#Durge band au

[bajablast666]

Have a quick sketch of bassist Gortash for the durge metal band au 🤘

[tearsofeilistraee]

For the like 2 of you who might be interested I do have voice and sound headcanons for Kelrath and his band, The Dead 3

The song that really started it all and gave me the original idea was "Cursebreaker" by Haex

Another great one is EXXXIT by 3teeth (pretty much any song by them will do too tho lol) I think the vocals for Kelrath work really well but also the guitar works really well for how I imagine Orin playing.

Another one by Haex is Leviathan, there's a lot of really good power behind the vocals and I think that works well for him.

Last one for now is Chasm by 3teeth. I like the intensity of the vocals and I think it works for how I imagine Kelrath's vocals. What I love about 3teeth's sound is they have a sinister but almost seductive tone (see Pit of Fire by them especially for that) and that fits the vibe

I do have a playlist for them with lots more and if anyone's interested I'm happy to share it!

[eldritchelfwriter]

A few Baldurs Gate 3 Fanfics I recommend on AO3

So long as it has meaning by ohholymoves

Relationship: Shadowheart and Selunite Paladin Tav

The fic that started it at all and inspired me to write my own Shadowheart fanfiction (Shadowheart Begins). This the first BG fanfic I had ever read. I was so blown away I read it 6 times in a row, just to catch everything that happened and the little clues seeded within, and to just admire and be in awe of how incredibly well written and beautiful the whole thing is.

Shadowheart is EXTREMELY sassy in this fic and I am here for it.

Consonance by @eliteseven

Relationship: modern Shadowheart & Tav

A profoundly sweet and meaningful story of Shadowheart & Tav getting together against the backdrop of being a band putting an album together. Isobel and Aylin also make appearances (bonus!!). Once you've checked out Consonance you'll also want to read Of Night Orchids, Lace & Steel by the same author.

Give it up for DJ Shadowheart by @capriclonus

Relationship: modern Shadowheart (a disc jockey) and modern Lae'zel

It took me a while to dip my toe into AU and modern BG3 fics but this one has blown me away. I'm on my fourth readthrough and I'm sure there are more readthroughs to come.

The characterisations and the plotting are just ... I feel like I'm reading something I've taken from a bestsellers shelf. It's absolute goals.

You really feel like you've been taken on a complex and wonderful journey by the end. This one will stick with you for a long time to come.

To Defy the Gods by @shadowfalllen

Relationship: Mother Superior Shadowheart x Tav

Shadowheart had taken the Dark Justiciar path and kept on seeing Tav, but Shar had other ideas about their continuing relationship. A Shadowheart redemption work with moments of awe, terror (I'm a lightweight and sometimes had to take a breath before continuing a chapter) and HOPE.

Also, this is one of the few works where I've seen Nocturne really being fleshed out as a character in her own right! (As she deserves!)

Hand on a Dagger (Head in the Sand) by @future-ghoost

Relationship: Dark Justiciar Shadowheart x Selunite Tav

VERY original concept where only Shadowheart was abducted, and Emmeline & Arnell hire Tav to try and rescue their now adult daughter from the cloister.

The tension is amazing, as is the growing relationship between Shadowheart and Tav and the kinds of compromises and decisions Tav is having to make while infiltrating the cloister as a Selunite. Delicious!

swear i was born right in the doorway by @tadpoleeater

Relationship: Isobel and Aylin

An absolutely hilarious rendition of how Isobel and Aylin got together. The characterisation of Aylin (a difficult character to write) is just spot on and the whole thing is so delightful, I will be surprised if you don't end up with a huge smile on your face at the end.

My Thesis is a Demigod? by @griffinisgae

Relationship: Isobel and Aylin

Fabulous AU in which Isobel, who is writing her thesis on Selune, finds Aylin dormant in a temple after thousands of years. Fish out of water / time displaced shenanigans ensue.

There are so many heartfelt, gorgeous little scenes, including laugh out loud ones.

