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tikvin · 22 hours
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Spore infestation goes brrr
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julls · 55 minutes
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Durgetash sketchpage by wonderful @mureh ♡!! Scenes of Gortash x Durge Juria before and after "my wife has amnesia" bg3 events (⸝⸝ᵕ ᵕ⸝⸝)
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foxs0x · 1 day
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I’m so used to drawing Dragonborn now that it took me 10 minutes to doodle him (his name is Cillian!) but I tried to draw Astarion and it took me 3 fuckin’ hours
Anyway here’s a mini non linear sneak peak of a continuation of “Sweet Sister My Slaughterkin”
As I mentioned in a previous post I have not planned anything for this! I just have a vague head canon that Durge journals and sketches to try and remember things, so I’m going with it.
This is set after the reunion party and he is at Candlekeep with Astarion researching Bhaalspawn, while Astarion researches vampirism.
Cillian’s journaling is not a pleasant experience and he wishes not to remember certain things about his past, and about the atrocities he has committed. But he feels it is a way to take accountability and atone. He feels he must face these things, no matter how sickening. It is probably not the healthiest way for him to manage his feelings but he can’t help it. It’s a compulsion to want to know every dirty detail.
The Absolute crisis and rejecting Bhaal is just the beginning of his atonement. He is feeling a lot of grief and depression. He is disassociated with a lot of it like he is looking through someone else’s eyes, but that doesn’t make it less shocking.
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Orin: *makes a woodcut but instead of rolling on ink she rolls on blood.*
Orin: *poses skeletons into fashion mannequin positions and decorates them with scarves made from intestines *
Orin: *uses gnome skin glue instead of rabbit skin glue to prime her canvases*
Orin: *arranges corpses into a dollhouse she made and forces them to have a tea party*
Orin: *paints pictures of her victims posed in scandalous positions with paintbrushes made from their hair*
Orin: *collects her kills teeth and puts them into maracas and sells them on street corners to children*
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astra-lun · 5 months
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The best ending for Dark Urge with coolest grandpa ever, am i right
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wild-magic-oops · 6 months
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Durge 5 seconds after learning he's a bhaalspawn
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laaskrin · 2 months
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The Blood of Bhaal
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flymmsy · 4 months
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klaineka · 2 months
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You think durge ever got stuck with babysitting the feral sister?
(Oh yeah durge cape outfit design is from @galgant pre-avernus comics)
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staticpoison · 3 months
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Love Gale's reactions to what should be horrific and life altering events when interacting with the Dark Urge
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metal-junk · 1 month
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“You were not conceived. Bhaal sculpted you from a drop of his own gore. No Bhaalspawn has ever borne the Urge, the holy guarantee of murder. It was woven into your blood alone.”
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the-song-of-avernus · 2 months
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I feel sorry for Orin
repurposed from an old Reddit post of mine
Raised from birth in the Bhaal cult and has never known ANYTHING else. Literally the result of incest between her mom and Sarevok (her father AND grandfather) - and for her entire life is actively manipulated and groomed to worship her "Grandfather" second only to Bhaal (leaving a disgusting implication that Sarevok might eventually try again). Literally every single day of her life spent in a murder cult, never knowing anything else.
Her mother is actively manipulated when Orin is seven to try to kill her daughter, only for Orin to reflexively kill her first, at which point Orin was briefly possessed by Bhaal himself (per some Sarevok dialogue). AT AGE SEVEN. And even from a young age, Orin's true gift is her artistry, a talent that outside the Bhaal cult probably could have been nurtured into something phenominal, but inside the cult is twisted into a sinisterness in the kill that, when she's out of earshot is decried as wasteful.
She eventually rises through the ranks (never have had any choice), having never felt a meaningful moment of compassion or kindness and, desperate to be cared about, sees the power and fear and respect her bloodkin (The Dark Urge) has gained and uses their hubris to take them out.
