#BG3 TIMELINE.

[usagimen]

Here’s a quick little synopsis of Sayuri’s BG3 verse

Raised by her father Minato in Baldur’s Gate, he is a tailor that is consistently known for intricate patterns && the usage of refined silks from different spiders. A quiet, patient, kind man that keeps his daughter close but overly spoils her due to the matriarch system of drows. She is Seldarine, thus, her alliance with Lolth is considered none as she seems to have a hard time digesting the history but can explain it rather easily. Lovely green eyes instead of red, in the evenings, there is a soft lilac sheen. Her color schemes revolve around amethyst && gold within this verse to compliment her undertones along with moon-like nature. Oddly, they are Selune worshippers 

Sorcerer, Minato used any profits && earnings that he came up with toward her tutelage. More elemental based, she prefers lightning for a chaotic flare, versed in low levels of healing. Will use her staff to bonk someone, Sayuri has custom weaponry made for her but at the start of Act One, she’s seen with a wooden polearm.

The best guide in the underdark during Act Two, she can identify certain variations of fungi, for a personal quest she will ask for you to help retrieve certain specimens. All unknowing, that her stoic nature && haughty arrogance hides the more gentler parts of her. She will approve highly of acts of kindness, heroism, self sacrifice though in positions where violence begets violence; she encourages lethal means. A firm but gentle companion, who sighs each times she hears someone point out drow in daylight.

Competitive good natured chiding with Rolan, they’re both arrogant && bumping chests when speaking about their abilities. No one is sure what they are doing, Sayuri refuses to give him any satisfaction in believing he is the best spellcaster.

Her camp attire is often meant to resemble spider webs or the long legs of an arachnid, gothic romantic heroine, even her camp quarters resemble her rather eerie nature. Except for the owlbear plushie she has lovingly named Ema that Minato has patched thousands of times. She can be seen playing the lyre attracting small spiders that listen intensely to her, unknown unless one enters a platonic or romantic relationship with Sayuri is that she is a remarkable dancer who voices she enjoyed the more robust parties in Baldur’s Gate.

Her good ending is using the fungi specimens not for potions, toxins, poisons, but instead inviting those around her to the small cottage in the city she owns. Her home, a place she shares the hearth with new && old friends, where the underdark lives but radiates a brilliance, the dish is served in a piping hot mushroom stew as she beams with utmost pride.  

[shaykai]

You ever see your ex and promptly decide to reenter his life in the most destructive way possible

[catsharky]

Yeah I was right and there was no way I was getting the rest of this done without making you all wait another month or two, so I just went to the next good break point. We're officially past the halfway point with Astarion though, so not too much longer before you actually get to see Rolan again!

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[lazylittledragon]

ok i’ve got shadowlach wedding on the brain again and i’ve been cooking a Thought

you know how people will jokingly send wedding invites to royalty/celebrities and sometimes they actually show up

karlach would 100% invite drizzt do’urden to her wedding

[drownedrow]

Gort’s head model on all the companions. You’re welcome! 😉

[truly-sincerely]

Comprehensive Dead Three Timeline

Outdated! I've made a new timeline!

Obviously there's varying amounts of speculation here, but I believe this is as close to a reasonable order of events as can be achieved with current, in-game information

1460s

Enver Flymm sold to Raphael by his parents, renamed Gortash

Gortash learns about the Crown of Karsus while a prisoner of Raphael

1470s

Gortash escapes the House of Hope

Gortash gets involved with black market arms dealing

Durge begins their serial killing spree in Baldur’s Gate

The Emperor dominates Duke Stelmane

1480s

Gortash establishes a cult of Bane in Baldur’s Gate

Gortash approaches Durge about an alliance

Hall of Wonders test mission - Durge gets Bhaalist memorabilia - Gortash gets a bunch of Gondian designs - Durge & Gortash get companionship

Gortash trades Karlach to Zariel for infernal machinery & iron

Baldur’s Gate’s Beloved Ranger statue goes missing

Gortash recruits Franc Peartree to distribute infernal iron weapons

Gortash moves against the Zhentarim & Knights of the Shield

Wyll Ravengard enters pact with Mizora, leaves Baldur’s Gate

1490s

Dead Three made aware of the Crown of Karsus (most likely informed by Gortash) - Gortash becomes Bane’s Chosen - Durge becomes Bhaal’s chosen - Gortash & Durge are instructed to recruit Ketheric

Gortash tells Durge about the Crown of Karsus

They visit Ketheric and learn of the illithid colony under Moonrise

Gortash & Durge visit the House of Hope (for intel on Mephistar?)

