If I ever stop drawing karlach and millie being ultimate lesbians assume I died

introducing my tavs ^_^ this is probably gonna be long as fuck so

name + pronouns: azimuth, any pronouns

race + class: mephistopheles tiefling bard

romancing: wyll <3 initially, she was just interested in him because he's precisely the kind of hero she would love to write an epic ballad about, but she soon became enamoured by his whimsy and princelike charm. and by "soon" i mean it took approximately a day for her to go from "oh boy, a chance to journey with the famed blade of frontiers!" to "i've only known wyll for a day but if anything happens to him i'm gonna blow this place up". she falls for people incredibly fast, and gets incredibly protective despite being so unequipped for danger!

backstory: semi-popular musician who fell from grace after being involved in some very silly scandal that i haven't come up with the details of yet. despite the bit of fame they used to have, they were quite lonely, never sticking in one place for long and only really having shallow bonds with people. whenever they entered romantic relationships with people, it would start off quick and intense, and then fizzle out a few weeks later once the other person decided that the novelty of dating a star wasn't worth dealing with their obnoxious personality. also they're pink because they drank a fucked up potion once just to see what would happen! they very often do things like that without thinking them through, and the rest of the party is kinda astounded that they've survived this long when they see him eating mindflayer worms and letting volo do eyeball surgery on him

relationships: he's trying sooo hard to be friends with everyone, he's always felt a strong need for people to like him and this is the first time in a while that he's had a solid friend group. other than wyll, he's closest with gale and shadowheart because they've been travelling together the longest, but he also gets along well with karlach. he's been trying so hard to get into laezel's good graces and he's thrilled that he's finally somewhat succeeding. he hasn't interacted with astarion much in-game, but i like to think they're antagonistic with each other in a silly way. annoying sibling kind of dynamic.

name + pronouns: riven, he/him

race + class: drow half-elf fighter

romancing: astarion because i thought it would be funny to try and romance him with a heroic type of character that he hates. the relationship is going surprisingly well!

backstory: OKAY SO. i gave him a demon eye for the vibes but now he has an entire edgy backstory about it! ever since he was young, riven was living that heroic adventurer life, and one day he rescued a drow around his age, a necromancer wizard named oliander. after a series of events, they became friends, and then lovers, and began adventuring together. until one day riven got killed during a mission. oliander was desperate with grief and decided he would stop at nothing to bring him back, properly and not just as a necromancer thrall. (also, i know there are spells and stuff in bg3 that can resurrect people, but i think either 1. he wasn't around when riven died and couldn't get to the body soon enough to revive him or 2. his body got so thoroughly obliterated that he was beyond reviving the normal way. probably #2, because after putting terry's taxidermy and rtrt by milli and annabel raises the dead on oliander's playlist, i was like hmmmmm.)

so oliander started experimenting with dark forbidden magic, trying to find a way to bring him back. i also think there were multiple failed experiments where he succeeded but only for like a minute, with horrifying results that actually had him relieved it didn't stick. one day, he finally managed to perfect his methods and bring riven back as his actual fleshy self, but his victory was short-lived as this pissed off kiaransalee, the drow goddess of the undead. she basically piloted riven's body for a moment and made him murder oliander, and since drow goddesses love being fucked up and cruel, she was like "okay you know what, this guy did go through all that effort to bring you back, so you can live. but once you die you're back in my territory and i'm gonna use you as an undead pawn for evil purposes forever."

20+ years later, riven is still out there trying to be a hero so that he can use his second chance at life to keep doing good in the world, and also to try and make up for what he will one day become. and that's the story of this guy who was originally designed as a geralt of rivia knockoff!

relationships: he's always had somewhat of a difficult time connecting with other people, so aside from astarion, he's only really close with wyll and karlach, the most good-aligned characters in the group. he especially sees a lot of his past self in wyll, and he's determined to try and get him out of his pact with mizora because he deserves a better future than that. he also respects that karlach won't go back to avernus to save herself*, because he's like, yeah i get it it's better to die on your own terms sometimes. he also has a lot of respect for jaheira.

*note: i'm still on act 2 idk if it's actually the good option to try and convince her to go there