#hanusa lore tag

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Collecting Hanusa lore that even she doesn't know and putting it in a timeline that is almost certain to change. Dark Urge typical content warnings and spoilers below:

Born from the flesh and blood of Bhaal, Hanusa is sculpted into a half-elf and given to a dedicated cultist; Locusta Fern to raise until she was fully grown.

Hanusa was a model child, as a toddler she bit everyone she spent any time around unattended, by the time she was six she had ripped a girl's hair out so hard it had taken half her scalp. She killed rats and rabbits because they ate the flowers in her mother's garden. Her mother rewarded her with cakes and sweets.

Around this time, Locusta Fern made the worst mistake the mother of a bhaalspawn can make: she began to love her. When Hanusa was ten, her mother was a hair's breath away from taking the girl away from Baldur's Gate.

Though Hanusa loved her mother dearly, she felt her entire childhood that something was missing and was desperate to know more about her father.

In response to her mother's doubts, her father decided that it was time for her to make her first proper kill and join the other spawn and sent Sceleritas Fel to meet Hanusa for the first time.

Fel told her what she needed to do to meet her father and make him happy, and Hanusa did it. After killing her mother in a daze, Hanusa broke down, crying over her body before mutilating it until it was unrecognizable. To this day, she keeps a lock of her mother's hair.

The Butler returned, delighted at what she had done, and took her to the temple of Bhaal, where she met her brother and sister; Sarevok and Helena. Helena was nursing a newborn Orin at the time.

At the Temple, Hanusa became very reserved and dedicated to her training. Her life had been shattered but now she knew her purpose and would do anything to achieve it, to be the perfect Slayer for her father.

She grew close to Helena, and was saddened when Orin killed her in self-defense, though she hardly held it against the child. After all she had killed her own mother in far less dire circumstances.

After that, Hanusa took over her training, being as cruel as she felt was necessary to motivate her to improve. Often chiding her for being a half-breed and a grandchild of Bhaal to cover her own insecurities. Bhaal was as cruel and indifferent a father as he was a god, and Hanusa often felt that she would never truly make him proud of her despite her dedicated efforts.

(tw: Sarevok typical incest)

Hanusa was barely twenty when Sarevok began making advances towards her. Already dissatisfied with her life and seeing Helena's in her future, she took that action as the final straw and left the Temple, on her way out advising a twelve year old Orin to do the same as soon as she could.

(Author's note: This scene involves some major miscommunication, with Hanusa telling Orin that it's not worth it and that their father will never love her, and Orin taking that as an insult to her rather than a failure on Bhaal's part.)

She went out on her own, in the process meeting an order of Paladins, and for a while found some peace. She was able to sate her need to kill on those her order deemed evil but it wasn't enough. She felt just as empty, just as numb as she had before performing ritual killings in her father's name.

One night, she simply couldn't help herself and slaughtered the entire order, just to feel something. She mutilated their bodies, ripping and eating their flesh until she felt truly satisfied. It was also the first time her father deigned to speak to her directly, commending her and telling her that he did love her, she just needed to do what came natural to her and stop forcing herself to perform stilted ritual murders she felt no passion for.

And so she did, ignoring almost everything else and becoming the most renowned serial killer in Baldur's Gate history, enlisting her favourite butler to aid her in the torture and vivisection of any victims that felt particularly special to her. She had a particular predilection for beautiful women who were particularly kind to her.

#kit speaks #oc: hanusa #bg3 spoilers #a lot of this is subject to change but i just wanted to get it written down #wanted to get meeting enver in here but even in small font this was getting obscenely long #another post for another day #anyway sarevok should get a job and stay away from my daughters that's right bhaal they're MY daughters now #hanusa lore tag