#And he's an archmage

[mariana-oconnor]

I have absolutely not got out my copy of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist for Baldur's Gate 3 related reasons. I have not been looking at the map at all.

[electoons]

I love the college of winterhold. everyone there is casually deranged and there's like an alarming number of students and staff who threaten you immediately when they meet you. it's always one of the first questlines I do. which makes it even funnier when you get made the arch-mage of the college. I'm level 12 and got through this questline knowing exactly 3 spells. what do you mean you want me to lead the college. this school CANNOT be an accredited institution

[fidgetspringer-art]

✷ Archmage Tethry Ikos ✷

[crazydaymycrazyway]

If Rosalyn and Choi Han got married

Jack, as the wedding officiant: Now, repeat after me

Choi Han, sweating nervously: After me

Jack: ....

Eruhaben, using telepathy to talk to Rosalyn: Are you sure this is the one you want?

[clericalsidhe]

“��� 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙. 𝙏𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚.

𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄’𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩— 𝙄’𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩.”

[camodust]

Random doodles with grandpa. 

[xyoonx]

[wizard-spells]

Status of the spell Power Word Soup?

Still legal but the Archmage is still upset after I cast it during the last meeting

[stinkrascal]

i tell you, i tell you, the dragonborn comes 🐉

i remade my skyrim ocs in ts4... again :’)

[jacqcrisis]

What a good line. He's so genuinely bothered someone believes he's capable of being better than he thinks of himself as he's spent weeks justifying doing something Pretty Bad for entirely self-serving reasons.

10/10. Good game. Good character.

[greyias]

Pre-orb Gale out here making the most dangerous meow mix known to man

[mage-witha-glock]

There's something really funny about the fact that the team's strongest member is also their medic. Like, you'll have Daimen or something being like "I'm injured, where's our best medic" and Zorian just points at Zach who is mid combat with the most dangerous opponent on the battlefield.

[fidgetspringer-art]

The Shimmer Shields - Uniform design

[essekthelysssideblog]

My hot take is I don't think Essek realized he had any kind of attraction Caleb until the Traveller Con arc, and even then I don't think he necessarily would have thought of it as romantic. I think this because Essek hanging around the ship in episodes 98-99 does not react in any specific way with Caleb, but by the time we see him again at the outpost he can't make eye contact with Caleb.

I think part of his processing between those times was developing a sense of shame and a desire to be better-- other people have talked about how much Essek shifted between those two appearances-- and part of those realizations was also the realization that Caleb did something remarkable in reaching out to him that day. Remarkable in a way that enhances the shame, hence no eye contact next time they meet, but also made him realize that Caleb was special to him.

[romance-rambles]

somehow i am completely, totally, absolutely, postively normal about mc calling alkaid "pretty boy" (flirty) and then he gets flustered because?? you're smiling at him?? so prettily?? you're the pretty one actually—how on earth could you not know that??

[recitedemise]

𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗲. After ridding himself of the orb at last, in fact, the wizard becomes a force that's once more unstoppable. He can cast spells without a word, capable of summoning infernos with a wave, and the ease in which he harnesses storms is frightening, but only as frightening as it is an art. Of course, Gale, however, had proved long ago his more prodigious talent. Still, to see him in action beats just listening to this talk. Gale is powerful, relearning all that he'd lost with alarming speed, and that's all a testament to his blinding brilliance--and, of course, his ingrained ambition. With the orb, the wizard had to limit all manner of casting. He had to sate his hunger, was forced to draw back as to not tempt fate, and with the orb in place snuffing his most powerful spells, was something of a tempest in a thick glass cage. However, with the orb finally gone, those limits have at last been lifted. He had became a level 12 wizard with a hell of a handicap, and with that handicap absent beyond its lingering scar, it's like all his previous mastery finally returned--and with force, mind you, like a strike of lightning. In a way, one could compare him to a runner stripped of their weights. He'd learned unparalleled control with an arcane bomb strapped, but now no longer fearing his imminent explosion, is free, as goes the metaphor, to cast a god damned marathon. And Gale is learned. Rather, he's disgustingly learned. He knows all schools of magic, is qualified to teach every field in Blackstaff, and he doesn't serve his city or own his own floating realm, but he'll once again become archwizard in those ways that matter--in his ability to cast and his hellish ferocity. Maybe he won't become as great as he had been with Mystra, but as a former chosen, it's a helluvan accomplishment. In time, Gale Dekarios becomes Gale, professor at Blackstaff, but as a testament to his ability, the city again warms to the idea of Gale of Waterdeep--because she's really only one Gale one could possibly need.

Of course, he doesn't advocate for the title... But it still delights him.