#haask

[dishaaster]

miss tina a boyfriend??!!!!! so happy for you🥰

alcohol is in fact the answer to your christmas problem, might I suggest hot chocolate with baileys as well?

thank you thank you. never thought that could happen but here we are ✌🏼

that suggestion is noted and will be tried immediately. can't stand another christmas song/ party/ themed stuff

[y-rhywbeth2]

Still reading new sourcebooks (now looking into Jergal and the Dead Three's updated backstory) and for some reason I found this funny:

"In the wake of his victory over Edranka’s goblinoid armies, Haask returned triumphantly to the keep to feast and rest. Inside, the priest-king was stunned to discover two grim looking humans — Bane and Myrkul—sitting nonchalantly upon his giant-crafted throne. Before Haask could react, Bhaal appeared behind the priest-king, driving [his dagger] through his back and into his heart."

Yep, they were definitely an adventuring party. King walks into his throne room and finds two heavily armed goths sitting on his throne like they own it and then he gets shanked by the party's murderhobo. Typical.

I'm just surprised Bane knows what sharing is. I figured he'd be trying to shove Myrkul off the seat.

[drgmissioncontrol]

Hey, do you happen to oversee any miners with grounded bases, particularly on the planets of Raazaa, Haask, and Skarm?

Who’s asking, and for what purposes?

[theannoyingurge]

Now feels like a good time to share way too much lore about Ironfang Keep (wiki).

The evil idiocy that takes place here was a major step on the Dark Three's ladder to ascension. It's also a potential solution to Durge's timeline issues, for those in need.

Ironfang Keep provides a super flexible, canon-compliant background. Durge can be a first generation "pureblood" of any age or race, including the weird stuff. It's cloaked in enough mystery to support almost any headcanon, without tripping over timelines and cosmic events between editions.

TL;DR - Bhaal's blood has magical properties, a will of its own, and some of it likely incubated in a mad science lab that has "Bhaal's Darkest Urges" written all the fuck over it.

As mortals, The Dark Three imprisoned an Elder Evil in Ironfang Keep named Hargut of the Grey Pestilence. This was after magically binding it to an Elder Doppelganger named Haask, who became a "symbiont" capable of giving sentience to a being of the Far Realms. The result was Haask, Voice of Hargut, an immensely powerful and pissed off abomination, now imprisoned in his own evil lair with nothing to do but plot.

Somehow, this seemed like a good idea to the Dark Three, right before scampering off to attain godhood and apparently forgetting all about it.

Over the centuries, Ironfang Keep formed into a dark and mysterious local legend in the Moonsea region, on account of all the kidnapping and dark magic breeding experiments going on inside. Yes, breeding experiments.

Haask fosters a cult of worshippers in Ironfang Keep, motivated by the pursuit of physical perfection. They kidnap every sort of being, sorting them into The Menagerie (for breeding experiments) and the Sanctum of the Eviscerated (for grafts, which are like magic surgical enhancements using monster parts).

Who does that remind you of?

The monstrosities and aberrations crafted inside the keep are known to escape, or rather, are strategically released into the wild.

("The wild" is situated right outside Mulmaster, one of Bane's major cities. How convenient for Haask!)

This is where I suggest The Dark Urge originated. Ironfang Keep is kind of a dream come true for the world's worst Dad, whose repertoire of monsterous children includes Perytons, Owlbears, Displacer Beasts, possibly vampires, and of course, the Bhaalspawn. His original batch failed to die for his resurrection, on account of not being loyal and clinging to life for whatever reason. A perfect child would never betray their father like that.

As for how it worked - Bhaal's blood retains some power and influence after his death. In BG3 we find the blade Bloodthirst, magically crafted from his mortal blood spilled in the city streets. His blood also infects the winding waters near Boareskyr Bridge where he was slain by Cyric.

If Bhaal ever spilled blood in Ironfang Keep, which he should have, considering the epic scale of that battle, Haask's cult likely discovered it and used it for experimentation. Whether that's with or without Bhaal's approval is up to interpretation.

