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mimi_sardinia) wrote2006-09-08 01:39 pm
mimi_sardinia) wrote2006-09-08 01:39 pm
Blaise Draconis - aka Me nattering about a Badur's Gate OC of Mine
I think it's because a couple of the skintones I'm trying to download for the Sims 2 are black ones that I got thinking on drow (Genensims had at least one black skintone labeled "Drow") which in turn got me thinking of the one drow I probably have the most interest in - Solaufein - which in turn made me think of my Twit that I played through the Sola romance with - Blaise Draconis.
Last time I played BG2 through it was the fact that I read somewhere that the Solaufein romance is totally equal oppertunity that I started playing the Draconis game again after months of ignoring it.
Yeah, slash made me play BG again.
I guess one of the drawbacks of getting into slash was that I lost interest in playing BG because all the romances in it were het ones - the romance wouldn't activate unless you had a mod that cut the restrictions but that would have even more WTFery than the slight implications I ran across in Sola's dialog that implied that Weimer was thinking hetronormatively when he wrote it.
One of the things I got thinking on was Blaise's religious affiliation. Forgotten Realms, in many ways does not seem like a world where atheism is worth much in the long run. Atheists end up being punished for their faithlessness in Kelemvor's realm, since they have no deity to claim them after they die. Either that or they bequeath their soul to the amries of Baator (Hell) or are kidnapped by fiends raiding the Fugue Plain and dragged to the Abyss.
So that had me comptemplating exactly who Blaise was affiliated to. I like the idea of him converting to Eilistraee simply because the idea strikes me as romantic that he follow Sola's example but in the long run - what with Blaise's origins and the likely influences on him, given his job class, and factors including who he may have had on his team during BG2 and his and Sola's eventual fate - I don't think that is quite logical.
Okay so, all BG player characters have the same history: they are an orphan raised by the sage Gorion in the library fortress of Candlekeep.
There are all sorts of job classes, though I think the basic ones will be recognisable to most folks - fighter, mage, cleric, thief, ranger, druid, monk, bard, sorceror, paladin, barbarian. In my mind the job class of any given PC will affect exactly who they had the most to do with during their training.
To use some of my Twits as example, Caella would have mostly been trained by mages, or preferably a sorceror since that is what she is. She still would have had basic training in fighting from warriors around Candlekeep but only in such weapons as a staff, dagger, sling and darts. Most of her training would have been to control her sorcery.
Narri on the other hand would have been more even - she's fighter mage so she'd have heavier weapons training as her favoured weapons are a sword and a crossbow. She'd also have quite heavy spellcasting lessons because unlike Caella Narri would have to learn how to prepare and memorise spells - something that come instinctively to a sorceror.
Imoen (who isn't a Twit, as she's canon character)... she's difficult. She's a thief, though my version of her started out learning magic, tried to learn music with the idea of being bard in mind (influenced by a line of dialog I read in the Imoen romance mod) then settled on being a thief and latter picked up magic again. Candlekeep probably has plenty of bards around so she'd probably learn thievery skills from them if not from a true thief.
Blaise is a total fighter - a Wizard Slayer at that. BG2 introduced kits - subclasses that have specific strengths and weaknesses to them. Wizard Slayers have natural magic resistance and spell disruption abilities but in trade cannot use any magic items except enchanted armour, weapons and potions.
To me, the kits seem like something a PC picks up in the intervening time between games, or it's implied they picked it up along the way in the first game. That's fine, I can easily see Blaise seeing evil wizards as a threat and therefore consentrating on developing skills for combating them.
So as a fighter, I imagine that most of Blaise's training would have been handled by the Candlekeep guard, and being guards I imagine that quite a few of them could possibly have held aligience to Helm - the god of Guards.
I don't imagine Blaise as particularly scholarly so I don't think Oghma would have appealed to him and in the same vien he wouldn't be all that drawn to Mystra either because he's no mage, so Helm seems to be the best candidate as a god for him to be indoctrinated to as a kid.
Now I can imagine that almost any bhaalspawn could possibly have a crisis of faith along the course of their adventure, but I don't think all of them could. Narri doesn't as her loyalty to magic and therefore Mystra was never shakeable, Caella strikes me as Faithless as she ends up wanting godhood, many of the others I fail to recall the alignments of most of the other Twits but then most of them were never well realised, not like Narri, Caella and Blaise.
Blaise I can see his faith not being strong and being steadily weakened along the way, finding Anomen's faith a disturbing factor in such that it makes him feel guilty for his lack of faith (Anomen is a Helmite warrior-cleric) and eventually questioning practically all his religious beliefs as the extent of his desiny gradually becomes evident.
Add into that a disposessed drow who draws his attention and maybe he does contemplate converting as he sees evidence of Eilistraee's favour on Sola... but no.
The epilogue for the Solaufien romance has that Sola and the PC eventually find their way to a small village of surface-dwelling drow and settle there and Solaufien dedicates himself to a mission to build a temple.
Given how much surface dwellers distrust drow in general and that Eilistraee's church is only small and rumours of it are often dismissed as fancy or outright lies and trickery such a place as this village would need protectors so I finally decided Blaise eventually returns to his childhood loyalties, renewing his faith in Helm and becoming a guardian for the village, and possibly eventually the leader of it's militia.
