#the dark urge/enver gortash

[daemon-in-my-head]

At last, here it is. A while ago, I had the pleasure of commissioning the wonderful @lokorum to portray my beloved idiots in all of their tragic glory.

So without further ado, after months, here's the first chapter of my durgetash-centred, possibly very long, post-canon Genfic (cuz even if he's not featured in the picture, he's very much the one behind it, and yes, I said genfic but they do fuck, there's just also other themes that are more important than whatever it is those guys got going on).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63147115

Rated M; further elaboration, summary etc behind the cut.

As per usual, please mind the tags. This is rated mature and may turn explicit depending on—let's be so fr—nothing but my mood. It IS a tragedy. I know how it ends. Trust me when I stress the tragedy part. I'm writing this story through tears at times. There's fluff, there is hurt comfort, there is true old man yaoi but there is just as much 'doves that aren't simply dead but rotten' and pain.

So to everyone who's not scared shitless yet (which is very valid), here's a summary:

The year is around 1530 DR. The once-revered and reformed Bhaalspawn returns to the city he had both saved and nearly doomed, emerging from his exile in the Underdark. Though he claims to seek only rest, the city's de facto ruler, Archduke Gortash, sees through the monster’s carefully crafted facade. Perhaps if the elf had never saved the Banite all those years ago—when he was little more than a blurred and distant memory—his own fate might have unfolded differently, perhaps even more mercifully. But regrets have long since lost their weight. The past is immutable, and all that remains—all that truly matters to him now—is the purpose that once again draws him into this treacherous den.

And on a personal note; I'm still squealing and shoving this artwork into the face of everyone I meet irl. I absolutely adore it. I'm not sure I'll be stopping with that soon. You will see reblogs.

Again. Tragedy. I mean it. There's fluffy moments, but I will absolutely exploit them to enhance the pain. I'm dead serious about Bhaal being able to learn from me. I caused his kid more agony than he could ever dream of delivering. And I haven't even shared the worst parts yet.

Edit: I also mean the psychological warfare tag. It's my guilty pleasure. And whatever over one year of obsession amounts to.

[elinorbard]

plotting world domination and also your murder ❤️‍🔥 art by tarlya! (@sankttealeaf)

. the Dark Urge (Ta'av) x Enver Gortash, in the years before Baldur's Gate 3... .

A Banite and A Bhaalist (Mature, 5.1k words / ~1482 DR) Gortash meets a captivating Bhaalist who is nothing like he expected.

get in my bed, I wanna kill you (Mature, 7.9k words / ~1483 DR) Gortash tests the boundaries of his alliance with the Dark Urge - and the limits of her temper.

our strange duet (Explicit, 8.4k words / ~1484 DR) Gortash hires the Dark Urge to assassinate one of his rivals in a way that happens to require a night at the opera.

what she came for (Explicit, 7.6k words / ~1485 DR) Gortash finds his life disrupted when the Dark Urge decides to bring him three gifts.

A Little Prayer (Explicit, 5.8 words / ~1490 DR) Gortash's work is interrupted when Ta'av, the Dark Urge, seeks out his help with a new kind of uncontrollable urge.

. read the full series: sex and violence, one is just the other .

[moorishflower]

a prettier corpse (BG3, The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash, explicit)

a prettier corpse || The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash || Explicit || Complete

Necrophilia Fantasy, Implied Necrophilia, Murder Kink, Murder Fantasy, Blood and Violence, Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane, Anal Sex, Rimming, Nonbinary Character, Canon Dark Urge, Dissection Fantasy, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

"Is he not so perfect in death?" the Urge had whispered. They had been staring at it, at its deep blue skin, at the strange handsomeness of its face, and Enver had felt… Jealousy. He had felt jealous of the thing. Of a corpse. The Dark Urge makes an off-hand comment about corpses, and Enver, not to be outdone, makes a plan.

