#Rosecanons | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

janearts · 4 months

Note

Hey, so you got to act 3 in the Astarion romance, right? How did Roisa feel about the romance scene in the graveyard?

I did! I finished the game back in September and played out the epilogue patch more recently. Roisia was happy to bear witness to Astarion mourning his past and celebrating a future of his choosing. However, she did take umbrage at Astarion's phrasing that he would be open to having sex that evening. Knowing his history and his relationship with sex, Roisia was really looking for more clear intent, more barefaced desire. I think his wording, "I could be persuaded", would've really bothered her even though she knew he meant it cheekily (e.g., a stupid easy persuasion check, if you will).

I've included a more thorough analysis of her feelings under the cut.

Ultimately, that night poked and prodded at deeper fears and insecurities. Roisia has been left before at the end of a grand adventure wondering how she could have missed the signs that the person she adored did not quite adore her back with the same ardour. Now, older and believing herself to be wiser, she is wary and this time, she tells herself, she will keep herself in check. She will be rational, level-headed, and even-keeled. She will not let herself get swept away by irrational desire, and her love of Astarion is a very irrational, incompatible, unwise desire.

When Astarion said that he wanted her, that she stood by him through bloodlust and pain and misery, that she had been patient, caring, and trusting, that he felt safe and seen with her, and that he didn't want to lose all of that, Roisia felt a sinking unease. A queasy sort of disquiet in her gut. Because she realised that everything he described, everything about her that he praised or acknowledged or thanked, was nothing particularly special in her eyes. As a [former] Cleric of Kelemvor, as an undertaker, as a professional mourner, she has done all of the above and more with the loved ones of decedents as part of her job. It's her sacred duty to stand by people at a low and loathsome point in their lives, through their pain and misery, with patience, compassion, and an extended hand. Hell, that's just another Tuesday!

Roisia couldn't help but feel that Astarion really only loved the things that she could do for him rather than her as a person outside of those acts of service. And those things he described could have easily been done by any Mortarch worth their salt in her place. So does he truly care for her? Or is he really just thankful for the things she's done for him? Those things that really anyone could do? It does not plant a seed, exactly, but it germinates a seed that was already present in her mind, a nasty little thought that she is not special and, therefore, not truly loved in the way that she so very much wants to be loved. That, sure, Astarion cares about her, but only because she just happened to be there and has assisted people in different stages of grief since she was a child. She is fundamentally, inescapably replaceable and it's only a matter of time until Astarion realises that and does what Eustace did: clap her on the back, thank her for her time, and move on to greener pastures whatever or wherever they may be.

It was hard for Roisia to hear Astarion say things like "I want you" and "I love you" when there is a part of herself that deeply, deeply doubts that. That thinks he is wrong even if he is not yet aware that he is wrong. She is torn between taking his words at face value, the words that her heart wants to hear, or reading between the lines, which is what the parts of herself that she calls Logic and Reason call out for her to do. I think in the moment she yields to the former, but after that night, leans towards the latter.

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #BG3 Roisia #Astarion #Astarion Ancunin #BG3 Spoilers #Act III Spoilers #rosecanons #roisiacanons #tagging for the meta for myself for later asdfkjalkfd

918 notes · View notes

violetlunette · 4 months

Text

The Quest for Silver (aka Master post of dumb Yuu trying to get a date)

Falling for/Over Silver

Lilia meets Yuu

Yuu wants a Date

Focus and wait for the Truck

Asserting Dominance

Killing Fashion

Rook's Advice

7x13 is 28

Gathering Intel

Yuu asks Silver

Warranty

The Optimist

First Date

Don't wake Yuu at Shit-it's-early-time

Throw a "t" at it

Satan and his Pretty face

Incubus?

Rumpelstiltskin?

Moronsexual

Trademark

Horse taming 101 by Yuu

Not all there

Make 'em men

Motivation

Twinkerbell

Moonshine

Buff Apple

Tux

Dog-Chick

The secret to Love

Batman

Lie

Body Language

How Low Can he go?

