I think we might be doing people a disservice by preseving this spoiler, as it's going to shock them when they get there, and they probably won't be prepared psychologically for what has been done to this quite beloved character.
It's not going to make returning players smile, the way meeting Jaheira does, or cackle with glee about what a great job they've done here with an old fan fav. Its sorta weird thing to walk on eggshells around this one, like 'oh just wait, you're going to absolutely hate it!" Lol
Is anyone actually happy with this presentation for her? Really this is the first time BG3 has genuinely dissappointed me on the character front. Their best defense would seem to be, 'it's not our fault, the Wizards made us do it' but that's a poor excuse. I don't care.
As a general rule don't tease us with returning characters from BG1 or BG2 who can't be recruited here. Everywhere they did that in BG2 was annoying, it's doubly annoying here cause we've waited 20 years for some of this stuff. Dragging an old favorite out just force us to kill her is the worst. It's like Faldorn all over again. We have to be able to recruit them into the party, and put our thumb on the scale for what's canon or not regarding these games, otherwise they haven't actually returned and it was pointless to include that pair in BG3.
Again for the character I care about, I would make the central point that they have really shot themselves in the foot here for that fantasy race...
It turns the Drow into an inherently 'born evil' sorta race again, despite everything that's been said on the subject recently.
