Top 25 Epic BG3 Fanfics
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Astarion Epilogue (Book One) :An Adventure in Making Life
by Redlittlefox
The events of this story take place 50 years after the events of the end of the game. You have been living with Astarion for 50 years and in that time you have been going on countless adventures. Along the way, the two of you bought and built a house in Baldur's Gate that barely gets used due to Ast
Deeply and Immovably So
by Cometra
I think it goes without saying that you have a room here--anytime. When Rolan and his family offered Tav a place to stay, she thought it would only be temporary--a few days at most. But the handsome master of Ramazith's Tower, grumpy as he was, seemed to have a soft spot for this exhausted adventure
A Blazing Star
by Moonmaiden86
This work will alternate POV between Astarion, Gale, and Halsin, and focus on character exploration, and expanding on a lot of sub-plots from the game regarding the three of them. The canon events will still occur, but a little out of order, and sometimes for different reasons. The main plot will re
The Vampire Spawn with the Green Hand and a Tadpole
by Monkey_Madness123
Astarion wakes up with his hand glowing an eerie green and a relentless tadpole squirming in his mind with no idea where he is. He's thrust into a heroic quest to save Thedas, but his path is filled with peril. He not only battles external threats but also grapples with his unrelenting thirst for bl
Indelible Imprints
by PreciousLittleBhaalBae (BLU3Y)
“This is a dream.” She quietly laughed to herself. Of course this was a dream. Everything that had happened was absolutely ridiculous. Now, her brain presented her with some beautiful man she’d probably seen in a magazine somewhere. She remembers the 7-11 and thinks she must have tripped over the cu
Rubies and Whiskey
by TheRubyInYourEyes
"Never trust a pretty face...especially on a man."Mahina and Astarion could not dislike each other more. Forced to endure the other's company while they look for a way to rid themselves of the illithid tadpoles, mutual mistrust causes them to be at each other's throats...but when you're at someone's
Rising of a Wave
by thisis_V
It was foolish. Undignified. He was a wizard, a scholar, a survivor of cataclysmic fate. He had touched the Weave itself. And yet here he lay, reduced to this - undone by memory, by the ghost of a mouth brushing his skin in the dark, by words never spoken, by letters left unwritten, by the immense a
To Err Is Divine (to forgive is human)
by Lame Wizard (Chocofake)
“Tara. What in the Nine Hells happened to my beard?” Gale had gone on a great adventure with a band of tadpoles misfits to save the world from the Absolute. That much, he was certain of. So why and how did he find himself back in Waterdeep, a year before that whole venture, and just days away from c
Tov
by Trying_to_do_good
A soul from Earth is rescued by the Emperor and makes a deal to help defeat the Absolute in order to find out why they had been brought to this new universe. In exchange, they are given a new body and a chance to influence the game that they had once played in their past life.This story sticks close
the crown of madness
by et_augury
Tav is an Ilmateri monk with budding mastery of Ki, the spiritual energy that flows through all things. Astarion is a cornered animal, stuck oscillating between fight, flight, and fawn. Against Tav's better judgment, he becomes obsessed with a bright note in Astarion's Ki, betraying his relentless w
The Bite that Binds
by xBigRedPandax
'Say say my playmate, won't you lay hands on me / Mirror my malady, transfer my tragedy?' Werewolves were sent by Cazador to bring Astarion back, but in fending them off, Gale gets bit by one and hides it from everyone. How long will this secret remain until it's revealed? And how long until he
somehow i'm under your spell
by darisuchan
Astarion had a nice simple plan, really: seduce the party leader for protection so she would never turn on him and use her to defeat Cazador. Too bad she had decided to play hard to get, and worse, Astarion soon found himself falling under the wizard's spell. Just what in the hells did he get himsel
In The Silence Where Hope Waits
by SorchaTaylyl
Most Recent Chapter Summary:"I am so much more than what you made me.” Astarion makes his choice.NOW IN ACT III Dagne (The Dark Urge) wakes with no past—only a parasite in her skull and a voice urging her toward blood and ruin. With every breath, the compulsion to kill threatens to break her, but
