Best Gale x Tav Magic Fanfics
The best magic Gale x Tav (Gale Dekarios/Tav) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Magic is fanfiction's most flexible tool: it can externalize emotion, literalize metaphor, and give any pairing a curse that can only be broken one obvious way.
Top Gale x Tav Magic Fic Recs
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As Long As I'm With You
Magicby LadyLoaf6_21
Gale and Violet, my Seldarine drow paladin Tav, are adjusting to married life in Waterdeep when more than one piece of exciting, unexpected news land on their doorstep.--TLDR: Gale has super-sperm and Violet is pregnant but they don't know it until chapter 3. Pure, filthy smut with fluff and comfort
My Knight
Magicby luckybottlecap
Lea is not special. She has no great strength, no favor with the gods, no mastery of arms or magic. She’s a dwarf with a knife and a chip on her shoulder. But to Gale of Waterdeep, she is also his savior.
Friendship is Magic
Magicby Sleepwalkingflower
Moments of bonding between Lyra (Tav) and the six companions, them forming friendships and becoming a family
You've Got Gale
by ASorceressWrites
So, it is in the library that Gale now sits, listening with practiced indifference, to the back and forth between his mother and Tara; Tara demands that Gale be afforded time to rest following ‘his ordeal’, whereas his mother insists he is in dire need of companionship. Gale has no inclination towar
The Shadows
by heftypegasus
THE SHADOWS is the second part of my semi-canonical trilogy. It's story-driven, romantic, smutty and very angsty, with healthy doses of comedy and silly camp dynamics topping it off. POV is half and half between Tav and Gale, with flashbacks, as well as narrative attention paid to non-ship character
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
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
No Gods Worth Kneeling To | Astarion / Gale / OC
by Aluesaeri
Rowena was bought, trained, and branded to serve a powerful man who preferred his weapons sharp and obedient. She fixed the last problem with a dagger. But freedom proved short-lived when a mind flayer ship crashed into the Sword Coast and left a parasite burrowing behind her eye. To survive, Rowena
Yearning's Sweet Succor
by ComeOutside
While on a mourning tour to find appropriate places to spread the ashes of her passed kin, Tav did not expect to be abducted by a Nautiloid and end up as Tadpole fodder. But with her growing number of companions, and one Druid who is keen on being just out of reach, Tav has a lot of ground to cover
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 Disgraceful Amount
by deianestormborn
The first time Gale mentions it, Deia laughs. Not because she thinks he is joking. That is the problem, really. She knows him too well by then. She knows the look he gets when an idea has taken root behind his eyes, when curiosity has bitten down and refuses to unclench its teeth. He has that look n
Night Work
by BlessedDark
Gale overhears his companions sharing a private moment a few tents over and fails to resist temptation. Accidental tadpole induced mind-melding is involved. That's about all there is to it, for now.
Bloom
by glitterandmoondust
After a six-month adventure to save his friends, the Sword Coast, and himself, Gale finds himself back in Waterdeep with a new lease on life. After a good wizard tower clean-up and accepting a new job from the Blackstaff as a Professor of the School of Illusion, he now must face the reality of his s
【博德之门3】落叶归根
by Linshize
他想起早上十点他还在博德之门,他们给他办欢送会,庆祝他荣休;晚一些他在回家的路上,但应该没有直接回家,而是绕到大集市去看板材了;再晚一些他去了神殿,只是例行公事地向提尔祷个告——他本没有期待退休的正日子还能获得什么明确的回应,但奇怪的是这次的启示竟然出人意料地强烈,几乎可以说是史无前例……他不明白这意味着什么,而再往后记忆就模糊了。康斯坦丁看着面前的火焰,那些硫磺烟雾,那些红龙的铺天盖地般宽大的红色肉质翅膀。行吧,现在他明白这意味着什么了。一场漫长的加班。————主CP:盖尔x塔夫。后期会有哈尔辛x影心和卡菈克x莱埃泽尔。本周目塔夫基本信息:康斯坦丁·埃里希·冯·施泰纳塔尔,光荣退休(未遂)的
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
The Skald of Waterdeep
by ChiisaiHeic
After everything that happens, after the Netherbrain is turned to ash, and each member of his little adventuring party has travelled to their own corner of Faerûn, the Underdark, Avernus, or the Astral Sea… Gale Dekarios returns to Waterdeep. He laments the irony of his highest highs and his lowest
The Wizard and the Druid
by Lesaiah
What happens when a druid meets a wizard? She’ll probably tell him to touch grass. Gale Dekarios derived his entire sense of self from who Mystra believed him to be. When your whole identity is anchored to a single deity, how do you survive the realization that you failed to prove your worth? The an
Flirting
by charmedimsure
No summary provided.
Stargazing
by thepalelawyer
This came to me like a bolt of lightning, and I really wanted to examine what happens if someone won't passively let Gale play out his big romantic gesture before trying to off himself for Mystra's sake. I think there will definitely be consequences later for this turning into a sloppier, more casua
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Why Magic Gale x Tav Fanfiction Works So Well
Gale Dekarios/Tav — Gale of Waterdeep arrives via malfunctioning portal carrying a doomsday orb in his chest and the wreckage of a love affair with the goddess of magic. Romancing him means convincing a man who measured his worth in Mystra's favor that an ordinary mortal life is worth choosing. The Weave scene, where he teaches magic with his hands over yours, became instantly iconic.
Magic — Spellwork, enchantments, and the impossible made systematic — whether the canon is already magical or the writer is introducing magic where none existed. Covers everything from intricate original magic systems to a single inexplicable curse driving the plot.
He once loved a goddess, and the romance is about teaching him that being human is not a downgrade. Magic is fanfiction's most flexible tool: it can externalize emotion, literalize metaphor, and give any pairing a curse that can only be broken one obvious way. That's why magic Gale x Tav fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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