#gur

[rolanpilled]

BG3 Patch 5 Spoilers

WARNING: BG3 SPOILERS AHEAD!

New content from the ending scene of BG3. This is all from the perspective of a redeemed Dark Urge who romanced Shadowheart and Halsin, and recruited every "good" ally possible.

people at the party: all your companions, scratch, owlbear, volo, and a bard in the middle playing a song (his name is milil)

lae'zel is the only one who isn't here physically, she sent an astral projection instead because she's been busy fighting vlaakith

astarion explains why he ran away (ashamed) when the sunlight hit him, he's become a "hero" who adventures and has accepted himself

(romanced halsin) you can hug halsin, he's missed his friends and you. you can do both the hug and the kiss, it's really sweet. he's turned the shadowlands into a community, repursing reithwin and moonrise towers into homes for people

jaheira's daughter rejoined the flaming fist, she's been working on rebuilding the harper network. the upper city was entirely destroyed by the battle but has been mostly rebuilt. she jokes that you might be a parent soon

wyll gives you a choice between three stories, a stegosaur/dinosaur battle, an impossible lich, or a young dragon. he lost his warlock powers but has been managing the best he can, and has become a RANGER ("a true hunter of monsters"). duke ravengard is commanding the flaming fist and help rebuilding the city, and he's very proud of his son

minsc and boo guard the streets while jaheira is "occupied with harperish manners". they "went to give a tickle" to the zhentarim, then got locked up in a zhentish cell, awaiting execution? idk if i'm reading incorrectly but he seems to be implying that he actually GOT executed but withers brought him back just in time lmfao

gale has become "professor gale dekarios of blackstaff academy, educator of the esteemed school of illusion". tara is with him. he surrended the crown of karsus to mystra, who cured him of the orb in exchange (his tattoo is gone), though his students still think he's explosive (he implies that he uses it as a threat to keep his class under control). he tells his students about your adventures together. he also implies you're welcome to visit his tower

shadowheart (main romance) - the game told me that we settled down together to live a happy, peaceful life on a farm in the countryside. shar still hurts her (if parents are saved), especially when she can sense that SH is enjoying herself, but it's been getting less frequent because she's been "losing interest". there's a new hug and kiss scene for her too, so i'm assuming this is for ALL companions and not just halsin/SH/whoever

withers will speak to you about karlach, explaining that she won't be able to come back. he jokes about her, which is rare for him, and you're given to opportunity to grieve her loss. in "a dozen tendays" (assumedly how long bg3 is), "an entire life was lived, she lived several centuries" (not exact quote).

milil, the bard playing in the center, does NOT want to be there. he's pissed that no one recognizes him (he's pissed specifically that i'm a bard and don't recognize him), i had to pass a deception check to recognize him and he cheered up and offered to change the song he's playing

there's a chest called "Chest of Grateful Words" filled with letters from your allies!

"Official Guild Letter"

"Letter from Barcus"

"Letter from Art"

"Letter from Valeria"

"Letter from Ravengard"

"Letter from Sebastian"

"Letter from Florrick"

"Letter from the Gur" (unascended Astarion)

"Letter from Alfira" (durge, killed quil grootslang)

"Letter from Dammon"

"Letter from Elminster"

"Letter from Nocturne"

"Letter from Voss"

"Letter from Hope"

"Letter from Mayrina"

"Letter from Nine-Fingers"

"Letter from Zevlor"

"Harp-stamped Letter"

Baldur's Mouth Gazette

If you find anything interesting I missed, please let me know.

[thedaswolves]

When you hunt Astarion....

[luketaluketa]

a comic where gur delivers a revelation.

[mediumlargedarkpizza]

[greycloakofevereska]

Putrid Bog (Sunlit Wetlands) - Gandrel

BG3 Astarion 2/?

[pedros-immaculate-vibes]

When you left Gandrel alive in Act 1, and Astarion is even more awkward at the Gur camp.

Oh bb boi

[veilkeeper]

Ulma: But things have changed. You have changed. Is it true you left your master? That you broke the spell that binds you to him? Astarion: Well, I mean... kind of? It's a long story, honestly. Roz: What business is it of yours? Ulma: For those your friend stole from us, it is a matter of life and death. We have tried to save our children once already, attacking Cazador Szarr's palace at first light. Even then, it was too well defended. But if his own spawn approached? Someone he thought he could control? He would throw his doors open and welcome you in. And once inside, you could do what we could not. You could save the children you damned. Astarion: You don't know Cazador like I do - he's merciless. You want me to march into the lion's den and save your children, but I promise you, they're already dead. Roz: How can you be sure, Astarion? Astarion: I spent two hundred years bringing him victims. Each and every one was whisked away to be fed on that night. Ulma: But you never saw him feed yourself? He could keep prisoners for days before killing them. If our children are truly gone, then we ask for blood. I know you can understand that, spawn. Roz: You owe them revenge, Astarion. If nothing else, you owe them that. Astarion: I suppose... Yes. Yes, revenge I can do. Ulma: You have lived a life of violence and sin. You have stolen lives, broken families, and caused immeasurable grief. Doing this will not right those wrongs. Astarion: If you're trying to encourage me, you're failing abysmally. Ulma: But it will be a start. You may still be redeemed.

