#weird history with gortash squad

[bl3ss3dbyt1amat]

poor wyll looks so itty bitty. he just happens to be friends with two actual fucking giants </3

for the record, i think that malas and wyll are absolutely brothers. absolute weirdo durge malas and famously awesome guy wyll would get into so many shenanigans i’m confident

karlach goes without saying imo

[libartz]

I think I worked out Zebulon’s BG3 version backstory. Tl:dr; appears in the underdark out of nowhere, raised by gnomes, is among the gnome paladins, then becomes an assassin among the drow, then the temple.

(some dark urge spoilers)

As a kid, Zebulon mysteriously turns up on the outskirts of a deep gnome town (with some duergar but it’s majority gnome). They’re terrified at first, worried his parents will come looking, but they never do. After much debate and the intervention of the local paladins, they keep him and raise him as one of their own.

He feels out of place (because he is) but overall he has a good time. He ends up needing a specially built house because he just keeps growing and the town is built for short people. And he gets too into the killing parts of paladin quests and the others admonish him and try to teach him how to rein it in.

Because he’s the dark urge of course it doesn’t end well.

Then he wanders off in a haze, and ends up among other drow.

He finds a sort of acceptance among the Lolth types because they don’t mind the murderousness as much. Because he has literally no background he starts as a lackey, but quickly becomes a sought-after mercenary/assassin.

Zeb doesn’t mind this, because he has more control over who he’s killing. He reasons if he kills for other people, then he’s really just the weapon. But he still doesn’t like killing indiscriminately. Basically every day he’s going around like ‘hey anyone got a contract? someone for me to kill? I’ll take maiming at this point please I’m desperate’

Eventually it gets too much for even them. He has everyone after him because he’s killed several people from each faction and they all want revenge/to remove this rogue element that’s cutting a bloody swath through several evil plans.

So he ends up at the temple of Bhaal. And he and Gortash have a weird thing.

And then he gets rekt by Orin and ends up on the nautiloid.

The only issue is how he re-became a Paladin after all that. Maybe Orin put his old oathbook and some paladin armour on him to taunt him. or because she knows he still feels guilty. Either to 'remind him he used to be weak', And waking up with no memories on the nautiloid, he rededicates himself to it not knowing what else to do. And then the rest is history.

PS: The book is tattered and bloodstained but still legible. It has little notes and addendums from his former squad members

Tavified and Dark Urged Zebulon

Made him a devotion paladin because it fits with his original Elder Scrolls backstory, but he's also from the Underdark so I'm not entirely sure how he found a Lawful knightly order in what appears to be Chaotic land. Anyway he’s gonna date Wyll and be angsty about it which is on-brand for him, and will again (attempt to) be much nicer than he appears