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By the Candle's Flickering Flame by avalost
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
27 Aug 2025
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Only a naive fool would believe that the Interrogator's unwelcome presence on Ekaterina Stubbs' voidship was due to a mutual interest in rooting out cult activity - or, even more laughably, an attempt to protect her, should the cult try to murder her like they murdered her predecessor. Far more likely that the Inquisition wanted to keep an eye on her, to see if she reached out to any of her old connections.
But if that was the case, why did Heinrix van Calox not make any formal accusations? Why did he willingly follow her into danger?
When he said her name, why did he say it with such strange softness?
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12 Jun 2025
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After staying the night for the first time with the Rogue Trader, Heinrix finds himself not wanting to leave.
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25 Apr 2025
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To bet on losing dogs by red_stairs for coet
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
14 Feb 2025
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Before she became Rogue Trader, Diana Von Valancius was Diana Weisemann, a psyker attached to the Imperial Guard. Before Heinrix Van Calox, there was Gideon Helburn, her Commissar. What shouldn't happen did, whether it was her doomed love story with him, or when her own mind faltered.
This is Diana's story before she became the head of the dynasty.
Diana Von Valancius is MissCoet's OC - one of my favourite artists in the fandom and an absolute darling. She kindly allowed me to borrow Diana and write this piece for her. Thank you again, I loved being able to give Diana her extended backstory.
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21 Apr 2025
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Like a moth to the flame by chunky_monkey
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
25 Feb 2025
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Gradually, she grew more comfortable, her movements more fluid, and for a moment, Heinrix almost let himself believe they were just two people, two souls connected by the dance. But when she glanced up at him, her gaze sharp, intense, something flickered between them. A spark, an ember of something far too dangerous to acknowledge.
She feels it too, he thought with a sick, desperate yearning.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that every respectable member of the Rogue Trader fandom must at some point write a Heinrix and RT dancing fic.Bookmarked by Vspin
25 Feb 2025
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The Incident - Astarion x Female Drow Tav by AstarionsPervertGothWife
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
09 Dec 2023
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Oh shit...
You've done it again! But you and Astarion have really fucked up this time. The team have decided it's best if you stay in time out with him for a while so they can try and smooth things over with the authorities in the city.
I wonder how long you'll both have until they're back?
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Retired by QueenMills
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
05 Sep 2024
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T'alice Xorlarrin serves the Absolute and she's been given a daunting task. Retrieve one Minthara Baenre from the field and find out what's taking so long with finding that weapon. The only trouble is that Minthara is her ex...that she still has feelings for.
A story about losers who can't talk about their feelings.
[This fic has been abandoned and retired. There is a new version of it that is better in every way. Read that one. LOL]
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22 Apr 2024
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Evensong Silence by The_Jashinist
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore
07 Mar 2024
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Astarion finds himself caring about Maya, and would like it to stop-Teaser for a longer fic.
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09 Mar 2024
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To charm, in the literal, non-magical sense, is an art. A craft to be perfected and honed, just like wielding a blade. It and seduction go hand in hand, but are subtly different. To seduce, you are guiding another along in a charade of barely concealed desire. To charm is to disarm, for the other party to barely be aware they are being ensnared at all.
Astarion tries to charm a charmer, but it doesn't go the way either of them expect.
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02 Feb 2024
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In a sleepy village on the Savage Frontier, a timid drow woman spends her days teaching a farmer's son how to play the flute. But when a nautiloid appears in the sky, the quiet life she's built for herself is thrown into chaos. Alone and infected with a mindflayer parasite, she's determined to find her student before she turns: even if that means forging new alliances with the strange group of survivors she finds along the way.
Adventure, friendship and slow burn romance that (loosely!) follows the events of Act 1 of Baldur's Gate 3. Now complete! :D
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- Part 3 of Halinae
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Astarion x drow!Tav
Content: Soft, angst, allusions to past trauma, SFW, no sex, one-shot, short
Context: Spoilers for Act 2 Astarion confession. I dreamed about softly touching Astarion’s face and it snowballed into a ton of drow background, not much BG3-specific context outside of Astarion’s story.
