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"It Would Be A Very Cheap Trick": Samantha Béart Doesn't Think That Karlach Needs A Happy Ending

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Try as you might, but in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3, you can't get 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a perfect ending for Karlach. Either her engine burns up, and she accepts death on her own terms, or she returns to Avernus - this time with company - and embarks on a journey to fix her engine and escape the hells for good. Well, there are other outcomes too (like having her become 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Mind Flayer, or bumping her off in Act 1), but these are ꧃the two🗹 that most players are confronted with.

At launch, some players said this was a mistake or even a case of content being cut to save time. However, even as numerous updates have added additional scenes for all of the main characters, Larian has never added a way to fix Karlach's engine. According🧸 to Karlach actor Saman𓆉tha Béart, this was all very much by design.

No, Karlach's Endings Were Not A Mistake

Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach standing on a pier looking at the sun

“The writing is there💃 because that's what the writer wanted to put out," Béart tells me in an interview🌱 that will be published later this week. "That's very deliberate. Sometimes, that question is posed to me as if it was a mistake. It's not. It's very much what was intended."

Director Swen Vincke has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:also said this in the past.

While this decision was made by Larian and﷽ Karlach's primary writer, Sarah Baylus,𒀰 Béart agrees with this approach.

“We have a lot of folks who've met with me who have chronic and terminal illnesses, and they say they are comforted - not only seen, but com🍎forted - by Karlach's journey," they tell me. "I think it would be a v🧔ery cheap trick to take that away from them with some sort of magic spell.

“People die, and sometimes we're carers, and sometimes the person we love🌸 says, ‘I've had enough chemotherapy. I'm ready to go’, and that's very hard for that carer, and that's an interesting positi꧋on to be put in as a player. The fact that it's ignited such passion in our players is a testament to the writing.”

Béart also feels that this is inevitable with someone like Karlach: "She's a Viking, she's going to die young. She wants to go to Valhalla". But they do also admit that, natura🌌lly, Karlach is heartbroken to have her life cut short when she's only just gotten it back. Ultimately, Larian wanted to write a tragic character, and that's certainly what w🐽e got.

This isn't the only insight into Karlach's character that we've gotten recently. Elsewhere, Béart shared that it was their idea to have Karlach confess her love to th🍌e player character in the way that she does. Sure,🐠 Karlach's story might be trꦅagic, but it's also one of the most romantic, in my humble opinion.