#and then they discover the guardian is actually a mindflayer?!?

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i was just thinking about how there is always a good amount of people who are or turn into cultists because they want to fuck some weird entity/deity so why i have not seen any of you create tav’s who don’t mention their pre-nautiloid lives because they actually wanted to be kidnapped by mindflayers but well it’s not like they can say that right now with the current mood so they just keep it lowkey

[voloslobotomyservice]

Salome Silverthorn

[Sal-oh-may] (she/they)

Class: Wild Magic Sorcerer

Race: Half-Drow

Age: Unknown

Background: The Haunted One (no redemption route)

Game Progression: Complete

Before Salome discovered her Dark Urge, she was just a baby in a basket. A human woman, Gwendolyn Silverthorn (cleric of Selûne), found Salome in a wicker basket late one afternoon in the streets of Baldur's Gate. Taking pity on the child, she brought her home and raised her as her own. Gwendolyn had her own children, Kellan (paladin) and Marianna (ranger). Salome was raised in a very loving home, and the four were a very happy family together. But on the eve of her ninth birthday, the Dark Urge took over for the first time. She brutally killed her entire family and set the house on fire with her Wild Magic. Although she was a skilled sorcerer, she could not easily control her magic, and her face was badly burned, causing her to lose some of her vision. After murdering her family, Sceleritas Fel sought her out, bringing her to the Temple of Bhaal to be worshipped as the Prodigal Daughter, the one who came back to sit upon her father's altar.

Orin the Red, jealous of Salome being Bhaal’s Chosen, attacked her at Moonrise Towers, implanting her with the first tadpole. She was shipped out on the Nautiloid, and Orin took over her throne, fully assuming that her sister would soon become a mindflayer.

When the ship crashed, Salome was left with an ache in her head, her memories gone, and an urge to kill. She only remembered her own name because it was sewn into her robes she was wearing.

As far as Dark Urges go, she is as evil as they come. She has no desire to fight her urges, rather, she accepts them and doesn’t hide the person she truly is. She slaughtered the Grove, Last Light Inn, and anyone who happened to cross her path, goblin or not. Don’t look in her storage trunk at camp.

Accepting her Dark Urges eventually led to Bhaal gifting her the Slayer form. Unfortunately for Orin, Salome would use this to get her revenge. It was a rather easy fight.

After defeating Orin in battle, Salome accepted her father’s gift and became the true Chosen of Bhaal. Her father had then commanded her to seize the opportunity to take over the Elder Brain, and then eventually, the world, in his name.

Salome's adoptive mother, Gwendolyn, acted as her Dream Guardian. She first showed up in Salome's dream after she had a flashback to the night she committed her first murder. Salome was pretty upset when she found out who the Dream Guardian actually was because she truly thought she was reconnecting with the woman who raised her, helping her see past her urges and potentially try to resist them.

She and Astarion are locked in for life, and not for the better. Both have ascended in their own ways, and now post-game are taking over the world with the help of the Netherbrain. (She's also slept with Ketheric Thorm, Enver Gortash, Lae'zel, Minthara, the Emperor, maybe even a goblin or two... but we don’t need to talk about that atm)

Here are some fun things I've been tagged in to share a little more about her: - 5 Songs/4 Outfits

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Flower Girl

Name: Pero Ophiin (She/Her)

Race: Wood Half-Elf

Class: Druid (Circle of the Land)

Background: Outlander

WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!

Hey yo! It's been a minute since I updated this blog. As I mentioned before on my other blogs, my computer was dealing with an issue where the drivers were not updating properly. Not wanting to put further strain on my computer by continuously playing BG3, I decided to put this game down until I, one, got a separate work computer, and two, got my baby sent to the computer doctors. This, of course, caused me to spring two other game logging blogs related to Pathfinder: Kingmaker & Pillars of Eternity.

(You can find the blogs here and if you know my main blog, you can find them newly pinned there as well:

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/we-c0uld-be-kings

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/thewatcherprevails)

But now that we're back in town, let's wrap back around to seeing how Pero is faring on her side of the world! Last we saw her, she fucked everything up at Last Light Inn by failing to save Isobel, got soft locked out of Halsin's quest all because I missed ONE FUCKING DOOR, was able to release and ally with Dame & Jaheira, and marched to Moonrise Towers to defeat Ketheric Thorm. But good lord, the many bodies that were left behind. Because Last Light fell, many of the Tiefling NPCs died, Isobel was mind controlled to fight by her father's side, with no choice to reverse the effects, the Harpers got bodied. All in all, we are pressed for allies at the moment.

