Khalid - Blog Posts

i have made the perfect older khalid in baldurs gate 3 and NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE

AU/OC moment (where J and k raised the bhaalspawn instead of Gorion)

I just really wanted to draw jaheira in that meme and then I added a Khalid with Evune to bring it all together

This is canon in my mind :)

Just realized I never posted this drawing I did of Jaheira and Khalid but like haha omg what if Khalid didn't die and they got to grow old together hahahahahhahha im gonna go cry now

I know Orin is a changing so I’m pretty sure she lacks the mind reading ability that doppelgängers have and I don’t remember her having the mind reader ability which may be a good thing because if she knew what Khalid looked like she would be going CRAZY

Oh, you easily got around my trap at the dancing axe? Time for psychological damage

Obviously jaheira would win but come on that’s a premise right there

AAAAAAAA SHE LOVES HIM SO MUCH I CRY I LOVE THEM VRGYJUHTFRC THANK YOU FOR THIS

Tracy Wiles reading the My Dearest Wife letter (from this stream) :')

I miss making animatics but I’m too much of a perfectionist + too damn busy now to get any done

The lack of animatics for Baldurs gate is not helping lmao

I had a fantasy about making an animatic for jaheira talking about Khalid, minsc talking about dynaheir, and a “I still love him” animatic which I did storyboard and it made me sad lol

Khalid

canon means nothing when I can shelter my blorbo and keep him alive through the power of archive of our own

May or may not be cooking something up

Something I think about is Khalid’s mother

Because in the first game in Khalid’s background she is not mentioned at all, and in siege of dragonspear she is mentioned as ‘not thinking much of him’ but to a lesser extent than his father did who we all agree was a POS

1. What was she like?

like her life probably sucked a lot.

She was an elven concubine in a country that is pretty much devoid of any other elves, and so she was seen as exotic, which is probably why Khalid‘s father had her as a concubine in the first place.

She would always be below his actual wife and I won’t get into all of the horrible things that could’ve happened to her prior or during this time

And then on top of everything, she has a illegitimate kid with the dude!

I doubt Khalid’s father or his wife (mother of Khalid’s half brothers) was particularly interested in raising him, so it was probably all on her.

So now on top of her life already probably sucking, she has this kid in a world that is guaranteed to be hostile towards him because he is considered lower by default.

There’s no way she could protect him from that even if she did try.

Maybe there was a combination of resentment of having another thing on her plate to take care of but also guilt about having this kid that she feels is guaranteed to have a miserable life

2. Was their relationship purely indifference and neglect or was there some love?

Is it possible that she walled herself off from him so that when he was inevitably hurt it didn’t hurt her as much? Like self protection so she only had to feel her own hurt

Were there good moments? Where she would protect him or comfort him in ways she felt she could?

Maybe she held some hope that because his father was of the merchant class Khalid would get further than she could only to have those hopes crushed within her lifetime

3. How does Khalid feel about her?

Maybe he is a bit overly forgiving of her actions because of he knows her circumstances (Which probably annoys Jaheira lol)

Maybe there’s some resentment for not being the mother he needed but he feels guilty about having those feelings

Maybe she just fades into the background of his childhood

There’s so many possibilities because we know nothing about her so we get to fill in the blanks!

They’re so mean 😭 why are they so mean? 😭

Some Jaheira and Khalid I love them so much

I made Jaheira and Khalid in the sims 4! I’m not very good at making sims and looking at it now I think I made jaheiras head too long but eh

I don’t own the pack that has pointy ears so i found some cc ones, I can’t edit them like I’d want because of that but we make do

Also apparently base game doesn’t have scars and I really thought it did so that’s on me

They are legitimately all over each other and keep taking breaks from whatever they’re doing to kiss which is cute but also unhelpful when I’m trying to grind up their skills lol

Also have some funny moments

Canon, also sorry the quality is shit idk why

Jaheira is not beating the baby fever allegations with this one lmao

scraps of a drawing dry spell

I’m curious, does anyone have a hc about which god took Khalid’s soul after he died?

My take is Silvanus but if anyone has a different idea I’m interested

I hc Khalid’s patron was ilmater when he was younger and still in Calimshan but shifted to silvanus more when he met jaheira

For anyone who doesn’t know about the afterlife in the forgotten realms:

Afterlife in the forgotten realms is kinda vague especially in later editions but my understanding of it is after someone dies they go to the fugue plane and either

a) get picked up by an agent of the deity they were associated with (if they didn’t do something in life that goes against that gods doctrine which makes the god not want them

b) make a deal with devils and go to the hells as a lemure or something else if that’s part of the deal

c) go to the city of judgment. In 3e there are the faithless and the false. The faithless are those who don’t have faith and they become the wall until they get eaten by mold. The false are those who committed some kind of infraction against their patron that they didn’t want them. They become members of the city and are punished according to whatever they did.

