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Some flat color wips of bg3 stuff (durge backstory thangs)

Cyris and Visceral were close friends and Cyris and Gortash were engaged.

^ This dialogue option in specific is really funny to me because of all Cyris’ backstory stuff.

They’re silly.

THEY’RE SILLY!!!!!!!

The homosexual implications of Durgetash

Cyris and Gortash were engaged before Orin fucked shit up ♥️

When you and your best friend are both spawns of a certain god of murder.

[ Left: Visceral (they/them) Right: Cyris (he/him) ]

My durge that survives, Cyris, is the child of my bg2 protagonist Cynthia, who travelled around with Jaheira. This is a redraw of the scene that happens with the dark urge and Jaheira :)!

[⚠️Baldur’s Gate 2 and 3 Spoilers!⚠️]

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I researched and nothing really said that there was only one way that bhaalspawn were sired so… since the bg2 protag gets possessed to be an avatar of bhaal im thinking that through Cynthia- Bhaal somehow put a piece of his own flesh into her, so when (Cyris’ biological-ish dad) Baron was carrying Cyris he was actually with child who is a bhaalspawn? (Cynthia and Baron are both trans). Idk anything can happen and I’m just rambling, but considering the connections and my research not really being specific to there only being one way it can happen, and that bhaal would hide his children and basically infiltrate families, homes, towns, etc. It just! Yeah.

BUT when i got this Durge scene where Jaheira approaches you as you’re sleeping, I wanted to make a short thing about her having some sort of flashback to the similar but different experience that Cynthia had.

Without a shred of hesitation, they told Sarevok, “I will sacrifice the creature to Bhaal.”

I recorded this voiceover for my Durge Xander way back around Halloween, and decided to finally record the footage from the game that pairs with it. Threw this together in Sony Vegas, so I hope you enjoy!

"For Bhaal so HATED the world that he sent his only trueborn son that whosoever believeth in him shall PERISH, as shall ALL THE WORLD...

...but instead, the Son defied his Father's wishes. Rather than lie a martyr upon his father's corpse-altar, he was discarded. A hubristic failure. Leaving behind only a mortal shell and one equally hubristic man to mourn him..."

Y'all when I tell you this mental image filled my brain with the WORMS and WOULD NOT LET ME BE...

A full week of sketching, re-sketching, and painting later, and this is about the best I can get it without going into complete perfectionist mode at my current skill level.

I know so many have loads better art and paintings than me, but this one is mine, and I'm proud of the improvements I made while doing it.

...so, Withers, you wanna help Gale stop mourning, or...?

absolutely random HC for my Resist Durge Xander before I expire for the night: his handwriting in the present day is neat and orderly. pre-tadpoling/Orin's unlicensed brain surgery, it used to be LOADS messier bc he had the 'brain thoughts go too fast for dumb slow hand, make hand write fast but messy' flavor of neurospicy

now that he's dealing with a subtle but constant input lag (courtesy of going from stat cap breaking INT to like. 19 INT at endgame), he has to take his time to write letters and glyphs

so like even if he manages to find his old spellbook from his Cult Leader PrimeTM, he ain't gonna have much luck transcribing the damn thing (tbh it's a wonder he clocked his own handwriting for the Prayer of Forgiveness but that one was written in a much more deliberate hand than his past self's usual scrawlings)

and not for nothing but "ok past-me, what in the nine hells of baator were you trying to write here????" is an absolute Mood

Durge update: admired nature's beauty, learned a new instrument, rediscovered my love for water, and made some new friends 🥰🥰

The Sword Coast will be my Northern Ireland

Killed a bunch of bozos (refugees) for my wife (woman I met 20 minutes ago)

The Sword Coast will be my Northern Ireland

Durge do what Durge does best

The Sword Coast will be my Northern Ireland

Irish person spotted

The Sword Coast will be my Northern Ireland

Bhaals little pogchamp

The Sword Coast will be my Northern Ireland