#larian what the FUCK.
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Single most jarring thing about baldur's gate is not any of the extremely well-written plot twists it is not the Emperor reveal it is not the time you jump down a hole in moonrise towers and find yourself in the Mind Flayer Flesh Pit NO. The most jarring thing in baldur's gate is when you hear Ketheric Thorm talk for the first time and, in this game of 100% English accents, he is the sole fucking american.
#i mean for fucks sake why would you do that#like dont get me wrong im a fan and i think his voice actor is good hes just. so weirdly not british#i dont think i emphasised enough how out of the multiple hundred speaking characters in this game he is the ONLY ONE that sounds like that.#larian what the FUCK.#lich says shit#bg3
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sex is nice and all but have you considered just laying there... holding your vampire lover... and talking about the first time you broke your oath...........
#you can imagine the dialogue im not good with words#my art#astarion x tav#astarion#baldur's gate 3#bg3 fanart#but for anyone interested the first time i broke my oath was opening the prison cell in the Grove AFTER the tieflings left#there was a dead fucking goblin in there#im oath of vengeance i fucking know im supposed to punish sinners but larian this is stupid#what is the worst that can happen is that goblin's fucking ghost gonna go commit crime#paladins are so fucking fickle kdmhfgh
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.•。゚ POWER 彡 TRUST ゚。•.
Day #1 of @theemperorweek !!!
I let out a gay yelp every time I hear Empy say "thank you" after you give it the netherstones soooo I had to 🥺💖
#Teem|Art#the emperor week#bg3#baldur's gate 3#the emperor#kalgare#artists on tumblr#tavemp#kalemp#the emperor x durge#the emperor x tav#durge#dark urge#dragonborn#mind flayer#illithid#empy might be my fave but catch me dead before u catch me drawing its stupid fucking armor#ffs what was larian thinking#THINK OF THE FANARTISTS LARIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!#starting the prompt week already late. very cool tim. good job.
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Genuinely how fucking dare Larian pat themselves on the back for their portrayal of male victims of abuse in BG3 when Wyll's fuckass storyline exists. When they sexualise his abusive relationship with a woman who publicly treats him like a dog. When they allow players to sleep with her and write her as some kinda sexy domme. When they include her in so much of his official content that she's literally on the cover art for the game and Karlach isn't.
Astarion gets to kill Cazador and has a poignant animation where he screams and weeps with sorrow over his body because he's confronting everything that happened to him and accepting that it's finally, truly over. What does Wyll get upon breaking his pact with Mizora? She literally fucking stays at camp right next to his tent and WILL NOT LEAVE. You can't even harm her. Where's Wyll's scene of getting his vengeance for the torment he's endured, for the hell she's put him through since she took advantage of him at 17?
Because who cares about male abuse victims if the abuser is a """hot""" woman? Because who cares about male abuse victims when they're black men in a historically white genre?
Why doesn't Wyll's abuse matter?
#I went through the 'Larian critical' tag and got so fucking angry#not bc I disagree with what they're saying but bc I completely agree and it doesn't matter#it isn't going to get fixed#I'm so madddd#btw ik I'm leaving out Gale - I haven't played his storyline or personal quest so I don't wanna comment#BG3#BG3 spoilers#BG3 critical#Larian critical#rant
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Yall the Larian updates and patches for BG3 are the complete fucking opposite of whatever the hell Bethesda been doing with Skyrim since its 2011 release.
All most of us wanted with the patches in BG3 was bug fixes, fleshed out characters, completed companion quests, equal amount of companion time and the upper fucking city.
What we’ve gotten: white vampire supremacy, bear man promotion from subpar side character to subpar main character status, fifteen million kisses, demeaning the chronically ill wizard, cutting even more of the companion with the least amount of content on release, updated brothel afterglow, removing steampunk fallout boy’s bisexual letters and unfinished fiery big lady’s companion quest.
Not to mention, the feral side of the fandom out here sexualizing vampire VA, other VAs forming parasocial relationships that tiptoe the inappropriate line and the blacksmith’s VA all but begging the fans to stop demanding romancing of his character, the fucking studio acting a fool on social media and so much more
I’m very glad I’m back into ESO, gives me less stress.
