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honey by Carnivaley for Incognito_Ghost, darkheartedrose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Apr 2026
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Back in the day, when Enver Gortash couldn’t even imagine becoming an archduke, he was little more than a salon curiosity – a name whispered with interest, a man discussed far more than he was taken seriously.
Intriguing enough that the Sharrans decided to send Shadowheart – probably the only woman who didn’t fantasize about him – not only to fall into his arms, but to find out what, exactly, was hiding beneath the ambition.
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The Three Husbands of Clementine Alberral by Carnivaley for baldurs_simp
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Mar 2026
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Clementine Alberral has spent years letting the world turn her life into scandal, myth, and ruin – until she chooses unknown young journalist Achlys Blackgate to finally tell the truth.
From her glittering marriage to Enver Gortash, to her disastrous love affair and marriage with lawyer Astarion Ancunin, to the gilded nightmare of life with Raphael, Clementine begins to unravel the story behind the headlines. But beneath the husbands, the scandals, and the public cruelty, there was always Gale – the great love that haunted everything that came after.
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- Part 2 of Clementine, The Greatest Bard
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Lord Enver Gortash finds The Dark Urge after Orin’s betrayal – shaken, bleeding, and slipping into amnesia. Convinced her memories are the only thing keeping her alive beneath Bhaal’s shadow, Gortash clings to every detail, name, scent, scar, and old ritual – doing whatever it takes to anchor her to herself.
Even if it means crossing lines he swore he never would.
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- Part 2 of Meliora (The Dark Urge x Lord Gortash)
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Clementine has always known she’s destined for fame, she just didn’t expect it to involve a nautiloid crash and a pack of deranged companions. Armed with nothing but talent and ego, she decides she’ll lead this chaos and turn their trauma into a legendary ballad.
Unfortunately, saving the world might be the only way to make sure everyone remembers her name.And it doesn’t help that Gale is unbearable in a way that feels suspiciously like the beginning of a love song.
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- Part 1 of Clementine, The Greatest Bard
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Call off the circus, burn the disco down by Carnivaley
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Feb 2026
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Orin, raised in Bhaal’s temple and starving for anything that feels like connection, finds her first escape in a theater, and in a boy named Norris, later “Dribbles.” Their secret rehearsals and shared love of art become the only place she feels real.
But Bhaal doesn’t allow happy stories: years later, the circus brings Dribbles back to Baldur’s Gate.
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A tyrant.
An Urge.
A proposal.Series
- Part 1 of Lethe the Golden Child
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13 Apr 2026
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It's been six months since the brain fell from the sky, since Gale abandoned Litha on the docks in search of the crown and she plunged into the Hells with Karlach. Now that she's back in Baldur's Gate and more than ready to embrace a peaceful retirement, it's time to act on her crush.
The prickly master of Ramazith's Tower would make the sky fall for her.Series
- Part 1 of Litha & Rolan
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03 Apr 2026
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Post-Orin and post-resurrection, Mirin discovers the one thing she always thought was hers—her storm—has been cut out of her like a god’s afterthought. Gale finds her in an alley, shaking and hollow, and offers what comfort he can: truth instead of platitudes, a hand to hold, and a new way to see the magic that might yet grow back.
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29 Mar 2026
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Baldur’s Gate is technically safe. The city still bleeds — and Mirin is part of the wound. She holds it together with councils, refugees, crime and politics, until there’s nothing left but duty and exhaustion. Everyone praises their hero. No one tells her to stop. No one except the man in chains.
Enver Gortash, deposed tyrant and public monster, watches her shake through visits she insists are “fine” and calls her martyrdom what it is: a slow execution in the name of goodness. When his clean, bloodless escape turns her into the city’s scapegoat, he keeps his promise. He takes her away from the knives.
In his gilded cage, Mirin finds herself cherished, fed, and carefully contained. Gortash offers what Baldur’s Gate never did: rest, brutal honesty, and devotion that feels a lot like possession. Outside, the city howls for its missing hero. Inside, the man she tried to save patiently proves his point about power and people built to break themselves for a cause.
Leaving him means returning to martyrdom. Staying means surrendering to a love that will never let her go.
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Updated regularly. While part of a larger collection about my Durge Mirin, this can be read as a standalone series.
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- Part 11 of No God's Creature (OC Durgetash Collection)
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27 Mar 2026
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Forty years after the defeat of the Netherbrain, Gale and Tav have continued their heroics in Waterdeep. Until one day, there's only one way left to win, and Gale is lost forever. Tav struggles to cope with the death of her husband...but Gale's words from beyond the grave help her heal in his absence.
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- Part 2 of The Urge and the Orb - Spinoffs