Lets talk about Stillmaker, Durge’s other canon blade

Okay, so we already know that Durge had the Bloodthirst dagger which was created from Bhaal’s own blood and carried by his chosen.

But there is another dagger in the game you can find that also canonically belonged to Durge, Stillmaker.

We see Stillmaker portrayed in Dark Urge’s official artwork, and it’s also Durge’s blade in Idle Champions, as you can see.

I’ve noticed that Stillmaker matches Bloodthirst in design, but it is conspicuously green, as opposed to every other Bhaalian weapon I’ve seen which are red.

You know who else’s canon weapon has the same green coloring? Gortash. And who is the color green associated with? Bane. Stillmaker looks like it was made in the same design to Gortash’s crossbow.

I posit then, that being close to one another as they were, Gortash either made or commissioned Stillmaker to match with Bloodthirst and gifted it to Durge. It’s far more his style in looks, and I feel it’s something he would have done as he describes Durge as his nearest and dearest, and we know they worked very closely together and admired one another.

It truly makes my Durgetash heart flutter!

EDIT: Here is a close up of the weapons together in game!

Durge: *is just chilling, drawing in their sketchbook (which may or may not be filled with gruesome imagery).*

Gortash: *strolls in and drops himself onto the loveseat in front of Durge, disrobes and stretches out nude*

Durge: Excuse me?

Gortash: Draw me like one of your dead girls.

of course I know Gortash logically cannot be redeemed. He doesn't WANT to be redeemed- Spawn Astarion and redeemed/resist Durge at least realize the errors of their ways at some point during their arcs and are able to become better people through, quite literally, the power of friendship, but Gortash? Gortash doesn't give a shit at all, he will make the entire burn world with him if it is necessary. I haven't finished the game but I am 99% sure you can't fully side with him without him still trying to kill Tav/Durge at the very end. He doesn't want to be redeemed and canonically he is egotistical enough to turn on Durge, his "nearest and dearest", as well. *

But parts of me WANT him to be... Not redeemable, per se. I know full well there is no logical way that he would suddenly become an charity donor or an active member in bettering the wellfair in Baldur's Gate, he probably will always want a Orphan Crushing Machine somewhere in the basement, but I want him to have someone he loves enough- that loves HIM enough- that makes him at least decide to try to take over the world slightly more fair and square. Through diplomacy and conquests and the whole shebang. Someone mentioned Gortash recognising that Durge, his loved one, is simply tired, and wants a normal life, without Bhaal and without the Absolute and without ANY obligations, just their own life, and I simply want for Gortash to decide that yes, he is still a terrible human being, but at least with the Absolute gone, he could have Durge and still be in control of the people simply as Archduke, especially when given partial credit for the destruction of the Absolute. He could give Durge a life of their own and also have parts of the life he wants, if he in any universe decided that Durge was worth it.

At the same time, I love @ cats-obsessions' "If Durge could recruit Gortash" post, where she suggests that if Durge failed the duel with Orin, it would lock out any option except Gortash and Durge controlling the brain together, as Gortash would see it as the only way to protect Durge. Perhaps I just want an actual Durgetash ending where Durge could either make Gortash slightly better or where they still could be together, as gods. I just really wish Gortash actually did care about Durge, genuinely, where he genuinely WOULD want to share the world together with them. Where he in any way shape or form would decide that, perhaps he could go against his god and be a ruler of an enslaved mankind with another, or where he would decide on the more extreme and abandon his god for someone else. Just. AUGH.

*probably very wrong about this but oh well

Durgetash for my soul

I really obsessed by them🥺

Neil Roberts, the VA for default Durge, voice acted the Prayer for Forgiveness. I'm unwell.

'we could be good for each other'

(not really)

Durgetash intensifies

more durgetash posts

Durgetash nation where ya at 👀

durge as a feral cat is one of my favorite things

im actually! dead now! this took me AGES

This came to me in a vision.

funny crying little man for @poreyneel as my part of our art trade!! 

(づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

the idea behind it was "gortash after realising that durge is gone or dead. he is alone\ exhausted\ waiting for something that is not gonna happen". so ofc OFC i couldn't resist to use part of the infamous durge's love letter. im not sure if orin or balthazar\ketheric would cared enough to show it to gortash BUT IMAGINE IF THEY DID SDKFJKSFDKJSDF OH MY GOSH 

Sceleritas: Durge there seems to have been a letter left for you, written in code. I’m here if you need me to decipher it for you, milord.

Durge: *waves him away* That won’t be necessary, I recognise the cypher. Just business things.

Sceleritas: As you say. *bows and scurries away*

Durge: *deciphers note*

DURGE. PITCHING A TENT RIGHT NOW. COME SATE ME.

— Gortash.

Durge: *leaves so fast the temple rumbles causing tremors throughout the city*

my durge/gortash experience in a nutshell

"Forgive me, Father, for i cannot help but admire the Chosen of your sworn foe"

Gortash is kinda... hmmm

DUrge FLAYING themselves (according to a book in Orin's chambers) over their alliance with "the other chosen",

DUrge pleading on paper with the iconographic "forgive me father (for I have sinned)" over admiring Gortash,

Orin calling us a liar if we dare answer her "could you kill one you loved / could you turn your weapons against those closest to you" with "without hesitation",

The way Gortash beams when he learns we live, his expression when it's DUrge he sees (opposed to Tav) at the coronation, calling us nearest and dearest and after a successful insight check it's clear he's genuine about being our equal in power. An act that contradicts his conduct of tyranny/domination as a Baneite.

Gortash's name being "Sickenly familiar" when we first hear it, all while DUrge cannot recall anything else, even their own name. But Gortash, his name they remember.

Whether they were acted upon or not there's no convincing me there weren't romantic feelings between the chosen of Bhaal and Bane.

Durgetash fluff

I just really like them being domestic, to the point where they're trusting eachother with blades