Spoilers Ahead!I was wondering if anyone knows if there is more pieces of lore in the game that mention Gortash’s connection with the Nine Hells and his past?
I just saw that I skipped an area in the game where an NPC mentions that Gortash had been a prisoner in Raphael’s House when he was younger. Considering he has connections there and is in cohorts with Zariel to a degree, I wanted to know if anyone else found more information like why was he imprisoned in Hell, or what kind of dealings he had there?
So far what I know is
1. He had been a “guest” who was tortured in the House of Hope of Raphael when he was younger (also, in which layer of hell is the house of hope? I know we use a mammon coin to get there, and that tells you which one it’s supposed to be…) Does anyone know why he ended up there?
2. He was/is an arms merchant who dealt in infernal iron enhanced weapons. He had connections in the hells for the infernal iron, though I have no idea with whom or where in the Hells.
3. He sold Karlach to Zariel in Avernus (and it seems there had been a bargain of sorts there, since the Steel Watch is at least based off Zariel’s infernal machinery). Was there more information on why he sold off Karlach? When we meet him in Wyrms Fortress he mentions Karlach fell out of favor with him, but I found nothing else.
4. He went to the hell realm where Mephistopheles had the crown of Karsus to steal it (and… is Mephistopheles Raphael’s father?)
Those are the connections I remember, which make Gortash a guy who seems to be very close to the Hells.
I like the lore of the Nine Hells a lot and it made me curious that Gortash seems to have a past closely related to it, but we never get the full story there. Do we know more about him?
