#bg playthrough shenanigans

[y-rhywbeth2]

Ah yes, other weird symptoms of being the child of murder. Funky murder auras. Also freaking out every diviner who tries to scry you, it's hilarious. All seers who gaze into the nature/future of Bhaalspawn immediately go "Oh, FUCK NO. BYE." This dude is the only one who's calm about all the violence and bloodshed promised in your aura:

Hermit: "Eh? EH?! Wow, you're really hard to look at." Charname: "Your insults are misplaced. I only wished to speak, and you could have simply said no. I will leave you." Hermit: "Wait... I'm sorry, but you have miscontrued my meaning. A bit blunt I am at times, but I shall speak plain if you wish. I meant that your aura is hard to look at. It is exceptionally volatile. You are at odds with yourself in a most literal fashion. I've not seen another such as you, though I get the feeling that your type does not live exceptionally long. I would predict a violent end for you, but I can see nothing of your future. It would seem that your coin is on an edge*."

*There's a thing in Faerûn; the holy symbol of the goddess of luck is a coin, and it's said Tymora flips it whenever a person is born. The way it lands decides whether you will be lucky or unlucky in life. A coin that lands on its edge - such as Charname - is a soul that is unaffected by the whims of gods and Fate.

#Out of context moments: You can also threaten to shove Elminster (and his hat) up this guy's ass #I'm just bouncing around random screenshots rn #bg2 spoilers #bg playthrough shenanigans #babbling #long post #ish

[maegalkarven]

Out of curiosity what happens to all of your dark urges post-game?

This is going to be LONG, so i'm putting it under the "read more".

Thanks so much for asking and giving me an opportunity to rant about my boys! (they're all masc, yeah. All kind of trans. I am not projecting anything. Also I lied just now)

As of now I have 3 (4 counting Morgan) developed till post-game Durges.

Morgan is my first playthrough and maybe shouldn't be counted, but he and Astarion leave for Underdark. Morgan is a drow bard btw and his story is the messiest bullshit ever bc at that point I was still figuring BG3 out.

Now to the fun part! (June, Levi and Nemo). Mind what all 3 of them are romantically involved with Gortash and it plays its part.

So let's start with my favorite druid asshole Levi. He visually appears to be a tiefling. 6 ft tall handsome young man with one blazing green eye, one eye pitch-black (later an implant of the eye of the devil he took for himself), wavy ginger hair, freckles EVERYWHERE and a very arrogant attitude. His horns have been broken by Sarevok when he was around adolescence.

Levi has 2 versions of how his live goes after the end credits. Basically his good (canon) ending and his bad ending.

Bad ending is where Gortash dies, Levi goes the whole "I am god" way, takes the Crown of Karsus for himself and erases Bhaal from the existence of the universe, successfully taking his domain, his aspect and his place. It's a lonely life of godhood for him and the one where he loses himself.

His good ending branches depending if Noah (his son) exists.

If Noah indeed exists, Levi has a whole ass husband and a son waiting for him at home (in Baldur's Gate) and a whole new playground of the city. He transforms part of the city into the garden and creates the new circle of druids with Kagha as the achdruid. But inevitably fuck off to hells to fight not his battle bc he can and he loves fighting.

Levi is set on a long ass quest conquering Hells bc: 1) it's fun. 2) His homie needs Mizora dead. 3) His other homie needs Zariel dead.

If Noah wasn't born, his path goes almost the same way (considering Hells), but it's the main focus of his, and the main goal. In that version he wants all of Mephisto's wonders for himself and operates from the House of Hope what he and Gortash live in (while planning evil things for evil reasons, yeah. "If heavens are out of reach, we will make Hells ours" kind of an attitude.)

Basically for Levi it's either godhood but the path of loneliness or a lot of shenanigans in hells with his two best friends (Wyll and Karlach) and the wicked partnership with Gortash. Watch him successfully balance out THAT dynamic mix.

