#Dirzafay Hun'lyl

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The latest iteration of Dirzafay! And hopefully her final form...!? I'm very fond of how she looks right now so crossing my fingers my indecisive mind sticks with this fit.

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SOOOO I have something exciting to share!

I commissioned Hijimare on Nexus to make my Cleric of Eilistraee, Dirzafay, her own special sword. Here are some screenshots showing off the AMAZING job they did~!

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Getting back into BG3 and trying to Perfect my Dirzafay again... loving this latest iteration of her. She looks like a spunky 80s fantasy princess heroine. Sadly my Ideal look is, atm, unobtainable since the mod with the veil and circlet is the same mod and uses the same customization slot (beard) so I can only use one at a time. But I did a quick lazy edit to get my Vision across in the 3rd image.

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I got my fav eye mod working againnnn look at Dirzafay!!!

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ALSOOOOO here is a video showing off the glow effect on her sword + Dirzafay herself, because she's pretty and you should look at her uwu

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TONS OF RAMBLING ABOUT MY BG3 MC UNDER THE READ MORE AKFNVAFV

Actually after rambling about how your BG3 Tav has a lot of space still for characterization... it does give a lot to work with for fanfic ideas of Dirzafay and her LI (she romances almost everyone in different realities because I love the BG3 companion SO MUCH) I feel like one major thing would be like. Them talking with her and realizing they don't actually know all that much about her? She's always asking about THEM, who they are and about their life, but she hardly ever talks about herself.

And I think Dirz would just shrug with a self depreciating laugh because her life is quite boring compared to everyone else... sure she's Eilistraee's chosen. But she's been so sheltered by her fellow Sword Dancers. She rarely goes on adventures, and the few she has she wasn't allowed to do much. Especially after one stint where she gave herself up to Lolth-Sworn Drow to protect a group of Deep Gnomes and some of her same fellow rookie Sword Dancers. And she was beaten, humiliated, and had her hair cut short just to rub dirt in the wound before she could be rescued by her senior Sword Dancers. And came Very, Very close to getting sacrificed to Lolth. Which was a total shame to her (as well as her seniors who were supposed to be looking out for her, instead they let their Goddess's CHOSEN get taken by the Lolth-Sworn), so she really very much doesn't like talking about it. Especially to her new friends who see her as a leader figure. Which she is THRILLED about. I think she was thriving as the de-facto team leader. She'd wanna avoid talking about how boring her life is so they stay impressed with her.

I think she'd be far more interested in telling about her mother and father if asked about her past- since they were the main character + Valen Shadowbreath from the NWN expansions. So they are very interesting in their own right. But her mother and father's legacies is what also causes her seniors to be overprotective of her since her mother and father are both dead, and died quite tragically while Dirz was still a child. They cared deeply for Brizae and feel it's their responsibility to make sure her daughter doesn't end up like her. And they don't realize how it's making Dirz feel inferior and useless and like she's wasting Eilistraee's gifts. As well as being a disappointment to Brizae's legacy. She admires her mother but also resents her. And misses her and her father so, so much. Lots of complicated feelings there.

Dirz also has it kinda bad when it comes to her identity, what with being a drow AND a tiefling. Tieflings rarely recognize she's one of them and assume she's a drow, drow tend to clock her as a half-drow even tho she's technically full drow AND full tiefling. She's her own race entirely, really. And humans and other races, it's a toss up but no matter what she's usually treated badly or at least with a healthy dose of suspicion because Tiefs and Drow both have negative reps. Drow moreso but, yknow.

Not to mention the Tieflings at the Druid's grove were probably the FIRST Tiefs she ever met besides her father. And getting treated like *just* a Drow and feared by them probably SUCKED... poor girl. Like imagine you finally meet another Tief and they call you an under-elf and try to attack you so you have no choice but to intimidate them to get them to back down. She probably realized on her journey to Baldur's Gate that being nice didn't work (hardly anyone knows of Eilistraee and even then how can they trust her?) and she had to put on a Lolth-Sworn intimidating facade to get people to back down so they don't start a fight. Rough. At least Zevlor was much kinder. I feel like he'd feel really bad if she told him she was actually both drow and a tiefling... Like. Wow you're so brave to be open about being a DROW. I'll make sure to let the other TIEFLINGS, who you arent, know that you are SAFE. And she's just like "um actually Im a tiefling as well... ahaha my mom was a drow my dad was a tiefling I know it's kinda hard to tell... ahaha. ha." And then getting a double whammy from the druids of being a Drow, who by default is not to be trusted, and a Tiefling, who they are currently having problems with. and THEN get clocked as a Lolth-Sworn by Kagha and have to say she's a follower of Eilistraee... except this time that was a DISAPPOINTMENT. Holy fuck now that I'm really thinking about poor Dirz could NOT win in that Druid Grove, at least socially ToT

Anyways back to my original Thoughts. I just really like the idea of her chosen LI being like oh shit here I am dumping all my history and problems onto you, and you've changed my life for the better and have practically healed me of my regrets and past mistakes and helped me get on the right track to move on to a better chapter in my life... and when it comes down do it, I don't know barely anything about your past. What shaped you into the amazing person you are. YOUR struggles you've gone through, are going through. I need to make an effort to show the same interest in you that you've shown in me during our journey. And her being like UM. DO I HAVE TO. And then it's the shoe on the other foot since they were like that with her at first LOL. "I remember a certain someone wanting every little detail about MY past and who I am the very day we met..." and she's just like. Ahaha... oops... you got me there....

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I've decided to change Dirzafay's lore- I haven't played BG3 in a while due to laptop issues so I've been playing other games. And I decided that Dirz's parents are my MC from Neverwinter Nights 1 (the DLC) and the LI Valen Shadowbreath. IDK how Tiefling genes work tho- I think she'd still just look like a regular half-drow. It would give a reason to her cool glowy eyes tho! Anyways, her mom's name is Brizae Hun'lyl.