The main cast aren’t the only great characters in this game, who are your favorites?
I loved Alfira (Rebecca Hanssen) Isobel (Mia Foo), and Zevlor. All 3 were great casting choices but I can’t figure out who played Zevlor. Any idea?
Don’t know if he’s a side or a main character but Raphael reallys stole the show for me. The character, the writing, the voice acting, everything was just perfect about him.
In terms of actual minor characters, I really liked Omeluum as an early proof that a mind flayer can have its own personality and doesn’t have to be part of a hive mind.
I really liked him, too! I saw an interview with him where he talks about his song and how he sent it to friends unprompted haha
I’m torn about the writing for Omeluum but not his character exactly…I just feel like the emperor would have something to say about it since he says he’s the only mindflayer to escape. They should have met in game imo
Maybe they both kill other mindflayers on sight since they would assume the other mindflayer is controlled by the Absolute?
Since the emperor is in your head all the time, you’d think he’d be able to figure out that Omeluum is free when he tries to remove the worm for you.
Not the biggest plot hole or anything, I just expected more from that line.
Also to be fair - I’ve stolen the egg in every game I’ve played not knowing that it prevents me from seeing Omeluum in act 3. So I might be totally wrong with my assessment
I love that he sings his own boss music, it’s so self centered and exactly the kind of bs I’d expect from the >!son of Mephistopheles!<
I know it’s late enough in the game that it’s a big whatever, but I really wanted to keep Hope. She was just exactly the kind of chaotic positive-but-insane energy I needed in that chapter of the game, and while I buy her personal conlusion, choosing to join you would make a lot of sense too.
You mean it’s abuse to spend all my spell slots summoning and buffing with everything I have and then taking a bath before every encounter??
I planned to abuse it before leaving but I’m sorry to report that the faucet stops working after the last fight.
Also sorry to report that the restoration pod that worked similar at the end of Act 3 isn’t there on Tactician difficulty…
Alfira is such a big one. I know it’s an easy choice because of her Weeping Dawn scene early on, but this girl has “Get in the Party” written all over her. Tragic backstory! Thirst for Adventure! She’s a Bard; I need a Bard!
I’m only to Moonrise Towers so far; there may be more I’ve yet to encounter. Wulbren was a big letdown, I’ve been looking for him since I accidentally flung his friend off a windmill. I was hoping to find a fun gnome inventor, instead, he’s just kind of a prick who doesn’t even care I helped all his friends in the Underdark!
You can actually recruit her into your party in act 1 if you’re playing as the Dark Urge! Just talk to her in the Druid grove and then long rest before progressing the tiefling quest line
I heard about that, and then you get to do a collaborative art project. This game truly is amazing.
Mol is a stand out character in my opinion, charismatic, ambitious, a natural leader. She’s going to be the terror of the sword coast one day
On that topic, I was really disappointed with the way her story just kind of… Went away? After the attack in act 2 and the subsequent conversation with Karlach, I was incredibly invested in Mol’s story, helping her, and helping Karlach save what she sees as a small her from some of the pain she suffered.
But then we got to act 3 and I literally didn’t find any story threads to continue with. The previous problem presented solved itself off-screen, Mol flipped from “I will kill for these kids” to “who?”, Karlach never brought it up again, and there was no noteworthy dialogue with Mol other than “buy some stuff or fuck off”.
Act 3 felt like it had a lot of unresolved story threads, early ends, and bugs resulting in the aforementioned problems, but this one really stands out to me. It’s like I watched someone set up a whole domino sequence, flick the first one, and 70% of the way through a domino missed and the builder just told me that was supposed to happen and left.
So, spoiler, but you can find her contract with Raphael in the house of hope. Then you can go back to her and give her back. This turns her into an ally at the end that gives you a very powerful buff.
I had actually heard that giving her her contract causes her to just get pissed at you and do nothing. I’m not clear on what the strange conditionals there are, as I simply didn’t find the contract (even though I swear I found everything and then some in the House of Hope) and am working entirely on second-hand experiences.
Still feels incredibly lackluster, tbh. Tying it to a companion (side?)quest via Karlach, or at least letting Mol half admit to you what happened and prompting a quest log entry or… something, could have made it feel far more significant and meaningful.
She only becomes an ally if you don’t ask her about the contract. If you ask her about it she gets mad and stops talking to you.
The fairy trapped in the lantern. “I’m gonna murder you so bad!”
