Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion The Guardian rewrite was a mistake [spoilers]

Although I agree that there were interesting concepts unfortunately cut, like the Dark Urge-like conflict with the dream visitor and more meaningful choices, I like the guardian better than the seducer as a concept. It definitely makes my good-aligned character feel more conflicted and uncertain, especially when the guardian can literally save you from situations where all your rolls are failing, ha.

I think the idea was for Daisy/the guardian to be the same being all along tbh, even in early access, but there were just more plot threads that ended up getting narrowed down for the release version. The guardian still also has a seductive quality (for better or worse, lol), they just present as more of a knight in shining armor than a scantily clad seducer.

Edit: also, while it would have been cool in a way for the origin characters to have their own version of dream visitor, a lot of the "special people" in their stories are straight up abusers, which would have made it quite icky IMO. (Eg. Astarion and Cazador).