Then there's Nemo. Nemo is non-amnesiac Durge who got very weak after his sister's attack. Looks like a half-drow (ppl keep calling him half-breed and he hates it. He is a pureblood bhaalspawn, damn it!) Looks like a golden child with sun-warmed skin, golden eyes and hair and A LONG ASS SCAR ORIN LEFT OVER HIS PERFECT FACE. THANKS FOR NOTHING, SISTER. Short (5 ft). The only 'off' thing about him is what his sclera is black.

He is also the mastermind behind the successful creation and management of the current cult of Bhaal in BG as it is. Nemo's misadventures are featured in the series of oneshots called "Empty Prayers".

He has only a good ending because I said so, and this is where he kills Orin and himself in a double suicide act, robbing Bhaal of the chosen and a child. Bhaal throws a fit, Withers plays a savior.

EVERYONE is angry at Nemo, Orin is left with no memory of who she is or what the fuck is going on.

No one is happy 2.0.

His post-game ending is where he is a shadow over the BG, a leader of the newly established assassins' guild into which he drags his lover and partner in crime Astarion.

Nemo is a man who transfers the cult of Bhaal into something else and earns money for it. It is easy, because most of the cultists only knew him as a leader and several of them were raised by him.

He basically lowers his expectations and chills, having joint-custody over the city underground with Ninefingers.

Gortash manages to stay arcduke in that one, but ba-a-a-arely. No one is happy, even Gortash, because it's such a mediocre win it's embarrassing. He will manage to pull Nemo into some heist-like bullshit very soon, that with him and his very useful guild of trained cutthroats who are loyal to Nemo and Nemo alone.

The last one - June. My least fav child bc I am v conflicted with how he just branched into 2 separate entities. @ June come on. He has either grey hair and silver eyes (selunite!June) or black-blue hair and light-blue eyes (cambion!June). Either way his skin is greyish-blue with freckles, his horns are grey as some ash can be. He is 5 ft 5.

June is either tiefling priest of Selune or cambion grandchild of Mephisto. I consider both of the versions like alt. of the same person.

In his good (canon) ending June leaves for Underdark with Gortash and Astarion to conquer it and seek all the netherise artifacts left there.

Ex priest of Selûne June does it in some quest of "salvation", cambion June does it because he's the forbidden knowledge seeking bastard (Mephisto raised him, ok). Both versions of June defy Bhaal, though for different reasons.

Now, there is a bad ending for June too, which is highly tied to how he treats the situation with Gortash and how much has the tadparty affected him. If he has failed to develop enough ties with the team, June agrees with everything the man says - Gortash dies at the Netherbrain Blast - June becomes the new Chosen of Bane.

Which strangely fits both versions of June, because selunite!June DID pray to Bane, he just never answered.

And cambion!June is a little too alike Bane's own son (a hybrid of a god and fiend who Bhaal probably was going to use the same way Bane used his son) and in a dire need of a plan to out-do Mephisto.

If June does have close ties with his team and they affect his decision-making, then he's a little more smart about it, tadpoles Gortash, and that derails everything to Gortash joining the team and all hells breaking loose (to the good end. I promise)

There's also Callisto, but Callisto didn't live further than the escape from the nautiloid. I will play them after I break my pc's mind and re-merge it gently, after which BG3 (hopefully) will run on my pc without any third parties involved. But Callisto is a half-drow priest of Tiamat. My baby said FUCK toxic father, I want to be adopted by a toxic mother instead. Their main long goal is freeing Tiamat from her prison in Hell.

#dark urge: levi #dark urge: nemo #dark urge: june #dark urge: morgan #dark urge: callisto #srsly thank you SO MUCH for asking. You have no idea how much fun i had writing all of this #if you see them all defying bhaal you're not imagining it #they all defy bhaal for different reasons bc i said so #maybe callisto won't...but that would make their evil mum angry...so they probably will #callisto will unleash tiamat on the world and will be PROUD of that #bane is going to get an evil wife and that's a THREAT

[guild-snail]

