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Rensaire is a runaway bard and gunslinger, drifting across the western lands of Faerûn with only fragments of his past and the songs of the road to guide him. Since the Nautiloid, his memories are scattered, selective—he knows only the freedom of travel, the thrill of performance, and the shadow of his own elusiveness. Wherever he goes, he can’t shake the feeling of being subtly out of place, the curious—or sometimes wary—glances of strangers, and the unsettling stare of a certain vampire who seems to recognize something he doesn’t.
Something whispers at the edges of his consciousness, a premonition not of his own danger, but of a storm coming for those around him. As he navigates friendship, loyalty, and the intoxicating call of adventure, Rensaire begins to wonder: did he leave a mistake behind, or is the world itself conspiring to remind him that some memories refuse to stay buried?
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The Silver Lining's I'll be there with You by Ari_or_starlight
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Sep 2025
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This story begins and ends with death, and you know that. You feel arms around you, the darkness all consuming. There’s ringing in your ears, a thrumming in your veins like something else is beside you. You think you hear begging, pleading, perhaps the whimpering of tears being shed, and you wonder why you can’t see them. Below you, the ground is cool, damp, yet sticky, like something other than water pools beneath you.
You hear another voice, clearer to you, unlike that of what you can only assume is family, or friends, or lovers, or mere companions beside you begging for you to get up. It’s shaky, yet stern, like the hum of life itself is within it. It sends chills down your body, and threatens to jolt you out of existence altogether.
“So, rise, Challenger of Gods, and prepare for battle once more.”
Death will not claim thee.----
A complete rewrite of Baldur's Gate as Durge inspired by my own game. Please enjoy me refusing to let my beloveds go. -
Moonless Devotion: Claimed by Kings and Gods by Orianna_Dawnfyre
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Sep 2025
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In the blood-soaked depths beneath Baldur's Gate, two chosen of allied Gods collide in a dance of desire and dominion.
Nelithral, the Daughter of Murder, has been Bhaal's perfect weapon-beautiful, deadly, and utterly alone. When Enver Gortash offers her something her father never has-choice and partnership-she dares to hope for freedom from the dark urges consuming her.
But Gortash's hunger for her is more than ambition; it burns with obsessive passion. In Nelithral, he sees his equal, his perfect match. Yet when he seeks Bane's blessing to claim her as his consort, his god reveals a different game entirely. Desire is twisted into a trial of faith and loyalty, and the blessing becomes a battle.
As Gods and mortals vie for power, Orin the Red watches from the shadows, her jealous devotion threatening to unravel everything.
What begins as alliance becomes deadly possession. Can two souls find salvation in each other's darkness, or will they be devoured by it?
***This is a prequel to my completed Fan Fic, "The Dark of the Moon"***
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Vengeance. This was what had led her back to Baldur's Gate. But it had been denied to her when she found herself on a Nautiloid only moments later, destined to stumble into a journey that would change everything. So far, things went well. The parasite in her skull proved useful, and the chance of surviving all the madness and returning to the city grew ever closer. But then she enters a cursed land, and its shadows haunt her. And as if that were not enough, she finds herself trapped in the leader's position, surrounded by conflicts with her companions and caught up in an affair she should rather avoid.
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Of Blood and the Maker’s Hand: Cracks in the Divine by Aerin67
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Sep 2025
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In the shadow of her father’s divine will, the Dark Urge has always obeyed. A devoted leader of the cult of Bhaal, she wields destruction as easily as devotion, commanding fear and loyalty in equal measure. Yet cracks are forming in her psyche, and whispers of selfhood stir in the darkness.
Between the scheming of her brother Sarevok, the cunning of her sister Orin, and the enigmatic ambition of Enver Gortash, she must navigate loyalty, love, and her own awakening desires. As she confronts the weight of inheritance and the echoes of creation itself, she begins to see the first signs of her autonomy - and the dangerous allure of freedom.
Blood will bind her, but only she can choose whether to break the chains.
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- Part 1 of Shadows of Creation
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"... Nym hears Astarion put his dagger away with a satisfied sigh. 'Are you going to let all that blood go to waste? Thought you’d have your fill with him.'
