3 How did you choose their name?
9 Are they based off of you, in some way?
18 What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?
19 What is your favorite fact about your OC?
Thank you so much for the ask! I've been answering everything pretty much for these main two ocs, Adin and Cyril, so I'll keep with that theme and do that here. If you or anyone else is interested in any side ocs feel free to ask away or specify, but these two have the most lore and I have been super excited to lore dump for my fellow bg3 tumblr users!
3. How did you choose their name?
To be honest when I decided on his appearance and had made a drow druid, I just looked up drow names and went through a few websites until I found one that I liked. "Adin" is technically a prefix that I just never added a suffix to, and it means 'Beast, monstrous, savage'. I chose it because of him being a druid and it's a bit cliché maybe but it stuck and I'm not changing it now! Daevion'lyr was chosen purely because it sounded cool with Adin's name, and then it has evolved to that would have maybe been his father's original House name which Adin took when he left, leaving behind the Lolth-sworn family name that he would have gotten from his mother.
9. Are they based off of you, in some way?
Well, originally yes. Adin was made as a self insert my first playthrough. I didn't play him as if he was me, he always had his own personality, but he was what I wanted to look if I were to be thrown into Faerûn. A lot of him is non-modded due to his original creation being back before mods came out on console, but I have since added some tattoo mods and color mods to add slight changes to Adin's overall appearance.
18. What is the most recent thing you've discovered about your OC?
I've been doing a lot of deep dives into lore for both drow and Cyric for both OCs lately and it's lead me down some interesting paths to add to their lore. Recently I learned about House Insignia rings, and learned one of the possible enchants on them could allow a drow or maybe say... a vampire... walk in the sun. It's an old drow cleric spell that provides protection from sun sensitivity. In dnd standards the spell lasts for 10 minutes.
19. What is your favorite fact about your OC?
As an archdruid, Adin would eventually have the feature "Timeless Body" which would allow him to live 10x as long as a typical drow. I found this out months after creating Adin specifically for Astarion, and it just reinforced my headcanon that Adin is Astarion's soulmate. They have a possible 7500 years together, if they don't somehow find a way to make Adin immortal before then. I get so much joy from finding more and more reasons why Adin and Astarion mesh so well together.
3. How did you choose their name?
Cyril was a concept I came up with because I took a liking to Cyric as a deity. Originally I was going to make a daughter of Cyric, and that morphed into a son instead. Funny enough I remember more of the naming process than the character design process. I was making food one day in the kitchen, standing by our air fryer and reading about Cyric lore. I got the vibes of Loki but more narcissistic, so I started playing around with Cyric's own name. I figured he'd be the type to name his own kid after him. After some play with different letters and pronunciations, I landed on Cyril. Cyril isn't pronounced the same as Cyric however. Instead it's closer to Suh-rill or Sih-rill. I pronounce the y like the i in "ick".
9. Are they based off of you, in some way?
Cyril's inspiration almost entirely came from outside sources. The only ways he would really be based off of me is the utter obsession with Gale Dekarios and his body dysphoria. I'm guilty of always feeling larger than I am and uncomfortable in my own skin, especially as I gain weight or if I am seen certain ways due to gender roles. Cyril wasn't always a super large buff aasimar, and the change from his old self to his new self never really settled with him right. Post-Game he explores that a bit more with some encouragement from Gale and Astarion.
18. What is the most recent thing you've discovered about your OC?
Adding on to the body dysphoria thought I started above, one of the most recent things I actually learned about them is that Cyril is genderfluid. I made what I was going to have be an AU where Cyril is a lady instead, just as I had originally intended, and rather than make it a whole AU I kind of decided to lean into the fact that one of Cyril's main inspirations is Loki, and just have it so post-game Cyril starts to kind of just flip back and forth between genders as they see fit.
If we want to go more into lore-related things, I recently learned there were things called "Spell Scars" during the spellplague that some people were about to use to cast certain spells like misty step at the cost of pain to themselves. The scars were sometimes glyphs or jagged lines, and Cyril happens to have a few pretty deep scars on his face that I gave him in character design and hadn't yet given a purpose. The one that is specifically dark across his cheeks and the bridge of his nose would be a possible good one to make into a spell scar, as he would have lived through the spellplague.
19. What is your favorite fact about your OC?
To pick a favorite for Cyril.. A lot of the facts about him relate to Cyric directly, but I think my favorite two things about him would probably be...
Being conceived and born while Cyric was still actively the god of murder, tyranny, and death means that Cyril gets an interesting mix of traits all from the Dead Three. He has urges similarly to a Bhaalspawn, only more directed toward "enemies of Cyric" than just anyone; he has the need to make others submit, especially those enemies he chooses to spare (ex. Gale who is the Chosen of Mystra, Osiris being that he is the Dark Urge, and Gortash being the Chosen of Bane); and he has a specialty in necrotic magic thus him being a death domain cleric.
The reason Cyril exists is almost entirely to strengthen his father. From the moment he first speaks to his father when he is still a young child, he is told he is supposed to act on behalf of his father. If the dead three should ever rise again, he is to slay them and reclaim their domains. His father trains him for this purpose, and even gives him things like Godsbane, and tells him where to find Touch of Cyric when the time comes to do so. Despite all of this, Cyril does not want Godhood, and would much prefer a domestic life with a loving partner.
