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While you are occupied by OptimisticGrey for rdekarios
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Apr 2026
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A silly little gift for Rachel who turned it into a stunning video
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- Part 3 of Art Trades and Gifts
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You wake up to the feeling of missing someone you have never known. Not a face, only a dream and a stubbornly lingering feeling.
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You have been playing too much Baldur's Gate and you know it, but honestly? It's Gale, what can you do?
A love declaration to all of Galemance
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The Vanishing of Celeste Dekarios by OptimisticGrey
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Feb 2026
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After the fight with the Netherbrain, Gale and Celeste married and settled in Waterdeep, despite the fact she is very much deeply in love with Halsin. It is not something Gale is comfortable with and they fight about fairly often.
Gale became a professor, Celeste started to work with the Harpers, Zhentarim and later with the Thieves Guild.One day, Celeste goes missing.
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- Part 1 of A Song of Love and Loss
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A study in devotion by OptimisticGrey for lifewasawillow94
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Jan 2026
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Written for Katie and her Wild Magic Sorceress Willow. A quiet evening at home after a formal evening out, finally taking time for what matters.
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- Part 1 of Art Trades and Gifts
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A Song of Love and Loss by LilyHeartsGale, OptimisticGrey
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Feb 2026
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These are the stories of Celeste. She was born a living descendant of Bhaal, the God of Murder.
What follows are the glimpses into her life—woven through the great events of Baldur’s Gate 3 and the quiet moments that came between and after. They speak of the darkness in her blood, ever eager to claim her, and of the long, harrowing road she walked to wrest herself free, step by step, into a life filled with song, with love, and with kindness.
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Sweet and Romantic Gale Blorbos I’ve written by LilyHeartsGale, OptimisticGrey
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
30 Aug 2025
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Spellwork & Starlight by LilyHeartsGale, OptimisticGrey, rdekarios
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
15 Aug 2025
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Prompt: Domination
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- Part 1 of Durgetash Week 2025
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Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
06 Dec 2025
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Crown Heist in Cania: We Are Not Qualified For This by Aerin67
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
03 Dec 2025
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A humorous and (mostly) reliable retelling of how The Dark Urge and Enver Gortash successfully broke into the eighth layer of hell and stole The Crown of Cania.
Featuring: Enver's distracting pectorals, The Bhaalist communal library, unionizing pit fiends, copious threats to wizards, and a multitude of inappropriate workplace behaviours.
---“Enver, you’re still up. Good. How do you feel about stealing from Mephistopheles? Should be a nice change from paperwork.”
The Banite, to his credit, merely offered a brisk nod and went back to whatever incoherent scrawl he was passing off as work. “I’m glad you mentioned it. Pour yourself a drink, let’s talk logistics.”
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- Part 8 of Durgetash Week 2025
- Part 2 of Shadows of Creation
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Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
03 Dec 2025
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An unsettling scene of a conversation/connection between God!Gale and his Chosen.
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
31 Oct 2025
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Marginalia from the Edge of the Divine- The Memoir of Gale Dekarios by LilyHeartsGale
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
07 Jul 2025
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In this lyrical and haunting, Gale—once Mystra’s favored Chosen, now a scholar of elven high magic—unspools the tale of his extraordinary life: from his childhood in the alleys and libraries of Waterdeep to the moment he stood on the brink of apotheosis, ready to sacrifice himself for the world.
Written two decades after he found a quiet life in Evereska, Gale reflects on love, ambition, and the unbearable intimacy of magic. He chronicles his early enchantment with the goddess of magic and the seductive ruin of their affair, his missteps with power, and the redemptive weight of fatherhood.
But above all, it is a story of love—the love that saved him from destruction, the mother of his child, the one heart he could never let go. From their battles against the remnants of Netheril to quiet nights beneath Evereskan stars, Gale writes with aching beauty of a love both profound and impossible.
Part elegy, part confession, this is a story of one man’s reckoning with divinity, legacy, and the fragile threads of the heart.
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Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
05 Jul 2025
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You get to see a side of Akoryrr that you haven’t seen before.
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
04 Jul 2025