[quote=David12183]
Also I never got the implication that she has a tadpole. Your character can make mind links and other mental abilities with non-hosts, such as using the power to bypass certain dialogue with the goblins. The game never explicitly says she’s infected.
The connection is much more intense, like the one you have when you meet your companions and people like Priestess Gut, True Soul Edowyin and Minthara for the first time -- visions of their past, feelings, images that defined them -- She confirms that she took a free ride on the nautiloid when she saw it pop into Avernus, she might have gotten infected there, if she bumped her head when it crashed near the tadpole tank. It's unclear whether Karlach conscious that she's infected, but if she's a possible companion it makes sense that she has a wriggler behind her eye.