Personally, I think he'd be pretty smug about his contribution to the art of physical perfection. Certainly desperate enough to claim the resulting abomination as his own regardless of who commissioned it. Especially if baby's first steps are all over Bane's faithful just down the road.

According to the game, Durge was crafted from Bhaal's gore, or a slice of his flesh. Maybe Bhaal lost a finger and it was cultivated in test tubes until babygirl emerged. Maybe The Urge is a symbiont like Haask, magically grafted to another experimental offspring.

In Ironfang Keep, the world is your oyster. Over a thousand years of history to play with and basically no rules or lore to contradict your imagination. Enjoy.

Something that confuses me about the storytelling in BG3

Honestly, the more I read up on the backstories and everything and on the lore of the Dead Three, the more confusing everything gets.

Because the Dead Three had no only all died in some way prior to the game, they also are technically half-bound to mortal bodies at the point the game takes place, even though they keep their divine powers. Because of the Second Sundering and stuff.

Technically the game actually acknolwedges this at the very beginning through a line when you find Jergal's book. Sure, technically it does not say who it was - but the book notices that there are three that only quite recently have come back to life.

Now, alright, technically the "recent" stuff is a bit more complicated.

Bhaal is the one of course that gives me (and everyone writing on Durge) the most headache. Bhaal was slain by Cyric in 1358 DR during the time of troubles. And sure, canon makes a big point out of the fact that he foresaw this outcome and because of that impregnated so many women hoping to be able to return through the Bhaalspawn he fathered. He then got revived in 1482, just two years before the Second Sundering, and ten years before the events of BG3.

And that makes Durge just very complicated. Because of course the game always speaks of Durge being created by Bhaal, with an implication that Durge might not have been born naturally but crafted by magic. But in that case he would have either needed to be born past 1482 (so be less than 10 years old) or pre-1358 (so be about 130 years old). And yeah, canon Durge is a Dragonborn, who despite their draconic heiritage actually do not live very long. Sure, Durge could be immortal, but... It is still all very confusing.

Then we have Bane. He also got killed during the times of troubles, also in the year of 1358 DR. However, him getting revived did not happen quite that late. He gut revived in 1372 so 120 years prior to the game. He then spent the years since gathering his power once more and reestablishing his old alliances.

Myrkul meanwhile is a bit more complicated. Because, yes, you guessed it, he got slain in 1358 as well, but he managed to get his grabby little fingers onto an artefact (ironically also a crown) through which he kinda continued to exist and was able to have some agency. Though ironically we do not fully know how he got restored from that state. (There is some speculation that in fact it was Ketheric who managed to restore him - maybe knowingly, maybe unknowingly.)

Hence, with Myrkul we do not even know when exactly he returned. He just... did.

Still, due to the Dark Urge being the figure they are... Bhaal's death and very late resurrection is the main thing that gives me a headache here. It does not really make sense.

If it was not with the fact that the text hammers on about them being created by Bhaal himself, it would be easy. You could just say that they are a second or third generation Bhaalspawn. There are more than enough of those around. But the game just keeps focusing on them being first generation in some regard.

Like, sure, if you personally played an elf-Durge or a drow-Durge, that is not that much of an issue. For the elven kin those 134 years are nothing. But again, canon Durge is a Dragonborn, who tend to have a lifespan of like 80 years. So, uhm... It is very, very confusing.

[connie-awanderingsoul]

I threw this Scindapsus haask cutting in my shrimp tank and now I have roots and shoots baby! #scindapsushaask https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZzI4ZprhR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fanthaastic]

you just called schulott blondie x brownie. ur mind. that's ingenious. may i steal it?

yup, go ahead :)

[marymenchaca-blog]

When the waves are flooding the shore and I can't find my way home anymore... That's when I, I look at you #haask #eyes #white #skin #portrait #winged #cat #eyeliner #lips #teeth #ginger #hair #redhair #freckless #eyebrows #hoola #bronzer #selfie #samsungs9 #details (en Metepec)

