Sep 25, 2025
it must feel good as fuck to be an abominable experiment evolving into your truest and most powerful form
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it must feel good as fuck to be an abominable experiment evolving into your truest and most powerful form
I was treating myself to some MtG cards, scrolling quickly through what my local store had available, when one illustration made me stop dead.
"That looks familiar..." I said. Sorry for the horrible phone picture but-
If you can't read the blurry flavour text at the bottom, it says: "Your mind belongs to the Emperor now."
MY HUSBAND????
More seriously, this card is so interesting to me because Battle for Baldur's Gate was released before BG3 itself, and more than just this illustration and flavour line specifically hint that the Emperor was supposed to have a more nefarious role than it does in the final game, which tracks if you believe their claims of Daisy always having been some proto-incarnation of the Emperor. To say nothing of the intro cutscene :P
That, or the producers, be it WotC or other, just weren't given that much character instruction for a casual crossover.
Someone has most definitely already posted about this card so I have no other thoughts except: god I wish it did, but it keeps refusing to mind control me 😔
in my campaign setting, neothelids only require brain matter once they reach a certain (rather large) size and until then can subsist on any fresh meat, which is what they eat as tadpoles. HOWEVER i'm still chuckling at the mental image of an illithid pool tender dropping a whole brain into the pool and watching the tadpoles converge on it like a swarm of hungry piranhas
realistically i'm a deep sea hydrothermal vent creature and there's no other site i could really go to, but if someone does trip over the tumblr server cord sometime soon i might exist here on bluesky. it's empty at the moment though.
The 3rd might be the anniversary of BG3's full release...
But today is my own personal anniversary.
coming to the realization that my first (blind) bg 3 playthrough was kinda. an evil run. like sure, i saved the tieflings! but then proceeded to "side" with the cult in act 2 and get nearly everyone killed and doom my companions to their worst endings or death.
and... playing Ranna was so *clenches fist* that i'm considering doing it all over again intentionally if we ever get a definitive edition. or just if the game is, y'know, ever stable.
psst... not going to put it in any major tags but i wrote a little ulitharid!Tav/the Emperor thing and you can find it on AO3 (here)
big thanks to Fray @dekarios for the inspiration!
how do you.... tag bg 3 fic....