#baddies gate 3

[torpublishinggroup]

would harrowhark/shadowheart shipname be harrowheart or shadowhark

[may12324]

Karlach and Shadowheart- my favourite girlies <3

[geezmarty]

at any moment in time im like (thinks about durge/karlach) (explodes)

[steampoweredstrawberry]

I just love that Gale's romance scenes are like "How to Land the Partner of Your Dreams while Honoring Your Autistic Hyperfixations: Parts 1-3. By: Gale 'of Waterdeep' Dekarios".

[kelsh]

Back in my day, we didn’t have patch 4 and cleaned our companions the old fashioned way

[itsclydebitches]

I've been thinking about Astarion's lack of reflection combined with the, "Lol how can this idiot think he's hiding his vampire status his bite marks are RIGHT THERE" reaction from the fandom. Crazy thought but what if Astarion just... doesn't know? It's not like he can see the marks for himself. Would anyone ever mention that to him? Does every vampire scar so deeply? (I personally didn't catch any on his siblings.) Can he feel them? I have scars that look very raised but don't feel significantly different from the surrounding skin. Or at least, I may not have realized what I was feeling was a scar without having seen it first.

Really, I think it's difficult for those of us with sight to conceptualize just how much we take our appearance for granted—how often we see it throughout the day and how much subconscious info we glean from it. Does Astarion know how high a collar needs to be to hide potential scars? How wide he can open his mouth before his fangs show? That the white of his hair looks significantly different from someone who has aged? Sure, he'll pick up on some things from being around his siblings (oh look, everyone has glowy eyes. I must have those too) but even among the spawn there's a lot of diversity. It's not like seeing them truly gives Astarion a sense of what he looks like. Now, toss in the fact that he was enslaved within a community that likely wasn't offering up a lot of insight purely out of the goodness of their hearts (here, let me sketch you) and the fact that Astarion's job was seduction (obviously I still look 'normal' enough that people will trust/sleep with me) and I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that he doesn't quite Get™ how vamapire-y he looks.

[hyakunana]

Durge, the Dark Urge — but make it a bard forest gnome girl named Imbrie

[arakkiisuperstar]

As someone who knew nothing about the world of Faerun when starting BG3, when Shadowheart was talking about being a worshipper of Shar and keeping it a secret I was like “aw babes don’t worry i don’t believe in religious persecution :)”

And then I got to those temple ruins in the under dark and realized Sharrans literally eat people sometimes and I was like “Oh. Ohhhhhhh.”

[vaniri]

Is Helsik referring to the Durge as "his type"? She met Gortash and Durge before, she saw them interract and clearly made her assumptions about these two. This gives me ideas 👀

(that's the dialogue with non-Durge character btw)

[ersatz-eye]

What crack did Larian put into the drow

[m-art77]

Do you guys ever think about how if redeemed!Durge pulls out of Gortash’s alliance after returning with Orin’s Netherstone that Gortash literally cannot rationalize their betrayal (and them now trying to kill him) by blaming their urge? Like how much of a complete mindfuck that would be for him. The Dark Urge just told him they’re 100% cured and now they’re trying to kill him? You know, the person who’s always been by their side, their partner in crime, their equal, and their (potential) lover; and now they’re trying to murder him. And prior to the amnesia, Gortash could always rationalize that if The Dark Urge tried to kill him one day that he could hand wave it as “they just couldn’t help themselves anymore” because of Bhaal’s hold on them. It doesn’t mean they wanted to.

But now, Bhaal is gone and The Dark Urge is moving in to kill him. There’s no way to rationalize it as anything else. The only person who ever cared about him is going to kill him, and he’ll die knowing everything they once had is completely gone. The Dark Urge doesn’t remember him. Their love for him died the moment Orin split their skull. The urge isn’t the reason they’re doing this. He’ll die knowing that they hate him.

[syn0vial]

NEW HELLSPAWN PLOT BUNNY JUST DROPPED:

KARLACH TEACHES ASTARION HOW TO RAGE

[imperial-agent]

dragonborn • ven'paardjadha • 🏹🌲 • 1/∞

[fizzytoo]

aelwyn (they/them), lover of funky boots <3

[hazellblogs]

POV: You are but dirt beneath their feet and you're kinda ok with that tbh

[mystra-midnight]

NARRATOR: "There, in dim firelight, you see him for what he really is; a vampire. A slave to sanguine hunger."