#durgeqotd #tavqotd durge creation 1/7 I'll be touching on all four of my durges below. It'll be a thread post below. tw: death, slavery
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CardiganCarm · 6 · 4h agoXandros & Adrik 2/7
#xandros #adrik
When Bhaal was creating his perfect heir, he used his dead flesh to create this being. But he wanted to purge any potential good; thus, the being was split into evil and good. Because of the split, the two beings were incomplete. So to compensate, Bhaal used +
CardiganCarm · 6 · 4h ago3/7
- the offerings, the sacrifices given in his name. He could no longer spare any flesh and used parts from corpses. Most were drow, but Bhaal used whatever he could.
Thus the twins were made, an amalgamation of parts wrapped in skin.
Xandros was the chosen, purged of good +
#xandros #adrik
CardiganCarm · 6 · 4h ago4/7
- while Adrik housed the good of their soul and was the disposable son.
Lucifael
#lucifael
One of Lu's parent was the bhaalspawn and Bhaal's chosen heir, but Lu's not sure which parent it was. Never found out; Lu is a second-generation bhaalspawn. They never found out what they were until +
CardiganCarm · 7 · 4h ago5/7
- their teens, when they had their first urge. Lu, as an infant, was sold into slavery by their mother right after their birth; their mother sold them to a brothel. #lucifael
Ruathalae
#ruathalae
In her previous life, she was a cultist of the bhaal temple; they were called the Death Bard +
CardiganCarm · 6 · 4h ago#ruathalae 6/7
- and a Night Blade assassin. The Death Bard encountered Astarion one night, hoping he'd be an easy mark, but he wasn't, so there was a scuffle, and Astarion got away. DB went back to the cult empty-handed and was sacrificed to Bhaal.
Bhaal used DB's body and his own dead flesh to +
CardiganCarm · 7 · 4h ago#ruathalae 7/7
- create Rua, but Astarion's blood was speckled on DB's skin. Rua was born with a feminine version of Astarion's face and retained her previous life's bard abilities. Rua also has fangs and drinks blood when food doesn't sate her from time to time.
(she kind of a dhampir)