Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion The corners cut with Quill Grootslang is disappointing

While most people not wanting to kill Alfira with their Durge, most of everyone I assume ends up killing Quill.

But, I'm just sad at how unpolished she is. For one, her character sheet is a 1 to 1 copy of Alfira. What is a Silver Dragonborn doing with FIRE Resistence, Darkvision and Hellish Resitance? All of those are Thiefling traits, and the exact traits that Alfira has.


And here be the proof to back it up:




With all the polish put into the game, I'm disappointed that this is something that slipped by.

Could there have really not been any effort put into making her character sheet unique? I mean I know she appears and then dies very quickly but if the game prides itself on the little things, then this should be addressed.





Additionally, why are there no option to romance her as a Dragonborne? Or no romance options with dragonborne characters altogether but I will stop here before I go off on a tangent.


Returning to the topic, if your Durge character is a Dragonborne, Quill will actually flirt with the character and express some attraction towards the character. And I will admit, Quill does have a fine body, she works the silver scales very well.


So with how horny this game is, why is there no option to romance her and then have Durge kill her after the romance like it does with Minthara?

I dunno, I guess I'm just slightly disappointed.

Is it worth killing her? I remember she gives you a great amount of loot in Act 2

The saddest part is, that Quill has a secret admirerer in BG. When you go to the Bhaal tribunal and defeat You know who, you can find in one of the prison cells the corpse of a young guardsman with an unsent love letter to Quill.
So both lifes get fucked up by Bhaal basically.

And there's a dragonborn bard that mentions being inspired by her which I think only comes up if you killed Quill. I guess sweet and innocent bards just tend to drive Bhaal to violins...

So there were more plans for her. It was not just a once off character moment

I don't think Quill was meant for anything more than being Alfira's stunt double, it's just a little something to twist the knife further about what you did, like seeing places where Alfira should be but isn't and realizing that Lakrissa doesn't get to have a girlfriend.

If they only knew the lengths we'd go!

Just for giggles; in Dutch, Grootslang means Big Snake, or Big Hose.

Did you kill yourself with Grootslang?

Romia and Juliet style?

That reminds me, does anyone else think it's a bit strange that Quill's death is a lot less gory than Alfira and nobody seems to have a reaction in the morning past that initial "WTF did you do?" conversation?

The whole scene regardless of who you Durge doesn't make sense if you think about it.

This is the big issue for me. I'm doing my first Durge run and I did them both side by side. I'm fine with Quil having less meat/plot relevance than Alfira, she's a failsafe. The lack of gore on her kill is. Ehhhh. I can live with it, but it's definitely lacking the perverse brutality that the game's trying to shock you with, the reality of the Dark Urge now revealed. Perhaps they felt they could get away with it because Quil was intended only to exist for a character who had already killed Alfira (workarounds notwithstanding), and they figured you were already going evil Durge at this point?

But Quil completely skips the round of companion conversations the next morning, and that loses so much. It seems like a huge oversight, because all of the dialogue works perfectly fine if you replace 'Alfira' with 'the bard', and getting "What's on your mind?" instead of "State your business. From a safe distance." is really missing something. The mood is predominantly ambivalent that you're murdering people in your sleep, and that should probably not be contingent on which bard you are murdering but that you are murdering bards at all. I thought my game was bugged at first.