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All your durgeheart content is perfection. Keep it up!

Aww thank you! Honestly, I’m nervous whenever I actually post anything lol. But it’s even more frustrating if I can’t have any outlet to put out any lore stuck in my head so I just post whatever.

Hello! I really really loved reading through takes like this about the fic!

Yes, I did read when I was still writing the fic before about the similarities between Durge and Guts. I honestly haven’t gotten around finishing the manga THEN, and his design is obviously inspired by Guts lol. But after writing the fic, I decided to jump and actually read the manga.

Boy, now that you mentioned it, Griffith actually does fit Pre-BG3 Balehrys! And now that I think about it, Present-BG3! Balehrys is now much more similar to Guts. I did not even realize stuff like this until you guys point it out and that is so amazing!

Hello! Yeah, that was very intentional. I always thought that Bhaal practically designed Durge on how they would be treated as and seen in the realm. Balehrys is a half-drow that bears little to no resemblance to a usual half-drow. The only thing that gave it away is the other Lolth-red eye of his. He was made to be a half-drow since lorewise, they are often cast out or isolated by both humans and drow. Bhaal wanted Balehrys to be easily isolated from any form of attachments from the beginning, and that starts with him being a half-drow.

Balehrys was intentionally made to look confusing and odd. He looks like someone that is easily mistaken to be half-elf or human or wood elf or drow, you would have to make a double take on what he actually is. He is too tall and buff for a drow. His skin makes him look more of a human than a half drow. He is considered to have a typically attractive face that draws people in and make them trust him enough, but at the same time intimidating enough to scare them off. So he looks ordinary enough at the same time something looks odd about him. He was always somewhere in the middle.

That’s what I was going for when I made him. Also I have a little HC that in a way Bhaal looks just like him when he was still a mortal. But that’s just me.

Hello! Thank you! Really I’m surprised at the recent traction the fic is getting lately lol. He’s a Tiefling Paladin, and was the subconscious reason why Durge has a soft spot for tieflings in Act 1 despite not remembering anything.

Anyway, here is my Dream Guardian (also how the mentor looks)for Balehrys’s run every time

Bonus my Durge because I love him so much I’ll use any excuse to put him in here

Hello! Oh wow, they do sound quite similar 😮 Amaldriin sounds really cool! And I totally agree with loving the nature vs nurture thing going with Durge, it was actually the reason why I found playing as Durge in the game a bit more interesting than doing a Tav. Admittedly ever since I made a Durge playthrough, the game hits different already lol. Resist! Durge and Selunite Shadowheart will always be my OTP in this game solely because of the possible dynamics they have with their similar circumstances (which is why I wrote the fic actually lol) . I just really wish this was touched upon more in game 🥹

And thank you?! Really for the past weeks I’m really surprised that my fics gained traction just like when I was still uploading it. So really, that meant a lot when you guys read and engage with it. It really made my day!

I just want you to know that I randomly stumbled across your Tumblr after having organically discovered Whispers of Scarlet and Midnight Blooms on AO3. It was so good and I love the way you wrote each character, even side characters. In that particular area I thought your monologue for Orin was very in-character for her.

I write on my own occasionally, and though it’s nothing grand, seeing other people like yourself devoting your passion to write really inspires me to keep going. I really do mean all the praise and after seeing your artwork I can tell you really do dive deep into your interests. I hope to see more of your work in the future but I just felt the instinct to send you this.

P.S. Also had a question I promised myself to ask in case I ever did find a way to contact the writer of your story. Toward the end, with the letter from Sarevok, I thought since Withers purged Baenrahel/Durge’s blood of Bhaal’s influence, would his children (and their children thereafter) still be considered Bhaalspawn? Or is this something else entirely?

Thanks again - Docisback

Oh thank you so much! I truly appreciate you reaching out to me about my fic, I do love talking about it tbh 😅 I hope to continue writing again soon as I got in a hiatus due to work and school.

As for the question, this entirely on how I understood what was given in game and some homebrew shit I thought of. So it may be purely just applicable in my own fic’s lore 😅. It is true that Bhaal had taken away his “gift” ie the dark urges, but I personally think that is what is only taken. Think of it as something about the parts of a person which is the Mind, Body, Heart and Soul thing. In Mind, obviously the madness of the Dark Urges. In Heart, there are hints in the fic that Bhaal had purposefully influenced Balehrys to lose any sense of empathy or care to any living creature by subjecting him to the worst side of people when he was still a kid (being a beaten up street urchin, isolated by society by intentionally making him a half-drow which is more often frowned upon by both surfacers and drows, getting thrown into a war as a squire, forced to break his oaths, hence getting isolated again by other paladins, etc. And Soul obviously is one where all children of Bhaal are tied to him, especially those who were loyal to him. If you reject him, Durge soul is automatically meant to be in the Fugue Plane, meaning totally abandoned.

In a Redeemed! Durge path, he basically reversed all those three parts which bound him to Bhaal. He fought his madness, found a family in his companions and literally fell in love with Shadowheart, grew back his emphatic self before Bhaal, and the evident part of Bhaal casting him off when he rejects him after the duel with Orin. In addition to that he even had Jergal’s favor.These three parts of his being are what I imagined Withers was pertaining to when he told Durge that ‘something in him had grown in his travels that Bhaal could not extinguish’. Hence, allowing him to bring him back completely because he had remade those three parts of him.

All except the last part which is the Body. In Body, Durge is still purely made out of Bhaal, even more so than other well known Bhaalspawn. He’s essentially like Bhaal 2.0, in that case, his whole DNA is still actually Bhaal’s. I doubt Withers would magically conjure him a new body lol. So that said after Wither’s revived him, he is technically still a Bhaalspawn, only lacking the dark urges and any divine connection he initially had with Bhaal. Essentially, his Body still carries Bhaal’s blood but everything else is free from his taint.

So when his children at the epilogue were born, they still has Bhaal’s blood. And by definition, still a Bhaalspawn. Except this time, they do not have the innate ties to Bhaal that came with a Bhaalspawn by birth, ie the bloodlust, the divine connection, and the potential influence of him can be mitigated if done right. Which is why I hinted in the end that Withers ‘blessed’ his kid, as he intended to guide him the way he guided Arabella in the game.

As for Sarevok’s letter, I think it’s more of that he didn’t truly care for any of that. He believed that even if Durge’s kids may not have complete connection to Bhaal, there will always be a chance that they might be lured back to Bhaal. So he is betting on how cruelties and even loss in the realm, like how he and Durge had experienced, would still somehow bring them back to Bhaal. A bit of a bitter sentiment from him, but yeah. That’s how I imagined it.

So the kids will end up fine, as long as they are guided well and raised well. His only concern at the moment if said kids inherited the Hallowleaf’s wolf blood 😂😭

He could never not smile when he sees the moon of his life. That much he knew.

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