#galeheart

[ducancela-a]

modern au galeheart commission for the lovely @fatamatryoshka

[kvella]

This post is extremely late, but I simply must make one to thank the one and only @emimayooo for this incredible, handmade, one-of-a-kind gift. She bound two of my Galeheart fics, I'll See You At Tea Time and Of Does and Kits, into the most perfect little palm-sized books. And the *detail* she put into them! I'm in love. Thank you so much, Emi, I will treasure them forever! My grandchildren will find them and realize that grandma used to write nerdy smut on the internet and they will smile!!!

[forsakenwitchery]

good day to all my fellow galeheart shippers. 😼

[all my bg3 gifs] & [all my galeheart thingies]

[plethomacademia]

Thank you to @tadpole-apocalypse for drawing GaleZelHeart for me! This is my perfect ship: two women bullying a man.

Thank you to @mightymizora and @smoreofbabylon for playing in this sandbox with me.

If you see this drawing and feel something stirring inside you, please join us in our AO3 ship tag that now has enough works to be searchable!

[rowanisawriter]

burn upon reentry

bg3 - gale/shadowheart - rated m - 8.7k words

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Perhaps this makes him a Sharran too, this desire to chase the loss, the dark imprint Shadowheart will leave behind when she does it again, forgets him, forgets them. Perhaps this, then, is prayer, the whisper of warmth of her still on his body, the hand in his, the echo of her sighs still ringing in his ears. Even when she’s still in bed with him, laying beside him, he feels as though she’s already gone.

Six months after her sudden disappearance from Gale’s life, Shadowheart returns to Waterdeep without any memory of their secret relationship.

[violet-dekarios]

Gale and Shadowheart in the Gauntlet of Shar

[positivejamwriting]

Fic Masterlist

Baldur's Gate 3

Ongoing

En Prise (86k, E, Astarion/Gale)

“Together, then.” Gale says, eyes flicking down to the dagger. “As a show of good faith. We sate our damned appetites together.”

“Shall we toast to it too? Drink of each other’s cups like smitten newlyweds?” Astarion finds his charms again as he licks a brazen stripe up his neck. It’s a worthy distraction for those nimble hands to press the dagger against his chest. Not threatening, not yet at least. No– with the flat of the blade against his mark, Gale sees it as the offering it’s meant to be.

A semi canon-compliant fic in which a deal to keep each other fed leads Gale and Astarion to dark curiosity, codependence, and romantic evenings of scheming and murder.

Read if you like: Consensual but not safe or sane, a "this better not awaken anything in me" taglist, unabashed and gleeful toxic yaoi, making each other WAY WORSE.

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ingi ferroque (20k, M, Astarion/Gale)

Two eyes, dark and shiny as sea glass, bulge and blink as Gale brings the knife to the offering’s throat. The battle rages on and the babe bleeds upon Athena’s boots. Let it take, he prays. Let her hear.

“My. What do we have here?" Gale hears a soldier’s voice in place of his Goddess. "Two little lambs left upon the altar?”

A Greco-Roman AU that follows famed Legate Astarion, Priest of Athena Gale, and a Nero-esque Emperor Cazador as Gale is hauled off from exile to Rome to for reasons unknown...

Read if you like: Enemies to lovers, the inherent sexual tension of historical banter, HBO's Rome, loving descriptions of man thighs under historically inaccurate toga hemlines.

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Semperservus (17k, E, Minthara/Gale)

The Seduction of Dekarios. The maiden in the river, bathed in holy light across underdark waters. The God whispering promises in her ear. The forging of new love, in fires of the only mortal left on this plane with ambitions as great as his once were.

Post-Game, God!Gale fixated on making Minthara his new Chosen.

Read if you like: Dunking on delusional God!Gale, Minthara's 'aura of a third son' banter, not breaking the cycle, comeuppance for Gale leaving you on the docks for the goddamn crown

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Spinneret Sour (26K, E, Astarion/Gale/Shadowheart/Jaheira)

The elfsong hookah is grossly underutilized in fic. Our attempt to fix that with a giggly, thank-god-we're-alive foursome.

Read if you like: Gale getting bullied by hot elves (plural!), fluff and smut, sexualizing that old man/woman, smoking is hot when it's fictional characters

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Completed

Last Glimpse of the Topsail (8.8k, E, Gale/Shadowheart)

She can feel it– the ebb and flow. The thread that joins them is a braided harbour rope going taut and slack with the tide. Shadowheart breathes it in and can feel Gale take her exhale in turn.

Or: Inappropriate use of Zone of Truth, cast by one lovesick cleric upon one terribly lovesick wizard.

Read if you like: Friends to lovers, resolved sexual tension, matching each others freak, ASMR: goth gf hypnotizes you to confess all your slutty secrets (romantic)

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Four of Swords (3.6k, E, Astarion/Gale + Gale/Shadowheart + Minthara/Gale)

Kept, a rational voice in Gale's mind would remind him when they pressed gifts into his hands. You are a kept man in a devil's tower, nothing more.

But it’s Shadowheart that helps him dredge the Chionthar. It’s Minthara who pulls the crown from the deepwater muck. And it’s Astarion who places it upon his head.

Another gift. No. A reward.

A corruption arc in 3k words, Gale finds himself less of an ally and more of a kept pet wizard to Ascended Astarion, Dark Justiciar Shadowheart, and...lbh just regular Minthara.

