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The Way of the Wanderer by weepingdawn
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
11 Mar 2026
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It all started with the Nautiloid. There was a before, certainly. Isotta had been a scholar and a storyteller—an ethnographer—but not a mage. She had traveled the whole of Faerûn, exploring and cataloguing the people who called the material plane home. Where a wizard might hoard knowledge, Isotta sought to share it. Everything around them was all just one big story, after all.
There was also a magnificent wizard named Rolan who had the misfortune to be born a tiefling. He also had the misfortune to meet a bard who claimed to be a scholar, named Isotta. Despite his best efforts to evade her, she repeatedly inserted herself into his life until he finally had no choice but to tell her he loved her, in his own way, and ask her if she might love him too—because why else could someone be so insistent on meddling if not for love? And then, dear reader, she rejected him.
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The Way of the Wanderer is my love letter to Baldur’s Gate 3 and the grumpiest wizard deserving of love.
Or: Never write anything down that you don’t want Volo, the capitalist opportunist, to steal and publish.
Includes plot from Acts 1-3, and then continues after the events of BG3.
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10 Mar 2026
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Rolan misses his chance with Tav at the end of the events of BG3 and a year passes where his yearning only grows. An opportunity to see her again arises when the city of Baldur’s Gate throws a grand masquerade to celebrate the heroes who defended the city from the illithid plot. He’s not one for parties and he wants to toss the invite away. Will his sense of responsibility keep him from happiness?
My 400 tumblr follower fic featuring all of our favorite tropes. This fic will be either two or three parts and finished very soon. Part One is SFW, following parts will not be.
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14 Jan 2026
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As if her musings conjured the brown haired wizard, Thea nearly collided with him on the path to the shops. He had come out of one of the tailor shops with a package under his arm, his dark brown linen coat being tugged on and his focus being elsewhere. He dropped the package to catch Thea’s arms and then dropped them with a curse.
“Zurgan,” he hissed a bit as bent down to grasp and inspect his package. “You might be more mindful of your surroundings, Anthea, lest you walk right off of a pier.”
Thea wrapped her arms around her middle and discreetly touched the place on her right arm where Rolan had grasped her for a moment. Then she lowered her hands to her sides before she shot a smirk at him.
“One could say the same of you, Rolan, what with your preoccupation with your precious package. Plus we aren’t near enough to the water for me to walk off a pier.”
Rolan grumbled with a roll of his eyes, the yellow hellish eyes flicking a bit towards the sky as if asking the Gods for patience. Still, even though it was obvious he was annoyed with her, he gestured for her to go ahead of him as they headed past the shop. His hand smoothing down his expertly coiffed hair as he waited.
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10 Dec 2025
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Pride Goeth Before the Fall by oozeboy
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 Jul 2025
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Lei'lessa Thorne is a disappointment of a Warden. She was raised in Orlais in a tradition of intrigue, lies, and trickery that some would call The Grand Game. Her family's strongest piece in their fight for elven rights. Before she failed, of course, and ended up conscripted to a group she would never belong in.
Until it's time to play a new Game: against the Dread Wolf
An enemy to lovers slow burn we're all wanting. With a slight alternate canon where Solas escapes the Fade early, and ends up tied to Rook regardless as they struggle against the gods.
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29 Apr 2025
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He wants to lavish all of his attention on someone. She wants to stop worrying about rent. And if he keeps slipping and saying 'I love you' in the bedroom? Well, that's just pillow talk, baby.
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31 Jan 2025