#honestly it does make me want to go back to elden ring but.......................................my mood for games tend to swing so yEAH;;

[dorkousloris]

thinking about last night when i went into a ruins graveyard, see like. maybe three skelly boys and goes 'okay i can move and try to take on one-' and then ending up having to run to every corner of that map because-

me: me: im going to run around and throw fireballs at them, am i?

[themaskstayson]

"Arise now, ye Tarnished. Ye dead, who yet live. The call of long-lost grace speaks to us all." - Narrator (Elden Ring)

"The oath you awoke with is some faded instinct. What does it even stand for?" - Narrator (Baldur's Gate 3)

Decided to combine my two favorite things (Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3) and bring my current tarnished, Faith, to Faerûn.

Maybe I'll write some more silly stuff than just what is below.

It'll be pretty funny to have a tarnished so ready to unalive everything on sight to have party members telling them you gotta chill.

Faith: See, I told you everyone around us will want to kill us! She pulled a branch with poison on me!

Shadowheart: Okay... You got me there, but maybe telling everyone we have Mind Flayer tadpoles in our skulls is a bad idea.

Gale would have a blast learning about the Land Between.

Gale: You're telling me your people were banished from your world and this Golden Order you were fighting for?

Faith: Yup.

Gale: And then you were brought back to the Land Between, but the very order they exiled you, just to restore order by fighting countless of enemies without rest?

Faith: I mean... My plan was to burn it all down because I became maidenless again...

Lae'zel would enjoy the tales of all the battles the tarnished been through. Maybe not so much the dragons, but knowing you can learn dragon spells might appeal to her dragon girl heart.

Lae'zel: You would hunt these dragons and kill them?!

Faith: Yeah but then I can consume their hearts and use their power! Rot was very useful against Bloody Finger Invaders.

Oh man, for the tarnished to use their own spells instead of D&D would also be so much fun. Wyll talked about how he could do all these amazing things before he got nerfed and Faith would reminisce with him.

Faith: Ah, I remember when I was able to use the flame of frenzy... I wonder if I can get that back at some point and how effective it would be against your kind.

Wyll: What did that do?

Faith: Fire of madness would spur out of my eyes and kill the tarnish with ease. A heresy spell from the three fingers but... Those invaders were so annoying.

Wyll: That's terrifying...

Faith: You just told me about opening a gateway to the darkness between stars and anyone in it would suffer unknowable horrors...

Karlach and Astarion I'm not too sure what those interactions would be like.

Astarion would do this normal thing with Faith's I honestly don't see Faith to be okay with being fed upon but I don't think Astarion would be stupid enough to trust her to not kill him. He would hit on her and it would go over her head completely.

Faith would probably want to kill Karlach and someone else would need to step in and tell Faith and Wyll that they're idiots and Karlach is clearly a tiefling. Probably Shadowheart tbh.

Faith is from my coop game with friends. They're is a Confessor (thus the name lol) and basically I just wanted to do faith based spells with some sword and shield game play since my first tarnished was a pure intelligence mage. But I might lean more into the Confessor lore build for funsies since there are 4 of us playing at a given time. I guess Faith's pronouns are they/she depending on my mood.

It only seemed right to make them a paladin in BG3. Vengeance makes sense for a tarnished trying to bring back Golden Order and Oathbreaker if I decide to to the Lorrd of the Frenzied Flame ending.

They're also a dark urge cause blood thirst and amnesia.

I poured many hours into Elden Ring and barely knew the lore, but I think it'll be a fun crossover to think and maybe write about. And I'm getting too many ideas, gonna have to go full self-indulgent with this one... And take more photos lol

[metaphoricalmelodies]

1, 6, 11, and 18 for the video game ask?😁🎮

Of course! Thank you for the ask!

1. Last game you finished

Not gonna lie, had to think really hard about this one. I have a tendency to start games and either never finish them or take ages to, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses was one of those games. But I finally got into it and finished it late last year and I’m so glad I did; it was so much fun! I finished the Blue Lions route and I plan to do the other two as well, in time.

6. A series you've enjoyed since your early days of gaming and still enjoy to this day whether it still has games coming out or is one you return to

I have a lot of series that I enjoy but I think this one has to go to The Monkey Island Series. I played The Secret of Monkey all the way back in 1997, when I was 9 years old, and I’ve been in love with the series ever since. I’ve played as many of them as I can get my hands on, including the newest one that came out recently for the Switch. I just really enjoy the humor of the series and the characters feel like old friends to me.

11. Do you prefer 'blank slate main characters you make yourself or otherwise project onto, or characters with a set personality and backstory?

Honestly I love them both equally, as long as they are either one or the other. I love being able to write a story for a character as I play a game, coming up with reasoning for my actions and the paths I take. It really does a lot to deepen my immersion of a story and I appreciate that. However, I also love characters that are established, because then it feels like I’m playing out a really fantastic story and I get to be a companion on the journey the character is on, which is such a joy. I think it just depends on the game and the mood I’m in and I think most games do a good job of knowing when a character should be established and when it should be a blank slate.

18. A game location you really like

I have quite a few of these as well, but I think I have to give this to The Lands Between from Elden Ring. I don’t really love how difficult FromSoft games are but I always love the worlds they create and The Lands Between is my favorite. I originally bought the game simply because I wanted the ability to explore the world, even if I never bear the game, and now I’m almost done with it, because I got so absorbed in the world I wanted to see the story through to the end. It’s not just one of the most stunning locations I’ve ever seen in a game, but it’s full of amazing characters and lore. I’m actually watching an Elden Ring lord video as I type this, because I’ve just fallen even more in love with everything this game is and that starts with the world.

Thanks again for the asks. These were a lot of fun to answer!