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thunderboltfire · 10 days

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The complete base BG2 party roster in Darkest Dungeon style!

Some of them were used in this scene

I thought that the stylisation is way too fun to limit it to my in-game party (and besides, I sometimes switch party members anyway).

The models (sans my Charname, and including background with Athkatla sewers and Othyugh) are downloadable and usable under CC BY-NC-SA.

download via st.ash and via google disk (maybe I'll find a way to host in somewhere else later). Enjoy!

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thunderboltfire · 2 months

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Woe to the one

Who boast in front of the gods

Woe to the god

Who is petty and jealous to mortals

Ensiferum 'Andromeda' --------------------------

I've decided to give oils in Rebelle another go. It's more of a cinematic recreation than what actually happened, but I'm really happy with it.

#BG1 #Baldur's Gate 1 #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #Charname #Sarevok Anchev #thunderboltfire's art #digital art #don't worry about traps they're disarmed at this point #also I'm aware that the only actual source of orange color in the hall of the temple is Sarevok's kickass carpet #but I concluded the fireplace would be a really fun addition #and the carpet has to be lit by something anyway

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thunderboltfire · 1 month

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There is a slight, but meaningful difference between English and Polish version of this dialogue - in the original the sentence reads "You pause, knowing you may not survive the battle to come" and in the Polish translation it's "You stop, aware that You will not survive the coming battle". Whether it's a simple translation blunder or an intentionally more dramatic approach, considering Charname has to take battle after battle in their weakened state that's getting worse, it makes sense they'd feel they've reached their limit.

#Baldur's Gate 2 #BG2 #Iwona the Gorion's Ward #Charname #Baldur's Gate 2 spoilers #I headcanon she looks very sick at this point - almost corpse-like #I guess walking around without the larger part of one's soul isn't healthy #and she's been doing it for weeks #thunderboltfire's art #my art

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thunderboltfire · 7 months

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You're having fun?

Despite being a size of a large cat (not counting his tail!) Rim isn't really heavy. He takes up quite a lot of place in the backpack, but he can also perch comfortably on Iwona's shoulders, which he often does.

When he isn't causing mischief, scouting, or hunting mice, that is.

#Baldur's Gate 2 #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #Charname #Rim the Pseudodragon #I'm weaponising the fact that pseudodragons can change colors like chameleons #also: behold! a colored version of Iwona's gambeson/padded jacket from BG2 #colored sketch #digital sketch #thunderboltfire's art #my art

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thunderboltfire · 10 days

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Some fights are definitely not a nice experience.

Charname is under so much stress during BG2, that I thought the crossover might be in order.

Full set of base BG2 characters in DD style

#Baldur's Gate 2 #Darkest Dungeon #crossover #fanart #BG2 #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #It's the mid-game party so that's why there's no Imoen #that doesn't mean I didn't make her model though #don't worry about othyugh having four legs I forgor it should have three

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thunderboltfire · 7 months

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One thing I really find funny about Minthara is that she looks weirdly familiar to me, bc she's extremely close to how I imagined Iwona to look when under Adalon's spell.

I guess it's mostly bc of her hairstyle, but also if I had to make Iwona's (already fairly triangular) features even sharper, ears longer, then paint her in the drow colour scheme, what I'd get would be quite close to how Minthara looks in-game. The main difference is that Iwona's nose is longer, her lips are a little fuller, and I imagine her skin colour to be darker, more grey with mauve undertone.

Wondering about it inspired me to slap some colours to the pencil sketch from some time ago, to solidify how exactly she'd look like posing as Veldrin.

#Iwona The Gorion's Ward #Baldur's Gate 2 #BG2 #Veldrin #drow #Charname #thunderboltfire's art #color sketch #my art #Listen I can't decide if adamantine armors should be more metallic or more matte #I feel that if matte they'd lose a lot of the aestetic appeal but also they'd be a lot more functional #considering how helpful low visibility could be in the Underdark #she also has really visible eyebags bc I headcanon she really looks tired and sick during the period when she's soulless #forgive me the crosshatching and the scribbly lines but it was originally a pencil sketch and I didn't want to erase it completely

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thunderboltfire · 6 months

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I think when it comes to her looks, Iwona is a near carbon copy of her mother. It feels fair to me that the bhaalspawns would resemble their mortal lineage - if it was not the case, having similar face features they would be fairly easy to recognise as siblings.

But if Iwona resembles Alianna, then from Gorion's perspective, does it make it better or worse?

Maybe the fact that she resembles the woman he loved makes it easier to pretend she's his own daughter. Maybe he finds it comforting to see a smile he knows - at last, he's probably known Iwona's mother's better side. Even evil cultists can be charming, after all and she had to have something that made him believe that she wouldn't go through with the terrible plan.

And maybe he braids his daughter's hair in a particular way because otherwise, she looks too much like her mother. Maybe, if the light hits her face from a particular angle the sight of her knotted eyebrows grips his throat with cold fear. The prophecies of Alaundo are never entirely out of his mind, but he still had hope that he could find a way to defy the unevitable.

But the image of Alianna's death and her last, hateful glare will never truly leave him.

He's been wrong once, thinking love was enough to tear someone from Lord of Murder's influence. And in moments like these, when Iwona seemed so much like her, it struck him that he naively, foolishly, desperately attempted the same feat a second time and hoped that this time, it would be enough. Because it had to be.

After all he already knew he would never be strong enough to kill her.

#sorry SoD pieces about Charname's mother got to me again #Baldur's Gate #thinking about Charname's early memory #with Ulraunt shouting at Gorion that she will be the death of him #and how Gorion is an inherently tragic character #struggling against prophecy just as much as good Charname does #doomed in his own way #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #meta #headcanon

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thunderboltfire · 5 months

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(I don't know when this project will be done, but I'm letting you all know - I'm definitely plotting something)

#WIP #my art #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #This will be a bigger one and I have to dedicate time for something else ATM but I love the idea so much #and I'm excited

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thunderboltfire · 1 year

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A little test of the type of lighting more fit for a dungeon.

