#my tav: aesir

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The whole gang is here!

Just a little sketch of literally all of my bg3 ocs :)

From left to right: Talaak, Aesir, Izzrhys, Leoryn, Aratris, Roszira

Not pictured: Izzrhys beating the FUCK out of Durge Talaak

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I'm really very bad at these, so here goes!

Hello, you can call me Callisto, or Cal (he/they/she). This is my blog @especiallytav - a small multimuse featuring 'Tavs', protagonists/companions from Baldur's Gate 3, and a couple of canons too. It's also the main blog (following blog) for a handful of sideblogs. Mun & all muses 21+, mutual exclusive but open to many types of writers.

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@ofbloodandweave ~ sideblog featuring Gale Dekarios & Astarion Ancunin from BG3

@divinus-propheta ~ sideblog featuring a D&D based OC named Aesir

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"We can't fix him, Máire, he has to be removed."

and then 200 or so years later he became this. Love a bit of vague lore dropping. I'd wanted to redraw the painting for a good long while but never really found an excuse to do so until I caved and ended up with a raging addiction to BG3. Meet my tav, his name is Aesir :>

(Inspired by The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel)

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I totally forgot I had this old art of Aesir from a couple of years ago. And honestly, even in unmodded BG3, I managed to get them pretty spot-on in the character creator.

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Hey Bec, for your NSFW OC asks, I need to know if Izzrhys, Aratris, and Aesir are socks on or off during sex 🤣

LMAOOO that's a good one and also one I hadn't thought of before.

I know for a fact that Aratris is staunchly socks off. There's no way they're not.

Izzrhys is in kind of a middle ground with no strong feelings. Frequently, some clothes do stay on in the heat of the moment, socks included.

Aesir is the most likely of the three to be socks on. They strike me as the type to get cold :( It's not a necessity, but it does keep their feet from getting freezing.

Thanks for the ask!

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Number 7 of the Solo question for Aesir

Number 21 of the Solo question for Iz

And number 2 of the group questions for the both of them!

Kindly - @tavstavernofdisasterbisexuals

Hello! Thanks for the ask!

7- If your character could have an infinite supply of ONE food, which food would they choose?

Aesir would absolutely go for an infinite supply of berries. They generally tend to draw more towards sweeter foods, and like to snack more than they like having full meals. This has absolutely nothing at all to do with them being crow/raven coded :)

21- Someone your character respects is coming over for dinner. What do they serve? How does the dinner go?

Izzrhys would more than likely have to ask a friend for a recipe. Something simple. Anything tried and tested. He's alright in the kitchen in that he won't give anyone food poisoning, but can't make much that tastes better than okay. Following an exact recipe, he might be able to make something better. Iz is an excellent host otherwise. He takes genuine interest in his guests’ conversation topics, he offers drinks, makes sure they feel welcome to stay as long as they please, and he's generally very attentive. After dinner, he offers to make tea. Somehow, through all this, he's not sucking up to this person he respects, he's just very hospitable, and it goes well, mediocre food aside.

2- Your characters have been locked in a room together for 24 hours. It is impossible to escape the room by any means. What happens?

Aesir is shaking in their boots at first. They're stuck here with this huge-ass drow that they know nothing about. Izzrhys is definitely the first to reach out with actual conversation. They'd absolutely be sharing life stories by the end of the 24 hours and would probably see each other again after the fact. Izzrhys is perfectly capable of making new friends wherever he goes, and he's just found this half-elf to adopt.

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Alright, here's another Backstory Bash post! I've been dying to give them some more character development, so here it is:

Aesir Corvus | 27 | Half-elf Rogue, Thief Subclass

Baby:

Parents: Aesir was born to an elven mother in Tethyr. Their father got her pregnant and left, and there's pretty solid evidence that he did this to many women.

Birth: Aesir’s birth was difficult. Their mother was in poor health during and following her pregnancy. They nearly didn't survive either, as they were born too early.

First word:Mama. Pretty average baby stuff, especially for a child raised by a single mother.

When they first walked:Aesir took a bit longer than average to first walk and hit many of their physical milestones. However, once they started walking, they couldn't be stopped from getting into trouble.

Tantrum: Aesir was generally an easygoing baby, but they were really hard to settle down to go to sleep. Some nights, they would basically cry until they wore themself out.

