The Once and Future Champion (Baldur's Gate 3/Dragon Age)

[BigBad]

I do like the game-canonical reason for Shadowheart's hair change quite a bit. It matches up perfectly with my experience with a number of young women who react to stressful personal revelations or life events with a self-inflicted change to their hair style and/or coloring. It allows them to exert control over an aspect of themselves when they otherwise feel they've lost control of their circumstances.

But I like your version too. She really needed some sign of divine favor after her experiences with Shar. Like a dog who's only ever been kicked getting its first gentle petting. It also forces her to reconcile what it means to be a Selunite, something she never fully does in the game where she doesn't ever actively worship Selune even while still getting cleric powers from her.

Thos is usually the point where I swap her over to Nature Domain, which I don't think is actually one of Selune's granted domains, but which I feel fits her best as she actually quite likes wilderness, solitude, and especially animals.

Anyway, great chapter.

 

[LeonT]

Never forget Default Hawke's fine-ass beard.

I can see Shadowheart being into it.

 

[BigBad]

Beard so good they brought it back. You can select a basically identical beard for your Rook in Veilguard. As a matter of fact, you can basically completely recreate Hawke in Veilguard. They added his warpaint and Mage Hawke's champion armor as cosmetic collectables.

 

[cliffc999]

Never forget Default Hawke's fine-ass beard.

I can see Shadowheart being into it.

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My boy entirely has the default looks and beard, yes.

Thos is usually the point where I swap her over to Nature Domain

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I'm swapping her to Light domain, even though that's not one of Selune's domains either. First, it's thematically appropriate, and second, the Blood of Lathander's been right there throughout her conversion.

 

[Balorak146]

Never forget Default Hawke's fine-ass beard.

I can see Shadowheart being into it.

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Hawke's had twelve years to grow that beard out from the start of DA2 and he's been living on the run for almost half that time, there's no doubt in my mind that it's even more handsome and rugged than ever.

 

[DIT_grue]

Spoiler: Suggestions

A flurry of Wyll's eldritch blasts peppered Myrkul, chippng him a bit, and I took a moment to do a quick survey of my allies and their positioning.

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chipping

Myrkul's eyes hissed, and his eyes flared blood-red as he gazed directly at Shadowheart. My heart froze as I realized that I couldn't block this-

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Delete this?

Necrotic chill crawled across Shadowheart's flesh, visibly wounding her further, and her face flinched in terror as I felt the corona of an otherworldly terror strike at her mind. My imagination could almost hear the faint sounds of howling wolves as a distant echo, as the Reaper apparently drew forth her greatest fears to break her concentration-

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The repetition seems particularly awkward here, though I don't have a good fix to offer. Could just delete the first one and let flinched as stand without further elaboration?

"M'not that drunk." she insisted. "And no. I think I'll just out and watch the moon rise for a while. Say my first real prayers to her. Just let it... sink in."

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Missing word - probably stay or sit?

 

[Cosmic Dream]

A beautiful conclusion to Act 2.

Sadly, I'll have to stop reading along now until I can dig out a week or two to actually finish the game myself. I'll definitely be back after that, though.

 

[LordofBones]

Man, the BG3 cast is really, really lucky that MotB Myrkul or PnP Myrkul never showed up.

Mask of the Betrayer had arguably the best portrayal of any of the Dead Three, with Myrkul's verbal flaying of Kaelyn being the highlight of the expansion. He just tears into your companions' insecurities and feelings with that cold whisper of his, giving absolutely zero shits about any of them.

"When you go before Kelemvor, little dove, see what he says to your reasons and your appeals. Ask him to dispense with ritual, with the agonies of the Wall. And listen to his answer. At that moment you will fall. You will know that the Planes turn, and justice does not drive them."

Pnp Myrkul? Forget the scythe or the rotting touch; PnP Myrkul casts necromancy spells at three times normal effectiveness.