Originally Posted by SerTomato
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Thank you. Now please imagine this:

In BG4, you meet the new demon lord Karlach in Nine Hells, a dear friend of Zariel. And the game tells you that her courage, pure heart, and kindness were all a facade in BG3, she is actually a very mean and evil person, who loves to kill and torture people, and always adores Zariel. The justification the game gives are "use your imagination" and "you could argue that Karlach went back to her old ways...who knows".

Allow me to ask again, what old ways?

Karlach being a golden retriever, Viconia refusing to hurt a child, and Sarevok treating Bhaal as simply a stepping stone, those were literally their origin stories, their very foundations. A bloodthirsty Karlach never existed, the writer made that shit up. And when a game needs you to use your headcanon to justify things, that means it was poorly written.

Of course one could say "well I never cared about Karlach so whatever", which is fair, though personally I won't call that person is really familiar with Karlach's character.

I do understand, that you are mad about Viconia and Sarevok, but both are still different cases from Karlach. Kalrach was always good, Viconia and Sarevok not. You could maybe compare it with Astarion, who starts pretty evil, but can become better during the game depending on how you progress his story.

"We are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one."

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