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virgil-630 · 4 days

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It's unplanned part but tumblr don't allow to add too much pics, so

Art with Rentz (some I didn't manage to finish)

Til'em (boy with dark hair) belongs to amazing @virgil-630

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virgil-630 · 7 days

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(3/3)

(I apologize in advance for any typos or mistakes, I'm dyslexic, thanks for understanding)

Most important thing I think it's worth saying that when he wakes up on nautiloid, Rentz remembers absolutely nothing, not even his name. There is no despair, no pain, no anger, they come later, there is only emptiness and a feeling of cold at the beginning.

Fear appears almost immediately from the ringing emptiness in his head, from the realization that he exists. Bruises on the body respond with pain when he trying to move, and anger flares up when a silhouette appears in front of him. His mind, like an open wound, itches and bleeds, he can't utter anything but... help.. me... This is what their meeting with Lae'zel actually looks like, he meets her first.

Rentz is a soldier, all his life he carries out orders that he cannot disobey. He's wise and observant. Knows a lot, but doesn't want to share it with anyone. Rentz watches distantly most of the time, not wanting to attract too much attention. Authority is important to him, he only follows orders. Rentz himself does not want to take the place of a leader of the group and it even scares him a bit.

The whole path of Rentz is saturated with such a strong enveloping dread. Everything he does is connected to it, but what he's afraid of, he cannot understand. And a bit later, a caustic whisper of savagery begins to seep out of the emptiness of consciousness. At first it's easy to ignore it, but it develops into a mad scream of a thousand voices that seems to drive him crazy. Rentz doesn't sleep at night when the screams get louder, he doesn't understand and is afraid of this. Afraid of his disgusting desires to maim, harm, massacre, slaughter.

TW: BLOOD

No one in group asks his name right away, they're just satisfied that he's on their side, and when the question does sound, it hangs in ringing silence. He doesn't know. And the fingers involuntarily begin to tremble. He subsequently finds his "own" name in a randomly found note, where initials are written in a neat handwriting in the lower corner of the paper. "Rentz" is his name now.

It's like there's no empathy inside Rentz, and there's too much of it to the point of nausea. Initially, he kills out of supreme pity, as it seems to him. "Faerun is too cruel to everyone, I'm ready to put you out of your misery," he thinks and is afraid that he won't be able to stop.

Later, so much anger remains inside him that he can choke on it, it retreats only after the murders, the veil slides from his eyes and there remains a void that is filled only by pain and violence.

(cw: not major spoilers)

During Alfira's murder, he sees Astarion and realizes that he's lying about his nature, Astarion in turn sees him and this knowledge unites them in the thought "I am a monster". For a while, they're like two predators baring their teeth at each other, but do not dare to attack, and later in their hatred of the world they find similarities in each other.

(Til'em is a character of @virgil-630 , later the two of them will have an affair with Astarion)

Rentz has a complicated relationship with Til'em, he dreams of squeezing his neck until it crunches from the first meeting, and this is more a personal dislike, not a dark temptation. In one of his outings, he tries to kill Til', but something prevents him and at the last moment Rentz changes his mind.

He begins to see in Til'em something more than just a leader of a group much later.

Til'em skillfully plays on Rentz's sense of abandonment, his deep desire to be accepted, to be normal. He skillfully presses all the levers of Rentz's soul, even though it takes him lots of time, and he opens up to Til'em like an abandoned child who doesn't trust anyone because instead of hugs he is afraid to get a slap in the face. Who closed himself off from everyone so as not to hurt what little of a person was left in him and pushed it so deep inside that he no longer believes that anyone can love him.

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virgil-630 · 7 days

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I just have damn good luck picking my favorite games. Yeah, yeah, deus ex I'm looking in your direction.....

I wasn't planning on showing this anytime soon, but fuck it. Spoilers for the first pages of my little comics on pray😔💀

#my art tag #prey game #prey 2017 #morgan yu #art wip #fanart #video games #game fanart #digital art #artist on tumblr #arkane studios #arkane austin

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virgil-630 · 7 days

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a Caleb study to go with the Essek study i posted a couple days ago!

just like with Essek, i tried to focus on the realism here 👀 it's easier with Caleb because he is a human and photo references are easier to come by for humans, but he is still not a real person i can observe so there is a fair bit of theatre of the mind modeling going on when i draw him 🤭

detail!

tip jar!

p.s. also i'm aware that i'm posting art right after some exciting things have happened in c3, so just to make it clear: guys PLEASE do not spoil anything in the tags. thank you \o/

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virgil-630 · 8 days

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And so, it's time for fun facts about Rentz:

(I apologize in advance for any typos or mistakes, I'm dyslexic, thanks for understanding)

🔗 He is left-handed.

🔗 A skilled warrior, uses a glaive in battle. Prefers open confrontation, is good at hand-to-hand combat. Rentz is the type of person who gives names to his weapons.

🔗 He is silent and sullen most of the time. Extremely emotionless and talks very little. Rentz used to obeying and doesn't jump the gun. In the past, he was different and in moments of weakness over temptation, this is showing especially strongly.

🔗 Side effect of amnesia is that Rentz doesn't recognize his face or body. The face seems wrong and alien to him, but at the same time strangely chained to himself.

🔗 Rentz can move his ears, for example, when he is angry, scared or excited. His reactions are more similar to animals. He hisses when someone pisses him off and Rentz wants to shut them up. He hears better than people and has a highly developed sense of smell, the skills of a ranger allow him to be extremely inconspicuous.

🔗 Some of the ritual scars he carved by himself, some by his bhaalist friends, as a sign of submission. They cover most of his body and periodically ache, reminding him of the past.

🔗 In his ministry of Bhaal, he was a torture master, his style of killing is based on torture and slow killing.

🔗 He has an urge to eat his victims.

🔗 He lost his right eye when he murdered Alfira and now has an implant there. (Astarion gave it to him when they're relationship became more decent). The original eye color is dark emerald, and the whites are heavily bloodshot, so the implant looks creepy.

🔗 Rentz is also a cleric and a healer. His knowledge, for the most part, is built around where to hit for sure, and where to make it so much worse. But he heals well, knows a lot of herbs, can brew potions and cast healing spells.

🔗 Despite his bloody habits, Rentz is clean and even squeamish.

🔗 He's a good lover and will never do anything that will make his partner/s uncomfortable.

🔗 From the moment he wakes up on Nautiloid, he is tormented by bloody hallucinations and the dead appear in his dreams. Because of this, he often cannot sleep.

🔗 He is quite charismatic, but more in intimidating way.

And all art, I managed to make with him

Til'em (dark haired) belongs to amazing @virgil-630