ℭ𝔬𝔯𝔳𝔲𝔰 a baldur's gate 3 fanfiction
CORVID (cor·vid, noun) — from corvus, 'raven' or 'crow.' Forgotten druidic traditions hold the corvid as a threshold creature: a bridge between the living and the dead. Others name them tricksters, omens, shadows, thieves. Though others think of them as birds, and nothing more.
Astarion didn't intend for this to happen. It was supposed to be one night to feel normal, anonymous, just another face in some grime-ridden poor excuse for a tavern. And then there was a gnome, gods help him. A gnome with a voice she had no business having, a face he couldn't look away from, and a body that - no. No. Absolutely not. And yet, two years after saving this godsdamned city, he found the only person who would change his unlife enough to make it feel like something he lived in instead of survived through. Romance | Domesticity | Loss | Adventure | Character study | World building | FR Lore/BG3 Lore Faithful | Post-BG3 Setting | Gnomes (a lot of gnomes)
✯ pairing: astarion x gnome oc (not tav) ✯ rating: [E] (note: the explicit rating will make more sense as the story progresses, presently it would be better framed as M) ✯ status: ongoing | updated [6/28/26]
☾ chapter: [1] — [Prologue: Volo's Guide to the Absolute Adversaries - Ch 3] ☾ word count: [2566] ❖ cw: none
☾ chapter: [2] — [ELEASIS 27TH, 1494] ☾ word count: [7210] ❖ cw: none
☾ chapter: [3] — [Where Baldur's Gate Forgets to Breathe] ☾ word count: [2444] ❖ cw: none
☾ chapter: [4] — [Heapside] ☾ word count: [4074] ❖ cw: brief self-harm ideation
☾ chapter: [5] — [First Time] ☾ word count: [7544] ❖ cw: loss of virginity, referenced: past sexual coercion, past sexual slavery
☾ chapter: [6] — [A Proper Beginning] ☾ word count: [2908] ❖ cw: referenced abuse, self-harm scars, dissociative episodes
☾ chapter: [7] — [A Tenday Apart - Pt 1] ☾ word count: [3497] ❖ cw: trauma flashbacks, self pleasure
☾ chapter: [8] — [A Tenday Apart - Pt 2] ☾ word count: [4430] ❖ cw: none
☾ chapter: [9] — [A Tenday Apart - Pt 3] ☾ word count: [5151] ❖ cw: emotional breakdown, self-neglect
☾ chapter: [10] — [The Twelfth Day] ☾ word count: [4622] ❖ cw: grief, self-neglect
☾ chapter: [11] — [Rosemary, Bergamot, & Brandy] ☾ word count: [4226] ❖ cw: emotional breakdown
☾ chapter: [12] — [Uninvited, As Always] ☾ word count: [3908] ❖ cw: none
☾ chapter: [13] — [A Date at the Elfsong] ☾ word count: [7943] ❖ cw: none
☾ chapter: [14] — [The Pale Elf] ☾ word count: [4854] ❖ cw: referenced childhood trauma, referenced grief
☾ chapter: [15] — [Sunlight] ☾ word count: [3905] ❖ cw: none
☾ chapter: [16] — [Hunger] ☾ word count: [5667] ❖ cw: exsanguination
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