Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion [END SPOILS WARNING] Addressing Karlach (PLEASE PUT SPOILERS IN TAGS)

And my voice here not only for more complex and better questline, my voice is specifically for Good Ending and only for it. I understand why some people don’t mind tragic endings if they get at least the good storyline behind it, but… Be honest, I just can’t deal with it.
Here in RPG game that suppose give us a chose - we end with bad end no matter what, without a choice. It and that this tragic happens with more positive and kind character in all entire game is really unfair.
I`m know life is unfair and not all games supposed to be about miracles and sunshine, but this is DND, a world where everything is possible, world exactly about miracles. And this is a Baldurs Gate 3, game where you can befriend with the Gods, make deal with Devils, saving the entire world. In this game you just can’t fix simple engine in tiefling-cyborg chest? Or change it, or resurrect her, or give her a new body… Anything!
- We save a walking talking "nuclear bomb" that was cursed by one of the most powerful magic that even Goddess can’t just cure!
- We deal contract with Devil that even our heroic soul is seen as insect!
- We cure big forest from the evil ancient curse!
- We kill Chosen of the Dead Three!
- We save the daughter of the Moon Goddess!
And many more.
With all of this impossible thing we can do and did its still impossible fix some old hell junk engine… Why? I don’t understand.
Because there must be at least one full tragic character among our team? Then why its Karlach? Chose a Gale will be more easy and justifiably option (even if I’m still don’t like an idea have 100% tragic companion at all). With Gale situation tragic end at least make sence, where Karlach situation is easy to find a way out. But one has a Deus ex good ending and another… you know, no Deus ex, no gods, nothing.
This is because she is most kind among all companions? Because she is most innocent? Maybe because Larian doesn’t have a time enough for making a more endings for her because they run on time? I`m can only make guesses.
But here is my voice. For Good Ending. Not just for more questline or character work.
Honestly, before I saw the ending I’m really wanted to play this game again, but… now I`m just can`t. I`m can’t watch her ending again with though that I`m can’t make her happy. Suppose I will wait until there is be at least some good Karlach ending maybe from official patches, maybe from mods… It’s still a good game, but I’m in love with Karlach too much to see how she’s suffered, especially where there so many in game options to save here, and especially where there walking-talking around Gale, that get the rescue from the skies!

If we neglected Karlach - ok, so be it, only bad endings should be possible. But if we input real efforts - in SUCH world to be unable to fix some engine? Doesn't seem justified at all. There should at least be an option to sell your soul to the devil for it, it's a bare minimum. While going to Hell together doesn't seem too bad in general, but it is unacceptable for Karlach, so can't be considered a real solution. Temporally - yes, till the real solution is found, but the problem is - there is no real solution or even glimpse of it in the future.
Turning her to illithid is not an option either, even if she still considers it better than hell.

I saved the Tieflings.
I converted Shadowheart and prevented her from killing the Nightsong.
I convinced Astarion to kill Cazador, yet not go through with the ascension, thereby sparing 7,007 lives. Which meant as soon as the parasite disappeared, he lost his immunity to the sun, and had to retreat to the shadows.
I freed Orpheus, thereby freeing the Gith from their tyrannical lich queen. Lae'Zel, probably the character my bard bonded with the least, got pretty much her best ending, flying off on her shiny new red dragon with new boyfriend Orpheus.
As the Emperor would no longer play ball, someone had to become a Mindflayer to cast the final spell, so I took one for the team becoming a rubbery Cthulhu-cosplay reject. Oh, and I still don't get why the Emperor joins the Elder Brain in the final battle, despite you proving he's been played like a fiddle and that Orpheus is the best option for everyone.

And because Karlach said many, many times over that she didn't want to go back to hell, didn't want to become a Mindflayer and would rather blow up, and that she wanted me with her until the very end, I honoured her wishes.

becomes the Mindflayer then hands over the crown to Mystra, *POOF!*, she turns him human again.

Gale to go full-Illithid instead of my character who had been fighting against it for her entire playthrough?

If Mystra can do that for Gale, why the hell can't she save Karlach (or any other character for that matter), by either magicking her back after she becomes a Mindflayer, or by simply magicking her engine away and replacing it with a heart?

Not that it's illogical or impossible or anything for Mystra to cast a 9th level spell on him out of gratitude for his actions - maybe she just read the scroll in his inventory! - but it seemed like Larian was going out of their way to ignore all the resurrection magic available because it's too easy a solution to various problems. And then they just whip it out in the end anyway. For Gale. I love Gale, but c'mon, he already gets the shiniest, most consequence-free endings in the game.

like a line about Tav and Karlach in Avernus

My worry is that it won't deliver a payoff that melds together with the options we have available to us in game currently. I'm hopeful that they just let us fix her engine after putting in the work for it. Don't make it easy for us to do, but make it so we -can- do that.