I directly translated Astarion's back scars
I'm a language nerd (even when the language is fictional), so I decided to directly translate the sigil that Cazador carved into Astarion's back.
I know you do find out the gist of what the scars mean in-game, but I wanted to translate it letter-by-letter, and then word-by-word.
We know that its a poem written in Infernal, which is the language of devils and the hells. If you translate it from Infernal, you get the following:
"Hoc inferius non iurare per ignis
Haec verba loquor
Et hoc mundo mutat"
As you can see, this is not English; its Latin, which makes sense since its a "magical language". Now, if you translate the Latin to English and fiddle with the grammar a bit, you get something like this:
"This I swear by the fires below
I speak these words
And this changes the world."
Obviously this ties in very closely with Astarion's backstory and I think its very cool that Larian took the time to actually make the scars real text instead of just random texture.
ETA: I want to point out that the "non" in the first Latin sentence doesn't actually make grammatical sense. I think its probably there to look cool/fill in the physical design, because excluding it makes the sentence itself make sense, and its exclusion works in the context of the sigil's purpose. So that's why I omitted it from my translation.
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Finished my first commission for @plaguecleric of their Tiefling artificer/barbarian Vatrra!! Nothing compares to the fiery rage of an infernal 🌋🪓🔥
Vatrra was such an incredible start to this batch of commissions, we got strong lady, long flowy hair, fiery effects, RAGE!!! amd a artificer multiclass?? I could not have asked for a more fun combo to get things rolling! (More fun commissions are on their way 👀🌊🐚 )
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We are now live on Kickstarter!
For 2 books filled with art and writing about tieflings find us there
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not my thirsty ass going on to hero forge to make a tall, hot tiefling and pose him in a way that I can tilt the camera and have him look down at me like this
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Here are the two illustrations i did for @losthavenguild 's fanzine Infernal Heritage.
Obviously very inspired by my favourite pré raphelite artists 💖
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Child of Thay, doom of house Luukh
Iah still doesn't like reading books and he is almost always covered in blood. Gets along well with Withers and is still his dumb ass self.
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Karlach won the BG3 Insta poll, so have our best girl.
I decided to give her some Soul Coins because I like the idea of her just popping them like her engine is a piggy bank in combat.
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Karlach is one of the few characters I would make a straight character for.
Minthara(Mimfara, I so lovingly call her in an awful British accent) is a close second.
Idk what that says about me as a person.
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