Really hope Larian doesn't get the wrong idea about their fans from threads like this.
That is to say; yes,
please. I would adore a Gortash romance (or ""romance"").
Ideally it would be complicated, fascinating, and above all else
fucking tragic. I promise you, most of your fans are mature enough to be able to picture a story line where more Gortash content makes
copious sense. Gortash is the ultimate extension of bg3's core theme of the perpetuation of cycles of abuse. The reason the plot happens in the first place is because a kid, sold into slavery and raised by a devil, (shocker!) chose to be the worst possible version of himself. Like ascendant Astarion, he chose to perpetrate exactly the crimes that were inflicted on him on the grandest scale he could manage. That's an
extremely compelling villain!
Personally, he and the Durge remind me of the Corinthian from Neil Gaiman's Sandman (and the extended content/universe past the original 1989 run) in more ways then one. An individual built by a god to inflict terror struggling with ideas of violence, personhood, autonomy and growth. Specifically, I'd enjoy an exploration of a terrible terrible man having a soft spot for an equally awful scion of Bhaal. Not just "even evil has loved ones" but, "evil had a loved one, and their god/s were
so petty about it that they trashed one chosen and picked another, which ultimately lead to said god's downfall". Who's to say how much Bhaal himself wanted the Durge replaced vs Orin and all her complex human motivations being the force behind their being usurped, but we do see a bit of that already via the "prayer for forgiveness" letter. And of course there's space for Bane to be none too happy either; that the chosen of tyranny was willing to share power with the Durge (Or Tav, but imo leaving it at just the Durge would hit harder). There is so SO much more that Gortash content could explore. I'm trying not to be too harsh here, frankly, but of COURSE something compelling could come from digging into
the main villain's motivations and story. This isn't a disney film ffs. Fan's (for the most part) can handle that complexity without devolving into "hur hur they did it because dumb fangirls and boys want to fuck everything that moves." Fucking yikes.
I'd rather, they gave him his business romance with Franc back. ^^ (Poor letter.)
BIG MOOD. I mean I
get why they changed the letters. Personally I think they did need a bit of cleaning up or tightening, but I
haaaaaaaaate, just
actively despise that they stripped it of personality
entirely. Surely they could have at least kept the seductive implications and the phrase "slithering wet malice" in there.
It was a fantastic sentence.