Based off of this comic by @haunted-dot. Sorry I made your funny comic into a horror commentary on how we allow the things we want to control us (+ anal)!

[hekuuu]

he won’t bite, he's just playing 😌

[kirain]

My favourite bit of BG3 lore is that Withers is legitimately responsible for the Dead Three, but he's probably too embarrassed to tell you, so every time you ask him to elaborate he just gives you a very stern, "Noooo."

I also love that the reason he's responsible for their uprising is because he got bored. He literally got bored of his position as Lord of the Dead and wanted to retire, so when these three morally questionable humans came looking for godhood he was like, "Hmmm. Yes, okay. Here. Take my portfolios. Fight over them. I don't care. I quit."

So after bowling with skulls in a friendly competition to decide who would get what portfolio, they took up his powers and wreaked havoc on the world. Only at that moment did Jergal, AKA Withers, AKA our precious Bone Daddy think, "I'm just now, internally, asking myself, in quite a worried way, whether I might've made an error."

So he joins your merry band and watches your escapades, calmly twiddling his fingers while you clean up his mess. He's happy to lend his aid, even to the point that he'll bring Durge back to life if they reject Bhaal, even though he technically shouldn't. But he's Withers. The rules don't apply to him. If Ao doesn't like it, he can descend from the Heavens and say it to his rotting face.

And the reason he saves Durge isn't necessarily because he likes them or because he's a morally good entity (though one certainly could make that argument), but because he wants to add insult to injury. He steals Bhaal's child with a big smile on his face, dubs them his Chosen, and praises them for rejecting all the power they were promised. But of course, he still doesn't tell them who he is—or rather who he was.

Then, when all is said and done, he throws Tav and their companions a cute little party. No one knows it's probably half a thank you party and half a "Withers is bored again" party. And if anyone misbehaves, he'll get irritated and whisk them away. Because how dare they? He put a lot of work into that.

And at the end of it all, he walks up to a mural of the Dead Three and basically goes, "Lmao. Thou didst fuck around, and thou didst find out." Just savagely roasting them.

And then poof!

He waves them into non-existence.

[arianiziolek]

Gortash is yelling at sewers, because Durge never told him where bhaal's temple is.

Bawi mnie nieskończenie to, że gość ma na imie Mroczna Żądza i tak sie z tym buja całe zycie.

[kawareo]

Look, at least he tried

I feel like this would've happened if the situation was just a little bit less urgent lol

[galgant]

Durge has a hungry cult to feed. The wall's are collapsing. There's no running water. U_U

[frizzypom]

some of the stuff i know i never shared here

[panksage]

Ebony Darkness D’Urge has an interesting taste in men and Astarion is in that picture and doesn’t like it

Reference:

[feyspeaker]

ruling as equals, hmm? interesting. join my print club to get this exclusive for october!

[elinorbard]

revenge tastes sweet and so are you (Dark Urge/Gortash)

Now that gifts are revealed... I was delighted to write this piece for the @loveinfaerunexchange for @flamemittens, featuring her lovely Durge, Morgayne! Morgayne is so collected and quiet and contemplative, so different from my Durges, and writing about her and all of Gortash's mind games was delightful. Check it out below! 💕

Enver Gortash reunites with his favorite assassin. A companion piece to Black-Eyed Susan by flamemittens. (Rating: M, Word count: 1.5k)

She remembers nothing, and yet she already has deduced there is something missing, lying underneath hundreds and thousands of words left unsaid. She always was clever, his Mori. Enver smiles to reassure her and chooses his words with precision. He knows now that he has mere days to achieve what previously took years of subtlety and meticulous planning. He will win her trust again.

Read revenge tastes sweet and so are you on AO3!

[shandzii]

been playing the funny game

[hehearse]

for wonderful @akilah12902 who listens to me screaming from the depths of the sewer maze (i did find my way out in the end)

[hekuuu]

first part of my Baldur's Gate 3 tarot deck!!

part 2, part 3

[simp-for-yandere]