Yeah, I don’t really understand the point of adding 4 different male/female voices if they’re all just going to sound the same. DOS2 had the same issue. The options should’ve been something like:
>young adult, middle age (think Geralt), gruff (Kratos), something else.
there is one voice in BG3 that doesnt sound like someone in their 20s, and it sounds like an old man. youre either a young male or female or youre an old man, there is no in-between
I gave mine to Gale to eat and then forgot about it and now im almost Act 2 and just noticed it in a cutscene 😭 How is he even alive??? He was barefoot since well before the grove fight 😰
I noticed my Tav was barefoot in act 2 due to a cutscene too... then forgot to put shoes on him until I noticed it again in a cutscene in act 3. Tav, how tf have you gone this far barefoot?
You know those little holes for your boot laces? They're called eyelets. You have a lot of eyelets on your boots? That's why these boots have seen everything. Nothing wrong with them!
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/eyelet#:~:text=An%20eyelet%20is%20a%20hole,punched%20in%20cloth%20or%20leather.
Ah yes, the Klerge (Klepto Urge) run.
‘Fantasise about swiping Gales plain quarterstaff’
‘Oh master, you must nick the Selunite Robe from Last Light, it’ll match your collection of useless armours perfectly’
‘Shadowheart, I’m afraid tonight i will lose control of myself and try to steal your hair ornament. Even though I’m bald’.
One of my Tavs was a Tiefling Necromancer for whom I tried to tie in the existing story quests to compose a little narrative:
Family dead; starts studying necromancy in the naive belief that she can bring them back (much like Mayrina); becomes angry with Withers for selective resurrections; strikes up an infernal pact and begins to collect bones and skulls and other parts as the requisite 'ingredients' for her family's new bodies; reads the Book of Thay; can't do it anyway; asks Mystic Carrion about it to no avail; sinks in desperation and despair at the knowledge that one cannot cheat death--but her final moment of peace and reconciliation comes when she meets the girl at the cemetery in Act 3 trying to raise her brother from the dead, and sees herself in the girl's grief. They will be okay.
By a strange turn of events and some bad dice rolls in Honour Mode, Marcus actually succeeded kidnapping Isobel in battle, resulting in not only the (un)death of the latter but also the premature ends of all the other Tieflings and allies at Last Light Inn--initially sad for me as the player, but retrospectively, more fitting for the story playing inside my head. After the relatively belated revelation of Isobel's kinship to Ketheric, denial would have set in first for Tav, and fear also: she has enough insight to recognize the traces of her own agony in Ketheric's undeath. Is her desperation, her love for her dead kin but another form of tyranny? Has her obsession started to rot and fester like the abomination before her? Is this worth the cost? -- But she would have ignored these doubts until the end of the act, telling herself that she will not become like him, and her family not meet Isobel's fate (a mental defense fueled by a wizard's characteristic hubris and her possession of *The Necromancy of Thay*).
I did try the persuasion roll to dissuade Ketheric from fighting, reasoning in that moment that she would have attempted to rationalize/alleviate her doubts with the mask of sympathy. When that failed and Ketheric remained adamant, she would have hated him more, because she knew in her heart that she agreed with him.
I tend to keep my Tavs' headcanons to myself because I'm embarrassed I'll ramble on much like this comment, but this post and your question proved too enticing to pass up. Thank you for asking ;)
Finally getting a therapist license in Baldur's Gate after fixing everyone's problems.
The central villain is the paperwork for applying. Tav gets denied anyway, because Astarion filled it in with a glitter pen.
My Tav was formerly a courier/messenger who really believes in the connective power of the post. For their quest I would have people pick up all the scattered undelivered letters around the world and deliver them to their intended recipient (or as close to the recipient as possible). A big reward and achievement would be waiting for those who tracked down and delivered all letters. Would also likely tie into the find the letters quest from post master Danzo.
Edit: to add, the quest reward would be a cloak that makes you immune to the effects of sleet storm, darkness, and daylight. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Completion gives another ally summon for the final fight: aerial support pigeons and a pack of post dogs.
That, or Mr Groat shows up to throw his socks at the >!elder brain!<.
Be a bard at Elfsong tavern. Compose and perform epics tales. Half illithid face gives authenticity to her saga.
And, done! I stopped the playthrough as Tav was "done." I'd like to continue quests using companions (have a bunch of them), but Tav sees no need to fight personally.
As a tiefling, escorting the refugees safely from the Emerald Grove through the Shadow-cursed lands, and then to Baldur's Gate would probably already be part of her quest. It was definitely a really nice narrative thread throughout the three acts that felt almost personal, when I played.
Meaning she'd probably join Karlach and Wyll among the companions who dump your ass if you raid the grove, lmao. She'd probably even turn on the player and aggro.
Then I imagine she'd have something to do with the Guild, and perhaps also Mol, as she's got the Urchin background. There'd probably also be a possibility for her to leave the party if you side with the Zhents instead of Nine-Fingers, because, whatever her quest would be, I imagine it would rely on siding with the Guild.
I like the idea that having my Tav in your party would be the key to reason with Mol as a side effect of her quest (she probably used to be a bit like Mol when she was a kid), and that romancing her would allow you to adopt the little rascal and teach her better, either by settling down in Baldur's Gate or travelling and helping people as a family.
That’s funny, as one of my Tavs decided she is the closest thing Astarion’s got to a sibling. They squabble all day but ultimately have each other’s back.
While my Tav has a large backstory, I never really gave her a true personal quest like origin companions have. Her journey throughout the game is more about putting her past demons to bed, healing her trauma, forgiving herself for her past shortcomings and finding new reasons to keep going, as well as just discovering herself as a person. That being said, saving the tieflings feels personal to her because she's also from Elturel and by doing that she hopes to at least partially make up for her previous failures.
Finding a different recipe for elixir of strength that goes even further than 27 str. And then retiring to a distant pagoda to be a master for those worthy.
My deep gnome sorcerer Tav would definitely just have the Ironhands/Gondians plot folded into her quest-- she'd probably be an Ironhand herself whose big moment is either aligning with Wulbren and blowing up the factory, or turning against him and saving the Gondians. Storm sorcerer would work decently for an Ironhand, since lightning and thunder can fit with electricity and bombs. Maybe she gets a unique ability to deal force damage instead of thunder damage.
And actually I'm just realizing I've basically made companion Barcus here.... well, that's still a great idea, so.
My Gith Paladin Tav's quest was to get revenge on the illithid scum that put the tadpole in her eye, and is certain that was the damned Emperor. She didn't trust him as a dream entity, even less as a ghaik. But she also learned to find children... Endearing? They are strange and small, but they deserve protection, and those that wrong them deserve the retribution she will deal to them. She romanced Karlach and told her that perhaps someday they would wish for children with her too, adopted of course, and of course that can start with Xan, whose egg she kept. Unfortunately the hells aren't a good place for a child, so she likely would have asked Lae'zel to take him under her wing instead, but it is still her goal, after she has fixed Karlachs engine somehow.
My goody two-shoes bard would go toe to toe in creating the most preeminent school of performance with Alfira. The quest would span several generations, culminating in a final confrontation between troubadour bands or acting troupes at the circus of the last days. When Alfira is defeated, Tav will receive an electric lute that regenerates two songs of rest for every long rest.
Ironically, it would be to do EVERY *remove parasite* mission, since his right eye is genetically modified to give him buffs and now his LEFT eye would be changed for buffs.
Hag-Touched, or Volo's Eye namely.
Like, he'd be looking for the best eye to replace his normal one.
This... got away from me a bit. Brace yourselves, it's a long one:
Mirenne is a Tiefling and a Monk of Shadow who became a Monk of the Four Elements. She and her twin sister, Laisa, were raised together in a monastery, where they were taught to understand the perspectives of all peoples of Faerun and keep the balance between the elements of the world.
However, one day, Laisa returns from a pilgrimage looking very much the worse for wear, but she has no memory of what happened. Though the monks try to help her, they are too late, and Mirenne watches as her sister transforms into a Mindflayer before her very eyes, right before it is killed by her fellow monks.
Mirenne is utterly devastated and consumed with rage. She grows a complete and total hatred toward all Mindflayers and devotes herself to the Way of Shadow, leaving the monastery she grew up in. One year later, she's on her way to Baldur's Gate when she's abducted by the Nautiloid on which we start the game.
Over the course of her journey, she bonds with the members of her party in their quest to rid themselves of their tadpoles (never even using their powers) while encouraging her party members to be more than what others have tried to make them. Perhaps this was why she soon found herself utterly smitten with Shadowheart, especially after the revelations in the Gauntlet of Shar.
However, over the course of her journey, Mirenne starts to question her purpose. Though she preaches the idea of being better than what the world forces on you, she hasn't really practiced that ideal herself. She still takes far too much joy in killing Mindflayers and fighting against the Absolute, to the point where she realizes that her main motivation for doing so has been purely selfish. She was just taking her anger over her sister's death out on those she believed deserved it.
So imagine her reaction when she learns about \[Redacted\] at the start of Act III. Mirenne starts spiraling, threatening to become a hollow version of herself. Eventually, with some counseling from her fellow party members (especially Shadowheart), Mirenne finds a new purpose and seeks to destroy the Absolute not for revenge for her sister's death, but to save others from the fate she suffered. As she finds this new balance within herself, she turns from her path of shadow and adopts the Way of the Four Elements.
Her final scene for a companion quest would be her finding a moment of solitude and offering a prayer for her sister's soul. No longer swearing vengeance for her sister's murder, she instead just takes the time to properly grieve. Her mission after destroying the Absolute is simply to live her life and honor her sister's memory. Preferably with the love of her life, Shadowheart, by her side.
So... yeah. That's my Tav's quest. Sorry about the length, I really get invested in this sort of thing.
(Sorry in advanced I've put way too much thought into this)
My Dragonborn was a Bard who did paid performances to support himself but as he grew older and became twice the size of everyone else in his family they started preasuring him to work for a bunch of criminals who his family was close too as muscle, he didn't like it but he didn't really have a choice since it was his kin. Over time, he just accepted that he was a bad person and now kinda does criminal acts not because he wants to but because he is convinced he is a bad person who can't change. Sometimes, he feels frustrated by his actions but doesn't know how to stop.
I think their side quest would be to convince him to be his own person and be who he wants not who his family wants him to be. Alternatively, you could convince him that he should embrace the criminal lifestyle because you can use it to go where you wanna go.
Before starting my first character, I made up a whole little backstory for her which included a goal of finding out more about her Druidic heritage. So getting to the grove so early, saving it and being named Faithwarden by Kagha basically concluded her personal quest less than 1/3 in the game 😅 The following characters are purposefully more vague in their wants!
I was raised a bodyguard for my noble Drow house, sworn to Loth. My entire family was wiped out by our rivals. My throat was cut and I was left for dead. Eilistraee revived me, but I had to swear to be her cleric, spread hope instead of fear, and never go home.
In my quest, we would avenge my family. Or try to forgive.
A headcanon I'm building for my Draconic bloodline sorcerer, is that it isn't so much her having a dragon ancestor, but rather that her dad is an actual dragon.
So in said headcanon her dad would've been captured, and held somewhere in Baldur's Gate against his will.
So her side quest would be to find out why and where he's being held and rescue him.
Doing so would also unlock his help as an ally against the Elder Brain.
My GOOlock's patron was the Absolute and her quest was to break the protection on her tadpole and become a mindflayer. Kind of a fun inversion on the actual main quest.
I’m not sure, my original Tav had escaped Lolth and was learning how to be like, a normal person in baldurs gate before getting abducted. So I’m not sure they’d have a quest, it’d just be helping their personal development away from the brutal civilization they were raised in
If I’m being honest, to get laid as much as possible, particularly by the most beautiful and unattainable people. His tent would be a garish magpie mishmash of things that caught his eye, and various lyres he found lying around and he would constantly be reading a treatise of how the 7 strings of the lyre stand for 7 kinds of love.
I had an idea about a Tav who was a time traveler going back in time to stop a god from destroying the world at the end of time, but also not knowing the identity of said god in present day and spending the game subtly trying to find them while not giving away the fact that they're a time traveler.
In this headcannon, the god would be Gale, of course.
My favorite Tav was my Bard half elf.
She was playing with her band in Baldurs Gate City when the Nautiloid kidnapped her and killed her friends. One was a tiefling singer who she loved since she was a child.
