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[beemovieerotica]

[rabbitinthefog]

Laezel watches Twilight for the first time

[featherwurm]

Fun Karlach things revealed from party banter/dialogue/cutscenes (these are all 100% canonical to any run, as they are her talking about her past, these all appear in naturally accessable in-game dialogue):

She can touch demons and devils and other infernal creatures without hurting them, but opted not to in those ten years in Avernus as she says she's "not a masochist."*

She has had numerous past relationships, sexual in nature, which she describes as "quick to flare and quick to fade."

She says she was still sorting out "jumping into bed with anything with a pulse" and looking for more long-term relationships when she was sent to Avernus.

There are other infernal creatures running around with infernal engines in them but she thinks she's the only one from Faerun who survived the process (she knows others were tried but didn't make it.)

Loves a good bar fight/brawl (obvious but still cute.)

Likes walking around barefoot in the grass (which she calls "grassing", and she enjoys a good "frolic".)

Isn't keen to travel by boat down the Chionthar (from Moonrise) as her mum said the river was unlucky.

Liked to go swimming as a kid (presumably still does - after she's temperature corrected. Prior to that she mentions fear of boiling fish and her friends alive.)

Worries about being out of date, fashion wise, having been gone from Baulder's Gate for ten years.

Her mother's name is Caerlach (pronounced same as her daughter), and her father's name is Pluck. Their last name, Cliffgate, is the same as one of the lower city entries in Baulder's Gate.

Her dad was a porter and her mom was a laundress. They were poor but loving and fun.

They were poor but NOT destitute - Karlach mentions their household multiple times, and having her friends visit her family in their home. She also went to school (teasing that she'll cheer up Gale by saying she hasn't read "since school").**

When she was a teen her mom passed from illness during a plague when the family couldn't afford a healer quickly enough. Her dad passed a few years after when he was crushed by his own overturned cart on the road.

There's some discrepancy about when she started working for Gortash, in the cemetery she says her parents would have seen him for who he was (implying she did not spend much if any time around him prior to their deaths). In the shadow lands she mentions he 'got his claws into her early' and that she earned enough to help her family move into a better place in the city under his employ (it's entirely possible she's referring to moving their bodies post-mortem though).

She was a young adult (describes herself as 'not-quite-kid') while in Gortash's employ, worked for him for a good span of time, and spent 10 years in Avernus. This means she's likely well into her 30s by the time of game events.

She, to her own admission in her origin, loved Gortash, but also explains that it was not romantic in nature (stating distinctly to the player character "not like that"). She clearly looked up to him as her boss and was deeply betrayed when sold to Zariel.

She lived with her friend Fitz when working for Gortash, who also worked for him at the time. Gortash lied to everyone around her about what happened to her (saying that she moved away suddenly.)

She does note up on meeting Gortash's parents and finding out they sold him to a warlock that he's repeated the same cycle on her.***

Fun fact: "Carlach/Caerlach" in the IRL is a relatively rare Scottish surname likely derived from MacThearlaich ("son of Charles" - typical naming convention dating back to pre- Norman conquest Brittan). Karlach is a very rare spelling of the name and probably was further anglicization on immigration to America (showing up in the 1920s.) As Karlach's mother has the same name as her, spelled differently - one could infer that perhaps her family passed it down in a way that felt more "Bauldrian" to them or was in some way easier to spell.

*Because I've seen this wrong elsewhere - it's not the material plane that's making her untouchable, it's the engine itself. Her engine stops actively hurting her when Raphael teleports you to the House of Hope in Act I - but she's still not touchable without fixing based on this dialogue.

**I've also seen this wrong - Karlach was never an orphaned street urchin and I don't know where people get this impression. Gortash did not "take her in" or mentor her, he was very clearly her boss, albeit one she was friends with and looked up to.

***She does not mean this as a literal one for one, of course, just that someone she trusted sold her to an infernal for his own gain.

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Sketch

[teleeportedbread2233]

bg3 should've let us make our tavs chubby and it didn't and I'm still mad about that.

EDIT: I've seen allot of people say the wished BG3 had sliders instead of presets and I kind of agree. I think it would've been even better if we had gotten both instead of one or the other.

There are REAL reason as to way having anything other than lean muscle or a skinny body type aren't often seen in games as it can be VERY hard to code that for games, with something like rdr2 it makes sense as it was in development for 8 years. There also might be a reason as to why there's no chubby options (and allot of other things) since if you look at the shadow cursed lands it seems rushed, same with Wy'll. To me it seems that it most likely COULD'VE been added but Larian either A didn't want to add it, B couldn't add it or C had plans to but the game ended up rushed and they couldn't finish it. This is ONE of my only problems with BG3 the other being the shadow cursed lands. I'm saying this as a game dev myself, some things that seem simple really aren't, with chubby characters they commonly don't fit the animations meant for a character of a different build that's why in games like fallout 4 or CK3 when your character is heavy set their arms clip through their torso. Its very hard to do but not impossible.

[atarial]

all done! very proud of this, a good exercise in textures 😊

i do have plans to do the other companions in the future too, but just the origin ones for now

[thecrowsinkwell]

Bloodweave come get yall juice 🗣️

[kawareo]

Catches me off-guard every time but. Fair enough.

[divorcedwife]

nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time

[heheheku]

Reflection

[wellen-katze]

I somehow think Astarion would be a great candidate for developing parasocial relationships, haha!

This weekend (23.05-25.05) I'll draw some of my patre0ns bg3 Tav's on a chill twitch stream. I’d be so happy if you stopped by!

[aoifethephoenixqueen]

Hells yeah, Tara for the win!!

[meanbossart]

It's all coming up Astarion.

[kawareo]

"Imagine still posting fanart a whole year after the game came out" brother what are you talking about

[finnautica]

Such beautiful eyes, it would be a shame a tadpole crawled inside them.