First sickness: Aesir spent the first year or so of their life pretty sick on and off. Mostly small fevers, ear infections, a cough. There was concern about their future health, but by the time they were a bit older, their immune system mostly grew stronger.

Thunderstorm: Aesir has always been kind of skittish and was scared of storms when they were little. They luckily outgrew it by the age of 7 or so.

Childhood: 

Friends: Aesir grew up playing with the other kids who lived nearby. They were one of the younger children there and were always the target of rough play, and a small amount of teasing. Overall, they look back on those times fondly, and consider those childhood friends the closest they ever had to living with siblings.

Siblings: Aesir is their mother's only child. However, they certainly have other half-siblings out there. Their dad got around with non-human women, and they are aware of the possibility of other half-elves as well as tieflings, half-orcs, and almost certainly others. They know for sure of one half-orc brother who’s a bit older than them, and they maintain regular correspondence after accidentally adventuring together some years back.

Getting into trouble: Aesir has always had a knack for discovering things they were never meant to discover. They grew up in a place where the Shadow Thieves had a broad network. Aesir, at 11 years old, ascertained the identities of a few prominent members and was basically forced to join their ranks.

Birthday: Aesir was born the third of Alturiak. Their zodiac equivalent would be Aquarius.

Games: Aesir was the absolute best at hide-and-seek growing up, and often couldn’t be found until the kids were all called home for dinner.

Learning something new: Aesir learned how to pick locks shortly after getting involved with the Shadow Thieves at the age of 12. With their high dexterity, it was an easy thing to pick up.

Trauma: Aesir's mom was in frail health for all the time they could remember, and they were the one who found her dead, when they were about 9 years old.

Teenager:

First love: Aesir had a major crush on one of the girls he grew up with, although they never acted on it. They visited home from time to time even after they got involved with the Shadow thieves, but always considered confessing more of a danger than it was worth.

Rebellion: Around 13, Aesir decided to change their name as they got more involved with Shadow Thieves business, partially to make them harder to track. They did a lot of small, dirty jobs within the guild and lived a life of petty crime- but at least they were able to sustain themself.

Running away: Aesir repeatedly tried to get out of the grasp of the Shadow Thieves in their early teens, to no avail. They were faced with death threats and worse, as there was a high risk of them revealing the identities of their immediate higher-ups and a few others who worked close to them.

Reckless behavior: They were involved in a lot of heists, and as they grew older, assassinations and more high-stakes work. At 17, Aesir was assigned the assassination of an influential merchant, and things went terribly wrong. They were seriously injured in the process, as the target was within arm’s reach of a bodyguard. Although Aesir was successful in their mission, they ended up killing an additional person, and ended up out of commission for a while. They have several scars from the fight, including the prominent one across their face.

Peer pressure: Aesir was pressured by the people around them to commit a lot of crimes that they regret. Peer pressure for them was so much more serious than kids telling each other to do kind of dumb things.

Growing pains: As they grew older, Aesir realized they had no idea how to be a functional member of society. They spent a lot of their late teenhood trying to learn more about how things actually worked, how to go out in public places, and they started making friends again outside of their small circle.

Taking responsibility: Soon after they turned 17, Aesir was put in charge of some other Shadow Thieves and was given the authority to give orders and oversee their work. They felt extremely unprepared to give directions to lower down individuals, especially when their whole heart wasn’t in the organization.

Adulthood:

Their “first time”: Aesir’s first time was awful. It was with a man they were in a short relationship with, but the relationship was volatile, they felt pressured to have sex, and they were so put off by the experience that they broke up with the guy less than a week later.

Serious relationships: Aesir has been in a few moderately serious relationships, but nothing ever lasted more than a year and a half. They did the breaking up most of the time, partially due to anxiety over being found out as a Shadow Thief, or their lover being targeted.

Work: Aesir has never had a “real job” so to speak. They have been stuck with their guild for about 15 years, and thieving is enough to keep them fed and housed, if not much else.

Leaving home: Aesir did not leave Tethyr much growing up. They had some missions outside the city, and before they were kidnapped by Illithids, they were on an assignment in Baldur’s Gate.

Aging: Following the events of BG3, Aesir wants nothing more than to grow old with Wyll and settle down for once in their life- to separate themself from a life of crime and look for redemption. 