So after all that pointless thinking on an OC for an old game most folks on my Flist will not be familiar with I suddenly have this idea that some time I think I will try making sims of Blaise and Solaufein and dumping them in my neighbourhood.
Blaise can take a military career.
Last time I played BG2 through it was the fact that I read somewhere that the Solaufein romance is totally equal oppertunity that I started playing the Draconis game again after months of ignoring it.
Yeah, slash made me play BG again.
I guess one of the drawbacks of getting into slash was that I lost interest in playing BG because all the romances in it were het ones - the romance wouldn't activate unless you had a mod that cut the restrictions but that would have even more WTFery than the slight implications I ran across in Sola's dialog that implied that Weimer was thinking hetronormatively when he wrote it.
One of the things I got thinking on was Blaise's religious affiliation. Forgotten Realms, in many ways does not seem like a world where atheism is worth much in the long run. Atheists end up being punished for their faithlessness in Kelemvor's realm, since they have no deity to claim them after they die. Either that or they bequeath their soul to the amries of Baator (Hell) or are kidnapped by fiends raiding the Fugue Plain and dragged to the Abyss.
So that had me comptemplating exactly who Blaise was affiliated to. I like the idea of him converting to Eilistraee simply because the idea strikes me as romantic that he follow Sola's example but in the long run - what with Blaise's origins and the likely influences on him, given his job class, and factors including who he may have had on his team during BG2 and his and Sola's eventual fate - I don't think that is quite logical.
Okay so, all BG player characters have the same history: they are an orphan raised by the sage Gorion in the library fortress of Candlekeep.
There are all sorts of job classes, though I think the basic ones will be recognisable to most folks - fighter, mage, cleric, thief, ranger, druid, monk, bard, sorceror, paladin, barbarian. In my mind the job class of any given PC will affect exactly who they had the most to do with during their training.
To use some of my Twits as example, Caella would have mostly been trained by mages, or preferably a sorceror since that is what she is. She still would have had basic training in fighting from warriors around Candlekeep but only in such weapons as a staff, dagger, sling and darts. Most of her training would have been to control her sorcery.
Narri on the other hand would have been more even - she's fighter mage so she'd have heavier weapons training as her favoured weapons are a sword and a crossbow. She'd also have quite heavy spellcasting lessons because unlike Caella Narri would have to learn how to prepare and memorise spells - something that come instinctively to a sorceror.
Imoen (who isn't a Twit, as she's canon character)... she's difficult. She's a thief, though my version of her started out learning magic, tried to learn music with the idea of being bard in mind (influenced by a line of dialog I read in the Imoen romance mod) then settled on being a thief and latter picked up magic again. Candlekeep probably has plenty of bards around so she'd probably learn thievery skills from them if not from a true thief.
Blaise is a total fighter - a Wizard Slayer at that. BG2 introduced kits - subclasses that have specific strengths and weaknesses to them. Wizard Slayers have natural magic resistance and spell disruption abilities but in trade cannot use any magic items except enchanted armour, weapons and potions.
To me, the kits seem like something a PC picks up in the intervening time between games, or it's implied they picked it up along the way in the first game. That's fine, I can easily see Blaise seeing evil wizards as a threat and therefore consentrating on developing skills for combating them.
So as a fighter, I imagine that most of Blaise's training would have been handled by the Candlekeep guard, and being guards I imagine that quite a few of them could possibly have held aligience to Helm - the god of Guards.
I don't imagine Blaise as particularly scholarly so I don't think Oghma would have appealed to him and in the same vien he wouldn't be all that drawn to Mystra either because he's no mage, so Helm seems to be the best candidate as a god for him to be indoctrinated to as a kid.
Now I can imagine that almost any bhaalspawn could possibly have a crisis of faith along the course of their adventure, but I don't think all of them could. Narri doesn't as her loyalty to magic and therefore Mystra was never shakeable, Caella strikes me as Faithless as she ends up wanting godhood, many of the others I fail to recall the alignments of most of the other Twits but then most of them were never well realised, not like Narri, Caella and Blaise.
Blaise I can see his faith not being strong and being steadily weakened along the way, finding Anomen's faith a disturbing factor in such that it makes him feel guilty for his lack of faith (Anomen is a Helmite warrior-cleric) and eventually questioning practically all his religious beliefs as the extent of his desiny gradually becomes evident.
Add into that a disposessed drow who draws his attention and maybe he does contemplate converting as he sees evidence of Eilistraee's favour on Sola... but no.
The epilogue for the Solaufien romance has that Sola and the PC eventually find their way to a small village of surface-dwelling drow and settle there and Solaufien dedicates himself to a mission to build a temple.
Given how much surface dwellers distrust drow in general and that Eilistraee's church is only small and rumours of it are often dismissed as fancy or outright lies and trickery such a place as this village would need protectors so I finally decided Blaise eventually returns to his childhood loyalties, renewing his faith in Helm and becoming a guardian for the village, and possibly eventually the leader of it's militia.
So after all that pointless thinking on an OC for an old game most folks on my Flist will not be familiar with I suddenly have this idea that some time I think I will try making sims of Blaise and Solaufein and dumping them in my neighbourhood.
Blaise can take a military career.