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margridarnauds · 7 months

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[Tw: Rape, suicide]

I was browsing through Magadon's story for Raphael Reasons and...

Is it time to kill Mephistopheles? I really think it's time to kill Mephistopheles.

(Note, since Magadon mentions his mother surviving: The lore about cambions' mothers dying during birth comes from The Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix, which is 2e, and Expeditions to the Demonweb Pits, which is 3e [both editions are also interesting for consistently putting Cambions in with Demons]. The 5e Monster Manual seems to imply that Cambions' mothers might live: "Cambions grow into ruthless adults whose wickedness and perversion horrifies even the most devoted mortal parent. Even as a youth, a cambion identifies its rightful place as an overlord of mortals. It might orchestrate uprisings in towns and cities, gathering gangs of humanoids and lesser devils to serve it." 4e only says that cambions can be raised in one realm or the other without getting into specifics.) (All this to say that I support any means of torturing Raphael possible and highly encourage finding new and exciting ways of doing it, BUT it isn't necessarily inherently keeping with 5e that the cambion's mother HAS to die.)

#rape tw #suicide tw #raphael the cambion #raphael bg3 #bg3 raphael #honestly i just wonder what's WORSE: your mother to die or your mother to reject you entirely because you remind her of the #worst thing to happen to her #(personally i'm never a fan of having rape just to show that a character is PURE EVIL -- I always hc'd that Raphael's mother was #a human noble who made a deal with Mephistopheles out of ambition)#(but...well.)#('I suspect he has many' -- including a half brother who is at least a millennium older than Magedon)#(And...given that Lae'zel references Magedon if you turn down Raph...)#(...I don't think it's out of pocket to suspect that...the writers...knew....about...)#(also something something something Raphael's insecurities regarding his humanity are complex but also...#something something the mortal realm rejected him first something something something)

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