Xal 🦑 #1 Mind Flayer Supremacist 🦑

However, his stubbornness creates problems for him where there might not otherwise be any.

The only opinions that matter to him are those of the Emperor and Ayumu; their opinions can truly bring his stubbornness to its knees. In all other cases, he always does what he wants and how he wants.

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Xal is extremely stubborn. His stubbornness often borders on obsession.
Thanks to this, he is still alive despite everything.
He could have given up many times, thrown in the towel and died, but he chose to live and move forward, even if it was no longer bearable to do so.

Dream in red

I'm thrilled with this new head, to be honest. Finally, I see Xal in Xal. A boy who has only recently come of age. That's how he should be. At the beginning of bg3, he is just over 100 years old.

But I also love the previous Xal, because I feel a different vibe from him and I like it.

😌

But the body is still awful. That is NOT his body.
His body is more like this, but match skinnier.

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I accidentally found a face mod that perfectly mirrors Xal's face from the depths of my mind. I mean, it's really him now.
I have always had two versions of Xal: one in-game (more masculine) and one true (more androgynous).
Now the chasm between them has widened even further.

Ok, Relight + RTGI is excellent.
I wish I had downloaded it earlier. Now I can enjoy high-quality lighting even without any special presets.

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Once we were.

O, sing a song of Balduran
Who founded Baldur's Gate
Empire golden built on trade
Could not avert his fate

mood

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I have many other characters who are more or less stereotypical than Xal, but I only love Xal. I just look at him and believe that he could exist somewhere.
In my case, it is rare that I achieve such a level of resonance and synergy with my own OC.

Just like his stereotypical kin, he considers himself the pinnacle of evolution, enjoys the sadistic pleasure of domination, eating brains, and cruel bio experiments, but wants nothing to do with the colonies or Grand Design.

So Xal is Xal. Just as he is. 🤔
I am satisfied with what I have achieved.

When Xal became an Illithid, he, as always, disregarded tradition and considered the Grand Design to be complete bullshit.
Instead, he began to implement his own "Grand Design" with the help of the Emperor and the KotS' money.

However, since his Patron never punishes him and sometimes gives him gifts at the most random moments, perhaps everything is going as it should, right? Or not?

BTW, in my mind, the Patron looks like ‘Ophanim (Throne)’ – an angel from the Old Testament, one of those belonging to the highest rank.

He does not even understand his Patron, who either ignores him completely or simply laughs in response.
Therefore, Xal does not even know what he should and should not do. So he simply looks for abstract questions and sometimes finds equally abstract answers...

It's exactly the same situation with his class.
Xal is a warlock of the Great Old One, he knows for sure that he has a Patron and feels its presence every moment of his life, yet he has no memory whatsoever and is fundamentally incapable of remembering either his contract or his purpose.

He had always hated the gods, and Lolth was no exception.
He also doomed his own house to complete annihilation by signing a contract with his Patron froms the Far Realm and killing a bunch of guards and ordinary citizens before fleeing to the surface.