"Your fingers lead his eyelids closed, trailing softly down his cheeks, tracing his laugh lines, and skirting by his lips. Oh, those lips and that toothy smile that has you grinning at everything he says."
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What if I, a grown woman, wrote a fic about the terrible Batman OC I came up with as a depressed middle schooler?
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- Part 43 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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16 Dec 2023
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It’s easier for Astarion to believe Naomi tastes so sweet because she was his first. Easier to ignore the fact that every undead in vague proximity yearns for the same blood that’s sated him night after night. Easier to pretend her music is arcane as any other bard’s, and not divine enough to wake corpses from the dirt.
Easier to pretend Naomi is simply a bard, and not something more akin to a siren. One that's slowly realized she's not just another sailor, after all.
Easier to bury the fact that he's already stupidly in love with her. Like she wouldn't just raise that out of the ground, too.
A curse rears its head. A devil comes calling. Astarion fights for his freedom from Cazador. He and the rest of their merry little band fight to save Tav from the doom she feels she's fated for.
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- Part 1 of you were doomed but just enough
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10 Nov 2023
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The Oath of the Ancients is as old as the race of elves and the rituals of the druids. Sometimes called fey knights, green knights, or horned knights, paladins who swear this oath cast their lot with the side of the light in the cosmic struggle against darkness because they love the beautiful and life-giving things of the world, not necessarily because they believe in principles of honor, courage, and justice. They adorn their armor and clothing with images of growing things-leaves, antlers, or flowers-to reflect their commitment to preserving life and light in the world.
(The Player's Handbook)Like Astarion, a Duergar Tav's sunlight sensitivity returns at the end of the game. One hell of a reward for someone who is devoted to the light in the world, huh? It's a funny thing how hard work and sacrifice can sometimes make things worse.
Maybe that matters a little less than who you share the shit with, in the end. But the two of them still need to take a moment to be miserable about it. -
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There were a lot of people who looked the same in Astarion’s eyes, faces that blurred together into one over the years, faces he didn't want to remember. Some faces ingrained themselves into his mind, like the one of the drow who had smiled at him as she died.
So when Astarion was met with that same face with that same smile as he held a dagger to her throat decades after she had already died, he needed answers.
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Astarion is absolutely drunk on her blood, the exquisiteness of feeding on her the closest thing he has ever had to a religious experience. It is, in no uncertain terms, the most divine thing he has ever tasted.
He knows he's using her. She should mean nothing to him – just one more in a sea of largely nameless, faceless sacrifices – and yet… she’s different, somehow. She’s the only one who’s cared, the only one who’s shown genuine interest in him beyond the pleasures his body can bring her.
And if she ever found out the truth, everything would come crashing down.
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20 Sep 2023
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Astarion would never tell you, though – it was his little secret, one he hid away just for himself.
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In other words: A delve into Astarion's thoughts, starting the day he met you.
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18 Sep 2023
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"As the weight of the Underdark pressed in around her, the air felt thick. Na'lintra could feel that familiar claustrophobia creeping along the edges of her mind, the darkness a tangible force, squeezing. In this oppressive gloom, Astarion's offer was like a breath of fresh air, a chance to forget the crushing depths. She knew it was a weakness to give in to this distraction, but in that moment, she couldn't muster the strength to refuse. He was offering himself up, and she was far too weary, too parched for lightness in this unending night, to deny what he promised."
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“That was your intention that night, wasn’t it? It was to bring me to your master, Cazador. And he would bleed me dry,” Noel accused him.
The way Astarion’s eyes flickered away before returning to her told Noel all she needed to know.
“Laole Lolth…” Noel whispered to herself, “You did not succeed.” Her story would have ended before she was even a quarter of a century old. She would have died that night as a bloodless husk.
“Praise Lolth?” Astarion translated with a huff of a laugh, “Praise yourself, darling, for that ingenious method of self defense. If I remember correctly, it wasn’t a spider claw that came to your aid.” He added, wistfully, almost reverently, “You saved yourself.”
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- Part 2 of Onyx and Marble