#ansur quest

[a2zillustration]

Gale and I had the exact same reaction when we opened that door.

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#this puzzle took me way too long bc I knew the answer but for some reason my brain thought the king could move in new and mysterious ways #It's been a hot minute since I've played chess and I was never very good at it lmao #It's canon that Croissant knows how to move the pieces but doesn't know any proper strategies #They would love for Gale to play with them and teach them more #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #ansur quest #REMEMBER WHEN I SAID BLOCK THAT TAG IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE THIS YET? #THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING BEFORE THE BIG SPOILERS HAPPEN #croissant adventures #tav #gale #gale dekarios #gale x tav #breadweave #comics #WAIT I FORGOT there's gonna be a quick break in comics rn - I'll try to fill the gap with asks and other artwork #we'll be back on schedule on Monday!

[voltaical-art]

do you guys ever think about how Wyll is introduced as an archetypal fantasy hero, but then it turns out he’s a warlock, who made a pact with a devil. Do you ever think about how Ansur is described as this fantastical dragon of myth, but then when you find him, he’s turned into an undead monstrosity. Do you think about how when Wyll does the right thing, he is punished to become more monstrous. Do you think about how as Wyll’s warlock powers grow, his spells get more horrific. Do you think about how Ansur was killed by his closest friend. Do think about how Wyll was cast out by the most important person in his life. do you guys ever think about Ansur and Wyll.

#tw mild gore #bg3 #wyll ravengard #bg3 ansur #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #ask to tag #wahoo had a lot of fun with the colors in this #we could have had it alllllll wyll shouldve been able to bond with the dragon #like ough how do you think wyll feels about casting spells like eyebite and blight #the ending of his quest is so.... lackluster #i like the emperor i think hes really interesting but like... he does kinda swoop in and take over the end of wyll's personal quest...

[mintharan]

one thing i love so so much about wyll is that he's an atheist, not in the sense that he doesn't believe in them, they are materially real in the DnD setting, but that he doesn't think they're worthy of worship "the only thing the gods have ever given me is a cold shoulder" it's so evocative, so poignant, it says so much about him as a character. and really, to me, encapsulates the essence of his character: there is no divine intervention, there are no miracles, there are only people, and for them he's willing to sacrifice more than any god ever would

#wyll #wyll ravengard #this is also why he's so attached to heroes like balduran and ansur regular people who achieved extraordinary things #and this is why i think his quest misses the mark of making him see the flaws in his heroes but not letting him come #to the obvious realization: no one can do it alone #there's no single hero who saves the day #you need a crowd you need the masses #the game itself reinforces this by having groups of allies to support the last stand #so to me wyll's character journey should be all about him realizing that real change can only be enacted by the people #but now we're probably getting too marxist for larian #but anyway to me that's the logical conclusion of wyll's character arc #and also why i don't particularly like the 'send him to avernus with karlach' ending #it robs him of agency and relegates him to a vigilante role that i'm a little uncomfortable with #i much prefer the duke and ranger endings

[makimahinalno]

Tfw when Gortash and Raphael are one of your favourite characters and you desperately want to ally with them once to try it, but their fights are one of the best parts of the game and you can't miss it?

Iron Throne, when Gortash's hologram pops up and tells you to turn away or you will condemn all those souls inside to a certain death. But even if you listen to him, you know those people will die anyway at some point when Enver decides he no longer can use them for his political advancement? The adrenaline going crazy when Mizora appears cause she wants Ravengard to die just to see Wyll suffer? You also need Ulder to give you the quest for Ansur and Balduran, cause it's important for Emperor's storyline? The Steel Watch is also unique, trying to save those poor Gondians from slavery.

And House of Hope! It was my favourite part of the game. The anxiety as you try to steal the hammer and save Hope, but everyone around you is telling you how pissed Raphael is gonna be when he catches you. Then you really shit your pants when the portal to Baldur's Gate closes and he comes out with Korilla and Yurgir? His fight is the BEST fight ever, the music? 11/10 I can listen to it on repeat for hours.

Like the game feels incomplete if you don't do these quests, even when I try to play evil... the only thing I wish was to see Raphael and Gortash acknowledge each other since they both kinda both work with you.

