#The Nightsong

[arianwen44]

THE NIGHTSONG IS NO MORE!

[naomistares]

dame aylin the woman that you are....

dame aylin..? more like daammmnnn aylin 😻

[kawareo]

Worst In-Laws in Toril

[bugcowboyart]

Is she.. y’know… a Selunite? 💅

Bonus Live Shadowheart Reaction:

Canon fact: her hand actually only hurts if she thinks about kissing girls

[lululandd]

@hrgnm "I love she her list of things to do after two hundred years was 'kill that dude' and 'my girlfriend'"

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

One really tiny but really flavourful detail in BG3 for me is one of the steps in the "Find the Nightsong" quest. The quest in itself is a big fave of mine, not just because of its buildup and dramatic twist and the fact that it deals with my personal favourite character, but also because of the way it winds through all three acts of this immense game. Here, though, I want to highlight a small and relatively early portion of it.

Initially, when you are sent after the mysterious and much sought-after relic called the Nightsong - classic adventurer stuff, really, there's even a wizard in a tower who'll pay you for it - all you have to go on are rumours that it is hidden in an old Selûnite temple in the region you happened to crash in. And sure enough, you explore the cool temple ruins, maybe you do a little puzzle-solving to open a sealed moon-themed door leading to a passage deep below - or you get into the Underdark via one of the other routes available. In any case, once there, you find the tragically doomed underground outpost some of the temple's residents tried to establish, as well as several records of their final hours. But there are no signs of the Nightsong or anything related to it ever being there at all. At that point you have no more info to go on, and your quest journal updates to say so:

Explore the Underdark. The trail goes cold in the Underdark. Where is the Nightsong?

Except... there is something here. And that something is a book - not an ancient record, but a recent publication: This tome appears fairly new-printed; it can't be more than a decade or two old, the item description says. But above all, it is very conspicuously and prominently placed at the foot of the large statue of Selûne that dominates the remnants of the outpost (and that, as part of its defenses, shoots rather deadly magical moonlight beams until you disable it).

The book is called "In Search of the Nightsong". It is marked as a quest item and it is there purely to provide you with a lead and to bridge the gap until the next bit of insight into the Nightsong you will get (which is at this point probably quite a ways away in Act 2, other than the possible tidbit around Nere and the collapsed bridge as you approach one possible end of Act 1). You are absolutely meant to find it and read it.

Fascinating that such a seemingly valuable object has proven so difficult to track down. Indeed, treasure-hunters the realm over have travelled to the Sword Coast with one goal in mind: To find the Nightsong. Yet each by each they have failed, indicating dead ends, rebuffs, or else disappearing altogether. My latest enquiry was with a half-orc named Graly, who insisted he'd come as close as possible to the relic as one may go without forfeiting his or her life. He indicated that the object is not, as most reports indicate, in the Selûnite fort adjacent to the river Chionthar. It is, in fact, held in an old Sharran fortress somewhere in the environs of Moonrise Towers. However, Graly reported that some kind of potent shadow prevents one from approaching where this fortress might be.

In fact, your next quest journal update comes from going into your inventory and reading the book:

Find the Sharran Temple. We found a book that told of a secret Sharran temple that contains the Nightsong. It is hidden underground, somewhere near Moonrise Towers.

How did this recently-published book end up sitting there, just waiting for you to read it, in the sealed, long-abandoned outpost, beset on all sides by unfriendly crowds of goblins, drow, minotaurs, a spectator, you name it? And why is this cool to me? Well, it's a bit meta, but it turns out that Selûne, She Who Guides, goddess of, among other things, questers, seekers, navigators, and the lost finding their path, has more than earned her title. And indeed, here we see that both in gameplay and in lore, Selûne guides.

In this particular case, though you don't know that yet, she's guiding you, both the character and the player, to hopefully save her long-lost daughter.

[doe-eyes-dekarios]

Thinkin about them

[moyashidoodles]

Thank you all for the input! I was able to commit to the colors and finally finished this piece. Eye catching colors and rendering are my weak points as an artist so this was me practicing both of those things. I hope you like this piece, I worked really hard on it!

[boodarko]

the nightsong 🌙✨

[thegh0stk1ng]

✮ || THE NIGHTSONG IS NO MORE

[westruun]

Dame Aylin, daughter of the goddess Selûne.

[winter-wise]

Love at first sight isn't always a believable concept, but for Isobel and Dame Aylin? Believable, 100%. If I was Isobel Thorm and laid eyes upon Dame Aylin for the first time ever, then I too would be irrevocably down bad for 6 feet of hunky Aasimar paladin

[azotho]

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[swordsbardkat]

Resplendent

[bratzoid]

Aylin <3

Sorta decided last minute to chuck a bit of animation into this one, but admittedly it's a pretty half hearted attempt lol