Juniper & Starlight by @shewhowas39

Relationship: Durge and Astarion

Even though 'I don't even go to this school' as a Shadowheart and Aylin megafan, I am utterly transfixed by this continuing story of a Southern gal, heart of gold divination wizard durge and her journey with Astarion and friends. Shadowheart is the Tav's bestie in this fic and as with all the other characters in the game, is beautifully rendered in word.

As with all the other recommendations in this post, the words flow over you like music. Tav and Astarion's inner world contain so much emotional truth, a difficult feat for both of these incredibly complex characters but the writer here makes it look easy.

Before the Last Brew by @shadowfalllen

Relationship: Shadowheart and Tav

What if Shadowheart doesn't actually have a crap ton of trauma from Viconia and Shar? What if she is the new barista in a small town who has caught the eye of an author who is getting quite distracted from writing at the cafe?

What if WITHERS owns that cafe? What if it's so sweet and fuzzy and lovely and warm and you just can't wait for the next chapter?! What if! What if then?!

Born of Silver & Night Orchids by @cylinderarts

Relationship: Shadowheart and Selunite Tav (Trans Fem)

Here Shadowheart & Tav meet under VERY different circumstances - a one night stand! But soon one night leads to a few more and then one night they aren't particularly careful Shadowheart has a lil bun in oven she has to hide from the cloister while simultaneously trying to deal with her undeniable (let constantly denied) feelings for Tav!

Tav is besties with Karlach in this fic which is the absolute BEST and cylinderarts has also created a bunch of awesome art that goes with this fic that you can view on their profile.

[spellmage]

yeah i think i'll try and write this actually, i've got five pages of notes now :')

a brainworm is taking root... a very stupid au... that would have multiple chapters... oh no

[daemon-in-my-head]

ALSO since it's winter and my innate need to be a nerd about music and browse music stores for new beautiful guitars I can never afford (3k custom order aahahahahahahah kill me cuz thats still cheap) is back I've been thinking.

Nr 1:

Gort strikes me as an organ girlie. But at the same time it would suit Durge much much more. Raphael lost his organ rights by being such a lenient little man at times. Like you play that instrument with your whole ass body. Big pipe organs are literally part of a house foundation. It's a massive and breathtaking instrument that's just absolutely insane and the tunes it produces are godly. It's also so inventive like, bro the instrument is a fucking house. Oppressive as hell. Thats Gort. That's just the mecha megalomaniac. But then its also positively divine and often related to faith. And its a lot of harmonies and shit mixed together like the Bhaalspawn r and it's rly just a blood sweat and tears kinda thing and it's just giving Durge vibes yk?

Nr 2:

This is probably exclusive to me but uh, modern Band AU whatever would have Gort play an e guitar and be capable of absolutely insane riffs and also probably frontman if we're honest while Durge plays classical guitar. And I have my reasons for believing that cuz not only r guitars awesome and very versatile instruments that can produce both melodies and chords by themselves the e guitar / classic mix also has this rly weird just durgetash dynamic. There are harmonies but there's also chaos and both are capable of being gentle and soft in their own ways but they're also played fundamentally different and usually take a different role but both are still very capable of breathtaking solos and I'm just being a fucking nerd on main rn and will shut up before I pull out my music theory power point.

[spicyraeman]

What,does,Durge play?

I gotta be honest with you ive got no fuckin clue

I planned on keeping the band au to mostly the set companions, but even if I did add default Durge i've only seen dark urge content from the 1st act, so I don't know enough about them to really even try and come up with something

[heartsdefine]

some bg3 au lucy ideas, now that her dnd character sheet is (mostly) finished and available at the bottom of her carrd page:

lucy is a descendant of a faction of people who moved into stone bunkers underground when the spellplague began in 1385DR. so they are technically in the underdark but not of the underdark.

as they had no contact with the above world and believed the spellplague to be a world-ending event, the faction remained in their bunker (aka vault) for the next 107 years.

in 1492DR, lucy's vault is raided by a band of outsiders whose leader kidnaps her father, compelling lucy to venture up to the surface to find him.

at some point during its plane hopping chaotic crash course to the sword coast, the nautiloid passes over and snatches lucy. she is not tav and/or durge, but an additional tadpoled companion they can recruit into the party.

her personal quest involves finding her dad, ofc. details to come.