this is a long one, but i didn't want to cut anything out because i think the whole exchange is really fascinating! it's interesting to see astarion be confronted with people he has hurt - people he hurt under cazador's orders, of course, but people he hurt nonetheless. until now, astarion's been in control of the narrative around what he's done... which has really resulted in him being very vague and dancing around what he, specifically, had done. but he can't really downplay the implications when ulma's right here telling us he condemned children to death. it's kind of a vulnerable moment for astarion, and you do see him get a little defensive there.

but hey, we're going to kill cazador anyway. might as well give the gur some peace of mind while we do it.

[thecharmingchimaera]

I’m endlessly fascinated by Astarion’s connection to the Gur.

An idea for an AU occurred to me, based entirely on my compulsive need for More Drama TM - what if Astarion had started out a Gur himself?

Think about it. The community raises money, he heads off to Baldur’s Gate and becomes a magistrate, everyone’s very excited for him, until he starts enacting legislation against them, and Drama ensues.

That way, Astarion getting beaten up by the Gur before he was turned has even more weight, because they’re family. Might even be a compelling reason for him to at least initially prefer Cazador’s promise of a “family” over his own. (It’s estrangement! Dissociation! All that good angsty stuff!)

Hmm. I think I might need to write a fic about this.

[bg3tav]

Astarion checked in on me first thing in the morning. That was sweet of him. I'm feeling okay, neck is a little sore, but I'll get used to it I think. I've dealt with worse.

Back to the Blighted Village. Killed a few ogres. No biggie. We're getting good at taking them down. Apparently one of them was actually smart. Aren't ogres usually stupid? I didn't let him live long enough to ask the question. We likely would have had the same outcome either way.

Astarion is calling me his friend. I... I... I hope I didn't give him the wrong impression. We killed the Gur today and Astarion is opening up about Cazador. I can tell it's hard for him to talk about. I can't let anything happen to him.

Tomorrow, we take out the Hag.

[patrickpants]

Lol you so pressed about a videogame. Relax

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[justacynicalromantic]

This made me laugh this gray and sad morning, so I am sharing😆

[rlaehrwks]

About jaggery...

Okay so, random post: I love panela, also known as gur, jaggery and a million other names across both latin america and asia. Why is that? Well, there are multiple reasons, first of which is that it's fucking awesome.

Like, you're telling me that there's this pill paste thing that's made of fucking sugarcane juice, is sweet asf while not being as harmful to your health? Count me in! Plus, it's literally so good, you can make coffee with it, or the most banger hot chocolate you've ever had, or even fucking lemonade which tastes amazing!

There's also the process, it's literally just soakig, boiling, molding and then drying sugarcane! And nothing is lost in the process! The paste thingy is the jaggery itself, the remaining juices, also called melaza, is used as a sweetener that even people with diabetes can use cuz it's 100% natural and also animal supplement (yeah, you heard me right! Animal supplement!), and the sugarcane fiber goes into the furnace as fuel! Nothing is wasted!.

On top of that, it's a point of connection across continents, it's common in both latin america and some parts of asia! It's so cool that we had the same idea even being an ocean apart, and if it's something that the indias brought here or something, then that's just to show that it's become such a staple in the culture over here that it's ingrained in the very soul of the subcontinent! (Like, literally the two biggest producers and consumers of jaggery in the world are India and Colombia, an asian and a latin american country) It feels like we're connected, even across an ocean and half a continent, even across the centuries, millenia even, of history, we still have the same tastes.

Also, spice buddies! We grow spices and get colonized for it! We're practically cousins!

Sending good vibes to all my desi and latino mates wherever you are, we're all together in this to some degree

#420

[thedaswolves]

Alternative scene with Astarion and Gandrel, if you meet him before you know Astarion is a vamp! I had no idea about this... took me few times to defeat him, meanwhile I could've just had Astarion one-shot him lol. it's a great scene too! 😮

[luketaluketa]

clem checks out her future

[hoopa-is-hoopa]

ᴘʀᴀɴᴋ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʙʀᴇᴀᴅ. ɪᴅᴇᴀs?

((@grafaiai-guru))

Put some jam on the bread... hide yourself and then when you see who You want to prank... throw it at their face!!!

Funny and delicious :P

Can also make they think they are being haunted by bread hihihi.

Oooooor... put loooots of bread in their kitcken!

[skxulls666]

Mustache XD 👻