#Bg3 spoilers

[everchased]

larian won't let finch hug his best friend so i guess i gotta do everything my fucking self

[radish-breath]

Help what should I do. I feel like it's the most in character for Astarion to commission a nude statue of himself. But it's the most in character for ME to commission a nude statue of Halsin...

[phreakedt]

I was someone once... An adventurer.

(read more for me rambling about the emperor)

theres rarely any particular meaning or intent behind my art but i swear the emperor is literally my muse, so i thought id share my thoughts about what this piece means! i was listening to punish by ethel cain and couldnt get this idea out of my head… i feel like the line "i was an angel, but they made me leave" or the fallen from grace motif pretty well encapsulates the tragedy of balduran and the emperor and why he'll always be such a sympathetic character to me.

ultimately while there are valid reasons to believe the emperor's evil/irredeemable or whatever, its quite literally not his fault he became what he is. he never asked for his ceremorphosis (of course, he came to accept it, but that doesnt make it any less fucked up). its generally considered that mankind is capable of good and evil in equal measure, but if your humanity is literally stripped away from you, what is there to stop your descent? this isnt even to justify his actions but instead about how titles like "angel" and "demon", "good" and "bad" etc etc are so subjective and perception-based. like if it was the human(oid) balduran and not a mind flayer behind all his actions throughout the game, i doubt he'd be so universally hated. i mean, better a bad person than a literal monster, right?

there's also the "only god knows / only god would believe", or to me the idea that no matter how hard the emperor may try to exercise morality, he's so far departed from his former self that people will only ever see him as a villain, not a hero. its truly a damned if you do, damned if you dont situation. and most ironic is the fact that despite everything, he hasnt fully lost his humanity. he genuinely yearns for companionship and mourns what hes lost and who he used to be (to some degree). i think hes so well-written because he is just like you in the sense that hes simply playing the cards he was dealt, right or wrong. i could go on and on about this awesome character and song (especially its themes of perversion, punishment, and love) but that's the gist. thanks for reading ^^

[kitthenameless]

But ok, let me get this straight. Haarlep hates Raphael because he was sent there as a spy by Mephistopheles, right? And he has to constantly sleep with Raphael, and it's not even good sex. But Raphael doesn't know this? He actually likes Haarlep and voluntarily tells him things? Or does he know this but there's magic that makes him, like, unable to keep secrets from Haarlep? Or is he just a chatty pillow talker? I need to understand this dynamic.

Edit for accuracy: It's not stated in-game that he's a spy, just that he was sent to distract Raphael.

[mageofpanic]

go go little star

[kossithmercar]

Oh no, oh no, he is seducing me with his deep passion for his field of study and his genuine joy at teaching people about it

[tombware]

for either way you choose you cannot win

[crocodiller]

*Myshka is left safely at camp before any trips to the Hells ~extra~

[coffeenonsense]

gale's reaction to mystra telling him to blow himself up is obviously heartbreaking but on the other hand it is deeply DEEPLY hilarious when Gale, Learned professor of renown, is like "if there was another way to defeat the absolute don't you think the goddess of magic would have thought of it" and the band of badly socialized half-feral murder children he's running with just go "well maybe the goddess of magic is stupid, gale"

[shadydruid]

Baldurs Gate 3 Origin Characters Oracle Cards! Almost all of them have been updated since I first posted them. The last one is my Durge Amaranthine 💜 Which card do you like the most?

[tastysemochka]

from that day on I was his

[quacaserous]

has this been done already

[quelfabulous]

This is what I imagine a platonic grave scene with the homies was like. IYKYK. Onward to becoming more glorious bastard...

translated headstone for the meme. Tav's got the polaroid camera.

[may12324]

this is your reminder to give Shadowheart all the pretty armor

[ribbonentrails]

Welcoming home His Majesty

[tadfools]

Help why is this so funny