#devoted-paladin

[dawnarts]

image description: digital fanart of fantasy high. The drawing is set up similar to the Accolade by Edmund Leighton. kristen applebees is on a small platform knighting a kneeling fig faeth. kristen wears a white short woth a bolo tie, jeans, cowboy boots and a stenton hat with salsa in it. she is holding a silver sword over figs shoulder. fig is wearing a leather jacket with a large red back patch "teenage rebellion", a plaid skirt and boots. there is a stained glass window of cassandra behind kristen. it is signed dawnarts. end image description.

fig becoming a paladin for cassandra is really so fun I'm here for this

image description: a close up of the stained glass of cassandra, who is colored in shades of purple and blue with stars patterned throughout and outlined in yellow and gold and has curling hair in a ponytail and pale eyes. signed dawnarts. end image description.

+ a close up of the glass, which turned out reallly cool

#d20 #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #fh #fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #kristen applebees #fig faeth #cassandra #dimension 20 fantasy high #dimension 20 fanart #fig fantasy high #kristen fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #d20 fantasy high #d20 fanart #fantasy high fanart #look its about devoting yourself to your friend so she doesnt fail cleric class and can ressurect her god of doubt and mystery #and knighting you friend as a paladin with a hat dripping of salsa #dawnarts #artist described #anyways im workin on another kristen drawin with a vulture now

[sbeep]

Unshroud the indellible truth, my devoted, no matter how many veils may hide it.🕯️

The Book of Devotion's kickstarter is now live and I'm THRILLED to be a part of the project!

#art zine #Book of Devotion #paladins clerics and gods oh yesss

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #ketheric thorm #and I also have a lot of thoughts of how Aylin foils him #I fully believe that he was in the right in the capacity that he switched around his gods when he was literally ignored despite his life's #work. despite all that he has given. I think it's reasonable to expect in the world of gods who actively meddle in mortal affairs on their #whims and make shit worse that in just one single case they would. idk. NOT expect one of their devotees to remain blindly loyal to them #after their prayers go unanswered. like yes; go and try your luck elsewhere because this devotion of yours is clearly being taken for #granted. you get NOTHING out of your worship. you can't even sleep well because your loved ones are dead and you are expected to just what? #deal with it on your own? and remain loyal? why? #some sense of 'honour'? #I really like this depiction of faith actually. I really like when clerics and paladins are given agency and critical thought that hey! #this is actually giving me nothing despite me dedicating my entire life to it! and I have only one of it so why not take it somewhere where #it's actually valued. you know. as a treat. #I *personally* much more prefer this depiction of a crisis of faith than what we got with Shadowheart or Lae'zel; their stories are very #interesting on their own but I think throwing yourself from one end to the other not because you actually have a goal that it could serve #but because you are desperate for a purpose #is a slightly less potent character narrative than having an actual goal yourself. not by much but by a little. #again #PERSONALLY

[penny00dreadful]

Another piece for the upcoming D&D fic, Devotion

A companion piece to this art.

#steddie #stranger things #eddie munson #penny00dreadful #eddie munson fanart #stranger things fanart #dungeons and dragons au #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital animation #penny art #dungeons and dragons au art #paladin steve #oath of devotion

[cactusnymph]

if i had a nickel for every time emily axford played a character who was devoted to another mortal instead of a deity in a way that grants her character divine power i would have three nickels which is one of the reasons why i love her so dearly and would also love to have even more nickels

#emily axford #naddpod #fia boginya #outlaws and obelisks #outlaws & obelisks #lu'luh jacksplit #fig faeth #dimension 20 #fhjy #fantasy high #this trope will never not be amazing to me thank you emily pls keep doing this #fia and irina? mwah tasty chef's kiss #fig and her devotion to kristen and her level of paladin? so chewy so juicy #luluh not believing in anub anymore and instead believing in tovo who hasnt disappointed and abandoned her??? aaaaah #moss rambles

[stinkrascal]

me and bf made a multiplayer save together, here are the characters we made :')

one more bc shes cute im obsessed with her. pink tieflings!!