Finding your place: After BG3, Aesir is able to leverage some political power they have from being Wyll’s spouse. They are able to finally leave their ranks in the Shadow Thieves, and join Wyll in his adventures as the Blade of Avernus.

Starting a family/found family: Wyll and Aesir do eventually start adopting/fostering children. Aesir especially insists on it, because of their own past as an orphan, and their experience getting exploited because they were so vulnerable.

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Hi, hello! Any fun facts about any of your characters?

Hi! Sorry for leaving this in the inbox for a week. It's been one hell of a week, and I've been trying to come up with some answers in the meantime.

I'm gonna talk a little about a story I'm writing atm with Izzrhys. He has taken a Plea of Rest with the Church of Ilmater exactly one time, roughly 5 years before the events of bg3. He was helping with a disease outbreak, and patients' outcomes were not good. He worked himself to the brink of exhaustion, choosing to reverie in the infirmary instead of resting in his quarters, and withdrawing from the rest of the clergy. He made a turn for the worse when a fellow priestess died. By the time the outbreak has finally let up, he's exhausted, depressed, and he's having chronic pain flare-ups, and he is all out of options. Father Lorgan tried to convince him to take a Plea sooner, but Izzrhys refused until he was in an undeniably bad state. Yet, instead of taking a few days to just lie in bed and rest, he reverts back to old habits and vices that he thought he'd long left behind, and ends up having to rely on other people to help him move on.

Aesir, as I've mentioned before, is a dnd character from a one-shot. I'd like to go a little more in depth on what happened there. I do consider it at least sort of canon. So they are a half-elf, and their human dad has a thing for non-human women and has a bunch of half-human children running around Faerun. Aesir is after him for answers, sure, but in this one-shot, they met one of their siblings. They were at a resort, looking for easy (and rich) targets, pickpocketed a very drunk half-orc at the bar, and found that this half-orc had the other half of a "best friends" necklace that their dad left them. The half-orc was too blinded by the revelation he'd just found his brother, and didn't even realize he'd been pickpocketed. So yeah, in canon, Aesir knows of one half-orc brother, a wild magic sorcerer named Kroq.

That's all I've got for now, these two have definitely still been the main characters on my mind lately.

Thank you so much for the ask, hope the answers were worth the wait!

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Hmmmmmm, which characters of you would absolutely fight each other on sight?

Totally meant to answer this yesterday, my bad!

It's the easy answer, but my neutral good paladin, Izzrhys, would not only on sight fight Talaak, my dragon born sorcerer Durge, but he would also be aiming to kill.

But in a less serious (and also less obvious) case, I feel like Aratris would start shit with Aesir because they want to see this little rogue guy fight for their life. It would be funny.

As always, thank you for the ask! ❤️

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(from @wyllwithay )

From putting them in situations ask

6 for Aesir and 14 for Iz

Hi, thank you for the ask!

6. Your character finds themself in a looping dream of their happiest moment. What is this moment, and would they choose to break the loop and go back to reality?

Aesir goes back to their childhood. A time when their mother was still there. The dream isn't one specific moment, but it plays the nights Aesir went stargazing with their mother. They listen intently as she explains the positioning behind the stars, and the stories they tell. Aesir is torn. After all, they could live like that forever, with her still there, and none of the pain that the following years would bring. But then again, they would be a child forever. They would never meet some of the wonderful people they met. Aesir considers their hardship more fundamental to who they are than almost anything, and they would hate to lose that. Aesir breaks the loop, but they feel incredibly sad about it for days after.

14. Your character gets stranded on an island. They can choose one item to have with them. What do they choose?

Izzrhys is fairly practical. He doesn't have any sentimental personal belongings and would bring some sort of utility knife. Good for hunting, preparing food, and also potentially whittling other tools. He has had to survive for weeks in the wilds of the Underdark, so this feels like no problem in comparison.

Edit: I accidentally hit the post button, gimme a few minutes 🫠

Edit 2: Finished! Thanks again!

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👋 I know it's been months since you reblogged that NSFW ask game, but I'm curious about 4). Are they more of a dom, sub, or switch? If applicable, are they a top, bottom, or vers? and 5). Do they have any really out-of-left-field kinks/fantasies? Maybe even something that they wouldn’t necessarily want to act on but have still thought about? for your Tavs 😊

I don't mind late asks at all! I'm still always down to answer stuff!

