But that's a decision she gets to make. You don't get to push her into it. If Larian wants to make their new ending work, they need to create a pathway toward it in which Karlach realizes, organically, that she has found a wonderful family to support and believe in her. But even if they do that, it still feels wrong to me. Karlach says, in no uncertain terms, that she will be caught and enslaved again if she turns up in Avernus. All the love and support in the world won't do her any good when that happens.
This is why in patch 2 larian needed to add new dialogue for karlach where we could discuss and come to terms with going to avernus together, especially since they went with an ending cutscene that shows karlach ready to fight in hell doomslayer style that feels very out of character. As it is now the avernus ending is tonally inconsistent with how karlach has expressed her thoughts on going back to avernus and just leaves me feeling like i missed some conversation or scenes with karlach ingame.
If larian never changes her questline and let us fix her engine, they need to at the very least make the avernus ending make more sense, especially since they themselves decided to go for a 80s action flick vibe while forgetting what their own character thinks about avernus. THAT and an epilogue where the gang gets together again and tav/durge and karlach confirm they found a cure. This would still just be the bare minimum and disappointing tbh, but i would be satisfied enough that i could actually replay the game without getting depressed when i reach act 3 and drop the game lmao.
