r/TavsAndDurges

Obsess with her !

She's supposed to look like female V from Cyberpunk 2077 (the original one from the early promo material). Guess she turned out ok. Not sure if V would become a Warlock if they were from the Forgotten Realms instead of Cyberpunk, but making shady deals for some dubious quick gain seems on par with V, I guess lol. I decide to go Durge with her instead of Tav, but this isn't really relevant to her looks.

The head comes from this mod: Lydia's Heads. The hair is already from the base game. Fits her well, I think.

Beren Corunnan, a 217 year old High Elf from a noble family and an Oath of the Ancients Paladin.

Formerly a dangerously apathetic louche with occasional thrill seeking tendencies, Beren had only been a Paladin for a few years before getting tadpoled.

They had knowingly allowed themselves to be kidnapped and ransomed, but was surprised and alarmed when the kidnappers took their little sister too. Double crossing Beren, the kidnappers tried to sell the pair off. The siblings were only saved with an Oathbreaker Paladin within the kidnappers ranks fought beside them and ultimately gave her life for them to be free.

Inspired for the first time in their life, Beren dedicated themselves to the Paladin’s original oath and set out to better themselves.

Beren tries to do ‘the right thing’ but still has to fight their better nature - something that drew them to Astarion. They help most of the innocents along their journey though do allow/force sacrifices to be made for the greater good.

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At Moonrise they found their little sister Livia, a War Domain Cleric of Tempus (pic5) infected and doing the Absolute’s bidding and had to rescue her along with Minthara.

Haven’t quite finished the game with them yet, but they may be convincing a certain ambitious wizard to make a drastic decision.

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Face comes from Toarie
Hairs are from Tav’s Hairpack and the longer wizardly updo
All on console

Pictures 1 and 2 from Act 2
Pictures 3 and 4 after growing their hair in Act 3
Picture 5 is of Livia, Beren’s younger sister

Now that I'm off work for a few days, I can finally play dress up again on Baldurs Gate 3! I'm trying to do another playthrough but I love playing with mods too much. 

I honestly use this game to make original characters so I can draw them later.

Here are some of the mods I use because I have 100 on my console and I can't remember the names for the life of me. 

Tav's Hair Salon 

P4 Bangs Bangs Everywhere 

Kay's Hair Extension Mod

P4 Hair Colors 

P4 Eye Colors 

Rox's Everyone Can Glow 

Rox's Shimmering Eyes

Subtle Nature Eyes

(I can't remember what face mod I used)

Putting this pic up for the post. I just really wanna hear about other people’s tavs and maybe have fun chatting about possible character interactions.

EDIT: I will try my best to respond to everyone’s messages

Unable to process all of the loss, she did the unthinkable and turned to necromancy. She forged a pact with a Dracolich who promised her the power to drive out the invaders and restore her grove to life. It was a lie of course but in her delusions she saw the living dead as the beautiful creatures she once protected. Mielikki has long since cast off this living embodiment of everything she hates but Melantha still believes she serves her goddess.

Tav's Hair Saloon for the hair, the dress is from Basket Full of Equipment, the pose is from Vampire Poses. Lights for the scene created with LightyLights and pose managed with QSAT.

The painting in the background is not a mod, I changed the game files myself after >!completing the quest with Oskar, as I was bummed Astarion didn't react to the painting.!<

I made a new character and I’m having difficulty naming him. Any ideas? He’s a Wild Magic Sorcerer and I was thinking about romancing Gale with him.

(I’ll try to post a follow up comment later about which mods I used to make him)

EDITTED 5/19: I CAN ADD TO POSTS AFTERWARDS? Okay cool, never used reddit before so this is news to me lol. Alright makes adding all the mods used to make him here so much easier!! Again thanks for all the name suggestions!!

• Skin Color - (ASTRL Starlight Enclave 19) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/8538
• Face and Body Glow Tattoos - (Constellations Glow Body Tattoo and Constellations Glow Face Tattoo, btw Face Tattoo was edited by me with permission from MadMicky10 ) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/17790
• Body Tattoos - (KVAT Black) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/3445
• Softer Body 2 Edit - (Tiefling files)  https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/8713 
• Head - (Caelithan V1 Tiefling preset) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/18643
• Eye Color - (PL Ashy Veil DS) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/22059 
• Eye Pupil Shape - (Fairy Eyes Preset) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/315
• Freckles - 100% quantity and 100% intensity + this mod in the scars slot to add more freckles https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/21419
• Hair - (Snowrise Braid Neat) https://www.patreon.com/posts/witnessed-by-140915021
• Bangs - https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/16198

In Chins Slot: [myky] Bangs_01
In Jaws Slot: [myky] Bangs_04
In Crest Slot: [myky] Bangs_09

• Hair Color - (ASTRL White 3) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/2002
• Horn - (Fae Horn) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1833
• Tail - (Fluffy Tail Thick) https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/11762

Outfit he is wearing - https://www.patreon.com/posts/onyx-desert-male-147332485

On to Baldur’s gate.

I’ve heard that Gith aren’t that popular, but this is my favorite character I’ve made. His backstory is that he was trained to be a sort of spy who infiltrates targets using disguise self to find weaknesses, and then he assists the raiders with support magic. My head canon is he takes charge of the group and manipulates them into trusting him, but then softens as he grows attached to them. He is a patriot, but at the same time he doesn’t like that he struggled to survive because he wasn’t that physically strong. And he’s attracted to Lae’zel’s strength, but he worries her belligerence will get them into trouble. Even though he often initiates an attack to impress her 😄.

