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dirtybg3confessions · 7 months

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Confession: sergeant thrinn makes me feel a way. i need her

#sergeant thrinn #bg3 sergeant thrinn #baldur's gate #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #dirty confessions

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moghedien · 25 days

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not the game cutting to my girlie and she’s fucking drenched in sweat

#she doesn’t care what the temp is the purple coat stays on #also talking to Thrinn while guess who is literally wearing her boots (its Karlach)#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #tav

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vspin · 3 months

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Am I basically ripping off Zaknafein's combat style for this section of my fic? Yes, absolutely.

#he's too cool not to #it's not going well for the Duergar Absolute Cultists in the Grymforge #sergeant thrinn specifically...#bg3 mine

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wyllzel · 5 months

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bard!lae'zel just did 56 damage in one turn 👁️👄👁️

#chelle.txt #origin: wyll #lae'zel carry yet again 😳👌#she took out sergeant thrinn before thrinn could do any damage:'-)#thank u my alien queen

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veilkeeper · 6 months

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Narrator: *You stare into the eye. Your reflection stares back.* Narrator: Wisdom (Insight): *The longer you stare, the more uneasy you feel. There is a presence. You are seen.* Roz: Reach out to the presence. Narrator: *Your consciousness surges into the orb. First there is blackness - then a pair of unblinking, red eyes. Pain grips your skull as the eyes stare into you - then look away. The connection is broken.*

kicking my feet and giggling. who's looking at me? are we flirting? cmon let me talk. i know you recognize me from the goblin camp, we had a moment there too before i destroyed that eye.

#i have to assume its someone for the cult considering these eyes are only around the absolute cult zones #random cultist or someone in charge?#thrinn says its an 'absolute scryer'#update: the eye is following me around im blushinnnn #roz pt #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

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novarex · 7 months

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Thoughts on Nere

Ugh, look at his pretty white eyelashes. I just want to smoosh his face.

I have a lot of thoughts regarding Nere and how he could have gotten where he is by the time we see him. @lysblack has started a really excellent conversation I would like to expand on. For science.

So may I present a somewhat lengthy analysis (rambling thoughts) of Nere, based on comments of other characters, what we know, and my reading of the Drizzt Do'Urdon books that go deeply into Menzoberranzan and life there.

Warning - this is long

Let's start with when we meet Nere.

Before we meet him, we meet the duergar, who have some things to say - Morgal is the one asking if you and the other duergar are "plowing", and from Corsair Greymon asking if "the Sargent has choked on True Soul Nere's prick". I do think that the duergar here are just generally vulgar and probably don't have much respect for anyone, but they are definitely getting to the end of their patience with Nere. They are mostly hired mercenaries with at least one believer in the Absolute among them (Sargent Thrinn). Something to note here is that duergar are a race of dwarves that were experimented on an changed by Mind Flayers and later escaped, that is why they have psionic powers, you can connect to them without them having a tadpole, and they have a special nose for True Souls because they can literally smell the parasite in you.

When you move down to the cave in area where Nere is trapped and Thrinn and her crew are trying to dig him out, you can talk to Nere through the rubble. He is literally suffocating to death on the poison that is filling the room, and obviously panicking - he thinks he is going to die in that room and I don't blame him. In his eyes (and any Lolthsworn drow), the people that are supposed to be rescuing him are just about the worst case scenario - they are inferior, disloyal, stupid, and unlikely to succeed. Like Minthara, I am sure he would MUCH rather have drow coming to rescue him than mercenary duergar and slave deep gnomes. On that note, he even is quick to tell you, another True Soul, not to trust the duergar mercenaries.

I also want to take a moment to say that no matter what we think of his behavior, Nere has to be under an absolute unbearably high amounts of pressure at this point - he is failing in his mission, he is stuck in the rubble that is quickly filling with gas, with wildly unreliable help. Like this is peak desperation. He is lashing out in anger and fear in any way he can. I think our Tav showing up is probably the only thread of hope he has to cling on to. Even Gale recognizes how bad of a situation Nere is in.

When you push into Nere's mind at the rubble and see through his eyes while he is suffocating to death in the cave in, the narrator makes a point to say that he had killed a gnome with powerful magic. He probably went to Sorcere (school for magic) in Menzoberranzan (although it is possible he isn't from Menzo).

Most noble drow have a natural talent for magic (breeding throughout the centuries), but sometimes commoners have the talent for it too. Sorcere is almost exclusively men because women with any talent for magic go to Arach-Tinilith, the school for drow priestesses. Male drow can also go to the school for fighting, Melee-Magthere (Drizzt went here), and they do spend one year at the end of their training in Sorcere learning some magic.

