Originally Posted by tarraxahum
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It's racials you get as you level up as a Zariel bloodline tiefling. Likely she's had so much contact with Zariel that tiefling variation made the most sense for her on creation.

Always found it a little bit ironic that a Zariel tiefling got sold, well, to Zariel. Like, I don't think her bloodline changed because of the whole deal, so she by birth is a Zariel tiefling, like Tav can be. And then THAT happens.

Then again, when you think about it, likely that's precisely why she got sold. Considering the whole "My blood gives her strength" crap Zariel carved into her horns, it seems like she was looking for a strong tiefling of her own bloodline in particular. Most promising combo to withstand the engine thing, I suspect.

And a certain someone was all too happy to provide a candidate. Wrong place, wrong time, girl frown


Thank you Tarraxahum and rdslatez, I had no idea they came with the Zariel Tiefling bloodline. I always assumed Zariel kind of tuned Karlach up further by literally adding her blood to her during the whole engine thing.

One thing, there is a line from Karlach's friend she meets in the city mentioning that Gortash seemed to spiral out of control (for real real) after he sold her off - something implying Karlach was the last thing holding him back from fully going evil. It made me wonder if there was a bit more of story there, that we could've found out. Like with Viconia, we find out she wasn't just plain evil (though we know her from previous games), but she had her own struggles and suffered in her decisions that led her to this "pure villain" position. It's a shame we don't get that with Gortash because it might have given us more insight to Karlach's life.

I don't know why the whole "one day she just got sold off to an archdevil" seems too simplistic or random, as if it happened on a whim. Even if it was for an exchange for the technology to make the Steel Watch engines. It's just... I have a hard time being convinced it was just a coincidence. But maybe that's exactly the point the game makes: Karlach had really bad luck, and Gortash is and always was an empty, emotionless bastard. (still makes me squint and say "hmmm..." when I think about it like that, though. lol)


Rawr.