#valthyra riverridge

[zahra-hydris]

Unfortunately, this is neither the time nor place to indulge such feelings. So, we must be patient and push all such thoughts aside. For now.

#bg3edit #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #gamingedit #dailygaming #gale x tav #videogameedit #giggling and twirling my hair during this dialogue tbh #(as was valthyra... internally) #I also enjoy his response to 'read it? I could have written that book' and was torn on which I wanted to gif #valthyra riverridge #x: a moment of magic with you #edits tag

[zahra-hydris]

The Weave connects you. The moment feels intimate.

#baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #bg3edit #bg3 oc #bg3 spoilers #gale x tav #valthyra riverridge #valthyra x gale #the way this scene still has me in a chokehold #dusting off photoshop to make an updated gifset #edits tag #x: a moment of magic with you

[zahra-hydris]

VALTHYRA RIVERRIDGE

#bg3edit #baldur's gate 3 #valthyra riverridge #idk I just wanted more of her on my blog #edits tag

[zahra-hydris]

VALTHYRA RIVERRIDGE ✴ half-elf warlock of the great old one ✴ sage

#bg3edit #bg3 tav #gamingedit #baldur's gate 3 #vgedit #valthyra riverridge #got a chance to make some self-indulgent val gifs YEAH #edits tag

[zahra-hydris]

I was tagged by the wonderful @gautiersylvain and @shadowglens (ty 😘) to make my tavs/ocs in this picrew so here I am

valthyra (with new hair colour) 🔮 half-elf warlock mirielle ⚔ human paladin

tagging @ayrennaranaaldmeri, @rosewaterhag, @rivensbane, @necroticpetals, @terendelev, @dataterm, and anyone who hasn't done it yet!

#valthyra riverridge #mirielle of athkatla #I was also going to do my dark urge tav but I'm yet to commit to her look #will mirielle stay a paladin or become a cleric of selune??? who knows

[zahra-hydris]

newly obsessed with her

#valthyra riverridge #jessica plays bg3 #I was so torn between this + another new hairstyle + her old one

[zahra-hydris]

valthyra meeting lorroakan like 'forget the dead three and their chosen. this asshole is my actual arch nemesis.'

#arrogant and obscenely wealthy wizard basically buying power? she needs to tear him into pieces #valthyra riverridge #bg3 spoilers #jessica plays bg3

[zahra-hydris]

gale says "you know me better than I know myself" and even though it's just a sweet impossibility, it strikes valthyra that she truly does know him, even after such a short period of time.

and he knows her. he gets her. in a way that no-one else ever has.

he woos her with his mastery of the weave because he sees the way her eyes light up with that hunger for more. he sees in her that yearning, that insatiable desire to not just learn magic, but experience it in a deeper and more fundamental way. to make it your life. he knows this because he wanted it too. and he shares it with her. when it was so unattainable her entire life. and he shares it so easily, so graciously, so eagerly. he lets her into his world. that's what truly draws her to him: the way he lets her in.

and he understands her ambition. the way she understands his. he never judges her pact, only mourning that it was necessary. even when he chides her for her recklessness in her curiosity (reading the tome of thay, for instance), he prefaces his concern with his own experience in giving into temptation. and when he tells her of his great mistake, she nods, knowing that impulse, that drive, that led to it. they understand each other.

but in understanding this wonder and this ambition, they also see each other beyond it. the initial connection they forge through their mutual love for magic and their hunger for knowledge leads to an even deeper bond, one unimpeded by trying to hide these attributes they both thought were undesirable.

#x: a moment of magic with you #valthyra riverridge #don't mind me just obsessed with gale and valthyra #and the parallels between them that draw them together

[zahra-hydris]

torn between valthyra's old hair colour (#1) and a paler ginger colour (#2) or something in between (brown-red, #3)

#or maybe even a pink.... 👀 #i'm just so painfully aware of how maty (who was initially ffxiv!val) has now become her own person and yet they share the hair lmao #her rose tattoo is still not back in the game i'm so upset about it #valthyra riverridge

[zahra-hydris]

thinking on this saturday of gale and valthyra enabling each other in the worst way, encouraging and validating their respective drives for more knowledge, for a chance to not only touch the divine but take it for themselves (to do good with it! better than the gods they seek to usurp!)

their delusion in thinking that they could somehow dodge the designs of greater powers

and how this results in them separated, never knowing what happens to the other, desperately hoping that they at least succeeded where they themselves failed (they didn't)

