#also: if you can't beat me join me bitch lmao get wrekt | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rackartyg · 6 months

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to imitate how animate dead works in tabletop i've installed a mod that makes its summons permanent and then every morning when the wizards are setting up everything else (mage armor, longstrider etc) i have cairie fire off a couple upcast ice knives to get rid of the spell slots she would've used for reasserting control. we're finishing off act 2 now so she's amassed a nice little squad of eight skellies, kept around for the price of two third level spell slots each morning. fun fact you can cast longstrider on summons

#she speaks #arctic plays bg3 #the ruined battlefield is full of old skeletons obviously and most of them are raiseable #thought i'd have to make it to the thorm mausoleum to complete cairie's army but nope #picked up the last two on the way to oliver with halsin and i do wonder how that would've gone over #cairie's perspective on it is like. she sees dead bodies as fundamentally a different thing from the living #that's not a person anymore so the concept of 'desecration' doesn't get through to her #except you know she's not as intellectually pure as that and mainly it's actually about Liking Necromancy For Nerd Reasons and being #perfectly willing to discard a few moral qualms that get in the way of practising it #so she still does imbue her thralls with some emotional significance #enemies are fine to raise because like we already killed them! is this really so much worse??#also: if you can't beat me join me bitch lmao get wrekt #(we had great fun with goblin zombies back in act 1)#and for the skeletons from the ruined battlefield she'd feel she's giving them a (second) chance to fight back #or if they were sharrans she's making them pay for what they did by having them help her fix it #but like. these may be halsin's old comrades or neighbours she's raising #and even disregarding the corpse desecration #halsin cares about The Natural Order and in FR lore necromancy is depicted as *vile* from that pov #otoh it doesn't seem like halsin has any personal animus against necromancy even with his personal history with the shadow curse #idk i'm not a Halsin Knower i was just Struck By Thoughts #i'm going to romance him this pt maybe i'll feel more secure in my thoughts after that #dunno if it'll be canon for cairie but i wanted to try it

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