#im trying to do an evil run but im going crazy cause i want to ally with them but these quests hrnnnnnnn... #raphael bg3 #enver gortash #mizora #ulder ravengard #wyll ravengard #balduran #emperor #ansur #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[carryoncastiel]

Funniest tags on my meme post. The Emperor fans are in the trenches y'all!!!

#since when is The Emperor an Origin character huh? #also he got to steal the Ansur quest from Wyll #what more do you want? #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[fallingbyjuleecruise]

every day i think about the ansur plot in act 3 could've actually had emotional weight if larian studios gave a shit about wyll. damn.

#like the whole gauntlet is about expressing the type of heroism that wyll has striven for his entire life. #the way the quest is so prototypical in it's fairy tale sensibility of the honest and true hero awaking a dragon under the city and - #saving the day and he goes through this whole gauntlet that's a test of how well he ascribes to the ideals of balduran and his father - #and everything he ever clung to to validate himself to himself after being coerced into mizora's deal as a 17 year old kid and then - #he succeeds! he passes the tests! only to find that ansur (literally named answer) is an undead abomination you have to put down #like it's SO SAD. and to me a big part of his story is accepting who HE is. seeing himself outside of his deal w mizora or what his father #wanted him to be and the fact that wyll isn't allowed to have a big emotional reaction to the ansur situation is so annoying #in fact wyll doesn't EVER get to have an emotional reaction to anything bc larian studios doesn't care enough to flesh his story out - #despite giving him one of the most interesting ideas for a character in the game! like act 3 should be WYLL'S act! he's so tied into - #everyone important in that act that it's actually a crime that he's sidelined the most there and he doesn't have enough vocal fans - #that larian studios will ever care enough to patch his story or add anything like they did for karlach or astarion. it's so dumb. #and it sucks that the writers don't recognize wyll's abuse bc his abuser is a hot devil lady. what she does to him is sick. god. #anyway. whatever. #baldur's gate 3 #my posts #.txt

[unreadpoppy]

So because I'm waiting for the next patch to drop to finish this run, Galatea is now going around doing random side quests in act3. I decided to go look up what were all the quests you could do in that act and babygirl has done practically all of them....

if this patch doesn't drop soon imma lose it

#the only side quest i haven't done is the fireworks one #and then the main ones are like find Ansur and break the steel watch #cause after that it's killing gortash time (sorry flame)

[tadpoled-ranger]

Act 3 has got too many things going on for most of them to just be the game throwing it into your face and saying “go get it.”

#hey go get anti hag support group. hey go get thurbo. hey go get ansur. hey go get minsc. hey go do all the companion quests. hey go #I barely defeated the githyanki down in the emporers hole #like fucking hells I can take on lorrokan or Raphael at this stage 💀 #bg3 #baulders gate 3

[yo9urt]

local man completely obliterated by strength of narrative and character writing in 2023 game of the year

#mine #last night after putting it off for essentially as long as i possibly could because i knew it would decimate me #i finally attacked c4z4dor and (of course) kept ast4r10n as a spawn and basically finished up his quest #FUUUUCK ME DUDE....i knew what was coming in advance but that did not make it any less impactful #i mean holy shit the writing on this guy......the fucking graveyard scene (DO NOT GET ME STARTED)... #and of course neil's performance ohhh my god he deserves every award he can possibly have #god i love asta so much i'm literally never going to be the same this game is soooo insane #the only things i have left are the house of hope and then disabling the foundry and killing gort and doing the final fight stuff #i am ... nervous lol #ive heard the raphael fight is HAAAAAAAAARD #i'll find a way... #i think in the future i may reorder my act 3 quests i think it would be interesting to tackle some (ex companion quests or raphael) #sooner in the story #shadowhearts quest was like...3rd or 4th last thing i did cause i think i did that and then ansur and then astarion #i'm actually SO excited to replay the game i think im gonna have the time of my life doing roleplay and making diff choices #plus i know i missed a TON of stuff in this run so its gonna be fun to see what else is out there #after this im planning to do my first durge run which is REALLY exciting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i may do another regular tav run simultaneously but not totally sure.... #anyway yeah... awesome game everyone should buy it and play it its on sale right now go buy it and play it

[nerozane]

Playing as origin Wyll, and romancing the Emperor (PSH I know in canon he wouldn't even dare but it was curiosity with my friends' co-op game where we found out our chars could do the romance scene the emperor at once 💀) and it just sucks finding out on origin Wyll that he can't even talk as part of the romance with the Emperor after Ansur. Which has so much potential for a lot of heartache and would have been great to discover unique dialogue. Even if it's a small dialogue line...