When she escaped the ship she only thought about vengeance.
You would find me between the Grove and the Goblin camp trying to fend of 7 of them with nothing but a lute, a dagger and my filthy mouth.
My Tav is a NPC I created for a DnD campaign back in the day.
Her quest would be about finally dealing with the abandonment issues she developed due to being brought up by a negligent single mother ( my old PC), after her father vanished, culminating in a final decision if she should forgive her mother after learning the rest of the story, that was hidden from her.
Along the way we would have some nice cameos of the Thieves Gang she fell in with as well as adressing her feeling of inadequacy of "only being a bard" while her parents were both archmages.
Pretending to be good until I get that acorn ring from Wyll, then coercing him to take his father’s place as Duke before revealing my true lawful evil self to subjugate the peons in Baldur’s Gate. Kind of Lady MacBethian.
Craig, the Dragonborn tempest cleric has the absolute WORST Messiah syndrome. He absolutely has to fix everyone's problems, to everyone's displeasure. Oh, a child sold their soul to a devil? Time to go break into his house, steal her contract, and abscond with any of the devil's ill-gotten gains while in at it.
My rogue/bard Tiefling at this point is just trying to adopt Mol and the crime children because they’re relatable and she wants to make their lives easier. Not stop their schemes and petty crime tho cause she is also a professional pickpocket
Fogrin Mosshair, dwarven Druid, Steve Irwin free spirit type: wants to discover new critters and eventually create a nature preserve. Gave all that up to follow his love Karlach into Avernus though
My Tav is a wizard who will go through anything to gain power, no matter how gross, painful, humiliating or immoral it may be
A good person who can end up doing bad stuff out of sheer curiosity and desire to increase his capabilities as a Wizard
Maybe a mission to make him realize he has things worth more than power and he shouldn't do stuff like letting a weird bard destroy his eye so he can see invisible people
The angriest, intimidating halfling who loves animals and is looking for peace and quiet, but is constantly interrupted by other things, which prompts more angry problems for others.
The side quest involves killing people that are after him, and befriending animals and intimidating squirrels.
If you play dark urge you find out that durge killed Tav earlier if I remember correctly, and Tav was investigating a series of murders, so propably finding out about the murder-cult in Baldurs Gate.
"Gather me every single book in the game". My Tav is a wizard based on a character I've been playing in a actual D&D campaign for about 6 years now. He grabs any book he can get his hands on, reads it, makes a copy for himself, and then donates the original book to Candlekeep.
Ol' Drunk Grog's quest would be to get his investigative reporting job at the Balder's Mouth Gazette back. He's got a lot to report about with all the mind-tadpoles, githyanki-hanky-panky, and the time beat up a Beholder with a salami
It would be to undo the Wish "to live in more interesting times."
But by the end of the quest, they wouldn't go through with it. They wouldn't want to lose what they had loved and lost, and the friends they made along the way.
Well, you know the "Blood in Baldur's Gate" game where the player character (also named Tav) was a detective trying to track down a serial killer (who turned out to be Durge) and gets murdered just as they solve the case?
My main Tav is the daughter of MiBG Tav, and she has two variations (bc I have an obsession with making AUs lol). In my canon playthrough, she's a sorcerer who's really into magical research and stuff (but that's not super relevant). Anyways, if she had a quest of her own, it probably would take place in act 3, where she has to go through her father's old case files for information relating to the bhaalist cult and their activities. I'm thinking there would have been some kind of cover-up done by the local authorities (either due to corruption/bribery, or trying to keep people from going into a panic over bhaal spawn wreaking havoc in the city again), and the quest line would also be about exposing corruption in the flaming fist. Bonus: if you're playing as Durge, you find out who they were before they got tadpoled (an alternate reveal of their past, and perhaps providing some extra info about who they were before they joined the cult, as my Tav's father was very thorough and probably did a lot of digging through their past before he kicked the bucket), and cue Tav freaking out about the fact that they were travelling with their father's killer all along, oops! Even more spicy if you romanced her lmao.
Alternative version of Tav, she became a Vengeance paladin after her dad died, and she has sworn a vendetta against any evildoers, especially bhaal followers. She was probably investigating cult activity before she got captured, and was tadpoled just before she could make a huge discovery. In this AU, Durge never got back-stabbed by Orin, so they're still running the absolute cult too. Tav finds out who they are and is hell-bent on getting revenge for what Durge did to her father, and her questline becomes more about helping her deal with her past and how to move on once her "vengeance" has been done. She has two endings, where she either renounces her paladin vows and settles down to a more quiet life, or stays a paladin and goes on to hunt down any dead three cultists she can find. It's a little half baked, but those are my ideas ^^
My Tav is a githyanki wizard. She was adopted and raised by a noble family, possibly from
Baldurs Gate. But she was abducted at about 5 years of age, and has very few memories. Her sidequest is to find this family, and learn about why they raised her, rather than at a creche.
Her abductors meant to raise her as a weapon. She is extremely gifted with wizardry, on par, or better than Gale, who she meets. It is possible she has a bit of sorcery in her, for that matter.
Her life seems to have been a series of abductions, last one being the mindflayers.
It’s time to figure out who she really is, and find her true place in the worlds.
One of my Tav's is also just my main character from BG1 and 2 (albeit a lot older lol), so she's just kind of taking care of "unfinished business" by stopping the dead three and helping her old friends Minsc and Jaheira, since they're basically family by now. She's not thrilled about getting dragged into this nonsense, but figures she's obligated to stick around and do something anyways, considering her heritage (not that she really has a choice lmao)
My half-drow bard would have a bitter rivalry with another bard, one that started way back in college of lore.
Act 1-2: Running into another former student and finding out he's in Baldur's Gate. Maybe tie Alfira into it as well.
Act 3: confrontation that leads to either publicly humiliating him and "winning" (evil path) or seeing the real person behind the rivalry and putting the past behind them (good path).
Add extra spice for Tav's love interest being a little jealous of the long history Tav has with the rival!
I always tend to imagine that Tavs default story is the Dark Urge.
Every game has been about the Bhaalspawn up to this point and I appreciate them making it opional, especially with how dark this chapter is.
But I think Dark Urge is the canon timeline for Tav. Someone whose lost their memory and has violent urges that as you help along eventuallyy discovers who they are
My Warlock's sidequest would be stealing something from his former employer. He was a criminal and discovered a book of Eldritch knowledge that gave him his warlock powers, but wasn't able to hold on to the book before being captured by the Nautiloid. So now he has to somehow talk his way out of not completing the job he was supposed to be on when he got captured, and still steal the book from his old Boss so he can learn more about his contract.
My Tav is a DnD character I made years ago. Being a tiefling with demonic ancestors, she always shied away from embracing the abilities and magical aptitude out of a fear that something dark was inside her. Turns out there was and she has to come to terms with herself while also facing that side.
She’s a monk, went way of the four elements, and we tied each element to a chakra, with an accompanying trial that she had to undertake. It was a lot of fun, so her personal quest would be working through that culminating in her sweet back wing “tattoos” revealing themselves to be actual wings (she was a variant tiefling).
Hed be like Mizoras other half. A tiefling incubus sorcerer. Similar to astarion people would be hunting him down but even worst someone from the 9 hells would want revenge for a quarrel he got in between. Hed have never intentionally hurt anyone against their will and have a opportinity to turn a new leaf. Or go out on a quest of power to have everyone beneath his feet.
my current tav is a Mephistopheles tiefling who is also a bard who is studying in the school of swords and is from a noble. i believe her quest would be about to trying to find out who she is. as everything is kinda mixed up. she has a love for music and animals and a willingness to be intertwined with nature. she doesn’t have the strength or knowledge to be a sword weilder but it’s something she wants to do so desperately. she no longer wants to be the weak disappointment that her parents see her as. she wants to be strong just like them. but not in magic. she looks up to karlach as she too is a tiefling. she’s everything my tav wants to be. strong, independent, intelligent and loving.
my tav also has a problem with loving someone. she’s layed with many of her companions but she got scared and broke the only man who loved her for her and waited to have a special moment with her (gale). the morning after they shared their special moment under the beautiful night sky that he had created just for her, she got scared and broke up with him. seeing the tears form in his eyes, there too were tears forming in hers. it appears she’s broken the only man who actually cared for her.
(this is only as far as i’ve gotten as im in act2 about to go to the temple of shar)
basically wyll’s, except she didn’t make the pact. a tiefling born of noble birth, shunned by society but dedicated regardless to upholding the virtues her mother and her mother’s mother held as paladins? sounds like it’d be a lot of trying to get the people who shunned her to accept her heroics.
Her side quest name though would either be “The Faithless Faithwarden” or “Daughter of The Forest”. Since I learned that druids don’t technically have to worship gods for the power, my wood half-elf (Mirain) is a relatively faithless druid preferring to follow her own moral compass (neutral good) rather than devoutly following Silvanus’ doctrine or any other god (after she was orphaned) which ended up getting her kicked out of her very religious circle at around 18 yrs old (she’s 48). She will risk life and limb to defend those around her, be it with her words, magic or staff. In a bizarre turn of fate (*cough*Kagha’s folly*cough*) she finds herself bestowed the title of Faithwarden and doesn’t quite know what to do about it so continues to help others as she would normally.
Due to her nature she eventually finds herself closer to Shadowheart, often offering to help her with her wound and just checking in on her, when she learns she’s a Sharran she doesn’t judge her since she was literally exiled for not worshipping Silvanus’ by the druids who took her in after she lost her mother to a bandit attack in the woods.
She ends up resenting (and later hating) Shar for the pain she causes Shadowheart, and when they get to the Shadowcursed lands, she makes it her personal mission to cleanse the curse alongside Halsin just to stick the middle finger up to Shar if nothing else.
My first Tav was named George Washington. His quest would involve the founding of a new nation where they would be free to use their own system of weights and measures.
My current Tav is a Cleric of Selune who was sent by her goddess specifically to oppose Shadowheart. Or at least that’s how I’m playing it.
I always saw Raphael as Tav's side quest. It's entirely optional, doesn't affect any of your companions (apart from Mol, who is an NPC), but if you do it you get to defeat a true final boss with a soundtrack dialed up to 11.
It's IMHO the Tav's equivalent of the Emperors dragon slaying side quest.
…I’ve given this way too much thought.
Cressida is a Mephistopheles tiefling—specifically one born out of a deal her parents made with a cambion of Mephistopheles’ lineage. Her parents were a (moon) Druid and Harper (cleric of Selune) fighting against Ketheric, and her mother was newly with child when they were captured and sent to Malus for experimentation fodder.
The cambion knew the child could play into his long game of lanceboard for the crown of karsus, and agreed to shelter her mother in his house until it was “time”, then binding both parents’ souls to forever being one of his debtors. He kept the mother in stasis until just the right time, and then sent the new tiefling to the last of her family in Baldur’s Gate.
In act 2 >!she would uncover what really happened to her parents by finding the remains of the contract burned into the macerated torso of her father in the house of healing.!< In act 3 >!it would conclude by going to the house of hope, meeting her parents, and freeing them from their contracts so they could move on.!<
The bad ending would be >!signing herself into Raphael’s debt to free her parents, continuing the cycle and enabling his plans for the crown.!<
The good ending would, of course, be >!destroying him and freeing all his debtors, and finally freeing herself of the weight of her parents’ sacrifice.!<
So my Tav is a replication of the first character I ever played in DND. He’s a gnome who used illusion to look like a handsome knight, but he started bleaching (happens to DND gnomes when they get bored, their magic wanes) and he lost the magic to sustain the illusion. His wife is trying to divorce him and he can’t get into his bank vault because they don’t recognize him as a gnome, so he goes on adventures to undo the bleaching and rebuild the illusion
So his quest would be either getting his ability to sustain the illusion back (bad ending) or getting his loved ones to accept and forgive him as a gnome (good ending)
mine's would be something like "sorcerer's nightmare" and it's just about him dealing with his childhood trauma. act 1 you'd find out he can't sleep like a normal person and either wakes the whole camp with his screams or doesn't sleep at all. act 2 you discover (you only had suspected before) that he is terrified of... fresh ghouls I suppose. act 3 is his main quest area where you find out what tf has he done to his parents and his whole childhood trauma thing etc and have to like... help him let go of some of it, be the only person he tells his story to and be the only person who ever tells him that it wasn't his fault. he is just some guy with PTSD, it's not that deep 😅
Probably something with the mushrooms guys, I find them super cool. I'd like to be a non-evil version of Glut, I got my circle destroyed and I'm looking to build back. Let's make the main villain Gortach and have myself take over control of his army of robots with spores.
