#He has an adoptive son who ended up being a bhaalspawn

[itsangrynar]

Elie Ravenloft is my BG3 Tav, years later he is also the adoptive father and Master of Liam, my necromancer in my currently campaign.

TLDR; Elie and his husband 🧛‍♂️ had a fight over being parents, they separated for some years. During that time Elie tried to be a good master but failed miserably and "died". Vampire husband comes back, saves Elie with some friend's help and end up together again

BUT....

During that time, as well, Liam ended up turning himself in what he wanted to destroy

The ultimate edgelord bhaalspawn

[rinwellisathing]

Love your nextgen ocs! Do you have any headcanons about them?

Thanks! I definitely do!

Alyce is outwardly the perfect little diplomat and princess, she is a beautiful, intelligent young woman who frequently attends political summits with her father and grandfather, but secretly she has a warlock pact and fights devils by night for her patron who she believes is an archfey but is actually a demon. She has this pact because her mother is very ill and she's desperate to save her no matter the cost.

Edward, her little brother, is only eleven years old and because his mother is ill and his father and sister are so important and so busy, he often feels left behind but he often plays in the park and dreams of one day being a hero like his father. He knows his sisters secret but he keeps it for her because it's kind of a bonding thing.

Lucian is a trans man like his father. I headcanon that because Sentry is made of Bhaal's flesh and not technically born, his womb will only ever produce carbon copies of himself give or take a few features like eye color or face shape. He and Oso are twins, but Oso is a cis woman and a powerful, well respected druid like her father Halsin, whereas Lucian insisted on living with Astarion when he was old enough because Astarion spoiled him with nice clothes and toys and taught him fun things like lock picking, archery, and sneaking. He lives his life as seemingly just the son of an important noble whose father has a 'mysterious sickness caused by the sun' so Lucian conducts the household business for Astarion when Sentry is traveling or staying with Halsin. He is also Alyce's best friend and spy master.

Oso is very much a papa's girl when it comes to Halsin. She is a Circle of the Moon druid like him, prefers her bear form like him, and helps him with the Orphanage and homestead. Sentry is very proud of her for doing the best at concealing her Bhaalspawn nature. He personally still gives in and can be edgy sometimes, but he still respects deeply that Oso can fully overcome it.

Teela came to Baldur's Gate to find out who her father was after she had been adopted by a pair of Gnomish Gondians in Waterdeep when Sentry first disappeared and Gortash sent her away for her own safety when she was just a baby. Her parents didn't know what Gortash actually did to the Gondians in Baldur's Gate and believed that he was a heroic genius inventor who lost his life saving the city. Teela ends up meeting Alyce in Baldur's Gate and getting a crush on her and also meeting her father Sentry and accidentally helping him revive Gortash. She is an accomplished artificer herself and has a clockwork pet raccoon named Trashcan.

Thank you for the ask!

[ryttu3k]

Tav questions! Nabbing from @findingtarshish , take if you wish!

Name: Tavias. He's not sure which 'family' gave it to him (foster? The cult? Was magically embedded into him by Bhaal?) but it was the first thing he remembered, so he sticks with it. If he has a surname, he wouldn't have the foggiest what it is.

Nickname(s): He's definitely got 'Tav' a few times! Really enjoys the affectionate pet names he gets from his lovers, and did go all 🥺 when Omeluum called him 'Sun Child' (he is extremely sun-coded).

Pronouns: He/him

Star sign: I would not have the foggiest :D What corresponds to the 28th of Eleint? That's his new birthday!

Height: Okay in-game he appears maybe an inch shorter than 5'9" Astarion, but I definitely see him as more like 5'5". Also objectively hilarious next to Halsin, who's like seven feet tall.

Orientation: Part of the Pansexual Menace Squad, although he does lean more towards men.

Race: On paper, he's a wood half-elf with draconic bloodline sorcery, so some gold dragon in there. Given the whole… pureblooded Bhaalspawn made of a sliver of Bhaal's own dead flesh thing, though, that gets a bit. Uh. Messier, and he tries not to actually think about it too hard or it gives him a headache.

Romancing: Astarion and Halsin. Wrote a bunch on their relationship dynamics here!

