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Astarion was awoken by a cry in the night.
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17 Feb 2026
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The gang saves Mirkon from the harpies on the beach.
Nameless, a drow suffering from amnesia, struggles to understand the connection he feels to the monsters he just killed.
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17 Feb 2026
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He looked down, expecting to see a rock or a sandbag. Instead there was a bolt lodged in the middle of his chest, still bloodless. The second one hit before he raised a barrier, and it landed right next to the first one.
Dorian has a heritage. Everyone from Tevinter does.
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24 Jul 2025
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a crooked touch (Astarion x m!Tav) by eyes_of_the_lamb
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Nov 2024
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“Make it hurt, then. Kiss me like you want to kill me.”
“I can do that.”
Two broken stars in a decaying orbit, passing closer and closer together until the inevitable, devastating collision.
Or, Tav is fucked up and down bad for Astarion, who doesn't quite see the appeal (but he's getting there). Sexual frustration, sloppy handjobs, a heavy dose of masochism, and way too many failed Insight checks ahead. Tav falls first, Astarion falls harder (eventually).
Or, a tragic-but-hopeful romance told through a series of incredibly ill-advised sexual encounters.
If you want to read a story where Astarion is sweet from the start and Tav is here to fix him, this isn't the one. If you want to read about two terribly broken men spending a good long while making each other worse before they make each other better, this might be for you. If you thought the in-game romance was a little too easy and it should have been ten times more painful and difficult to convince Astarion he's worthy of love, this is definitely for you.
Set during the canonical events of Baldur's Gate 3.
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27 May 2025
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"If I asked you to," Alistair said, miming a violent throat slash, "someone, would you?"
The Archdemon is dead, but Ferelden is desperate for resources and coin. Alistair struggles with the results of Morrigan's ritual and his new duties as king. When he needs a problem solved quickly, Zevran is happy to offer his blade—and his company.
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10 May 2025
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The Definition of Suffering by Checkerbox
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
11 May 2020
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In an ideal world, the things he ignores will go away instead of eating him up from the inside out.
OR: A story wherein Dorian is still romancing the Inquisitor, but that Inquisitor is not Trevelyan.
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26 Oct 2023
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Five years after the Inquisition’s disbandment, a disillusioned Dorian takes a leave of absence from the Magisterium and journeys south to visit Cullen, where the fully recovered once-commander runs a rehab program for templars out of his manor house in the Bannorn. Dorian, wounded grievously in both body and spirit by The Iron Bull's final betrayal, is still struggling with his losses and the man they've made him. Seeing his old friend awakens memories, both good and bad, which he'd thought long buried. As the two reconnect, spending time together on the farm with Cullen’s many dogs, they begin to realize they may have more to offer one another than simply reminiscing about a shared past.
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13 Jul 2023
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A few minutes more and they wouldn’t have even been on the ship. The Mako was scheduled and ready for drop, both of them suited up and ready with the final checklist completed.
A few minutes more, and they would have watched the Normandy burn from the surface of Alchera.
But they didn’t get those minutes.
Alchera, and the two year gap.
Follow up to Sonata.
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- Part 6 of Opus
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22 Nov 2022
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Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko through the years.
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04 Nov 2022
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The Butcher of Torfan. Frankly, Eric Shepard liked the nickname.
Or: This is the guy they picked to represent humanity?
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“Torfan.”Anderson nodded. “Despite everything that happened, you proved yourself on that moon, Shepard. You showed you have fortitude, dedication, and grit. These are the qualities we need to put forth to the council to get one of ours in the Spectres. I think you’re up to it. Do you?”
A laugh escaped Shepard’s mouth before he could stop it. “Sir, I never thought I’d make it to twenty before you and I met.”
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- Part 2 of Love and War Games
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21 Oct 2022
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He hates the alienage. He hates the mud and the stench and the humans who come in like they own the place, barging into people’s homes looking for trouble or drunk and slumming, calling them all filthy knife-ears even while they leer and grope at all the women and girls.
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Aeoin Tabris is going to be a Grey Warden.
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09 Aug 2022
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The A-Z prompt thingie is making the rounds, and it seemed like an ideal time to get back to Empty!Arms Garrett. This jumps around a lot, time-wise.
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- Part 7 of Empty Arms
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08 Aug 2022
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02 Aug 2022
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Self-Control by taispeantas_laethuil
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Oct 2015
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In which Dorian is the burned out war-veteran from Seheron, and the Iron Bull left the Qun because he wanted relationships that were considered taboo on Par Vollen.
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10 Jun 2022
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Through a Forest Wilderness by Reikah
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
03 Jun 2017
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Three years after the Kirkwall Chantry explosion, Hawke and Anders are still puzzling out this 'inciting revolution' thing together, one step at a time.
Written for the Handerslympics 2017!
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- Part 3 of Leo Hawke
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20 Apr 2022
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There were few pleasures, Hawke thought sourly, to match a week's journey in a carriage crowded against the man who'd fucked you until you couldn't see straight, and then promptly leapt out of your bed as though it were full of coals.
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- Part 2 of Armored
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03 Feb 2022
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I too have been covered with Thorns by The_Dancing_Walrus
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
03 Nov 2016
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In an alternate Thedas where the Elvhen Empire never fell but waned Dorian Pavus is captured on the Arlathan border. Rescued by an 'Agent' of the Dread Wolf and transported to his stronghold in the Anderfels Dorian has a choice- Allow himself to be ransomed and return to the safety of Tevinter or take a risk and remain in the Rebel God's fort which offer freedoms the Imperium would never permit.
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31 Jan 2022
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The first time Carver comes by the clinic to deliver supplies, Anders is confused. Then annoyed.
“Why would Hawke send you?” he asks, digging through the pouch Carver had practically thrown at him. The gifts are modest; two vials of lyrium and four rolls of clean bandages.
Or: the one where Carver starts bringing much-needed lyrium to the clinic and Anders never stood a Maker-damned chance.
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25 Oct 2021
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To begin with, Bull's relationship with the Inquisitor falls apart, although they seemed very much in love.
To begin with, all that Dorian is offering is a pleasant distraction.
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22 Jul 2021
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"What is better: to be born good or to overcome one's evil nature through great effort?"
A woman who's been hunting and fishing in these parts for years receives a rude awakening and finds out she's more than what she has become. Now she is destined to track far more dangerous game, all while fighting to remain true to herself, discovering along the way that some risks are worth taking.
But can what is gained outweigh what was lost?
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19 Apr 2021