#apollo-gate

[apollo-gate]

Lisa

[nooskadraws]

the wizard of waterdeep ✨💜🔮

[heavensdoorways]

Temple of Apollo, Portara, Naxos, Greece

Credit: Athan Andreas

[oriixxc]

[gemsofgreece]

At the Gate of Apollo, Naxos island, Greece by Dain Anderson. 

[saturdaysky]

You may resist, but it's too late. You already embraced the powers the parasite gave you. You leveraged them to manipulate, to dominate, to survive. Your nature is no longer your own.

Mayhew failed the save to resist the Emperor's offer, and I have never been more pleased at a consequence! What an amazing moment.

Timelapse, line drawing, and character musing beneath the cut.

This choice!! Or rather, this lack of choice!

I love, love, love how failing the save made Mayhew's own will ambiguous, even to himself. He didn't want to be changed, he didn't want to forfeit his humanity (gnomanity)...or did he? He resisted. He opened his mouth to say I will not, but the door to his mind was already unlocked, power welcomed in. Mayhew will never know who unlatched it.

Also, while this is a Gale run -- Mayhew and Gale make each other worse in the most devoted, well-meaning way; the heavens will rue their names -- it also kind of feels like an Emperor run. A subtextual badwrong not-romance.

The Emperor and Mayhew are allies of circumstance turned intimate enemies. The Emperor listens to Mayhew's every thought, gives protection which Mayhew needs, offers advice and temptations which Mayhew takes. Mayhew likes the Dream Guardian; Mayhew cannot shut the Emperor out. Mayhew would see the Emperor dead, if he let himself think about it, but he would miss him after he was gone. And, of course, Mayhew is too curious for his own good, and the Emperor is full of answers.

For the two of them, partial ceremorphosis is a kind of consummation: what could be more intimate than shaping someone from within and without? Metaphorphosis is a gift, by one telling, and a horror story by another.

You are exquisite, the Emperor praised. Mayhew will never know if he became so by his own will.

(He failed the save by one (1) point.)

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Timelapse! It includes all the silly things I drew for my friends, including: 1 tonsure, 3 neon signs, 2 cat emoji, 1 crotch face, and the emperor's armor drawn with my left hand. Spot them all!

Lines!

I don't usually work primarily with line, but I love it. In some ways, it's easier than painting, and in other ways much harder. I find I can't fudge things as much with linework as I can with paint; because the stroke is smaller, I have to be more specific. Even if I abstract details away, I need to understand the underlying form until I know what I am abstracting. It was fun having to be so rigorous.

[bevirspnsblmnt]

I've finally started re-playing Khael's campagn, and have been sanding out al the bits and pieces left of his character :) so have a lil backstory moment and please meet my devotion paladin Apollo! (he was originally a scrapped DND character, now he's Khael's dream visitor and occasionally Tav - I'm playing as him to cushion my evil-no-good durge playthrough)

[julientel]

My take on "Draw your comfort characters like this" meme

I have a lot of comfort characters but I chose these three because I thought it would look interesting

[fujii-draws]

THIS GAME IS KILLING US CURRENTLY 👍

[ch1ckenrat]

was telling my friend (who has 400 hours) what I’m currently doing in BG3 and

[willthespy]

the apollo cabin stereotype is so… wrong…? like no offense but fanon seems to forget that no they’re not all cheery and joyful?? that’s not… i doubt that’s even possible especially for child soldiers

[gift-of-prophecy]

playing two bg3 campaigns at once and figuring out when to play each is like choosing between divorcing parents all over again

[underworldianprincess]

A Sun god falling in love with a vampire- I assure you, it sounds just as poetic.

My tribute to Astarion's famous line "Full concentrated power of the sun" 🌞☀️

Apollo X Astarion ship ✨ I guess I should start writing now. Follow this post as I gather my inspiration ( possible smut maybe) 🥹

[allthesunlightwecansee]

What kind of abundance/prosperity spells work for you guys? This is just something quick and punchy for the Lion’s Gate Portal today, I’ve got longer term ones going on my prosperity altar. I’ve been really struggling to find a job since I graduated a few months ago (which I know is really common but being over 100 apps in is very demoralizing). I could use all the magical suggestions and good vibes I can get 💰💵💲💚

[sunflowerwizard]

the leaked Origin character select screen looks great

[wellthebardsdead]

Halsin when gophers invade the grove: Hm? Oh hello little friends, please take what you’d like but try to fill in the holes if you can, we don’t want any broken ankles above ground.

Vs:

Apollo, my drow druid when gophers invade the grove: YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ARE GONNA KILL ALL MY LILYS! *blasts fireball into the gopher holes*