#hi sorry I feel spammy today I have a month worth of old art I'm just now able to do something with due to surgery :D

[katzirrart]

SHARES MY BIG VISUAL TIMELINE HERE WITH Y'ALL.

I wanted to pin down Ophira's life before the events of BG3, and kinda after a bit. And that kinda ties into Zerxie too since they're childhood besties/exes. Kind of a fun visual thing for myself tbh!!

Explanation under the cut :D

Can't just be normal.

They have a 4 year age gap. They meet at Bloomridge park where he's studying his magic but also reading about swarm keeper stuff, and she's studying fungi and flowers because of her mom.

Both are from non adventurer backgrounds, but he's studying magic because he has sorcerer blood. But he tells her about his ambition to be a swarm keeper ranger. She's like THAT'S SO COOL... what if we were rangers together.

By 13, she's taken to archery with a passion and learning how to track things. He's still trying to get in tune with how to take advantage of his sorc gifts.

By 18/19 he starts getting into ranger training - he's more into martial weapons [swords/knives] and by 20 he's bonded to a fae shapeshifter swarm.

By I think 20/24 they've decided to try dating and it goes okay. Mostly. He's over protective at times, and she's bullheaded - so they tend to fight a lot about that. Otherwise they're both nerds and bond over found literature and the like a lot :0

By 27/31 they've both kind of got…what would you call it… factions they work for? ASSOCIATES? She does a lot of tracking/escort work, and he sometimes tags along. There's a mission she gets really hurt on and after it he is like hey, what if we like SETTLE DOWN? Which is not something she wants.

So they end up breaking up there and diving into work for different reasons. Her with zeal, and him with THE SADS™ by 27 she's really leaned into the gloomstalker ranger type, doing a lot of like upper city work in BG for sad wife types lol and he's traveling a lot and doing arcane work.

Which wraps up in the during and post BG3 events, she probably got swooped up while minding her business or on downtime between association work/contracts whatever and he would have been out in Waterdeep I think we decided on business. Haven't seen eachother much since 27/31. BUT YEAH. THERE'S THEM.

Now he has a kid [Nerissa, who is like 2/3 by the time they meet again] and is working from the mansion where people come see him, probably really embracing things like alchemy and his sorc gifts, and she's off hunting treasure and chasing stories from journals and books she finds with Astarion. 👍👍 But they keep in touch after they see eachother again!

Given a whole story thing I have about an abandoned wizard tower she finds I gotta think how her style changes over the years, and decades following too but WE'LL CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN I COME TO IT!!!!

BLOWS KISSES IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR.