The Song Of Lorelei

This started as a cooldown sketch after comms but I just kept returning to do a little more and here we are...

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Gortash needs reading glasses, he refuses to wear them in front of people and has an appointed staff member to read things to him when in a meeting under the pretense that is more ‘aristocratic’

Durge reads things for him when they have evil business meetings

Yess! Durge leaves some blood on the documents but it’s fine because it works well with the whole aesthetic lol✨

Durge: "Death presbyopia comes for us all in the end"

The way Gortash would gasp loudly and say “Are you calling me old?!?!”

Gods I love them so much

Provoke the blade and suffer its sting 🗡️

Gortash needs reading glasses, he refuses to wear them in front of people and has an appointed staff member to read things to him when in a meeting under the pretense that is more ‘aristocratic’

Durge reads things for him when they have evil business meetings

Yess! Durge leaves some blood on the documents but it’s fine because it works well with the whole aesthetic lol✨

Dead three

I literally feel like i'm losing my mind every time someone calls Gortash ugly or objects to the "handsome" line

Like.... he's literally a handsome guy. He's not a classic hollywood looking guy, but he's a handsome guy in his late 40s. These beauty standards are so annoying, not everyone has to look like a model- in fact, i think he's more handsome because he doesn't. And even so, he lives up to a LOT of classic beauty standards- the basic male body model is ripped as hell (not a fan of that, dad bod Gortash is canon in my heart, but it IS in game), typical hollywood stubble, and a full head of hair. So what's the problem, really? He looks his age? He has cheeks? His haircut is a bit funky? He literally isn't ugly, some people are just way too used to a very narrow view of beauty.

I will defend this guy's design until I die. If he was one of you guys' irl actor blorbos (like Mads Mikkelsen) you'd all be praising his "unconventional" looks.

If anything you should be objecting to the "younger" part, not the "handsome" one.

If anything, they should have made him uglier.

I was working on a prospective timeline of Gortash’s life and I wanted to explore some ideas of what Gortash might look have looked like growing up, inspired by the notes in the biography by Vance Farnol and rock eras/sub-genres; design notes are on Patreon (including free members) detailing specific influences.

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Lord Astarion who hesitates at the buffet table in the dining room. Too many sights, too many smells - he doesn't know where to begin! So he stares wide-eyed into the vacant, sleepy expression of his consort who then grabs his empty plate in one hand and his wrist in the other. Astarion's watchful crimson gaze darts back and forth as his consort fills the plate just enough to be satisfied. It takes him some time to become acquainted with the flavours. He likes fruits - something soft that he can rip his canines into without the aftereffect of it falling limp in his hands. It's the sweetness he likes the most, though he'll deny it with a coy grin. And when he learns you can turn fruit into other sweet treats like pies, this is his face afterwards: 😋😮‍💨

Fun fact I accidentally screwed over Rolan on my first run, I had many regrets

Painted some Gortash 😮‍💨🖤

obsessed with the dynamic between Gortash and Myrkulytes

(from Missive from Ketheric)

Ketheric literally saying "Don't use that tone with me young man"