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fellhellion · 1 year ago

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So glad I backtracked to do the creche quest. I hadn’t thought a lot about Lae’zel beyond my impression that she was a bit of a cruel tool (in both senses of the word) held together by a rigid adherence to her religious code (which would’ve been fine if not extremely compelling to me, evil women rights etc etc) but then you get to the creche and it’s like oh. I understand you now.

Being taught to slaughter the siblings you grew up with, being told weakness was an offence to your goddess, service to your goddess being the first teaching you ever learn. It’s so damn good.

The way she desperately clings to this idea that it’s all simply a test, but she spills the blood of her kin to protect you like ough. Deep down she already chose, she believed you, before she even knew it herself.

#i loveeeee how the companions all wrestle in some form w their relationships to the divine and to a being #that held power of them (often one and the same)#mystra groomed gale -> shadowheart believes any suffering she encounters at her mother figure’s hands and by extension Shar’s simply HAS to #have meaning and she clings to that -> lae’zel shaped all that she ever was and all that she ever fought for around the being she was #taught to -> Karlach was betrayed by someone who held power over her #-> astarion cried out to the gods but no one answered and he’s been intimately shaped by cazador’s abuse #-> Wyll was failed by his father and is leashed to Mizora’s will #-> hell even the DURGE oh my god. shall you - CAN YOU? - forsake your father’s blood and the you he engineered? AND he’s your god #tunes talks bg

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