I'm having trouble with D&D Beyond and had to contact Support lolll but in the meantime until I can actually read it, there is new art available on the website~
It looks like the entire book is set pre-game, so they didn't make a statement on Ascended vs. Spawn ending. I have mixed feelings* about that, but LOOK at the most cursed family portrait of all time my gods
There is a whole section on "Cazador Szarr's Family" apparently (among other things I'm excited to read, but one thing at a time):
More beneath the cut:
(This is all just art off the website that's publicly available without having purchased it yet)
*I think it makes sense that WOTC didn't canonize an ending for Astarion, BUT if the whole thing is set pre-game, this man is enslaved. Astarion is undergoing all sorts of tortures and traumas, he's "given up on himself," he's experiencing an endless hell, and it makes me sad that his book further explores that era.
Then again, as a fanfic writer and general Astarion enthusiast, I think that's appropriately dark. Those two centuries of slavery make up the VAST majority of his existence so far, after all. I'm very intrigued by his siblings and his story before the events of the game, so I'm excited to have more content around that. Literally planning a gala-at-the-Szarr-palace fic as we speak, and I've only seen the art so far...
I did sort of want it to be from the Astarion, Underdark King, POV - that would have given him a good reason to create a book of vampire facts since he'd have 7,000 spawn to lead, it wouldn't center on the time of his life when he was being abused, and it would canonize a "good" ending for him, but I can live with this, too.
Presumably. I still need to actually read the thing.
Anywayyy will update when I'm able to actually read the book!
Recreating @maetersart art as a screenshot has finally worked out.
This has been a gestalt since November, but the zine distracted me back then and it was difficult to implement, but now I've managed to pull it off as best I can. I love this art, and the guys do too.
I really love drawing Astarion and Petras fighting.
I imagine Petras making constantly stupid decisions and Astarion getting more and more pissed by it haha
"lae’zel/shadowheart is THE enemies to lovers blueprint in bg3 idc. they start off genuinely ready to slit each other’s throats over the artefact, the gith/sharran distrust is off the charts, and somehow it turns into this insane potential for two women who were both raised inside brutal religious systems slowly realising they were lied to by the people they worshipped"
vs. Araj/Dalyria
"Araj wants to be bitten, Dalyria wants to bite someone. And together, they can commit science crimes!"
Intro: Welcome to my Kinktober 2025 masterlist!!! I am your host with the most @vim-pop-girl and together I will take you through 31 days, 31 stories, and 31 kinks.
Notes: hello all I'd never ever thought I'd do a kinktober since I might be the world's slowest most unmotivated writer but here we are! To those who read my fics I thank you very much. You could be reading anything else but you chose to sit down and indulge an exhausted 20 year college student's fanfiction aspirations and may the universe bless you for it. All the fics are about Baldur's gate 3 characters, I mean the line up is basically Orin-tober but I managed to work it a few other characters in there lol. Please enjoy.
Warnings: Smut 18+, minors dni.
P.S. let me know about any spelling mistakes, and I'll do my best to fix them right up. I started writing these pretty late, so there's about 99.9% chance that mistakes were made, lol.
