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seithr · 3 days ago

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baldur's gate 3 oc guy rambling + someeee act 3 Offhand Sidequest Guy spoilers. me when rhere is a guy who is a dragon 🐉 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

executive decision made abt arque if he had a ingame questline it would b The Dragon's Song about finding something in his archives about a fragmented song-spell created by an alliance of ancient dragons(?) that could grant one's greatest desires (he is literally looking for a granted wish yeah) but the kicker is that Arque is ultimately a man who does not know why he lives and persists and was hoping that along the way he would find OUT what that heart's desire was at all, if he had one meaningful, if he would deserve something at the end of it or is spending all these anguishes on the road just to hope he does something good and memorable for someone else again.

AND obviously in this hypothetical there are more dragonborn in the story. Maybe a travelling band of dragonborn mercenaries in the local area, a clan that prods him about well tell us when you find the dragon's song and return it to us as is Right. No we wont help its not real. But you should return it here. Your kin are everything aren't they we deserve the treasures of our enemy. And Arque is like well oh uh i guess i can . Do this for us (us is a group of people only tangentially related to him but he feels the obligation regardless.) (his *us* has always been his actual folks in baldur's gate but he's been away on his own for so long now he jus.. has no one and needs the connection...)

Arque sorc/bard multiclass canon bc he mentions by the second or so collection of the dragon's song may actually be DOABLE by mortal hands, not only a myth to keep up for story records, should they be magically gifted (and his blood IS, so with pinpricked bloody fingers he picks up his lute) and has to lock in. progressing his story unlocks, evolves a class action/bonus action where he plays fragments of it to different effect a la bardic inspiration—healing/buff or silence/damage, etc—he can "play" without instrument as a pure sorcerer but verbal alone and incomplete somatic gives him a bleed debuff (can't prick your fingers for magic blood? the song makes him cough it up.)

ruffles arque around in my head i'm still thinking how else it'd continue but I'd love an excuse to incorporate Ansur/both him and Arque being "ouuughh the storm of the gate"/storm sorceror-type theme. can you see my vision can you see my thoughts on this guy. what lays dorment rise to start wake thee now the dragon's heart

#makes him superfucking high fantasy out of nowhere. BUT 🫵 STILL NASTY DARKFANTASY (the song demanding literal blood)#if it were up to me there would be more dragon in everything. so now its all in Arquequest (the dragon's song/the dragon's heart)#(the dragon's heart alludes to arque's too. broken aching. wake thee now (ancient spell-creator!/i beg my heart the answer: why persist?)#arque is a SCARED GUY but by finishing the song you face his shadowself as guarded and possessed by the song's creators who judge him #(and the fucking tadpole in his head so they have LESS reason to trust him with it. they try to kill him)#confront your anger. your hate. these are your desires. once were. you can't lie. you can be rid of this in only one way.#is your persistence worth this remaining? can you understand it? will you let this stay? allow this heart in so many others go unchallenged #scratches my chin. his better ending would be finishing the song. but never singing it in full. there needs to be a reason.#greater than him. but it doesn't hurt to think that. he'll protect it from worse impulses. guard the dragon's heart.#though his own hands ache getting here and will stay bloody with every little effort made. it's still worth putting into the world #for the love he recieves back from it from those who mean to do good too #...and obviously the bad ending would be arque coughing the blood-song to its end as a buff to all his stats #and the shadowy arque bitter and snappy feels like the one who's stayed. he'll return to the mercenaries as their tool. no longer mocked #for being the soft thing he once was. but he's resentful of it. glory seeker on the road but he's hurt that this is his purpose. his use #his folks in baldur's gate do not hear from him vs him becoming a beloved archivist with a love for life and those around him #WOBBLES.... SORRY.... OCPOASTING. MR ARQUE I THINK OF YOUR HYPOTHETICAL QUEST VRY MUCH I NEED U TO HAVE ONE #(and also think of companion reactions to 'god above this guy is not doing very good. hey lets refocus on something else buddy.')#(obv extended/alt ending. smth with karlach. But I Digress i must finish the game first before i say this is how it is for certain)#<he says. as though i am not designing my oc purely for me only. hehe #arquelach #baldur's gate 3 #i need an oc tag #looks over. did you guys know i really like final fantasy xiv: heavensward nd also all dragon stories ever. hee hee

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