He Never Knew when to Quit

Yuu's bad luck while traveling

Operate

Handing over Ramshackle Dorm

Fooled Again

Rose Thief

Rosecanon

Down the Rabbit Hole

A Rival has Appeared

Another Rival Appears

Yuus and Lilia

Leona the Landing pad

Dragon Tracking

Untrustworthy

Voice of reason

Mask removal

Swim for Silver

Idiots

Bathroom

Sand Silver

Resemblance

Beanfest

Spooky Scary Skeletons

Humerous

161 notes · View notes

ofawitheredrose · 5 years

Text

HC - The Harvest Dance

A few months after Auriaune returned to Ishgard together with her personal nurse, Yaedah Shikkari, Yaedah was asked to teach the staff of House Haillenarte the Harvest Dance. A most spirited and joyous dance during a peaceful celebration in Gridania. Auriaune's favourite and relatively easy dance to learn. The children were most eager to learn while the adults questioned what this was all about. After she explained her intentions they were all on board—well most that is... Some of the Knights rather not.

Her intention was for the staff of House Haillenarte to dance the Harvest Dance in front of the Count and Countess during the Gridanian harvest celebration. Something she enjoyed very much so during her time in Gridania.

After several of weeks of preparing for the dance, the family finally got together and to see what Auriaune had been working on together with the staff members who agreed to the dance. The children lined up in front while the adults behind them. In order to make this all work smoothly, they had to be in sync and in the last couple of weeks this had proven to be more difficult than Auriaune had anticipated. Nonetheless, her hopes were set high when the dance began while she played the piano. All seemed to go well until one of the dancing staff members sighted one of Auriaune's latest pets which resembled a small cute rodent. Not so cute to the dancing staff member who shrieked at the sight and fell out of line causing for the others to trip, and like a row of well placed domino pieces; they all fell to the ground. Oops.

Luckily nobody got hurt! The Count and Countess and the rest of the family who attended the dance might have thought this to be all part of the celebration. Gridanians were an odd bunch if you were to believe the stories told by Auriaune and thus when everyone crawled back onto their feet, they were given an applause for their performance—yes, yes this was all part of the dance!! Now time for cake!!~

#hc #rosecanon #headcanon

1 note · View note

blackrosecanon-blog · 7 years

Photo

“Stars and Clouds, after Hurricane Irma” by rosecanon at ViewBug

#ViewBug

0 notes

janearts · 7 months

Text

I couldn't help myself from referencing Highlander. There can be only one [wielder of the Netherstones]!

Proper answer (and some character analysis for Roisia) under the read-more.

Roisia was surprised by Gortash, but pleasantly so. In the first place, as far as Roisia is concerned, Ketheric and Orin recall their respective gods in their appearance: Ketheric is withered, a husk of a person, but indomitable, and Orin... well, Orin looks like a flayed corpse with meat-suit clothes, but close enough. Roisia would have expected Bane's Chosen to be more... physically domineering. Terrifying. Intractable. ...Loud? Instead, here's this charming handsome fellow who is really rather ordinary. If Roisia met him on the street, he'd just be another debonair noble lusting for power. (Join the feckin' queue!)

And neither does Gortash behave as Roisia would have expected Bane's Chosen to behave. She would have expected a Banite to be a tyrant, a Faerûnian-version of the Machiavellian prince, who instils a terror of himself and who rules through fear. Instead, Gortash gently curates among the populace not a fear of him, but a xenophobic fear of The Outsider (whether that outsider is a cult like the Absolute or a group of people like the Coast's refugees).

Roisia—by all accounts an oppositional force to his own—encounters a man who is genuinely, fully, confidently willing to partner with her to achieve a common goal and is willing to swear a divine oath to secure that partnership...

Poor man. What a fool.