[flamemittens]

Favourite Songs Game!

Tagged by @defira85 to share some of my favourite songs I am listening to at the moment. I could go on forever, but I'll confine it to 4 :)

I am a huge fan of this band and have a few of their songs on my Durgetash playlist, but I think this one is my favourite. The lyrics are pretty perfect for the pairing (for me personally), I mean:

In my civilisation, you're the king and the queen I'm praying at your altar, if you know what I mean Yeah, everything I've been missing You've been serving up in your kitchen

I'll admit this band is a reasonably recent-ish discovery for me, can't remember exactly where I came across them, but I'm glad I did for sure. 'Spectator' is another song of theirs I am listening to at the moment, but this one, 'Vampire Disco', is described as a song about temptation, self-destruction and a dangerous relationship, so, yeah :)

You're keeping up a breakneck pace I like the way you say my name You're stirring up a brand new age I want you to know Yeah she's a death wish

I've been listening to this song for years, it is so so good. It was originally released in 2011 I believe, and later was the debut single from his 2013 album 'The Golden Age'. I actually first heard it on the Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer, which remains one of the coolest video game trailers I've ever seen. I don't play the AC games myself, but I used to watch my husband play and Ezio Auditore is one of our favourite characters. This song is also on the Durge playlist.

A soldier on my own, I don't know the way I'm riding up the heights of shame I'm waiting for the call, the hand on the chest I'm ready for the fight, and fate

Just love the vibes of this one. It's about the difficulties of anxiety, self-doubt and not fitting in, and being your own worst enemy, and the headspace you get into in those moments. I think she was 16/17 when she wrote it.

The silence is so loud The lights spark and flicker With monsters much bigger Than I can control now

Thanks very much for the tag! <3

[vounoura]

bg3 au where durge and orin and the bhaalists are just a death metal band with really violent lyrics and are completely normal people otherwise

[web-spinning]

Also about that Durgetash modern au-

Durge and Orin are step siblings and they run a rock/metal band called "Unholy Assassins"

They play in a club run by Ketheric, who's an old guy that spend his whole life in prison but now he's just a sweet old grandpa who misses his daughter and he helps out queer teens

[asstariontrash]

random OC ask: if your OC was in a modern!AU, what would their job be? what would their day-to-day life look like? would they be very similar to their canon conception, or different?

(the modern!AU can be in the fashion of your favored iteration, whether that is a 1:1 version of our universe, modern-with-magic, etc.)

Tyvm for the ask!!

I think Hemlock (paladin) would be an EMT. He thrives in high-stress situations and gains a lot of self-worth from helping people, but he'd probably be a bit more laid back in a modern!AU compared to the game. Would still be very ✨intense✨ on the job, but his coworkers would like working with him. I think he'd own a rescue dog (Scratch exists in every universe).

Century (cleric/Durge) would be, like, the bassist in a totally not-popular punk band and work a day job at Best Buy that they're surprisingly good at. They own the band's van even though their license expired months ago and it does have one of those 80s rock paintings on the side. They're pretty quiet but everyone in the band likes 'em. Keeps accidentally adopting strays and having to pick up extra hours to buy them food.

