Originally Posted by Ametris
Originally Posted by fylimar
And ascention for Astarion romancing Karlach if all companions would be pretty out of character, since she is the companion, that disapproves the most, I think.

Astarion romancing Karlach is out of character in the first place. If you're playing as Tav/DU he doesn't have a single line showing interest in her, in fact he's not impressed with her intellect at all when she hits on him.

Karlach leaves the party if you destroy the grove and kill ~30 tieflings but somehow is cool with staying in it when you send 7K souls to the Hells and also doesn't mind using soul coins. Hypocritical much?


The last thing is a problem with reactivity in general in act 3. No one bats an eye, if you as resisting Durge dies and gets resurrected.

As for soul coins: those souls are already destroyed, there is nothing you can do for them. Not to play it down, it's still bad, but as far as I understand from playing DnD for a long time, there is no going back from becoming a soul coin.
As for Karlach being very invested in the refugees fate: she witnessed them being thrown to Avernus ( there is a DnD module dealing with that : Descent to Avernus, the prelude to what happened in BG 3)

And nevermind companions showing interest or not to one another. I agree, that Astarion and Karlach are not likely to be interested in each other and left to their devices, Karlach ends up with Wyll, which was s kind of cute, and Astarion has that fling with Lae'zel. But if you play that origin, it's up to you. And op played Astarion origin before anything else, so they did go in blindly. And I'm a big fan for throwing together people, that are pretty unlikely to even meet, outside the special tadpole situation. I played the Astarion romance with a very sweet and good aligned forest gnome bard lady - which worked surprisingly well. He actually apologised to me for his racist remarks in act 1.

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