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So mad I missed Gortash week because I was ill :(

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Okay, okay okay okay okay, this is gonna sound like tinfoil hat land BUT

I was just wandering around lady jannaths house and I've just found a servant called bailey.

Who has gortash's hair....

And I know that really Larian probably just used the same hair model on someone else to save on coding or however it works (I don't understand computers sue me) HOWEVER.

With the belief that Larian doesnt really use the same hair/face types on important characters,

He's found in lady jannaths estate,

And I've read 'perfumed days, passionate nights'

I'm inclined to believe gorts got a secret son

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I can't believe Gortash is being cucked by Larian... Again! Smh

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Toril better prepare for trouble and make it double

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Guys I think something's wrong with my game.

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Was venting to the gortash AI that I lost my job and he tried to impregnate me?????

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I’m down bad for the bad man

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Terrified to go into the gortash tag cause I keep getting jumpscared by someones really rather disturbing gort art

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Can't sleep cause I'm thinking about this too much

But Raphael and Withers both break the 4th wall. Either essentially saying they know they're in a work of fiction or more subtly implying it but they both definitely know they're in a game.

Do the other gods/devils also know they're in a game.

Are the dead three the main antagonists because of their actions or are their actions fueled by the fact they know they are main antagonists.

If they don't know then why is it only Withers and Raphael??

Withers I get cause I'm pretty certain he's jergal, but Raphael??? Why wouldn't zariel know, why wouldnt Mephistopheles know.

I'm loosing sleep over this

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This gained a lot more traction then I thought It would. And I'd just like to say, as someone who also has a pathetic little single bed in the corner, I am speaking from experience when I say it is DIFFICULT to fuck on one of those. And I'm assuming that gort is considerably bigger than me

I find it really funny whenever I read a gortash smut and they talk about his bed because

If this man were to get pussy it is not on his bed

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My favourite flavour of tavtash fic is when they have the same dynamic as Peter and Catherine from The Great.

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I find it really funny whenever I read a gortash smut and they talk about his bed because

If this man were to get pussy it is not on his bed

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This is so intriguing to me because Gortash strikes me as a man who doesn't have stuff for the sake of it. Everything he owns must serve a purpose (wether it be for the sake of keeping up appearances, or furthering his influence or whatever).

So in my minds eye, and this was honestly what came to mind as I was reading it, Gortash's metal garden is covered in a thin layer of dust, I imagined it inside idk why. but everything in there has just gone untouched for god knows how long.

Maybe gortash remembers it sometimes and maybe he finds a sort of happiness that he can forget about it and when he comes back, it's not wilted, it's exactly the same as when he last saw it.

Perhaps he built his metal garden as a distraction but has long since lost the need for said distraction. Perhaps his metal garden was a moment of vulnerability that now lays forgotten.

Or perhaps not. But all I could imagine were welded flowers in a dark room covered in dust and I ran with the idea

So while I think maybe Gortash wouldn't exactly have a natural garden (at least one he's actually enthused about keeping/is interested in himself, I think he'd have one in the sense of being able to say he does-- Like "I'm Balduran nobility, of course I have people tending to a garden." re: keeping up appearances) I DO think he'd instead have a "garden" made of metal and the like, somewhere. Why spend so much time, so much hard work on something that can be so easily ruined by weather out of one's control? Something that will wilt, that you cannot truly control and might not even fit your vision? It needs so much time to just keep things orderly, time which he doesn't really have to be spending on hobbies. So, over the course of many years, an hour spent here cutting and molding petals, an hour there making vines, eventually a picturesque work of art manifests.

A small field of delicately and intricately made metal flowers, thin and sharp blades of silvery grass, and like some sort of fucked up bonsai project the centerpiece of the garden would be a massive work-in-progress tree with twisted together metal to mimic the look of bark. You don't have to obsess over a disease plaguing plants, insects marring once-perfect leaves or other maintenance of the like, because everything is perfectly in place as it should be. Anything that changes in the garden is because Gortash made it so, it's like playing God on a budget. It's perfect for this control freak. He makes it thrive. He's solely responsible for all this beauty.

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NVM I FOUND THEM!

I need help does anyone know that one artist that did the gort and karlach comic thing that was like

Karlach: what are you building Mr g

Gortash: it's an orphan crusher

Karlach: 👁️👄👁️

Karlach: you jester! *Crushes gorts skull*

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I need help does anyone know that one artist that did the gort and karlach comic thing that was like

Karlach: what are you building Mr g

Gortash: it's an orphan crusher

Karlach: 👁️👄👁️

Karlach: you jester! *Crushes gorts skull*

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I woke up to 2 of my favourite gort fics that had been updated today

I am LIVING

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My favourite bit of BG3 lore is that Withers is legitimately responsible for the Dead Three, but he's probably too embarrassed to tell you, so every time you ask him to elaborate he just gives you a very stern, "Noooo."

I also love that the reason he's responsible for their uprising is because he got bored. He literally got bored of his position as Lord of the Dead and wanted to retire, so when these three morally questionable humans came looking for godhood he was like, "Hmmm. Yes, okay. Here. Take my portfolios. Fight over them. I don't care. I quit."

So after bowling with skulls in a friendly competition to decide who would get what portfolio, they took up his powers and wreaked havoc on the world. Only at that moment did Jergal, AKA Withers, AKA our precious Bone Daddy think, "I'm just now, internally, asking myself, in quite a worried way, whether I might've made an error."

So he joins your merry band and watches your escapades, calmly twiddling his fingers while you clean up his mess. He's happy to offer his aid, even to the point that he'll bring Durge back to life if they reject Bhaal, even though he technically shouldn't. But he's Withers. The rules don't apply to him. If Ao doesn't like it, he can descend from the Heavens and say it to his rotting face.

And the reason he saves Durge isn't necessarily because he likes them or because he's a morally good entity (though one certainly could make that argument), but because he wants to add insult to injury. He steals Bhaal's child with a big smile on his face, dubs them his Chosen, and praises them for rejecting all the power they were promised. And of course, he still doesn't tell them who he is—or rather who he was.

Then, when all is said and done, he throws Tav and their companions a cute little party. No one knows it's probably half a thank you party and half a "Withers is bored again" party. And if anyone misbehaves, he'll get irritated and whisk them away. Because how dare they? He put a lot of work into that.

And at the end of it all, he walks up to a mural of the Dead Three and basically goes, "Lmao. Thou didst fuck around, and thou didst find out." Just savagely roasting them.

And then poof!

He waves them into non-existence.