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me when i????

moss always looks So Happy but also So Confused whenever people thank him for anything it's very sweet

#pidge plays bg3 #he legit has no fuckin clue what he's doing but he's just :) #being nice is nice actually #positive reinforcement works ig!! #especially if ur rehabilitating the child of a murder god!

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i am deeply unwell

#pidge plays bg3 #oc: moss #THE WAY HE IS SMILING INTO THE KISS #OUGH

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inventory management is my passion

#pidge plays bg3 #picked out some books i thought moss would like to have on him while he travels :> just in case #got his lil trinket hoard #got his Illicit Meats #he's a simple man #of simple pleasures

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moss always looks So Happy but also So Confused whenever people thank him for anything it's very sweet

#pidge plays bg3 #oc: moss #just BAFFLED #oh!!! i did good??? i did good!!!

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get a load of this guy

#*points* WHORE #art #character design #he could get it 😤

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For the emperor, most dialog options you get to tell him to fuck off kick rocks etc. Is like "you're a monster afterall, i never should have trusted an illithid" but honestly by the end of the game i was like "actually i do believe indipendant illithids free of a hivemind have the capacity for emotion including compassion and love, even if its not the same kind i experince, and are therefore worthy of trust and friendship. I just think you specifically are an asshole."

#baldur's gate #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #the emperor #THIS IS AN OMELUUM STAN ACCOUNT

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Xenk Yendar’s Fight Scene set to:

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA

#videos #god fuckin bless #d&d #d&d movie

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@omgkalyppso YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD AND THUS THIS INSANE WALL OF TEXT WILL BE GOING UNDER A CUT YEEHAW <3

OKAY SO. i am personally a HUGE FAN of the concept that a deity's power/status comes primarily from Belief. D&D lore has gods coming into power in so many different ways, and there are plenty of gods who are all of similar domains who duke it out when they feel like somebody is stepping on their toes (LOOKIN AT YOU, DEAD THREE) but there are just as many gods who used to be mortals who end up Ascending somehow through deed or deific favor! (there are also beings whos "godhood" is a bit murky/muddled, like certain Archfey and Archdevils)

i feel like Moss, as not just a Bhaalspawn, but a "perfect" Bhaalspawn, crafted from Bhaal's own flesh, already has kind of a leg up on this matter, even if he's resisting Daddy Dearest's wishes for him to be his Perfect Murderbeast with the power of love and big baby eyes 🥺i think he would technically count as a demigod/titan already? even if he winds up denying Bhaal's will in the end

this is all just a very long-winded lead-up to where this train of though originally started: Questioning just what to do, narratively speaking, about the SEVEN THOUSAND VAMPIRE SPAWN being released into the wilderness to??? idk decimate local populations of horny monsterfuckers with eyes bigger than their body's capacity to generate blood???

i don't think it's a perfect solution, especially in the beginning, but i do think Moss has learned one thing from his journey to becoming his own person is that nobody gets where they are without help, whether they acknowledge that or not. Kindness is what got him as far as he did. Curiosity, certainly. But he made friends. He grew to trust and care about people, and they helped him to find himself outside of the murderous urges stitched into the very core of his being. He wouldn't have gotten as far as he did if he did not make bonds with people and realize that if he were to give in to those Urges, if he was to give in to his "destiny," those people he grew to care about, the bonds he'd created, would be gone forever.

His greatest act of defiance against what he was meant to be was a hand outstretched.

And so THIS is where "belief as the root of a deity's power" comes into play.

So there are Seven Thousand Vampire Spawn suddenly released into the big ol world after several centuries of imprisonment. I imagine, when given freedom, a ton of them probably scamper off into the wilderness. Maybe they survive, maybe they don't, but at the end of the day, you can only help the ones who want to be helped.

So Moss, awkwardly, clumsily, but earnestly, offers his hand to the ones that are willing, and to the ones that aren't, he sends them off with the best chance at survival he can give them. Maybe he passes on information/tips that Astarion is too unpopular/guilty to pass on himself. He's also a big reader! He reads every book he can get his hands on. He fell off a goddamn spaceship with all the knowledge of the world of a newborn creature, and sort of learned as he went. He does his best to give the ones willing to listen what he can offer in terms of advice, and whether they take it or not, he makes sure they know they can always seek him out of they need his help again.

