Not Attached To The Ask Game, But: Tell Me About Time! Was Time Itself A Semi-tangible Material For You

Not attached to the ask game, but: tell me about time! Was time itself a semi-tangible material for you to manipulate? Did it have a look/feel? Or was it just a sort of invisible concept? So on and so forth.

-from a humble spider friend

Hmm… hello spider friend hehe. This is actually something I’ve been looking for an excuse to talk about, so thank you.

I wear an eyepatch - I traded my left eye for the ability to see through time. I also wield the Timestave - A gift from Corellon (dammit, not even two paragraphs in and challenge failed) upon my ascension to godhood. He gives one to every new Seldarine - In my canon, at least. Not sure if that’s canon lore. The quarterstaff serves as a proxy for my manipulation of the continuum. I can use it to concentrate or spread the flow of time. Of course, I can do that without my staff. My timestave just makes it easier!

Now for how I actually see it - I can summon a glass tube filled with running sand. This sand represents the continuum, and I spend most of my time watching over it. When some of the sand gets clogged up, or moves incorrectly, this is how I know someone - whether mortal or immortal - is fucking with my shit. Small clumps can be things like immortality and minor time travel while larger occurances such as the Spellplague caused larger clumps. I learned the hard way (tried to show Ollie) that only I can see this physical manifestation of the continuum. Oops.

Fun fact! I am (mostly) the reason that time didn’t stop when Ao told us all to piss off (the Time of Troubles).

Gale.

21?

21 - Favorite character in source material?

Hmm. That’s an interesting one because my source material is,,, all of d&d. So maybe Drizzt Do’urden? Classically famous drow. Very popular among some of the Seldarine for being a good drow and very unpopular among others for being… well, a drow. If you mean ones I personally know, Bhaal was unironically pretty chill. Yes yes I wasn’t supposed to be around evil deities (esp one of the dead three) and Corellon would’ve had my head if he found out but I needed something interesting in my life or I would’ve gone bonkers. Or - if you mean across any and all modules - Flapjack the flumph from the Light of Xaryxis module. OR — do video games count? Maybe that one guy from the tutorial of Neverwinter Nights. Wait that opens up all of BG3;;;; Astarion? Gale? I can’t choose.

TL;DR: the answer is ‘yes’.

YOOOO

10 and also 11, if it suits you!

10 - Something that reminds you of your canon?

Trees. I have no idea why. Maybe my tower was surrounded by oak in Arvandor. I just know that the feeling of bark on a cool, wet day has sparked too many memories for it to be a coincidence.

11 - Was there someone you wished you had gotten to know better? If so, who?

Ollie, my creation, or in less clinical terms, my son. I had created him as a vessel but ultimately abandoned him and sent him off to go live a mortal's life. Eventually started keeping an eye on him and forged a contract with him, as his adoptive father had gained immortality and I needed to put a stop to that. After the terms of our contract were fulfilled, I made him my chosen. Our bond danced the lines between god and chosen, boss and employee, father and son, friends - Corellon had asked me once if I had taken a mortal lover "or something". That was horribly awkward.

*Slaps down another non-character poll*

Given that BG3 lacks a “Teen” model, only “Child” and “Adult” (and the lack, in many fantasy settings, of standard age qualifiers), I can’t honestly tell if these guys are smashable. I’d been giving them the benefit of the doubt, given they have Adult in game models and assuming they’re just a touch younger than Lae’zel (22). However, the BG3 Community Wiki has them listed under the “Children” category. What’s y’all’s take on this? Or does anyone have any better reliable information on Githyanki development in Forgotten Realms lore.

The outcome of this poll with also determine the fate of some characters in Act 3 which could also be figured to be teenagers instead of young adults, but hard to tell since they have adult models since teen ones don’t exist (Oyster Boy Dringo, Prayerboy Zoryxx, Ptaris, Jaheira’s Wards (Jord & Rion)).