#tav/kith'rak voss

[des-no9]

second-hand love

a short comic on sharing love and falling in love, because of who we love.

featuring. my Tav, Vanquish, Kith'rak Voss and Prince Orpheus.

TW: sex, nudity and mild violence art and words by me

8 pages + 2 bonus below the cut

Thank you so much for reading. I hope you enjoyed it.

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts <3 These three and their dynamic and love mean the world to me. I hope you enjoyed a little peek into their world and love.

Vanquish and Orpheus initially have a very rocky start to their relationship and love, but their love, I think, becomes beautiful and almost unbreakable. Gentle, peaceful, fierce, understanding - in comparison to her and Voss alone who are so wild, unyielding, passionate, life and death, desperate, need and need.

All three of them balance each other out. For better, and worse.

Thank you again my loves.

[a2zillustration]

I haven't even let Gale read a book about this yet everyone neEDS TO CALM DOWN.

| First | | Previous | | Next |

[[ All Croissant Adventures (chronological, desktop) ]]

[[ All Croissant Adventures (app) ]]

[certifieddilfenjoyer]

Astral Prism, Orpheus & Raphael Theory

So you know how most people in Baldur's Gate 3 fandom make the Raphael joke?

I'm here to tell you that it's extremely hurtful, because his character has a lot more depth than some of you are willing to see.

Behold, my Baldur's Gate 3 theory:

Right before we enter Act 3, we are jumped by githyanki who want to retrieve our Astral Prism. We are summoned to the Dream Visitor - The Emperor, to help him in the fight.

We find out then that our supposed ally is an illithid but there is one more guy, The Gith, the Orpheus, The Prince of the Comet.

You can ask the Emperor what the heck is a githyanki doing there and he will tell you the brief story about the War of The Comet*.

He is going to mention, that he is bound by INFERNAL chains. Hold on? How come?

After we are done with the Royal Guard, we can go to the upper left side from Orpheus's prison and find an ancient Githyanki disc. It will tell us, that Vlaakith had some infernal business conducted with a devil with wry charm. Of course Raphael isn't the only devil capable of being charming, but it feels natural for it to be him when he is already a very important character in game.

Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki says that it is indeed Vlaakith and Raphael.

OK, but why would they exchange the Astral Prism and is it Vlaakith getting it or Raphael receiving the relic?

He is giving it to Vlaakith. But how would he be in possession of such an artifact?

My theory: He is the one who had it created for that trade. (Commissioned from someone else)

Explanation:

If you look at Hope's and Orpheus's prison, you will notice a striking resemblance at the crystals that can be only shattered by the Orphic Hammer. A Hammer, that Raphael is in possession of! How convenient!

(Even Hope's and Orpheus' eyes are glowing in the same way when they are enslaved.**)

The runes and the design of both Astral Prism and Orpheus' shackles are also strikingly similar. It does not look like anything of Githyanki creation, it screams infernal.

But that still doesn't really add up, does it? Who would possibly create such a powerful object which plays such a major role in the plot?

Here, we have to familiarise ourselves with the wonderful post by Bearhugsandshrugs

Em explains above who the people visiting House of Hope are***.

One of them is a crazy, extremely knowledgeable wizard who specialises in creating copies of himself which prevents him from dying in battle.

When we kill Raphael, we kill him in HoH, in his own domain. He should be gone, for good! But yet, upon interacting with the Orb of Infernal Envisioning, we see that he is soon to be devoured by his father. Hells do not split into separate planes - so either Mephisto snatched his soul somehow (which seems impossible because his body is still there and devil's souls are their bodies) or Raphael respawned and his father took one of his clones or something like that. (He's just so cool I had to put it in here, but let me return to my theory now)

Another name on the list points out to Raphael's interest in different planes (even the ones which don't seem to be reachable) but also, magical puzzle boxes capable of holding items inside. As you can see, the name on the list is under the uninvited visitors section, which most likely means that they either fuel his soul pillars or have been turned into a soul coin. So it didn't have to be that particular person helping Raphael with the creation of the Astral Prism, but it points out to his interest in that topic.

Now, when would that even happen?

Karsus Folly took place in -339 DR, BG3 takes place in 1492 DR, around 2000 years later.

The enslavement of Orpheus - so also the Vlaakith trade - happened at around -4000 DR.

It is not impossible that Raphael was already around and scheming at that time. Why? Because Mephistopheles gifted Haarlep to Raphael most likely when Raphael was about to get the Crown before his father snatched it. Comparing their visual age, it seems that Raphael was already a young adult cambion at around the War of The Comet age.

Another thing is the fact that, Kith'rak Voss, the badass Githyanki Red Dragon rider, the sword of Vlaakith, found out about Raphael and contacted him and told us to get our ass inside Sharess Caress. Raphael doesn't mention him having an 'office' there, it's Voss who does it. Only upon entering the place, we can interact with Korrilla who's like, hey girl go upstairs Raphael rented a room hoping you'd drop by. HE KNOWS WE SPOKE TO VOSS, he has to! And also, Voss was around when Orpheus got enslaved! According to Wiki he was inside the Astral Plane when that happened. And Raphael has absolutely 0 interest in trading with Voss, yet the githyanki managed to reach him somehow. In my opinion, when he finally realised the lies of Vlaakith, he was looking for a specific devil, for Raphael, because he might remember him from back then.

