Greetings all, I’ve been taking a bit of a holiday from actually playing BG recently, but I ran across a bunch of banters in one of my many notebooks for a potential BG2 NPC. Since I’m unlikely to ever get around to doing the coding myself in the near future (work, family etc. ![:)]( ":)")
), I thought I’d throw some of them up here in batches in case they were interesting for anyone else. Who knows, I might even get some inspiration for the future ![:)]( ":)")
. (Unless there's some better place for this kind of orphaned NPC?)
Appearance: Start with a cross between Minsc & Varys from Game of Thrones. Add the slightly simpering, slightly sneering expression of a used car salesman and make the tattoos rather more sinister. Put that head on a slightly corpulent body with the occasional scar and hint of mutilation, with soft gentle hands that are stronger than one might expect.
Bio: Zakon is only to eager to tell you something of his past, perhaps to steer the conversation away from any dangerous enquiries concerning its less admirable facets. He was sold at a young age in the underground city of Skullport to a splinter cult of Talona, which held that children could be used to seed new plagues across Faerun. As he rose to a position of minor responsibility within the cult he claims to have gradually cared less for the faith than the welfare of his young charges. He refuses to divulge much of the subsequent events - for the sake of his continued good health should the cult ever catch wind of his whereabouts- apart from his eventual success in enabling several ‘birds to fly free’. However, you are left with the impression that there was a cost to this deed that scarred his mind as well as his body. This is a man who will do much that is dubious or outright evil in the name of a good end.
Game stuff: I envisaged him as a 5th level NE Priest (now bereft of spells in original class?) who has dualed to mage, and has some resistance to poison- 50% if generous. He could easily be a Bard or another class however. Stats would possibly be something in the order of S13 D10 C16 I17 W15 CH11 – or whatever it is you need to dual class! He would likely be encountered in the Promenade or a similar location selling ‘potions’, which may or may not be of some benefit. He could probably link to many of the quests in the original game, such as the slaver children, Mazzy’s Talona related quest, and so on.
), I thought I’d throw some of them up here in batches in case they were interesting for anyone else. Who knows, I might even get some inspiration for the future . (Unless there's some better place for this kind of orphaned NPC?) Appearance: Start with a cross between Minsc & Varys from Game of Thrones. Add the slightly simpering, slightly sneering expression of a used car salesman and make the tattoos rather more sinister. Put that head on a slightly corpulent body with the occasional scar and hint of mutilation, with soft gentle hands that are stronger than one might expect.
Bio: Zakon is only to eager to tell you something of his past, perhaps to steer the conversation away from any dangerous enquiries concerning its less admirable facets. He was sold at a young age in the underground city of Skullport to a splinter cult of Talona, which held that children could be used to seed new plagues across Faerun. As he rose to a position of minor responsibility within the cult he claims to have gradually cared less for the faith than the welfare of his young charges. He refuses to divulge much of the subsequent events - for the sake of his continued good health should the cult ever catch wind of his whereabouts- apart from his eventual success in enabling several ‘birds to fly free’. However, you are left with the impression that there was a cost to this deed that scarred his mind as well as his body. This is a man who will do much that is dubious or outright evil in the name of a good end.
Game stuff: I envisaged him as a 5th level NE Priest (now bereft of spells in original class?) who has dualed to mage, and has some resistance to poison- 50% if generous. He could easily be a Bard or another class however. Stats would possibly be something in the order of S13 D10 C16 I17 W15 CH11 – or whatever it is you need to dual class! He would likely be encountered in the Promenade or a similar location selling ‘potions’, which may or may not be of some benefit. He could probably link to many of the quests in the original game, such as the slaver children, Mazzy’s Talona related quest, and so on.
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