Made even worse, the Shadow Curse still plagues the land, leaving Pero with a bitter taste in her mouth as the crew moves on to Baldur's Gate with the land demolished by the hungering shadows. Also, we didn't get to recruit Halsin because I MISSED ONE FUCKING DOOR!

On the road to Baldur's Gate, Pero talks with Wyll about how and why he got into his pact with Mizora. He explains his situation during the time of the Rise of Tiamat event. How he was swayed to fight an impossible battle, but was granted power by Mizora in exchange to save Baldur's Gate. But this resulted in him being banished by his father. When Pero asked if he missed his father, Wyll expressed that he did, harboring no ill will towards his dad since, at that time, Wyll was forbidden to truly speak of his pact.

As for Karlach, Pero is growing increasingly worried. With Dammon dead, thanks to the situation back at the Last Light Inn, Karlach is now out of a reliable source of mechanical help for her infernal heart. Pero is fearful of losing anyone else close to her, so searching for a solution to that heart is top priority for Pero. Pero and Gale also have a pseudo cute moment together as Gale expresses how he is amazed and curious about how the Chosen Three (Gortash, Orin, and Ketheric) were able to find a powerful artifact that still held copious amounts of netherese. He believes there might be some magical scholars in Baldur's Gate who might still hold some ancient knowledge and text about such magic that might help us determine how they got such an item and how to potentially control it.

As for Astarion, Pero does not hide that she doesn't think it right for Astarion to go ahead with ascending himself. Not that Pero isn't sympathetic to his reasons why, but Raphael CLEARLY stated that not only was this ritual absolutely diabolical, but it required souls to complete the spell. Which means, people will have to be sacrificed to ascend one individual. Pero still agrees to help Astarion stop Cazador, but she will promise nothing else.

As the crew were turning in for the night, Pero and the gang get overwhelmed by the voice of the Elder Brain, the Absolute, commanding their army forward to Baldur's Gate. Not only that, but some Githyanki warriors decided to hop into our camp and attack us. After narrowly escaping them, we enter the Astral Prism and discover the truth about our Guardian. The Guardian is actually a Mindflayer! One who calls themselves, The Emperor. Despite Pero's distrust of the creature, she fought alongside with them to contain another peculiar Gith that's trapped within the prism.

The Emperor goes on to explain their story, how they were not always a Mindflayer and stumbled upon Moonrise Towers to search for treasure. But what they found instead was a Mindflayer parasite in their head and being under the control of the Absolute. But they broke their hive mind state and left that lifestyle to peruse a path of their own once again. They were able to keep a stable and private life, but then Gortash found them and dragged them back to the Absolute.

What released The Emperor from this mental bounds was the discovery of the Astral Prism and learning of Orpheus, the lost Githyanki prince who has true control over the Mindflayer parasite and halting the effects of ceremorphosis. With this in mind, even if Pero doesn't like the idea of siding with The Emperor, she has no choice as it is clear that whatever their motives are, it's keeping her and the gang from truly transforming into thralls, or worse yet, Mindflayers.

When given the choice to evolve, Pero willfully refused, but the Emperor asked that she keep the starving larvae; confident that she will come around to wanting to enhance herself further with her tadpole powers. After that, the crew returned back to the Material Realm to finally get some shut eye.

In the morning, Pero decided to make a change!

Thanks to the previous update where we can now change our characters appearance throughout the game, I decided to change Pero's hair and face a bit to include scars and a new cut! Unfortunately, there's not a lot of braid styles in the game, so I stuck with a "shadowheart-esque" type updo. But I think it works for Pero here since it's showing her transition from a sweet, inexperience young girl to becoming a determined hero and adventurer. Months of experience riddling her once unmarred face. Now, I'll go into what we discovered and experienced while we were in Rivington in a separate post, but I'll leave this post on a more sweeter note.

As we're entering this new location, we are immediately approached by a heterochromatic child named Yenna and her cat, Grub. Yenna asks if they saw their mother by any chance as the young girl was informed that their mother was off to find food, but she hasn't returned. All around us in this area, there are clear signs of refugees, other than the Tieflings from Elturel, who fled to Baldur's Gate due to the coming army of the Absolute.

Out of kindness, Pero was able to produce some berries to allow Yenna to eat. The young girl happily thanks us and rushes away with their cat Grub. But don't worry, we'll see the young girl again pretty soon.