Woven Blood
by LlamaSlama
A post-canon modern coffee shop/university AU Franken-Fic. Part One: Chapters 1-68Hundreds of years after the defeat of the Absolute, Astarion is the owner of Cafe, a small coffee shop in the city of Waterdeep. Gale is a professor at Waterdeep University (previously Blackstaff Academy). He is a Chos
A Murder of Ravens
by LA_Knight
There are countless versions of Realmspace. When the Absolute threatens this specific variant of the planet Toril, Corellon Larethian seeks out one of those from Earth who connect to the different threads of Realmspace to lead the team of adventurers to defeat the Absolute.Raven, the desert-born dis
The Fire Within The Forest
by KJ_Renee
Determined to escape her past, Tessa Thornheart is trying move on with her life in Baldur's Gate. That is...until she's abducted by a naultiloid and infected with a mind flayer tadpole. After the ship crashes, Tessa makes some new friends, all of them sharing the same goal of getting back to the bel
To Rattle the Stars
by stereophoenix
Vi narrowed her eyes a fraction, mischief tugging at the corner of her mouth. “And - your real name.” His cheeks hollowed beautifully as he sucked a breath, expression flickering with surprise, doubt, curiosity, and finally. Respect. “Doctor Gale Dekarios,” he admitted. “And you are?” Game. Set. Mat
Of Gods and Graves
by judasno
This is a slow-paced, heavily altered adaptation of Baldur’s Gate 3 with Astarion as the imperfect, dramatic, and exceptionally vigilant narrator. It is gory, action-packed, and slow to build, with the main story taking a backseat to a character-driven and character-focused narrative set in the vast
Rise of the Comet
by Fairytale_Pariah
In a marriage lottery Karlach and Tomyris, despite being from separate ends of society, find themselves married. Five-hundred thousand people find themselves underground in the city know as the Last Bastion. With a serial killer on the loose, the goals of the marriage lottery being a mystery, and a
Matters of the Heart
by rohanswhitelady
Edith moved to Baldur's Gate a year ago, after her shop in Waterdeep burned to the ground in the middle of the night. And just when she declared she would remake her life, the mind flayers came. Now, she's traveling with mysterious strangers who all have their own secrets, even as she buries her own
too young (to know it gets better)
by cherm
"Whoever, whatever she was, she will claw her way back to the truth. But first, she must claw her way out of here." In which Aryiah navigates a tadpole, missing memories, and her own heart along the way. OR A BG3 campaign retelling featuring my Durge x Gale
In My Name
by Desedrie
Shadowheart is fighting a holy war against her manipulative, psychotic ex-lover: the person who freed her from the clutches of Shar only to drag her into her own.Astarion, the only companion who stayed loyal, is torn between loyalty to the person who freed him from Cazador and loyalty to the new fee
Grimoire of the Grove: A Baldur's Gate Romantasy
by riancstone
This retelling of Baldur’s Gate 3 keeps the same faces and places you know, while lingering on the moments I wanted more of: relationships that are messy, deeper interactions with the people of Faerûn, and more grounded, realistic reactions to the events of the game. The story weaves in expanded D&D
A Lot On My Mind
by Cynic_Mongrel
An unlikely coalition of unfortunate souls destined for lives apart are bound together by the most unusual of circumstances... and parasites. A Lost warrior attempts to ascend to greater fame and glory; A Tiefling who never stopped running since Elturel and an apoplectic amnesiac overcome with viole
Act III (What Darkness Reveals)
by here_be_dragons_and_cats
They say that arriving at the Gate means you're Halfway to Everywhere. Whether that's a good omen or not matters little, for the City of Blood can be your triumph or your ruin. Some deem it a nest of schemes and schemers, whereas others refuse to call it anything else other than home. But all agree
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This list of 25epic BG3 fanfics spans 5,529,438 total words. Kudos range from 10 on the newest entries to 2,281 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Explicit (15 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Canon-Typical Violence · Trauma · Slow Burn · Baldur's Gate 3 · Astarion Being Astarion (Baldur's Gate).
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