#irenicus

(my interpretation of) baldurs gate 2 characters: irenicus & bodhi

Well, Volo pissed off an Absolute cultist, and the party found him about to be burned alive on the docks

His crime was lying and dramatics. Minsc was actually the one who spoke up and started the fight, which was different

Still, we were able to get Volo off the wagon before it blew up, and he met us back at the Elfsong that night

He also clocked that Bud was a Bhaalspawn and that he was in the running to become the Chosen of Bhaal. Bud wasn't sure how he knew about that, or why he didn't bring it up sooner, but whatever

Imoen: born in baldur's gate. Adopted by Winthrop who ran the candlekeep Inn.

Studied the arcane arts under the guardianship of Liia jannath (one of the grand dukes of baldur's gate)

In the year of the gauntlet, 1369 DR, minc,jaheira,Khalid,imoen and others were kidnapped by a power hungry wizard.

Her divine essence was extracted by that bitch wizard irenicus, and then given to his vampire sibling bodhi.

Long story short. She got her essence back and bodhi was staked through the heart.

Sarefuck sarevok anchev: power hungry, enormous human with glowing piss coloured eyes. Ifirc he's older than imoen. Studied on how to instill dread in his foes. Became a deathbringer of bhaal. Was powerful and shit. Got too cocky and tried to replace his divine daddy as the new Lord of murder. Obsessed with making wannabe unholy assasins. Demanded each aspirant to slay a celestial being.

Abazigal: cocky son a bitch. Blue dragon. Claimed only those of dragonic heritage are worthy of bhaals divine power. Yet he gets jumped by jaheira and minsc lot, faster than a greased pig. He reproduced a brown dragon named draconis. Like father like son. Now works as a trader at the murder tribunal.

Balthazar: fucking love this guy. Strongest of the five. Babe was a monk. Ultimate goal was to kill all bhaalspawns and then kill himself. After his death, myrkul's fat lapdog stole his ribs and his name.

just saying

Thank you for your ask! (not really, no).

Oh fuck, here we go again. I'll reply to this I know I shouldn't but I will. But in all honestly, for the last time. I will speak on this subject no more.

First, canon does not say that. Canon leaves room for interpretation.

That being said, do I think canon intended for the player to interpret this way? Sadly, yes. I believe that was the intention, the way it was written and conveyed, to reduce him to a laughing stock (once again, nothing bad with being a bottom and bad in bed per se, it's about the delivery), and it worked, as per 90% of comments under any Raphael Reddit thread, YouTube video.

“Two pump chump bottom cringe clown" (c) would now remain to be Raphael's mainstream legacy. Do I still think it's juvenile to reiterate this point ad infinitum? Yes!

Do I hate it? Honestly? Yes. I personally hated this whole part, it would be dishonest of me to claim otherwise. 

Take Irenicus from BG2. Now picture that: you are the Bhaalspawn from BG2, in Irenicus's dungeon, scared shitless of him and you encounter his nymph concubines. They say: oh and by the way Irenicus is a TWO PUMP CHUMP and his dick is like SUPER small. Unreliable source? Sure.

Now the end game, final confrontation in hells, and you tell Irenicus HAHA BURN IN HELL TWO PUMP CHUMP BABY DICK AHAHA.

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WTF?

After this encounter if it was written LIKE THAT I don't think we would have seen Irenicus in top-10 game villains of all time. Why would I take Irenicus seriously if his creators didn’t? And this is exactly what bloody happened to Raphael. That’s 90% of what is discussed of him nowadays outside of the Raphael girlies corner.