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oh? something mizora said actually being worth listening to??
this is an interesting bit of foreshadowing to ansur being dead/wyll being the true "heart of the gate!"
#bg3#thoughts about media#I have to wonder if they considered draconic sorcerer wyll at all...#I don't believe there are really any stipulations for how a draconic sorcerer obtains their power from the dragon.#maybe they DID consider it- but decided against it because they didn't think/didn't have time to make it so that wyll would-#-automatically be the one chosen to speak to ansur were he in the party. that would have been a cool potential path for him honestly!#like if he was in your party- he would get auto-selected to speak to ansur and if you chose certain dialogue options-#-he could gain the powers of a sorcerer! it would work well to build upon the twist in his fairy tale-like story!#is it because of the bad reputation sorcerers have? or because mizora is technically classified as one?#or maybe it's because they didn't want to have wyll and the durge to BOTH be sorcerers. since they're both origins...?#idk. I'm kind of the opinion that durge is somewhat...overrated. I'd rather wyll get the fancy magical dragon powers.#I feel like they should have just...not added durge as a character and focused on REALLY polishing the 6 main origin companions.#because even with a character like star. who has a lot of material-- the writing feels...directionless? at certain points?#in a better world. we would have 6 main characters with more cohesive stories of relatively equal length and complexity.#in a better world. wyll would be treated as THE main of the main characters that he is. he and lae'zel.#they are like the CORE of the story imo.
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Lately I've been wondering: What if Ansur had a clutch of eggs?
When the four original dukes of Baldur's Gate find the Undead Ansur, and his clutch, he gives them a blessing in exchange for ending his suffering. They are each charged with the care of a hatchling; and in turn, they will become Draconic Sorcerers, and their bloodline also; and Ansur's children, and their children, will defend the Gate. Think Terminaire, but dragons are people from the jump and don't belong to anyone--instead, the families rather belong to them.
How does this change the balance of power?
The Fist have to still exist--you need ground troops, and sometimes a more surgical approach than a dragon can really provide, and also you want to conserve their energy. They take a lot of feeding, after all. Dragons transport, but only fight if absolutely required. So I think each dragon and sorcerer are associated with a Fist regiment.
(Also the dragons, and their sorcerers, only answer to the leader of the regiment as a courtesy, and only in battle situations. But generally they are both considered outside the chain of command. This can cause friction.)
There are issues, though. Are the Children of Ansur just extremely long lived, even more than the average dragon? What about attrition? Do each just have an "heir and a spare", plus an egg in reserve? That's 16+ dragons in a not very large area. How are they fed? Housed? Are they in a smaller, more convenient form most of the time, since bronzes can shapeshift? Are there salacious novels written about the dragons and their sorcerers? Much 2 think about.
Politically, since each dragon sorcerer and their patron dragon come from the oldest families, it might be hard for other members of those families to get on the council, in order to maintain some semblance of representational democracy (dysfunctional as Gate politics are).
I also wonder if the Fist would be more of a respectable career path, because the dragons, being ancient and having very well developed senses of duty, honour, etc, and they enforce a certain standard of behaviour as only an aristocratic dragon can--much more effective than a Marshal, no matter how good their intentions are. Other political issues. Can the spare dragons be in parliament? Be Marshal? Elected to the council? Leave?
(Also this paves the way for Wyll, son of Fist Ulder Ravengard and dragon sorcerer Francesca Eltan, to also be a dragon sorcerer, and for Francesca to be alive. Isn't that fun, Larian?)
It also means that the Cult, and Mizora's machinations, don't really achieve their goals, because the Children of Ansur will simply eat them, so a family is not destroyed, Wyll just gets to go exploring.
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