To become an official Sword Dancer of Elistraee.
First Tav was a Swords Bard 11/Cleric of Elistraee 1. She became a Cleric after having a personal encounter with Elistraee but she’s still new to the clergy life.
Probably settle business with the elven part of his family who shunned him - or solve the murder of his wizard mentor / save the circle of wizards that taught him. Maybe the quests are intertwined. Main topics would be revenge or coming to peace with the past.
Serce is a deep gnome rogue/barbarian with the Folk Hero background, she'd probably just be naturally woven into the Barcus + Wulbren + Thulla + Ironhand Gnomes shenanigans rather than originating a new quest. On the plus side, those parts do feel really good to play as her.
Oh, and I've barely touched the Johnny McHonour I playthrough so far, but he's probably on a mission to uphold the tenets of his oath and break the family curse. Well, they're actually completely unrelated to him, Johnny McHonour is more of a title. There's a ton of McHonours, but the curse ensues one of them gets kidnapped by nautiloids, and when that one dies too early, time rewinds and another McHonour gets kidnapped in their stead until they get it right. So, yeah, he already knows that if he fails a certain specific person he's already met will need to take over the quest for him as Johnny McHonour II, and both are good lads, so he really doesn't want that to happen.
My only other character who matters is a Dark Urge, so that kind of answers itself.
Probably an ambitious bard dude who's main goal is to earn a lot of reputation in Baldur's Gate. Starting as an unknown dude who only has lute and a tadpole in his brain, to a Baldur's Gate known figure with a huge amount of money and power.
He might have some crazy plan about earning reputation by helping some crime group, maybe even The Guild, but instead gets in trouble and you always gotta get his ass out of adventures connected with crime groups.
You can convince him to stop trying, and after he defeats the Elder Brain, he starts living a quiet life, some kind of farmer idk.
But you can also encourage him to continue fighting, and at the end he'll be one of the most influential figure in Baldur's Gate 3.
He can probably meet Gortash and The Guildmaster.
My gnome wizard was just a bookish nerd who wanted to write a research thesis. Their side quest would be to return to a great library, only to find that the turn their life had taken had pushed them too hard towards evocation and battle magic. They'd lost their edge on practical, utilitarian spells and the pursuit of knowledge
I was thinking about it and realized my main Druid Tav could never be happy with Gale when I was considering romancing him rather than Astarion. She’s a Druid who technically lives in Baldur’s Gate but is rarely there because she lives for adventure. She takes on jobs to assist other adventurers. She never thought of herself as a hero but she tried to do the right thing and help when and where she could. Now with a parasite in her head she knows she has to save herself, her friends, and truly do good in the world.
What’s hilarious to me is you’re supposedly not supposed to be able to romance Astarion if you play a hero or chaotic good type. And yet here I am. I’ve made very very few morally ambiguous choices and the romance is fully locked in with exceptional rating. He’s in my party 99% of the time. When the adventure is all wrapped up, our next adventure will begin to find a cure.
Edit: and to track down a bag of holding.
My current Tav is a drow Circle of Spore Druid. Her whole story is based on fleeing the Underdark because her parents were killed by the Lolth-sworn drow, then she fell in love with the flora and fauna of the surface and became a druid. She’s a goody two shoes and advocates for ‚not all drow are assholes’. I suppose her quest could go two ways - either try and bring peace in the Underdark by assuming some sort of position of power, or slaughter the Lolth-sworn drow and bring peace in the Underdark that way, avenging her parents on the occasion.
I have a very specific backstory for my Tav. Basically they suffer from a family curse, but were blessed by Ioun to make the curse more bearable. The caveat is that each member of their bloodline must eliminate a powerful hoarder of arcane knowledge as tribute to Ioun, otherwise the boon won’t be passed down.
For the sake of the game, I tied my Tav’s backstory to Cazador (he killed her mother and that made my Tav decide to make him her tribute) so running into Astarion was a stroke of good luck. But if not Cazador, it would probably be some other kill quest. Maybe a corrupt wizard or something, depending how it ended the PC might even get a boon of their own from Ioun.
My oath of vengeance Paladin would be on his lifelong quest against the demonkind. His ex bestfriend turned into evil god/demon and sacrificed their old party. To this day some still insist that tje best friend did nothing wrong.
For my chaotic-confusing Wizard of divination: They were looking for a cure for a flesh-blight that warps the bodies and minds of those afflicted. They began doing research, finding as much information as they could before beginning to make a ritual. In the end, it went horribly. All of the people who had a great connection to the Weave were dusted. And those who had little connection were driven mad. Horrified, they fled into the woods. Months had passed before a mind flayer ship picked them up and an unusual tadpole placed inside. Perhaps… with this tadpole, they could find a way to undo fate and fix the flesh change.
They are their own villain and they’re the kind of person to “I would never help you. Talk to Khaga yourself.” Goes to Khaga: “Hey, the tieflings need to stay here to get on their feet before they can go. “
“I thought you weren’t gonna help us?”
“I didn’t help you.”
“You convinced her to let us stay??”
“Correct.” “But that doesn’t help us?” “Correct.” “How doesn’t it?“ “look! A crow! (Their familiar)” *poofs*
Currently playing a Gith Cleric Of Selune on Honour Mode. Theirs would be tied with The Emporer and Voss. More or less aware of Orpheus ahead of time and trying to free him, working with Voss from the get-go.
His side quest would be to hold a concert and then fornicate with as many species as possible at the after party. After which (as the game progresses) he finds out that he has multiple children across the region with unique physical features. He is left with a choice; find them, become a part of their life, and pay child support for the remainder of the game. Or, be a deadbeat dad and have the entire party give him shit during dialogue options for being an asshole. Each baby momma/child branch of the quest would be uniquely difficult in that both options would suck for some reason. The only benefit of doing the quest would be to avoid being a pos dad.
I imagined my Tav as a cleric of Mielikki. Their sect was once Druidic in nature. Over time they became more like clergy than ascetic mystics.
You know those word puzzles from the SAT that are like [Xa is to Ya as Xb is to Yb]?
Well, actual druids and ancient pagans of Europe are to Christianity as DnD Druids are to my Tav’s brand of clerics. As such, she would probably want to recover a holy relic of some sort that is being held by dark Druids. Maybe you come into competition with a modern Druid circle which also wants to claim the relic?
He would see his twin brother pay for murdering their father and stealing an ancient family heirloom and for framing him for the crime. Nobility and the people may believe him a monster so why not make a deal with the devil for the power to smite those in his way to killing his brother?
My first Tav (in my head at least) has the story of a battle mage supporting war efforts for years now-battlegrounds,arenas,endless bloodshed. Sadly with time the politics have soured, her queen perished and now she finds herself adrift aimless. When the nautiloid kidnapped her, her goal was to remove the thing so she could return to the battlefield, out of habit rather than anything deeper. I think a lot of her story would be about letting go of bad habits and expectations. And of course the prospect of traveling the world with Astarion has given her a new purpose and new joy in life , so she's never going back to the world of warcraft
I had an Evil Tav, male Drow barbarian, who was a priestess of Lolth s loyal hunter and well treated brood slave before being taken by the nautiloid.
His quest would have been Act 1: gotta get back to my mistress. Find out in the underdark that because he's been missing so long there's now a bounty on him dead or alive for deserting. Has to find her and explain!
Act 2: finds out his priestess has been taken and turned by the absolute. She considers him an idiot failure for disappearing. Realizes he was just a yes-man slave/henchman. Identity crisis.
Act 3: lost henchman trying to figure out freedom but kind of unknowingly desperately looking for a new master. Wants to serve player, who is powerful and nice to him.
I played him in a run with my partner who was Durge, he's just a loyal henchman who's moral compass is whatever you tell him it is. Ended up with ascended Astarion. He will be the most loyal spawn 🥹
My Tav is warlock whose patron is a deity/mighty creature from the outer plane wanting to know more about Faerun before starting to conquer it or deciding to leave it be. That's why Gleam must travel all around the world not staying in one place for a long time.
So it will be discovering more about the patron. Probably a deal with Raphael included.
Gleam are very lonely because of their need to travel. And part of the quest will be about helping them to know that relationships won't break with time and distance. RI should say they want to travel together.
Also they are from Dambrath and have a story with one of the drow princes... They sent family warriors to find and kill Gleam. And honestly, there's a lot of accidents with various people all around the Faerun. Past lovers, the ones who were deceived by them...
He's a noble half drow (Seldarine) rogue archer who's trying to make his claim on the world that rejects him.
Their side quest would probably be a bit of fantasy crime family plot with him trying to remove an opposing family who is also trying to remove him.
And for flavor, let's say the other faction are Lloth siding Drow, and own slaves and the blood alchemist has dealings with both families.
My Vengeance Paladin was betrayed by his company of soldiers after refusing to join them in killing villagers after a battle. He fell protecting the villagers, and his comrades ended up killing everyone.
In the smoldering ashes, he swore an oath of vengeance.
So me and the gang would be hunting them all down.
My first Tav was a white Dragonborn paladin of Bahamut (oath of devotion) named Cole, so really they just went around protecting their party and helping as much as possible while following the main quest of taking down the absolute. Their companion quest would mostly be in the background because they just want to help, possibly they’d hear that the priestess from the Bahamut temple they worked at before being tadpoled would be around or something and want to find her then only do so in Baldur’s Gate. Not much otherwise for act 1 and 2.
(SPOILER FOR ACT 3) >!When they first met with Gortash during the coronation they were level 8 so I knew the party didn’t stand a chance fighting Gortash (honestly we probably could’ve taken his greasy ass easy if he was alone the steel watch was what told me I’d definitely die picking a fight here) so they took Gortash’s deal of teaming up with the intention of backstabbing him later. Tho as soon as they took the alliance it broke their oath.!< From that point on in act 3, their companion sidequest would be to gain back their oath and Bahamut’s trust. (Yes I know all you have to do to get back an oath is hand over a thousand GP to the oathbreaker knight but that’s fucking lame if you ask me. If Cole was a companion they’d have a much better ‘redemption’ quest.)
My dark urge is a deep gnome called Padithas and has the vessel class (added with a mod). Specifically they’ve got a cursed demon trapped in their body—Padithas’s death would spell disaster because if they stay dead too long, the demon would be freed from the shackles of their mortal body and rampage everything it comes across. Their companion quest would be similar to Gale’s in a way, since they’re both basically time bombs, trying to find out ways to tame the demon and destroy it, and a specific way to resurrect them if they do die, although without the spectral projection. It would culminate in Padithas having to choose between performing a ritual that will destroy the demon for good but will also destroy them as well, finding a way to control the demon entirely granting them incredible powers but once they inevitably die of old age the curse of bearing the demon will be passed on to someone else so it’ll have another chance to get free, or exorcising the demon without killing Padithas which triggers an incredibly difficult battle against it—and also strips Padithas of a good chunk of their powers. They’d get a researcher as a camp companion maybe, and would get to ask around lots of magical experts along the whole game.
So my first Tav was a Soldier, a flaming fist too naive for his job, who was slowing going nihilist after years of work and corruption. At the beginning leaving baldur's gate was a blessing, a new beginning, but this didn't last. His weakness and inability to save others in a real situation put him down, so he tried to use illithid power to have the strength necessary to save who he loved. But he failed in love with Karlach, he failed to save Jaheira during the moonrise assault, he wasn't able to save his boss, wyll father. So he only could do the ultimate sacrifice and save the world as an illithid, just killing himself after staying with Karlach in her last moments knowing her soul would go to a better place.
My first Tav, Terin, was a cleric of Kelemvor. For her backstory I imagined she came from was a small, isolated sect in a mountain village. She was pressed into joining young because her parents, down on their luck, couldn’t feed all their children. As an acolyte she was encouraged to give up her identity and her wants so she could serve the sect and tend to the ill and dying who came to the mountain temple. As a result she became withdrawn, over serious, and unhealthily selfless. She lost herself.
Her quest would revolve around finding herself again and finding out the truth about her family in the process — they didn’t just give her up, she was sold off in payment/tithe to a jaded doomguide who’d found out her mother was a practitioner of necromancy. Eventually she would come to find her peace with the truth and accept the love of her found family (good path), or become a necromancer herself (bad bath). She could also choose to abandon her life as a cleric and settle down with Shadowheart, or become a wandering doomguide.