4.

Izzrhys: sub, almost exclusively bottom

Aesir: switch, leaning sub, vers

Xarek: switch, slight preference for topping

Aratris: Dom, top with some flexibility

Leoryn: Dom-ish, bottom

5.

Iz: He is a masochist and is down for almost anything in the vein of pain play, especially hair pulling/choking, and he wouldn't say no to weapons in bed.

Aesir: Their secret is that they're the most vanilla of my Tavs. The most unusual thing they like is maybe some play with gender roles/clothing/etc, but that's more a byproduct of their fluidity.

Xarek: I just know he's a monsterfucker (probably wouldn't act on it in most cases but he'd be lying if he said he'd never gotten off to related fantasies). And also he is into risky situations/semi public/the idea of being caught.

Aratris: Will fuck in wildshape. Also substance use/aphrodisiacs/etc

Leoryn: Also a monsterfucker. Other than that, they're pretty tame.

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From "Uncommon Questions for OCs and their creators"

Number 11 for Aesir Number 1 for Roszira Letter C for anyone

— Kindly, @tavstavernofdisasterbisexuals :D

11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?

Aesir will always search for answers. They never openly admit confusion, but they always go out of their way to make sure they understand whatever they've heard. Aesir has a natural curiosity that has gotten them into a lot of trouble, sure, but it has also saved their skin even more often.

What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do? Roszira can't sit still with literally nothing to do. Give her five minutes, and she'll be restless, pacing, or finding something to do. She has a lot of more idle hobbies, of course, for when she has to sit around, such as sewing and reading. But nothing? She will get incredibly frustrated and antsy.

And lastly:

C) Did you have trouble figuring out where they fit in their own story?

I'm going to talk about Aesir a bit for this one, mostly because they fit the question best. They were a kind of silly one-shot character before I tried to fit them into the bg3 universe. Their whole bit was that they were a half-elf with a bunch of half-siblings because their dad was slutting it up across faerun. My partner played in said one-shot as Aesir's half-orc half brother. They had matching "best friends" necklaces that their father left behind. It was a funny bit. I had other characteristics to start off with though. Aesir has always been secretive. They get uneasy when it comes to magical shenanigans. They have a hard time with emotional intimacy.

That said, I latched onto them, made them in bg3 years later, and they have a lot more serious elements to their backstory. I kind of struggled to fit them in, partially because they're not supposed to be Baldurian. Due to their affiliation with thieving guilds, I kind of figured if they were Baldurian, they'd likely be affiliated with the Zhent or Nine-Fingers' Guild. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense in-story without taking a lot of creative liberties (which is fine, just not my cup of tea). After a lot of research on other thieving guilds along the Sword Coast, I found the Shadow Thieves and decided that Aesir probably got abducted while doing business in Baldur's Gate.

I'm still in the process of filling in the blanks, but they've come a long way from being "just a one-shot character."

That should be all the asks, once again, thank you!

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Just a little cropped piece of another Aesir WIP. I just think they're pretty <3

Also I'm trying the physical sketch -> digital painting process again and I swear it looks so much better. I am still complete garbage at digital sketches after all these years

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Why would you NOT date Aesir?

There's no one big red flag that Aesir flies, but honestly? A lot of little incompatibilities would add up. I crave stability, and they're anything but. They've been in a thieves guild for most of their life and they always manage to get into all sorts of trouble. Not to mention Aesir's messy family situation. I guess there's not the issue of their parents not liking me, but they care WAY too much about finding their father and long lost siblings, none of whom they've met. They spend way too much time chasing dead-end leads to their past instead of focusing on what's in front of them.

I also think we probably have a somewhat similar taste in partners which is decidedly NOT each other. And when posed the question "do I want to kiss them or do I want to be them?" I definitely feel the latter. Of course I want to be the silly little rogue.

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Hi, I'm Bec, just another bg3 player on Tumblr dot com. Made a sideblog so I don't flood my main with bg3 reblogs. I will also be posting more general dnd stuff from time to time, especially since some of my bg3 ocs are either based on characters I played in campaigns, or went from bg3 to being played in a campaign.

I do art and write some fic, but I don't share a whole lot.

Ask box is open. I'd love to answer questions about bg3, dnd in general, my ocs- pretty much anything, really.

