#bhaalblings

[fallenbhaalspawn]

au where the dark urge can convince orin to abandon bhaal without her getting slayered and killed but durge gets cursed by bhaal to be consumed by their urge in exchange

[bharv]

Thinking of Korilla headcanons after reading @bhaalble’s great post about her and the one I come back to all the time is that she made the deal with Raphael herself for her and Hope to be saved from their old master. That she was trying to protect Hope, and in her naivety didn’t think that Raphael’s version of taking their master’s power away could be interpreted as literally dragging them into the hells to serve a new master.

And of course, he wasn’t really interested in her. She’s easy to manipulate. Love of a family member is his bread and butter. But Hope? She is irresistible. Seemingly incorruptible even in the face of extreme misuse. Dedicated to light and goodness. How delightful! If he can break her, bring her to his flock, it will be a delicious win.

Korilla just falls back on her belief that if she is good enough, she can still protect Hope. If he does the best job she can, Raphael will turn his attentions to her. Until eventually she partially forgets that’s why she was doing it at all. Raphael is a fair master to her. He is fair, she tells herself.

(I also like the idea that she’s the Warlock who came to claim young Enver too. That she ends up brokering the same sort of deals that destroyed her, because that’s an excellent punishment.)

[fallenbhaalspawn]

the fun thing about having multiple durges with such a different range of ages and times when they came to the temple is that i also essentially get three versions of orin to play with as well

[fallenbhaalspawn]

getting both orin encounters before long-resting for the first time in act 3 is really funny btw. have to imagine my durge is just choosing to ignore everything she's saying every time she pops up

[fallenbhaalspawn]

This is also interesting in regards to my main Dark Urge and Orin dynamic—one of them is a shapechanger latching onto things that give her a complete identity while the other is desperately trying to throw away anything connected to their sense of self—including and up to their own name

one of the things about Orin that fascinates me is how she definitely is a dedicated bhaalist, but not nearly as dedicated to bhaal and how that's shown in a bunch of little (many unintentional) ways! her outfit being red instead of the traditional bhaalist black (or that weird bronze/gold some bhaalist armor gets), her title of the Red given to her not by bhaal nor fellow bhaalists, but by her cognate doppelgangers, the jewelry she shares with her mother but is worn by no other bhaalists, etc.

even before she says "I did all this for [Sarevok]!" and finding her Helena's corpse in Orin's room even after her mother attempted to kill her, a fact which she is clearly and justifiably caught up in, you can still see the breadcrumbs leading to the fact she is primarily driven by her more direct familial connections instead of her god