#me: *invests in more than one durge and makes them whole ass people*

[maegalkarven]

I love how vastly different June and Levi are and how their relationships with Enver differ in so many ways.

If Levi is a guy believing he is equal to gods, then June is, at his core, a prodigal follower.

It's a pattern he doesn't break out of even as he betrays his father for Selune. Gortash didn't manage to shake this part of him, only created a push, allowing June chose a god other than Bhaal (i.e. June didn't want Enver to die, realized he didn't want to die himself and entered a pact-like relationship with the Lady of Silver to prevent these two things from happening.)

The hardest thing for him is to go back on his word/dismantle the existing alliance. His mortal flaw is loyalty, blind loyalty.

So at some point his story comes to a crossroads.

He can either reaffirm his alliance with Gortash, unknowingly dooming him a Gortash himself, not to mention death of Duke Ravengard and many other casualities.

In this scenario Gortash dies from the psyonic command of the Nether Brain and June becomes the hero of Baldur's Gate and the new archduke.

Which sounds fun and games until you realize it also includes him becoming a new Chosen of Bane, because June might have learned how to break out of his father's chains, but he doesn't know what to do with himself and, after his and Selune's ways part, is an easy prey for gods with less than honorable plans.

The other road comes with stabbing Gortash in the back, metaphorically speaking. It includes the wicked choice of putting a tadpole into his head and making him cooperate because "oh, but I can just relinquish the protection astral prism bestows on you. I am sure you'll love being Elder Brain's thrall".

It's a choice what leaves absolutely everyone (well, not EVERYONE) horrified because not only they did not expect that from June, but also looking how pleased June is with himself by walking Gortash into the corner opens their eyes to the fact what he is not, in fact, a hero. He was a villain in the past and some of this past still lingers, even more after Selune's cold soothing light has left.

And, ridiculously, it's the choice what saves everyone; gondians, Ravengard, Karlach, Gortash himself.

#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #dark urge: june #june's main theme is servitude and wherever he breaks out of it #if he does it's his good ending if he doesn't - the bad one where he is bane's new favorite tyrant #all gortash managed to do is to show june he has a choice who to follow #and june breaking out of this badly fitting loyalty is a result of the bond he builds with companions #also to clarify of course june and enver were A THING #surprisingly the whole tadpoling business actually makes it better bc before that Gortash kind of looked down at june #but after that june gains new respect in the man's eyes. Enver didn't know his favorite assassin could be cunning and wicked #in a way beyond bland murder that's it #me: *invests in more than one durge and makes them whole ass people* #me: i am very normal about this game #what are they doing after the end of the game? Gortash kind of manages to pull the 'i was enthralled as you all' card #Probably doesn't manage to keep his title as archduke but weasels out of any reprecussions #is he still Bane's Chosen? I doubt it. At this point Bane has probably deemed him a failure. #there's a big chance he tags along with June and Astarion to Underdark because hey all these unliberated ppl in there! #Astarion: so let's make it clear...You're planning to conquer Underdark? #Gortash: Conquer? Such a crude world. I am planning to liberate them. save them from themselves! #June laughing: sure you do love. i bet that's what tyranny is al about: liberation. freedom of wills and artistic expression. #Gortash: laugh all you like my dear partner in crime but don't you see them suffer? #Gortash: don't you hear them choke on a breath under suppressing rule of the Spider Queen? #June: so you deem yourself a savior now? #gortash: yes. The question is: will you save these people with me? #June:...a...compelling argument. I doubt we can do worse than the existing conditions under the Lloth are #Astarion: another world' saving but also inevitably self-centered quest? Another one? We JUST survived the last one. #June: I don't know. We live here now. isn't it natural to make this place more... lived in? I like the dangerous nature here #June: but I doubt drow will be very welcoming. And Menzoberranzan seems like a good place for the spawns to settle #June: ...if we restructure some things that's it #Astarion painfully aware he travels with two fools with delusions of word domination/salvation: fiiine.