#bg3 spoilers

[anonymouscreampuff]

"omg my favourite assassin i've missed yo--"

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #durgetash #gortash #enver gortash #the dark urge #dark urge #durge #ulder ravengard

[bongwaterbunny]

btw gale loses all composure when hes horny. can't even make out the words "please" or "thank you", he just starts to dote on you and, when he's particularly needy, he'll grind up against you and paw at your clothes until you get the hint. he told me himself.

#baldurs gate gale #bg3 shitpost #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 headcanons #bg3 gale #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #bg3 companions #bg3 posting #gale romance #gale smut #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #gale x reader #gale x tav #the wizard of waterdeep

[a2zillustration]

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[[ All Croissant Adventures (chronological, desktop) ]]

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#this guy was a perfectly anticlimactic final boss for us lmao #We ended up sneaking up to the roof and bypassing the entire flaming fist squadron throughout wyrm's rock #rolled up with full health and resources and kicked this man right in the dingdong #now for the sad bits :') #y'all we're finally in endgame I'm crying we're almost done aaaaaaa #what's gonna HAPPEN #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #croissant adventures #tav #karlach #gortash #comics

[justporo]

Some days Astarion feels the pain of being a vampire more than others. He knows and feels it in every fibre of his being. He's different, he's a monster.

He's cold to the touch, his eyes glow red, he cannot go into the sun, his heart doesn't beat.

When you notice these moments of painful realisation you move to him as you see the shine in his usually bright eyes dim. And you wrap your arms tightly around him. So your warmth seeps into his body. And so he can feel your heartbeat drum through both of your bodies.

You hold him like this until he cannot tell if it's your warmth or his. Until you feel his spark return. Willing him to know that you'll let your heart beat for the two of you, no matter what.

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #astarion x tav #astarion x you #poro drabbles

[jezmmart]

Finished another Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough, suppose I can go back to drawing being the thing I spend most of my waking hours on again now. I GUESS. [More: BG3 | DnD | FanArt | Humour]

#jezmm #baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart #donkey kong #funny art #art #fan art #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #sketches #dnd

[casp0re]

One day I'll draw REAL fanart. Just not today-

#art #digital art #bg3 astarion #astarion #bg3 art #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 spoilers #artists on tumblr #artwork #my art #drawings

[swordmaid]

durge immediately after killing ketheric:

#the dark urge #orin #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #mine. #this is a warning and a threat btw #honestly the cutest yves has ever looked… look at that smile..!!!!

[galesdevoteewife]

Was looking for a pose reference so I went back to take some screenshots and got this and I think... I can't think...... Whatever you want, YES

#🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 #ended up staring with blank mind #I have all the good reasons to be crazy about this pixel man #MY BOY SO PRETTY #SO LOVE DRUNK #never ever have pixel melt me like this #wanna rule the world? want human sacrifice? anything. you name it #I want him to have everything #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 ending spoilers #bg3 spoilers #bg3 act 3 spoilers #bg3 screenshots #gale romance #gale x tav #rambling

[shadydruid]

✨️Commission ✨️ Another Baldur's Gate Tav portrait- Pearl. Seldarine Drow Paladin of Eilistraee. Kind, straightforward, honest, and brave.

#bg 3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 spoilers #bg3 tav #bg3 #bg3 art #bg3 drow #dnd drow #dnd character art #dnd paladin #bg3 paladin #open commissions #dnd character #dnd commission

[sledgehammer-to-a-discoball]

#durge #the dark urge #durgetash #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #enver gortash #dark urge #gortash #no longer you #epic the musical

[anonymouscreampuff]

that's his littol meowmeow murder kitten your honour

(original post is on my twitter<3)

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #the dark urge #dark urge #durge #durgetash #gortash #enver gortash #///every time i see this mans face i want to bite him #like is it MY fault he looks so biteable???? NO exactly

[littlemonday]

So much of the difference in player response to the Emperor vs. Raphael comes down to aesthetics.

