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Astarion wants the sun. He wants to bask in the light of dawn, unafraid and unharmed; let it kiss him and not burn; let its light be his private joy, not his fear. How exhausting it is, to be afraid of something he loves so desperately.
It turns out the feeling is mutual.
Astarion's quest to see the sun again triggers multiple religious (and romantic) crises.
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Note on romantic content (setting expectations): Bloodweave takes center-stage in terms of screen time, and the Astarion/Lathander relationship tag is the stage the boys are struggling to survive on. Shadowheart often mediates everyone's experience with love and the gods, for better or worse.
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- Part 1 of The Dawn Cataclysm
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Astarion ascended many years ago. It has not proven to be what he or anyone else expected. Feeling cheated by the hells, he orchestrates his revenge by counting coins.
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a mind like glass by HermeticPrinciples for darkheartedrose
Fandoms: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
20 Jun 2026
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The Companions are stuffed in a cage and destined for slavery in the mines at Pax Tharkas.
Raistlin suffered in body. Sturm suffered in mind.
Tanis suffered in spirit.
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The Roadside Footsteps of a Wartime Campaign by HermeticPrinciples
Fandoms: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
18 Jun 2026
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The Majere Brothers ponder the inevitability of their fates as they lead the Army of Fistandantilus to Thorbardin, and they certainly don't talk about it.
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Gale started hearing voices after the orb entered his body. Once the affliction was stabilized, he began having visions, too. At night, he inhabits another world, another life, as someone else who in his final moments commits deicide.
There is a bit of that someone left in the orb lodged in Gale's chest.
With Gale's help, that someone will come crawling back out into the world.
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- Part 1 of Crimes of Passion
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This story takes the point of view of Frankenstein's Creature from the moment it wakes up, to the moment it leaves Frankenstein's manor. Through this work I wanted to explore the feeling of wrongness that dysphoria can cause, and the pain that comes with rejection of ones parental figure.
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21 Sep 2025
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Travelling by Anonymous for Cyphomandra
Fandoms: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
15 Feb 2016
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Even if he's heavy, Raistlin indulges his brother who fell asleep leant on his shoulder.
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unspeakable road by Laburnum for tonepoem
Fandoms: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
31 Jul 2017
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The road to Thorbadin is long and hard-worn.
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19 Jun 2026
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“Then, what is it you offer?”
The barkeep slid the requested wine up beside Astarion, and the pale stranger’s knowing smile returned. He leaned forward, closer now. When he reached past Astarion to fetch the glass, Astarion caught the otherworldly scent of his skin: earthy and herbal, but blue and scorched like the astral zephyr, as though what he had said about the planes was true. As the elf straightened, he paused for a moment, lingering at Astarion’s ear. He uttered a simple word: “Pleasure.”
Ten years after the defeat of the Absolute, Astarion haunts the streets of the Sword Coast like a ghost, alone, searching desperately for a cure to his undeath. While following the trail of a shadowy rumor, he meets a dark and mysterious man who reminds him of himself. With his fate hanging in the balance, he must decide whether to take this stranger’s hand and be led to a life new and strange. But—at what cost?
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Sammaster the Chosen by totally_irritated
Fandoms: Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
07 Jun 2026
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When Sammaster makes his big breakthrough in metamagics, he is surprised by a visit from Mystra, who has a proposal for him.
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08 Jun 2026