Unfortunately, it looks like Larian either never had much or too much for Halsin planned. As I've said before now, there's speculation


That there used to be very different routes for Halsin. The evidence suggests that they were all merged into one at some point. We *know* that some of his current "romance" scenes were conceived for when no romance flags were triggered -- that's why we have these glaring communication issues.

When Halsin tells you he'll fuck off to take care of wagons of kids, this is not a romanced Halsin. You don't get to say anything because this is the *friendship outcome*. Technically, no matter what you do, you will end up friendzoned by Halsin lol.

This snipping and cutting is very important to keep in mind. Larian's ideas were all over the place. Then, they had not particularly much time to finalise Halsin.

Keep in mind that o.g. early access Halsin had a wife, and I believe even kids? Not poly at all. Finished Halsin swings between extremely sweet to rather callous, it's almost like... they ducktaped different Halsins together? That's what probably happened, by all evidence. So now you have this mixed vision without all the padding necessary to make many a player feel like this is a real, poly person.

You have a Halsin who falls in love with great difficulty, yet *hard*, who also doesn't really do relationships. Maybe this is the poly representation some people wanted, I don't know. In my opinion it's a victim of the development process

Last edited by Silver/; 02/09/23 06:01 PM.