The reason I don't think Nere is a noble is that he would have certainly let us know if he were, especially if you are playing as a drow (I play as a drow female). This could just be an oversight in the writing, but I don't think so. When you fight the spectator over where the petrified drow are, if you manage not to get Dhourn the wizard killed and talk to him (disguise yourself as a female drow if you don't play as one and you can bully him into giving you his research and not have to kill him), he immediately lets you know he is the third boy of house Ba'Tol. In everything else I have experienced, drow are quick to name drop their house. It is extremely important in Lolthsworn society.

Nere is probably a commoner with enough magic talent to go to the school. All drow have a little magic to some degree, but to really learn it you have to go to Sorcere. There are few things you can do as a male in Memzoberranzan that give you any sort of status besides "useless male", and wizard/sorcerer is one. I suppose it is possible he is of noble birth, but I really think he would have let us know.

In Sorcere he would have spent most of his time around other males, as Sorcere is a 30 year long school (unlike Melee-Magthere which is 10), and exclusively male, which could explain why a female hadn't absolutely killed the shit out of him yet. The occasional priestesses from Arach-Tinilith would be around, but I think he could manage to be fine.

Nere certainly has an attitude to match with having gone to Sorcere. Some of his reactions, like blaming others for failures, are actually VERY cultural and expected among Lolthsworn drow. It just tracks. It would be strange if he didn't. He would have, however, faced constant criticism, bullying, sabotage, and crappy backstabbing politics within his time there, so it makes sense that he would have some emotional baggage regarding failure. Pretty much all male drow do to some extent. Even if he didn't have to deal too much with daily subjugation by female drow, he would still have faced a lot of scrutiny from other males in Sorcere. Failure of any kind is extremely dangerous in Lolthsworn society, especially for men.

I don't think his failure necessarily comes from him being bad at things. He has really good stats, so he isn't weak at all. He is also physically very strong. He is taller than both Gale and Astarion. The top of my female drow's head comes up to his chin (as opposed to Astarion and Gale where the top of her head is about dead center on theirs). He is also clearly intended to be intimidating. He has the Muscular feature as well as High Spellcasting - so he is big, strong, and good with magic. Wisdom is his lowest stat, and that could be the source of his problems in life. Strangely, he has really high charisma... but I will get to that shortly.

Anyway, back to the Grymforge. Before you bust him out of the rubble, talk to Thrinn, then go talk to the two drow who want to betray Nere, go back and talk to Thrinn and let her know they are planning to betray him. She doesn't seem particularly concerned with Nere's ability to handle them.

I think it is reasonable to assume that Nere is not a total fuckup. I think he has a lot of talent and strengths, but is either unlucky or unwise, or some combination of both. He has enough intelligence and strength to be powerful, and enough charisma to persuade people, but not enough wisdom and insight to know when to shut up or walk away... or when he is in over his head.

I do think he is unwise... there are some indications that he constantly underestimates what he is up against. This could be from lack of experience or this is just a character flaw.

Baby boy, what about any of this is simple? Please. You should have known better.

He is trying so hard here to convince himself that things are going to work out, but you can here it in his voice that he is trying to believe it. He must think that we are surely powerful enough to speak to Ketheric and convince him that Nere is still worthy. He is lacking the appropriate wisdom and insight to really accept what has happened.

We know from talking to Minthara that the influence of the Absolute is extremely overpowering and overrides any of your own common sense. It turns you into a fanatic and forces you to do things you would never ever do if you had control of yourself. This would also be true of Nere. He has this wild fanaticism and desperation to please Ketheric and the Absolute, but he drops it IMMEDIATELY when you fill him in on what is really going on. Once he is free of the brain's power and sees the bigger puncture, there is a very strong shift in his attitude.

He becomes very reasonable and quickly puts two and two together. This is probably the first time ever in his life where he is free of cult influence - if you convince him to run from the Absolute (and also I assume Lolth, because dear god he CAN NOT go back there without being tortured to death for information and then killed or worse, turned into a drider for his sins against Lolth)... and it does seem like he has a lot to process.

He is actually very calm and grateful for what you have done for him. It is such a shame you can't drag him around with you.

I am also not sure if it is an oversight in writing, or if Nere loses control of his mind again once we leave the area, or if he is just so pissed off at Balthazar and Ketheric and the whole ordeal that he goes after Balthazar to try and mess everything up for the Absolute by sabotaging the Nightsong plot.... but it is just such a shame that he dies anyway. I would like to think it is just a gap in writing because the game is SO HUGE.

