#Then there’s Infernal Contract and Order of the Fawn

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With Larian not giving us Aasimar as a playable race anytime soon (for good reasons tbh) here are my headcanons about Aasimar Tav

Aasimar are often called the opposites to tiefling, but they're sharing one important aspect - both are outsiders. While tieflings are branded by the actions of their ancestors, their lives are largely their own to live. Aasimar are not only marked by their divine heritage, but they are directed by angels to achieve some part of a divine plan. 

This tension between free and divine will can form a struggle for your Tav. They can either rebel against the demands placed on them or embrace them and be living weapon for the divine. Struggle similar to Dark Urge in many ways.

How will other companions react to Aasimar!Tav?

Wyll would probably be looking up to you as an ultimate hero, fawning at your every word an action, only to get disappointed when he realized that even as a chosen of gods Tav is still human, with flaws and mistakes. Does he not realize your fate choosen by the gods is just as stifling as his infernal contract?

Gale would probably be thrilled to have such fabled creature in his party, studying like a bug under the looking glass.

What if your celestial guide ordered you to kill Karlach?

What if the god that chose you was Selune? How would Shadowheart react to that?

What if Astarion would be so sure you'll smite him down he'll be terrified of you, never even trying to bite you in the first place?

Speaking of Astarion drinking your blood, what would it be like drinking Aasimar blood? Would he burn himself, or would the tadpole prevent it like it did with sunlight? What if after tasting Aasimar!Tav's blood gets swept by such unearthly euphoria he becomes addicted?

Evil-coded characters like Raphael and Mizora treat Tav with obvious disgust. Alternatively evil aligned creatures hunt Tav as a trophy.

The central emotional conflict for Aasimar!Tav comes from their divine imperative to Do Good and their own fallibility and mortal desires and vices. This can take an interesting course within the storyline of Baldur's Gate 3. Can you fulfill your divine mission and romance the companions, have a family with them?

Karlach and Aasimar!Tav burning each other simultaneously.

What role does Aasimar!Tav takes in the story?

Writer's can make Aasimar!Tav born to stop the game's Big Bad OR they can make Aasimar!Tav whose destiny is never really made clear, whose guide is largely unhelpful or so removed from the reality of the material plane that their advice is useless. And what happens if your Tav would rather be a potter or painter than a champion of all that is Good and Holy™?

Volo’s Guide mentions that many conceal their identities as the forces of evil are inevitably drawn to them eager for a chance to cut them down. Would companion's approval depend on whether they stay in your party or not after Tav reveals they're Aasimar? The game could make player choose whether they reveal it or not just like with Astarion's vampirism.

This also brings up an interesting point for further storyline in which Tav's identity was betrayed, or they learn that the world is eager to destroy them. What happened that made Tav decide their life – which was celebrated at birth – must be one of concealment and hiding?

Another point I want to make is that several sources state that being an Aasimar is a lonely existence. Many don't even perceive them as a race with how scarce their numbers are. Another source stated that Aasimar could live a whole life without meeting another of their own.

Unlike angels and some gods, being good is a daily choice for mortals. This can wear on an Aasimar!Tav as they live a life of constant battle against evil. What is the point, they may wonder, of all of this? Why was I forced to fight a war I have no stake in? 

Fallen aasimar are specified as turning to evil, but I think this may be a too simple. It’s not like every aasimar who questions their role in the divine plan decides to murder puppies for a living. Rather, those who deny their gods-appointed quest are the ones who reject their divine heritage and lose their divine light, replacing it with shadow. I could go as far as presume that romancing companions like Karlach, Shadowheart, Astarion or even transformed Wyll would anger your god.

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Okay so today I’m gonna go off the deep end and talk about some OCs and a personal project that I think about a lot so let’s talk about Haakon and Nesta, a couple of deities.

These two come from a world known as Cordtritos (Which if you’re curious, comes from the Latin words ‘Contritos Corde’ meaning ‘Broken Hearted’ or ‘Heart Broken’). Deities are often in charge of one central thing and a couple of smaller things that go with it. That being said, Haakon is the God of Destruction, along with Darkness, Power, and later is considered the God of Demons. Nesta on the other hand, is the Deity of Creation, along with Light, Knowledge, and later Angels as well.

You would think with titles like Creation and Destruction that they would’ve created Cordtritos but that’s not the case. They did not create the world, but rather, the world created them. Both of them were born into the world with little idea of the power they held and only had each other. Despite not having actual parents, Haakon and Nesta became siblings in every sense of the word and from that point on, always had each other’s backs.

I’m not going to go too deep into the background surrounding how those two realized they weren’t like other mortal beings and eventually came to be deities because that’s a whole other can of worms but eventually, the pair of them realized they had a lot more power than anything else that walked the planet. They learned their abilities over the century that followed but it wasn’t truly put to the test until war came. Or more accurately, wars.

As the moral beings of the world began to create cities and kingdoms, they began to fight as well. As unfortunate and terrible as war and conflict is, it does tend to break out between countries are at odds for resources and land. The biggest problem however was that they never stopped. Even after one country won a war, they would just end up getting into another- and this happened globally. Those who didn’t want to fight were dragged into alliances that would eventually break apart and peace was scarce to come by. Haakon and Nesta couldn’t find a reason for it and it was severely damaging the world. So, eventually the pair summoned their strength and took matters into their own hands.

Even with their powers, singlehandedly trying to stop the fighting or tip the scales of war on one side so that it could end seemed impossible so they created their own armies.

Nesta, who came to be known as The Diplomat in these times and primarily focused on creating peace between different countries, created the Angels.

Haakon, who came to be known as The Warrior in these times and primarily focused on stopping the wars through tipping the scale, created the Demons.