[bajablast666]

The Dead 3 💀🤘

[tearsofeilistraee]

Nobody asked for them but some headcanons about durge band au:

Kelrath used to be part of a goth band called DreadFang (if you know, you know) but left on bad terms (he killed them)

Some slasher/horror film vibes as the story begins with Kaethan, whose father runs a motel the band is stopping and staying at for the weekend while on tour. The night they rolled in, a body washed up from the lake. Several more follow

Canon Kelrath has a lot more discipline over himself and the urge as a paladin (at least in the beginning), band au Kelrath does not and is a lot more unhinged

[sorcerous-caress]

Ugh, it finally happened! Khal'ian and Kira's saves are fully cooked! So close to finishing act3 with my boy! 😓

Well, it gives me an excuse to finally remake Kira or create Khal'ian's in-lore manic best-friend Issal.

Welp, time to test honor mode with new subclasses!🤗

I'll work on more Wyll/Kira drabbles later tonight, but I have a question.

Do any of your Tav/Durges co-exist? Would they be pre-game friends/foes/lovers? I find it fun to branch out and see the characters I create interact with each other.

-githzerai anon

You can try to downgrade the game version and script extender versions to finish the saves off if you were really close to the end!

Also in the new endgame epilogue, Voss sends a letter that mentions the githzerai canonly in game! I thought of you when i saw it. If you're okay with spoilers lmk and I'll post it.

Also dude, honour mode is fucking brutal. One save file, you can't reload and if you die in the tutorial ship the whole save is nuked. All the rolls are inflated with a higher check number, I couldn't recruit Us because i failed the mutiliate roll despite having advantage. So many other people mentioned failing the Wyll Karlach pers roll and the pulling Gale out of the portal roll too. It's full on sadistic and I'm loving it but I can't go far yet because I'm still waiting on my favourite mod to update.

As for the Tav/Durge question, they definitely share a common dragon theme, I based them on different dragon species for fun.

First Tav was based on a gold dragon, friendly, chatty, noble heritage, extroverted and flirty. Romanced Astarion. Backstory is them being a noble supposed to take over the head of their family soon but got kidnapped, comes back to finding out the previous head got murdered and everyone in their family is a suspect except them since they were far away. Their dream person was a half-elf women. Gets thrown off the ship with a small baby red dragon that serves their family, followed them here. Hoards eggs/gold/gems.

First Durge was based on a red dragon, prideful, rude, arrogant, easily jealous, competitive and loves flattery. Romanced Minthara. They're not native to Baldur's Gate and instead come from a far away land in the east, they don't remember much since losing their memory, they hold a lot of Gortash themed stuff in their inventory not knowing why or who it belonged to. Their dream person was a drow man. Hoards bones/skulls/corpses.

Latest Tav is based on a brass dragon, loves to talk/sing, overconfident, cute, bad at being humble, anime magical girl tropes. Romanced Wyll. Multiclassed into bard, backstory is that they are a famous popstar that recently went solo from their band, too used to only dealing with fans so they tend to be offputting to normal people, they were touring in Baldur's Gate when they got kidnapped. Their dream person was a dragonborn man (mod). Hoards books/art/statues.

How do they relate? I'm not sure, maybe they're the same person but a different dragon lineage each time that drastically alters their life? Maybe they're long lost siblings? Maybe they don't know each other.

Well except two of them. I made a durge high elf guy for Minthara to abuse on a playthrough once, he is friends with my first Tav and i made them his dream person but they got separated ontop of the ship.

I mostly think about how my characters would interact with other people's characters, I think most of my Tavs or Durges would be indifferent to each other.

Khal'ian for example, I can say my first Tav would consider him a friend, maybe get a bit protective.

First Durge would be condcending with him and compares his shortcomings to Laezel a lot.

Latest Durge would be very friendly and think he needs encouragement to get out of his shell, might even be pushy about it.

I try to switch up the companions too on each playthrough to make it like it's an alternative dimension where every shifted a bit. Aka the werewolf Shadowheart au or the younger Gale one, since the more playthroughs you do, the more dialogue and scenes you start skipping so their canon plot gets old quickly and writing your own sounds more interesting.

But i do make them all human, all of my characters except that one high elf guy made specifically for Minthara. I genuinely have the biggest hard on for humans. i really think they're neat.