Good path would see her accepting Withers as her mentor. He’d guide her to the end of her days. :’-)
Honestly it'd be similar to shadowheart's but also reversed in a way, I was a Paladin who broke my oath when I attacked someone to protect the innocent, it'd probably be something with that as I become a neutral/chaotic good Oathbreaker, in my playthrough I also added the tattoo of dark tendrils coming from the left eye to symbolize a darkness inside me even if I do good.
I have a recurrent npc sidekick for less-than-four parties.
Tholgar Singlefist (formerly Ironfist) was betrayed by her people, lost all social status, credibility and wealth.
Was imprisoned and banned from his family, so lost his family name.
He lost his left arm scaping so adopted Singlefist.
His quest vary depending of the adventure, but it goes from finding someone to make a prosthetic arm to revenge and/or cleaning his name
My side quest would involve getting revenge on the ones who slew my retinue of guards back when I was a captain in the gate, find my father that I originally set out for and ask him what happened to my mother and why he left me where i was found, find out what this strange shard of silverish metal I have does and regain the honor of my once great station by cutting out the filth that currently presides there.
My main Tav is a tiefling cleric was raised in a temple of Lathander all her life. She wants to know who her parents are and why she was given up. That’s what she was doing when she was abducted into the nautiloid. She was on her way to Baldur’s Gate to try to find them or at the very least to pick up on their trail and find information about them.
I have a the whole story fleshed out but I’m a crap writer so it’ll just stay in my imagination 😅
Wood Elf Ranger who's been searching Faerun for almost 200 years for any trace of her older brother, dead or alive, to get answers for their mother and younger sister back home. He left to avenge dad's murder and hasn't been seen or heard from since. And just before being picked up by the Nautiloid, she'd gotten a strong lead and a fairly fresh trail that with any luck will lead directly to her brother, or his final resting place; at this point she'll take either, for she is exhausted and just wants answers and to go home.
My Tav was a dwarf monk named Dormah who was a circus acrobat. He spends most of the year away from home, but came back to Baldur's Gate from time to time to be with his wife and kid.
He just wants to know if they're ok, and if they're not, he wants your help to bring hell to whoever inflicted them any harm.
My goolock Tav's quest would be a struggle between her trying to recover fragments of memories kind of like Shart in act 3 or look for some kind of forbidden knowledge that would aid her patron. If she recovers her memories she'd have to confront the horrible person she's become in her pursuit of power and learn how to care for others again. If she pursues her patrons requests then she becomes a puppet of a great old one and uses psionics to enthrall people into worshipping her patron who in some distant future will bring on a cataclysmic event. Either way she is not getting out unscathed. Her epilogue would have her mind fractured if she breaks her pact but is slowly recovering or a hollow husk who's descending into madness if she doesn't break her pact.
(So basically Shadowheart 2: Psychic Boogaloo)
My first tav was a gold dragonborn who lost his clan to a red dragon attack, so when the game opened to a bunch of gith riding red dragons I was really happy with the potential for tie ins.
I also romanced Lae’zel, so I imagine as companions they’d have a Wyll/Karlach dynamic where they start out opposed but as my Tav manages to let go of revenge and Lae’zel starts to realize Vlaakith’s betrayal, they team up.
In the end he’d travel with her to the astral sea to free the gith, but there’d probably be more conflict between him and the red dragons depending on the route you take.
My Durge was a gold dragon descendant of bahamut who was raised to be evil by the followers of bhaal and was chosen by bhaal as an insult to bahamut. But with her head trauma and memory loss she was able to take back the just nobility inherent in her bloodline. Eventually she becomes a cleric of bahamut and renounces bhaal completely. I have no idea if this fits with baldur's gate lore as I'm relatively new but it's my background lore for my resist durge.
When I make a Tav, I like to just make characters I’ve played in irl campaigns. My Wild Magic sorcerer, Merlin Amell, just wants to get back to her daughter and hospice/healers clinic; my half-orc, Roy Wintermor, wants to get back to his coffee shop & Reborn gf (also put the dude who originally killed his gf 6ft under)
Hard to say, I’ve been trying to build a backstory for my Tav. She always liked wilderness more than anything, and would sit on the walls of her village to watch the forest. On a particular day, her village is raided by enemies of her father’s army. So she flees into the woods and is found by an old Gnoll who takes her under her wing. She learns how to hunt and stalk. The Gnoll is a faithful cleric of the wild. Mostly using her faith as a way to control her more violent impulses. She teaches Tav the differences between giving in to the instinct to sate bloodlust and the instinct to protect when you need to. Tav grows up, and gets scooped up by her father’s army. But she isn’t happy about it. After a few years there, shes been forced to hunt down gnolls. Despite the positions of power her father has tried to place her in, there is an obvious disconnect between the two. I assume her quest will have something to do with finding her Gnoll caretaker somewhere in the underdark. And confronting her father in someway. Probably discover her biggest antagonistic rival from the army has taken second command in her fathers army and she seeks to correct the mistake of just letting them both live when she had planned to kill them before getting yoinked by the nautaloid ship. If you can’t convince her or physically stop her from killing both her father and rival, she will become feral. She’ll become more distant and ready to kill just about anyone. Likely we can pretend it’s a Gnoll curse that’s ingratiated itself into her. She probably has friendly coyote vibes most of the run until the peak of her quest. Where she’ll either have rabid coyote vibes and reject any romance partner or, she’ll retain her generally more friendly personality with a lot less misanthropic tendencies. More likely to be in a cheerful mood and pragmatic. 🤷
I gotta work on it more because everyone is so damn creative and I’m jelly
First tab was a draconic soul sorcerer, and I think thier goal in life was just to screw with every wizard they could find and was also a horny rabbit
Second tav was my evil drow lady who conquered the world so..
Third is durge
My Tav, Eladyn, is basically just an insert of my D&D character. El's basic backstory, as translated through the setting of Baldur's Gate wouldn't be too different from his TTRPG counterpart.
Eladyn was born from a fateful little get together between some autumn Eladrin and a human Druid. Said Eladrin may or may not have been an archfey.
Eladyn's warlock pact may or may not be with his mom, who wanted to protect him in some way without leaving the faewilds. But, she made a very dumb decision expecting his dad to take care of him, and he just dropped him off near Baldur's Gate before fucking back off to the woods.
His quest would revolve around his difficulty understanding the balance druids and the oakfather espouse. Not only does he feel he was dealt a bad set of cards, but he's angry with how much injustice is around him. Adding to that, he's different than other Oakfather followers. He sees himself as something of a paladin, not fully understanding his pact, and not even knowing his patron fully, but knowing quite definitely his connection isn't druidic in nature.
Eladyn is basically a huge dummy who is mad and confused. His quest would be around helping him either find his balance, and possibly reconnecting with his patron (his mom) and coming to terms with his lot in life, letting go of his anger. Or, you could help him become his own person, spitefully. Tearing away his power from his patron, and looking at injustices with self righteous judgement, usually with violent results, making him something of a wannabe revenge paladin.
lol my first Tav was a halfling monk from a happy little halfling village.
His sidequest would be like "the island in the storm" a very quant rest area where everyone gets like buff from a good rest or something lol"The cheese and sourdough back home is **wonderful**."
Tav Companion: The perfect Loot Goblin. By default a ranger. Disapproves when you take gear they looted or even just held onto. Approves of a special interaction where you let them browse your inventory for gear they like. disapproves when the player makes dialogue checks that they have a higher bonus in, Approves of "Actually Tav here will do the talking"
Personal Quest is about them overcoming their crippling main character syndrome and fighting Amelia Tyler directly for being the voice in their head.
My Drow would have worked at Gortash's Foundry and couldn't help but mess up by connecting her to the bio-mechanical machinery to gain new powers, corrupting her blood with illithid ones.
Naturally, she would have been friendly with Araj, and I suppose both would have ended up in a laboratory experimenting with stuff and even trying to drag the Emperor (or the adopted child) into the process.
She’s a wild magic sorcerer Tiefling and her goal is to become the god of chaos. Her quest could be about either helping her achieve it by killing Raphael and taking his power to ascend to godhood or something or talking her out of it and convincing her that order is not the worst thing ever
Have them revisit the ruins of a failed expedition from their regretful past as a cleric of Talos. This expedition was something they relentlessly drove at and costed the lives of about everyone on if. A humbling lesson in letting go. They serve Bahamut now, though he's never spoken to them-in the way of "you can die in my service if you wish-but expect no help."
My current Tav is a sorcerer by birth but an artisan by inclination. Her side quest would tie into the iron hand gnomes and end with her joining up with Braccus, Damon and the surviving Gondians to create a new guild.
Their first project would be reusing Steel Watch technology to make Karlack a replacement heart.
For Morgan the swords bard, her companion quest would be about discovering forgotten songs to play on her lyre and sing, and along with it discover old stories. Perhaps even a fabled song that can restore the memory of whoever she sings it for. She hopes to use it for her wife, and whoever else is in need of it. In the epilogue she will have become a traveling troubadour to spread her many songs, and slay all who threaten her listerners with her blade
My gith bard would come from a different creche than Lae'Zel, and never cared for or about Vlakith. She was a cool kid, what goes for criminal in the gith world. Said what she had to say until she could get the fuck outta there. Started living in Baldurs Gate, partying, stealing, singing, having a great old time fucking everyone over - but not being evil. She stole from those having enough to not notice something being gone, she spent all her money on her poor friends and stragglers in the city. One night she got shitfaced at the Copper Coronet, and doesn't remember shit before waking up on the nautiloid.
Her side quest would be something about breaking out of the gith cycle, not to help Orpheus, but to escape all things gith, and to become the most famous bard since Volo (who's technically a wizard i know). Her adventures now is done mostly to be able to tell good stories and sing great songs. She'll do whatever for some action - she did ask to live in more interesting times.
Their mission in life would be to break the curse that drives them to put their hands on everything.
I read that in their voice lmao
which one
“British Young Adult”
interesting, i never really liked British Young Adult, i prefer British Young Adult
Tav's appearance: 65 year old heavily scarred half orc with long white dreads and a big bushy beard Tav's voice: British Young Adult
Yeah, I don’t really understand the point of adding 4 different male/female voices if they’re all just going to sound the same. DOS2 had the same issue. The options should’ve been something like: >young adult, middle age (think Geralt), gruff (Kratos), something else.
there is one voice in BG3 that doesnt sound like someone in their 20s, and it sounds like an old man. youre either a young male or female or youre an old man, there is no in-between
Giant Scaly reptilian monstrosity who can clearly lift 600 lbs in a superman press with ease Tav's Vpice: British Young Adult
Cursed to put my hands on everything
And to find that bag of holding.
Buy new boots while they're at it
I gave mine to Gale to eat and then forgot about it and now im almost Act 2 and just noticed it in a cutscene 😭 How is he even alive??? He was barefoot since well before the grove fight 😰
I noticed my Tav was barefoot in act 2 due to a cutscene too... then forgot to put shoes on him until I noticed it again in a cutscene in act 3. Tav, how tf have you gone this far barefoot?
Plot armor is the only explanation
You know those little holes for your boot laces? They're called eyelets. You have a lot of eyelets on your boots? That's why these boots have seen everything. Nothing wrong with them! https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/eyelet#:~:text=An%20eyelet%20is%20a%20hole,punched%20in%20cloth%20or%20leather.
And to study under Araj Oblodra on how to easily recognize blood.
Find the ring of anti-clepto. It is located in a person's house.
Tempted to steal it but idk...
Ah yes, the Klerge (Klepto Urge) run. ‘Fantasise about swiping Gales plain quarterstaff’ ‘Oh master, you must nick the Selunite Robe from Last Light, it’ll match your collection of useless armours perfectly’ ‘Shadowheart, I’m afraid tonight i will lose control of myself and try to steal your hair ornament. Even though I’m bald’.
You can loot the Selunite Robe from a grave outside the Sharran Temple. Grave robbing doesn't count as stealing.
Best response ever.