I’ve been seeing a lot of fan posting of Raphael lately, which is honestly fine. I enjoy seeing fan creations on all the characters. But I feel like I need to address something that is, for me, rather glaring in the fandom. Raphael is a pretty popular character, while the Emperor gets so much hate posting I’ve had to block users and entire groups on other sites because it was so over the top. These characters are functionally quite similar in the game, but the disparity in how they’re each perceived couldn’t be more different.

Both characters need to form an alliance with the main character. Both characters need the main character to defeat the brain. Both characters are willing to manipulate the main character to meet their own ends. But, one character is a conventionally attractive middle aged man, and the other is a humanoid squid monster. (How many times have we all seen posts about how upset someone was when their hot dream guardian turned out to be the squid monster?)

Not only is Raphael conventionally attractive, but he stays that way when he reveals himself as a devil.The Emperor presents himself as someone the main character would trust, but when he’s finally revealed, he bears no resemblance to the facade he was wearing - a facade that he sincerely believed was necessary to keep himself safe and to win your trust. Raphael is quite literally the handsome devil. His ascended form barely makes an appearance, but even so that form is not alien. It’s devilish, but not alien, and “alien” unlike devilish, invokes a deeply discomforting fear of the unknown.

Raphael is all opulence and performance, wearing tailored clothing and living in a grandiose house that hides the horrors of what happens there until late into act 3. While the mind flayer colonies by comparison are grotesque organisms that look like the inside of a body, and the Emperor’s home is a bare bones cellar with the last remaining keepsakes of his former life. The chains he uses to hold his victims are right out in the open.

Raphael is like an old school campy Disney villain who tries to entertain you all while openly admitting that he wants you to come to him when you’re desperate and all hope is gone. And like those old Disney villains, he just enjoys being evil. He even comes with his own villain song that he sings. He enjoys your suffering. He’s openly playing with his food. The Emperor does try to seduce you, but mostly tries to appeal to your pragmatism and empathy. However, he doesn’t have Disney villain camp to help him out here. He embodies all the body horror and fear over the player's loss of humanity by virtue of him being a mind flayer. He does have a song, but most of us miss it on our first play through and don’t hear its tragic lyrics.

Raphael, and this one is perhaps the most frustrating to me, imprisoned and tortured Hope for years! He takes advantage of people, including orphans, and gets them to sign away their souls for eternal torment in exchange for something they desperately want or need in life. While the Emperor has that one infamous cutscene in which we see him enthrall Stelmane, but it comes on the heels of the player dehumanizing and provoking him. A lot of players will refer to this as a “call out” and a “mask off” moment, which is very disingenuous framing. It’s frustrating that so few players never seem to consider the deeper role their choices may play in triggering this scene: you treat him like an inhuman monster, and you get an inhuman monster. Players will complain all the time about how the Emperor manipulates you and lies about everything, but apparently in this one scene he’s suddenly being completely honest and not manipulating you? So many never consider the possibility of confirmation bias when it comes to this character.

As I said, this cutscene is an obvious threat, but I know that just because he’s threatening you, it doesn’t mean there’s no truth to what you’re seeing. However, it also doesn’t mean that this is somehow “the truth” as so many players seem to think it is. I’ll write more on this in another post, but there’s just not enough information in the game to make definitive conclusions on their relationship. And I bring this up because I don’t see anywhere near the outrage over Hope as I see over Stelmane.

Then there’s Ansur. The Emperor killed his love, Ansur, out of self defense (we know this from Ansur himself), and for a lot of players, this was what solidified their hatred for the Emperor, and they will endlessly hate post about it. Raphael, on the other hand, never killed any of his loves. But the reason he never killed any of his loves is because he’s never loved anyone. He’s incapable of it, and anyone he has killed was, at best, a mere tool for his use.

Which brings me to my next point, even though both characters are trying to manipulate you to their own ends, only the Emperor sees you as more than a means to an end. Raphael does not. In fact, I wrote a lot of words on this very topic.

