Tbh I actually really love how much Lae'Zel softens up over the course of her romance and goes from hating everything to waking you up so you can share a quiet moment watching the sun rise together
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She kicked my ass in our duel because I was playing a Wizard and she went first and one-shot me. Then she held back because she said she didn't want to hurt me.
i TRIED to make laezel worse and then she fucking left me to save herself for ~~jesus~~ vlakith 😭 so i had to go romanace minthara instead. which works out because i actually fell in love with minthara lol. but still
Karlach is really the only correct choice, also one of the saddest
I just hate how contrived her sad ending is.
Spoilers for BG3 ahead:
The game goes out of its way to introduce a blacksmith who can temporarily fix karlach’s engine and then he’s like “sorry this won’t be a permanent fix. I would need a demon forge and better infernal iron to get a permanent fix.” And then, if you play the game such that he’s alive in act 3, lo and behold, he’s set up in a legit shop with a demon forge, and you get improved infernal iron from killing the mech guards.
But nope, no repair for you, sorry.
And speaking of the mech guards, the first one you encounter goes out of its way to tell you “hey karlach, you’ve got a defective engine. Come the foundry and we’ll give you a new one that should fix you right up.” And then you’re given the option to ally with the guy who runs the factory, or free the factory’s engineers and save their families - but either way, again despite being explicitly told the factory can fix her, nope, no option to do so.
It’s just so bad narratively. You want an ending where you can’t save her. Fine. But don’t go out of your way to introduce various ways she can be saved just to not even address them.
I don't want to fix Shadowheart as much as I want to work through our religious trauma together. We can fix each other, y'know? Best option given the lack of therapists in Faerûn.