#mephy gith

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Steel Durge Warlock

So steel dragons have really unique lore and functionality, and will choose someone to be their soulbound. They can communicate telepathically with this person, and confer some of their abilities — such as shape-shifting (any appearance, including sex, within that person's race).

Anyway, this makes for a cool, reflavoured warlock, and I like the idea of default dragonborn Durge being the polymorphed form of a steel dragon, acting as patron to a Tav or Bhaalspawn. Steel Durge is being head of Bhaal's temple, part of the Absolute plot, while the warlock gets the amnesia and doesn't remember their role or history with Durge and Gortash.

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If Larian gave dragonborns non-canon tails, you can give your githyanki tails if you want! 😎

I really wanted mine to have a tail, (also bluish skin) so I made plot reasons, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Designing how i wanna draw Lae'zel in the future comics and am really considering the tails

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New Look?

Or... alternate look

Not sure I like it enough (and it will probably be based on how well my computer handles the higher graphics settings, whether I keep it or not), but his patron is technically a steel dragon that grants them limited shapeshifting abilities, so...

This is technically Lae'zel's male head (among a few other male gith heads). Shhh, don't tell her I stole her face

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It's running...

I've only been in the menus and character creator, and it plays like a fucking slideshow, but uh, here, have some mephy gith (they/he)

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Githyanki Tiefling

So tieflings are generally humans who have fiendish blood/are planetouched by the hells, and this usually comes from their parent. There seem to be references to half-breeds [edit: tieflings can originally be the offspring of a fiendish parent], but I believe currently, tieflings breed true (a tiefling's children will always be full tieflings without mixing). However, there are other ways to become planetouched, such as with Wyll Ravengard.

There are a number of tiefling variants for different races:

Fey'ri (elf), wispling (halfling), maeluth (dwarf), tanarukk (orc).

All this to say, I really feel like having a githyanki OC with a tail, and wonder about the possibilities of a fiendish githyanki.

Maybe githyanki Durge triggered a trap from the crown heist with Gortash, or otherwise earned Mephistopheles' wrath (denying him the 7,000 souls from the Rite of Profane Ascension) and became planetouched that way.

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Me vs my OC, made with this picrew.

I'm not tagging, so whoever wants to do it themself, go for it

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Mephy Gith

Finally made some art, and my first avatar. Am I officially a tumblr person now?

This is "Tav", aka #mephy gith

They/He transmasc. A githyanki Durge who set off a trap when raiding Mephistopheles' vault, which modified them (similarly to Wyll) into a variant Mephistopheles tiefling.

He's a Shadow Monk, and reflavoured warlock. Also shu'kyani (egg-laying gith) because Bhaal wants grandspawn. Tav says nom.

Some other relevant posts

Arranged Durgetash²

Proving themself/UST

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Tav's just a chill dude, but without any strong emotions or reactions, I feel like they're just along for the ride

I mean, you literally made him a monk. Being mellow might just be a part of that character, rather than something you've failed to develop yet

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*Preparing to talk to Jaheira*

Should I drink her truth serum? Tav's a fairly good person, I think they'd be fine with honesty

*remembers he hid Alfira's body and his companions have no idea he killed her*

Maybe he has secrets worth keeping...

*gets to the scene. They detect the truth serum. She's being big on how it's harmless, and would really help her trust us. Thinking about drinking it*

*remembers Tav is supposed to be notably eggpreg right now, with the others being weird about it*

So, uh, Gale's not gonna let him drink alcohol, but let's say Gale takes it and downs it himself, for Jaheira's sake.

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Art Masterlist

Submerged AU (< follow for updates)

Mephy Durge

Misc

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Attempt #2

I actually changed it back to the original last time. idk, didn't like how angry they looked.

So I've been continuing with normal Tav, when I decide to have another go, bigger redesign with the paint and beard

And then I remember they're about to meet Gortash! Is this really the time? 'What if he doesn't recognise them?'

Dude. How many ash blue gith with blacked out eyes and tiefling tail do you think there are? He knows they can make superficial changes, and they're showing up with the distinct white dragonborn that grants them that ability.

I don't know that I like this better, but they're cute still. I like having the flexibility in armour/clothes that doesn't frame boobs

New Look?

Or... alternate look

Not sure I like it enough (and it will probably be based on how well my computer handles the higher graphics settings, whether I keep it or not), but his patron is technically a steel dragon that grants them limited shapeshifting abilities, so...

This is technically Lae'zel's male head (among a few other male gith heads). Shhh, don't tell her I stole her face