Also, origin or not and whether or not origin Wyll romanced the Emperor, Wyll would have been a great divorce councillor, and maybe used his high cha not have the fight with undead Ansur. Just sayin'.

#wyll #bg3 the emperor #bg3 emperor #lowkey it would be kind of add to Wyll's personal quest #Wyll doesnt react much with the story even as origin or companion #we should have had the option to roll to talk to ansur... it just sucked we couldn't #wyll could have talked down an undead dragon... #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[a2zillustration]

We got april fool'd so hard.

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#This was pretty accurate to my real life reaction - Larian got me good. #BUT WE'RE NOT DONE YET AND I'M BEGGING YOU TO BLOCK #ansur quest #IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE THIS YOURSELF YET AND DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!!! #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #croissant adventures #tav #wyll #lae'zel #gale #I know they're not really prominent here but- #ansur #comics

[pennamepersona]

woke up thinking about the narrative use of astarion & how weird it is that his personal quest doesn't tie into the main narrative At All bc something is wrong with me, etc

ftr, i'm saying all of this as a bigtime astarion fan. love this guy. i keep romancing him and it's begun to feel like a cry for help. And Also, @ larian it's really fucking weird that you made a guy who doesn't tie into the plot at all

i'm putting the rest of this under a readmore. also i'm maintagging this mostly just for being able to find it later, if anybody wants to come @ me then pls know i basically never engage w/ tumblr and you'll probably be disappointed.

best i have for a real justification is that astarion exists in part for players who want to be Evil And Fucked Up. none of the other companions are fully down with using the tadpole powers or trying to take over the cult. and it is genuinely good to have a companion who gives you that option! if players who wanted to explore the fucked up options had complete disapproval from every companion, it would be kinda feelbad and make those options feel less like a real choice you're allowed to make.

why does that matter re: astarion being entirely detached from the main narrative? thank you for asking. it means that "guy who is down for being fucked up and taking over the cult" doesn't come across as secretly being in league with the bad guys the whole time. astarion having no link to ketheric, orin, or gortash means that his power play ideas don't make you suspicious that he's been lying to you and is just waiting to deliver you to the Chosen.

to be clear: still weird that he has no direct tie-in. but this is the best reason i could think of for why he'd be so completely not involved.

the other Point Of Him, i think, is for The Dark Urge. it's no secret that astarion is a killer parallel for durge. i'm not gonna go into that but goddamn, i love it.

and if we're looking at things from the durge perspective, i think it kinda works for astarion to be so detached. he then becomes Random Baldurian Affected By Durge's Actions and it adds more strength to him also functioning as a piece of nuance for the tadpoles. he's the only one who directly benefits from the tadpoles existing! and that on its own is a cool bit of narrative. i think the durge side of things makes astarion's narrative tie in just a bit more. we've now got Dude Who Was Saved By Player Character (Albeit Unintentionally). i think it adds more depth to the durge narrative, and if the dark urge was the only non-origin option and tav didn't exist, i think it makes astarion's lack of narrative relevance a bit less glaring.

tldr; useful for the guy who's down to be fucked up to not be involved with the villains At All so you don't get suspicious of him and the option to be fucked up feels like more of a real option

(also tasty durge & astarion narrative depth)

#bg3 #bg3 meta #astarion #still weird. can't emphasize this enough. #i'm a major astarion fan and still @ larian what's up with this guy #i think i'm onto smth with having him as the If You Wanna Be Fucked Up narrative support #and i really do think it makes sense for him to not have any possibility of being secretly involved with the Chosen #still weird but that feels like it might be the real reason #i'm rly tired btw so possible i'm less of a genius than i think i am #fr woke up and almost immediately started thinking about this #wrt to the rest of the companions i landed on shadowheart and lae'zel being the most Necessary ones #wyll adds reason to care about ravenguard and also ansur #karlach ties into wyll and gives more gortash narrative #never thought about it much before but gale is actually v similar to astarion #his quest ties into the narrative but he as a character does not #you could remove gale and lose nothing from the actual plot narrative #the fact that his quest ties in makes him in a whole other category than astarion ofc #but he doesn't actually leave a hole like the others do #though tbh karlach is the next easiest to remove #she adds to wyll and to gortash but mostly she is uninvolved w/ the bigger narrative #wyll should rly get more attention from larian given that he's the guy who gives u reason to care about the Baldurian side of the narrative #the duke is def helped by wyll being around #but the most necessary and narratively useful are absolutely shadowheart and lae'zel #shadowheart has the artifact. could you just find it on your own or have it Appear somehow? sure. but she makes it infinitely less clumsy. #also the Entire thing w/ aylin #rly the whole shadowlands thing would lose a lot w/o shadowheart #and lae'zel is your Singular connection to the githyanki #it isn't *necessary* but you lose quite a bit of Giving A Shit About Orpheus which is y'know #i would say pretty important #none of this is me saying any of these companions are therefore Better than the others btw

