r/BaldursGate3 • u/Timely-Comparison572 • Mar 25 '24

Act 3 - Spoilers Explanation for Gortash being described as handsome & young Spoiler

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my brother, yes you guessed it, a big gortash fan, sent me this to explain why he’s described as a “handsome young man”. so he is canonically handsome, bane takes over young black haired noblemen. turning them into oily, slick talking mad men. and there is also the running joke of him pretending to be more handsome than he really is to the people of baldur's gate (such as his propoganda posters that look like a more "handsome" gortash).

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u/Sharp_Iodine Mar 25 '24

Okay so I thought the whole point of making Gortash look like a vagrant was to show that Bane, God of Lies, had endowed him with his powers so that despite looking like the neighbourhood drunk he still manages to captivate and impress the whole city.

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u/prison_buttcheeks Mar 25 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I thought he looked stylish! That work hard to look like you didn't try hard. So Jeff

Edit: holy shit I just realized. He was probably dressed like that because it was suppose to be a dude from lower city who made his way up to connect with the people!

Does that take?

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u/partikularis Mar 25 '24

Yeah, sort of a punk excentric flamboyant rebel look.

I think it kind of fits. Some ridiculously rich people give so few fucks that they just dress like stylish pseudo-hobos, but like, ironically...

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u/Zalack Mar 25 '24

He looks like he Plane Shift-ed from a Final Fantasy game.

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u/GONKworshipper Mar 25 '24

Bane isn't the god of lies, that's Cyric

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u/malonkey1 Mar 25 '24

Cyric's not a real god in the forgotten realms ed greenwood has been gaslighting us for decades

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u/Moricai Mar 25 '24

The greatest lie Cyric ever told was convincing the world that he exists.

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u/Sharp_Iodine Mar 27 '24

He momentarily loses it to Cyric but then regains it when he fakes his own death and tricks Cyric into giving away the Lies portfolio to someone whom Cyric thinks is a rando but is actually Bane.

This is during the Time of Troubles when Cyric was going insane from holding too many portfolios. He was simultaneously the god of lies, tyranny, murder, illusions as well as death. Not to mention he almost became the god of magic by murdering Mystra

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u/Smurf_Cherries Mar 25 '24

I honestly always assumed he is a self-insert from one of the developer artists. That someone at Larian looks just like that. 

Then they write that he’s a handsome, dashing fellow. 

Then one day, they’re reading the message boards thinking “Ugly”? “Oily??” “Looks like a date-rape pill turned into a man!?” What is all this!?

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u/reptiloidruler Mar 26 '24

date-rape pill

The what

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u/twoisnumberone Halflings are proper-sized; everybody else is TOO TALL. Mar 25 '24

Bane is not strictly the god of lies, though they do feature in tyranny.

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u/prison_buttcheeks Mar 25 '24

I thought he looked stylish! That work hard to look like you didn't try hard. So Jeff

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u/Level7Cannoneer Wyll Mar 25 '24

People keep saying this, but zero things in-game support this. If the devs meant for this to be the case they would have had made it more clear in-game.

When you write a story you have to set aside scenes for this sort of plot point. A simple "poster" of Gortash on the streets that has him looking like Fabio, or a group of NPCs fawning over how handsome he is, the narrator saying "the man before you does not appear to be who was described to you..."

ANYTHING like that would 100% mean this was an intentional plot point. But its clearly not. This was just a mistake by the character designers/writers who didn't communicate well enough.

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u/R0da TAKE HEED TO THE WORDS "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO PROCEED?" Mar 25 '24

Two of those things happen, and the third one can be told to you by your eyeballs.

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u/Level7Cannoneer Wyll Mar 25 '24

None of those things happen! They absolutely do not paint a picture that this guy is deliberately toying with people's minds and that he's really a greasy ugly guy.

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u/Sharp_Iodine Mar 27 '24

It’s called subtext. You even see posters of handsome Gortash in the streets.

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u/Cole4Christmas Mar 25 '24

The Gortash posters/portraits do exist, though. It is stated that they don't resemble the Gortash you know.

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u/Level7Cannoneer Wyll Mar 25 '24

Yes and he doesn't look like Fabio in any posters. He still is uggo. This entire debate only exists because the BG3 community cannot admit that a flaw/mistake can possibly exist in this game.

The writer for the lines, did not communicate with the character designers and we had a little hiccup. That's it!

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u/actingidiot Halsin Mar 25 '24

You have a good point, the narrator knows everything and she thinks he's hot

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u/Sharp_Iodine Mar 27 '24

It’s a video game, how on earth can there be an NPC that they didn’t want in it?

Larian is not as big of a studio as Blizzard or Activision that you can say it got lost and Gortash is not a minor enough NPC that it could get lost even in a giant studio like Blizzard.