems full of good men – even if there are monsters in it.” - Bram Stoker, Dracula
Usually, the long climb up the barren hillside means he sees any of his visitors coming long before they reach him. He knows all their faces too, by now; even the villagers who do not attend his services. This man is new.
He is well-dressed. Exceptionally well-dressed. Gale has seen neither cloth nor embroidery so fine since he arrived here. His stark white hair is precisely styled, the curls barely moving in the not inconsiderable wind.
He turns as Gale approaches. His hearing must be astonishing.
Gale almost does a double take. Though the fashion, when he was a boy, was to be pale, he has never seen a man as pale as this. His skin is like porcelain, like so many women would have killed to have been born with. There's something almost uncanny about it, in actuality. On the wind-blown clifftop, it makes him seem like a ghost. A beautiful ghost, undoubtedly. But a ghost, all the same.
“Good morning, and blessings be upon you,” Gale calls. The man’s placid expression twists, for a moment, into something like pain.- Language:
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09 Jun 2024
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“My previous clientele are usually more particular in what it is they want protection from, you see.”
“I do,” said Astarion, his voice trailing thin. He was quiet for a moment. “Vampires.”
“Pardon?”
“That’s what I seek protection from,” he said, more clearly. “I want my home to be safe from vampires.”Bookmarked by Caprisonne
06 Jun 2024