Originally Posted by Noelle666
I'm starting to think the same way. I still have this big and important question (as, I think, many of us also have) - why in the first place the story of Halsin was cut and changed? The story he had when he was an NPC, the story with Thorms, which made his character deeper and more interting. Almost all his lines were recorded. I mean, yeah, there might've been complications with other actors involved plus if we talk about J.K. Simmons I think he is kind of an expensive actor for Larian (but, imo, I don't thing they would've needed too many extra lines with Ketheric if they decided to use the original Halsin story).
I have a strong feeling Halsin was originally written by somebody else, hence all these drastic changes, but I have no proves, it's just a speculation.
While Halsin's romance was added as a last minute feature, I don't think this is why he is lacking content, and neither it is because of his writer. Halsin's original story was connected to the original main story, he was responsible for Isobel's death and felt guilty for it. But the main story was rewritten to make room for the emperor as the guardian, and a lot of content was cut with no replacement. If they kept the original story, they'd have to make room for a confrontation with Ketheric, since I doubt he'd forgotten his daughter's killer. In general act two is where cracks start showing. Larian changed too much too late in the game development, and cut corners with both origin and secondary characters like Halsin or Minthara. It's just that with origin characters they had more content to begin with, so it is less visible. But still noticeable if you have played EA.

Last edited by saeran; 18/02/24 01:53 PM.