Neither were initially good or bad but rather, were initially built for different roles to play. However when times got tough, Angels stepped in to join the fight or if needed, Demons would help with the negotiations.

It took a long time but eventually, the wars began to stop and all their effort had finally worked (Not going to go too in detail on how they managed to find the source of the sudden aggression because this is long enough as it is but once it was balanced out, things came to calm down). Haakon and Nesta finally established peace... But not without consequence.

Because somebody always has to loose in a war. Sometimes one side takes the short end of the stick in negotiations. There’s no way to please everybody, and as much as they tried to, there was a sizable amount of people who were not happy with the deities. And for the first time in their lives, Nesta and Haakon were demonized.

Nesta was criticized for being cold, calculating, and uncaring. Only wanting the results and now caring how they got them. It hit them pretty hard because they were never as great with emotions as Haakon and always hated that they weren’t. They tried- they really did! They had plenty of sympathy for people and understood their emotions but comforting people... Wasn’t their specialty. They understood creation and its process and how things worked- they could quite literally create a whole person without too much trouble- but relating and socializing and being vulnerable especially with other people that weren’t their brother? That was something they struggled with. And hearing these accusations going around only struck their deepest, darkest insecurities and hurt.

Haakon on the other hand, was rumored to be far more violent than he let on. A warlord who only wanted power and domination- who killed with a smile on his face- who bathed in the blood of mortals for fun. And he wasn’t bothered at first. Laughed it off because yeah, he had destructive magic and was a monster in battle but he knew himself. He loved socializing with mortals! They lived interesting lives and invented so many cool things! How couldn’t he love them? These rumors didn’t get to Haakon emotionally, but they began to affect his social life. Mortals began to avoid him, were uncomfortable with him, feared him- and that began to take a toll on him. Because he wasn’t violent- honest! But everyone else seemed to think so and that was what began to screw with his self esteem.

But even still, they tried to help the mortal world anyways. Their Angels and Demons were sent out to help in any way that they could in an effort to dispel the rumors and show the people that they were only trying to help, even if they did cause problems for some. Good intentions had to mean something, right?

But you can’t kill an idea.

And it all started to go wrong when they were praised as higher beings to be worshipped and started to get followers. Some of it went well- Haakon and Nesta rewarded their most loyal followers with magical abilities of their own that would be passed down for generations. Those bonds are the bonds that they remembered fondly, but unfortunately being powerful deities means you attract unwanted attention as well. Especially if you happen to be a God of Destruction.

Some who began to worship Haakon thought destruction meant destroying everything. That by committing acts of terror, they were honoring their god rather than disgracing him further. And some joined purely with the intent to destroy in his name simply because they wanted to. Because hurting people was fun for them.

Haakon tried his best to get rid of them or at the very least, try and tell them that they weren’t getting it. Destruction wasn’t about ruining lives- it was meant to be a good thing. Destroying the things that are holding you back from being happy; destroying the socialital norms that are doing more harm than good or simply aren’t needed because the only thing one needs are morals, not norms; destruction in order to create freedom- that was true destruction.

Sometimes Haakon was able to get through to people. Often times, they rejected his message and continued to create hurt for their own amusement.

It was bad but Haakon was trying to handle it. He still believed that he could get through to these people- they were just misguided! Until they did something that would make him snap.

They targeted his sibling.

Even after hundreds of years, Haakon still doesn’t know how they managed to do it. But they lured Nesta into a trap and casted a spell of their own that corrupted Nesta almost to the point where they were too far gone. And as a result, Nesta caused mass destruction in the name of order and creation.

It didn’t just effect Nesta either. The corruption spread to every single Angel as they all ruled under their command and they began to lay siege all over the world. Nesta was so heavily affected that when Haakon tried to reason with them, they attacked him brutally and didn’t hold back. Haakon was forced to fight their own sibling to the point where he had to incapacitate them and lock them away until he could find a cure for the corruption.

Haakon traced it all back to the same group he had been trying so hard to save and he finally snapped. Because he could forgive the tarnish to his own name but not to his sibling’s, and Haakon could never forgive the fact that they forced him to fight them.

Haakon wiped them off the map without blinking twice. He managed to remove the corruption from their siblings mind and from all of their proxies. And when Nesta finally woke up and smelled the ashes, they were deeply heartbroken at the wrath they had inflicted upon the world. Kingdoms turned to ash, thousands dead and thousands more injured or in grief- it was all too much to handle. The guilt made them create a rule for themselves and all future deities that they were to keep out of mortal affairs and keep interaction to a minimum. For the safety of all.

But Haakon hated seeing their sibling in pieces so he decided to change the story and tamper with the mortal world majorly for the last time.

Memories were erased or manipulated to all except the deities. Angels forgot that they destroyed, Demons forgot what side they were on, and the mortals were lead to believe that it was Haakon who went on a rampage, not Nesta.

Haakon covered it up left and right, taking the blame despite their sibling’s protests. And thus, the mortal wrath was placed on Haakon and his Demons, not Nesta.

A massive cover up that Haakon works so hard to keep under wraps. Problem is that there’s a few inaccuracies if you know where to look.

For example, when at full power, Haakon’s eyes turn pure, glowing white. But in some paintings created just after this tragedy that happened centuries ago, the deity in them has pure black eyes, which is the same way Nesta’s eyes look at full power.

But the paintings are just inaccurate or misremembered... Right?

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Yeah this is literally me just dumping about my made up history for one of my worlds OOPS hopefully this was entertaining in one aspect or another.

I just care them a lot. Two sibling deities trying to make it in the world and who care about each other... I think about them a lot.