Out of all the choices you can possibly make inBaldur’s Gate 3, the community is most divided when it comes towhich companion to romance. We all have our types, whether you want to fix Shadowheart, have heart to hearts with Gale, clash with Lae’zel, bite Astarion, or get literallyswept off your feet by Karlach.
The warm hearted Tiefling has captured many a heart, even though her own is a ticking timebomb, so it comes as no surprise thatplayers were upset at the abrupt endingshe had before Patch 5 fixed it. The current ending shows the Tiefling and Tav diving into Avernus to find a remedy for her infernal engine, lighting cigars, and facing off against a host of demons; but before that, you two simply walked through a portal. While it would seem that Larian made the change due to fan pressure, but actor Samantha Béart reveals that’s not the case.
Karlach’s Badass Ending Was Always The Plan
In a conversation withPC Gamer, Béart revealed that “the fans had no influence on me coming back for that. That was on the table as soon as it was out.” Strangely, it was all because of the launch of Starfield, because of which Baldur’s Gate 3 decided to launch a month earlier. As we know, Starfield wasn’t quite what we hoped, but Larian had to change things up to avoid clashing with it, just in case.
“So Starfield was going to come out on the same date, right?” explained Béart. “And, then Larian went ‘We’re going to bring it out a month early’ … And yeah, I don’t think we expected people to rush to the end as quickly as they did and put everything up on YouTube.”
The actor revealed that Larian didn’t expect people to power through the game so fast, so they decided to implement the ending a bit later than planned, but it was always going to happen. “Pretty much as soon as it was out, I got a call—people were still in the character creator when I got the call to come back in and do an additional ending for it, let’s put it that way. And then it took about a month to implement it, if I set the clock correctly.”
As Béart claims, “it was all very normal—it looks like, from the outside, that people had a big influence over it. But no, it was very much planned I’m afraid. I feel they anticipated it, it was playtested and everything.”