You see, Roisia is something of a Machiavellian prince. She would despise to think of herself in that way were she to read Il Principe, but she has within herself some (but not all!) of the traits and qualities that are described within. She is frequently a mirror: where she meets evil, she wields evil with aplomb. ("You desire me to kiss your foot? I think not. You shall kiss mine.") She would very much prefer to offer mercy, but if her mercy is rejected—like when Ketheric imprisons Dame Aylin once again before yeeting himself into the primordial soup—then she will dole out cruelty in equal measure. Most importantly of all, Roisia is a liar and a deceiver, all while appearing compassionate, guileless, and true to her word. Roisia only really keeps her word when it suits her purposes. Were she otherwise, she would have found that Gortash would have been faithful to his word to the last. But as the Machiavellian prince, she betrays and slays him.

Actually, having written all that, Roisia is more of an embodiment of the Machiavellian prince than I originally thought: she is virtuous and good, sure, but she is also intimately familiar with baser behaviours (lying, cruelty, conspiracy, etc.) and wields those base behaviours like a tool when and where she feels it is needed and necessary.

Which is why I was absolutely thrilled when I had her do what was only natural to her and had her speak to Gortash post-mortem. Roisia is a character who believes herself to be godless: damned and/or abandoned by Kelemvor, Lord of the Dead and Judge of the Damned, for being a Necromancer. She had a sliver of hope that she would find favour with Myrkul, but Myrkul thought only of the Chosen stolen from him. She thought, perhaps, that she might find favour with Bhaal because, let's face it, she had slaughtered and bloodied so many in her long journey to Baldur's Gate, but the skull only wept blood and that was that. Bane, however, actually speaks to her, acknowledges her, validates her. She won his favour the moment she betrayed and slayed Gortash. She is in her very nature a stellar Banite. Incredible! And absolutely absurd. Thank you to Larian for programming that opportunity in. 😂

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #BG3 Spoilers #Gortash #Enver Gortash #BG3 Roisia #Act III Spoilers #Roisiacanons #rosecanons #roisiacanons

891 notes · View notes

janearts · 7 months

Text

Roisia Lydgate: Character Overview

This is really more of a background introduction to her character, but I'm trying to put as much information in one place for future reference or for anyone who wants to get a better idea of her character. Details underneath the cut!

Meta-Knowledge

Roisia is my Source Hunter from Divinity: Original Sin, but I recreated her in Baldur’s Gate 3 as a way to continue her story albeit in a completely different universe. The story and events of DOS have since become part of her backstory, and tweaked to fit the world of Faerûn.

Name Pronunciation

I’m honestly none too fussed about pronunciation. Her name is an 11th century mediaeval name that would later become “Rose” in Middle English. Roisia is probably meant to be pronounced something like /ɹɔɪːsiːɑ/ (Roy-see-ah) based on other name variants found around the same time. Her nicknames, as given to her by her parents, include: Rose, Rosie, petal, pet, rosebud, bud, so on and so forth.

Personality

Roisia is charming, adventurous, with a voracious curiosity, and a deeply analytical mind. She believes that taking care of the dead and providing a voice for the dead is her life’s calling. She was formerly raised to be a Cleric of Kelemvor, but believes that her god has disowned her since she reanimated her father. She now believes herself to be deemed among the Faithless. She’s compassionate to those in need and is willing to break rules (and the law) to help others. While she is generally a law-abiding citizen, she is dogged in pursuing the whims of her curiosity and will likewise do whatever it takes to solve a puzzle, a mystery, or a murder… or simply answer a question that has occurred to her. She is sociable, prefers when everyone gets along, and will try to talk her way into and out of most situations. This includes charming, reasoning, intimidating, and/or deceiving others to get her desired outcome. Ultimately, she finds solace and comfort in the company of animals, the dead, and books. Her favourite animal is the noble spider, and she breeds and raises some species in her spare time.

Spells and Such

I tried as best I could to replicate Roisia’s DOS character. In DOS, she was classed as a Witch. Witchcraft spells in DOS are a mixture of Necromancy spells and Enchantment spells, and I chose my spells in BG3 to imitate the ones that you get in DOS. As a witch in DOS, Roisia also had the ability to talk to animals and summon a spider. (I cheesed this in BG3 with the Find Familiar spell—technically a Conjuration spell—and having her drink a potion after every long rest.) To be more in keeping with her backstory, I gave her a Guild Artisan background and invested skill points in skills like Medicine.

