#named!tav

[1000punks]

i know these are low quality but i play bg3 on a ps5, not pc. all i have is shitty phone photos of my tav. hahah

lore dump under the cut, if you want to miss it, nbd.

this is Festé, my non-binary tiefling ranger.

they used to have long hair but chopped it off because of the Troubles (act 3). in the canon-matrix i have created for them (hahahah) they keep their hair long but usually done up in a braid. kind of plain, to be honest. if it were an option in bg3 i would have had them in long anime girl hair. this picrew is closer to the vision i originally had for them:

(i also have fanart of them i drew but i can't find it rip)

they are one of my retired 5e characters and their backstory is a little chaotic, lots of retcons and parallel timelines because my dm never lets us have an easy game. basically, there was this sorceress that it took us five (oog) years to get a party together and beat, because people kept either leaving, moving or their pc died in game. it was a homebrew, so a lot of wacky things happened.

they're non-binary- mostly because they cannot really be bothered with gender when there's a weapon to wield and a potential friend in distress.

on that note, it was actually everyone around them who starting referring to them with neutral pronouns. they just... never made a definitive claim of being one gender or another. one pc in a former campaign (a centaur barbarian named Basios) once referred to them as "my non-descript friend!" and that was hilarious, and it also stuck.

it's canon based on past 5e campaigns that they don't like elves. they have a secret hate-on for elves. so maybe a certain pale elf has something to do with that- we may never know.

they have a husband and an adopted kid in one of those timelines.

i recently resurrected them to play through the netherdeep campaign with a new group.

i'm inserting their adventures in baldur's gate as what they were up to before they met their husband.

their husband is a lawful evil wizard named Mordren who loves living in a cave and murdering people who enter the cave.

Festé was the only other person besides him to walk out of that cave alive, uwu.

in bg3 canon (my save file), they're an Astarion truther and definitely have carried the "i can fix him" torch for a long time.

they're a bit of a happy dumbass, and they don't talk a lot.

it's hard to get them riled up, as it were. they're a relatively calm, accepting and objective person.

the only thing they're really scared of is losing someone they've made a connection with.

they have had a lot of lovers but they're not the type to make a big deal of it. everyone was someone they loved fully and in a respectable way.

they're the character that is most like me, in a way. i played them really honestly in bg3 to how i would respond to a lot of the dialogue. so in a sense, not a lot of role play was going on in their run.

after the events of baldur's gate, they'll probably go on to have some more small adventures before the big encounter with the sorceress i mentioned. i would say during the events of the bg3 they'd be roughly 26-27, and they were 32-33 during the sorceress campaign.

[lazylittledragon]

you know when you hesitate to commit another crime and the camera cuts back and he’s just there with the wettest eyes

[rhymewithrachel]

Devils….

[dwoodledip]

Pink bitch named Breakfast

[pocket-dragon]

not nearly enough Mama K content, GIVE THAT WOMAN A CHILD!

[sleeeepy-demon]

doctors hate her its part 9 of horrible bg3 memes i drew on paint

part: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15

[catsharky]

Well I was going to do the next part all in one go (why the format's a little weird, I did pages) but then I went and got sick, so for the sake of not keeping you all waiting for another week or two, here's the first bit of part 3 of the Rolan comic

I'm hoping to post the rest of this part in one go (there's another 11 pages so we'll see if that actually happens) and then we'll finally be back to Rolan again

Part 1 • Previous Part • Next Part

Here's the pages in their original format as well. Realized they might not be super great to read on mobile, so maybe chopping them up was for the best.

[cranity]

Santos and Gale encounter the Raindancer

[sunclown]

My middle aged man yaois ⚡️🔮

[crowlipso]

Tryna slut him out and build a Lego set with him after.

[bloodsuckingfiends]

Astarion who hugs you close to him, cheek resting on the top of your head, when he’s feeling particularly anxious or dissociative. Holding YOU, rather than the other way around comforts him for the fact that he’s not the one being restricted or held down, which sends his mind back to pre-tadpole times. Holding you to him is grounding, holds him in the present where he is safe, and loved, and cared for beyond his own belief.

[jalopeura]

these might be the most important lines of dialogue in all of video game history actually.

[lazylittledragon]

modern au gale+cyra/dadkarios for soul healing <33

cyra should not have a phone her internet history would have her on a watchlist

[leftski-art]

shoutout to BG3 for making me love dragonborn 🔥

[little-star-library]

Astarion: I have very high standards. I think I would only fall in love with someone graceful and-

Tav: *stumbles out of their tent, knocks over a stack of books, startling Scratch and Butters the owlbear and landing flat on their face*

Astarion: …

Astarion: I want that one

[snakeoid]

when your tav and durge end up romancing the same stupid freak.