Miss Adalind 'Ada' Clover is a renowned clockwork sorceress and adeventurer. She comes from a very influential family of shield dwarves in Baldurs Gate and wanted to pursue a career as artificer like her parents and siblings. But she found out very soon, that she has a special magical talent and so started experimenting with this and the family artificer tradition and ended up with her own thing. She uses it to solve criminal cases as a private investigator. One of those cases turned out to be more complicated, it involved ritual murder, whispers of a cult and ties to higher authorities. She felt that she was on to something, when she was attacked from behind and woke up on the Nautiloid during a nightly investigation and tadpoled.
Out of character info: Ada came across the Bhaal murders and while Orin wanted to kill her, Gortash reasoned that her talents could be useful as an Absolute cultist (since you find out in act 3, that some people weren't selected randomly, but for their talents or knowledge), so she ended up in the tadpole gang.
The armor is from a mod - I wanted the Bhaalist armor look, since this is the most steampuny look, small races can get, but the stats are overpowered, so I just used transmog to give a normal armor that look.
I use the Clockwork Sorcerer mod, since I love that subclass, and I used class mods from that modder before and they are well done and don't break the game.
Very nice! I've never thought of writing a backstory based on the events that get revealed later in the story because I've been thinking so much about characters for the first time you play a game (whether that's a video game or a tabletop game).
I just leveled up all the companions with their default subclasses, which I took to be the story-wise "right" ones. So Trickery Domain, Battlemaster, and whatever Wyll's subclass is (that one pretty well is fixed). I'll admit I didn't get a lot of use out of Shadowheart's Channel Divinity options (why would I use Cloak of Shadows when Tav has Invisibility and Greater Invisibility?), and yeah it makes a lot of sense to multiclass Wyll. With Jaheira and Minsc I largely built them to fill the gaps in my party. I think I made Jaheira a Moon Druid for the extra wild shapes, and Minsc was a Gloomstalker Ranger to get someone who could sneak in and attack hard.
