You've found my little corner of the internet for all things Baldur's Gate 3-themed, featuring my blorbo, Odette Tavelyen!
I'm 30+ and love doing virtual photography of my OCs and BG3 romance with our favorite resident wizard, which is what you'll mostly find on this blog. I'm also writing a fanfiction for my OC - but that is a WIP and hasn't been posted yet!
Well. I am rather pleased with him. Hope you'll like him as well, folks 🩶
Gale as the Evening Start from Alphonse Mucha ✨
Yes I know, I know, Mystryl is technically dead at this time, but she was still (as Mystra is now) the embodiment of the Weave, so I put her old symbol instead of the newest Mystra one, as a marker of Gale's love for magic, rather than Mystra herself.
And I've swapped the original design from Mucha to have a good view of the orb.
Others in the series can be found here :
Astarion as 'The North Star'
Shadowheart as 'The Moon'
Wyll as 'The Morningstar'
Lae'zel as 'The Comet'
Next (and last, for now), Karlach ❤️🔥 No idea when I'll get to her though ^^
“Gods, I’d pay a king’s ransom for a hot, lavender-scented bath – minstrels serenading as I close my eyes and let the water’s warmth dissolve all woes.” 🛁🫧💜
Odette Tavelyen has spent all of her life along the Sword Coast in one of the most magically warded places in Faerun: Candlekeep Library Fortress. Due to this, she is largely untested in the ways of the world. While she may have plenty of knowledge learned from the books within the library, she's never seen the remnants of Mount Hotenow, hadn't breathed deep the spiced evening air of a Calimport bazaar, couldn't describe the glittering sunset over Waterdeep with anything more than pure imagination.
As a Scribe in Candlekeep Library, Odette knows her way around a book, be it magical or non-magical, fiction or historical, recipe book or a small collection of poems. She spends most of her days transcribing ancient texts or copying spell scrolls for those purchasing from the library's stores. Odette spends most of her time either in the House of the Binder, creating the aforementioned replicas, or assisting "Seekers" (those allowed to enter the Court of Air for study) with their research during their stay at Candlekeep.
The librarian is equipped with an enchanted quill, which requires no ink and can write in any color of her choice and will erase her writing if she brushes the feather across the inked surface. Odette also has an apprentice: a young acolyte tiefling named Irony. Despite stereotypical assumptions, Irony is bright, honest, never steals or lies, and hopes to one day become the Keeper of the Tomes. Odette and Irony have worked together for the last several months in harmony.
A lifetime of research, but wholly lacking in firsthand experience.
As with many of the librarians and Avowed of Candlekeep, Odette is not well-trained in the art of the Weave. In fact, she considers herself rather lousy with magic; in her early attempts with spellcasting, she had a Mending mishap and accidentally melted several pages of an ancient tome together (she's never been more mortified!). Since then, she's studied a bit to become less hazardous to the knowledge within Candlekeep's walls.
Odette knows spells such as Mage Hand, Silence, Prestidigitation, and Detect Languages, but these have little combat utility as she soon learns
Therefore, when Odette meets Gale, she's intrigued by his offer to help her connect to the Weave, to learn alongside him as he regains his own footing with magic (since the Orb had consumed his connection with the Weave, Gale had to relearn his magic without Mystra's guidance and is finally feeling like an adept again, but still a far cry from Mystra's Chosen abilities). But she knows she has to help the party more than writing quick spell scrolls for the others to use in combat - so she accepts his (several) offers. This leads them to the first "romance" scene with Gale - which I'll share in another post!
If you've read this far, I give you each a kiss on the forehead (only if you consent) for your interest in my little librarian!
I like to think that my little librarian necromancer is a messy little mouse in her camp area.
Odette is a kinesthetic learner and was not of the proper rank (prior to BG3 events) required to begin her work as a Reader, who were permitted to train in magical academia while in Candlekeep Library. Due to this, her spellcasting is quite different than what I can reasonably play in-game.
(let's be real, Order of the Scribe would probably be a bit too OP in-game since you effectively get an additional NPC with Manifest Mind at level 6 without a loooooot of balancing)
Where casters like Gale or Wyll can pluck the threads of the Weave with mathematical precision or draw upon the dark, demonic powers of a patron, Odette simply casts because she knows the spell. She's written it a hundred or more times during her years as a Scribe in the House of the Binder. The Scribe can see the spell's intuition in the sharp scrape of a quill in jagged lines for force, the curling tendrils of necrotic cantrips.
She can write a spell she's learned blindfolded and with both hands - a "party trick" that Shadowheart has pouted for Odette to perform on two occasions.
So her little nook of camp is going to have bottles of ink in varying levels of fullness, scrolls bound with wax seals and others blank, not yet inked with power.
but she now has an astute teacher who is more than happy to give her hands on learning ifyaknowwhatimeanlmao