I believe that the faithless has changed since then because I’m pretty sure the wall doesn’t exist anymore and faithless wander the fugue plane, in Bg3 withers says the same thing so in the Baldurs gate universe we can say the wall doesn’t exist. The sword coast adventuring guide used to mention the wall but according to the wiki this mention was removed in 2020 so it’s very vague (side note bring back the detailed campaign settings I love them I want the lore) i think the new lore is either the gods will take people who are worthy even if they weren’t necessarily a worshiper or that they still go to the city but kelemvor judges them based on their life and they chill in the city. I know the gods got mad at kelemvor because he was applying mortal morals to his job (since he was mortal) which is when he became more neutral

And I’m realizing I have gone completely off topic lmao I really like lore

I made them (to the best of my ability) in the sims and they keep on kissing so canon

I think they should kiss more often

been a while since i drew on my tablet

I regret nothing

How Jaheira and Khalid adopted Evune joke comic I doodled instead of being actually productive

I was inspired by those memes where it’s like

Dad: doesn’t want a dog

Famous: gets dog anyway

Dad and the dog:

I’m following the SoD lore where Gorions wards mother was a priestess of bhaal and Gorion was like “I can fix her”

Love them love them love them love them

Ask prompt fill for @astreamofstars from this ask meme: Light and Dark Metaphors Jaheira/Khalid - "ships in the night" This is a prequel to one of the longer J/K fics I've been working on. :D Perhaps it will help me with motivation to get that done eventually.

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“No, no,” the Rashemaar tells her cheerfully. “He is a miniature giant space hamster. The name is most clear, is it not?”

Jaheira squints, peering at the small, furry rodent in the man’s hand. It stares back at her with beady, intelligent eyes, casually licking its paw to wash its face. “...Perfectly,” she says dryly.

She cannot quite figure their new traveling companions out. Well - Dynaheir is not so much of a mystery; she is stern with an almost regal air, and not (or at least not yet) much given to casual conversation, but Jaheira can understand that well enough. She herself is not generally voluble with strangers.

But Minsc… Minsc is a puzzle. She was, at first, utterly convinced that he was having a laugh at her expense, with his hamster and his odd manner and his habit of hurling himself directly at any enemy they encounter with a loud cry and remarkably little concern for self-preservation. But as they have traveled on together, she is starting to realize that he is, in fact, just like that.

The hamster is a strange one, too. Despite surreptitiously casting a spell for animal speech on herself, she cannot get a word out of it; it just stares at her with those beady little eyes and then scurries up and down Minsc’s arm.

The whole thing has her deeply on edge - more so than she already was just by virtue of accompanying the two near-children from Candlekeep who make up the rest of their party. When she and Khalid departed on this Nashkel fact-finding mission, they had not expected to end up gathering strays along the way. It makes things far more difficult…

“Minsc would ask if Jaheira also keeps an animal,” Minsc continues with that air of affable good-humor, seemingly unperturbed by Jaheira’s evident confusion. “But Minsc has seen the truth. In battle, Jaheira holds all manner of animals inside her!”

“...That is one way of putting it.” Jaheira has to admit she has never heard wildshaping described quite this way before.

“Boo wonders if you have ever turned into a hamster,” Minsc says eagerly.

“Well, he may continue wondering.” Jaheira sighs. It is not really Minsc’s fault that she is stuck on guard duty with him. This was, in fact, Dynaheir’s request - that the watch be split so that at least one of the pair of Rashemaar travelers be awake at all times. Jaheira can even understand why; in Dynaheir’s place, she would not offer full trust immediately either.

But if she has many more nights spent with only Minsc, followed by an empty bed as Khalid takes his shift, she might quite possibly go mad.

“Are you and Dynaheir… attached?” she asks carefully. Perhaps, if the answer is yes, there might be hope that this state of affairs will not last long. 

“Minsc is very attached to Dynaheir!” Minsc replies jovially. “By oath and by word - and by spell, at times, when Minsc becomes lost and must be dragged along. She is Minsc’s wychlaran, his witch, and Minsc shall follow her until he dies or the dajemma is complete, and see she comes to no harm.”

He squints at Jaheira curiously. “Is this what you mean by attached?”

“It is not. But never mind it,” Jaheira says, with a sort of weary resignation. She tilts her head, peering past the veil of leaves above them to judge the moon’s position. “It grows late enough,” she adds. “Go wake your… ‘witch’, and I shall wake my husband.”

Without waiting for a response, she trudges towards the edge of camp and the familiar, battered tent that she has carried since before she and Khalid even met. Poking her head inside, she nudges gently at the pile of blankets on the bedroll.

