#also redacting spoilers bc two of my beloved friends are playing bg3 for the first time

[wardenthornes]

new bg3 durge 😊 bc I missed the game and my big beautiful wife Karlach

She was made to look like Selune’s elven aspect, 1. as a mockery of Selune and her followers because she’s a good-aligned goddess who frequently opposes [redacted], 2. to make people put misplaced trust, or even religious devotion, in her, and 3. because he gets sick satisfaction in being able to make a woman who looks like one of the most powerful goddesses do what he wants. Found & raised by foster parents who were devout Selunites, they always thought there was a greater purpose for Celene (she looks just like their goddess! She was dropped in the middle of their village in the middle of the night! Of course she must be a special blessing for them!). Having long since proved herself unworthy of her parents’ faith, Celene still hasn’t lost a bone-deep belief in her parents’ lessons of goodness and evil. But in adulthood, her many efforts to defect from the cult over the centuries only result in her re-capture and [redacted’s] constantly increasing control over her mind and body. The more she tries to break away, the tighter her leash gets. Even death isn’t an escape, as [redacted] only revives her and sees it as further disobedience.

In a last ditch effort to break free and stop [redacted], Celene offers all the information she has on [redacted et al’s] plans involving Selune’s daughter. She takes an oath to do whatever she can to help Selune, in exchange for Selune’s efforts to find some way to free and cure her (No small favor, even for Selune, as Ao’s law would forbid direct interference from other gods between Celene and [redacted]). However, Orin grows increasingly suspicious of Celene’s disloyalty. When [redacted] and Celene both accuse Orin of jealousy, disobedience, and insubordination to Celene for accusing her of once again trying to turn against [redacted], Orin snaps. Celene has always dismissed Orin as a fanatic, while simultaneously questioning her loyalty to curry favor with [redacted] when Celene’s the one with a long track record of attempted disloyalty. And still, somehow, she’s not the one [redacted] favors because she’s not his real daughter. Orin’s determined to take matters into her own hands, and show [redacted] once and for all that Orin, not his prodigal daughter, deserves to be his right hand.