Gortash & Durge raid Mephistar - They get the Crown of Karsus - They get the book on the accelerated grand design

Gortash captures the Emperor

Gortash & Durge return to Moonrise - Their identities are kept secret from Ketheric’s people - Durge impresses the Moonrise Gnolls, but not Steelclaw - Ketheric yells at Durge in the throne room for unknown reason

Durge proposes their plan to the Elder Brain who accepts

Raid on the illithid colony - Durge puts the Crown on the Elder Brain - Orin gets Durge alone during the raid & stabs them in the head - Orin tadpoles Durge, making them the first True Soul - Orin leaves Durge in an illithid pod - Orin tells the Chosen she now speaks for the Temple of Bhaal - Orin likely told Gortash, Ketheric, and Balthazar something vague about Durge’s disappearance being related to Durge’s religious crisis and let their imaginations do the rest

1492

Durge breaks out of their pod & is found by Kressa Bonedaughter

Gortash gets weird and intense with unethical experiments - Some futzing to get the tadpoles to consistently remain in stasis - This is when the name ‘True Souls’ gets coined - Extremely questionable fun with brains - Getting the Absolute’s voice sorted out - Tadpoling his parents - Poorly conceived experiments on children & their parents

Isobel is resurrected by the Dead Three

Minsc captured by Absolutists at recruitment rally in the Undercity

Minthara Baenre is recruited by Orin and Ketheric

Gortash has the Iron Throne converted to hold hostages

Gortash presents prototype Steel Watcher to the city council

Jaheira tracks cult to shadow-cursed land, meets Isobel

Elturel falls into Avernus

The brain sends the Chosen dreams about the Astral Prism

Gortash researches the Prism, finds out that Vlaakith has it

Gortash tells Ketheric to send a team to get the Prism - A nautiloid piloted by the Emperor and other illithid is sent - Kressa’s husband arranged for Durge to be on the nautiloid

Gortash deploys Steel Watch in Lower/Outer City

At this point Elturel is no longer in Avernus

Nautiloid picks up Shadowheart & the Prism from Astral Plane

Nautiloid picks up Lae’zel (?)

Nautiloid picks up Gale (?) & Astarion in Baldur's Gate

Nautiloid picks up Karlach & Wyll in Avernus

Nautiloid crashes, game begins

[bloodyweaved]

[heph]

Undercover smooching 😘

[thetrashppl]

something about this man brings back memories buried deep under piles of gore. remnants of a time when you were still sweet and didn't know the taste of copper. your hand twitches. it yearns to hold his golden claw. craves its anchor

[hekuuu]

if evil why hot

[mossy-rossy]

Bloodweave meeting their older (and married?!?) selves.

I think it'd be hilarious for Gale and Astarion (who are still dancing around even the idea of feelings) to meet their happier, older, obviously in a relationship and *disgustingly* domestic about it, selves

I'll say it, I think older astarion would absolutely bully his younger (and single? HAH) self. He'd constantly drape himself over his husband, touch older gales (very nice) soft belly. All the while giving younger Astarion the most "no bitches?" shit eating grin.

When older astarion starts flirting with younger gale (oh look how young you are! How sweet... You probably don't even know you like to be tied up! ) , that's when the daggers come out and it's 8 strength vampire vs 8 strength vampire.

I have a lot more thoughts for this but I just think older astarion would have a field day with tormenting his younger self ...

Until older gale takes pity and softly tells younger astarion that the orb no longer corrupts his blood and that he should feed on him (he knows his husband had gone hungry during their adventure, this is his way of rectifying that.)

And fine,, if older gales smirks at his increasingly furious , jealous, husband as he holds younger Astarion so tenderly and gently guides the vampire to his bare neck well....

Gale Dekarios doesn't let anyone bully his beloved, not even his own husband.

[lets-go-hurt-someone]

So I’m trying to put together a timeline for Gortash, and keep looping to the possibility that Gortash is not only actually much younger (ha, ha) than Durge, he’s quite possibly just actually pretty young.

I can’t find a reference for the age Enver Flymm was taken to the House of Hope, but it was definitely young. Child young. Less than 10? Certainly under 12? And he escaped while he was still a “mischievous little blot of a boy”? So— a teenager, at most in his very early twenties. Young.

So he limps out of hell, barely more than a kid and with absolutely nothing in the world to work with but a childhood spent earning a degree in psychopathic manipulation from a literal devil and a likely newfound devotion to the god of tyranny in his heart…

Of course he’s going to lie about his age. He wants respect. He’s like 17 and trying to start a cult. The raccoon eyes and five o’clock shadow started as a desperate attempt to appear a few years older through sleep deprivation. By the time he actually turns 30, he’s been 30 for years. He’s a rough-looking 30 because, sure, he’s had a rough life, but also he’s leaned into looking older than he is to achieve his goals.

The final fantasy hair is just because once he actually does turn 30 and he begins to feel that fleeting human youth slipping away my man is as captured by vanity as anyone and tries to cling to it. The result is a dude who’s 35, looks 45, and has the hair and style of a 15 year old ready to start the mosh pit at his first screamo gig. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.

I guess there’s no reason to assume any of this happened recently to the ten years he and Durge worked together (at least that I can find) so I guess he could be well past his 30s by the events of BG3 — but I’m choosing to believe it did solely off of vibes.

[shaykai]

Stardew Vat’il scribbles

[lackeyhenchman]

Cleaning out old screenshots from trying unlikely scenarios, losing it because these two shots were right next to each other

[lazylittledragon]

If you don't mind my asking, how old are Dorian and Cyra?

dorian is 23, cyra is 27!

[oriixxc]

Forgot to post this WIP here cause the first time I tried, Tumblr wouldn’t let me(crop a little now Like, WTH?

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