History Characters / BaldursGateIIIOriginCharacters

* RightForTheWrongReason: [[spoiler:When he tries to have her executed, Lae'zel assumes Kith'rak Voss is a traitor to Vlaakith. She's correct, but that had nothing to do with it, he was simply acting as a Kith'rak would - and offering her a quicker death than in a Zaith'isk. That said, Kith'rak Voss IS a traitor, as he's secretly a supporter of the Son of Gith.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like the rest of the companions, Lae'zel doesn't approve of [[spoiler:Mystra commanding Gale to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself by detonating the Netherese Orb to take out the Absolute.]]]] She even unfavorably compares her to [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Vlaakith]], although [[DramaticIrony the comparison isn't too far off the mark]], given Vlaakith's [[WeHaveReserves attitute towards her "children".]]

* WideEyedIdealist: The githyanki equivalent, anyway. Lae'zel fully buys into her culture's internal propaganda and is blind to their more unsavory ways, particularly the more "[[LawfulEvil Lawful]] ''[[LawfulEvil Evil]]''" aspects of Githyanki culture or how anyone higher up their tight social ladder tends to view those beneath them as completely disposable. She believes that tracking down her people is the best way to get rid of the tadpoles, [[spoiler:and is horrified when Kith'rak Voss -- the DragonRider in charge -- merely orders his soldiers to execute her and the party, refusing to believe that any true githyanki of his rank would even consider such a thing and instead rationalizing that he must be a traitor. When the cure is revealed to be designed to kill her, she assumes someone must've tempered with it, and that the Creche's inquisitor will resolve this. When Vlaakith others said inquisitor to kill her (after promising Lae'zel ascension), she decides it was all a test of fate from her Queen.
Only after reflecting on this for a while does she finally starts coming around to the idea that maybe it was all lie.]]

* WideEyedIdealist: The githyanki equivalent, anyway. Lae'zel fully buys into her culture's internal propaganda and is blind to their more unsavory ways, particularly the more "[[LawfulEvil Lawful]] ''[[LawfulEvil Evil]]''" aspects of Githyanki culture or how anyone higher up their tight social ladder tends to view those beneath them as completely disposable. She believes that tracking down her people is the best way to get rid of the tadpoles, [[spoiler:and is horrified when Kith'rak Voss -- the DragonRider in charge -- merely orders his soldiers to execute her and the party, refusing to believe that any true githyanki of his rank would even consider such a thing and instead rationalizing that he must be a traitor]]. She is also [[UndyingLoyalty undyingly loyal]] to her Queen, Vlaakith, as all her people are.[[note]]At least the ones that don't know that Vlaakith kills any of her "children" who become too powerful, loyalty be damned, and then devours their soul to make herself stronger.[[/note]]

!!Shadowheart

* LukeNounverber: Possibly [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname some kind of Sharran title]], but the only name she'll give you is "Shadowheart".

* FantasticRacism: While Lae'zel just [[HatesEveryoneEqually looks down on everyone regardless of race]], Shadowheart hates the githyanki in particular, derogatorily referring to them as "flat-noses". If you play as a gith yourself, you have to pass a difficult Persuasion check just to get her to join you at all.

* IOweYouMyLife: If you save her on the nautiloid, she will say this almost verbatim and bring that debt up in later conversations.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of wolves, and has a unique passive about being frightedned near them if she fails a will check. This is due to a encounter with one when she was a child, where she had to be rescued by worshipers of Shar.

* TheSacredDarkness: Believes that Shar is ultimately [[DarkIsNotEvil much kinder and nobler]] than the "heretics" have written her off.

* TheChosenMany: Is an extremely dark example of this; as someone with a special, slow-developing illithid tadpole in their brain, they are regarded as a True Soul, a prophet of the Cult of the Absolute...and the Cult is a ReligionOfEvil. A VillainProtagonist can embrace the position and get a brand, making antagonistic Cult members [[FriendlyEnemy far more respectful]], but [[WeAreStrugglingTogether other True Souls may still fight you]].

* DeadpanSnarker: There are plenty of snarky dialogue options available, both for yourself and others. For example, a half-elf [[PlayerCharacter Tav]] can quip that people will think they and Shadowheart are cousins when they meet.
* DoubleAgent: A possible solution to the "Druid Grove" questline: [[spoiler:Give Minthara the location of the druid grove, run back, warn the refugees she's coming, and lure her into an ambush.]]
* EveryoneIsBi: So far, every companion is open to romancing anyone regardless of race or gender. When creating your own character, you'll be asked "Who do you dream of at night?" which will allow you to also customize their ideal lover. Said lover can be male or female, regardless of the protagonist's gender. [[spoiler:But all this does is decide what form the parasite takes in your dreams]].