Fun facts about yourself: GW2 edition

✨ List 5 facts about yourself as a player and tag people to get to know the fun and surprising stuff they’re willing to share  ✨ Tagged by the lovely @pulledrosepetals~ 1. I have a very hard time playing with in game sounds (combat effects etc)! I normally turn everything off so i can focus on what's going on on screen, but I’ll listen to you/tube videos or playlists in the bg (I’ll always do a playthrough with voice acting/bg music tho when a new story comes out haha) I also make a ridiculous amount of character and oc playlists for gw2 its my secret passion(tm) (rip 8/tracks) 2. I used to do alot of wvw zurging and just general play, mainly support classes and sometimes dueling, but now i only really roam when im feeling spicy or bored i got super burnt out whoops~ I was on Mag to begin with, migrated to TC for a fair while, an atm im hopping between servers but oceanic time is suffering (Im living on FC atm roaming garbage condi stun spam ranger and condi mesmer and freelancing on support scrapper im so sorry. Condi is love condi is life) 3. I think my fav races are tied between Asura and Humans because they’re both just so inexplicably weird and i love it. (Humans=aliens, asura tiny shark rat gremlins with galaxy brains with grey morals? hell yeah hell yeah!) 4.IM ALLWAYS A SLUT FOR FARMING/MULTILOOT catch me on whatever the next big farming map is im greedy af lmao (used to command drunk SW runs back in the day when that was the big thing running around in circles collecting loot is so chill and soothing)  5.My now partner bought me gw2 nearly 6 years ago and i wouldn’t have started dating him tbh if gw2 hadn’t given me the opportunity to awkwardly flirt thru rp and mapchat shenanigans so shout out and ty gw2 for lowkey being my wingman (winggame??) I tag uHHHH EVERYONE WHO READS THIS?? I GUESS???? im bad at words and bad at these things whoops lmao

#not tagging this lmao #i dont have that much time to play atm cause of school and art but man gw2 is my main comfort game #love the world #love the aesthetic

[y-rhywbeth2]

My favourite diviner response is probably Arkushule (who I am assuming, by a specific word used earlier in the text, is a Gur) simply for how she responds when she realises exactly what you are.

Charname: "I see no harm in a little divination on your part. Here is my palm. What does it tell you?" Arkushule: "Let's have a look now. Interesting. Though you live a hard life now, your hand tells of a softer existence not long ago. I assume that you have just recently taken to the road?" Charname: "That much is true, yes. Do go on." Arkushule: "I thought as much. Let's have a little closer look now. back down your life line. I see a scholarly influence, and you are well educated. You had a mentor who was a great sage? Perhaps of considerable power as well?" Charname: "My foster father Gorion was a sage, and a bit of a mage as well. Go on." Arkushule: "You had a reasonably happy childhood with him, aside from being a little difficult. My my, but you were quite the little hellion. Wonder where that comes from? Let's see what we can't learn about you back before this Gorion. Further back I see... I see... Merciful gods! Iseealongandhappylifeforyouandyours. 10 gold, please, and I'll be on my way." Charname: "What? What is it you saw?" Arkushule: "I saw nothing! You will live long and enjoy life, and I will be going now! Back from me!" Charname: "You must tell me. Please, dear lady!" Arkushule: "I have told all I am going to. Stay back from me! Your life is none of my affair!" Charname: "Please, I don't mean to be rude. Just tell me what your vision revealed." Arkushule: "Stay away from me! I warn you, I'll not let you near me!"

And then she screams and starts attacking you, trying to kill you in a blind panic. On the plus side, you don't have to pay her this way.

I also like the implication that Bhaalspawn toddler temper tantrums are a nightmare to deal with. Having had experience with full room demolition scale emotional dysregulation from aggressive young children (and as somebody who was one)... yeah. Give Gorion a raise, I bet neither Bhaal nor Alianna ever paid child support. I mean I know they're all dead, but still.

I think there's a milder version with a seer in Tradesmeet in BG2 where the lady realises what she just read and just goes "please never speak to me ever again."

#Honestly in some places I feel like they lost a lot of the Oh God No Vibe with Durge's writing #Your party is disturbed and tells you to be on guard but it doesn't capture just how much terror the Children invoke in the world #On the other hand Durge portrayed the murder impulses and threat of Bhaal taking over better: Charname only got a cutscene or two. The End. #bg spoilers #bg playthrough shenanigans #babbling