So, I imagine these fledgeling vampires have their own little familial units they've sort of bonded with over a couple hundred years of captivity in close quarters, and from there i'm sure plenty of little splinter communities form. Plenty of lone wolf types, sure, but covens are a thing for a number of magical creatures--hags, witches, and vampires included.

Most of them likely don't interact with Moss directly. There are literally thousands of them, after all. He can't talk to all of them, it would take ages. I think a lot of his advice and well-wishes and offers of aid are passed on by word of mouth. He likely also acts as a sort of mediator between them and those who, while just as unwilling as they were, were still complicit in what happened to them.

Things like this take time, of course. I'm not saying Moss just up and decided to become the Shepherd to this wayward flock of bloodthirsty orphans. This is probably months, if not years, of slow progress. Moss's Deification is definitely epilogue territory. The Spawn are probably all lying low while the world deals with Plot Shit, and then they come out of the woodwork when things have settled a bit.

So Moss? Is a big presence. Not just in terms of physicality (the mf is 7'3" and built like two or three brick shithouses cemented together) but in personality. Before, with the Urges, there is definitely something haunted to him, something wild and barely leashed. Once he's free? He's just so calm. A soft voice and a soothing presence, but one that radiates a sort of raw, wild power. Eyes that seem endless, soft and dark and fathomless. That hand outstretched seems big enough to break you, but it doesn't, and you trust that it won't.

I imagine that's the sort of thing that's sort of talked up, when word is being passed between these little splinter communities of lost and uncertain vampires. Word of mouth is a powerful thing, after all, and stories become bigger and bigger as they spread. There's a Larger Than Life idea of him that spreads.

And maybe those spawn do just split off into the world, cause problems. Some starve, some go deep underground, some kill and are hunted down, and some become the hunters that stalk the night. But some? Some think back to those stories they were told, or to the glimpses of the behemoth of a man they saw convince one of their own, with soft words and soft eyes to spare them all, to be better than what made them, and they seek him out. Seeking guidance. Seeking refuge.

And that is how Moss, the Dark Urge, the Spawn of Bhaal, becomes the Savior of the Undead and the Damned.

why does my endgame for my ocs at least half the time wind up "becomes a god ig"

#pidge replies #oc: moss #YEAH SO UH #WALL OF TEXT #idk how much sense this makes i crawled out of bed two hours ago and im crawling back into bed in another couple hours lmao #i would like to thank queenie also for being my sounding board for a good chunk of this nonsense #ALSO ASTARION BECOMES A SAINT IG??? #oops sorry bud #anyway yeah queenbol is directly to thank for some of these phrases i will say

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Wyll should have had a tail and this is me telling on myself a hill I’m willing to die on.

#HJJDHGJ i ALSO approve!! #baldur's gate #bg3 #art #comics #wyll ravengard #karlach #astarion #gale dekarios

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Bard casts vicious mockery: “Hag-shouldered scum-vestige!”

Graphic designer casts vicious mockery:

[Another 100% fake cover to go along with the first one. Note, no burn intended on Withers here! He’s currently the most sought-after party planner in Faerun.]

#id go to a withers party #baldur's gate #bg3

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I was expecting anything but not Bard

#JGHKDJK sorcerer??? #okay i guess #followed closely by ranger and then paladin lmao

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actually your characters should be pure wish fulfillment and your writing should be entirely self indulgent and it should all be very, incredibly, undeniably horny.

#well then my previous post is perfectly normal actually #if i want my ocs to become gods then who's to say i cant

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why does my endgame for my ocs at least half the time wind up "becomes a god ig"

#pidge babbles #idk man #its fun #moss becomes a god of the undead and the damned and astarion becomes a reluctant saint yippeeee #thats my solution for the spawn ending btw #i will not be taking questions at this time #(pls ask me questions) #oc: moss

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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out of context minthara

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– how many times have u watched the video from Neil Newbon where he said with Astarion’s accent “it’s Britney, bitch’??

- yes.

source: inst: teamneilnewbon

#videos #IM GONNA FUCKIGN THROW UPCBFHFUCJFB HELP

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Wyll Ravengard would be even more powerful as an anime character because you know he would be activating his bishie sparkle aura every five minutes. Every time he calls himself the Blade of Frontiers. Every time he poses. Every time he flourishes his trusty rapier. Glittering.