(* Justice to my poor Githyanki, the most based and cool race in BG3. Imagine how painful it has to be to realize over centuries of time that you helped the self-proclaimed queen establish her tyranny over your own people because you've been brainwashed to believe that Orpheus is a traitor and Vlaakith the rightful heir of the throne)

(** The eyes, the chains, the crystals. The top of the Orphic Hammer is literally partially built from that same gem/crystal and on top of that, if you use Examine on it, it clearly states that it has been built in Infernal forges.)

(*** headcanon warning: The Amulet of Vigor that is present in the Archive is actually proven to have some... Other invigorating capabilities ☠️☠️☠️ and the old, ancient, crazy wizard has the boudoir privileges. Coincidence? ☠️☠️)

Anyways, to sum up:

• Githyanki disc shows us a deal between Vlaakith and Raphael where the devil gives her the Astral Prism.

• Raphael orders creation of the Orphic Hammer (the name itself, come on, it's such a mockery just like House of Hope) to make sure that he has the means to free him if it will benefit him in any way.

• In exchange for the Hammer, he receives some kind of knowledge of ascension to godhood. (Lae'Zel tells us during the game that ascension is the githyanki's greatest honour but it turns out it is nothing else but ensuring that Vlaakith remains alive and a god, because she just consumes the life force of her greatest warriors)

• Hope's and Orpheus's chains are strikingly similar and the part of the Orphic Hammer is built from the same gem/crystal that seems to be enslaving both of them.

So yea, my humble request is that you start fully appreciating the incredible writing of the game, instead of just focusing on the shallow 'haha bottom' jokes. I could make another post about that itself, but it's pointless. I hope you enjoyed!

[bg3scenarios]

Kith’rak: You have returned safely from the House of Hope

Tav: Yeah, it was awesome

Kith’rak: Awesome?

Tav: I got some bitching gloves, and a cool necklace, and I slept with this really hot incubus-

Kith’rak: And the hammer?

Tav: Oh

Tav: …

Karlach: I knew we forgot something!

[almightyramtha]

once vaana found out he was a devil she was very anti raphael

Bonus from downstairs:

[deletarius-draws]

Bg3 - 2023/2024 Illustrations & Sketches

This is definitely one of those games. There would’ve been others included in this but those aren’t finished just yet.

[chillydillyickle]

bg3 tavs of @githkisser and my own plus art trade of Voss for pookie bear.

[vikintor]

Cringe Jez'rathki video with text-to-speech.

[necronazu]

Istik

[wuhuha]

...and the other giths too!

Part 1

[cheeserwinkle]

forest dreamin' 🌿

I thought that in the future, aftercanon, on long expeditions, Voss always sleeps with Vic on the same sleeping bag. And in the morning, he would probably be lying somewhere in the grass with a bug-bitten butt xD and then takes another half hour to wake Vic up. She doesn't like to get up early.

..perhaps, maybe when they get back to Orpheus base, they will be able to rest well. Unless the honorable prince sends them on a new mission at the next moment. Heh.

[des-no9]

holds out my palms offering you 5k words of Tav/Kith’rak Voss fic in humble offering

Christening the tav/voss tag with this. I hope you enjoy!!!! Set during the night he visits your camp. 

I even made up some gith words for this fic I’m in so deep for this gith gilf.

Written with my Tav, Vanquish. A Tiefling Warlock. But I’ve tried to leave out many of her distinguishing features (apart from one very important) so you can imagine another, if you wish <3

Enjoy.

Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tav (Baldur's Gate)/Kith'rak Voss Characters: Tav (Baldur's Gate), Kith'rak Voss (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Cunnilingus, Dom/sub Undertones, Blood, Psionic Bondage, Sex with the rush of danger idk, Vaginal Sex, Voss got Unbelievable Rizz, Hair Pulling, Mild Body Worship, background Tav/Guardian, because that's also brewing at this point in time, Marking, Tiny bit of edging, Rough Sex, Aftercare Githyanki Style, 5ft apart bc we fucked and i didn't kill you after i guess, Pining, Voss treats her like his possession but in a loving and protective way because he's down so bad, but he's also an ancient murderous githyanki so, Biting, Hand Jobs Summary:

Why did she ask him to stay?

For Lae’zel’s sake? For more questions, so she could start to understand; to unravel the only thing she’s known is a fucking lie from someone who’s been there since the truth.

Maybe, as she sees the firelight warm Voss’ features, flickering against a posture of calm in chaos, elegance in destruction, power and promise and an otherly unknown-

-maybe, for her own.

[a2zillustration]

Emperor we've been working together for months at this point will you just TELL ME-

| First | | Previous | | Next |

[[ All Croissant Adventures (chronological, desktop) ]]

[[ All Croissant Adventures (app) ]]

[crowwolf]

So, I have a *few* runs on the go in BG3. Here's some shots from my run with a ranger Tav called Willow.

Right out of the gate - she's totally solo with Gale (BUT did to the role for the drow twins AND Halsin - fucking hilarious).

This mother fucker makes me laugh so much -

and the old lady too - love having Jaheira in my party

WTF happened to Voss' ear!?! How did I never notice that before?!

This dude's wearing Rolan's mantle and robes!!!

and everyone's fav little brother...he's too stinking handsome!

And this sweet baby girl <3

[thedawner]

" >:[ "

[snoretash]

They went to a market together, and Voss doesn’t have the heart to interrupt the 8 intelligence tiefling that’s explaining oranges to him that he knows what those are.

(art by my good friend psyttalahorrida.)