If he is wiling to potentially die for a cause, what better cause than getting revenge on the people who did this to him? What better hook to get him to join our party and quest to destroy the Absolute and rid ourselves of the parasite? I think this is a huge missed opportunity.

LET ME DO IT, LARIAN. AGHHHH. LET ME SAVE HIM.

As far as how he became an exile/rogue, because I really do think he was.... (previous post on this)... I think there are a few possibilities, and we have absolute no indication as to what they could have been.

So this is pure speculation with nothing to back it up on my part. Here are a list of reasons he could have resulted in him being separated from Lolthite society.

Was out on some kind of mission and failed, couldn't go back without risk of severe punishment or death.

Separated from expedition to the surface (for slaves, or supplies, or whatever) either through no fault of his own or because he was unwise.

Attempted to kill someone and failed, fled. Probably while they were away from the city.

There was an attempt on his life that failed and he fled. Probably also while they were away from the city.

Was scouting or part of an expedition for a noble house that was annihilated while they were away. Nothing to return to without risking being killed.

I don't think he was some matriarch's special pet, because there is a certain level of obedience a reverence for female drow he would need to have to not be killed. His attitude is way off to have been some matron or priestess's favorite. Sure he is hot, but most drow are hot, so the standards for "too hot to be killed" are way too high for that to have been it. There are plenty of dead hot drow men.

I think it is likely that he made some mistakes that led to him not being able to go back for fear of death. I also think that when he mentions going to the Order of Soul Spiders, that is just him being unwise and not thinking the whole thing thorough. Like baby boy, you are going to be destroyed once the hear what you have to say. Sure, they will want to know it, but you are NOT going to escape punishment for abandoning Lolth. That isn't a possibility. Think it through.

Ok wow this post got too long and way out of hand. Nere is my current hyperfixation, and I hope that at least two of you share this hyperfixation with me and found this worth reading.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

#nere #bg3 #true soul nere

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the-drow-fucker · 6 months

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Nere and Thrinn's dialouge after you clear the cave in.

#nere #true soul nere #bg3 gameplay #baldurs gate 3 #true soul #drow #bg3 drow #bg3 clip #baldur's gate 3

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thisaccountisagainstmywill · 18 days

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Nine People I'd Like to Know Better

Thanks for the tags!: @flamemittens, @captainsigge, and @void-singer

Last song I listened to:

youtube

Currently Watching: How to Become a Cult Leader†, Dungeon Meshi, Project Runway Season 8

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Savory (but I need my spice sometimes)

Relationship Status: 5+ years of living in sin

Current Obsession: Baldur's Gate 3. It's why I'm here ._. It's the only reason. Rugan is the big one atm, Gortash is always there. Been thinking about Minthara and Gale a lot too. Still thinking about Halsin. And Orin. And Shadowheart. And Isobel and Aylin. And Dammon. And Thrinn. And Nettie. And the Flaming Fist chick on the bridge. The guy at the counting house is looking kinda good. And I'm not into Aradin, but I am into watching him being brat-tamed by old men... † I truly swear this isn't related to the Rugan thing. <nervous sweating> I just watch documentaries when I work sometimes, and this is where the queue has landed me.

#tagging game #tag game #Youtube

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aliquistis · 4 months

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Circle of (cute) Spores

So as I was finishing up the last chapter of Witch Ways I realized Echo's fungal zombies only get a passing mention in like one chapter, then I bring them up again like everyone should just remember them?? So anyways I decided to put this visual guide together.

Amanita

' the corpse's jaw cracked as a fungal frond broke through the upper neck. The top of the cranium split, revealing slivers of Amanita's red cap between the broken skin. A thin white tendril pushed through one eye socket and the limp jaw quivered, then pulled itself closed.'

Amanita was the leshy that Echo summoned at the tiefling party, later put inside a corpse to make it more ambulatory (the leshy, not the corpse, but I guess-) I picked amanita because of Skyrim, but also because the mushrooms are cute (as pictured). Then later I found out that death cap is in the amanita genus, so I decided Amanita would be Echo's most dangerous zombie.

Lepiota

'Lepiota had come second, with long, white, feathery-gilled sprouts that looked almost like wings.'

