heedless fool.

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Rae didn't make his bed three days in a row... blasphemous.

... he couldn't take it for a fourth day though. Chaos? Not in his house. Only outside of it.

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Rae agrees to teach Shadowheart how to swim during their way to the Gate. He intends to start with their lessons once the tadpole mess is deal with—should they survive. Which, obviously, they do.
A few months later, during late spring, Shadowheart's lessons start. (1/2)

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Last time a similar QOTD came up, I made Rae the God of Freedom—a god to abolish Ao's laws.
I wanted to go into a more violent direction this time, though still somewhat rebellious.
In this instance, Rae would become the god of blood and battle. Unlike with Bhaal his power (1/4)

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Rae's pain tolerance is incredibly high, and he was trained and beaten into having positive responses to it—adrenaline & bloodlust mostly, though pleasure has creeped its way into his nerves too.
Rae likes it, but he's also aware that his relationship with pain can be toxic.

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3 #nsfw sorta
Sometimes you just have to combine a top you use for training and that drives one or two or four of your lovers insane with lingerie...

... right?

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I don't (affectionately) call Rae my crash out king for nothing. Due to his overthinking and anxiety, he's prone to crashing out for various reasons, often related to his trauma. As bad as that sounds, these crash-outs are mostly reasonable. What follows? Not so much. (1/2)

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Most terrible events during the game's canon would make Rae depressed rather than villainous.
His only villainous path would happen pre-game, with that being Darius involving Rae in the Absolute plot. While Rae does not necessarily agree with the plan presented (1/3)

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Rae has a keen sense of smell and taste, often using the latter when he definitely shouldn't.
While his eyesight is very good, his eyes tend to strain and become unfocused when he's reading or writing letters for a prolonged time, which is why he wears glasses then. (1/2)

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Rae's first sexual encounter and most that follow in the years after happened when was inebriated. He's not sure he consented to many of them, but to him that's his own fault.
It's not until his 50s that he has what he views as his true first time—with Jysral.(1/3)

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"Finally," Rae mutters, but soon realises that death, in spite of his desire for it, is not what he wants.
Blindly reaching, he coughs: "Where's my—my sword... Fuck, I—can still fight—I must. I finally... finally found a reason to live again... gods damn it... n-not yet—"

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Rae's favourite weapons are a nodachi and a katana, both crafted just for him (during a campaign) in Kozakura.
During the events of the game, Rae's go-to greatsword becomes Balduran's Giantslayer. He feels and hears the sword hunger at times, often coinciding with his warlock pact.

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In spite of his prickly demeanour, Rae is quite trustworthy and reliable, even if one hasn't known him for long. Trust is very important to him, and he knows well from his adventures that it goes both ways.
The only time when one should absolutely not trust him is when he bargains.

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Rae's various campaign as well as the game's companions and friends are hardly surprised about most of his kinks, especially considering how excited some fights get him.
However, I think most of them might need to look up what the hells teratophilia or hierophilia are...

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Considering #Raestarion will be living a rather adventurous life, there will be many BBEG along the way.
Two personal villains, however, already await them after the game's canon.
It starts a few months after the brain falls, with Astarion returning to his home city Athkatla. (1/3)

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Seeing as he has already dealt with his BBEGs, the events of the game would have to be set earlier for this to happen to Rae.
Even so, this would feel anything but good considering that Rae already felt a haunting sort of grief during his abusers' canonical deaths. (1/5)

#tavqotd ABSOLUTELY! Rav will always help her people. 😂

But more likely... Rav IS the raccoon that got stuck. Please someone help her. Laugh at her and poke her butt first, but please help her down.

Rae *might* help her. Maybe?

Rae: @itsnad.bsky.social

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The hells are you looking at?

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Confidence. Add a dash of battle prowess as an extra but not a necessity, and Rae is (sometimes literally) on his knees.
He's easily aroused by people who aren't afraid of pushing him around, talking back at him, or simply being blatant with him. It just does something to him...

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Considering I wrote Rae for a DnD campaign, I had a bit of time to mull over his appearance.
First off, I wanted his base to be pretty generic: a blonde and tall sun-elf with emerald eyes, due to his ancestry's connection to Evermeet, but also to represent his love for gold. (1/5)

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Considering she's my love, my life, my wife, I'd be most interested for Rae to meet OP's Nami.
I think they'd both be reluctant at first, but slowly warm up to one another through their shared love of a good business deal, and also how much their one parent meant to them. (1/3)

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Unless you have explicit permission, I suggest not touching Rae at all.
To his lovers, who have that permission, Rae is—quite smoochable. He loves kisses, and gives them out a lot in private. In public they fluster him easily, which can be good or bad. Depends on his mood.

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When bottoming, Rae is extremely vocal when climaxing. This can be through moans and whines, through curses and pleas or his lover's name, or through the question if he's allowed to climax (this mostly happens during intense sessions). Sometimes it's a combination of all.(1/2)

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Rae became a fighter completely unwillingly. He was sold to a mercenary called Rainier, who taught and trained him from the age of ten onwards to become a soldier-for-hire.
While effective, the training was brutal and humiliating, and more akin to how a man would train a dog. (1/3)

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Due to Rae and his father constantly travelling and not staying in one place for longer than a tenday, Rae didn't have the time or the opportunities to make even-aged friends. Or friends at all.
The most socializing (outside of his father, who also "homeschooled" him) he got (1/4)

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By the Nine Hells—no!
Rae is already tired of life as is and dreads having to live all of his centuries to completion.
So having to live eternally, witnessing centuries and millennia drag on as he watches countless friends and lovers die?
Fuck right off. It sounds like a punishment.

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Rae is born on 04/04/1315 DR, which would make him an Aries. I chose the day and month for the sole reason of four being my favourite number, whereas I chose the year because I wanted Rae to be around 50 years old by the time the events of Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 happen. (1/2)

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While Rae's father, Caladrel, was by no means the perfect father, he is held in high regards by his son—who may put him on a too high pedestal. He showed Rae a lot of values and traits that he admires and remembers fondly, even over a century after his death. (1/5)

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Due to Rae's childhood having been less than ideal, he has problems trusting people in the first place. He's of the staunch belief that nothing comes for free, and that people don't approach him unless they want something.
This is further enforced by years of letting people (1/3)