Astarion stops directly in front of him, rosemary filling his lungs. He feels a flutter of nervousness at the proximity, a heat that climbs up his neck. 'And why would I do that, knowing I have something infinitely more delicious offering itself up to me?'"
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When he wakes up, he's not himself. Not that he can remember what being 'himself' even means. All he has is a pounding headache and a name, 'The Dark Urge'.
Oh, and memories of the real world and over 500 plus hours of playtime in Baldur's Gate 3.
Now he's stuck inside the game, with no idea how he got there or what the fuck is going on. And very quickly, he'll realise that the real world of Faerun is nothing like the game. Shit hurts, there's no maps, fast travel, or save scumming. And people are far more complicated than simple video game characters.
If he can keep himself alive and make it through this, perhaps there's something waiting for him in Faerun, a life he can build for himself. But the urge is just as real as everything else, and it's out for blood.
All he wants is to find his freedom before the game kills him or the urge overtakes him.
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They had pretended that they could heal the past with a touch, that a kiss counted as forgiveness. And maybe it did, for her. But she is the one who left and the one who returned, already decided on what she wanted. He is the one who carries the burden of forgiving. Part of her wants to hold him close, so close that he has no choice but to let her in again.
But she knows him better than that.
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It's been fifteen years since the fall of the Netherbrain, and eight years since Morgan set her foot in Baldur's Gate.
For the better part of a decade she has traveled Faerûn in search of the puzzle pieces to her past. For the better part of a decade she has hoped that piecing them together would grant her forgiveness for all the things she has done. Now she instead has to seek the forgiveness of the one she left behind.
Can they still find reconciliation, or has time changed both of them too much?
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We Have Not Touched The Stars [Nor Are We Forgiven] by ashfilledink
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
10 Sep 2025
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You are resting in your father’s crimson embrace. You have fed him. Pleased him. But he is not yet satisfied.
Taloned claws spider across your back and close around your throat, pulse thrumming against putrid skin. His carcass snarl grows into a voice.
‘A tyrant approaches,’ your father rumbles then, deep and guttural, his voice penetrating your spine. ‘Go, child of murder,’ he whispers to your blood cradle. ‘Sate me.’
or, when Enver Gortash – Banite. Tyrant. Lord. – is brought before the Dark Urge, he offers his help in recovering ancient Bhaalist relics.
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Rosamund and Astarion have more in common than she knows.
And currently, she knows absolutely nothing.
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Rosamund Sidhe knows that something wicked lives inside her, and it's not the tadpole. When unexpected feelings for a certain vampire make surviving even more complicated, she must learn how to accept the haunting realities of who she has become.
This fic isn't about fixing him, or fixing her.
It's about being seen.
Every part of them, especially the ugly.Series
- Part 1 of The Hare and the Hound
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wish, or will you love me for who i am, not who i was? by invincible_east
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Aug 2025
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For decades, Astarion and his lover, Skender, the erstwhile Chosen of Bhaal and saviour of Baldur’s Gate, have been searching for a way to allow the vampire to walk in the sunlight again.
When at last, Skender performs the most powerful spell in existence and rewrites the very fabric of reality, Astarion is thrown back to the year 1268, a day before Cazador Szarr turns him into a vampire spawn.
Astarion must decide what to do with this newfound lease on life. He’s never been the selfless hero type, but his silly conscience and his knowledge of the future compel him to honour his lover’s legacy. Besides, he’s got time to kill until the Dark Urge reemerges and wreaks havoc on the world.
Can Astarion prevent past sins from being repeated? Can he, Skender, their allies as well as their foes escape their fate and their true nature? Can love transcend multiple lifetimes?
An AU which is a continuation of are we the brutal hearts that break the night in two? about the same pairing. For this story to effectively hit you in the feels, I recommend reading the first fic.