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #oc: valyna #and he named his character D'arby lol #valyna is an oath of devotion paladin with an acolyte bg! and d'arby is a monk with a folk hero bg <3 #he said he wanted his character to resemble ace from one piece. i think it works just a little. i applaud the effort #🌱

[armourofayda]

god what if fig "i think some people fight for friendship" faeth becomes a paladin that fights to protect her friends

#i would cry actually #fig faeth #i love this choice for her #she is very paladin coded #devoted to a protection cause #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #d20

[swordmaid]

shri’iia mood board

#she is like if og fairy tale rapunzel was raised as an unsocialized but very loyal and rabid guard dog instead of a daughter hope that help #but so many thoughts of shri’iia and her unyielding devotion #since she /IS/ a paladin. and if oaths comes from a person’s conviction and less from a deity’s blessing #I think she can get rather intense lol. but now instead of following a chaotic evil spider goddess she’s now using that devotion #to follow her newfound broken oath (path to freedom)!!!!!! #also I think there’s something sauurr scrumptious abt her previous oath being a blessing from a goddess (which in turn she had to be devote #to 24/7 or else she won’t have access to her powers ) vs new oath stemming solely from her own will and conviction #I was reading up on the paladin lore and the idea that they just believe in themselves /so/ hard they just manifest their powers is #hilarious and frankly does not make sense but the thematic change of where shri’iia’s oath charges stems #from - from something transactional to something innate is compelling enough to me that I don’t care if it doesn’t make sense !!!! #also something about how her oaths is now innate and tied to her own conviction -> leads her to actually find her sense of self and self #worth again bc before she had NONE……. olivia wilde nod gif

[emeraldties]

“We Were Sweet Once” Pt 1 / ?

Alternative Title: God’s Favorite Princesses

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #durge #baldur’s gate 3 comic #bg3 comic #bg3 shadowheart #I was WRECKED when I found out that durge had a family #durge: Ambrose #a rogue/oathbreaker paladin of devotion #because I like to set my characters up for failure #bg3 astarion #bg3 spoilers #I also think we need more scenes were Shadowheart and Durge are hit with the extent of what they have lost #and what will continue to be taken from them if they choose their respective Gods #I swear every conversation I have in game with Shadowheart is sappy as HELL #I love her #fanart #illustration #orin the red

[canarydraws]

Putting wips of your characters from different campaigns on the same page is a mistake I was just trying to compare them for height reference and I accidentally created a fairy gf/goth gf dynamic! Now I’m SAD and MAD because these two are my own characters and the only way I’ll ever get to see them together is if I go off the rails and actually draw AU content for them!

…which I might. I have no idea what I’d draw but literally them just standing on the same page is cute and I want to see what my 5’5 space paladin and my 6’3 pf magus would do if they ever existed in the same room

#art #pathfinder #dnd #dnd art #dungeons and dragons #paladin #magus #character art #character design #character #oc #original character #wip #wip art #luz #andromeda #andromeda might actually be a paladin/warlock idk I’m still working on her story #but I think they’d actually be a good couple for each other which is not something I normally say about my characters lol #luz needs to follow someone to find direction in life and Andromeda just so happens to know what she wants and what she plans to devote her #life to #luz is so ride or die which is exactly the kind of spirit andromeda would need #I haven’t had the chance to play andromeda yet but I think she’d appreciate someone who’s resilient and capable in their own right #and offers a different perspective to things #alrighty I’m done smacking my ocs against each other now you may all carry on #I just figure these are the kind of thoughts tumblr would appreciate lmao

[leier-coyol]

Zerión, my paladin from our Spelljammer campaign.

He's an adeptus custodes that lost most of his memories and misteriously landed on a different plane with blindness and got adopted by a kobold family.

He's slowly getting his humanity and memories back by travelling with his peers.

#Everyone thinks he's a goliath #also most of the people think he's either crazy or just weird cause no one knows about the imperium #so he just sometimes says the weirdest shit #“yo! why does he has purble details instead of red?” it's cause he was an aquilan shield ;) #now about the other races; since custodes get orders only from the emperor I think they are less crazy than the rest of the imperium #so they don't go ham with different shit unless they are ordered to do so #he was confused and a little wary of others at the beginning tho #the party says that he's just a huge kobold lol #oh yeah; he's an oath of devotion paladin #dnd #warhammer art

[miraclemango]

i just really appreciate how Nestled astarion looks in the hug scene w/ larger tavs

#Astarion #BG3 #bg3 spoilers #Baldur's Gate 3 #romancing him as an oath of devotion paladin was a very fun dynamic

[m-u-n-c-h-y]

WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN BG3 PALADINS DON'T HAVE TO PICK A DIETY AND IT DOESN'T MATTER???? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE PALADIN???? WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR DIVINE SMITE COMES FROM?????????

