Rolan - Tumblr Posts
i finished this ages ago but never posted it. oops.
anyway here's my BG3-Hades art style crossover with everyone's favorite insufferable brother (affectionate)
(click here for others in the hades art style series)
reasons to survive
“𝐈𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐨. 𝐌𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐈 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮.”
Deeply obsessed with Rolan which means I'm also deeply obsessed with all the little details in his room (which honestly there aren't that many details, there isn't that much willful characterization happening here probably on the parts of the devs, but I'll read into the simultaneous mess and sparseness anyway)
Also still kind of dying that he has one of Lorroakan's rejected autobio manuscripts... I wonder if he got handed a copy by Lorroakan the first day he was there, Lorroakan completely unaware the rejection note was still in it.
What I'm most curious about right now is why he has that note with a riddle leading to the Annals of Karsus, because I struggle to believe Lorroakan would have shared anything about the secret rooms of the vault with him... or maybe would have bragged about possessing such powerful, illustrious tomes but actually showing him how to GET to those tomes...?? But it does say "In the Hand of Ramazith" so perhaps Rolan found the note while cleaning up around the tower, and was trying to decipher it...? idk idk.
EDIT: OK I FOUND OUT WHY HE PROBABLY HAD THAT NOTE. I was flipping through the Descent Into Avernus adventure book again, to see what was mentioned about Ramazith's Tower, and it has a whole section that goes into Lorroakan:
"Lorroakan's ever-pressing need for money has led the mage to begin looking for hired hands who might be willing to venture into the long-shuttered heights of Ramazith's tower and uncover the secret of the late wizard's wealth. That Ramazith's secret may have brought him to an untimely end, and that Lorroakan is himself no more skilled--and perhaps significantly less--than the tower's previous master does not seem to concern him."
OK my reading of this: Lorroakan knows there is untold wealth of magical artifacts hidden in the tower. He also knows the tower's defenses are extensive, the artefacts that are likely fatal high in number, and there is every possibility Ramazith got killed by something in his own tower. So what better way for Lorroakan, unskilled hack and fraud that he is, to uncover the treasure trove he's laid claim to without harm to himself, than hiring eager apprentices with enough magical skill to possibly power through the protective spells and traps and wards... And if they can't and they die, it's no skin off his back.
I guess this is headcanon territory lol but I've sold myself on it, I'll just believe the note was found among Ramazith's various affects by Lorroakan, and handed off to Rolan to figure out, to eventually send Rolan off to possibly die trying to dig up the key to Ramazith's wealth.
Also also, the amount of paper scattered across the desk the riddle-note is found on, and across the floor around it... Wondering how much of that is Rolan desperately trying to work out riddles Lorroakan gives him. the rest of his room is pretty clean in comparison, it's just all the paper around that desk.
I bring you a selection of Rolan
My favourite bg3 men + text posts 2/??
Part one
YOU COULD SMOOCH ME YOU STUPID SEXY WIZARD.
The two blorbos
meeting rolan at the grove.
BALDUR'S GATE 3
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What will you do?
no matter how many times i’ve heard it every time rolan says “damnation” i fucking giggle and twirl my hair he’s suck a dork i love him so much
Nice work!
I might love this game a little bit. ❤️
Um sorry guys just accidentally fucking killed Rolan
So was doing the lorroakan (evil(?) ginger wizard guy) thingo quest and the ginger was like BRING ME THE NIGHTSONG
said no cause she’s a person and like bro was being creepy about it
Anyway got back to camp after getting the quest told Dame Aylin and her girlfriend that ANOTHER dude wanted to enslave her to gain immortality and we went to beat him up
So took Karlach, Wyll, Gale and Aylin to beat this ginger wizard but Rolan joins the fight and fights against me
I was gonna try and just knock out Rolan cause I sorta wanted to keep him alive but Aylin hit him like twice and he folded
Felt bad but not enough to reload the save
RIP Rolan
😔😔😔