#Also if I drank I could play a drinking game with BG3

[y-rhywbeth2]

Would durge/orin have been the high primate of the Baldur’s gate temple of bhaal? The game doesn’t really get into the politics of the temple at all, understandably I guess, but I’m really interested in the clergy stuff. Bg3 also has “death’s heads” as an assassin title, is that just an invention of the game or no?

They're explicitly stated to have led the temple, which makes them High Primate, or High Primistress, yes (I assume Orin held the title during their "medical leave", as Durge may phrase it). Also the Forgotten Realms was intentionally built with intrigue and politics in mind - despite the fact that being made a D&D setting means that aspect got eternally side-lined in favour of overdeveloping the dungeon crawling/hack and slash - so it would've been fitting for the game to spend Act 3 getting into the many clergy politics going on. And the Patriar politics (and finding out how many have bent the knee to Bane - they know what they're signing up for, I swear.). And the police corruption. And whatever networking Cazador's up to, or networking for future Grand Duke Wyll Ravengard, and so forth so on.

Back on topic: Most - if not all - of the titles used by the Bhaalists in game (and I think the Banites and Myrkulites too) are not tabletop canon compliant. EDIT: Apparently they might've come from Descent into Avernus, in which case enjoy yet another pointless lore conflict that we could've avoided. There's not anything much about them, they're just names put at the top of enemy stat blocks.

Their uniforms certainly aren't, and I'm incredibly petty about it. Take the stupid bondage-esque outfits off the Myrkulites and Bhaalists and put them in their ominous skull masks/veils, corpse ash and black robes or so help me Larian. Also the Deathstalker's Mantle should be black, or black and violet: Red is a Banite colour you heretics. I have a superpower called "complaining melodramatically about literally everything".

#grognard hours #Also if I drank I could play a drinking game with BG3 #I could play it with any FR CRPG to be fair but BG3 has the additional level of #every time the game is WRONG about the series it's claiming to be a sequel to: take a shot. #But that's not entirely Larian's fault it's WotC's #Over there we have BG1 and “Nashkel is an CITY. Bioware.” Not a small village/town #asks #babbling #/durge #/orin