#the party all gathers and then goes on a quest to hunt down an entity

[doveriathegoddess]

As promised in my previous post, I have the lore composed for the Baldur's Gate versions of my DND ocs and I will warn you now that this will be quite a lengthy post so grab a snack or two.

Let us begin!

Tigran:

Tigran is a drow who is Aurora's protective older brother and the party's Ranger, being the most skilled when it comes to weapons such as bows and arrows, crossbows, etc. After finding out that a bounty had been placed on Aurora by the mother of her fiancé, Tigran acted quickly and fled the Underdark with his younger sister in order to protect her. The drow siblings managed to find sanctuary in a small town a few miles away from the city Baldur's Gate, but ended up separated when the town was suddenly attacked by the Mind Flayers and their ship which abducted Tigran along with some of the townspeople. Tigran would get a Mind Flayer tadpole inserted into his head, but would make his escape when the ship got attacked and managed to land in a forest that the ship was flying over.

Despite being in an area completely unknown to him, Tigran was desperate to find his younger sister before any of the assassins sent by her fiancé's mother got to her first. He would spend a day trying to navigate through the dense forest before being caught in a trap, leaving him hanging in the air by his feet. Luckily for him, a tiny being was able to free him...

Buttercup:

Buttercup is the tiny fairy that becomes the party's Artificer, having expertise in upgrading quality of potions and enhancing the weapons of her friends. Being the smallest of the group, Buttercup is able to fit through holes that beings such as mice can enter, and also get into places that cannot be reached by others. Buttercup just so happened to be in the same forest that Tigran had managed to get to after he escaped the Mind Flayer ship, and she was the one who found and freed him from the trap he found himself in. Buttercup would attempt to try to remove Tigran's tadpole with her potions and concoctions that she created, but they would prove ineffective against the stubborn tadpole.

The tiny fairy however was undeterred and after much insisting via hovering over Tigran's face, the drow allowed Buttercup to accompany him to help find his sister. After a few days of traveling and taking out a few goblin camps here and there, the duo ended up crossing paths with Jouxia, Maleficia, and Aurora, and upon seeing each other the drow siblings quickly wasted no time reuniting. However with both Jouxia and Tigran suffering from the effects of their tadpoles (Jouxia's being much more serious due to the amount of fainting and nosebleeds she's been having to deal with-), Buttercup made the suggestion to travel to Baldur's Gate to find a close friend of hers who could be able to help them...

Valedy:

Valedy is the gentle giant goliath being that joins the party as their wizard due to how strong his magic is. Since he was a young teenager, Valedy had lived alone in his giant castle in complete isolation with no one but his books to keep him company. The reason for his isolation is not by his own choice, but as the result of being cast away from his tribe due to his illness aka hemophilia and he had been suffering from his condition since early childhood. He would no longer be lonely once he discovered the party of heroes caught in a snowstorm and brought them to his castle so they wouldn't freeze to death.

Upon hearing the predicament that both Jouxia and Tigran were in with their tadpoles, Valedy offered to use his years of knowledge and magic to see if he could attempt to remove them. The two members decided to give his offer a try and Valedy performed a ritual to try to extract the tadpoles, but this ritual would fail as the amount of magic the wizard was using proved too much for his own body to handle, resulting in him collapsing while having a painful coughing fit as he threw up a good amount of blood. But the ritual succeeded in it's own way as the tadpoles influence weakened, and after Valedy recovered the next day he joined his new friends on their quest so that way he wouldn't be in isolation anymore...

Blitzen:

Blitzen is the eladrin druid/reindeer that joins the party after he had heard about what went down at Baldur's Gate with the Mind Flayers and traveled over there to find his best friend Jouxia since she had left to meet with her colleague a few days prior. He began his journey and traveled for a few days in his reindeer form, often resting in areas outside of towns so that way he could overhear details about the Mind Flayer attacks from the passing travelers who heard about it/were abducted by said Mind Flayers. Despite hearing about people turning into Mind Flayers themselves, Blitzen held out hope that his best friend was safe and had made it to Baldur's Gate. Eventually Blitzen would find Jouxia and her new friends by chance when he jumped in to save them from an owl bear attack, transforming into his true form and calming down the creature (and making everyone else in the party except for Jouxia completely flabbergasted-).

Once Blitzen sent the owl bear on his way, he reunited with Jouxia and caught up with her as she informed him about the events that had transpired the past few days. The druid was stunned to learn that Jouxia had gotten abducted and infected, but his best friend reassured him that once they all got to Baldur's Gate to find Buttercup's friend then there would be a chance for hers and Tigran's tadpoles to be removed. As his best friend was in this new party that had formed, Blitzen decided to join to help out in anyway that he could, and thus the party continued on to the city of Baldur's Gate...

Tommie:

Tommie would be the last party member to join, being a young "human" cleric that suddenly fell from the sky and crash-landed (quite literally-) outside of Baldur's Gate after the party visited Buttercup's friend, who was unable to help them with their tadpole problem. Thinking that a another Mind Flayer ship had crashed, the party set out to investigate and neutralize the possible threat, but once they got to the crash site the party would be shocked to find a young girl laying unconscious in the center of the large crater formed in the ground. The party would take the girl and bring her back to the inn they were staying at, taking turns looking after her while they waited for her to wake up, which would take a few hours until her golden eyes fluttered open. Once the girl had gotten her bearings and was told where she was, she introduced herself as Tommie and explained that she had been battling an entity that she had pursing when she lost the fight and was hurled down to the world. Tommie would go on to explain that the entity was a being known as "The Chaos", which had been sealed away long ago but had escaped at the same time the Mind Flayers began abducting people. To prove that the party members could trust her, Tommie used her powers to completely remove Jouxia and Tigran's tadpoles before transforming them into giant butterfly creatures, with Tommie naming them Lorin (Jouxia's tadpole) and Fiona (Tigran's tadpole). With the tadpoles removed, the party decided to let Tommie join them and help her pursue "The Chaos", thus starting an adventure completely separate from the main game of Baldur's Gate 3...