Orin does not kill Harpers from Last Light Inn. She kills the Harper cell in BG, which is separate. Remember, the Harpers stayed at Moonrise to help rebuilding/reclamation efforts. It is however pretty lame that the main point of interactive quests for Jaheira comes to a screeching halt at this dead end besides a very late recruiting of Minsc. Who by the way was done so dirty, he has no agency whatsoever, is made some comic loser who was fighting, got knocked out and tadpoled, and that was the extent of his story after you recruit him. You literally get no companion quest for him at all. The last interaction you can have is with Jaheira's children if you bring him.
Then, zero development. He should have been recruitable from Act 1 or Act 2. The martial roster of companions is literally all female, would be nice to have a stereotypical barbarian looking male to use in the roster. The writing for men in this game has serious problems to begin with, Wyll sorta being the more decent in terms of competence, but they're literally all fumbling weirdo goofs while the women are assertive, serious veterans. A single competent male character that's not comic relief would be nice. Wyll was sort of rewritten more in that direction, but he's still made out a fool with little agency. Gale's entire catastrophe is over being a lovesick, overconfident simp for Mystra, Halsin could have had potential and was just destroyed by the the goofy bestiality and poly meme writing that really ruins the high fantasy feel of the game. Astarion is a sociopathic perfumed ponce who struggles with even obtaining basic sustenance. None of the men are to be taken seriously in this game. This tiresome writing trope needs to die already.
Last edited by Zenith; 06/09/23 01:11 AM.