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Hello everyone! This is my first AO3 fic, and it's a backstory for my custom Durge, named Elysse (pronounced uh-lie-ss) and I'm going for about 100-110k words :)
Elysse Anchev, older half-sister of Orin the Red, is desperate to prove herself in the face of a cult that doubts her abilities. Ever since being nominated as Bhaal's Chosen, she knows she has her bloody Father's favor, but constantly feels locked in silent competition with others jealous of her position, or who want her gone entirely. Also, when under comparison to Orin’s prodigious murder sprees, she has to learn how to find her own way under such a heavy and isolating title as “Chosen,” despite self-doubt and watchful eyes, and try to be a good sister to Orin. All the while, the alliance of gods is attempting to enact the Grand Design and take the power for themselves. But, as time goes on, she gains one ally amidst the everyday struggles: The strangely charismatic Enver Gortash, another Chosen of a rival god, Bane. But, is their comradeship all it seems… or will hard and forbidden feelings get in the way, jeopardizing everything they have worked towards? Caught in a war involving both mortals and the divine, the decision is Elysse's to make. -
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Three episodes from three lives: a future paladin, the head of a cult, and a wanderer with no memory or voice.
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- Part 4 of Glassred's story
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From Blood, Our Kingdom Shall Be Born by Yennefer13
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Aug 2025
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Обраний Бейна прагне влади та керувати світом. Обраний Баала хоче знищити увесь цей світ. Колись їхні темні боги були здатні працювати один з одним лише певний час, тому що їхні головні цілі були взаємовиключними.
У відносинах між двома простими людьми все було набагато складніше.
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- Part 3 of Death cult office politics
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The vampire spawn carries his dinner out of the flophouse. “I’m sure you can find another one for yourself, darling,” he says to Zyanya with a mocking grin as he walks past her. “But, just in case. For the trouble.”
He flips a coin at her and disappears with his prey. Zyanya catches it in the air with ease, but keeps her fist closed as she stares at the establishment’s door. Out of principle she always lets killers live, so they might spread her Father’s word and sacrament across the land, but… the vampire spawn owes an outstanding debt to Bhaal, having cheated death. Zyanya decides to let his own gold dictate his fate. Heads, he dies. Tails, he gets to keep unliving.
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"We clearly move in different circles," the vampire Astarion said at the beach next to the ruins of the Nautiloid in 1492DR, unaware that over a decade earlier he stole a victim right from under the Dark Urge's nose. This is the story of how they truly first met (+a sneak peek of how Durge met Enver Gortash.)
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- Part 1 of Our Skin and Bones.
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In which The Dark Urge is messed up in the head, and Astarion's plan for tempting her into sex goes awry, but not entirely.
Warning: brief, playful mentions of murder / su*cide, but no violence occurs
Also, this is my first time ever posting here, so I'm trying to get a handle on all appropriate tags/warnings/etc. Forgive me please if I've done this wrong.
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Just a place where I post snippets and fics Durgetash, about my Durge Scrimshaw, and Gortash. Their relationship, former and now.
May contain spoilers
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Aula Primi Vampyri by ShandoraTheExplorer
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
12 Aug 2025
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Bhaal's Chosen is about to become a Warlock of the First Vampire.
For that, Eladora must trudge up a stupid, snowy mountain to meet the undead bastard herself.
But when she arrives, nothing is as she expected.How will she survive the court's politics? Will the intrigues consume her? Will her own dark urges sabotage everything?
Or will she return to Baldur's Gate with a warlock pact, immortality—and everything she's ever dreamed of?
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- Part 2 of Dora the Vampire Durge
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What was of The Dark Urge before the events of Baldur's Gate 3? How did they form the alliance of the Dead Three? What happened with their relationship with Orin?
An exploration of the events before the game.
We see The Dark Urge's relationship with Gortash (and eventual romance), Orin, and Ketheric, as well as a glimpse into the fractured psyche of these characters.
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know your god through some senseless act of violence by psychopomped
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 Aug 2025
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Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all, he thought to himself, was that Bhaal had made him capable of such sentimentality. How much easier it would have been if he was nothing but Urge and bloodlust and death.
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in which the chosen of bhaal and bane are both all too human, and neither of their respective gods are happy. title and all chapter titles from ptolemaea by ethel cain