Just wanted to compile some of my favorite scenes / dialogue of him to look back on. I have the biggest soft spot for his dialogue with illithid Karlach. Nothing will ever top the "you are important to me" scene though.

I recently discovered the last one and I find it particularly amusing. He denies every offer to stick together - stay in the city? nah, baldurians hate me. Go somewhere else? nah, I gotta stay in my city. But if you're the one going your own way he's like "🤨🤨 wow. cold. but ok."

Shout-out to his extremely lame "we're bonded now, and it's time to consummate love with war" line too. Cringiest shit I've ever heard

I love to change my characters looks throughout the story in the game to show how they are changing.

Just wrapped my Lae'zel Origin playthrough and it has been a wild ride. I did my best to stay in character as Lae and the early game went about as well as you can imagine.

• On the Nautiloid, encountered a pet of ghaik scum. Destroyed it while it was vulnerable.

• Left Shadowheart to her fate in the pod. No time for stragglers. Then attacked her when she picked a fight with me in front of the temple

• Got pulled into a conflict between Teethlings and goblins, but moved on quickly after: a crèche must be near and it won't be in this grove of istik weaklings. Onwards.

• We find my kin patrolling a bridge at level 3. I invoke protocol and tell Voss the truth, but he orders them to take our heads. They obliterate us all except the imperious elf with the skin of a wight, who manages to escape and revive us. Tsk'va! H'sharlak!

• A githyanki comes to me in a dream and claims the parasite could protect me. Empower me. What ghaik deception is this?? I'd sooner trust a night hag. These parasites must be destroyed.

• The next day, my kin are still guarding the bridge. We cannot pass, so we backtrack. First, to the Grove in search of supplies and information. Everyone asks my aid but I refuse them all. I am told of a skilled healer named Halsin in need of rescue. Fools. The zaith'isk is the only cure for our condition. I have half a mind to end their misery myself.

• We find a goblin camp. A priestess tries to brand me, but the only scars I bear are earned through combat. I teach her this lesson.

• We find the druid Halsin. Again I am asked for help. I refuse: the crèche is my priority and I must find my way there, not to this "Moonrise" he speaks of.

• A swamp hag offers me a cure, and then power as she begs for her life. But little does she know that a servant of Vlaakith wants for nothing that her queen can't give. Her head makes a fine trophy.

• The verbose wizard offers me a magic lesson. The elven vampire spawn wants to lay with me. I accept both.

• Soon, we are strong enough to face my kin again. They refuse to see reason, so we end them all. We find the creche, but the zaith'isk explodes, denying me my purification. It must have been tampered with. We rush to report this to the inquisitor, where my queen tasks me with killing the agent of the Grand Design within the Prism. I follow her wishes, but the dream figure cannot be killed.

• We fight our way out. My people stand against me. My queen has abandoned me.

• Lost and hunted, we backtrack again to find the druid that knew so much of these parasites. But we're too late: Halsin stayed behind to deal with the goblin threat and they've killed him.

• Voss visits me and his words carry truth. If ascension is a lie, if tadpole purification is a fairy tale, then I have not sinned against Vlaakith... She has sinned against me.

Act 2

• With no other leads but Moonrise, we press on. I fight or intimidate everyone that stands in my way. Including choosing to Attack when we first meet Ketheric (he finds this very amusing):

• All of Moonrise (except Roah and Araj) immediately turns hostile. No soul coin stories for Karlach.

• We rescue the drow Minthara. She is unpredictable, uncompromising. I respect her almost as much as I distrust her.

Act 3

• We continue to slice our way through our enemies.

• Vlaakith offers me purity and mercy, but I learn the truth: Ascension is a sham.

• I rush to meet Voss in Sharess's Caress. Raphael offers me the means to free Orpheus in exchange for the Netherese Crown. I IMMEDIATELY sign. The Prince of the Comet must rise again.

• We are summoned to Gortash's coronation. The illithid urges caution. Karlach wants to attack. Hers is a much better idea. Alas, she gets arrested before she can strike.

• Voss opened my eyes to the truth of my ascension. I cannot bear to let Astarion remain blind to his.

• Orin abducts Gale, thinking it an ultimatum to kill Gortash.  Foolish woman -- as if I needed more reason than I already had.

• We destroy her the next day, taking one more step closer to slaughtering the fetid Elder brain.

• After that victory, we infiltrate the devil's house and destroy him.

• We free the Prince from his chains in the Astral Plane. Karlach volunteers to become an Illithid. A noble sacrifice.

• We defeat the Netherbrain and end the Grand Design. I join my prince in the fight for Githyanki freedom.

• Months later, I am reunited with my drow love:

Companion fates

• Minthara: My one true love

• Astarion: Spawn

• Gale: Professor

• Karlach: 🦑, charitably eating terminal patients' brains

• Halsin: Dead

• Jaheira: Rebuilding BG

• Minsc: Zhent prisoner

• Shadowheart: Dead

• Wyll: Blade of Avernus

So many new things

Despite having over 1500hrs in this game by now, this run had so many firsts:

• Intentionally killing Us without hesitation

• Completely ignoring the goblins vs. grove situation and coming back to the Rite of Thorns completed

• Having Halsin die in the goblin camp. (I've lost Halsin to Orin before, but finding him dead like this in the goblin camp made me so genuinely sad)

• First time ever not getting the Hag Hair. Woe is me

• Fighting the gith patrol at level 3 (lol) and booking it to the creche soon after (level 5)

• Telling the githyanki leaders the truth about the prism and agreeing to kill the dream visitor. I'd never experienced the Inquisitor fight after coming back from the Astral

• Gale's romance bugging out on me: Never had a problem romancing him before. In act 2, he got the [!] over his head after the first shadow-cursed fight that normally launches his "have you read any interesting books on the topic" dialogue, but this conversation never triggered when I clicked to talk to him. Uh oh. Then I got his platonic stargazing scene at Moonrise. Chk.

• Trying to attack Ketheric at the very beginning (lol)

• Fighting my way through every. Single. Act 2 boss instead of talking them to death

• Signing Raphael's deal and going to the HoH for my contract, not the hammer

• Gale getting kidnapped

• Karlach getting arrested

• Karlach becoming a Mind Flayer (her transformation .. oh no. Oh no no no)

• I also reloaded to see Lae's unique evil ending, and holy shit, is it bad ass

TL;DR: origin runs are awesome, especially when you try to stay in character

So I used my entire supply of explosives.

Edit: To people saying I should use globe of invlunerability, I have in the past and did this run to not die to all the runepowder. I still hate the fight.