I’ve had people tell me that they like Raphael more because he’s upfront with his intentions, while the Emperor isn’t. That’s not entirely true. The Emperor tells you he wants his freedom, even tells you the power he uses to protect you is power he’s stolen, but he goes to great lengths to hide his identity, where Raphael barely goes to any lengths at all. As I said, the Emperor sincerely believes he must do this to protect himself. He likes to puff his chest out, but he’s quite aware of his own vulnerability, so he lives a life in which he’s constantly hiding and disguising himself. He’s surviving, as he puts it in the end. Raphael is essentially a prince in the Hells who wields a lot of power, and whatever vulnerabilities he might have are well protected. Whatever difference this makes is not enough to justify the gulf in how much hate the Emperor receives versus how little Raphael does.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this is not me saying that you have to like one character or dislike another. That’s personal, and I’m not going to waste time telling people how to feel. So please don’t take away from this that I want to see more hate posting about Raphael. I don’t! Please don’t hate post about any characters, and if you absolutely must, please don’t use character tags to do so. What I am saying is that there’s a clear double standard in this fandom, and I want more players to engage with this media in a way that is both empathetic and analytical. I think both of those things together can prevent a lot of toxicity.

#bg3 #the emperor #the emperor bg3 #bg3 emperor #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #raphael #media criticism #not a hate post #fandoms

[coreene]

I know there was some discourse about Astarion's age a while back and here's my thoughts on it:

He may have been turned into a vampire when he's 39 (correct me if I'm wrong) but elves' bodies mature at the same speed humans' does. They see maturity around or after 100 years because of experience etc, I also remember reading it is after that point they can't dream about/remember their past lives.

What I'm saying is, Astarion might have been a vampire for 200 years but he's an elf. His trauma sat back his emotional maturity for sure, but I think by elf standards he is 239. His aging stopped physically but by elven standards it counts.

#Feel free to argue me #Or explain it better than I did #Because I just woke up #And words aren't wording #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #baldur's gate 3 astarion

[dragon--sage]

"When I look at my future, anything and everything feels possible. And I get to share it with you, as a partner. An... equal."

filed under: spawn astarion lines that make me want to launch myself into the sun from too much pain and joy

#THEY'RE EQUAL THEY'RE A PARTNERSHIP THEY ARE IN THIS TOGETHER #THEY DON'T NEED TO CONTROL OR MANIPULATE EACH OTHER B/C THEY HAVE TRUST #i love him your honor #astarion #astarion x tav #tavstarion #astarion x durge #durgestarion #astarion x nyana #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[daemon-in-my-head]

Sorry but I love the idea of Durge killing and enjoying it in a form of 'control' thing so I'll talk about it.

Cuz let's be real, Durge was puppeteered around their entire life, all major events were orchestrated by daddy dearest, so when they find something that they can do, they can do well and it even makes them feel great they completely bloom into it. Kill to regain control of oneself kinda but also controlling the life or death of someone in form of vivisections and all that is an almost godlike level of control.

Like yeah sure, the sacrifice dedicated to father, but also to themselves, because they could choose who and how and even that is a marked improvement to 'wake up and everybody's dead also dad has some very fucked up ideas of what we gonna do in your free time'.

It also serves as an 'explanation' why they view Gortash in a different light compared to Ketheric, Orin or Sarevok. Cuz Gortash is control incarnate, there's not even a loose strand of hair on that man. He's essentially a fucked up version of an idol for Durge, embodying the control they want.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #dark urge #durge #bg3 durge #bg3 gortash #enver gortash #lord gortash #im out of town tonight #pls dont expect me to be here or smth #had an interview in a dif city #went well #gonna spoil myself for surviving social anxiety and not getting lost

[preciouslittlebhaalbabe3]

IM NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING ;W;

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 video #bg3 arcane tower #bg3 spoilers