Pretty much, Karlach's story would fit perfectly in a linear game where we don't get any choice and we just go for the ride. But bg3? It just feels so odd and out of the place. Almost like the DM is 'forcing' the player to go to that route and nothing else to offer us to do something.
Indeed, but I think this is why so many of us ere suspect that her ending was due to time constraints. I mean, in the purely working sense, our fiery barbarian was originally a quest NPC. Larian upgraded her as best they could…and I guess we as players upgrade her as best we can, given the constraints all around.
Bad joke. Sorry. Anyway, for those who asked (I think it was Conrad Curze) about other games or media where a character pulled through after a “terminal” type illness, we have the treasure which is TV Tropes.
Specifically, I recommend checking the two following spoiler-filled pages at TV Tropes:
Billy Needs an Organ Working for a Body Upgrade
There are probably more pages than that, but the basic idea is there. There’s no shortage of games, films, series etc. wherein characters with similar conditions to Karlach found a cure by the end.
I'm pretty sure there are instantances of that happening, but those are either very old or super rare. At this point I'm more surprised if character with terminal condition actually finds the cure instead of being screwed over at the end, because I just can't think of any character that actually managed to do that in anything I played/watched/read recently. As for V in Phantom Liberty, I wouldn't call that abomination of an ending a fix, as it's basically replacing one death sentence for another because there no chance you'll survive in Night City for a week like that.
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Originally Posted by Conrad Curze
And now a bit offtopic, but genuine question. Was there a character in any recent or semi-recent game, movie, book or any other series that had some kind of terminal condition that would kill them and managed to get it fixed? Because I can't recall any author that would make something like that happen in their story
I'll have to think on that just because every time someone asks me to remember something I forget all stories that exist, BUT. Funnily enough, I think you (and half of this thread) mentioned Cyberpunk 2077 at some point? Well, their new DLC allows V to survive. Fully, no 6 months deadline.
It comes at a steep price in more ways than one, sure, but it's now a choice that can happen nevertheless. (And a choice is all we're really asking for here, so I think it's a good enough example tbh)
Gale had the problem of a magical nuke in his chest that he had to keep fed with magical artifacts until Elminster came along to stabilize it with the caveat of Mystra going "kill yourself, k thx bye" and he gets off relatively scot-free if he gives the Crown of Karsus back to Mystra.
Yeah for real. If you think about it, Karlach's situation is the same as Gale's. But of course, Gale is the one who all of sudden got the orb stabilized and even a cure down the road. But Karlach isn't allowed a cure because she's made to be a bait for 'drama', basically for no reason. Gale literally brought himself into this situation and he gets off scot free? Karlach on the other hand was forced into this and you are telling me she doesn't deserve a second chance at life? And far away from Avernus as possible? If anything, it should've been Gale the one who gets his fate sealed because of what he did. Consequences and all.
Sorry for any Gale fans, I guess I'm just salty with this massive level of unfairness.
Isn't the whole Gale's situation result of Mystra trying to bully him into suicide? So it's not "condition" that's killing him, just whiny goddess threatning to remotely detonate him if he doesn't do her bidding so a bit different thing here (I may be wrong so correct me if that's the case, it's been a while since I played and never cared much for him)