Read if you like: Corruption via praise, fancy robes, and unlimited spell scrolls, magic collars, calling dibs on the wizard.

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Eclipse (3.2k, E, Gale/Shadowheart)

There will always be the dark of Shadowheart, lurking just beneath the waterfall of his wife’s soft white curls. Gale sees her in the firm hand of the wolf tamer at the edge of the forest and in the quiet whispers of 'is this too much' when she sees him in pain.

But on occasion– when the animals are fed, the roses tended, and some kinder deities than the echoes of their pasts smiles upon them– there is an eclipse.

Gale and Shadowheart partaking in some simulacrum shenanigans (a threesome with both versions of his wife)

Read if you like: The world's most romantic painplay, bratting so your wife's alter ego steps on you, married life between two people with 9th level spells.

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Netherese Duality Series (9.2k, E, Gale/Gale's Netherese Orb)

Gale is used to catching the eyes of the otherworldly. Whatever follows him now offers no such comforts.

There are nights he feels eyes heavy on his back in the dark of his study, only to turn and find himself alone. And there are mornings, still, when shadows pass over the candle by his bed the moment he wakes– as if some presence had been watching him from his bedside.

Isolated in his tower, Gale is less alone than he thinks.

Read if: You think Jekyll & Hyde takes could be a whole lot more horny, "that man got 1000 times hotter when his life fell apart", the idea of an interdimensional being talking Gale through it.

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Game Theory (19.5k, Astarion/Gale/Enver Gortash)

To Gale, working with Gortash is a bitter pill he must swallow, but one he can chase with the sweetness of the Crown in his capable hands.

To Astarion, it’s pure hedonism and power. It’s a section of the city in the palm of a pair of new gauntlets. It’s blood from a populace who will never tell him no again, and it's Gale at his feet.

But the aloof housecat often thinks itself a ruler on high over the loyal pup, even when they both wear the master's collar and eat his of scraps. Enver has come to enjoy their meals together.

Read if you like: the evil throuple from hell, Gale 'rip to everyone who died of hubris but I'm better' Dekarios, kept pet wizards, psychosexual 4D chess

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Perfect Bound (4.5k, E, Astarion/Gale)

“Whatever happened here?” Astarion teases, coming face to face with Gale. He makes a show of looking him up and down, one slender finger against his own lips in faux concern.

Gale makes a growl of annoyance around his gag. He gives one pointed tug to his bound wrists and flicks his eyes upwards as if to say is it not obvious?

“Trapped? Oh, but that can’t be it. Astarion says, mouth dropping open as if he’s just noticed the binds. “I seem to recall you saying you had everything quite in hand.”

My first Bloodweave 1 shot! A classic dangerkink Dekarios take in which Gale gets a little tied up and Astarion is there to help.

Read if: You like your bloodweave with a thread of pred/prey or you like seeing wizard hubris punished (in a sexy way)

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Typecasting (19k, E, Gale/Shadowheart/Tav)

"You see, the problem about writing on drow society is one often does not make it up from the Underdark to hand pages to publisher. Of course there are many…less researched volumes. Of hapless men and leather-clad matrons. But I told Shadowheart I would be a gentleman, so that is all I will say on the more sordid parts of my education. You’ve nothing to fear.”

Stuck in the underdark with a drow city before them and freedom, Shadowheart & Tav keep Gale as a fake prisoner to keep their cover.

Read if: You're a 'Gale has an erotica collection' truther, you like strong ladies and puppy-eyed men, the dynamic of 'dom teaching dom with one eager to please sub, slightly convoluted reasons to !!leash and collar that wizard!!

[aevallare]

THE OTHER GIRL - 1/1

inspired by this piece by @yelenhol. thank you so much for making such beautiful art.

[hightief]

had to do over my Karlach origin run from forever ago (version incompatibility)

and i am obsessed with this position Shadowheart and Gale ended up in during a battle it's giving hot goth mom and hot geek dad i'm in love with them

also not me immediately saving and exiting to main menu after this to start a Gale save 💀

[brainrotalex]

need more content of gale with other characters…galeheart??? thunderweave??? oakweave??? bladeweave??? please and thanks

[spectralarrovv]

steady hands and new beginnings

[forsakenwitchery]

daily galeheart gifs incoming. :D

who wanted to hug the wizard? 😺 I remember someone in the tags wanting to give Gale a hug. So I give thee the hug from all the angles. 😈

[all my bg3 gifs] & [all my galeheart thingies]

bonus gif with Tara:

[galdinamary]

Gale and Shadowheart (Baldur`s Gate 3)✨

[amorficzna]

Shadowheart: so hear me out...

Gale: [trying not to act interested but very interested] go on...

[thecubspeaks]

The @bg3-winter-big-bang is here! I am very excited to finally post the first chapter, with amazing art by @laserlope to come tomorrow...

Gale and Shadowheart have been living together since the Absolute fell, but a new crisis forces them to consider whether they're as happy as they claim to be.

[violet-dekarios]

“There’s something…unspeakable about Shadowheart. But I mean that in a good way. She seems to me like a bud on the cusp of bursting into a rose. That or deadly nightshade.” - Gale Dekarios (act I.) (fun fact: another name for nightshade is belladonna which translates to “beautiful woman” We love us a poet).