Tav: Thalia - Tumblr Posts

Thalia, Gale, and the Great Netherbrain of (insert BG3 year here)

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I'm not done adding colors to it but I'll post the greyscale now :)

Photo I used for the reference!!

*hands you my tavs* Would anyone want to ask any questions about them or possible doodle requests with them and the companions bc I want to Think about them and also I want to draw more about them and the companions but have no ideas

Left is Thalia my high elf storm sorc/tempest cleric and right is Dee my rock gnome wizard!!

(I also recently started an evil durge playthrough with my drow monk Felynual (Felony is her nickname) but have no pictures or doodles of her yet)

Please and thank youwu

Hey!! I’d love to see Thalia and Gale being domestic, if you don’t mind!! Your art is GORGEOUS.

I’d also love to learn more about Thalia’s backstory or any Gale headcannons you had!

I hope this counts as being domestic I just can't resist a good nap time moment :') and I also wanted to just do doodles but I got carried away and started coloring 😭 coloring has never been my strong suit so I hope this is fine

And uaaa thank you for thinking my art is gorgeous!!! I'm honestly really glad to see people are enjoying my silly doodles here thank you!!

--- vv Thalia backstory blurb vv ---

In terms of backstory, honestly I haven't been able to flesh it out much yet! I also don't know much about dnd lore (I really wish I did) so anything I say here may not be consistent with lore :'D

However, what I have so far is Thalia used to be Thalia Adkrana, daughter of a noble family from a powerful bloodline of storm sorcerers. Despite being the 4th born child out of 5 children, since birth she's shown to be more blessed with magic than anyone in her family, powerful storms raging around her constantly when she was younger and destroying anything around her, causing trouble for her family. As she grew older, she may have logically understood how it is to keep her lightning under control, but whenever she gets very emotional her magic tends to lash out in response to her reactions. Growing up privileged and powerful, she also developed a bit of a superiority complex and an awful temper when things don't go her way, so not really a good combo when her magic gets unstable when she's upset.

Because of this, her family preferred keeping her within their property as much as possible to avoid dealing with her and to avoid troubling others, especially when one wrong outburst from her could ruin their family reputation. Growing up isolated from world didn't really help her grow and mature properly either, and her temper tantrums got worse and worse the longer she was kept in there and the more her family seemed to just give up on her. The only one she could really confide in and find comfort in was her younger brother.

Everything really changed when one day she decided to speak up against her family and demanding they let her leave the house, let her come with them to one of their social gatherings. Hells, she's been trapped in their property for so many years at this point she wants to engage with people, even peasants at this point because she'd rather deal with them than look at the same suffocating decor for even another second. Voices and tempers rising, she grew more and more frustrated as her parents kept shutting down every argument she could come up with, and the more the storms around her grew the more she proved that her parents were right for keeping her in. Angry at them, angry at herself, thunder roared and the lightning sparks dancing around her gathered into huge bolts of lightning, surging out of her in rage as if her magic itself was screaming out for her if her words and her voice couldn't reach her family. She knew they had every good reason to not let her out, knowing her own lack of control over her own emotions - but maybe if they trusted her just once, guided her, saw her as someone in desperate need of help instead of a stain on their family name, maybe things could've been different.

But that's not how we got to this point. A loud thud of a body falling flat on the ground snapped her out of her state and right beside them lay one of their servants, dead at her feet, and as if the panic she was feeling couldn't get any worse, just close by she saw her younger brother lying on the floor, badly hurt and crying out from pain. Immediately her parents, older siblings, and anyone who heard them nearby rushed to her little brother and the poor servant, doing their best to take care of the situation and Thalia stood there silent, watching her world fall apart in front of her eyes.

The order to banish her from their home came soon after, no longer Thalia Adkrana but simply Thalia, removing her status and all the benefits that name gave. Since she so desperately wanted to go out and see the world, now the world is all she'll have and no home to return to.

Kinda really awful timing when shortly after she started her new unwanted life as an adventurer, she got picked up by a nautiloid and had a tadpole squirming its way behind her eye.