[theeflowerofcarnage]

found out what the emperor did... after I pity fucked him too eye …….

#i am gullible af 😳 I had my suspicions but just totally went along w him... #stelman a 'stoker survior' hmm sure #in the first save i totally friendzoned him but regretted not getting a better ending w him it was so vague but NOW??? #ansur? stelman do all your allies dies so easily??? n hes like welll...........was being illithid worth it?? n hes like ya wdym??........ #I love this game so much!! ughhh the layers of storytelling!!! the way my perceptions of a character change completely just bc I missed ONE #ONE!! quest!! #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #i had 2 close the game afterwards that actually depressed me a bit like?? naaaaaaauuur wtf

[baronmpontmercy]

I think I baldured too close to the gate again

#I got an obscene amount done yesterday #iron throne ansur steel watch Gortash and then down into the sewers to talk w voss #I don’t think. I have any other big quest things to do now save the rest of the companion quests #it’s. it’s gotta be nearly endgame time

[zevrans]

i just encountered 2 entirely new things (at least for me) in act 3: some guard approached us and said mizora told them that wyll betrayed his father, we persuaded her and then she told about ansur - of which on my 1st playthrough i only discovered after saving wyll's father from the iron throne?? duke ravengard told of that legend after a long rest at camp, and that was near the end of the playthrough meanwhile i am learning this now, when i haven't yet progressed any of the main quests of act 3 at all and i feel like this is new, because i ran around so many times the place where we encountered the guard on my 1st playthrough, couldn't have missed it for sure;; and the second thing i never seen is that gale has an actual convo with loroakkan after i lied him about ailyn and approached him again and gale commented about the crown and loroakkan responded and it turned into a whole dialogue which i dont know how didn't appear on my 1st pt because i definately had gale in my party throughout the whole quest 🤯 also another thing: i don't know why but spawn astarion no longer says to throw away the potion araj insists us on drinking, he's unromanced now yes, but on previous playthrough i checked both romanced and unromanced spawn astarion had same reaction of not wanting us to drink it and defending us if we refuse to give our blood again

#i am just curious did i miss first two previously or are those new? the oblodra thing seems like a bug #but who knows maybe it was cut and left only for a romanced spawnstarion? which if a pity if that's the case #but the whole guard mizora ambush encounter feels so random - it makes much more sense to learn about ansur through wyll's father #although this way i guess we can do ansur quest waay earlier in the act #ok i am goimg to sleep now; i know a lot of people are tired of bg3 but i just wanted to talk about new (for me at least) stuff i found :")

[saturniade]

replaying bgate is so fun man...

#ive been feeling real down lately but oh thank you lots the watery dopamine of videogames <3 #i should go for a walk tho. in real life. AND THEN IN THE VIDEOGAME #yoo my post #this playthru im playing origin astarion + romancing wyll and im loving ittttt also my party is so ranged/magic heavy lol #that because my first party was me + lae`zel karlach astarion. so im mixing it up w me + wyll shadowheart gale ofcourse! #didnt do a lot of their quests my first time around (and i mean I Just Didnt Have Gale.) so this one is a cool new spin! #achievement hunting and even more exploring... (i keep finding new areas and things!) #third plauthrough we will be going DURGE. and maybe HONOR MODE. which is famously A BAD IDEA #just fought ansur in origin astarion n survived by the skin of my teeth... idk how i can win that in honor mode... #siiigh anyway. maybe by actually buffing myself w elixirs beforehand lmao