#elehall

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For whichever characters you’d like to! (Sorry I’m late hope you are still doing these) 9, 15, 21, 26

No such thing as being late to these! Thank you! 💕

9. Do you have a favorite member of the Tiefling Refugees? Is it the same as your Character's?

Answered here for Amadris and me, I can't really answer yet for Elehall, I reloaded back a bit. She smiled at Bex and Danis' plans for their life in the city, wondering about her own life, enjoyed Alfira's playing, but she feels quite lost and tries to keep her distance most of the time.

15. How did the situation with the Grove, the Tieflings and the Goblins turn out for your Character?

It could have gone so much worse, to be honest! Amadris wasn't that interested in sticking his neck out for the tieflings. He helped out some kids - Mirkon, Arabella, played with Alfira, killed Nettie, and set out to search for a better healer. The goblins welcomed him with reverence, assuming a drow on the surface must be a True Soul; he could explore the ruins freely and a single glare opened any doors for him. But then he stumbled upon Ragzlin's ritual (and interfered with it), butted heads with Minthara, found the poor owlbear cub... It was a quick and easy calculation - throwing his lot with those cultists would endanger him more in the long run. So he took out all three leaders, one by one, and returned to the Grove as a hero. Oh, and with Astarion's help, he poisoned the majority of the goblins partying outside, clearing the way for the owlbear to escape.

(Later he told the Guardian he wasn't exactly trying to save the tieflings, the goblins simply stood in his way, but it's not really the whole truth)

Elehall will also side with the Grove and the tieflings, but intentionally.

21. What are your Character's thoughts on the strange artifact that was in Shadowheart's possession? Did it jump to your pack because you changed her out of your party?

He was intrigued the moment Shadowheart said it's nothing important (while carefully stashing the mysterious box). One evening he joined her in fiddling with the artifact, and then discovered he can't put it away, the object jumping back into his arms, much to the cleric's annoyance. Gale commented on admirable loyalty of inanimate objects. It's almost like another pet in the camp, after Scratch, Owlbear, Withers...

(And no, Shadowheart never left Amadris' party in Act 1, so the artifact would always have a front seat in their adventures anyway, and she's always in Elehall's party so far. But right now, so much is happening for her, the artifact has to wait for its turn)

26. What was your favorite enemy? Did your Character have any memorable fights or moments in combat that were ripe for headcanons and interpretation?

I wrote about Auntie Ethel here and Minthara here, but the bulettes in the Underdark deserve a mention. Amadris and Astarion took it down on their own, before the creature could react and before Gale and Shadowheart even ran up to them. That fight showed them as an extremely lethal, efficient, and self-sufficient two-person unit. It made them look at each other with some new-found admiration, too. (Perhaps the bullettes were made easier compared to EA and those two got lucky, but I was impressed)

Elehall hasn't had any significant battles yet, so I think I'll revisit those questions in some time.

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5.,8. and 35. For Elehall and for Amadris both 👀

Hello there! ❤️

5. Do you remember the first humanoid enemy your Character killed? Was it the first person they've ever killed, in your opinion? Would they have been bothered by it?

Techincally the first humanoid characters killed by Amadris in Act 1 were the thralls on Nauthiloid, when he curiously pushed the "Anihilate" button... but it was so impersonal, doesn't count. The one who wasn't a casualty, but really considered an enemy and a threat, was Gandrel. It was definitely not the first person Amadris killed and not someone he'd feel any remorse about, given the circumstances. (In general, he leaves a trail of blood in his wake in a way that makes me want to put him in Tyranny)

Elehall clashed with Nettie and even though it was in self-defense, she feels bad about this death and leaving the Grove without a healer. Not her first kill, but she doesn't need to know that yet 😌

8. Do you have a favorite member of the Druid Circle? Is it the same as your Character's?

My personal favourite is Tuffet, the bear sleeping soundly through all the events in the grove, the one beside the elevator. Amadris didn't have any stronger feelings about any of the druids (maybe annoyance), Elehall feels quite at peace in the Grove, and there was something about quiet Apikusis that piqued her interest, just chatting with a bird and trying to do her own thing.

35. Has your Character done anything that they regret in Act 1?

Not really, not yet in Act 1... okay, there's one thing Amadris regrets and it's giving Mayrina the husband wand instead of pocketing it, but he had bigger problems at the moment and just wanted to be done with the distressed girl. Bigger problems being the broken oath. And Elehall is a Dark Urge, so there are Regrets. Welcoming Alfira to her camp will haunt her for a long time.

[dragonflytehanu]

1, 17, 23, and 35 for bg3 act 1 asks?

Thank you! 😊

1. Tell us about your Tav! Name, class and subclass, race, pronouns. Do you have a headcanon for where they're from? Their family? Are they a Dark Urge? Or did you choose an Origin Character? Was it an easy decision?

Amadris is a Drow, a younger son from some lesser noble family in the Underdark. He was a palladin, but it was a choice of convenience, not conviction, and on the surface he quite quickly became an Oathbreaker. (I wanted to do something very different than usual, but I feel I didn't fully utilise his class. I should've picked rogue from the start, but it really works for him, a fallen nimble palladin)

Elehall is a Dark Urge. She's an elven warlock, for now (falling back to the familiarity of mage-adjacent class, but it might change, I might even restart and mod her a bit). I'm doing her playthrough simultaneously with Astarion's, so it'll take a while to figure out her details and quirks.

Amadris has an evil-er playthrough out of the two, yet he falls on his feet most of the time, just enough to accidentally emerge as a hero in the eyes of the bystanders, while Elehall's intentions are good but... well, it doesn't always work out.

17. What does your Character think of Withers?

Amadris is mostly amused, but to be honest, doesn't treat him entirely seriously, more like a nice and useful addition to other curiosities found along the way. Elehall is curious and finds strange comfort in his silent company.

23. What are your Character's thoughts on the dream visitor?

We had very different attitude towards the Dream Visitor in EA, and different plans. Alas. In Act 1 Amadris is annoyed, and mildly offended at the notion he would even need a guardian, so he acts quite cold towards them (EA strategy of the Dream Visitor worked better on him 😅). Elehall has not had many encounters with her visitor yet, but she's suspicious, simply... tired.

And 35 is here.

[dragonflytehanu]

Playing the last days of early access and trying to make up my mind about the character for the first playthrough.

Elehall, a druid with a flair for poison, colourful in a way poisonous or venomous things are (or, at least, ideally she'd be a druid, if I wasn't struggling with that class; I might change her to a wizard or sorcerer, or something entirely else.) and Amadris, a drow warlock.

I might mix the plans between them, I know very well I'll figure out the details as I go. For now, they'll be each other's respective Guardians, as/so they have some history together. One is supposed to romance Astarion, the other Shadowheart, depending on how they'll get along.

I also had Rhatis at some previous patch, an artisan trying to make a name for herself in Baldur's Gate: