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Obviously I continue working on and off on a mod for BG3. Less so right now since it is very, very, hot in here, and having my PC on doing renders - it doesn't help. But I will likely wait until the fan toolkits are officially released for patch 8 before really diving in to it. Reuniting Minsc with Aerie is obviously something that's actually been waited over 20 years for, and right now there are in fact several drafts and many, many ideas. I would probably in fact leave any quizzing about her past until she's in camp, but I do think she will need a bad ass entrance or at least something that makes it clear this isn't the same fretful kid from the start of BG2. Obviously it is a bit of a different challenge to writing Minsc or Jaheira; Aerie in BG2 is a very young character (for an elf at any rate), kind of literally taking her first steps into the world with lots of growth still left after Throne of Bhaal. So it's about taking her core traits - curiosity, compassion, courage - thinking about the ways she's been influenced by her friends and companions and filling in a hundred years of history. Then probably adding some extra trauma on top of everything else because as a writer I love torturing my favorite characters.

(As for AI voices and the like; I played with it for a few minutes and had about as much as I ever could with it. Even if it sounded decent, you still want real actors. Think about some of the most often quoted scenes and lines in movies and how much of it is really just down to the choices the actor made. So I doubt I will bother with any of that. As a Sci-Fi fan it just makes me sad that the name 'AI' has been co-opted to market a pretty crappy technology).

Well, almost as soon as I said that it was released. Guess next chance I get I have to start getting down to bringing one of the most popular and memorable characters in the franchise to BG3 as she really always should have been. No pressure at all. I already have a rough head mesh for Aerie. Need some custom hair (since I don't like how any of the default long hairstyles look), maybe some feather earrings would be cute, and some custom clothes. And then I just need a tiger.

My idea of what I think has happened to her since BG2 is essentially a combination of all her epilogues from Throne of Bhaal. She carried on travelling with Minsc for a while, kicking the butts of slavers and other evil, but at some point Aerie realized that her dajemma was over; she no longer needed Minsc looking after her and couldn't give him the purpose she once did. Believing he wanted to return to Rashemen while she had her own journey to undertake, they parted, Aerie telling Minsc he should help other young heroes find their feet and she would see him again one day. But of course she never heard from him again. She found her birthplace of Faenya-Dail, but also found that she was as much an alien and outsider to the Avariel as she was everywhere else, and their isolationist ways just didn't agree with her. She left and briefly settled in the Gnomish village of Understone (but if you pay attention to what she says when she's not sad and what her deities are about, Aerie staying settled never felt very likely to me). She soon grew restless and left there too, embracing the teachings of her gods and becoming a perpetual wanderer and vagabond whose journeys have now taken her all over Toril and beyond.