“Khalid?” she calls softly, her voice far gentler than it was in talking to Minsc. “Wake up, my love.” The blanket emits a drowsy groan, and she smiles to herself. “You are called to the watch, Harper.”

“B-be damned to the watch,” Khalid mumbles, muffled from within the bunched fabric.

Jaheira climbs fully into the tent, reaching under the blanket until she finds her husband’s hand and squeezes it tightly. “Shall I tell Dynaheir she shall watch alone?”

“N-no, no, I am up. I am up. I d-do not dare annoy that woman, I th-th-think.” Khalid sighs and sits up, coming fully into view as the blankets fall away. His hair is tousled and messy and his eyelids are still heavy with sleep - but his expression brightens as he catches sight of her face. “A k-kiss before I go?” he asks as he begins to clamber past her towards the tent flap.

As if she would deny it. With the current state of things, this is the only proper moment of privacy she and Khalid are afforded; it feels like clinging to water dripping rapidly out of her hands. She doesn’t even waste time answering, just cups his face in both hands and kisses him so fiercely that he overbalances and falls into her embrace. 

One of his arms locks around her waist with eager, thrilling strength, catching him in the fall, jolting their bodies together. He is warm from the blankets and his embrace feels welcoming, safe, wonderfully familiar.

“My love…” she mumbles. She rests her hand for a moment against Khalid’s chest, feeling the beat of his heart under his thin shirt. 

He brushes his fingertips against her lips, his eyes bright in the dim light of the fire outside. “Good night, d-darling,” he murmurs. “I will see you soon.”

Then, reluctantly, he draws back and disappears outside, leaving her alone in the tent. With a soft groan, she heaves herself onto the bedroll, stretches out under the blankets, breathes in the scent of him left behind.

She is struck for a moment by visions of a hundred nights in their past journeys traveling alone. It all seems so much simpler by comparison; there was nothing to distract them from each other, no orphaned young wards in need of her protection, no strange new companions carrying hamsters in their pockets. 

Grumbling low in the back of her throat, she rolls over and pulls the blanket around her. Perhaps we must simply settle this business in Nashkel, she thinks. And then matters will return to normal…

So jaheira died in my honour mode run

normally I’d reload but honour mode so… oof

To cope with this I am telling myself she’s with Khalid again so that’s something

I also went to her house in Baldurs gate and all her kids are gone so I guess they listened to the sending spell?

Though I am glad that I don’t have to be like “uhhhh sooo yeah your mum’s dead…. Sorry…”

Also I tried to cast speak with dead on her but she had nothing to say :(

I wanna talk about my AU that gradually took over my bhaalspawn

So we all know Jaheira and Khalid were meant to take care of gorions ward if something happened to him right? Well what if instead Gorion asked them to raise the MC from the beginning?

If we take what SoD implies about Gorion saving the MC and killing their mother maybe he does this because instead of feeling responsibility he feels guilt over killing this kids mother. If we take what Gorion says in his note about her dying in childbirth then we can say maybe he was filled with grief or something. Either way he doesn’t keep them unlike canon

What would be the impact of this on the story? There are so many ways you could go with this concept, but most of all I just want to know how jaheira and Khalid would be as parents! Jaheira has her kids in bg3 but I need more! I need dad Khalid! He already gives off those vibes with his whole “Gorion would be proud of your actions” I think he’d be such a girl dad

So I took my Bhaalspawn Evune from my playthroughs and put her in the au and she lives there now

(Old art aaaaa)

This is her, my girl, she’s a ranger

I finished it!

YIPPEE!!

Look upon them

My reply of the (somewhat) reverse

Jaheira very much knows what she’s doing

They truly complement each other in all ways

Khalid's fine bottom,,, I imagine it's very squishable

Wanna draw some memes with the bg1 characters, probably mostly jaheira and khalid because hyper fixation go brrr, but if anyone has any suggestions feel free to suggest

Drawing out the game dialogue of meeting Jaheira and Khalid at the Friendly Arm Inn (if you speak with Khalid first)

A WIP of a drawing I’m working on but the clothes and colors are killing me lol but I vowed to finish this before I put myself in art boot camp

I’m happy with the sketch but not married to the colors and I don’t like how monochromatic it is around brown and beige so I’ll be experimenting in the lab

If you look closely you’ll see Khalid’s outfit looks quite similar to astarions but we don’t have to talk about that :)

He's not mad..... Just disappointed...

Low effort meme because that’s what I’m here for

I’ve never actually made something like this before so it was interesting

Video is from Casa Di remix of “I am on to see my husband”

Mapped out the progression of my khalid design. apparently it’s been 11 months of this already. happy new year!