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #paladin #bg3 paladin #jesus that's BAD #Apparently this was a really bad oversite #cause paladins are in fact #intended to be devoted to a diety #that's literally how their magic works #I was so confused as to why so many paladin tavs just weren't talking about their diety #or listing it as n/a on character sheet #i'm so sorry to y'all that's not how that actually works

[morgandarcyarts]

Just FireMom™️ doing her best job carrying the whole gang on her shoulders because she's the best in the whole camp 🥹🔥

#baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate fanart #karlach #karlach bg3 #FireMom #HotWifey #Wyll Ravengard #tav baldur's gate #astarion ancunin #wyll x tav #wyll bg3 #astarion bg3 #illustrator #art #my whole beloved gang #paladin #oath of devotion #dnd art

[silverskye13]

The urge to make a Helsknight DnD character or Skyrim build is so tempting. Oughhhhh my demons

As someone who has built Helsknight as a DnD character and is currently playing him in Curse of Strahd, I approve of these demons.

#rns asks #he is oath of comquest paladin lawful evil <3 #ashborne my beloathed #his brother is a lawful nuetral oath of devotion paladin who was the abusive betroathed of one of the party charactera #they are trauma bonding over the idea of making a clone army and kicking his ass #ironically enough ashborne has been he/they the entire goddamn campaign #i should have seen the signs

[karniss-bg3]

Hello! I've read all your stories about Kar'niss and liked them much. I've also dug recently into drider's lore and learned that driders can cast spells, but didn't understand whether all driders are able to do this, or not. How do you think, can Kar'niss cast any spell or not? And what would happen if he met other drider? Thank you in advance :)

Hiya! I'm glad you've enjoyed the writing.

According to the lore I've found, all driders can innately cast certain spells.

All driders could inherently cast clairaudience /clairvoyance, dancing lights, darkness, detect good, detect law, detect magic, dispel magic, faerie fire, levitate, and suggestion once per day. Dhairn once noted that these abilities were essentially the same as those owned by powerful blessed drow and used this fact to dupe driders into supporting his cause by calling them blessed creatures of Lolth by pointing this out.

Out of that list, the idea of any drider using levitate is a new fear I didn't know I had. Enjoy that bit of nightmare fuel, you're welcome.

Drider also carry over any spells and abilities they had pre-transformation. So if a drow was a wizard, they'd maintain their wizard spells once changed. While I don't know Kar'niss' full ability list, everyone who has fought him knows his default go-to spell; Sanctuary.

This spell has intrigued me a bit. Even though the information claims that drider can cast like clerics, wizards and sorcerers, it specifically goes into the cleric domains driders can cast from. I've checked all four; Chaos, Destruction, Evil and Trickery and none of them list Sanctuary as a spell drider can choose from.

This leaves one option, Paladin. I had an ask sometime ago where someone spoke of their ideal class for Kar'niss being Paladin. The more I thought about it the more I was like "Yeah, actually." There are other classes that can use the Sanctuary spell but they aren't included in BG3 as options, so I'll assume they don't exist in this realm. But it gets even weirder! The two oaths that can cast this spell specifically are oath of devotion and oath of redemption. In BG3 oath of redemption isn't available as a subclass but there is a fair amount of comparisons to be made. Truth is, either of them have cross-over characteristics that fall in line with Kar'niss' devout way of life. It's far too much information to pack into one post but I'll leave the links here to read over and compare at your leisure.

Paladin - Oath of Devotion

Paladin - Oath of Redemption

As for your second question, driders are known to be solitary creatures. However, they have also been reported to pair and live with a few driders and a collection of giant spiders. So Kar'niss could reasonably get along with other drider if the circumstances are right. If they are still Lolth-sworn he's more likely to be aggressive toward them and may even seek to destroy them. I think he might like having other drider around if only so he doesn't feel like the odd spider out, or just to have someone else to relate to. Thing is, I think his focus on the Absolute is so strong he likely cares for little else. Only Her approval matters, only Her attention matters, everyone else is a side character in his heroes journey.

Thanks for the ask!

#baldur's gate 3 #kar'niss #drider #bg3 #karniss #baldurs gate 3 #answered #drow #Paladin #oath of devotion #oath of redemption #theorycrafting #long post #my ADHD mind strikes again going on random tangents #I may meme him to be a bard but paladin really suits him as a whole