Most people play their first playthrough as a pure, holy Paladin/Cleric of Selune, and their second as the exact opposite - adopting a 'mommy's little edgelord' mentality. Well, I am not 'most people.' Both Zarfryn and Xyr'Run are simply... who they are.

Tav or Durge: Tav

Name: Xyr'Run

Race: Githyanki

Class: Sorcerer

Subclass: Draconic Bloodline (Red Dragon)

Deity: Agnostic (potentially Oghma)

Age: 22 (in Material Plane equivalent)

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral / True Neutral

Playstyle: Pragmatic Good / Heroic

Personality: INTP-T

Romance: Absolutely none. Only his research notebook.

Caste & Background

Formerly Gith’dar (Scholar / Alchemist), currently reassigned as a forced H'ra'kyr (Planes Explorer & Cartographer).

"Exiled. Asked too many questions."

Literally, it was always his main flaw: he never knew when to shut up and obey. "Why must we do it exactly this way?" "Why not like that?" "What if we try this instead?" "How do istiks usually solve this problem?" To make matters worse, he loved to annoy the rare istik traders who visited the creche, picking apart their logic. The only person who showed him some resemblance of kindness was a combat trainer who harbored his own hidden doubts. And no, before you ask—the trainer didn't have red dragon blood, so he wasn't his father. Xyr'Run has no idea who his Shu'kyani (parents) are, nor does he care.

Finding no intellectual peers in a society of loud military zealots, Xyr'Run started keeping a research notebook filled with his own raw observations and chemical formulas.

The Path of Magic

"Born with it." In his teens, he desperately wanted to find a dragon-blooded mentor specifically to map out and explore the potential of his innate magic. However, having no other options, he underwent standard githyanki telepathic and martial training. During basic military drills intended for non-gish recruits, he consistently preferred using his mind over raw muscle.

Acclimatization to the Material Plane

He arrived with a heavy dose of latent githyanki narcissism. Furthermore, sudden absolute freedom caused a brief systemic error—he literally had no idea what to do with a life that lacked a chain of command.

He talks slowly, as if addressing slow-witted children, purely to compensate for the clunky, inefficient nature of spoken languages compared to astral telepathy. He doesn't mean to be deliberately rude; for him, it is just a matter-of-fact observation to say: "If I hadn't killed those goblins, your guts would be painting all these bushes." Driven by a strange, cold desire to increase the locals' pathetic survival rate, he voluntarily joined the training process at the Emerald Grove. His intentions were good, even if his delivery was utterly detached.

Arabella's case was personal to him. As a child, he too stole an artifact from his mentors to research it. He pricked his fingers until blood flowed, but he solved the puzzle in one night. His mentors didn't know what to do with him - they should have punished him, but he sped up their work. They decided not to punish him and send him to other researchers.

Tadpoles consumed: 0.

The Astral Tadpole: Smashed by his boot, obviously.

Orpheus or The Emperor: Orpheus.

The Final Sacrifice: No one (mods).

Observations on Companions & Assets

Karlach: "Loud. A good fighter. Can be trusted. Functionally broken."

Wyll: "Thinks too much without actually using his logic."

Gale: "Caused his own disaster out of pure arrogance and curiosity. Functionally broken. Lacks a baseline termination protocol—doesn't know when to stop."

Lae'zel: "I know her type too well—the kind that never asked questions. However, I am glad not to be alone in knowing the truth about Vlaakith now. For me, it was a simple 'Not surprising. I suspected the system was rigged from the start.' For her, the truth was a total psychological collapse."

Shadowheart: "Follows her Goddess blindly, much like my own kin worships the Lich-Queen. Fascinating. Intrigued by the parallel."

Astarion: "Drinks blood. Curious. As for his flirting? Acts strange. Why? As for his Cazador obsession: He wants to become a slaver himself instead of fully breaking the chain of slavery. Logically flawed. Strange."

Halsin: "Possesses vast knowledge of local nature. Calm. Can transform into an apex predator."

Jaheira: "Highly intelligent. Can transform into an apex predator. Respects her expertise and enjoys listening to her analytical worldview."

Minsc: "Loud. Chaotic. But his programming is clean. His purpose is pure."

Minthara: "Intriguing. I want to see how a Paladin fights back against those who manipulated her mind."

Withers: "Knows significantly more than his current log reveals."

Fauna & Assets

Scratch: "Furry. Loud. Barks unnecessarily."

Owlbear Cub: "A true kin."

Xyr'Run remains completely indifferent to the dog but harbors a deep fascination with the owlbear and dragons. Just as Halsin is obsessed with being a bear and eating honey, Xyr'Run’s fixation on dragons and apex predators is blatantly obvious.

Omeluum: "A renegade. An explorer—much like myself. Fascinating. Highly useful... for now."

Headcanon / Epilogue

In the end, Xyr'Run told Omeluum to remain on the Material Plane. He returned the Mind Flayer's ring and said: "I may require your exact expertise in the near future." As always, his calculations were correct. He still observes the society around him, thinking: "They are all useful... for now."