And my first dnd character was a dragonborn paladin yet here i am in human sorcerer heaven/hell?

What about you anon? Do Kira and Khal'ian know each other? What about the best friend you mentioned? Do any of them co-exist?

First Tav - Gold Dragon

First Durge - Red Dragon

Latest Tav - Brass Dragon

[spellmage]

BAND AU? TELL ME MORE PLEASE IM INTRIGUED

AAAHHHGHFGHH i yelled when i got this ask THANK YOU !!!!

OKAY BAND AU i’m so glad you asked !!!!

i haven’t started posting it yet but i have about 30k-ish words written of a horrible terrible modern/limited magic au where it’s basically the plot of bg3 except like,, music,, instead of Actual Threat Of Death

the main points:

the main character is the dark urge but literally EVERYONE ELSE is also there (seriously i can’t stop adding side characters it’s a problem)

the absolute is a prestigious music award that the dead three have revived for the sole purpose of winning it themselves (they call their fans ‘true souls’ because they’re cringe like that)

the tadfools form a band to go against the D3 once they find out about it and there are Shenanigans

the music is all rock/metal/goth because i need to indulge in my interests or i’ll die !!

there will also be durgetash (eventually) because, again, self-indulgence !!

there’s a whole subplot about gortash and maidris (durge) talking via text but maidris doesn’t know that it’s gortash he’s talking to hehe

THERE IS A GALA SCENE ! i repeat i am fulfilling the ‘i wish gortash’s coronation was a ball’ idea with my own silly words and making everyone dress up and play nice !

this thing is going to be LONG when it’s done (it’s not even a third of the way written yet) and it is very definitely above my skill level but i’m having so much fun with it anyway ! hopefully it will be posted at some point aaahghh !!

[daemon-in-my-head]

1 and 6 for the 4th edition past life durge asks <3

Apologies for the delay and thanks for the ask! The first one threw me for a loop lol

1. The song that describes you Durge best from your own perspective?

Knew the answer for this by heart when I created the asks but shit changes, so I'm gonna say 'Kleid aus Rosen' (dress of roses) by Subway to Sally. German song and German band so lemme give ya the gist of the song (also cuz it's hella ambigious and demands a backstory not a lot know)

A girl wants a rose tattoo, her family and fiance are against it however, saying lilies would suit her better. Now the girl, willful as she is, rejects their opinion and runs away from her home and her marriage promise to find the master who can give her the roses she wants.

The master, however, rejects her as well. Saying that sweet dahlias suit her and that roses come for a price she wouldn't want to pay. But once again, she rejects that opinion and begs him on her knees for days until he relents and starts giving her the bloody roses she so longed for.

She suffers greatly during the whole ordeal, bloody roses bloom on her neck as her skin grows pallid, but in the end, the master finishes his job.

Except the girl will never see the roses she so long for, as the price she had been warned about was her sight.

So TL;DR: wilfulness and ego became her downfall. She may have gotten what she wanted, but she's lost everything for it, including the joy of ever seeing what she so desperately desired. Pretty spot on.

There's also a bit of desperation and being tainted by sin going on in the story but that's ever more nuanced.

The chorus is basically 'master, master, give me roses. Roses on my white dress. Pierce the roses into the bare, untouched, maiden body.' As I said, there's a lot more with sin and sexuality going on too in some interpretations but the songs pretty much a 1:1 copy of an actual old as fuck lament and that's the 'og' meaning.

6. Sarevok, what was his relationship with your Durge like? Did they like each other? Was it complicated?

Complicated? Nah not rly. He despises him for what he does to Orin, but Sarevok bets on the pure Bhaalspawn. If it was up to him he'd gladly rid Sarevok of the curse of being a judge, but daddy ain't no fan of that so he gets to enjoy unlife I guess.

Did kill him in the end tho. But ofc only after turning Bhaal down and spitting in everyone's face. Slay. Literally.