Baldur's Gate OCs of Smol Coffee

[galedekarioses]

im not really a huge fan of gortash as a stand-alone character but the durgetash dynamic is wildly fascinating to me. theyre trying to take over the world together. theyre only ever submissive for each other. they kinda wanna kill each other but kinda wanna fuck just enough more. theyre the only one who will ever understand the other. theyre star-crossed lovers and their gods are so fucking pissed. they want to torture each other. theyre so unhealthy but definitely the healthiest relationship either of them will ever find. and theyre both so fucking insane

[fascinationstreetmp3]

this is how he should have looked in the first place this world is so evil

[vibingandsimping]

Halsin, Gale, Gortash, and Astarion all deserve a soft tummy. Not these washboard abs.

[prim42]

A visit from a devil you know.

[pommygrants]

Can you imagine being a Bhaalist in Baldur's Gate where the cult has been growing exponentially under this absolutely insane Bhaalspawn. Who is perhaps the best leader the cult has ever had. The temple looks great, the murder is going. You're two days shy of world domination and he just. Vanishes.

His second in command pops up in his place. You all hate her. She's loud, sloppy, and overly dramatic and for once you're praying someone ISN'T dead. The temple falls into disrepair. But the world domination is still going.

Roughly a year later the missing Bhaalspawn kicks down the cult door, and you finally think they're gonna fix everything.

BUT THEN,

They kill orin in the duel (yay)

Reject Bhaal in favor of... Friendship?

Leave????

No wonder the cultists are so stupefied

[miurgen]

"Gods, you're a sight for sore eyes"

[sky-scribbles]

Something I love about confronting Cazador is how he obviously never processes that Astarion has friends until it's too late.

Petras and Dalyria must have mentioned that Astarion wasn't alone when they met him, but when you read Cazador's journal? He's 100% fixated on Astarion. How Astarion stood in the sun, how Astarion was willing and able to disobey him. And when Astarion shows up, Cazador barely acknowledges the party at all - and sure, that's partly because this is Astarion's moment in the narrative, but Cazador doesn't so much as ask why these random strangers are there! They're not part of his plans, so they don't exist.

And then they immediately save his errant spawn from the ritual and start beating his ass.

Just. What must have been going through Cazador's head when that fight starting turning against him? 'Is that... the Blade of Frontiers? Why is a monster hunter - and is that a cleric? - helping a vampire spawn? An undead? Ah, but they must be treating it as a necessary evil to have a chance to slay me, of course - hold on, why is the cleric healing Astarion? Why does that wizard keep Counterspelling everything I'm casting at Astarion, why waste the spells when I'm not even targeting him? Did... did that druid just cast Daylight on Astarion's weapons? And that brute of a tiefling - that's not just disgust in her eye when she looks at me, it's fury - and she keeps putting herself in front of Astarion, why in the hells would she - she's running right at me- '

I hope that one of the last things Cazador ever knew was the choking realisation that Astarion didn't just come back strong, or free. Astarion came back loved.

[josephine-meis]

Storyboard sequence I made from the video game "Baldur's Gate 3"!! Love Karlach.

[animentality]

Dark Urge: Why didn't you help me when Orin betrayed me?

What Gortash says: We promised not to meddle in each other's affairs.

What I bet he wishes he could say: I looked for you. I hoped you'd survived, somehow. But I never found you, and if you're alive, that means I didn't look hard enough. But you don't remember me, and you don't remember us. So I'll just say, that I didn't want to interfere. I'll say I liked you, but I didn't go looking for you, because that would mean admitting, I failed you. What's done is done, and that story cannot be changed. But our story can continue on now. We can be better than what we used to be. So believe me. Believe that we were allies, and there was no one else I wanted by my side.

[strange-mage]

Painted some Gortash 😮‍💨🖤

[foxtrickster13]

On Wyll's vanilla design, I propose an idea. He keeps things simple because he's been given things by people he's saved.

He doesn't want to buy fancy armour because a village along the Sword Coast gave him his basic armour as a 'thank you' and he can't stand to part with it. He has Armour of Agathys anyway, so Wyll needs nothing more.

He doesn't want long hair because a kind grandma in this one town he saved from a red dragon insists Wyll returns so that she can redo his hair for him. When he returns, she tells him stories about her grandchildren as she does his hair and, afterwards, makes him a homecooked meal.

I like to think that the simple design ideas come from Wyll wanting to connect with people who aren't Mizora. He doesn't need fancy things, he's hero enough, right?

[o-chitose]

[followthebluebell]

i think furniture legs should be carved into little animal feet again.  i think that would solve a lot of problems. 

[msmargaretmurry]

this post made me think of this amazing cursèd chair i saw at the taubman museum of art in roanoke a few weeks ago. look at it. i don’t disagree with op but also i think this particular chair would cause problems on purpose

[followthebluebell]

I think this chair would solve my problems directly related to not having a chair that looks like it can attack my enemies.

[vr-trakowski]

love the eyeballs

[miscbones]

@dykevandyke

[dykevandyke]

Hey! My grandpa made this! His name is Jacob Cress and the chair is called “Oops!”

[cricketcat9]

All hail Jacob Cress

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

concept: woman makes deal with demon to have it’s child in exchange for eternal life or some shit

woman then makes deal with witch and offers her first born for like, riches or something

woman dumps demon baby on witch, absconds with her winnings and leaves witch and demon fighting for custody

half demon baby grows up learning magic and visiting hell on weekends and every second christmas

[sepulchritude]

does the woman act as a sort of vodka aunt who shows up sometimes to teach the child how to work the system?

“here you go timmy, have a new xbox. this year I’m going to teach you the ins and outs of magical tax evasion”

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

SHE DOES NOW

[feyspeaker]

ruling as equals, hmm? interesting. join my print club to get this exclusive for october!

[shaykai]

Still thinking about Gortash’s coronation and how smoothly he cuts a Durge off from their companions (and wishing we had a follow up with that)

The first words out of his mouth are that he cares about them- anybody else who remembers Durge has only distain for them, but not him- he’s happy to see them, he missed them, they’re his favorite assassin and he’s only glad to see them alive

And then he takes it a step further by providing insight into their past, something Ketheric refused to do for them- and Gortash isn’t dumb. He knows exactly how Durge’s companions will react, knows that he’s effectively outing Durge when he so easily could have pulled them to the side instead

And when their companions snap at them and refuse to look at them, Gortash is still smiling. Suddenly, he’s the nicest person in the room. Suddenly, everything is unstable and dangerous- but he likes you. He’s sitting there with open arms while the companions are rightfully so mad with Durge, but Gortash is more than happy to resume their alliance

He’s more than happy to be their sole source of comfort again, and isn’t he just so sweet for that?

[corsairesix]

Playing as Karlach is so fun because when you meet Wyll in the grove for the first time, instead of explaining the misunderstanding, you can just be like “ really? You’re gonna kill me in front of all these kids?” and he’ll go “yeah you’re right I probably shouldn’t kill you in front of all these kids, let’s reschedule that, have a nice day.”

[amygdalae]

one of my favorite things abt a dark urge playthrough is how the durge character questline is written in a completely different and more fervent tone than any of the other quest logs and it gets increasingly upset with you if you keep refusing to murder people

[smalldurge]

and after you fully refuse and escape bhaal the questlog message you get is in first-person pov instead of second-person! so it's like instead of being ordered around and shamed, durge is finally able to say "i can be whatever i want to be", and i think that's so neat