I’ve had an idea that just how heavy physical toll the raid on Spellhold took on Charname could be initially overlooked due to the fact that the whole game of chase with Bodhi happened underground, in pretty bad lighting conditions.

I’m also starting to consider that giving up a point of constitution (described as “renouncing her youth and fitness”) in a fight to stay alive despite her soul being torn to pieces, would result in Iwona aging visually 5 years or more overnight, as well as gaining a few grey hair on the way. Apart from looking really sick and abnormally tired in the following weeks, of course.

In the dream sequences it’s implied that at this point in the story Charname is just a few steps away from being a walking corpse, clinging to life by a sheer force of will. It’s hard to miss that they’re not in good shape, there’s a few dialogues showing that they have trouble keeping up with the party and getting weaker over time, not to say that turning into the Slayer couldn’t be good for anyone involved, but I really like to think that it’s after coming out into the broad daylight when the companions really become aware of how heavily the whole ordeal affected her body.

#Iwona the Gorion's Ward #colored sketch #baldur's gate 2 #baldur's gate #baldur's gate headcanon #digital art #thunderboltfire's art #my art

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thunderboltfire · 2 years

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Iwona!

Who would she had been if she hadn’t been thrust into the life of a BG protagonist?

Alternatively: does she have a favourite food?

She'd have probably become either a mage or a scholar - her pursuit of martial skills generally was a rather sudden decision born out of necessity, as she decided she won't be able to protect herself properly with her very limited magical skills alone. Without assassins and bounty hunters chasing her out of Candlekeep, she could've spent way more time studying comfortably and developing her arcane talents. Her natural curiousness probably would've eventually driven her outside (who knows, maybe she'd even become an adventurer), altough it probably wouldn't happen until way later in her life, and her first journey wouldn't be nearly as dramatic as in-game. Perhaps she'd settle down after a while and start a successful magical business, who knows.

As I headcanon that at least some of her physical strenght has developed due to her heritage, I think she'd be less strong, and as a result, way less likely to ever switch to any typically frontline class.

As far as the food goes…

She likes hearty soups and fresh bread with butter. Living her whole life in an isolated monastery, she's completely unused to some spices, though, and very spicy food is nearly inedible to her.

#Thank You! <3 #OC asks #Iwona the Gorion's Ward #ft. Imoen #sketches #doodles #thunderboltfire's art #Baldur's gate

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thunderboltfire · 1 month

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Here I go, putting my poor girl through the horrors again.

#Iwona the Gorion's Ward #WIP

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thunderboltfire · 7 months

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Iwona the Gorion's Ward: masterpost

Tagged under: #Iwona The Gorion's Ward

Category: Player Character

System: AD&D

Game(s): Baldur's Gate 1, Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal (pending)

Visuals:

Portrait (Bg1) Pose sketch to the Bg1 portrait

Portrait (BG2)

Age chart up to the end of Bg1 + character description

Comic sketch: adventuring and manners

meme: Meeting with Caelar Argent

Comic: Dump Stats -> Polish version

Comic: Introspection (BG2 endgame dialogue)

Sketchdump: Chapter 10 (Siege of Dragonspear)

Sketch: Boots of Haste

Inktober 2021: The Wizard Warrior

Inktober 2018: Rim

Colored art: Woe (confrontation with Sarevok)

Colored sketch: Iwona playing with Rim

Colored sketch: The campfire (+ the price of the sequence in Spellhold)

Pencil sketch: Iwona as Veldrin -> colored version

Ask My OC: Favourite food, the possible turn of events if Iwona wasn't a Bhaalspawn Meme/sketch: Subversive Takes

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Text post: about a Favourite song I associate with her

Text post: why I can't bring myself to draw the confrontation with Sarevok

Text post: a comment about Iwona's class

Text post: Iwona's potential reaction to BG3 events

Textpost/meme/liveblog: Iwona's Bizarre Adventure

Text post: Like mother, like daughter

#Character masterpost #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #If I'll find something more I'll add it #(apart from terribly ugly old art I don't want people to see lol)

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thunderboltfire · 7 months

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I know the Gorion's Ward is dead in BG3 canon (as per Murder in Baldur's Gate and so on), but for me personally the real reason why they aren't in the game is that if Iwona got to know that Bhaal is back on his 'creating bhaalspawns' bullshit, she'd get so mad she'd immediately ascend as a goddess of Pissed Off Offspring and punch her father in the balls.

#BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #shitpost #I haven't done a durge playthrough yet but I can't help but imagine her meeting durge at some point #and recognising something unsettlingly familiar about them #I may consider renouncing her birthright as her canon choice but I can't help but think that it leaves a lasting mark in her #A kind of a sixth sense - a weird feeling of familiarity #when she brushes with the same kind of dark power which once tried to pull her towards itself #inhabited her dreams and subconscious #and if she got to know durge actually has it worse than she had with the eponymous dark urges #she'd probably be even more mad #I guess I'd have a lot of fun headcanoning the ways my Charname could make a cameo somewhwere in the events of BG3 #seeing her reacting to history repeating itself would be almost as interesting as hearing Jaheira's non-nonsense comments

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thunderboltfire · 7 months

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Character masterposts

PCs:

Iwona The Gorion's Ward (Baldur's Gate 1, Baldur's Gate 2)

Nela the Rogue (Tav)

Xeddrinth (also Tav)

Xaere (DnD)

Lisa Ice-Vein (Skyrim)

Wanda Shepard (Mass Effect Trilogy)