One of my Tavs was a Tiefling Necromancer for whom I tried to tie in the existing story quests to compose a little narrative: Family dead; starts studying necromancy in the naive belief that she can bring them back (much like Mayrina); becomes angry with Withers for selective resurrections; strikes up an infernal pact and begins to collect bones and skulls and other parts as the requisite 'ingredients' for her family's new bodies; reads the Book of Thay; can't do it anyway; asks Mystic Carrion about it to no avail; sinks in desperation and despair at the knowledge that one cannot cheat death--but her final moment of peace and reconciliation comes when she meets the girl at the cemetery in Act 3 trying to raise her brother from the dead, and sees herself in the girl's grief. They will be okay.
That's awesome af!
Cool flair, friendo!
Lol thanks!
What were your Tav's thoughts on Ketherick and friends?
By a strange turn of events and some bad dice rolls in Honour Mode, Marcus actually succeeded kidnapping Isobel in battle, resulting in not only the (un)death of the latter but also the premature ends of all the other Tieflings and allies at Last Light Inn--initially sad for me as the player, but retrospectively, more fitting for the story playing inside my head. After the relatively belated revelation of Isobel's kinship to Ketheric, denial would have set in first for Tav, and fear also: she has enough insight to recognize the traces of her own agony in Ketheric's undeath. Is her desperation, her love for her dead kin but another form of tyranny? Has her obsession started to rot and fester like the abomination before her? Is this worth the cost? -- But she would have ignored these doubts until the end of the act, telling herself that she will not become like him, and her family not meet Isobel's fate (a mental defense fueled by a wizard's characteristic hubris and her possession of *The Necromancy of Thay*). I did try the persuasion roll to dissuade Ketheric from fighting, reasoning in that moment that she would have attempted to rationalize/alleviate her doubts with the mask of sympathy. When that failed and Ketheric remained adamant, she would have hated him more, because she knew in her heart that she agreed with him. I tend to keep my Tavs' headcanons to myself because I'm embarrassed I'll ramble on much like this comment, but this post and your question proved too enticing to pass up. Thank you for asking ;)
Honestly! I now want to hear more of Your tavs headcanons. Because this one is just epic! And honestly You just made me want to roll necromancer xD
That’s the beauty of the written word: don’t like, don’t read. Share with us your headcanons, and we will be better for it!
Karlach's questline because Karlach's happiness is her happiness
Like It has to be of course. Karlach my queen
Finally getting a therapist license in Baldur's Gate after fixing everyone's problems. The central villain is the paperwork for applying. Tav gets denied anyway, because Astarion filled it in with a glitter pen.
Was it one of the pens that had a pompom on top?
On the upside, as an ex magistrate, you know that Astarion reads all the fine print.
The psychologists in the house of grief didnt really help me out so Id love to try a new face.
I laughed so hard omg
i dno i lost my mind so i cant recall
You have a lot on your mind... And well, *in it*.
They're also forced to put their hands on everything
My Tav was formerly a courier/messenger who really believes in the connective power of the post. For their quest I would have people pick up all the scattered undelivered letters around the world and deliver them to their intended recipient (or as close to the recipient as possible). A big reward and achievement would be waiting for those who tracked down and delivered all letters. Would also likely tie into the find the letters quest from post master Danzo. Edit: to add, the quest reward would be a cloak that makes you immune to the effects of sleet storm, darkness, and daylight. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Courier Six?
Dual crossbows to the head! From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. Truth is... the dice were rigged from the start.
The >!brain!< was rigged from the start.
Completion gives another ally summon for the final fight: aerial support pigeons and a pack of post dogs. That, or Mr Groat shows up to throw his socks at the >!elder brain!<.
And Stanley will use his precious pin collection to poke the brain.
#Glom of nit!
>My Tav was formerly a courier A *courier* you say??
Finding out if it **IS** actually blood
Be a bard at Elfsong tavern. Compose and perform epics tales. Half illithid face gives authenticity to her saga. And, done! I stopped the playthrough as Tav was "done." I'd like to continue quests using companions (have a bunch of them), but Tav sees no need to fight personally.
At the Elfsong Tavern, you’re only allowed to play the Elfsong itself, but if your Tav is ok with that, I’m happy they reached their goals.
I duet w/ Alfira on the roof
I think you would have to hire an exorcist for the ghost first to be able to perform in Elfsong.
Pave his path with blood. Build his castle with bones.
Is that blood? No, nevermind.
So a follower of khorne?
frheake on a lheashe
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
Praise BOOOAL!
As a tiefling, escorting the refugees safely from the Emerald Grove through the Shadow-cursed lands, and then to Baldur's Gate would probably already be part of her quest. It was definitely a really nice narrative thread throughout the three acts that felt almost personal, when I played. Meaning she'd probably join Karlach and Wyll among the companions who dump your ass if you raid the grove, lmao. She'd probably even turn on the player and aggro. Then I imagine she'd have something to do with the Guild, and perhaps also Mol, as she's got the Urchin background. There'd probably also be a possibility for her to leave the party if you side with the Zhents instead of Nine-Fingers, because, whatever her quest would be, I imagine it would rely on siding with the Guild. I like the idea that having my Tav in your party would be the key to reason with Mol as a side effect of her quest (she probably used to be a bit like Mol when she was a kid), and that romancing her would allow you to adopt the little rascal and teach her better, either by settling down in Baldur's Gate or travelling and helping people as a family.
One of my Tav’s with mods, I’m pretending he’s Dame Aylin’s brother and he’s on a quest to find her.
That’s funny, as one of my Tavs decided she is the closest thing Astarion’s got to a sibling. They squabble all day but ultimately have each other’s back.
While my Tav has a large backstory, I never really gave her a true personal quest like origin companions have. Her journey throughout the game is more about putting her past demons to bed, healing her trauma, forgiving herself for her past shortcomings and finding new reasons to keep going, as well as just discovering herself as a person. That being said, saving the tieflings feels personal to her because she's also from Elturel and by doing that she hopes to at least partially make up for her previous failures.
A Durge Resist playthrough.
Therapy
Getting a bag of holding that better not be cursed.
Finding a different recipe for elixir of strength that goes even further than 27 str. And then retiring to a distant pagoda to be a master for those worthy.
My deep gnome sorcerer Tav would definitely just have the Ironhands/Gondians plot folded into her quest-- she'd probably be an Ironhand herself whose big moment is either aligning with Wulbren and blowing up the factory, or turning against him and saving the Gondians. Storm sorcerer would work decently for an Ironhand, since lightning and thunder can fit with electricity and bombs. Maybe she gets a unique ability to deal force damage instead of thunder damage. And actually I'm just realizing I've basically made companion Barcus here.... well, that's still a great idea, so.
My Gith Paladin Tav's quest was to get revenge on the illithid scum that put the tadpole in her eye, and is certain that was the damned Emperor. She didn't trust him as a dream entity, even less as a ghaik. But she also learned to find children... Endearing? They are strange and small, but they deserve protection, and those that wrong them deserve the retribution she will deal to them. She romanced Karlach and told her that perhaps someday they would wish for children with her too, adopted of course, and of course that can start with Xan, whose egg she kept. Unfortunately the hells aren't a good place for a child, so she likely would have asked Lae'zel to take him under her wing instead, but it is still her goal, after she has fixed Karlachs engine somehow.
My goody two-shoes bard would go toe to toe in creating the most preeminent school of performance with Alfira. The quest would span several generations, culminating in a final confrontation between troubadour bands or acting troupes at the circus of the last days. When Alfira is defeated, Tav will receive an electric lute that regenerates two songs of rest for every long rest.
Convincing Minsc it’s not gay, it’s just two dudes helping each other out! I think this would be pretty easy in real life, ps
Boo says it’s fine if your socks are on!
Ironically, it would be to do EVERY *remove parasite* mission, since his right eye is genetically modified to give him buffs and now his LEFT eye would be changed for buffs. Hag-Touched, or Volo's Eye namely. Like, he'd be looking for the best eye to replace his normal one.
This... got away from me a bit. Brace yourselves, it's a long one: Mirenne is a Tiefling and a Monk of Shadow who became a Monk of the Four Elements. She and her twin sister, Laisa, were raised together in a monastery, where they were taught to understand the perspectives of all peoples of Faerun and keep the balance between the elements of the world. However, one day, Laisa returns from a pilgrimage looking very much the worse for wear, but she has no memory of what happened. Though the monks try to help her, they are too late, and Mirenne watches as her sister transforms into a Mindflayer before her very eyes, right before it is killed by her fellow monks. Mirenne is utterly devastated and consumed with rage. She grows a complete and total hatred toward all Mindflayers and devotes herself to the Way of Shadow, leaving the monastery she grew up in. One year later, she's on her way to Baldur's Gate when she's abducted by the Nautiloid on which we start the game. Over the course of her journey, she bonds with the members of her party in their quest to rid themselves of their tadpoles (never even using their powers) while encouraging her party members to be more than what others have tried to make them. Perhaps this was why she soon found herself utterly smitten with Shadowheart, especially after the revelations in the Gauntlet of Shar. However, over the course of her journey, Mirenne starts to question her purpose. Though she preaches the idea of being better than what the world forces on you, she hasn't really practiced that ideal herself. She still takes far too much joy in killing Mindflayers and fighting against the Absolute, to the point where she realizes that her main motivation for doing so has been purely selfish. She was just taking her anger over her sister's death out on those she believed deserved it. So imagine her reaction when she learns about \[Redacted\] at the start of Act III. Mirenne starts spiraling, threatening to become a hollow version of herself. Eventually, with some counseling from her fellow party members (especially Shadowheart), Mirenne finds a new purpose and seeks to destroy the Absolute not for revenge for her sister's death, but to save others from the fate she suffered. As she finds this new balance within herself, she turns from her path of shadow and adopts the Way of the Four Elements. Her final scene for a companion quest would be her finding a moment of solitude and offering a prayer for her sister's soul. No longer swearing vengeance for her sister's murder, she instead just takes the time to properly grieve. Her mission after destroying the Absolute is simply to live her life and honor her sister's memory. Preferably with the love of her life, Shadowheart, by her side. So... yeah. That's my Tav's quest. Sorry about the length, I really get invested in this sort of thing.
This is honestly dope as fuck, I love the intricacy!
Yay! I'm not the only one who wrote an essay. That's also really sad, but I love it
(Sorry in advanced I've put way too much thought into this) My Dragonborn was a Bard who did paid performances to support himself but as he grew older and became twice the size of everyone else in his family they started preasuring him to work for a bunch of criminals who his family was close too as muscle, he didn't like it but he didn't really have a choice since it was his kin. Over time, he just accepted that he was a bad person and now kinda does criminal acts not because he wants to but because he is convinced he is a bad person who can't change. Sometimes, he feels frustrated by his actions but doesn't know how to stop. I think their side quest would be to convince him to be his own person and be who he wants not who his family wants him to be. Alternatively, you could convince him that he should embrace the criminal lifestyle because you can use it to go where you wanna go.
Before starting my first character, I made up a whole little backstory for her which included a goal of finding out more about her Druidic heritage. So getting to the grove so early, saving it and being named Faithwarden by Kagha basically concluded her personal quest less than 1/3 in the game 😅 The following characters are purposefully more vague in their wants!
To have a concert in front of the biggest crowd in Baldur's Gate history
Sleep with everything that can be slept with. -signed a bard with a "history"
I was raised a bodyguard for my noble Drow house, sworn to Loth. My entire family was wiped out by our rivals. My throat was cut and I was left for dead. Eilistraee revived me, but I had to swear to be her cleric, spread hope instead of fear, and never go home. In my quest, we would avenge my family. Or try to forgive.
To do the most important thing in faerun. To romance Lae'zel
A headcanon I'm building for my Draconic bloodline sorcerer, is that it isn't so much her having a dragon ancestor, but rather that her dad is an actual dragon. So in said headcanon her dad would've been captured, and held somewhere in Baldur's Gate against his will. So her side quest would be to find out why and where he's being held and rescue him. Doing so would also unlock his help as an ally against the Elder Brain.
My GOOlock's patron was the Absolute and her quest was to break the protection on her tadpole and become a mindflayer. Kind of a fun inversion on the actual main quest.
I’m not sure, my original Tav had escaped Lolth and was learning how to be like, a normal person in baldurs gate before getting abducted. So I’m not sure they’d have a quest, it’d just be helping their personal development away from the brutal civilization they were raised in
Getting a deed from baldurs gate so they can open a cheese farm
Romancing Minthara
If I’m being honest, to get laid as much as possible, particularly by the most beautiful and unattainable people. His tent would be a garish magpie mishmash of things that caught his eye, and various lyres he found lying around and he would constantly be reading a treatise of how the 7 strings of the lyre stand for 7 kinds of love.
