#oskar fevras

[janearts]

Once again fantasising what Oskar Fevras' art might look like. A prequel of sorts, perhaps, to this.

[a2zillustration]

It's not every day you get your portrait painted. In fact, it's been exactly 0 days that's ever happened to Croissant.

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[rann-poisoncage]

[milleart]

you had one job, oskar.

[missuntitledblog]

Free the artist quest

basically turned Shadowheart into an exorcist by removing curses. Tedious.

After the task and claiming my reward, I decided to swap my tav with Astarion thinking he needs a self portrait cause he has no reflection. Oskar did the same dialogue and gave me a painting.

Then I tried using my Tav again to chat with Oskar. He offered the same reward. So the next step I did was bring everyone, even the hirelings. So I had a total of 14 paintings worth 1,500 gold each. I just need to find shops that have enough gold to buy.

The portraits we're all blank. Even if I dropped them on the floor at camp

[merciawintersageposting]

wishing him a very ✨bad time✨

[thatcerealkiller]

Added my Tav’s sweet comment on the portrait Oskar Fevras painted of Astarion.

Fic is underway…🥹

[bg3smash-or-pass]

[agent-oo-z]

Such an amazing portrait, I’m so glad Astarion can finally see his face after all these years!

(Yes I know this is a bug it’s just. Really fuckin funny)

[bladesandbhaalspawn]

BG3 Moodboards

Oskar Fevras

[origin characters | other companions | npcs | tavs | durges]

[mermaids-ate-my-dinner]

It's an absolute crime you can get a portrait of your companions after completing the "save the artist" quest and then you can't even give it to them! What a sweet callback to Astarion's mirror scene that would be!

I mean, okay. If it was proper DnD I think all of us would have used illusions to show him what he looks like by now. But that feels like it could have been a very cute little scene.

[lunarreverb]

Okay, so I just found a, uh, substantial difference in BG3 depending on whether you rescue Oskar Fevras in Act 1 or not. I had assumed rescuing him was the optimal course of action, because it seemed altruistic to free him at the time (and I wanted a real painting of Astarion to show him his face). What was my actual reward? A house full of ghosts and a headache! (and, a crappy generic "painting" item that wasn't even as cool as the circus statue you can get.)

Guys, if you don't free Oskar in Act 1, here's what happens instead:

Oskar is broke as hell, but alive, operating out of Nine-Fingers' Guildhall selling counterfeit paintings. That's a little sad. He sends a letter to Lady Jannath asking for her to let him paint her again; he appears to have been left on read.

BUT, Lady jannath is fresh, she is moisturized, she is thriving. She is hosting an art show in her home! There are unique interactions and dice rolls with NPCs in there, living their silly little lives! No ghosts, no skulls, no bullshit! But wait, there's more!

If you can sneak around a chamberlain and get up into the attic, you find (and steal!) a totally unique painting in the secret room:

Not only is this painting unique, it's worth 1300 gold. You can run it back downstairs and sell it to Lady Jannath herself!

I double checked just to make sure I didn't merely overlook this painting in my save with a freed Oskar. When I unlocked the room in there:

Nope! Just spooky shit!

I'm kind of at a loss for what the story's implied moral is between these divergent outcomes. Artists will make your house spooky, so don't bother? Love can overcome a house full of smashed shit and dead people? Unclear!

Updated to add: It's been pointed out to me that the individual paintings that Oskar will do for you if you freed him and completed the quest can be sold for 1000 gold a pop, and is repeatable between party members. Honestly I just never thought to sell them, because it feels like an item that SHOULD be flavor, or a cosmetic for your camp.

[little-red-fool]

OSKAR FEVRAS HAS THE SAME FACE AS ABDIRAK I JUST NOTICED WHAT.

[sweetmage]

Click for full res! 🎨

I'm not a huge fan of Oskar in the game for very obvious reasons but I have a lot of feelings about him being the twin of Tav!Abdirak (in my headcanon/AU) so here we are✨️

[dragonbard-bastard]

just finished Oskars quest line again. all my Oskar haters rise up I hate that fucking guy

[thatcerealkiller]

Thanks Oskar for making Astarion’s portrait canon. Now I have to write the scene. Angelus really said: “A good likeness. Though I prefer the real thing.”