As per the first description, Lepiota has long white frills that look like wings or maybe a robe. I chose this mushroom because I thought it'd be pretty (you know, on a zombie, yeah) with its delicate white frills flowing around it like a feather boa. Like the other fungal zombies, Lepiota was made at the battle of Grymforge. Lepiota is in the family Agaricacaea and it's name was almost Agaric but I figured that'd be too similar to Agaricus (they share the family)

Ramaria

'Ramaria had been the first, and its pink frills had demolished most of Thrinn's white hair'

Ramaria, since its host is Thrinn, was the first fungal zombie Echo made! I chose Ramaria because it looks like coral and water is an identifying element for Echo (to contrast with Gale's fire). It's also pretty. Honestly like 80% of the reasoning on these is aesthetic. Ramaria's frills are pink, which is nice and feminine on the fungus-infested corpse (this Barbie is reanimated!)

Agaricus

'Agaricus had come third, with its white bubble-top mushrooms sprouting along its hosts arms and neck, looking like a festively chubby little patch of clouds.'

Agaricus is another large genus like Amanita but I chose it because it is the genus of button mushrooms. And button mushrooms are delicious. (Let's all imagine Gale's horror as Echo snaps a mushroom off her fungal zombie and tosses it into the stew) Also I thought it'd make for a cool visual to have big clusters of tiny button mushrooms that look like plague sores spread all over the zombie. Idk why I made this the delicious one there's clearly something wrong with me.

Cortinar

'Cortinar, with large brown spouts that looked like mold, only a few of which rose off its skin as proper fronds.'

Last but not least there is baby Cortinar, named for the mushroom genus Cortinarius. I chose this one because not only does it have some crazy looking guys like in the picture (with the cap flipped up like it's throwing up its arms going I GUESS) but it also has some mushrooms in the family that look like the purple caps we see in-game in the Underdark. I wanted at least one zombie that shows how much meeting the Myconids influenced Echo's magic.

And that's the family. I am not a mushroom expert in any way. All my information (and pictures) comes from Wikipedia. I just think they're neat.

#bg3 #fanfic #witch ways #oc: echo the greenwick #circle of spores

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dirtybg3confessions · 1 year

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Confession: I want to be whipped into submission by Sergeant Thrinn

#sergeant thrinn #bg3 thrinn #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dirty confessions

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sorcerous-caress · 6 months

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are there any characters in Baldur’s Gate that you would write for but haven’t yet?

Countless ones. The gods for a start.

Alfira, Apikusis, Zevlor, Oskar Fevras, Rugan, Kith'rak Voss, Aelis Siryasius, Lorroakan, Jannath, Mystic Carrion, Araj Oblodra, Allandra Grey, Ansur, Naaber, Zara the Mummy, Yurgir, Ketheric Thorm, Thisobald Thorm, Gerringothe Thorm, Malus Thorm, He Who Was, Grym, Sergeant Thrinn, Sovereign Spaw, Derryth Bonecloak, Bernard, Counsellor Florrick, Filro the Forgotten, Dhourn, Barcus, Zrell, Leon, Dal, and Aelar.

Also that cute golden dragonborn trader in act 3, the preppy one.

That paladin women in Mayrina's hideout in act 3.

That one freshly turned Mindflayer in a mill in act 3 that you can feed.

All and any dragons.

SHADOWHEART'S DAD

#this is also a list of the people I want to fuck

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hartsvale · 7 months

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title: WET. ship: gale dekarios x half-orc tav. rating: explicit. word count: 3,108. warnings: watersports.

GRYMFORGE. 1494.

True Soul Nere was dying, buried behind feet of seemingly impenetrable debris and choking on foul poisons alongside gods-knew how many gnomes. Their companions were noticeably distraught, worked to the bone, more sweat and grime than people after being forced into slave labor in the blinding heat of Grymforge.

Once she was content with the state of their alliance, Enkha weathered Sergeant Thrinn’s eagerness to work with another follower of the Absolute, only so far as she needed until she was able to convince the woman that her only intention was to rescue her fellow True Soul from almost certain death.

Such machinations were weary work after so long as no more than a thief in the night, rarely conversing with her employers for any longer than it took to receive a rundown of their expectations.

This reminded her of different work entirely — not the cut of a dagger, but the creak of leather bindings and the sharp edge of an order, all of it another mask to wear for the benefit of others rather than herself. The only difference was the end result of blood rather than spilled seed or hot, desperate tears.

[ READ MORE ON AO3. ]

#gale dekarios #gale x tav #type: writing #game: baldur's gate 3 #ch: gale dekarios #oc: enkha #ship: gale x enkha #mine: writing #after what i posted today i figured... why the fuck not make a legit post for it ig!!#i think i'll start posting my kinktober prompts on ao3 tmrw??#nsft

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