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BG3 romances
Jul. 11th, 2024 03:00 pmI'm 100% fine with Jaheira being impossible to romance in BG3. as much as I enjoyed putting her in a low cut leather getup, her romance would've been on the same level as Halsin's and Minthara's (rushed and more fanservice-y than even bg2 romances) and I like having the focus on the new main cast. Jaheira has been in all three games already AND she was a romance option in the 2nd.
It would at least be interesting from a character perspective though to see how she's grown and changed throughout the years since losing Khalid and becoming a parent. But they already gave Jaheira so much in that regard. You pretty much learn everything about her when you go through her house with her.
You also just can't beat the insanity that is romancing your recently widowed godmother while her husband's body is rotting in a mad wizard's lair. God BG2 is so fucking insane I love it.
On the subject of BG2, what happened to Viconia.
Viccy what are you doing. Did the evil Shar mirror give you dementia? How the hell did you end up back in baldurs gate. You're supposed to be dead. Or in waterdeep. Can you come home our son misses you.
Talk about a character who got no love compared to Jaheira and Minsc. Like most people who like BG2, yeah it pisses me off. Having her as a villain I can understand. They could've very easily spun her story into a tragedy where, after losing contact with Gorion's Ward, Shar manipulates her into having her memories altered because she has little else. After losing everything, rejecting Lolth because she did not want to sacrifice a child, Shar makes her do the same thing. It's such a Shar thing to do, too. Shar in BG3 loves psychologically tormenting people (see: Shadowheart). I've combed over the cloister twice and there's no indication Viconia used the mirror on herself. There's no way the people who wrote this part assumed players would come to that conclusion on their own. 20 years after the second game came out nobody is going to know who Viconia is!
Oh and another small thing, because of the way BG3 handles drow (Lolth-sworn=red eyes, evil, Seldarine= light eyes, good), Viconia is classified as a Lolth-sworn drow. Because she's evil. I cannot think of another reason why she would be. They could've just identified her as drow, just plain drow. Whatever.
Is Viconia the most nuanced character ever written? No. The only way you can engage with any companion's stories in BG2 is by romancing them. Her tragic backstory was made for the romance. The bad girl to Aerie's good girl. But I love her and she deserves some respect. Her backstory is moving enough, fucked up in the way most drow are, and it ties in to Drizzt's backstory indirectly. It's cool. I like it. I like her. She deserved better.
It would at least be interesting from a character perspective though to see how she's grown and changed throughout the years since losing Khalid and becoming a parent. But they already gave Jaheira so much in that regard. You pretty much learn everything about her when you go through her house with her.
You also just can't beat the insanity that is romancing your recently widowed godmother while her husband's body is rotting in a mad wizard's lair. God BG2 is so fucking insane I love it.
On the subject of BG2, what happened to Viconia.
Viccy what are you doing. Did the evil Shar mirror give you dementia? How the hell did you end up back in baldurs gate. You're supposed to be dead. Or in waterdeep. Can you come home our son misses you.
Talk about a character who got no love compared to Jaheira and Minsc. Like most people who like BG2, yeah it pisses me off. Having her as a villain I can understand. They could've very easily spun her story into a tragedy where, after losing contact with Gorion's Ward, Shar manipulates her into having her memories altered because she has little else. After losing everything, rejecting Lolth because she did not want to sacrifice a child, Shar makes her do the same thing. It's such a Shar thing to do, too. Shar in BG3 loves psychologically tormenting people (see: Shadowheart). I've combed over the cloister twice and there's no indication Viconia used the mirror on herself. There's no way the people who wrote this part assumed players would come to that conclusion on their own. 20 years after the second game came out nobody is going to know who Viconia is!
Oh and another small thing, because of the way BG3 handles drow (Lolth-sworn=red eyes, evil, Seldarine= light eyes, good), Viconia is classified as a Lolth-sworn drow. Because she's evil. I cannot think of another reason why she would be. They could've just identified her as drow, just plain drow. Whatever.
Is Viconia the most nuanced character ever written? No. The only way you can engage with any companion's stories in BG2 is by romancing them. Her tragic backstory was made for the romance. The bad girl to Aerie's good girl. But I love her and she deserves some respect. Her backstory is moving enough, fucked up in the way most drow are, and it ties in to Drizzt's backstory indirectly. It's cool. I like it. I like her. She deserved better.