So anyway...

Hello! Here is the list of my posts about D&D drow lore, organized thematically - it will be regularly updated. Feel free to take a look if you are interested in a particular character or topic, or if you are looking for inspirations for your fanfiction or artwork 🙂 I also have Ask Box open.

☕ Ko-fi - link for those who feel like leaving a tip. It is totally not obligatory, though - all my posts are free to read and everybody is equally welcome to send a question!

🕸️ BG3 Drow Lore:

🕷️ Character: Minthara

• Minthara's Social Station in Drow Society

• About Minthara's Past

• Minthara's Past: Age and Name Meaning

• Minthara's Past: Minthara's Mother

• Minthara's Past: Childhood

• Minthara's Past: Minthara's Lover from House Vandree (theories) new

She is willing to work with men in leadership positions even post-mind control and she will actually compliment and admire their tyrannical prowess

She will argue that the refugees in Baldur’s Gate should be enslaved because it’s practical and better for them that way, not because they’re weak lesser races that deserve to be subjugated

Gorgeous Karlach Artwork by Ryan T. Hancock - Baldur's Gate 3 - Larian Studios - Kazuliski

Karlach 🔥

Mystra is the Weave. She is magic, full stop. This is explicitly stated.

But when Gale held her, kissed her, there was nothing there to touch. Skin more like marble in its flawlessness. Eyes more like crystal in their luminance. She always smelled of sharp rosewater, always tasted of mild sweetness. Never a hint of sweat, of saliva, of any of the unclear oils and bacterias that infest the mortal form.

Somehow, I can't imagine Mystra ever laid with him as a man. Why would she bring herself low, to get in a human's actual bed? What would even be the point, when an ocean of cosmic perfection lay above?

Did it disgust him, then, to travel so high, lay with the very form of Magic, only to return to his meager human body? To be the owner of skin that smelled of sweat, skin that had scars and wrinkles and marks, skin that aged?

When Mystra cast his aside for his folly, did he long for the divine from the confines of his humanity? Did he hate the needs and limits of his body, the various hungers that cried out to be sated, when all his mind craved was that glittering perfection?

Mystra loved Gale's magic. Mystra loved him as a tiny expression of her own self.

Gale is his mind, certainly. His mind is where the magic is. His mind is remarkable. His mind is worthy of love. But this human thing, this temporary human thing that is a body, is not him in the same way. It's needy, and he wants so badly to escape from it into the divine.

And maybe that's what surprises him so much about being loved by a mortal. That someone would lay with him, Gale the man. Would bury their nose into his neck and breathe deeply the scent of him, would kiss the crows feet at his eyes and relish in the taste of his mouth.

Look. I want people to read these books. I made a slide show and everything.

I know many of us have been trying to inject our beloved Mama Dekarios into our stories with nothing but our head cannons to guide us, but I had a thought about what she may look like.

First of all, the name Morena in Spanish and Italian means "brown-haired," "dark-skinned," or even "brown". (source: The Bump).

Assuming she is human, the most likely human variant she would be Calishite (or at least have a good portion of it in her DNA).

This would also explain the line of dialogue Gale has if you let him disable the shadow magic in Balthazar's: "Not bad for a wizard who slept through his Calishite lessons, eh?"

Not only b/c bored gifted kid in a class he doesn't wanna be in, but also b/c Morena possibly spoke in her native tongue at home so he already knew it.

Now, I know many of us ADORE the 'Gale is Greek-adjacent' theory (I know I do lol) but we also know nothing about his father so... *shrug*.

If I'm right (whatever that's worth anyway,) this would be such a fun way for Larian to tell us a little about Morena without us actually seeing her, and creating another element of potential HC worldbuilding.