Backstory

Roisia grew up in Eastway of Baldur’s Gate. Her father worked in the Gray Harbor shipyard as a shipwright and her mother was a Mortarch, running the Eastway Cemetery & Lydgate Funeral Service. She was raised to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a Cleric of Kelemvor, and specifically as a Mortarch, from an early age. She assisted her mother in managing the burial customs and rites for the Lower City’s diverse community (from embalming to ritualistic cannibalism to poisonings), comforting grieving family members of the deceased, and tending to the dead buried in the cemetery.

Her life took an unexpected turn when her father drowned during a sea trial. Grieving for her father, Roisia made her first attempt at Necromancy. She unwittingly used a wish spell in the process and reanimated him as a skeleton. Because it was the wish spell, not her first attempt at a necromantic ritual, that bound the soul of her father to his bones, Roisia is determined to master the School of Necromancy and truly resurrect her father.

She is interrupted in her early studies by the appearance of Eustace, who recruited her into the Source Hunters, an organisation dedicated to eradicating dangerous magic users (like… Necromancers). “We need you,” he said. “… and you need us.” Roisia & Eustace (or Roy & Stacey as they became known to each other) investigated the mysterious murder of a town counsellor and uncovered a Necromantic cult in the process. As they adventured together, Roisia began to develop feelings for Eustace, but as their adventure concluded and they returned to the Source Hunter Academy, Eustace did not return those feelings. Dejected, Roisia left the Source Hunters and returned to her home in Baldur’s Gate.

To “cure” herself of her heartbreak, Roisia drew up a list of lifelong goals for herself. They are:

1. A cemetery or plot of land of her own to oversee. 2. “Tenants”/”Residents” (aka The Deceased) to house and tend to on this land. 3. To master Necromancy such that she can extend indefinitely her own life and the lives of her loved ones. 4. One (1) Spouse (*not of the squeamish variety) 5. Children (*ideally 3-5)

Refocused aggressively on her list, Roisia returned to her duties during the day and her studies during the night. She was abducted by the nautiloid one night while she was off to dig up a new test subject.

Playlist

#BG3 Roisia #Roisia #taggin #tatterings #here you go!#rosecanons #roisiacanons #Spotify

563 notes · View notes

janearts · 4 months

Note

I'm not super familiar with D&D lore, but how does Roisia's parents' relationship work? With her mother being a Kelemvorite and her father possessing his own skeleton? Or does her mother even know about his current state?

I adore Roisia and your work

Thank you! The short of it is: it's work but it works and she knows. Got into the weeds of it under the cut.

Yasmin couldn't bring herself to execute her duty as a Cleric of Kelemvor and former Necrobane and execute her (now undead) husband. In one fell swoop, Roisia ruined her mother's otherwise stellar track record as a Kelemvorite.

Logistically, if Yasmin wanted her husband to have freedom of movement, she could no longer offer room and board to the servants and staff in her employ. She allowed rumours that her business was suffering financially go unchallenged, since an undead husband in a funeral home is even worse for business. Generally speaking, Roisia's father, Jairus, keeps to the upstairs (the family's quarters) and attic during business hours and is free to roam the house and grounds at night. (This is of course on the condition that there are no funerary celebrations that evening.) He now puts his carpentry skills to work in the fashioning of coffins and caskets, but otherwise his time is his own.

Because they no longer have live-in servants, the family now has to take on more domestic labour (e.g., cleaning, laundering) to prevent their servants from discovering the lie. Jairus has commandeered cooking for his family, but will clean or launder clothes when bored. I should note here that both Jairus and Yasmin came from working-class backgrounds. They know how to do domestic labour; it was Roisia who grew up with servants and who had to learn to do without.

The relationships (between spouses, between child and parent) are loving, but not without strain. Jairus is fundamentally lonely. He feels like a ghost: he can't go back to work at the docks as a shipwright, he can't go out for a pint at the Maid with his mates, he can't go off to the countryside to visit with his side of the family, he can't even take a walk around the city at night for fear of discovery. So he grasps at any family time he can get, which is tough when he is functionally nocturnal and the rest of his small family is diurnal.

