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Since no one asked, I decided to answer a few of these questions for my beloved Akhaten:

1. None. A life’s worth is only found in death, once its purpose towards Bhaal has been fulfilled.

4. 35-37. Her age might’ve affected her relationship with the Chosen, in the sense that she was seen as an experienced adult - which isn’t the case with Orin.

6. In “Reign of Akhaten” she bit Gortash’s throat out, which he survived, given that she was pretty busy riding out an Urge, giving him time to knock back a healing potion. (He did not like that.)

7. The only side effect of her divinity is related to her personality and the way she was brought up - when you’re a murderous child being told that you are holy, divine and perfect, that lends to you becoming a very self-assured adult who’s out of touch with reality. That, and the loneliness - when you’re divine, no one’s on your level, so you get pretty isolated.

8. She wouldn’t have critiqued her father pre-canon. She was perfect, and she was his, so why critique?

9. Depends. Utensils if it was a (somewhat) civilised dinner. In “Worship at the Altar of Small Death” she has a dream in which she recalls an instance in which she used a victim’s stolen gold utensils to dine. She very much liked them.

10. She did indulge in cannibalism, and saw it as her right to do so, given that her father gave her the ability. I think she might’ve eaten normal food too, but did not have a marked preference for it.

Past Life Dark Urge Asks - 7th Edition:

What is the worth of a single mortal life from the perspective of their former self?

How does Durge actually view death? Is it a mercy, a gift, or perhaps just nature's course?

What languages does Durge speak?

How old are they when the game begins? Did their age affect them or how they view the other Chosen in any way?

What was their greatest display of self-control?

Did they ever loose control and what happened when they did?

Being divine and all that might have it side effects. Which one did your Durge have to endure? Did their immunity to poisons perhaps also meant they couldn't use potions or did they have a certain effect on people?

If they could critique one thing about their father and get away scot-free, what would it be?

Did Durge use utensils to eat or did they decide to embrace the old fashioned way bhaal intended?

Speaking off, what's their diet like? Do they actually exclusively do the cannibalism bit or can they be convinced to eat normal food?

#bg3 #durge #dark urge #bg3 durge #dark urge ask game #bg3 ask game #durge ask game #fic: clarion call #fic: reign of akhaten #series: blood in the water #oc: akhaten #the dark urge

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so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

#i was 12 #then went through a teenage phase of UGH. cringe #and now i am 27 and still prefer reading fanfic over actual books #i love my blorbos what can i say

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4 minutes later:

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #lae’zel

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Behold!! I painted my beloved Dark Urge, Akhaten. I added the second picture because I’m obsessed w/ the shine from the liquid gold leaf I used for Bhaal’s symbol, which isn’t evident at all in the first one.

Akhaten is the former High Primistress of the Temple of Bhaal in Baldur’s Gate. She is a Bhaalspawn who has long struggled with feelings of loneliness and isolation, but do not be fooled - for even monsters can get lonely.

I call this “Reign of Akhaten” (which does have a correspondent on AO3 which you can find in this Durgestarion series). It’s painted on a round canvas using acrylic paints.

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate fanart #baldurs gate 3 fanart #the dark urge #bg3 durge #durge #durgestarion #fic: clarion call #series: blood in the water #bg3 bhaalspawn

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Every writer has two sides:

"I love my characters, they are my children and will protect them with my life"

"I wanna make them suffer so fucking much"

#clarion call #bg3 fanfiction #baldurs gate 3 fanfiction

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I was writing a draft for clarion call and left my laptop open and my cat sat on it. This is the result and it’s better than anything I could’ve ever delivered

I hope she writes more of this

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 fic #bg3 shitpost

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a collection of some of my favorite durge lines/flavor text

#baldur's gate 3 #the dark urge #durge

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#me

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i enjoyed your lae'zel comic, do you plan on more for her?

Thank you very much! That reminds me of an older piece I drew. Let's see what else will come!

#bg3 #fanart #baldur's gate 3 #comic #lae'zel #astarion #gale #shadowheart #kith'rak voss #githyanki

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> playing bg3 fighting some cultists

> one of them casts confusion

> astarion fails the saving throw

> runs up to shadowheart and fucking bites her

> ah fuck

> notification for MY character. my character. not astarion

> SHADOWHEART DISAPPROVES

> ????????

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #shadowheart #astarion #how is this my fault #astarion bg3 #baldur's gate 3

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Clarion Call, Ch. 5: Astarion’s Interlude: Act 1.

Chapter Summary: Astarion's nice, simple plan, and all the ways in which it went wrong from the very beginning.

Story Summary: After receiving Bhaal's retribution in the form of Orin's dagger through her skull, The Dark Urge remembers nothing of her past.

But Astarion does. Faced with the prospect of finally coming face to face with the woman who promised to bring him a bloodbath to feast on, he struggles between his fear of her and the fated nature of their bond.

Akhaten and Astarion. Two mice stuck on the same never-ending wheel, this is the story of how they find their freedom from their masters, and from each other.

Series: blood in the water (part 3)

Relationship: Astarion/The Dark Urge

Tags: Soulmate AU, Enemies to Lovers, [eventual] Redemption!Dark Urge. Not your usual soulmate AU, not your usual Durgestarion. Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort.

Warning for Astarion’s trauma and Durge being Durge.

Read a snippet of chapter 5 below!

“What had he done?

It was the only question that ran through his mind, over and over and over again, as he nearly ran back to camp. He’d left her there, lost in whatever vision someone like her was wont to have, had been incapable of doing anything but running.

He kept throwing glances over his shoulder. Was she following him? Was she hunting him?

Did she, he wondered with a drop of ice in his stomach, did she know who he was?

The thought was nearly too much to bear. His throat was tightening, just like the metaphorical chains around his wrists.

She was here. She was here. She was here.”

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion bg3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #astarion #dark urge #bg3 dark urge #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 fic #baldurs gate fanfiction #baldurs gate 3 fanfiction #astarion/the dark urge

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without a doubt favourite part of bg3 is withers’ temple where every single book goes “you’re travelling with a vampire and a sharran and withers is jergal and also 50/50 you’re a bhaalspawn”

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 astarion #bg3 shadowheart #dark urge #durge #bg3 durge #astarion #withers is a king

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The perfect timing of one of the brain earthquakes while at Wyrm's Rock made it sound like my Durge was fed up with Lae'zel hating on owls

#bg3 #lae'zel #karlach #durge #baldurs gate 3 #akhaten being bird-coded

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Tfw youre a demigod of death but keep getting folded in half by goblins

yeah the classic durge run has been going great why do you ask

#bg3 #bg3 durge #bg3 dark urge

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Actual footage of Durge and Scleritas night out

#baldurs gate #the dark urge #bg3 shitpost

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I'm built different. like incorrectly i think

#akhaten vibes #bg3 dark urge

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couldn’t get this out of my head

twt for 4k image:

https://x.com/skeptical_lynx/status/1780524884239503677?s=46&t=EuBiJuFrpmM7JiLiuDbaCA

the context:

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #astarion ancunin #baldurs gate astarion #bg3 astarion #astarion #baldur’s gate tav #baldurs gate tav