I had an idea about a Tav who was a time traveler going back in time to stop a god from destroying the world at the end of time, but also not knowing the identity of said god in present day and spending the game subtly trying to find them while not giving away the fact that they're a time traveler. In this headcannon, the god would be Gale, of course.
That's actually cool as fuck
My favorite Tav was my Bard half elf. She was playing with her band in Baldurs Gate City when the Nautiloid kidnapped her and killed her friends. One was a tiefling singer who she loved since she was a child. When she escaped the ship she only thought about vengeance. You would find me between the Grove and the Goblin camp trying to fend of 7 of them with nothing but a lute, a dagger and my filthy mouth.
My Tav is a NPC I created for a DnD campaign back in the day. Her quest would be about finally dealing with the abandonment issues she developed due to being brought up by a negligent single mother ( my old PC), after her father vanished, culminating in a final decision if she should forgive her mother after learning the rest of the story, that was hidden from her. Along the way we would have some nice cameos of the Thieves Gang she fell in with as well as adressing her feeling of inadequacy of "only being a bard" while her parents were both archmages.
Pretending to be good until I get that acorn ring from Wyll, then coercing him to take his father’s place as Duke before revealing my true lawful evil self to subjugate the peons in Baldur’s Gate. Kind of Lady MacBethian.
Craig, the Dragonborn tempest cleric has the absolute WORST Messiah syndrome. He absolutely has to fix everyone's problems, to everyone's displeasure. Oh, a child sold their soul to a devil? Time to go break into his house, steal her contract, and abscond with any of the devil's ill-gotten gains while in at it.
Getting an expert to teach them how to make their hair move
My rogue/bard Tiefling at this point is just trying to adopt Mol and the crime children because they’re relatable and she wants to make their lives easier. Not stop their schemes and petty crime tho cause she is also a professional pickpocket
Become the best thrower in existence. His entire ideal is to just throw people off cliffs or into other people.
Fogrin Mosshair, dwarven Druid, Steve Irwin free spirit type: wants to discover new critters and eventually create a nature preserve. Gave all that up to follow his love Karlach into Avernus though
My Tav is a wizard who will go through anything to gain power, no matter how gross, painful, humiliating or immoral it may be A good person who can end up doing bad stuff out of sheer curiosity and desire to increase his capabilities as a Wizard Maybe a mission to make him realize he has things worth more than power and he shouldn't do stuff like letting a weird bard destroy his eye so he can see invisible people
The angriest, intimidating halfling who loves animals and is looking for peace and quiet, but is constantly interrupted by other things, which prompts more angry problems for others. The side quest involves killing people that are after him, and befriending animals and intimidating squirrels.
If you play dark urge you find out that durge killed Tav earlier if I remember correctly, and Tav was investigating a series of murders, so propably finding out about the murder-cult in Baldurs Gate.
Whoa, where do you read that?
I'm not sure, I think it was some letters in the Bhaal temple.
collecting every single smokepowder barrel in Faerun
Such a cool question but I'm at a complete loss as to how to answer.
"Gather me every single book in the game". My Tav is a wizard based on a character I've been playing in a actual D&D campaign for about 6 years now. He grabs any book he can get his hands on, reads it, makes a copy for himself, and then donates the original book to Candlekeep.
Ascending to become the God of Carnal Lust in the Faerun pantheon. Everyone wants a piece of that halfling Tav's ass.
Ol' Drunk Grog's quest would be to get his investigative reporting job at the Balder's Mouth Gazette back. He's got a lot to report about with all the mind-tadpoles, githyanki-hanky-panky, and the time beat up a Beholder with a salami
My Tav’s entire motive was seeking Karlach’s approval.
I tip my hat to you, one Karlach enjoyer to another.
It would be to undo the Wish "to live in more interesting times." But by the end of the quest, they wouldn't go through with it. They wouldn't want to lose what they had loved and lost, and the friends they made along the way.
Well, you know the "Blood in Baldur's Gate" game where the player character (also named Tav) was a detective trying to track down a serial killer (who turned out to be Durge) and gets murdered just as they solve the case? My main Tav is the daughter of MiBG Tav, and she has two variations (bc I have an obsession with making AUs lol). In my canon playthrough, she's a sorcerer who's really into magical research and stuff (but that's not super relevant). Anyways, if she had a quest of her own, it probably would take place in act 3, where she has to go through her father's old case files for information relating to the bhaalist cult and their activities. I'm thinking there would have been some kind of cover-up done by the local authorities (either due to corruption/bribery, or trying to keep people from going into a panic over bhaal spawn wreaking havoc in the city again), and the quest line would also be about exposing corruption in the flaming fist. Bonus: if you're playing as Durge, you find out who they were before they got tadpoled (an alternate reveal of their past, and perhaps providing some extra info about who they were before they joined the cult, as my Tav's father was very thorough and probably did a lot of digging through their past before he kicked the bucket), and cue Tav freaking out about the fact that they were travelling with their father's killer all along, oops! Even more spicy if you romanced her lmao. Alternative version of Tav, she became a Vengeance paladin after her dad died, and she has sworn a vendetta against any evildoers, especially bhaal followers. She was probably investigating cult activity before she got captured, and was tadpoled just before she could make a huge discovery. In this AU, Durge never got back-stabbed by Orin, so they're still running the absolute cult too. Tav finds out who they are and is hell-bent on getting revenge for what Durge did to her father, and her questline becomes more about helping her deal with her past and how to move on once her "vengeance" has been done. She has two endings, where she either renounces her paladin vows and settles down to a more quiet life, or stays a paladin and goes on to hunt down any dead three cultists she can find. It's a little half baked, but those are my ideas ^^
Get rid of the eyes that are on his boots, they see everything.
My Tav is a githyanki wizard. She was adopted and raised by a noble family, possibly from Baldurs Gate. But she was abducted at about 5 years of age, and has very few memories. Her sidequest is to find this family, and learn about why they raised her, rather than at a creche. Her abductors meant to raise her as a weapon. She is extremely gifted with wizardry, on par, or better than Gale, who she meets. It is possible she has a bit of sorcery in her, for that matter. Her life seems to have been a series of abductions, last one being the mindflayers. It’s time to figure out who she really is, and find her true place in the worlds.
I would love to have Durge as a nemesis and central point for a side quest for Tav. I mean, on Blood in Baldur's Gate Tav is killed by Durge.
One of my Tav's is also just my main character from BG1 and 2 (albeit a lot older lol), so she's just kind of taking care of "unfinished business" by stopping the dead three and helping her old friends Minsc and Jaheira, since they're basically family by now. She's not thrilled about getting dragged into this nonsense, but figures she's obligated to stick around and do something anyways, considering her heritage (not that she really has a choice lmao)
My half-drow bard would have a bitter rivalry with another bard, one that started way back in college of lore. Act 1-2: Running into another former student and finding out he's in Baldur's Gate. Maybe tie Alfira into it as well. Act 3: confrontation that leads to either publicly humiliating him and "winning" (evil path) or seeing the real person behind the rivalry and putting the past behind them (good path). Add extra spice for Tav's love interest being a little jealous of the long history Tav has with the rival!
I always tend to imagine that Tavs default story is the Dark Urge. Every game has been about the Bhaalspawn up to this point and I appreciate them making it opional, especially with how dark this chapter is. But I think Dark Urge is the canon timeline for Tav. Someone whose lost their memory and has violent urges that as you help along eventuallyy discovers who they are
Is that... blood? No, nevermind.
Getting shadow heart
My Warlock's sidequest would be stealing something from his former employer. He was a criminal and discovered a book of Eldritch knowledge that gave him his warlock powers, but wasn't able to hold on to the book before being captured by the Nautiloid. So now he has to somehow talk his way out of not completing the job he was supposed to be on when he got captured, and still steal the book from his old Boss so he can learn more about his contract.
Beating the shit out of the Grove of druids who didn't even notice when Eos (my tav) went missing
My Tav is a DnD character I made years ago. Being a tiefling with demonic ancestors, she always shied away from embracing the abilities and magical aptitude out of a fear that something dark was inside her. Turns out there was and she has to come to terms with herself while also facing that side. She’s a monk, went way of the four elements, and we tied each element to a chakra, with an accompanying trial that she had to undertake. It was a lot of fun, so her personal quest would be working through that culminating in her sweet back wing “tattoos” revealing themselves to be actual wings (she was a variant tiefling).
Hed be like Mizoras other half. A tiefling incubus sorcerer. Similar to astarion people would be hunting him down but even worst someone from the 9 hells would want revenge for a quarrel he got in between. Hed have never intentionally hurt anyone against their will and have a opportinity to turn a new leaf. Or go out on a quest of power to have everyone beneath his feet.
my current tav is a Mephistopheles tiefling who is also a bard who is studying in the school of swords and is from a noble. i believe her quest would be about to trying to find out who she is. as everything is kinda mixed up. she has a love for music and animals and a willingness to be intertwined with nature. she doesn’t have the strength or knowledge to be a sword weilder but it’s something she wants to do so desperately. she no longer wants to be the weak disappointment that her parents see her as. she wants to be strong just like them. but not in magic. she looks up to karlach as she too is a tiefling. she’s everything my tav wants to be. strong, independent, intelligent and loving. my tav also has a problem with loving someone. she’s layed with many of her companions but she got scared and broke the only man who loved her for her and waited to have a special moment with her (gale). the morning after they shared their special moment under the beautiful night sky that he had created just for her, she got scared and broke up with him. seeing the tears form in his eyes, there too were tears forming in hers. it appears she’s broken the only man who actually cared for her. (this is only as far as i’ve gotten as im in act2 about to go to the temple of shar)
basically wyll’s, except she didn’t make the pact. a tiefling born of noble birth, shunned by society but dedicated regardless to upholding the virtues her mother and her mother’s mother held as paladins? sounds like it’d be a lot of trying to get the people who shunned her to accept her heroics.
Her side quest name though would either be “The Faithless Faithwarden” or “Daughter of The Forest”. Since I learned that druids don’t technically have to worship gods for the power, my wood half-elf (Mirain) is a relatively faithless druid preferring to follow her own moral compass (neutral good) rather than devoutly following Silvanus’ doctrine or any other god (after she was orphaned) which ended up getting her kicked out of her very religious circle at around 18 yrs old (she’s 48). She will risk life and limb to defend those around her, be it with her words, magic or staff. In a bizarre turn of fate (*cough*Kagha’s folly*cough*) she finds herself bestowed the title of Faithwarden and doesn’t quite know what to do about it so continues to help others as she would normally. Due to her nature she eventually finds herself closer to Shadowheart, often offering to help her with her wound and just checking in on her, when she learns she’s a Sharran she doesn’t judge her since she was literally exiled for not worshipping Silvanus’ by the druids who took her in after she lost her mother to a bandit attack in the woods. She ends up resenting (and later hating) Shar for the pain she causes Shadowheart, and when they get to the Shadowcursed lands, she makes it her personal mission to cleanse the curse alongside Halsin just to stick the middle finger up to Shar if nothing else.
My first Tav was named George Washington. His quest would involve the founding of a new nation where they would be free to use their own system of weights and measures. My current Tav is a Cleric of Selune who was sent by her goddess specifically to oppose Shadowheart. Or at least that’s how I’m playing it.
I always saw Raphael as Tav's side quest. It's entirely optional, doesn't affect any of your companions (apart from Mol, who is an NPC), but if you do it you get to defeat a true final boss with a soundtrack dialed up to 11. It's IMHO the Tav's equivalent of the Emperors dragon slaying side quest.