Yasmin, meanwhile, still deeply loves her husband even as a skeleton, but she also sees his pain. She is torn between keeping her daughter happy (father lives) and offering her husband a way out (father dies), and struggles with the guilt of whether or not a mercy killing would really be a mercy to Jairus... or to her. And then, some nights, she worries that perhaps she would not be able to kill him at all were she ever to try, and that would make everything all the worse.

Roisia, meanwhile, is largely ignorant of her parent's anxieties. She is still elated to have her father back in whatever capacity. She enjoys picking up the thread of their past lives: stargazing and charting with him, chatting to him from the kitchen table while he cooks, demanding that he retwist her locs even when he's certain she doesn't need a retwist, trying to outplay him at games, etc. She hides her studies in Necromancy as best as possible from her parents, but dreams of a day of restoring her father to the way he was, flesh and all.

TL;DR: "Works" is the operative word here. Everyone is doing their best with what they've got.

#Yasmin #Jairus #Roisia #BG3 Roisia #Rosecanons #Roisiacanons

387 notes · View notes

janearts · 1 year

Text

More fluff and filler while I try to temper my obsession with a game that isn't even out of EA yet. 😤 I tried to capture Roisia's house as it existed in my head and ignored that the house makes no sense in my head.

#BG3 Roisia #...the district is subject to change as we learn more about what shows up in-game akldjflkadjfkl #rosecanons #roisiacanons

198 notes · View notes

janearts · 1 year

Text

I have a deep fear that by the time the BG3 is released, I won't be able to stomach doing another round of Act I so I've been distracting myself from playing by fleshing out Roisia's backstory and designing her parents.

#Roisia #BG3 Roisia #putting them in her tag #it only took 5 years to give her father a face but i got there in the end #(i mean the skin bits he's always been a skeleton in my brain)#Jairus #Yasmin #Rosecanons #Roisiacanons

364 notes · View notes

janearts · 2 years

Note

I don't know why but I just assumed Roisia was a dwarf 💀 ((not a slight in any way!))

No worries! I originally thought of Astarion in the tradition of LOTR elves (i.e., tall and slender) and I drew Roisia pretty short as a result. So when Larian tweeted that he was 5'9", I had to completely reassess not only how I drew her compared to Astarion, but how I drew Astarion compared to the other companions, and recalibrate the (completely non-canonical/purely hypothetical) height differences I had in my head. Not to mention that Roisia is short and stocky--that’s typically a dwarven body type in fantasy!

But she’s just a small, chubby human and I’m just an artist who is terribly inconsistent with height differences. Since we do have one canonical height value, here is a rough idea of how she ought to measure up:

#asks #anons #BG3 Roisia #rosecanons #Roisiacanons

198 notes · View notes

janearts · 2 years

Note

who is going to be your canon romance in bg3 for Roisia? :0

It's still up for debate! I don't want to make any "canon" choices for my character while we're still in Early Access because we haven't even met all of the companions that will be in the full release yet.

I have thoughts--in the form of an extremely long essay--on this subject for anyone who's curious about Roisia’s perspective, but TL;DR: everything's made up and the points don't matter.

Basically, I know two things about Roisia that will influence my roleplaying decisions in-game for the final release.

The first is that Roisia has concrete goals in mind for her future, known as her List. They are (in order):

A cemetery or plot of land of her own to oversee.

“Tenants”/”Residents” (aka The Deceased) to house and tend to on this land.

To master Necromancy such that she can extend indefinitely her own life and the lives of her loved ones.

One (1) Spouse (*not of the squeamish variety)

Children (*ideally 3-5)

Roisia is open to casual sex if she desires it or wants it for herself, but she is looking seriously for her #4. This #4 needs to be able to embrace (not literally) death, the deceased, and the undead because Roisia views all that as her life’s work. They also need to be safe and trustworthy enough to introduce to her father, who is currently occupying--haunting?--his own skeleton. Oh, and they would have to like spiders because Roisia loves her spiders. Swears by them.

