the dark urge of baldur's gate 3. written by morgi. more information under the cut.
overall basics are: be normal. this is a very chill space, low activity, & pending tons of mature content. honestly, we're going balls to the walls here. 100% dupe friendly. low formatting/no live-action fc/literally here to brainrot. triggers tagged as #trigger tw. communicate with me if you have an issue, otherwise, curate your space accordingly & i'll do the same! i'm morgi / gabi, twenty-two, any pronouns, lesbian. i also run @shdowheart, @orined & @baldursgay2. affiliated (but lovingly & mutually not exclusive) with my wife over at bhaalhag with all their characters.
other verses available: modern (lab-made baby turned assassin-for-hire; cult leader sometimes), fallout (i have an idea but i'm too embarrassed to say it), other fantasy/sci-fi universes with sum plotting <3
(temporary) summary: made from bhaal's own dead flesh and taking the form of a drow, elyria was sent to the underdark to live with a lolth-sworn foster family, knowing her urges wouldn't fully manifest until years later. at age sixteen, her bloodlust over game her, resulting in the massacre of her foster parents & siblings. sensing this, bhaal beckoned elyria back to his temple through dreams & began grooming her to become the leader of his cult. for years, she battled between taking up an oath of vengeance while being driven by her urge, causing her to break said oath multiple times. eventually choosing to defect from her oath as a paladin, elyria finally swears to end all life for their father & creator, in a daring heist at mephistopheles' vault, her & enver gortash steal the crown of karsus.
this was the first step in their plan: creating an army of soulless mindflayers to exterminate all life, including their own.
after the successful heist, gortash proposed using the crown on the elder brain in the illithid colony beneath moonrise towers. elyria agreed, initiating a raid with gortash & ketheric thorm, successfully enslaving the elder brain to their will. as the leader of moonrise towers, worshipped as a god, elyria revealed to the elder brain her desire to conquer alone in bhaal's name, excluding gortash & thorm from her plans. the elder brain agreed with her vision.
during a visit to the elder brain to discuss their plans further, elyria was betrayed by orin the red, a bhaalspawn changeling who had served under her in the cult of bhaal. jealous of bhaal's favoritism towards elyria, orin pierced her skull with the bloodthirst dagger and inserted the first illithid tadpole into her brain, transforming her into the first true soul. experimented on by kressa bonedaughter, the elder brain disclosed of elyria's violent-prone & comatose fate to gortash, inspiring him to create more true souls & form a religious movement (the absolute) to masquerade his true intentions.
clearly obsessed with experimenting on elyria, kressa's husband takes note of this and sends elyria away onto a nautiloid ship. she later awakes with no memories of herself & her past, driven by her dark urge— the least of her worries with the tadpole in her brain. rather than resisting the urge & sceleritas fel's advice, elyria is embracing of it. she, quickly, becomes an oathbreaker & falls back into bad habits— killing alfira with no remorse shed, massacring the druid's grove with the absolute followers & opting to kill isobel while in the shadow-cursed lands.
for this good behavior, bhaal rewards his child with a gift from their past: the slayer form.
(if this makes no sense, it's fucking 1am when i'm writing this & this is all a wip idk guys but, she does eventually defect from bhaal in act 3— it's not until she sees the elder brain for the first time & some memories come flooding back, though hehehe)