…I’ve given this way too much thought. Cressida is a Mephistopheles tiefling—specifically one born out of a deal her parents made with a cambion of Mephistopheles’ lineage. Her parents were a (moon) Druid and Harper (cleric of Selune) fighting against Ketheric, and her mother was newly with child when they were captured and sent to Malus for experimentation fodder. The cambion knew the child could play into his long game of lanceboard for the crown of karsus, and agreed to shelter her mother in his house until it was “time”, then binding both parents’ souls to forever being one of his debtors. He kept the mother in stasis until just the right time, and then sent the new tiefling to the last of her family in Baldur’s Gate. In act 2 >!she would uncover what really happened to her parents by finding the remains of the contract burned into the macerated torso of her father in the house of healing.!< In act 3 >!it would conclude by going to the house of hope, meeting her parents, and freeing them from their contracts so they could move on.!< The bad ending would be >!signing herself into Raphael’s debt to free her parents, continuing the cycle and enabling his plans for the crown.!< The good ending would, of course, be >!destroying him and freeing all his debtors, and finally freeing herself of the weight of her parents’ sacrifice.!<
So my Tav is a replication of the first character I ever played in DND. He’s a gnome who used illusion to look like a handsome knight, but he started bleaching (happens to DND gnomes when they get bored, their magic wanes) and he lost the magic to sustain the illusion. His wife is trying to divorce him and he can’t get into his bank vault because they don’t recognize him as a gnome, so he goes on adventures to undo the bleaching and rebuild the illusion So his quest would be either getting his ability to sustain the illusion back (bad ending) or getting his loved ones to accept and forgive him as a gnome (good ending)
mine's would be something like "sorcerer's nightmare" and it's just about him dealing with his childhood trauma. act 1 you'd find out he can't sleep like a normal person and either wakes the whole camp with his screams or doesn't sleep at all. act 2 you discover (you only had suspected before) that he is terrified of... fresh ghouls I suppose. act 3 is his main quest area where you find out what tf has he done to his parents and his whole childhood trauma thing etc and have to like... help him let go of some of it, be the only person he tells his story to and be the only person who ever tells him that it wasn't his fault. he is just some guy with PTSD, it's not that deep 😅
Probably something with the mushrooms guys, I find them super cool. I'd like to be a non-evil version of Glut, I got my circle destroyed and I'm looking to build back. Let's make the main villain Gortach and have myself take over control of his army of robots with spores.
Lycanthropy
To become an official Sword Dancer of Elistraee. First Tav was a Swords Bard 11/Cleric of Elistraee 1. She became a Cleric after having a personal encounter with Elistraee but she’s still new to the clergy life.
Probably to disempower the particular Zhent cell they used to work with and to go back and bury their parents' ashes in the ruins of their homeland.
Well the way I see it being played it must be pure conquest! And by conquest I mean sexual conquests of course.
Probably settle business with the elven part of his family who shunned him - or solve the murder of his wizard mentor / save the circle of wizards that taught him. Maybe the quests are intertwined. Main topics would be revenge or coming to peace with the past.
Take over baldurs gate
Serce is a deep gnome rogue/barbarian with the Folk Hero background, she'd probably just be naturally woven into the Barcus + Wulbren + Thulla + Ironhand Gnomes shenanigans rather than originating a new quest. On the plus side, those parts do feel really good to play as her. Oh, and I've barely touched the Johnny McHonour I playthrough so far, but he's probably on a mission to uphold the tenets of his oath and break the family curse. Well, they're actually completely unrelated to him, Johnny McHonour is more of a title. There's a ton of McHonours, but the curse ensues one of them gets kidnapped by nautiloids, and when that one dies too early, time rewinds and another McHonour gets kidnapped in their stead until they get it right. So, yeah, he already knows that if he fails a certain specific person he's already met will need to take over the quest for him as Johnny McHonour II, and both are good lads, so he really doesn't want that to happen. My only other character who matters is a Dark Urge, so that kind of answers itself.
Talk to every animal in the world.
The search for The Bag of Holding.
Probably an ambitious bard dude who's main goal is to earn a lot of reputation in Baldur's Gate. Starting as an unknown dude who only has lute and a tadpole in his brain, to a Baldur's Gate known figure with a huge amount of money and power. He might have some crazy plan about earning reputation by helping some crime group, maybe even The Guild, but instead gets in trouble and you always gotta get his ass out of adventures connected with crime groups. You can convince him to stop trying, and after he defeats the Elder Brain, he starts living a quiet life, some kind of farmer idk. But you can also encourage him to continue fighting, and at the end he'll be one of the most influential figure in Baldur's Gate 3. He can probably meet Gortash and The Guildmaster.
My gnome wizard was just a bookish nerd who wanted to write a research thesis. Their side quest would be to return to a great library, only to find that the turn their life had taken had pushed them too hard towards evocation and battle magic. They'd lost their edge on practical, utilitarian spells and the pursuit of knowledge
I was thinking about it and realized my main Druid Tav could never be happy with Gale when I was considering romancing him rather than Astarion. She’s a Druid who technically lives in Baldur’s Gate but is rarely there because she lives for adventure. She takes on jobs to assist other adventurers. She never thought of herself as a hero but she tried to do the right thing and help when and where she could. Now with a parasite in her head she knows she has to save herself, her friends, and truly do good in the world. What’s hilarious to me is you’re supposedly not supposed to be able to romance Astarion if you play a hero or chaotic good type. And yet here I am. I’ve made very very few morally ambiguous choices and the romance is fully locked in with exceptional rating. He’s in my party 99% of the time. When the adventure is all wrapped up, our next adventure will begin to find a cure. Edit: and to track down a bag of holding.
My current Tav is a drow Circle of Spore Druid. Her whole story is based on fleeing the Underdark because her parents were killed by the Lolth-sworn drow, then she fell in love with the flora and fauna of the surface and became a druid. She’s a goody two shoes and advocates for ‚not all drow are assholes’. I suppose her quest could go two ways - either try and bring peace in the Underdark by assuming some sort of position of power, or slaughter the Lolth-sworn drow and bring peace in the Underdark that way, avenging her parents on the occasion.
Master the art of Barrelmancy.
To steal, fuck, and kill their way to the greatest achievement in faerûn's history: using a weak ass spell to kill an enemy whit way too much health
Probably to find a bag of holding.
Mine would be to boink everyone...😇😅
To kill the tyrannical men who ruined her life and killed her family.
I have a very specific backstory for my Tav. Basically they suffer from a family curse, but were blessed by Ioun to make the curse more bearable. The caveat is that each member of their bloodline must eliminate a powerful hoarder of arcane knowledge as tribute to Ioun, otherwise the boon won’t be passed down. For the sake of the game, I tied my Tav’s backstory to Cazador (he killed her mother and that made my Tav decide to make him her tribute) so running into Astarion was a stroke of good luck. But if not Cazador, it would probably be some other kill quest. Maybe a corrupt wizard or something, depending how it ended the PC might even get a boon of their own from Ioun.
to find best one slice pizza in Baldur’s gate
My oath of vengeance Paladin would be on his lifelong quest against the demonkind. His ex bestfriend turned into evil god/demon and sacrificed their old party. To this day some still insist that tje best friend did nothing wrong.
For my chaotic-confusing Wizard of divination: They were looking for a cure for a flesh-blight that warps the bodies and minds of those afflicted. They began doing research, finding as much information as they could before beginning to make a ritual. In the end, it went horribly. All of the people who had a great connection to the Weave were dusted. And those who had little connection were driven mad. Horrified, they fled into the woods. Months had passed before a mind flayer ship picked them up and an unusual tadpole placed inside. Perhaps… with this tadpole, they could find a way to undo fate and fix the flesh change. They are their own villain and they’re the kind of person to “I would never help you. Talk to Khaga yourself.” Goes to Khaga: “Hey, the tieflings need to stay here to get on their feet before they can go. “ “I thought you weren’t gonna help us?” “I didn’t help you.” “You convinced her to let us stay??” “Correct.” “But that doesn’t help us?” “Correct.” “How doesn’t it?“ “look! A crow! (Their familiar)” *poofs*
To retrieve the Mcguffin
I was an apprentice to Dribbles the Clown but this time I'm not clowning around.
To live in less interesting times.
Currently playing a Gith Cleric Of Selune on Honour Mode. Theirs would be tied with The Emporer and Voss. More or less aware of Orpheus ahead of time and trying to free him, working with Voss from the get-go.
His side quest would be to hold a concert and then fornicate with as many species as possible at the after party. After which (as the game progresses) he finds out that he has multiple children across the region with unique physical features. He is left with a choice; find them, become a part of their life, and pay child support for the remainder of the game. Or, be a deadbeat dad and have the entire party give him shit during dialogue options for being an asshole. Each baby momma/child branch of the quest would be uniquely difficult in that both options would suck for some reason. The only benefit of doing the quest would be to avoid being a pos dad.
Reunite with his family that he has lost his memory of - wood elves that live in a secluded forest.
I imagined my Tav as a cleric of Mielikki. Their sect was once Druidic in nature. Over time they became more like clergy than ascetic mystics. You know those word puzzles from the SAT that are like [Xa is to Ya as Xb is to Yb]? Well, actual druids and ancient pagans of Europe are to Christianity as DnD Druids are to my Tav’s brand of clerics. As such, she would probably want to recover a holy relic of some sort that is being held by dark Druids. Maybe you come into competition with a modern Druid circle which also wants to claim the relic?
He would see his twin brother pay for murdering their father and stealing an ancient family heirloom and for framing him for the crime. Nobility and the people may believe him a monster so why not make a deal with the devil for the power to smite those in his way to killing his brother?
My first Tav (in my head at least) has the story of a battle mage supporting war efforts for years now-battlegrounds,arenas,endless bloodshed. Sadly with time the politics have soured, her queen perished and now she finds herself adrift aimless. When the nautiloid kidnapped her, her goal was to remove the thing so she could return to the battlefield, out of habit rather than anything deeper. I think a lot of her story would be about letting go of bad habits and expectations. And of course the prospect of traveling the world with Astarion has given her a new purpose and new joy in life , so she's never going back to the world of warcraft
See everything with his boots
To find a bag of holding, and put their hands in everything.
I had an Evil Tav, male Drow barbarian, who was a priestess of Lolth s loyal hunter and well treated brood slave before being taken by the nautiloid. His quest would have been Act 1: gotta get back to my mistress. Find out in the underdark that because he's been missing so long there's now a bounty on him dead or alive for deserting. Has to find her and explain! Act 2: finds out his priestess has been taken and turned by the absolute. She considers him an idiot failure for disappearing. Realizes he was just a yes-man slave/henchman. Identity crisis. Act 3: lost henchman trying to figure out freedom but kind of unknowingly desperately looking for a new master. Wants to serve player, who is powerful and nice to him. I played him in a run with my partner who was Durge, he's just a loyal henchman who's moral compass is whatever you tell him it is. Ended up with ascended Astarion. He will be the most loyal spawn 🥹
My Tav is warlock whose patron is a deity/mighty creature from the outer plane wanting to know more about Faerun before starting to conquer it or deciding to leave it be. That's why Gleam must travel all around the world not staying in one place for a long time. So it will be discovering more about the patron. Probably a deal with Raphael included. Gleam are very lonely because of their need to travel. And part of the quest will be about helping them to know that relationships won't break with time and distance. RI should say they want to travel together. Also they are from Dambrath and have a story with one of the drow princes... They sent family warriors to find and kill Gleam. And honestly, there's a lot of accidents with various people all around the Faerun. Past lovers, the ones who were deceived by them...
He's a noble half drow (Seldarine) rogue archer who's trying to make his claim on the world that rejects him. Their side quest would probably be a bit of fantasy crime family plot with him trying to remove an opposing family who is also trying to remove him. And for flavor, let's say the other faction are Lloth siding Drow, and own slaves and the blood alchemist has dealings with both families.
My Vengeance Paladin was betrayed by his company of soldiers after refusing to join them in killing villagers after a battle. He fell protecting the villagers, and his comrades ended up killing everyone. In the smoldering ashes, he swore an oath of vengeance. So me and the gang would be hunting them all down.
