#bg3 devnotes

[coreene]

I will say this in my day to day life now:

Halsin: By Silvanus' mossy beard... devnote: awe/alarm

👆 This was Halsin's reaction to seeing the Apostle of Myrkul. 👇 This is Jaheira's xD

Jaheira: Hello, Death. I like your hat. devnote: Flat and casual - a boss has just undergone a hideous and dramatic transformation in front of the party, becoming an avatar of death - complete with intimidating and elaborate headpiece. It signs off its villain speech with 'I AM DEATH!' Jaheira has seen it all before.

She is the mother of all dad jokes and no fucks given xD

[galedekarios]

so recently i found out that if you steal from tara's nest or are mean to her, she'll blink away and fireball you.

what i didn't know yet was that you can tell gale all about it:

pleasant, ignoring tara's bad behaviour

[justanotherignot]

devnote: Horny.

[hellspawn-enjoyer]

I think about this devnote on Karlach and Astarion's romance religiously...

"If Astarion romances Karlach, it will be a little harsher, a little more jagged than other romances in their repartee and Karlach's decision to stay with him. They are very different, but Karlach will be drawn to his charisma and the deep heart beneath the wickedness. They have similar histories and a lot in common, but it won't be a sweet perfect love - it will be complicated."

Like damn, someone on the team looked at those two and the complexities of their relationship and got hit BAD. Same honestly.

It's a note that fuels my desire to yap about their relationship and something I keep in mind when thinking about their flaws as well as how well they complement each other. Both character-wise and story-wise.

[yoakesan]

i beg your FUCKING pardon???????

[astralcities]

i should've staked him

[what-is-it-to-be-pk-esque]

Omg the love triangle/breakup dynamics in BG3 kill me

Astarion offering to have a sordid affair down the road if you romance Wyll is amazing - and you can agree to that lmaooo. Honestly his retorts and jokes about Wyll if you pick Astarion might be the funniest in the bunch, love that he calls you a scoundrel if you agree hahaha

Karlach's got some really kind and funny things to say about Astarion as long as you get his act 2 scene before you sleep with her (the throwing his pomade into the river comment, joking about sharpening stakes, saying he's not one whose heart you should play with, etc). If it's the other way around you def feel like a piece of shit for picking him and she is right to make you feel that way lol. Also let her be the one to end things, don't tell her you're ending things first unless you want to cry, holy shiiiiiit 😭😭😭 I swear she makes me wanna cry more than anyone else this whole game (such good acting!)

Shadowheart, she also has some really insightful things to say about Astarion if that's your love triangle, but I think you can't really do an act 2 scene with her until the end of Act 2 / early Act 3? So in early act 2 she only gets one breakup option instead of 2 like the others, which only happens from Shadowheart initiating the breakup after you get the other person's act 2 scene. Regardless she & Wyll seem to take a breakup best imo

Meanwhile from what I can tell Gale does not take it well if you pick someone else no matter which order you do the love triangle. He's either super hurt or pissed no matter what I did even though I didn't even kiss him in the weave in my game!! I had no way to tell him let’s just be friends before anything with Astarion happened, although to his credit he does have one or two okay responses of wanting you to be happy as long as you let him down gently in the convo before his act 2 scene. He's just clearly very hurt and down bad though, I felt awful the whole time lol, almost as bad as with Karlach

When I've tried to make the love triangle happen with Lae'zel, she was just ultra salty no matter what I did & Astarion only had like one non-generic line 🤷‍♀️ might also be bugged cause when I tried to pick her after getting his Act 2 scene she said nothing and all I could choose was leave/breakup. Felt like they didn't add as many options for her? You can tell it def affects her though cause even though she's pissed she says your "bruises will scar" :( so... still a bummer

Similarly for Wyll if you choose someone else over him, his comments are mostly generic about writing your story and honestly he’s pretty mature about it, but you don't even get to tell him you wanna date both, which is where they can say some pretty emotional/funny stuff, so again, doesn't seem like a lot of variations were put in for him

I find it interesting that you seem to only get the "you chose me instead of X?" dialogue with Astarion if you break it off with Shadowheart or Karlach, where you can tell him you're "dead serious" about the relationship. Unless I missed it, he didn't have anything to say when I talked to him after breaking up with Gale or Wyll or Lae'zel, which is when that dialogue pops up with the other two.