Favourite fruit: Loves himself some grapes. If he sees any somewhere, they will end up in his hand, being nibbled on as they make their way through wherever they happen to be.

Favourite season: Summer. He craves being warm. Probably a fire dragon thing.

Favourite flower: I feel pre-brain surgery he would have said something edgelordy like foxglove or oleander? Pretty but lethal, just like him~. Now, he's learning to appreciate other flowers - he'd probably say something like balsam at this point (pretty and healing tyvm), but Halsin would love to teach him more.

Favourite scent: Wood smoke, which he suspects is also a dragon thing. Also blood.

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: He goddamn loves hot chocolate. Anything sweet, really - his favourite drink is Amnian dessert wine and his favourite treats are cinnamon rolls.

Average sleep hours: Not as much as he should. He has the sadly common Bhaalspawn trait of restless sleep and nightmares.

Dogs or cats: He loves all animals and was goddamn distraught to learn that he had mistreated Steelclaw in the past. Animals represent innocence and trust to him. Sees Scratch - "Oh, I'm a dog person now." Meets the cub - "My favourites are owlbears and this is my son." Has the good fortune of crossing paths with Boo and surviving - "Can I interest you in some Miniature Giant Space Hamster propaganda?" He doesn't have a lot of personal experience with cats, but he knows Astarion loves cats, and Halsin loves all animals, so he's pretty sure he'd love cats too! (At some point he's going to go back to Moonrise - Astarion has to go to the Last Light to properly adopt His Majesty - and he's going to grovel for Steelclaw's forgiveness.)

Dream trip: He'd love to see the Feywild. It sounds, well, magical. He'd also love to visit two cities that cross over into the Feywild, Evereska and Evermeet, but while his lovers are full elves and would have no issue there, he's a bit uncertain what reception he'd get as a half-elf. He's brushing up on his elvish just in case (he can read and write in Espruar, but his spoken elvish isn't great. Astarion and Halsin are both fluent, so they've been helping him out, and Halsin also knows the Wild variant, and since Tavias' elvish background is wood elf, he'd love to learn it).

Amount of blankets: All of them. He and Astarion more or less have a nest.

Random fact(s): One day Halsin is going to work out the precise combination of herbs to treat a) his anxiety disorder and b) his chronic headaches from his brain injury, and it's going to be one of the best days of his life (I mean, following stuff like 'being resurrected as an independent person by Jergal' and 'losing all those icky memories of being a cult leader/serial killer' and 'meeting his new found family' and 'saving the world').

[gibb0us]

This is so interesting to me to think about actually. I’m still working on the rough edges, but…

My dark urge Sylris Molothrus is the ‘adopted son’ of a noble couple, that ended up killing his parents and taking their money for the future of Bhaal’s cult. His entire thing was that he was a kill and replace sort of situation, where bhaal killed their original son and made Sylris to take his place.

As for the dynamic between him and Gortash, it’s this ‘I was kind to you when we were children and that forced me to kill my family to atone for it’ and a ‘I failed to kill you when I saw you again’ when Gortash escaped from the hells and started making a name for himself.

There’s this dynamic of Sylris being a noble that was kind to Gortash when they were children, which motivates him to try to use him as an asset, but also uncertainty with how to approach from both sides.

Sylris considers Gortash the one thing preventing him from being Bhaal’s perfect son, a sort of final link to the life he left behind, so he genuinely despises him at first for that. While Gortash has a fondness for that kind young noble that he once considered a friend, and still does, but now has the realization that that sweet boy is not the same anymore.

There’s this tender softness to explore of a bhaalspawn’s first genuine relationship, but also the violent nature that would undoubtedly come with it, that absolutely fascinates me. To be shown love without pain or fear, would truly break a bhaalspawn who associates the emotion with punishment. He was not made to love, but somehow learned all the same. And that would be his ruin.

This is very simplified, as I’m hoping to motivate myself to write something about them in the future, but for now my messy ramblings shall suffice 😭

Durgetash shippers, what is the dynamic between your Durge and Gortash?

(Bonus points if you show me a pic of your Durge 👉👈)