[patrizio-ag]

http://davventura.altervista.org/inizio-del-gran-tour-di-phlan/ Racconto: La Descrizione della Tenebra da parte di #Urgund. Diario di prigionia nei reami inferi. Principalmente è una lista di nomi e luoghi, e gli orrori presenti sono oltre ogni descrizione. «… e seduti preminenti nella Sala delle Corti Minori, ci sono i poteri inferiori: #Maram della Grande Lancia; #Haask, Voce di #Hargut; #Tyranthraxus l’Infiammato; #Borem del Lago del Fango Bollente; e #Camnood l’Invisibile. Coloro che decaddero e diventarono i servitori del grande signore #Bane https://www.instagram.com/p/B73tcYvpDKF/?igshid=17zzne520a3kl

[sebxvettel]

🤗&😊 for the haask thingy 🤍

🤗  given the chance I would gladly hug you

😊 Your blog makes me smile

thank you 🤍

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[dishaaster]

top 5 ticktum looks

alright that one is tricky because top 5 as in best looks or top 5 as in worst looks

here are 2 good ones

and then 3 bad ones. especially the one with those gucci trousers.... they never fail to destroy every somewhat acceptable outfit

[theannoyingurge]

I've felt the same way about Atropal Scions. I require no excuse for why Durge isn't an undead abomination. It fits too well to rule out completely.

Also... shout out the Menagerie of Ironfang Keep as a potential Dark Urge origin story. Haask, Voice of Hargut was an abomination created by the Dark Three (from a doppelganger and an Elder Evil no less), and was swiftly imprisoned and abandoned for mysterious purposes.

He was later worshipped by a beast cult that kidnapped all manner of species and performed bizarre breeding experiments and body grafts in pursuit of physcial perfection.

Escapees were driven mad.

Over the centuries several hundred ghastly aberrations have been released into the wild, the result of bizarre breeding or other failed experimentation. - Dragon # 361 | Realmslore: Ironfang Keep

If monstrous breeding chambers aren't Bhaalist enough, it's worth noting that Haask hates Bane specifically:

If freed, Haask, Voice of Hargut, would ally itself with Malar and Ghaunadaur, and work to exact vengeance on Bane and his church. - Dragon # 361 | Realmslore: Ironfang Keep

To be honest, my go-to when I think of Durge is the category of beings that 3.5e cheerily named 'Abominations.' Just one that happens to look more like a regular mortal and maybe was created on purpose (although maybe Bhaal made Durge totally by accident and just rolled with it). Also the fact that Bhaal appears to want them is a shift (gods (and everybody else in existence) want their abominations locked far, far away from everything and everyone).

'Abominations are mistakes - the unwanted, unforeseen offspring of misguided deific concourse. Abortions of spirit, abominations live on, nurtured by their quasi-deific powers and pure, undiluted hate of their forebears and all naturally formed creatures. [...] Abominations come in an overwhelming variety of forms, all terrible. [...] All abominations are born directly (or indirectly) from a god and some lesser creature (or idea [such as being built by the god rather than involving another parent])...' - Epic Level Handbook

They age so slowly it's borderline impossible to die of old age (sure they can die of old age but they'll be around to see the deaths of universes, so it's meaningless form the human perspective), and barely ever need to eat, sleep or breathe.

They heal fast, have innate spell-like abilities, and always have at least one or more abilities tied to their parent's portfolio.

It was specifically the atropals that brought me here:

'Atropal scions are clots of divine flesh given form and animation by bleak-hearted gods of death. When a stillborn godling rises spontaneously as an undead, a great abomination is born. If that abomination is defeated, but any fragment or cast-off bit of flesh remains, an atropal scion may yet arise from those fragments, lessened in power from its divine beginnings, but no less hateful for its stature.' - Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead

Durge is neither undead (alas) nor an evil god-zombie-foetus abomination, but the point that abominations may be born of a death god's discarded flesh remains the closest thing to an explanation of how the fuck their origin story makes sense I can find.