He seems to have the "i hear you have a new lover / what, why?" speech with everyone though. If you choose someone else over him before his act 2 scene he has the same various replies of "lucky you, you'll think of me / i'll think of everything we did / having you once was enough" etc, but if it's after his act 2 scene it's all "I didn't think / you were a mistake" :( and you'll feel terrible about yourself

ALSO while I'm talking about it, idk if this happened to anyone else, but the "I hear you have a new lover" speech was bugged for me for Gale/Wyll/Lae'zel, so he skipped saying the 1st shady unique line for them, BUT I could see it in the journal. Karlach's seemed to work fine though. Adding pics for reference minus Shadowheart

UPDATE ok it is a known bug and Shadowheart def has variations too, adding the youtube link for these. Also I had NO idea about the act 3 versions, omg these are SAVAGE towards Wyll and Gale ahhahaha

[wild-magic-oops]

I love how telling Gale there's more to life than Mystra (a non-sorcerer options btw) gets you disapproval, but a sorcerer telling him there's more to magic than Mystra doesn't get any disapproval whatsoever

[steampoweredstrawberry]

I know Gale being a meat and potatoes kind of guy is canon, but I hate it, so it's going in the trash where it belongs.

Gale's Greek coded. At least 60% of his diet is tomato-based.

He's got a mean moussaka recipe that he's just itching to make for the party, but he insists it's much better with his homegrown aubergines/eggplants (trust him, you can taste the difference).

He lives for joking about how the two bushels of spinach he tossed into his pan are going to wilt into roughly a tablespoon of cooked spinach.

His kitchen would be full of all sorts of seasonal veg, on top of him trying to work out how to build a greenhouse in his tower so he could have a constant supply of his staple veg.

[rpgchoices]

Astarion was 39 years old when he died and became a vampire

[coreene]

I swear every banter these two have are the cutest ever - actually every banter Karlach has with anyone is adorable

Astarion and Karlach discuss Last Light Graveyard Astarion: The graveyard's ancient, but the graves are fresh. Karlach: Feeling at home? Astarion: I haven't set foot in a graveyard since I became a spawn, thank you. Vampires are nothing like those other undead. Karlach: True. I've never heard a mummy complain about a wrinkled doublet. Or sour wine.

[galedekarios]

Gale: That's Tara - loyal, intelligent, brave, and apparently unwilling to follow even the most basic of instructions when her own safety is at stake. I wouldn't have her any other way.

[wavebiders]

Been trying to figure out what age Shadowheart was supposed to be in the wolf flashbacks, and turns out Viconia really did just kidnap a whole 8 year old huh?

[lanaevyssmoved]

[baldursgait]

So, I just went to Sharess's Caress with Astarion post-Cazador to finally see what the whole Drow twin Star Control 2-style blackout dialog is all about, and when I agreed to let Halsin join in, THIS popped up.

...GALE??????

[astralcities]

people are so fucking weird about astarion bg3 man. even his self-professed defenders are absolutely up the wall. he is not a real guy!!!! you guys are projecting story and character elements that are NOT there because you are infatuated with a woobified version of him!!! he is not a child and you're not meant to read him as one!!! he is both sexually traumatized AND sexual! inviting him to the brothel is not trampling on his consent--he wanted to try it & then didn't enjoy it!!! he can be both traumatized AND mean and shitty!!! his past does not "justify" him being a-okay with fantasy racism & mass murder!! on the last note, the pc isn't twisting him into anything evil, he just genuinely approves of those things! and most importantly it is not immoral to put that pixelated man in a dog collar!!!