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Having romances between NPC's would be very interesting. It would help flesh out characters. Giving them some level of independence, rather than them only ever forming a connection with the PC. This could also go along with other relationships between NPC's too, having certain NPC's become besties or rivals based on their inherent personalities with this leading to various interactions and consequences (I.e. Rivals not being able to be in the same party and/or potentially leaving if you form a relationship with a rival)

They wouldn't always play out the same way either.

As you'd have differences based on if you personally romanced one of the NPC's. Or depending on if you recruited certain NPC's or not.

Heck, you could even go further and have NPC romances dependent on player actions too (I.e. If you have 2 NPC's in your party or sat in camp together they can get closer. But if they're constantly separated they are less likely to form a relationship)

There's a lot of potential outside NPC's being exclusively interested in the PC.

I would just like to add to this, as I was really wracking my brain trying to do this on my durge playthrough. It is *technically* possible to have the Emperor kill Orpheus, and then betray him in the end (an opportunity, perhaps?). However, Lae'zel will not be able to ascend in this scenario as she becomes enthralled by the Absolute. The only companions who will not become enthralled are Ascendant Astarion and Minthara.

Apparently you have to be in barter mode and complete transaction with 0 gold for the other side.

Thank you very much! This is really useful advice. With his help, I killed several bosses without any problems

In DOS 2 and BG3 i always feel like i am missing a little when i play as origin characters, because i am used to hearing their voices when i talk to them - and voice acting is great! So them suddenly being mute feels weird. If there will be origin characters which are not fully voice acted when played as, i think it would be cool if origin character's voice actor would do narrator's job, either partially or fully. This does require a lot more voice acting from them, but it would let us hear the great voice acting without game being fully voice acted.

You could even change how its narrated a little, instead of "suddenly you were interrupted by a loud voice" it could be "then i remember a loud voice interrupting us" , first person like the origin character is telling a story what happened to them.

Do you think this is a good idea or not?