#or what was default durge

[predninja]

Durgefly

he got the flyurge

[the0verboss]

Gortash week Day 2- Worship/Betrayal

Gortash conducting worship, Durge commiting Betrayal

[soelvfiskart]

Couldn’t get this idea out of my head, of a bby thee with the Bhaal symbol and in big text “Slay” in glitter. Drew Orin modelling it (and durge) cuz that just makes sense.

[wild-magic-oops]

But what if white draconic bloodline sorcerer!Gale tho

[ashvryn]

Still can’t get over the fact that Bhaal made his son and gave him built in blow job handles

[trappedinafantasy37]

Getting Minthara to talk about mass executing goblins.

In reference to this post at the request of @tim1234

Sorry for the video being a bit long as I wanted to display the entire dialogue tree. You can also select the Deception check option when she asks you what you know about the druid, but all other options must remain the same. Those are the only two dialogue trees that I discovered will trigger Minthara talking about executing goblins, but there could be more.

[y-rhywbeth2]

I have too many theories going to really nail one down, but: oh thank god, a reason for Durge defaulting to Storm Sorcerer to (sort of) make sense if I reach a bit even though I don't use the class it bugs me:

'Wisps of thoughts, lost memories, forgotten ideas, minor musings, subconscious fears, important concepts - these things are drawn to the Astral from the planes it touches. Psychic energies generated by thinking creatures drift unbidden onto the Astral Plane every moment, where they gather and collect. 'As mental energy swirls, congeals, and interacts, it forms what planewalkers have always called the psychic wind. The wind moves through the Astral, but it doesn't really feel like wind to a traveller. One planewalker (whose name is now forgotten) described it aptly as the plane itself rebelling against the thoughts that make up the wind. The moving, active mental energy disrupts the normal fabric of the plane, itself primarily a construct of the mind. ' When the psychic wind strikes, it occurs in an area stretching anywhere from 3-300 miles in diameter, or at least what passes for such in the nonspace of the Astral. From the outside, this affected area looks much like a storm on the Prime Material Plane — dark, roiling skies, punctuated by occasional flashes of energy. Within the storm, everything grows dark (travelers can use fire or magic to create light, but infravision does not work). It remains dark but calm for two to three minutes, after which everything in the area begins to vibrate, warp, and distort.

Storms appear like literal storms, although they instead overload the minds of those caught with them with whatever they are made of - which may be active thoughts, emotions or dreams. So you know you could (amongst numerous other possibilities) be overwhelming people with thoughts of death, hate, homicide ideation...

'As dangerous as a normal encounter with the psychic wind is, a psychic storm is much more horrible. These very rare occurrences result directly from an influx of dangerous thoughts from some other plane. “Dangerous thoughts,’’ in this case, are those of strong fear, hatred, or other emotion found in great amounts. When a great disaster strikes, a huge battle occurs, or some unique event results from belief (like the passing of a gate-town from the Outlands to another plane) [or hey, what if a prophecy came to pass and mass death and war and chaos due to a certain god was wrecking a continent, or if an entire forest of elves and an avatar of their god was being spiritually torn apart also by that god...], the ripple of thought carries to the Astral and forms a true storm of psychic wind. 'When this occurs, a huge, almost immeasurable section of the Astral is affected. The storm carries with it the same threats as those detailed above (adding 20 to the location and mental effects rolls), as well as the ability to literally tear the Astral asunder. If a psychic storm strikes, there’s a 10% chance that it rips a hole in the plane itself. This causes everything within 10-1,000 yards to be thrust from the Astral to a random plane that touches it and tears a like amount of matter from the other plane and deposits it on the Astral. If no matter is near enough to be moved (on either or both sides of the hole), the hole remains open for 1-4 days, functioning as a gateway between the two planes. The Astral repairs this rent by forming a color pool that leads to the affected plane.'

Heeyy what if a chunk of Bhaal's 'flesh' ended up on Toril, where there's enough ambient faith and leftover divine essence to work with...? Like that might not be my final theory but it is now a factor.

Me: Durge being born on the Astral from Bhaal's corpse makes sense, but how did they leave?

Planescape: What if they were born from a massive storm of pain, rage, death and hate that tore the fabric of reality asunder?

And if you want your Durge in this theory to be older or younger than certain events:

'Because the Astral Plane exists outside of time, the thoughts and memories that form psychic winds don’t always have to be from a time concurrent to those experiencing them. That is to say, thoughts from the distant past or the future (relative to the traveller in the storm) can buffet a victim caught by the psychic wind. This facet of psychic wind does not actually change the effects of a normal encounter, but it does open up the possibility of gaining images or ideas from’ the distant past or those that haven’t even yet been conceived.'

[pixie-in-a-moonlantern]

Gortash can easily be pansexual, too. Why not? I can headcanon everyone in bloody Faerûn pan and you can't stop me.

[wizardsimper]

Kinda obsessed with the default Dark Urge design

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Also kinda obsessed with shipping Durge with Tav woops

[danielnelsen]

i know when it says 'another' it's referring to myrkul & ketheric, but it's just another one of those things that's infinitely funnier and more interesting playing as gale

if i cant be chosen then nobody can

[elfboypussy]

this is so fucking funny for no reason

[predninja]

Local assassin needs a cleaning

[agrazza]

honestly the party doesn't realize how lucky they were that tavran gregory heard shadowheart introduce herself and didn't immediately go 'oh we're using our made up names' and promptly come out with the wildest shit and insist that everyone call him it for the rest of the game. he could have been anything and he would have said it with the straightest face. infallible persuasion check. a bad time for everyone.

[femvaylin]

There are precisely two kinds of Durge

[wild-magic-oops]

Love that Gale approves of this sorcerer specific option lmao

[maegalkarven]

Based on how Durge's amnesia took all of their personal memories, but not the general ones (about how the world works, different fractions, races, places, etc), I think it's safe to assume Durge's amnesia isn't actually brain damage induced, but Bhaal- induced.