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• A Great Weaver by Paderson

  Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  05 May 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • The Dark Urge/Gale (Baldur's Gate)
  • Gale (Baldur's Gate)
  • The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • Temporary Character Death
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Warning: The Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • Default Dark Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • The Dark Urge Resists the Urge (Baldur's Gate)
  • but not out of virtue
  • Time Travel
  • but is it truly time travel?
  • Slow Burn
  • Manipulation
  • Angst
  • Trauma
  • Obsession
  • Chronic Pain
  • Blood and Violence
  • English Is Not the Author's First Language
  • Constructive Criticism Welcome

  Summary

  This time, the one who pulled him from the rune portal was no cleric of Shar, but a dragonborn with a chilling touch and eyes like drops of blood.

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  Gale found himself once more at the beginning of the journey to rid himself of the mind flayer parasite. Walking the same path, but in a different way, alongside an anomaly who had never been part of his former companions before.

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  English

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