#to me it doesn't matter tbh as long as your tav seems interesting to me

[impmansloot]

it's interesting how no one complains when people refer to astarion romancing tavs/people in general as girls yet I've seen so many posts rn literally in a row complaining about how bad bad gays don't wanna see het ships/dynamics on their feed

[y-rhywbeth2]

hi hello absolutely fascinated by your thoughts and lore-digging but im plagued by visions and no one in my irl circle is even remotely as obsessed with bg3 as i need them to be so i have a thing you maybe will be OK with discussing?? anyway i am endlessly confused with bane's choice of a hnnnngh chosen? considering how paranoid evil-aligned gods are about their chosens' loyalty and how willing gortash is to share his power with durge it boggles me to no end.

even durge got a slap on the wrist during the scene where gortash suggests them to rule the world together (no ruling only killing everyone) and bane is just?? chilling?? unless he is so sure that it'll benefit him in the end, which tracks honestly but still weird in regards of how lenient he is with gortash's vision.

also sorry for rambling english isn't my first language so im unsure if it's comprehensible enough to carry my point which is why gortash?? seems like a lousy choice tbh

Uhhh... so just throwing my thoughts out and seeing if anything sticks:

Bane might not have thought this through, sure. According to Ed Greenwood:

"Bane is rash, impetuous, and arrogant. He’s no patient, long-term schemer, but lives in the present moment (he wants results NOW). And his pride often makes him over-estimate his own prowess, and ignore his own faults."

It might also depend on how Gortash views the concept of "equality." (I'm still wary of taking him at face value. At the very least he seems to mean it, but I don't trust that his idea of the concept matches the usual understanding.) He promises to share power with a Banite Tav, but it's still very much, in his own words: "I speak; you obey." He is Chosen; he outranks them. If there's still a hierarchy so that Bane's Chosen is in charge, then it doesn't matter to Bane.

Of course that's Tav; Durge seems to rank higher in his estimations.

Bane himself also expresses interest in making the PC his Chosen, and Gortash says that the god admires Durge, so it's possible that Bane's on board with this? The act of working for and seizing power and tyranny empowers Bane, regardless of what one thinks of him; Durge wanting to rule with Gortash as god-kings still serves him.

Banites of equal ranking exist, and Bane considers Bhaal his servant, so by extension he may consider the Chosen of Bhaal his servant.

Yeah, I'm going for that one.