As for the current set of companions, I actually thought about who would be a good #4 for Roisia. As part of making this comic, I also thought about the reasons why Wyll and Gale might politely decline Roisia’s advances and, should I be able to romance them in a final release playthrough, what tensions might arise as a result of a relationship because I’m a drampire and angst and reckless melodrama feeds me.

So! Without further ado, the ranking of imaginary potential suitors.

1. WYLL

Of the companions present in EA, Wyll would likely be Roisia’s first choice for #4. He’s warm, generous, compassionate, seems to always keep an eye (wink wonk) out for others, and fiercely follows his own moral compass. The sort of person Roisia would like to bring home to her parents and the sort of person she could imagine having a family with. 10 outta 10. However, one thing that I’m curious to see in the final release is whether Wyll continues his life of heroism in the epilogue of the story. Presumably, hero-ing takes Wyll over hill and dale on marvellous adventures. Roisia is not typically the sort to travel when she is not pressed to: she likes her graveyard and her dead and that’s where her adventures lie (sometimes literally). So that would be an example of potential tension or incompatability in their imaginary relationship: Roisia wants someone who is comfortable having Baldur’s Gate as their primary sandbox and Wyll wants to continue his work far afield. I also think of Wyll as someone who is accustomed to saving people--i.e., actively preventing them from becoming a corpse--so part of me also wonders if he would be comfortable around the dead/undead (people he might have been able to save had he been present, for example) for prolonged periods of time.

2. GALE

Second choice of the lot for Roisia’s #4 would likely be Gale. Gale is charming, confident, smart, and also has a kind heart that seeks to protect others. He and Roisia have a lot in common at least on a superficial level. They’re both intellectual academics with high expectations of their quality of life and Gale seems to have been at home in Waterdeep much like Roisia was very much at home in Baldur’s Gate. The sort of person Roisia wouldn’t be ashamed to bring home to her parents and someone she thinks would be a good father if that’s something he wanted alongside his wizarding career. 8 outta 10. I wasn’t sure if they were the stuff of a long-lasting relationship in part because of Gale’s past (to put it vaguely to spare anyone spoilers), in part because I wondered if Gale would desire to go home to Waterdeep, and in part because I think Gale’s sort of magical pursuits are very different to Roisia’s. From what little I know, Gale’s magical interests sound highly cerebral whereas Roisia’s magical pursuits are more... well, down to earth. I see the difference as something akin to lab v field work, the ivory tower of academia v diggin’ around in the dirt for pot shards sort of thing. I’m not 100% sure if they would magically mesh on that level, but it’s early days yet and tbh I think I’ve missed a lot of Gale’s scenes. But if Gale wanted to go home to Waterdeep, Roisia would not want to follow. Baldur’s Gate is her home.

3. ASTARION

Third choice in the imaginary queue of potential suitors is Astarion. Frankly, the only reason Astarion is ranked so high is because Lae’zel and Shadowheart don’t seem to like Roisia or don’t like her choices, which sometimes feels like the same thing and knocks them out of the running as potential #4s altogether. Roisia sees Astarion... well, in the words of Jane Austen:

‘I allow his person and air to be good - and that his manners to a certain point - his address rather - is pleasing. - But I see nothing else to admire in him. - On the contrary, he seems very vain, very conceited, absurdly anxious for distinction, and absolutely contemptible in some of the measures he takes for becoming so. - There is a ridiculousness about him that entertains me - but his company gives me no other agreable [sic] emotion.’