And also shortly after meeting poor souls who shared the same unfortunate tadpole situation she was facing, it's no wonder Thalia fell so hard for a certain wizard who showed her in one night how beautiful, intimate, and warm magic could be as it enveloped her whole being like a gentle embrace - that her power and her emotions were something she could learn to channel and not be afraid of, a perspective her family failed to teach her for years. And even if at times she still found herself electrocuting the waters they stood on in her anger or excitement and hurting them, or maybe her temper would get the best of her again and she would unconsciously lash out at them before she could even realize she was yelling, after every argument or petty insults thrown at each other, they would still watch out for one another and care for each other and soon after they'd be sitting around a campfire laughing and enjoying each other's company.

It's no wonder once she's found a family she truly belonged in and felt safe in that her true nature finally bloomed after being suppressed for so long - a kind, lonely girl who loved being around people and helping them in all the ways she wished she could've helped her younger self ages ago, never letting anyone get left behind and given up on like she was back then.

Although being out of touch from reality for many years did create a lot of very awkward moments when interacting with people during the beginning of their journey, she did learn very fast how best to compose herself in public - best she could when the ones teaching her are also a couple of social outcasts but hey it's fine.

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Whew! That's a lot actually. Idek if any of that makes sense I'm not going to proofread all that :') I also don't really have any Gale headcanons I do really enjoy reading other people's headcanons about him though!

I hope this answer is sufficient ^_^

More doodles :) with professor Gale who still has the orb

I really like him with glasses actually or maybe I just like Gale

"You're already everything I need you to be."

I dunno man have my rough Goddess of Temperance/Self-Restraint Thalia in the Hades style

I can not find the post anymore but there was someone who made God of Ambition Gale in the Hades style so I wanted to draw my Galemancing tav Thalia if she ever ascended with him and in Hades 2 style very impulsive and self-indulgent doodle that's not a doodle anymore

(Might clean this up and make it better another time)

Wip of Hades stormweave

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This Hades AU is on my mind actually whole idea of like him regretting his ascension, never having told Thalia that he ascended because of ambition but also because he wished to spend eternity with her, she assumed he just left her for power so she broke things off with him, listening to their respective stories and like Hades-Persephone you can reunite them and Thalia would ascend with him etc etc

I'm still trying to do that cozy sleepy Gale but Hades AU has taken over temporarily

For the 2 or 3 people who listen to the lore of my tavs, something has been cooking in my mind for a bit.

Dee's an Astarionmancer. She does love him dearly, I love the two of them so much. Lawful good detective x chaotic vampire gremlin? I love it

But then I do imagine she held a lot of grief over not being able to dissuade Gale from pursuing the crown, especially when he didn't know much about it or how to even control it, so the moment he picked up the pieces of the crown he instantly died. When she met his image at the reunion party and realized that the consequence of not getting to know him well enough, of not letting him read about the Annals of Karsus, was that she wouldn't be able to stop him from pursuing the crown and dying alone, I think she'd live with that guilt for the rest of her life. She would learn to eventually live with it, forgive herself, and live out the rest of her life with Astarion and die of old age.

But then what if she gets reincarnated back in time, and she realizes she can get to know Gale this time around? Be a better friend, know him better, listen to him, and truly understand him in a way she never did back then. What if she realizes how much she missed out on his company? How much she'd actually come to enjoy it?

What if in this AU, she starts to develop feelings for him, too? And she holds back. She feels like she's betraying the love she had for Astarion, even though that life is over and has reached its natural end?

Angst brainworms in an alternate universe where Dee gets to redo everything she failed to do in her past life.

Either that, or the idea that Dee's grief over unintentionally killing Gale being so great, that this carried over to my next Galemancing tavs/durge with the strong urge to protect him and keep him safe. Her strong platonic love for Gale carried over to Thalia, to Calliope, to Stelle and bloomed into romantic love for them.

I love Dee, my first BG3 OC.

Might make a comic about this if my hand allows it.

Actually, speaking of the anniversary, here's the Stormweave doodle that started the Gale brainrot:

Here's what propelled the tee-dohrnii blog:

And here's my current fave and more recent doodle!

And before BG3, I've been pretty down on my art and not very motivated to draw, but then Gale happened!! It's been very fun since then :)

Gale hugs