#larian critical#bg3 critical#bg3 fandom critical#like what the actual fuck is going on anymore??#let me go blow off some steam#blow off steam doing a good old fashion mmo dungeon grind in ESO
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a frustrating thing about larian changing actual game content so often is that now when someone says something i think is factually incorrect (for example, saying that a character does/doesn't do a certain action in the game), i don't know if it's because the person just hasn't seen that content in game bc the game has so much content, or if it's that the game has actually changed since i played that content and now the content is gone from the game entirely.
it kind of makes it hard to engage with the game because you experience it one way and then draw conclusions and make connections or interpretations based on that, and then the game just deletes or changes it without even telling you.
like, im perfectly willing and able to change or ignore canon in my fandom contexts, but that is a very different thing from basing an interpretation or thought on a certain event and then having that event just completely removed from the game.
#it's like my own game is gaslighting me#oh you had an experience that you enjoyed and want to replay the game to experience that again?#sorry we changed so much without telling you that now you'll question what was in the game and what wasn't forever#larian critical#ive never actually had an experience like this before where i try to engage with a piece of media that actively rewrites itself#and i kinda really fucking hate it
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Bg3 hitting the "actually this game is bad" part of the hype cycle more than like half a year after it released is so fucking funny to me. Usually it only takes like a month or 2 for people to start overanalyzing the fuck out of a good game and convince themselves it's actually shit but the fact the game is so big and dynamic that it took this long is impressive
#not to say a decent amount of the criticism is unwarranted#the game has flaws and could definitely be improved#but saying larian doesnt care or did a bad job is fucking nuts to me#also bg3 is an indie game (granted a very high budget and high profile one)#thats what makes bg3 such an impressive achievement
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https://x.com/larianstudios/status/1757773594229191141?s=46&t=woICpjR-UhKfECIXwJBePA
hey larian what the fuck. it is 10 in the morning and you dropped this?? (not that i’m complaining, i’m loving it). at least i know i’m awake now lol
#no but for real#larian what the fuck i almost missed the green light because of this#it is 10am i don’t need to be this turned on right now#but also#now i want to get this scene with my tav#and i will die when i see it#astarion#astarion ancunin#bg3 astarion#baldur’s gate astarion#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#bg3 gale#baldurs gate gale#astarion x gale#bloodweave#larian studios
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It doesn't help that the in-game romances are a few weeks (tendays), maybe a month or two old, whereas they've potentially known Gortash for years. The gods started making their newest Chosen in the 1480s: they've potentially known each other for the better part of a decade.
And it's gone. It's gone.
#Amnesia and death and everything's changed too much and TEN FUCKING YEARS ARE GONE#*shaking Larian by the shoulders*#Do you know what this is doing to me???#babbling#/durge#/gortash#/durgetash#villainous nonsense
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'i hope larian picks up making pathfinder games' no you dont
#ama mumbles#larian critical#owlcat may release bug filled games at release but im more forgiving of that if only bc of how much content is in them#and they release Complete games#yeah they have dlc but the dlc isnt from stuff they cut out of the game its just supposed to enhance whats already there#i dont trust larian who doesn't keep proper boundaries with their fans. no thanks.#also! i dont want the game to not be top down. bg3 is way too big a fucking file#meanwhile owlcat games are actually downloadable without purging your computer of everything else#i had to delete old Art Files just to make room for that game
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doing my 3rd playthrough of the game rn and tell me why I just discovered karlach’s parents’ graves 😭😭😭 AND SHES NAMED AFTER HER MOTHER
#baldurs gate 3#karlach#karlach cliffgate#bg3#i’m crying#what the fuck#larian why did you do this to me
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Something you can definitely tell with a lot of talk with the Devs development with Astarion's story, to Wyll's story. Wyll's rewrite was crunched to the point a new actor had to come in for him (the EA actor for Wyll is a theatre actor and judging timelines on the rewrite, if he's in a production he's Def locked in for months at a time plus preparation and rehearsals). Compare to Astarions story arc, where the writer was allowed to mull and write the best stuff in parts where he was stuck writing for astarions arc. And have some long term input from Neil.
