#sorry SoD pieces about Charname's mother got to me again

[thunderboltfire]

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