I was not able to get that to happen. Over a couple of playthroughs it would allow either one but not the other, even while still allowing romantic implications afterwards (shadowheart scene but karlach introduces you as her SO etc.).

As best I can tell it works throughout the game but you will still have to decide what to do in the end with Karlach's engine predicament.

I feel like there could be a lot more to the storyline worthy of some dlc.

If you notice none of the dead three cultists have tadpoles. Their plan was to destroy the souls of the other gods followers and weaken their power while increasing the dead threes power in return.

They deny them to ALL the other god, this is kind of foreshadowed with the Gnolls outside the cave. Yeenoghu can't claim their hunger as they're being literally hijacked by the absolute, the same is said of the goblins and is the whole reason for volos research into them, he mentions how they've abandoned their original god for some strange interloping deity

Gods in DnD if I'm not mistaken are powered by souls and the people who worship them. If the Absolute ends up killing everyone except the worshippers of the Dead Three, that would automatically make them the strongest gods, not because they themselves got stronger, but because all the other gods got a lot weaker. Thats what i got from it at least

This is the end result of me not fighting against Gortash.

If you accept an alliance with Gortash, he goes with you to confront the Netherbrain, but gets killed. The Emperor will rescue you and will also drag Gortash's corpse back with you to the Astral Plane so you can loot it since the game won't let you go back to the pool and he's got some good stuff on him.

He comes off as a frighteningly sensible kind of evil compared to Bhaal here.

@@UbiquitousLightOfficialThat's lawful evil for ya.

​@@UbiquitousLightOfficialLawful Evil VS Chaotic Evil. I like Bane more too

And so arrogant for a dead guy too. I wonder which of the dead 3 is more evil.

@@UbiquitousLightOfficial Bhaal, probably. And Myrkul is the least.

Mmmm not really. In DND the Corpses will tell you how Manu questions you have left if you ask

@@crosskill4529 ahh I see. Quiet inexperienced with dnd so I wouldn't of known.

@@FatDragon73 They're all evil they're just different types of evil. Bane is Lawful Evil, Myrkul is Neutral Evil, and Bhaal is Chaotic Evil.

Yeah, a great one for me; never seen Lae'zel do something more silly looking.

It's been some time since I tried this myself but yeah at the time it only worked if you delayed the second upgrade.

It's an animation bug in patch 6; the new kiss doesn't work sometimes. It's hilarious!

Some wild reads in that bedroom. "ancestral torture racks" 🤣

I think in this playthrough I had Shadowheart make Kar'Niss drop the lantern with command and never fought them but did eventually save last light.

Only if she had a valid reason, if not then no perhaps

The immersion and gameplay, I bet if you give it the opportunity to impress you it will.

It's great how many scenarios they planned for.

Yeah... I totally forgot to yank him out of the portal on this playthrough and didn't remember until much later. 😶

@@UbiquitousLightOfficial LOL! Sub'd, just for forgetting Gale.

@@MemristerBoogieDown The artifacts approve 🤣

Considering that the Ward eventually became Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate, I'd wager he doesn't just know about them, but has met them. He's the son of Duke Ravengard, after all; I bet he was around for no small number of meetings and whatnot.

Her transition between emotions... we are so spoiled. ☺

That was my reaction when this scene played out. 😅 Added the full scene to the channel.

Yeah, there's something more somber yet beautiful about her presence as "the comet".

I did like both outcomes here yeah. Although I do kinda prefer the end where the Gith'yanki prince is alive and battling Vlakith while the player and Lae'zel stays on Faerûn and kill any of Vlakith's followers still there.

Yeah that playthrough went awry, great excuse for another one though. Lae'zel is such a fun character, really grew on me. @@deovan98

Some of those pouts she makes are deeply redeeming though 🤣 In all seriousness I find the pair charmingly broken in their respective ways. Can't even pretend to argue against Karlach regardless.

shadowheart is more complex than being reduced to a character who’s “only defining character trait is shar.” the only reason she’s like that initially is because shar took her memories about selune and her parents and her entire past basically.

@@maddygallant5008 True, and unfortunately that's only seen at the end of Act 2 I to Act 3. Larian just made Karlach more personable from the beginning. Shadowheart isn't the only victim of that either.

​@Cabur_Skirata if anything the way anything with getting Minthara goes bugs me a decent bit

Hmm, on that playthrough I'm fairly sure I went with the most neutral of choices and went to bed alone. I was already past the 3 leaders part before adding Karlach to the group.

That's Nyrulna, legendary trident from act 3. You get it by beating the Akabi grifter at his circus mini game.

It's essentially an intentionally activated glitch that you have to do during act 2 by making a progression to act 3 without ever acknowledging the "breakup" conversation. I'll show it if I still have the save, it took some experimenting to find the right sequences to bypass the check. They patched the old glitch but where there's a will there's Shadowlach relationship!

@@UbiquitousLightOfficial please do show it im immensely curious how to do this.

​@@fadesway9923you just need to wait until right before you meet the night song to give the last piece of iron to Dammon, lock in the relationship with Karlach that night and when Shadowheart wants to talk about it, dont acknowledge it or talk to her until after the night song is taken care of

@@walterandrews4985 Youre a life saver

Thanks! Struggled to get any sort of groove with the crossbow but she's a versatile character in any case.

Hey, this was from a while back and I've heard the glitch was patched to some extent so it's at least harder to do intentionally now, although it can still work.

Wish someone was there to tell the bird. 🤣