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Game is so lovely, but I crave more evilness! Also Bane is a pretty cool deity so.

I don't get how some people are horny for the Raccoon looking homeless man we call Gortash, guy has mustard colored teeth and looks like he hasn't bathe in years, He probably smells like your average MTG player too, He's cool and all, but I don't think he's romance material, let alone marriage material.

All Hail Lord Archduke Gortash, the Trash Panda Man...

I mean people are horny for the spider guy - are you really surprised here?
As for how Gortash looks: I'm actually glad, they didn't make him a pretty boy-, he probably doesn't have much time to groom or sleep and he exactly looks that way, which makes sense imo.

I would love to be able to keep him alive just to have him standing there in the ending like "well shit".

The Brain did him a favor,

He fucked up Karlach's life, this is enough to put him on the very bottom of my trash-tier list.

Not only that, he's ridiculous as a 'villain'.

Don't remind me of the spider dude, i've long stopped questioning people's 'tastes', lmao.

Edit: spoilers just in case.

Spider Guy is a Drider (short for Drow Spider, they are Drow who are cursed into this form by Lolth as punishment, these Drow Spider Centaurs are made serial and are given Amnesia before getting sent on their way), the Larian version is more attractive than the usual ones, according to D&D lore MALE DRIDERS have Spider Mandibles on their faces, while FEMALE DRIDERS don't have that facial feature.

I know about Drider, I just like to call him spider dude (DnD nerd for 20 years here ;)). I have severe arachnophobia and tbh Kar'niss triggers that more than the spider matriarch - he just moves too spidery and I really won't kink shaming or anything, but whenever someone says, they want to romance him, my arachnophobic self just screams inwards 'Are you out of your friggin' mind??'



I mean, as I said, Gortash has a lot on his plate - that he looks like that makes perfect sense.

Sure, that's a way to look at it but as an he could at least afford to have some time for himself (literally only a matter of minutes) and look approachable for the people. To 'charm' them, so to speak.


Not like it'd change my opinion on him either way,

I don't think I would romance him but I certainly enjoyed the frenemies connection he can have with Tav. I wanted to see more of him!


He did my Tav a favour. Karlach seems to be designed as a cannon fodder character and she even admits she'd pick tentacles over a poison. It was super easy, barely an inconvenience

Given the number the named nobles walking around Wrym’s keep, I get the sense there was some kind of political intrigue plot planned where you could either sabotage or bolster Gortash’s control over the upper city. Ruining his influence seems like a more fitting way to take him down, since (given you annihilated the steel watch) his actual boss fight felt the weakest of the dead three.

Yes! It certainly feels that way. Though it's possible it was related to cut content for Cazador instead. I heard they planned to make him a more prominent character and even a potential ally. He has this list of important people in his lair too.

I think some of the nobles are indeed

No, Wyll's dad is Grand Duke. Archduke is a special new title for Gortash.

Ok, then I stand corrected - no matter what, Gortash gets, what he deserves.

I especially am mad at him, when playing Durge, because

Guy doesn't even get a proper transformation,

You know, even if I can keep him alive JUST to torture him, it'd be dope too
Better, even.

Btw, killed him without disabling robots on tactician, and you'd be surprised how easy it is still. Bane really doesn't care about his ~chosen~, sadge