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Isn't it a bit odd that Gortash is the only one who had no idea where tf Durge disappeared off to? Between him having to be there during the raid to crown the brain with Durge and Ketheric, and Orin showing up right after all like "I'm the Chosen of Bhaal now :)" I find it hard to believe that he not only didn't realise something must've happened to Durge down there, but that he also did not investigate their disappearance at all? It literally takes like 10 minutes to go through the whole thing and Orin did not hide their "body" at all. And yeah "we promised to not meddle in each other's affairs" blah blah, but he spent A Lot of time in the colony after the raid playing with his pickled brain jars so is it really meddling if Durge was literally a 3 minute walk away, being opened and closed like a reusable Ikea ziplock bag over and over again?

So my headcanon is that he had no idea when exactly the attack happened because Orin took Durge's form right after the deed was done and kept the disguise on for as long as she could. By the time Gortash (running on 2h of sleep a day and sheer force of will, making sure everything Goes According To Plan) finally figured out what was going on, it's been too long to pinpoint the exact moment "Durge" began to act off and know where to look for their body at the very least. Plus it's not like he could put the entire scheme on pause just to go chasing ghosts, Durge would not want him to.

And I think it fucked him up a bit, that he took too long to notice and lost his chance at maybe preventing the entire thing from unraveling. I think that "we promised to not meddle in each other's affairs" is either a lie or him trying convince himself he couldn't have done anything anyways.

Now imagine a Durge that is not an idiot, that dug through every nook and cranny of Moonrise and the colony in search of answers and knows a lot more than Gortash assumes they do since they're supposed to be a full on amnesiac. A Durge that talked to the elderbrain, that read the prayer of forgiveness and recognised their own handwriting, and that learned from Balthazar's notes right next to it that this Enver Gortash they so admired spent considerable time there while they were being tortured endlessly just on the other side of the fleshy corridor.

Imagine that instead of "Orin betrayed me, and you did nothing to help me then." they would say something more along the lines of "You call me your nearest and dearest, your favourite, but I know you were right there when Baltahzar's necromancer played with me like a doll for weeks and did nothing to help me." and just watch this man disintegrate from the psychic damage in real time.

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"Your intentions don't matter!"

"Of course, they matter."

"They don't! Not for the person trapped in a mind flayer pod. Kept as a scientific experiment. Did you know I was the first True Soul? Did you know that you used the knowledge derived from the necromancer's experiments on me?" A thought, a most terrible thought occurs. "I was right there in her lab," she says through gritted teeth. "My mind and body dissected and played with, while you were right there across the hall, dissecting and playing with other people's minds and bodies." Ophelia laughs bitterly. "What if they brought you my brain in a jar?"

Pain, unmissable yet it brings her no satisfaction, flicks across his face. "No."

"What. If. They. Brought. You. My. Brain. In. A. Jar?" she repeats, enunciating every word. Their eyes meet. His throat bobs. "Answer me!"

"If I'd known, if I had the slightest idea-"

She doesn't let him speak. Not interested. There's nothing he can say to justify it. "But you hadn't! You just accepted it. Accepted Orin. You didn't look for me. Or if you did, you didn't look well enough because, oh, there I was! In bloody Moonrise Towers all along!"

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Durge & Gortash In-Game Documentation Deep Dive

I think it's neat that we actually have records of how these characters wrote and operated in the world, so I did some digging and tried to organize everything of note. Categories include "The Durgetash Story," "Minutia of Death Cult Office Politics," "That's Like Really Fucked Up, Man," "Gaslight Gatekeep Gortash," and "Miscellaneous Musings."

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