[racewinnerlandonorris]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supphaased to phaaste it in the haask of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out. 🥰🥰

aww thank you so much tina! right back at you gal!!💖💖

[sleepy-piastri]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supphaased to phaaste it in the haask of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out. 🥰🥰

Thank you very much!! 🧡🤗

[dalekofchaos]

Iden Versio should have stayed a villain 2.0

It’s 2019 and I am still bitter we were baited and lied to about Iden Versio’s story. EA blatantly lied to us about playing strictly as an imperial. I strongly feel like Disney or EA had cold feat and made Iden turn traitor because for some reason Star Wars cannot have compelling female villains in the new canon, unless you’re Phasma and they decided to make her useless for the movies, we can’t have good female villains. Iden should have been a villain and leading the inferno upon the Rebels.

She was marketed as a Imperial loyalist. Battlefront II’s campaign was marketed as a Empire pov and a villain’s story. Iden is even a villain in arcade/multiplayer. Iden spends the first half of the campaign labeling the Rebels as terrorists and praising the Empire. In the novel Inferno Squad, Iden is absolutely ruthless, and loyal to the Empire.

We were promised to get a campaign from the Imperial Perspective… Only for her to go from interesting imperial to boring generic rebel on Mission 6….Predictable. The trailers were false advertisement. Shown Iden aiming a blaster at Luke, seen giving a speech to First Order era Stormtroopers. Iden should have been the die hard Imperial loyalist who wished to ignite the Inferno upon the Rebel Scum and after evacuating Jakku with the Imperial remnants. Iden should have been one of the architects of The First Order.

If she stayed loyal to the Empire, we would actually get what we were promised; a game from the perspective of the Empire’s elite.

Iden Versio should have been a villain. Keep her loyal to the Imperials and have her leading and training The First Order. She stays loyal and sticks by even during Operation Cinder. She sees it as the Empire reigning Inferno Squad upon an ungrateful galaxy. The rest of the story we play as both Iden and Del. Del kills Haask and knocks out Iden. Del turns Rebel, while Iden makes it her mission to hunt and kill the traitor. Iden helps install Operation Cinder satellites, while Del has to stop them. We play as both Iden and Del. Iden is the die hard Imperial, while Del is a Rebel who was inspired by Luke Skywalker to do what is right. It all comes to a close at battle of Jakku. It ends with Iden blasting Del out of the sky, she lands and hunts him down and kills him for treachery. It ends with Iden flying to what is to become The First Order. Iden will go on to lead a new generation a new generation of Inferno Squad and personally abducting children for Operation Resurrection.

What should have been done. After the mission with Del and Luke, Iden appears attempting to kill Luke, but Del tells her he saved her life and to stand down. She says “I AM YOUR COMMANDING OFFICER, YOU DO NOT TELL ME TO STAND DOWN, THIS IS THE JEDI WHO KILLED OUR EMPEROR” and prepares to kill Luke but Luke force pushes her. Tensions are very high with Inferno squad. Iden is given the mission to escort Gleb, but she actually goes through with it. Del is the only one who questions it. and there is a standoff. Del is telling everyone Operation Cinder is wrong. So Iden tells Del to stand down and follow orders. Del cannot go through with it, knocks Iden out and kills Hask. Iden makes it her personal mission to hunt Del down and kill him for treason against The Empire and Inferno Squad. So we would be able to play as both Iden and Del. Iden has multiple missions helping Operation Cinder succeeding but Del helping the Rebels hinders their plans. In the Battle of Jakku, Iden finds Del to succeed in killing him. With the tide turned against the Empire, Iden flees with the other Imperials to the Unknown Regions and Iden trains a new generation of Inferno Squad.    

In place of Kylo interrogating Del Meeko, we get a prequel. Iden begins Project Resurrection. It opens with Iden in a village and we see a family. Iden kills the parents. We see a child. Iden tells the child. “Welcome to the First Order FN-2187″ End story. 

There we have it. We have a strong female villain in Star Wars who is firm in her beliefs and goes forward to becoming one of the architects of The First Order and we see the tragic origins of Finn, his family killed and stolen by Iden Versio to becoming a child soldier for the First Order.

[piastri]

heyy you're an amhaasing content creator & person so please do not listen to those people who send you mean haasks <3 also huge fan of your blog

aww tina ty 🥰 will probs just take a break from stream stuff for a while, I’m glad it’s race week!

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