((If I ever posted this art here I guess I didn't tag it, so this may be a duplicate. but whatever))

Accompanying poem I wrote for it:

Like salmon finds the sea,
and moss finds the stone,
bittern the reeds,
and shrike the thorn.
Like all these things which die
and become another,
then find their other.
In every life of mine,
I will find you.

Running away into the strong arms of my beautiful girlfriend Baldur's Gate 3

Ugh I dunno. I'm having trouble playing for more than 30 minutes at a time.

Also there's something about the way the dialogue is written in this game that grates on me 😭 Like it's not quite Marvel movie but sometimes that's the only thing I can think of. And sometimes the delivery is weird, which doesn't help...

There's "much of my race's history was erased by our enemies" and then there's "plot-convenient ignorance"

VPN, adblockers, and incognito so youtube can't use their dumb robots to build a profile on me.

*SAPIENT beings. I keep screwing that up lol

+ So all that would have to happen is the Well "flipping" that switch back "on" again for elves to have five fingers. Polydactyly would still be an option of course, but this alternate possibility still exists.) 20/20

(Also, this is all assuming trolls didn't evolve from a five-fingered ancestor. In that case, the reason trolls have 3 fingers would be due to some kind of "off switch" in their genetics that prevents the other two fingers from forming. +

19/20

I hesitate to get too deep into “selection pressures” and such because these are sentient beings and that can get… weird quick, but to me this feels reasonable enough. I’m not an archaeologist or anthropologist though, and maybe if I was I’d have more to say on that. 18/20

Not implying troll hands are somehow inherently inferior, just that they’re perhaps better for larger tools for larger jobs. Maybe early elves with their smaller hands and smaller spears/etc. were better at handling deer while their troll neighbors with bigger weapons took the megafauna instead.

Perhaps it’s classic structural reduction to keep the hand smaller and improve fine motor control? If they could make smaller tools they could have a slightly different diet and fill a different niche than trolls. 16/20