Key Takeaways
- Players customize Guardians in Baldur’s Gate 3, which can be crucial to the game’s story.
- One Baldur’s Gate 3 player turned the Guardian into their mother, instantly regretting their decision.
A Baldur’s Gate 3 player online has made a massive mistake while creating their Guardian at the start of the game, with other players pointing out the unfortunate error. The Baldur’s Gate 3 player was ready to start their adventure before being made to regret the mistake.
At the start of Baldur’s Gate 3, players get to customize their own character, as well as a Guardian who will aid them throughout the game. It is purposefully vague about the purpose of the Guardian until later in the story, leading many players to spend lots of time customizing them alongside their Tav. Some players even make one to complement the other, with one Baldur’s Gate 3 player creating Barbie and Ken as Tav and the Guardian. The Guardian is eventually revealed to be an illithid, which can shine the relationship between players and their Guardians in a whole new light.
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That’s exactly what happened to Redditor northfroster, who attempted to make a Baldur’s Gate 3 Guardian who represents their character’s mother. It’s a cute idea in theory, but there’s one problem. Later on in Baldur’s Gate 3, when the Guardian is revealed to be the Emperor, they make advances on the player, making them one of the game’s romance options. Plenty of gamers in the thread were very quick to point this out to northfroster, who simply said, “So… I kind of forgot about that…”
Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Makes Tav’s Guardian Their Mother, Regrets It
Removing this obvious hurdle out of the equation, this is actually a cool concept for a Guardian. With northfroster’s Tav being both a Baldur’s Gate 3 Dark Urge character as well as a Drow, “killing their mother is going to be natural” according to the user. While it’s needless to say, they did also clarify that this Baldur’s Gate 3 run will be “very anti emperor/guardian.”
Although Larian still has some features like crossplay and photo mode to come from Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio has largely moved on from its 2023 hit, with no DLC confirmed to be on the way. It’s an interesting but respectable choice from the studio, which is moving on to its own projects going forward. Earlier this month, Swen Vincke confirmed Larian’s next game may not release until 2029, which is sure to come as sad news to fans of the developer. It makes sense though. Games of the scale Larian is looking to create should take years, even with a large team, and the studio has never seemed to be the type to rush products out the door underbaked.