Also sorry for the lack of durges, but I really can't think of much original stuff in terms of backstory so I've kind of left that alone

Basics about my ocs:

Izzrhys Illith'vir (my main Tav, subject of a majority of art/fic stuff, I'm playing him in a dnd campaign as well)- he/him, drow, oath of devotion paladin with 2 levels in life cleric, neutral good. Romancing Gale

Aesir Corvus (an actual dnd character I used, used them for my first tactician level bg3 campaign)- they/them, half high elf thief subclass rogue, chaotic good, romancing Wyll. They and Xarek are half-siblings.

Xarek (originally a dnd character I played in a short campaign with my in-laws, turned the Tav for my second attempt at an honor mode playthrough. He won :3)- he/him, half drow fiend patron warlock, chaotic neutral, romancing Karlach. He and Aesir are half-siblings.

Tiresias (technically my Curse of Strahd character, although I did start a bg3 playthrough with him that I'll maybe see through, especially because he feels very morally different from my other ocs.) he/him, grave domain cleric of Loviatar, lawful evil, no romance selected, if I do pick one at all. (Also, side note: I could not find anything that really fit him in cc, so this is as close as I'm getting. I have sketches that I'll post separately.)

Aratris (my first Tav, made for a multi-player campaign), they/them, half-wood elf circle of the moon druid (though they probably spend more time in owlbear form than in humanoid form lmao), true neutral. Romance undecided. Lae'zel romance bugged out in act 1, so they'll probably end up with Halsin. As of right now, it doesn't look like their campaign is ever actually getting finished sadly.

Leoryn (obligatory bard playthrough???) they/she, high elf lore college bard, neutral good, romancing Astarion

Talaak (My one and only Dark Urge who is not fleshed out very much oops)- she/her, silver dragonborn storm sorcerer, neutral evil romancing Minthara

Roszira- she/her, a strongheart halfling who I lovingly refer to as the "world's worst Tav". She's going to multiclass in everything. Yes, everything. Needless to say, she's incredibly indecisive. I made her to do one of the Steam achievements (multiclass into all classes without using withers) and I know there are a million easier ways to do it, but this has just become my fuck around and get achievements playthrough. Chaotic good. Romancing Shadowheart. Update: I got so many achievements with Roszira's save file, and after hers, I only had two left, one of which was completing honor mode. Thank you for your service, Roszira. Sorry I turned you into a squid.

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Throwing Cernunnos at you. He’s a circle of the moon druid who was adopted into a noble family when his older sister found him wandering the woods on the edge of their property when he was about 6 (no family, no nothing). I can’t quite decide if he has a neutral good or lawful good alignment at the moment but that’ll come with playing him some more and seeing what happens. He’s deaf, he can read lips but will almost exclusively respond in sign (sometimes writing responses down in necessary). He’s probably my social butterfly out of all of my OCs, he loves meeting people and talking to everyone he can and tends to be very outgoing

So I imagine out of my OCs, he'd probably get along best with Aratris, my circle of the moon half-wood elf druid. They are very laid back and fun-loving. They don't have particularly strong convictions, and fall around true neutral. I don't have a ton of lore planned around them yet, but I do know they like to hang out in wildshape, and they would 100% be down to just hang out in animal form with Cernunnos, if that's something he likes to do as another druid.

As for some of my other Tavs:

Izzrhys: He would probably get along well with Cernunnos. Iz is an Ilmatari paladin, also aligned somewhere around neutral/lawful good, and likely has a lot of similar goals and values. He is a very friendly and warm individual and tends to get along well with social and outgoing people. He knows drow sign already and I honestly imagine he'd know at least some sign used on the surface already because he doesn't want people to have to rely on lip reading, especially not if he's doing his job as a healer. They'd definitely get along in the context of an adventuring party, but I'm not sure they have much in common.

Aesir: They don't really know how to interact with more social, outgoing individuals. It's not that they don't like Cernunnos, they just don't have a whole lot to say, especially since they have a lot of secrets. If they spent enough time together, though, I can see Aesir opening up.

Leoryn: They're super loud and gregarious, and being around Cernunnos absolutely would amplify that. Leo and him would probably hang out well in a bigger group, but it's hard to imagine Leoryn hanging out with him one on one- not that they don't like him, but because they really don't have common interests.

Thank you for sending him in!