#i have so many problems with how gale's questline ends - in both endings tbh #and I was initially sad that val and gale seemed to have such a bleak ending #but now I'm leaning into the tragedy of it #and how this tragedy is the consequence of their own well meaning decisions #both val and gale being capable and eager to move on from their respective gods/patrons #and hone their drive for knowledge into less self-destructive forms #yet inadvertently encouraging each other away from this growth to fall into hubris :) #a well meaning and inadvertent 'I can make them worse' #x: a moment of magic with you #valthyra riverridge

[zahra-hydris]

valthyra: I think i've turned over a new leaf. i've seen the disaster unleashed by those with unchecked ambition and I recognise how often i've played with fire. now all I need is to end this plot, save my city, and be with my beloved in peace...

gale: let's become gods.

valthyra: 👀👀👀👀

#valthyra riverridge #x: a moment of magic with you #look it's not the path I would take!!! I hesitated in her answer because the 'I just want you' option sounded so much better to me #but... val would 100% follow him on this #she can't resist #bg3 spoilers #jessica plays bg3

[zahra-hydris]

spoilers for wyll’s new act 1, post-karlach meeting cutscene

the absolute hilarity of valthyra - bound to a great old one possibly way more powerful and mercurial than mizora - standing in the background as wyll faces horrible, life-changing consequences for not fulfilling mizora’s wishes like 🧍‍♀️

and then going up to him like ‘wow damn huh couldn’t happen to me’

#like GIRL... GIRL...... #valthyra riverridge #bg3 spoilers #jessica plays bg3

[zahra-hydris]

finally got to the epilogue and

I would have really liked to see more acknowledgement of mindflayer!tav tbh, by both companions and the game itself

with the former, only astarion seems to reference it more than just once

and with the latter, the game wants to suggest that tav is now both more mindflayer than person and yet also the same person they were previously

it's left me conflicted on how I see val's ending: the bleak 'she's lost herself completely' or the more hopeful 'she's still in there'

the former is bleaker but... the parallel with god!gale (both of them losing themselves and their love through their reckless curiosity and ambition!!! the glorious tragedy of it!!!) is 👌👌👌...

with the latter I could headcanon her changing herself back after ascension? but... less tragedy...

#anyway now I gotta do a galemancer with the good ending #I am very tempted to replay the final quest and have val NOT transform just to gif the ascension cutscene with the two of them #val i'm so sorry your ending was so bleak but also... the danger of hubris baby! #valthyra riverridge

[zahra-hydris]

valthyra puts off seeing her dad when they first reach baldur's gate, which she says is because they need to be focused on dealing with the remaining two chosen and the elder brain. but it's mainly because she's terrified of drawing him into their troubles.

and that's what she's always done, after all: tried to solve problems without him even knowing about it, without him having to worry about her. and without him knowing how far she goes to do it.

but ever since she disappeared, her father has been relentlessly hunting for her. he's found all her old contacts, delved into what exactly she was up to, basically put 'missing' posters all around the city, and conscripted 90% of his customers to be on the lookout for her. so when she returns, he's informed pretty quickly and abandons his shop mid-day to find her.

unfortunately, the party is pretty on edge and he narrowly avoids a blade in the ribs and a fireball to the face as his huge, 6′ 2″, former-fighter-now-blacksmith self runs up to his daughter and bundles her into his arms.

#valthyra riverridge #her dad is a huge puppy of a man honestly and val is everything to him #just like he is to her. she'd do anything - and has - to protect him. #bg3 spoilers

[zahra-hydris]

I forgot how good the weave scene is

and how perfect it is for valthyra

#valthyra so desperate to learn magic #so desperate to feel that connection #and here's gale just offering to be her conduit #OF COURSE she thinks about kissing him in that moment #before this point she finds herself enjoying his company but also feeling vaguely intimidated/infuriated by his confidence #afterwards... she's kind of smitten #jessica plays bg3 #bg3 spoilers #valthyra riverridge #valthyra x gale #I'm also impressed with the slight changes larian has made to make achieving this scene feel more natural #x: a moment of magic with you

[zahra-hydris]

[Deception] This creature is dangerous. Get out of here - leave it to me!

#bg3edit #lae'zel #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate #her little defiant 'never' always makes me laugh #valthyra riverridge #edits tag