Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion So who exactly is Dame Aylin? (probably spoilers)

Is she literally Selune's daughter? Is she an aasimar because she's Selune's daughter, or is that just incidental? If she is an aasimar because Selune is her mom, then why are Bhaalspawn not aasimar/tieflings of some kind?

Aylin also confuses me. She should be a half-celestial at the very least if she's actually Selune's daughter; most logically she would be a demigod. She's immortal, which is absolutely not normal for aasimars (I don't even think it's normal for half-celestials). Her power levels are not otherwise very extreme, though. Weird.

Maybe just divine chosen? There seems to be quite a few in the game. On that note... its strange that Thorm actually needs to sap someone else for immortality, being the chosen of god of death

I'm detecting a Daisy / Guardian level rewrite. I think Aylin was supposed to be Shadowheart's sister and that two were paired opposites in the same way that Shar and Selune were mirrors of each other but that Larian decided that "demigod" was too over the top for Shadowheart's story (and BG3 is Shadowheart's story, Tav is just tagging along)

Why else would Shar create an entire temple and assign her most powerful cleric to overseeing it if Shadowheart wasn't very, very special? All this for some rando selunite child? I think Shar wanted to show she could turn Selune's children against her. So if Shadowheart follows Shar she kills her sister, father and adoptive mother - she knows true loss.

Shadowheart a dark cleric seeking the light / Alyin is the warrior struggling with a darkness rising within - which we see in her creepy wounds and the excessive violence she uses in battle. It also explains why Aylin knows the Shadowheart's story.

I suspect that the two were supposed to help each other DA helps SH see the light and SH helps DA purge the darkness.

All of this follows the grand BG tradition of last second rewrites - Imoen's BG2 story doesn't make any sense unless you read the discarded version.

stole his name from the guy whose ribs he took, that guy happened to be a Bhaalspawn monk, who believed murder existed as deep as his bones. But the Balthazar we meet is not that monk, but a necromancer type guy who just took the monk’s ribs and name for his new life. Aylin is a new character, as is Ketheric, as is Isobel, as is almost everyone in Act 2 except Jaheira and the Gods.

Having a temple of Shar, containing the chosen and child of Selune, and having the general of Shar betray his Goddess for immortality by abusing her with arcane magic,

why would they need to be siblings for a half-angel Aasimar who has been tortured for a century to either A. know her backstory (Of course she would know about a selunite kidnapped and converted, either by visions of selunites or shar taunting her) or B. have anger issues and scars from a century of torture

s how after you deal with the wizard in Act 3 she just stands in that room for the rest of the game and sort of runs out of content and then is a bit rubbish in the final battle (she got one shooted by one of the emperor's guardian reflections in my game)

is Sarevok still in his 30s because of the undead thing or bhaalspawn thing?

the whole her lover being thorms daughter who was still alive thing came out of nowhere, I guess in the good act 2 you get build up for that but with evil Act 2, even during the battle when I now knew Thorm hated her for corrupting his daughter I never expected them to reunite at the after party

The temple in Baldur's Gate. Viconia reveals that the entire temple in BG was devoted to corrupting Shadowheart. Don't get me wrong, I lurved the the Kethric story. The Shar-Selune content was *chef's kiss* perfect. Kethric was great. In fact BG3 probably the best representation of Shar I've seen Love it.

But I to assign someone of Viconia's level to raising just one child who is neither a chosen nor a child of Selune? That's weird. Remember that at the end of ToB Viconia was the strongest servant of Shar in the realms. In the existing story SH is just some rando selunite kid - which doesn't make much sense to me.

I suspect that SH was originally chosen or demigod. I think it would have better if she remained as such.

internal struggle between light and dark. Instead she was pretty much just "Rah rah Shar! Boo Moonwitch!" 100% of the time until a rather abrupt heel-face turn. Meanwhile we're running into all this evidence of Shar's evil and atrocities and my character is just sort of side-eyeing Shadowheart but saying nothing.

really? I went the evil route and gave SH to Viconia for allies and, she never mentioned it, from the content I saw the purpose of it was to build a powerbase in the coast for Shar, give security for Viconia and save the world through defeating absolute, SH was entirely presented as a wayward personal side project not the whole purpose? That really undermines all the fantastic writing they showed in building the HoG as an evil organisation that helps people but for evil reasons, a masterfully and really well written story and setting beat. To make it all about SH? that just undermines everything they worked to set up and write?
I loved what I saw of what they did with Viconia, gutted to hear they undermine all that if you make different choices