#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]

sex and violence, one is just the other (Dark Urge/Enver Gortash)

Stories of the Dark Urge, Ta'avrathim, and her entanglement with Enver Gortash. ✨ Read the series on AO3 ✨ render by @thrawnslawyer ✨ 18+ only; MDNI ✨

I Knew You When (Mature, 8.5k / Act 3) Ta'av, the Dark Urge, confronts Gortash and discovers the truth about their past.

A Banite and A Bhaalist (Mature, 5.1k / pre-canon) Gortash meets a captivating Bhaalist who is nothing like he expected.

Bad Idea (Explicit, 10.7k / Act 3) Ta'av gambles on her newly discovered connection with Gortash and makes things messier than ever.

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

A House, A Home (Explicit, Chapters 3/3/ Act 3) After visiting the House of Hope, Ta'av lets Gortash draw her back into the mystery of their shared past.

our strange duet (Explicit, 8.4k / pre-canon) 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 / pre-canon) Gortash finds his life disrupted when the Dark Urge decides to bring him three gifts. (Gortoween: A Bloody Mess)

Guilty Pleasure (Explicit, 8.4k / Act 3) One bad decision gets Ta'av arrested. Several more get her brought before Gortash to beg for her freedom.

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

Dead Girl Walking (Mature, 8k / Act 3) Ta'av descends into the Undercity for a long overdue reckoning with Orin the Red, and Gortash finds her in the aftermath.

Choice (Mature, 1.8k / Act 3) Ta'av and Gortash confront each other while Baldur's Gate sits on the edge of ruin. (Gortash Week: Ruler/Redemption)

[shadows-aflame]

making villains (out of lovers)

(The Dark Urge x Enver Gortash) rating: M words: 5,399 warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Gore, Mentioned Cannibalism chapters: 1/? summary:

Her hands trembled as she turned to the final page, and a cold sense of dread clutched her very soul. The last entry. The final words of her former self, surrounded by what she somehow instinctively knew to be splatters of her lifeblood. WE WILL NOT DIE. WE CAN NOT DI- A smudge of dark ink spilled across the page where the pen had broken, cutting off anything else her predecessor might have said. Silencing her forevermore.

To stand in defiance of gods will always come with a price. Cressidel should know this well enough by now, even with a mind void of memories and nothing but bloodstained pages to characterize the woman she once was. But when faced with a haunting figure from her past, she must determine whether there is a price too great to pay for the one piece of her life's puzzle that she wishes to remember.

[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

[feyspeaker]

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

[frizzypom]

some of the stuff i know i never shared here

[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 .

[panksage]

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

Reference:

[simp-for-yandere]

[hekuuu]

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

part 2, part 3

[shandzii]

been playing the funny game