And I can't help but feel sad. Because both EA Wyll and release Wyll both deserved to have time to stew and mull and have input from both actors to how his character arc goes. And it just makes me sad that both players and larian had absolutely no faith in receiving/writing a black character. Or even the desire to take risks that the writer for astarion's arc took.
#wyll#bg3 wyll#wyll ravengard#i wonder what Lanre Malaolu thought about being recast#because doing some light reading Lanre really shone in his works and shows elements of black masculinity that doesnt get explored#wyll compels me so much and it sucks because i think his arc was so interesting in EA ;(#also lesson learnt from this is writing is fucking hard#esp in collaborative arts like theatre movies and games#you cant churn out stuff within like several months like the implications when they announced the recast and rewrite before release#larian critical
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as much as i hate the fact that we cant let wyll make his own choice to break the pact or not when we can do so for pretty much every other huge origin choice, i kind of get why - because from what we know of wyll as a character, i really dont think he would ever make the decision to break the pact on his own. he hates mizora (understandably) and wants to be free of her (extremely understandably), but we also know about his insanely selfless, self-sacrificing tendencies. i love him dearly but i have serious doubts this man would ever knowingly sacrifice his father, no matter how much of a dick the guy is.
theres the argument of “but he must know his father would never want him to pact himself for eternity for his sake!!” but like. one, ulder wrote him off the moment he came home and saw him with a devil. that much is clear from wylls own testament and the things he says after you save him. two, even if that were the case, i doubt wyll would consider that perspective. because all he hears is “give away your soul to save a life” which is exactly what he did when he was seventeen.
is it an objectively bad decision? yes. have i made it repeatedly? yes, because of the points above and the fact that i think its the most in character decision for him, even if it makes me sad (wyll origin run is gonna be fun. and emotionally destroy me). do i still think we should be able to let him make his own decision? yeah, even if it means watching him sign his soul away again, because i think that happening 9 times out of 10 would really be a testament to what kind of character he is. tldr im at my limit and wyll ravengard makes me so fucking sad.
#ill never understand people calling him boring#he feels like the least fleshed out of the origins and has the least companion-content sure#but oh my fucking god. i love him so mucu#i will never ever get over him#what the hell larian. my feelings#wyll ravengard#wyll#bg3 wyll#ulder ravengard#mizora#bg3#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate iii#character analysis#character study#he just means so much to me guys u have no idea#spoilers#bg3 spoilers#baldur's gate 3 spoilers#bg3 act 3 spoilers
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Lady Incognita
Cazador Szarr's "niece" is named Amanita Szarr. You can find her story scattered throughout the palace's attic, dungeon, and the House of Hope. She was a girl who grew up near Anga Vled raised by old servants. At 13, she was brought to visit her uncle in Baldur's Gate...
The day her entire family exposed themselves as vampires.
Alternate Text: An east Asian girl with medium-brown skin and dark brown then red eyes looks away from the viewer. One with brown, facing away. Twice with red and shoddily cut away dark hair, looking away in despair and notably darkened, red, downcast eyes and short hair. Once more with darkened eyes and a cloak and red eyes to match, long dark hair flowing from her hood.
Unfinished, but hey. I want to show fellow artists that things just don't come to you. Sometimes, you have to work the lines and paint until they do. Use Glaze to protect your art from AI scrapers.
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The city palace, straddling the wall between the Upper and Lower City, was more than creepy, it was somehow chilling.
Cazador Szarr the Avid rose to power in 1296. She stayed at the estate for at least four months before she was killed. She was turned in Kythorn 1477, 15 years before the start of the story.
'Uncle' Cazador made me a vampire, but I refused to participate in the family rites. He gave me the Hunger but he could not break my will. He had Blovart imprison me in the attic. I weakened. They sent up human blood, and eventually I drank it. For a year, they stopped sending anything. I tore at the walls in frustration. Then they sent up a bound captive.
Cazador's favorite punishments are cruelty, hunger, and isolation.
