Spoilers for act three.
In my first playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3, not long after making it to the city that makes up the massive RPG’s final act, one of the villains kidnapped Lae’zel. And while I didn’t put off rescuing her for too long, I also didn’t rush it. Don’t look at me like that, this was in-character—I was playing Shadowheart.
If my romance partner Gale was the one who got abducted, however, I might have got a wriggle on. In a recent interview with IGN, Larian’s director Swen Vincke explained that was how it was first planned to play out. «Originally it was always your romantic partner,» he said, «which wasn’t very popular.»
During act three, the shapeshifter Orin the Red becomes a real pain in the butt, to put it lightly. As well as tormenting you by impersonating random NPCs you meet, only to reveal her identity when otherwise innocuous conversations become oddly visceral, she abducts one of your companions and takes them to the Bhaal Temple to be sacrificed.