Ironically, in the timeline where Durge lives, they get a gift Orin couldn't even dream of - a 2nd chance. With their brain scrambled and the tadpole present but being interfered with, the Dark Urge got a chance to be someone new. (Whether they accept or reject that 2nd chance, they at least got a choice this time).
What did Orin get for her troubles? Her (grand)father openly coveted to either take her out, or worse, take her out - when the time was right, her own allies both detested her (Gortash openly revels at the idea of working with the Dark Urge again)
and most brutally, if you manage to confront her with the truth, any of it? About Sarevok, about her mother, etc? She immediately believes you. And for one (1) moment, maybe there's hope for her.
Hope that Bhaal immediately rips away; an Orin confronted with the truth and showing even the slightest hesitation is immediately forcibly transformed into the Slayer by Bhaal himself, with a strong implication that the core of the old Orin is gone forever win, lose, or draw. "No more doubts, no more fears, no more Orin. Become murder.". Seeing what Bhaal's reaction was the moment Orin had one (1) instant of hesitation also confirms that she'd likely have never had the chance to choose differently, either Bhaal would always step in or else she'd eventually meet her end.
Imagine the AU where Orin takes her CLEAR flair and artistic talent to become a truly great artist. Where she gets the same second chance that Durge got - If she'd been able to use her talent for impersonation and desire to great to do something powerful instead of being forced by her family from childhood into the family business of murder.
She literally never had a chance. Even Bane and Myrkul and their respective cults were never so unfathomably cruel, and she never knew anything else.
At least for my own first game, though, my Durge recognized that without her "sister," she'd have never gotten the chance to save the world, never met Shadowheart, never stopped a century worth of Ketheric's torture on Dame Aylin, never set in motion the liberation of the Githyanki...In the right world states, Orin unwittingly saved the world, but it's a world she'll never get to see or know, and probably never could have.
That's tragic as hell.
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ladiemars · 7 months
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this meme is so them
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felassanis · 4 months
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Obsessed with The Dark Urge just being...unsettling.
Like in those first few weeks of travelling, they're just...weird. Just overall unsettling to be around.
They likely can't remember their name, so they just come up with one on the spot that definitely sounds fake. Like they just looked around and saw a tree and went "I'm branch"
Or they're literally just "I'm The Dark Urge" and someone will point out that's not a fucking name.
They get...weird about blood. Always coming out a fight more drenched in it than they reasonably should be. Their hands shake like they're on some sugar rush. A splatter will land beside their mouth and they'll just...slowly lick it off.
They just say odd shit. "I've always wanted to smell my own burning flesh" and cue the side eye. "im only ever truly happy when I'm killing" and "when I first met you, I thought you'd make a perfect pretty corpse," and don't always seem to realise that what they're saying IS ODD.
They don't smile. It's like their face wasn't meant to sustain a smile. So when Astarion or Karlach makes them smile or laugh it's the most painful and awkward fucking thing ever. Like someone drew it on upside down.
They are not put off by the smell of burning dwarf.
I love the idea that being a Bhaalspawn, one made my Bhaal himself there's something...off with their appearance. Maybe they have sharper teeth than what their race usually has. Maybe if you're close enough to them and stare hard enough you realise oh their eyes aren't dark brown they're red. Why are they red?
And then. There's waking the camp up at night with the sounds of screaming. But they insist it's nothing.
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doraingrid · 15 days
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Maybe Niamh doesn't mind the dark urge
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kawareo · 4 months
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Do you think they ever cared about eachother
Trauma bond or whatever else, do you think there were ever times when they got along? I'm imagining they'd do things for eachother and never acknowledge them, little things done in silence so that they can pretend they're not committing a sin by showing care for a fellow Bhaalspawn they'll have to murder one day.
Durge helps Orin braid her hair, Orin fixes a detail on his robes before a ritual. Nothing big. Nothing that could be called caring. Just silence and gestures neither of them thinks about.
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