His staff, "Woe:" The gentle tap-tap-tap of a staff on stone sparked terror for all in Cazador's palace. It signalled an approaching storm, and all they could do was shrink into the background and pray its wrath would not fall on them. His dagger, "Rhapsody:" Cazador's love of poetry arose after he read on the naked stomach of a dead child in his homeland. The child was hung from the lowest branch of a tree. Cazador read the poem, and looked at the child, and he knew that here was the artform for him.
Her coffin is on a wooden table overlooking a window. There are chains by her bed, a candle, and a skull. There are three skeletons in the attic, one headless with a crossbow and garlic cloves in their cage.
I succumbed. I am a vampire, and damned. I curse the name of Szarr and reject it. Now I stay in the attic by choice and write my little histories. I am Lady Incognita. Amanita is no more.
I think the snippets of her story were so impactful because of the complete betrayal. The fact her family were never around. The fact they lied for her entire life. The fact they forced her to transform, which we know from Astarion's partial ceremorphosis dialogue is incredibly painful:
Player: Unlike you to be so unwilling to receive a new power... Astarion: That was before I knew the cost. Before I knew it meant transforming into some grotesque beast. I remember how it hurt when I turned to a vampire. My body writhed and warped while I was utterly helpless, the grip of death owned my heart as it beat its last. I - I don't want to turn into anything else. I can't do that again. I can't watch my body be taken over. Player: You're afraid? Astarion: I'll happily murder my way to whatever powerful artefacts we can make use of. Point at the back and I'll stab. Just don't ask me to sacrifice my body. It hasn't been mine for so long.
We know thematically there is a parallel between vampirism, abuse, and sexuality. Cazador appeared to lose interest in his 'niece' altogether. Nonetheless, he locked her into an eternal childhood under "true vampirism," never to grow to adulthood, and denied her a "typical" life forevermore. There is something particularly grotesque about that.
Astarion: Nearly two hundred years and I never came back. Not since the night I woke up down there. I had to punch a hole in the coffin and claw my way through six feet of dirt. Then when I finally broke the surface, retching up dirt and congealed blood, Cazador was waiting. From that day on I was his. Until today. Player: You were never his. Whatever he had, he took by force. Astarion: Maybe, but he did take it. There's almost nothing left of the person I was. Just a name on a rock. For nearly two centuries, I stalked the streets like a ghost while the person I was lay here, dead and buried. Now I need to figure out who I am. What I want.
We find The Tourmaline Depths in the room beneath Cazador's room. She wrote Diseases of the Blood to tackle vampiric illness. She wrote the names of ruling vampires, their titles, and their successors. She is, what, 28?
I like to think she knew all of Cazador's secrets, from the corpses in the suspended cages to his dungeon. I'm impressed by her mental fortitude in the face of such odds as a child and young woman. I'm impressed she chose to do what she loved, escaped, and became such a relevant figure in the study of vampiric physiology. I wish we knew her better. I wish we had the opportunity to meet her.
She is the historian who sullies his name and documents his endless crimes. She escaped. Cazador underestimated her.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 cazador#bg3 astarion#astarion ancunin#my writing#meta#art#my bardlock loves occult knowledge so the idea of them collecting her books and cross-referencing notes is <333#bg3 critical#bg3 racism#larian critical#larian racism#come back in a day when I don't have to fear the ai shitheads from stealing what it took YEARS to gain#I have art of what I imagine her to be#oh fuck I forgot#HASHTAG#my art#lady incognita#amanita szarr
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My main Inquisitor is a blood mage. A subclass that isn't in the game Dragon Age: Inquisition, which is where she's from. But she's still a blood mage. Because I say so. Even though I can't actually play her as such, in the game.
Imagine that.
Now imagine pitching a fit because your OC had the wrong facial expression in a cutscene.
#bg3 fandom critical#like! larian are idiots for pandering to these sorts of people. BUT genuinely what the fuck happened to just headcanon.#the elimination of the barrier between audience and creator is legit rotting people's brains on all sides ngl#the ENTITLEMENT
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Kar’niss: *tickling around on his spider legs and basically deranged*
Me: ok but he’s kind of hot, tho-
Larian: wtf
#baldur’s gate#bg3#kar’niss#drider#d&d#larian#baldur's gate 3#tav#I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me#dungeons and dragons#lolth#drow#moonrise towers
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