This is perhaps an exaggeration of Roisia’s regard, but the gist is there: she finds him charming, companionable, and very amusing when not taken with any great seriousness. In addition, Astarion seems the most relaxed around necromancy and the dead, although that’s partially because he views them as potential mindless servants. And Roisia would genuinely enjoy the one-night stand with him in the wood. However, absolutely most definitely not the person to bring home because her mother is a worshipper of Kelemvor and a former Necrobane who will very likely try to kill him. It’s one thing to make exceptions for your loved ones--your daughter, the Necromancer, and your husband, now an undead skeleton--but a vampire spawn? Not a chance! To make matters worse, Roisia knows that a lecture would surely await her: if Roisia feels comfortable and unthreatened around a vampire spawn, than that is 1) a definite ploy by the vampire spawn for his future victims to drop their guard and 2) ridiculous because even vampire spawn are incredibly powerful and are a serious threat. So, not #4 material in the slightest. 2.5 out of 10. A long-term relationship feels like it would be a hot, hot mess. ... God, I love it. A complete disaster. Delicious.

So I haven’t figured it out yet! I think I want to do a sampler of all the current available romances (if feasible while roleplaying as Roisia) while we’re still in EA and then I’ll see what my playthrough looks like in the final release. Should be fun!

#BG3 Roisia #Rosecanons #the read-more stuff is STUPIDLY LONG #IM WARNING YOU #sTUPIDLy. LONG.#UNNECESSARILY LONG.#for a game that is still in EA and we don't know our ass from our teakettles #i have one friend who used to work at a hospital who was able to eat his lunch during meetings which would've made me faint #and every now and then i think 'that's Roisia's type. the type who could go for a sandwich while i feel vaguely nauseated'

316 notes · View notes

janearts · 3 years

Photo

[Ask refers to this post.]

I am so flattered you’re invested in my OC!! ;V; That is music to my ears. I’ll spill the whole jug because I love answering questions about my OCs. Long-winded explanation under the cut.

I omitted a teensy-weensy tiny little technical detail in that comic: the summoning was accidental.

For her backstory in her origin game, Divinity: Original Sin, Roisia was a witch who had no intention of being a necromancer or studying necromancy--she was simply a daughter who missed her father and wanted him back as he was in life. In this universe, Roisia unconsciously taps into the source of her magic to summon her father and her off-the-cuff fake spell works as a real one... sort of. This imperfect summoning is the catalyst for her discovery of her affinity for necromancy and the manipulation of the stuff of life (or un-life).

For Baldur’s Gate 3, I tried to preserve this scenario to the best of my ability while adapting it to D&D lore. So Roisia’s relationship to magic and to the Weave resembles that of a sorcerer and she still has a hitherto unknown predisposition towards necromancy. (She’s only a wizard in-game because--from what I understand and this could always change since we’re still in EA--that class has access to more Necromancy spells.) In order to better keep to D&D lore and to have her accomplish such a spell that lasts for an indeterminate amount of time, I had her unwittingly use a wish item: an ordinary ring of her father’s.

To answer your question, Roisia was shocked and horrified when her father, chipper as ever, emerged from his grave in naught but his bones. Although she is accustomed to being around death and the deceased as someone who works in a mortuary, Roisia was not prepared for being around an animated skeleton who, by all appearances, seems to be her father--returned, but not quite. Because Roisia has no idea that the ring was a wish item or that she wasted a wish, the spell that binds her father’s soul to his skeletal remains... well, remains a mystery to her. That’s why the Necromancy of Thay and Ilyn Toth’s laboratory notes are so important to her.

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #BG3 Roisia #Rosecanons #Roisiacanons #Jairus

426 notes · View notes

ofawitheredrose · 5 years

Text

HC - The Voice Of The Rose

As a Bard Auriaune possesses over a powerful and heavy vocal to assist herself and her allies in battle by giving them an edge. She is a mezzo-soprano. Gifted with a naturally classical vocal, she was trained from an early age on by her mother who used to be a famous Ishgardian classical singer before she married into House Haillenarte.

Even in her knighthood, she kept up her vocal training to not fall behind. Auriaune became a full-fledged Bard at the age of twenty-six and has ever since sung her tunes for both battle and for entertainment.

Auriaune's vocal claim is of the wonderful classical singer Katherine Jenkins. I took my time to debate who I wanted to be her vocal claim and I ended up with Katherine.

#hc #rosecanon

1 note · View note

blackrosecanon-blog · 7 years

Photo