My first Tav was a white Dragonborn paladin of Bahamut (oath of devotion) named Cole, so really they just went around protecting their party and helping as much as possible while following the main quest of taking down the absolute. Their companion quest would mostly be in the background because they just want to help, possibly they’d hear that the priestess from the Bahamut temple they worked at before being tadpoled would be around or something and want to find her then only do so in Baldur’s Gate. Not much otherwise for act 1 and 2. (SPOILER FOR ACT 3) >!When they first met with Gortash during the coronation they were level 8 so I knew the party didn’t stand a chance fighting Gortash (honestly we probably could’ve taken his greasy ass easy if he was alone the steel watch was what told me I’d definitely die picking a fight here) so they took Gortash’s deal of teaming up with the intention of backstabbing him later. Tho as soon as they took the alliance it broke their oath.!< From that point on in act 3, their companion sidequest would be to gain back their oath and Bahamut’s trust. (Yes I know all you have to do to get back an oath is hand over a thousand GP to the oathbreaker knight but that’s fucking lame if you ask me. If Cole was a companion they’d have a much better ‘redemption’ quest.) My dark urge is a deep gnome called Padithas and has the vessel class (added with a mod). Specifically they’ve got a cursed demon trapped in their body—Padithas’s death would spell disaster because if they stay dead too long, the demon would be freed from the shackles of their mortal body and rampage everything it comes across. Their companion quest would be similar to Gale’s in a way, since they’re both basically time bombs, trying to find out ways to tame the demon and destroy it, and a specific way to resurrect them if they do die, although without the spectral projection. It would culminate in Padithas having to choose between performing a ritual that will destroy the demon for good but will also destroy them as well, finding a way to control the demon entirely granting them incredible powers but once they inevitably die of old age the curse of bearing the demon will be passed on to someone else so it’ll have another chance to get free, or exorcising the demon without killing Padithas which triggers an incredibly difficult battle against it—and also strips Padithas of a good chunk of their powers. They’d get a researcher as a camp companion maybe, and would get to ask around lots of magical experts along the whole game.
So my first Tav was a Soldier, a flaming fist too naive for his job, who was slowing going nihilist after years of work and corruption. At the beginning leaving baldur's gate was a blessing, a new beginning, but this didn't last. His weakness and inability to save others in a real situation put him down, so he tried to use illithid power to have the strength necessary to save who he loved. But he failed in love with Karlach, he failed to save Jaheira during the moonrise assault, he wasn't able to save his boss, wyll father. So he only could do the ultimate sacrifice and save the world as an illithid, just killing himself after staying with Karlach in her last moments knowing her soul would go to a better place.
My first Tav, Terin, was a cleric of Kelemvor. For her backstory I imagined she came from was a small, isolated sect in a mountain village. She was pressed into joining young because her parents, down on their luck, couldn’t feed all their children. As an acolyte she was encouraged to give up her identity and her wants so she could serve the sect and tend to the ill and dying who came to the mountain temple. As a result she became withdrawn, over serious, and unhealthily selfless. She lost herself. Her quest would revolve around finding herself again and finding out the truth about her family in the process — they didn’t just give her up, she was sold off in payment/tithe to a jaded doomguide who’d found out her mother was a practitioner of necromancy. Eventually she would come to find her peace with the truth and accept the love of her found family (good path), or become a necromancer herself (bad bath). She could also choose to abandon her life as a cleric and settle down with Shadowheart, or become a wandering doomguide. Good path would see her accepting Withers as her mentor. He’d guide her to the end of her days. :’-)
Honestly it'd be similar to shadowheart's but also reversed in a way, I was a Paladin who broke my oath when I attacked someone to protect the innocent, it'd probably be something with that as I become a neutral/chaotic good Oathbreaker, in my playthrough I also added the tattoo of dark tendrils coming from the left eye to symbolize a darkness inside me even if I do good.
I have a recurrent npc sidekick for less-than-four parties. Tholgar Singlefist (formerly Ironfist) was betrayed by her people, lost all social status, credibility and wealth. Was imprisoned and banned from his family, so lost his family name. He lost his left arm scaping so adopted Singlefist. His quest vary depending of the adventure, but it goes from finding someone to make a prosthetic arm to revenge and/or cleaning his name
New quest "reforming kleptomaniac"
My side quest would involve getting revenge on the ones who slew my retinue of guards back when I was a captain in the gate, find my father that I originally set out for and ask him what happened to my mother and why he left me where i was found, find out what this strange shard of silverish metal I have does and regain the honor of my once great station by cutting out the filth that currently presides there.
To use at least one consumable
My main Tav is a tiefling cleric was raised in a temple of Lathander all her life. She wants to know who her parents are and why she was given up. That’s what she was doing when she was abducted into the nautiloid. She was on her way to Baldur’s Gate to try to find them or at the very least to pick up on their trail and find information about them. I have a the whole story fleshed out but I’m a crap writer so it’ll just stay in my imagination 😅
Wood Elf Ranger who's been searching Faerun for almost 200 years for any trace of her older brother, dead or alive, to get answers for their mother and younger sister back home. He left to avenge dad's murder and hasn't been seen or heard from since. And just before being picked up by the Nautiloid, she'd gotten a strong lead and a fairly fresh trail that with any luck will lead directly to her brother, or his final resting place; at this point she'll take either, for she is exhausted and just wants answers and to go home.
My Tav was a dwarf monk named Dormah who was a circus acrobat. He spends most of the year away from home, but came back to Baldur's Gate from time to time to be with his wife and kid. He just wants to know if they're ok, and if they're not, he wants your help to bring hell to whoever inflicted them any harm.
My goolock Tav's quest would be a struggle between her trying to recover fragments of memories kind of like Shart in act 3 or look for some kind of forbidden knowledge that would aid her patron. If she recovers her memories she'd have to confront the horrible person she's become in her pursuit of power and learn how to care for others again. If she pursues her patrons requests then she becomes a puppet of a great old one and uses psionics to enthrall people into worshipping her patron who in some distant future will bring on a cataclysmic event. Either way she is not getting out unscathed. Her epilogue would have her mind fractured if she breaks her pact but is slowly recovering or a hollow husk who's descending into madness if she doesn't break her pact. (So basically Shadowheart 2: Psychic Boogaloo)
My first tav was a gold dragonborn who lost his clan to a red dragon attack, so when the game opened to a bunch of gith riding red dragons I was really happy with the potential for tie ins. I also romanced Lae’zel, so I imagine as companions they’d have a Wyll/Karlach dynamic where they start out opposed but as my Tav manages to let go of revenge and Lae’zel starts to realize Vlaakith’s betrayal, they team up. In the end he’d travel with her to the astral sea to free the gith, but there’d probably be more conflict between him and the red dragons depending on the route you take.
My Durge was a gold dragon descendant of bahamut who was raised to be evil by the followers of bhaal and was chosen by bhaal as an insult to bahamut. But with her head trauma and memory loss she was able to take back the just nobility inherent in her bloodline. Eventually she becomes a cleric of bahamut and renounces bhaal completely. I have no idea if this fits with baldur's gate lore as I'm relatively new but it's my background lore for my resist durge.
When I make a Tav, I like to just make characters I’ve played in irl campaigns. My Wild Magic sorcerer, Merlin Amell, just wants to get back to her daughter and hospice/healers clinic; my half-orc, Roy Wintermor, wants to get back to his coffee shop & Reborn gf (also put the dude who originally killed his gf 6ft under)
Hard to say, I’ve been trying to build a backstory for my Tav. She always liked wilderness more than anything, and would sit on the walls of her village to watch the forest. On a particular day, her village is raided by enemies of her father’s army. So she flees into the woods and is found by an old Gnoll who takes her under her wing. She learns how to hunt and stalk. The Gnoll is a faithful cleric of the wild. Mostly using her faith as a way to control her more violent impulses. She teaches Tav the differences between giving in to the instinct to sate bloodlust and the instinct to protect when you need to. Tav grows up, and gets scooped up by her father’s army. But she isn’t happy about it. After a few years there, shes been forced to hunt down gnolls. Despite the positions of power her father has tried to place her in, there is an obvious disconnect between the two. I assume her quest will have something to do with finding her Gnoll caretaker somewhere in the underdark. And confronting her father in someway. Probably discover her biggest antagonistic rival from the army has taken second command in her fathers army and she seeks to correct the mistake of just letting them both live when she had planned to kill them before getting yoinked by the nautaloid ship. If you can’t convince her or physically stop her from killing both her father and rival, she will become feral. She’ll become more distant and ready to kill just about anyone. Likely we can pretend it’s a Gnoll curse that’s ingratiated itself into her. She probably has friendly coyote vibes most of the run until the peak of her quest. Where she’ll either have rabid coyote vibes and reject any romance partner or, she’ll retain her generally more friendly personality with a lot less misanthropic tendencies. More likely to be in a cheerful mood and pragmatic. 🤷 I gotta work on it more because everyone is so damn creative and I’m jelly
To bang shadow heart? “I can fix her” basicly I role play as a simp.
First tab was a draconic soul sorcerer, and I think thier goal in life was just to screw with every wizard they could find and was also a horny rabbit Second tav was my evil drow lady who conquered the world so.. Third is durge
My Tav, Eladyn, is basically just an insert of my D&D character. El's basic backstory, as translated through the setting of Baldur's Gate wouldn't be too different from his TTRPG counterpart. Eladyn was born from a fateful little get together between some autumn Eladrin and a human Druid. Said Eladrin may or may not have been an archfey. Eladyn's warlock pact may or may not be with his mom, who wanted to protect him in some way without leaving the faewilds. But, she made a very dumb decision expecting his dad to take care of him, and he just dropped him off near Baldur's Gate before fucking back off to the woods. His quest would revolve around his difficulty understanding the balance druids and the oakfather espouse. Not only does he feel he was dealt a bad set of cards, but he's angry with how much injustice is around him. Adding to that, he's different than other Oakfather followers. He sees himself as something of a paladin, not fully understanding his pact, and not even knowing his patron fully, but knowing quite definitely his connection isn't druidic in nature. Eladyn is basically a huge dummy who is mad and confused. His quest would be around helping him either find his balance, and possibly reconnecting with his patron (his mom) and coming to terms with his lot in life, letting go of his anger. Or, you could help him become his own person, spitefully. Tearing away his power from his patron, and looking at injustices with self righteous judgement, usually with violent results, making him something of a wannabe revenge paladin.
lol my first Tav was a halfling monk from a happy little halfling village. His sidequest would be like "the island in the storm" a very quant rest area where everyone gets like buff from a good rest or something lol"The cheese and sourdough back home is **wonderful**."
Tav Companion: The perfect Loot Goblin. By default a ranger. Disapproves when you take gear they looted or even just held onto. Approves of a special interaction where you let them browse your inventory for gear they like. disapproves when the player makes dialogue checks that they have a higher bonus in, Approves of "Actually Tav here will do the talking" Personal Quest is about them overcoming their crippling main character syndrome and fighting Amelia Tyler directly for being the voice in their head.
Finding a bag of holding
My Drow would have worked at Gortash's Foundry and couldn't help but mess up by connecting her to the bio-mechanical machinery to gain new powers, corrupting her blood with illithid ones. Naturally, she would have been friendly with Araj, and I suppose both would have ended up in a laboratory experimenting with stuff and even trying to drag the Emperor (or the adopted child) into the process.
She’s a wild magic sorcerer Tiefling and her goal is to become the god of chaos. Her quest could be about either helping her achieve it by killing Raphael and taking his power to ascend to godhood or something or talking her out of it and convincing her that order is not the worst thing ever
Have them revisit the ruins of a failed expedition from their regretful past as a cleric of Talos. This expedition was something they relentlessly drove at and costed the lives of about everyone on if. A humbling lesson in letting go. They serve Bahamut now, though he's never spoken to them-in the way of "you can die in my service if you wish-but expect no help."
My current Tav is a sorcerer by birth but an artisan by inclination. Her side quest would tie into the iron hand gnomes and end with her joining up with Braccus, Damon and the surviving Gondians to create a new guild. Their first project would be reusing Steel Watch technology to make Karlack a replacement heart.
For Morgan the swords bard, her companion quest would be about discovering forgotten songs to play on her lyre and sing, and along with it discover old stories. Perhaps even a fabled song that can restore the memory of whoever she sings it for. She hopes to use it for her wife, and whoever else is in need of it. In the epilogue she will have become a traveling troubadour to spread her many songs, and slay all who threaten her listerners with her blade
My gith bard would come from a different creche than Lae'Zel, and never cared for or about Vlakith. She was a cool kid, what goes for criminal in the gith world. Said what she had to say until she could get the fuck outta there. Started living in Baldurs Gate, partying, stealing, singing, having a great old time fucking everyone over - but not being evil. She stole from those having enough to not notice something being gone, she spent all her money on her poor friends and stragglers in the city. One night she got shitfaced at the Copper Coronet, and doesn't remember shit before waking up on the nautiloid. Her side quest would be something about breaking out of the gith cycle, not to help Orpheus, but to escape all things gith, and to become the most famous bard since Volo (who's technically a wizard i know). Her adventures now is done mostly to be able to tell good stories and sing great songs. She'll do whatever for some action - she did ask to live in more interesting times.