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I love your durge x Gortash so much! I really enjoyed how Gortash reacted badly (tho valid) to Durge talking to Raphael in your comic, shadow of Durge. Not many people explore that angle regarding the ramifications of Gortash’s experience in the house of hope impacted him as a person.

hello Anon!

thanks for your kind words😊😊

I love exploring the humans interactions in BG3, and I think Gortash is one of the most interesting villan, do I decided to explore his character.

I think the fact that his family literally sold him to slavery, ending in the house of Hope as a child did traumatized Gortash a lot.

I think he didn't talk about this experience because that made him feel humiliated, and he just vaguely told Durge that he doesn't like devils, never explaining why.

(and look at his shoes, the have littles devils on it. as if Gortash want to squash them)

And that's miscommunication was the problem.

we see in the game that everyone is suspicious and untrusting about devils.

my Durge though his dislike was just the norm, so, calling at devil and see if they could help him to control the dark urges was not that big deal.

Raphael is a bitch, but a very intelligent bitch, and he had a hand in both Ketrich and Gortash past, and I think he checked on them from time to time to see if there was something interesting goin on.

so, think when he hear THE bhaalspawn head of the murder cult need some help just because he catched feelings for the little runt Raphael had as a slave in the past?

Raphael HAD to put his hands on him, but when my Durge refuse in the end to make a deal with him, Raphael took a little petty revenge, making sure Gortash knew about it, taunting him about the "deal" Durge wanted to do.

Gortash, didn't take it well, and he confronted Durge, angry as hell that Durge called a devil, THAT devil to resolve his problems, even after all the time he told him to never trust a their kind.

the strong emotions both had were so intense, that they didn't listen at each other, and that brought a crack in their relationship and the future lobotomy of Durge.

Hey I've been following you a while and sorry if I missed anything but I've been wondering about this for a bit... I can see that Jacq post tadpole is druid. Was he druid before too or some other class?

Hello there Anon!👋

thanks you so much for your following and the question (I loooooveee when they ask me things about Jacq)

so, you didn't miss anything, I didn't specify what class Jacq was pre tadpole.

SO, for understanding the decision I have to explain the vision I have for him. from when he was taken back to the cult and until Orin's betrayal, Jacq was know to anyone except Gortash as Durge.

Sarevok and Sceleritas have done a big work on gaslighting and brainwashing Jacq , and one of the impositions they given to him is a new name, Durge, or Dark Urge, to mark him as the ultimate spawn of Bhaal, and erase what was Jacq before.

They had chosen everything on Jacq, Durge life, and that mean his class to, who was Eldritch Knight.

until Durge meet Gortash.

the relationship they had helped Durge discovering things about himself outside the cult, understanding and trying new things and returning to be Jacq instead of Durge.

when he was a young boy, Jacq wanted to be a Druid, because he liked plants and animals, and it was encouraged by his foster family to continue that road. After he killed his family, he just let others decided for him (mainly Bhaal), but after he shared his real name with Gortash, the encouragement of pursuing his own wish returned, and lead to Jacq changing his class, and becoming a druid.

(pardon my english if I did some errors 🥲)