#meanwhile neither karkach nor durge know they've met and were...almost friends???? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

maegalkarven · 6 months

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I have an awful idea of Karlach and Durge actually knowing each other in the past, quite well, actually.

(The reason Karlach did not recognize Durge is because Durge always used that shape-shifting mask of theirs and looked like someone else).

Durge and Gortash met for the first time 11 or so years prior the game.

Durge was already a cult leader, Gortash was not yet Bane's Chosen or even banite, but was starting to work on the cults angle.

Durge hang around just enough for them and Karlach to hit off; it was actually Karlach who is the first person Durge felt genuine connection with.

Father Bhaal disapproved and Urge started to act up; Durge blacked out several times killing innocent tieflings, acted a lil weirder than usual.

Gortash, being Gortash, noticed.

He had a list of candidates from whom he was planning to choose the right person for Zariel's engine.

But he discarded them and sold Karlach instead; he explained it to himself as there's no better candidate for the role. She would survive the engine being installed and, if she was tough enough, would survive Avernus and emerge victorious.

It had nothing to do with his unstable ally acting more unstable than before.

Durge, who at that point had caught up what Father demanded Karlach dead and, for the first time ever, were hesitating to kill someone, visited Gortash and found out Karlach was gone.

"Good," is all they said. They did not elaborate.

#karlach #bg3 karlach #enver gortash #lord enver gortash #durge #it is in no was a redeeming act of Gortash's #he waa going to sell someone to Zariel one way or another #he just didn't plan it to be Karlach she was too useful too good of a bodyguard #but when durge started to act like they might murder karlach #it was not made out of the good will #and not because he didn't want karlach to die #he didn't care about that At All #and anyway it's better without her she was too cheerful too optimistic #made him weak he had to get rid of her #(he cared about her survival just a little. not what hell's ever admit it)#meanwhile neither karkach nor durge know they've met and were...almost friends????#durge does not remember #karlach does not recognize them bc they always used false face for Some Reasons #listen i recognize karlach's trauma and what gortash is the Worst #but what if he was the Worst in the scenarios where alternative was Worse? what then huh

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