* GirlsWithMoustaches: The character creator lets you give facial hair to female characters of any race (except elves, who [[PermaShave generally don't grow beards]]). There is a precedent for this for [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame female dwarves]] at least, even if there haven't been any explicit references to dwarf women having beards since 2nd Edition D&D.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: After the Nautiloid crashes, your character can find the mind flayer who captured them dying from its injuries. Should they resist its mind probe, they can then [[FinishingStomp stomp its head into custard]]... [[MurderByInaction Or just walk away and leave it to bleed out.]] That works, too.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Invoked. A githyanki or drow character can admit their surprise at Wyll's nonchalant reaction to their race, to which he jokes that he's sure you're a big softy under the scowling and scary reputation. You can play along and smile at him or keep glaring in response.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Most likely to come up with Shadowheart, if the player's character is a cleric of Selûne or even just very devout in their worship of her -- They can turn openly hostile towards her once they find out she worships Shar, and Shadowheart herself will mock their religion whether met with hostility or not. That said, the player character generally takes steps to subvert this, quick to remind everyone that [[WeAreStrugglingTogether they all have a common goal here, and fighting amongst themselves won't help anything]].

* CantHaveSexEver: Her infernal engine makes her skin too hot for anyone to safely touch, making physical intimacy more-or-less impossible for her. Performing maintenence on it enables her to eventually overcome this.

* LoopholeAbuse: On the receiving end of this from his patron. [[spoiler:Wyll protests to killing Karlach because Mizora asked him to kill demons and Karlach is a tiefling. Mizora then proceeds to quote a clause and section of their contract that either Wyll knew nothing of or skimmed over when he entered into a contract with Mizora that specifically states he must kill not just demons, but anything associated with Hell in some manner[[note]]it also mentions "heartless" as another category that Mizora can send him after, which would be another loophole for Mizora -- Wyll would obviously have read it in the moral sense, but Karlach is ''literally'' heartless, as in her heart has been replaced by a magical mechanism[[/note]]. As such, Mizora punishes Wyll for his breach in the contract and puts him through a ForcedTransformation.]] That said, it's implied [[spoiler:Mizora's punishment has less to do with loopholes and more out of spite as Karlach is Zariel's favorite]].

** Very, ''very'' squishy. Gale has apparently died '' '''hundreds of thousands of times''' '' in early access, more than every other character (possibly combined). It doesn't help that the AI prioritizes attacking characters with the lowest armor class, and he's the only party member who can only ever equip clothing. Downplayed in that he's actually pretty sturdy for a wizard: his Dexterity and Constitution are above-average, and his access to Abjuration magic and defensive spells like Mage Armor give him about the equivalent of "leather armor and a shield." He's also recruited at level 2, while the other characters are typically late level 1.

* SerialKiller: Fifteen years before the events of '''III''', the Dark Urge was a notorious serial killer with no less than seven kills to their name. While it is ultimately up to the player to decide whether the Dark Urge relapses or their amnesia molds them into a better person, traces of their old self still persist in the form of violent, bloody thoughts and the temptation to murder those around them. [[spoiler:It's also implied that these homicidal thoughts are derived from their Bhaalspawn heritage.]]

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: [[spoiler:While Charname (at least if good aligned) was able to by and large resist Bhaal's influence, with the most they suffered being vivid nightmares, the Dark Urge is ''far'' more at their father's mercy, and not only must they actively resist their murderous impulses if they wish to remain good, doing so becomes increasingly hard as the game goes on due to their entire body practically ''screaming'' at them to murder ''something''. What's more, the Dark Urge was a prolific serial killer who terrorized Baldur's Gate fifteen years prior to the events of the game.]]

* SerialKiller: ''Something'' in the Dark Urge wants them to gruesomely murder everyone around them. You can either indulge your murderous desires or fight them, but even if you do you often find yourself blacking out only to wake up surrounded by bodies, so you clearly don't fully have a say in the matter. Before they lost their memories, the Dark Urge was already a notorious serial killer, having left behind a brutal trail of bodies in Baldur's Gate fifteen years ago. [[spoiler:It's also implied that these homicidal thoughts are derived from their Bhaalspawn heritage.]]
* TokenHeroicOrc: One of the ''very'' few [[spoiler:Bhaalspawn that isn't batshit crazy (or at the very least not willingly homicidal), assuming you're not trying to murder everyone first chance you get]]. Note, [[spoiler:they weren't like this ''before'' the amnesia according to [[TheDragon Orin]], who was [[GreenEyedMonster deeply envious]] of their murderous ability and borderline genocidal scope in helping Bhaal prepare to take control of the Netherbrain that they were actually their '''''[[ParentalFavoritism favored child]]''''' [[note]]Remember, Bhaal is infamously an AbusiveParent who sees ''all'' of his children as to next-to-nothing beyond harboring his essence as the prior games and stories all love to point out, so for Bhaal to actually see one of his children in a favorable light hints at the sheer depravity possessed by the Dark Urge before their amnesia was[[/note]] before betraying them herself, making the implication that without the amnesia as a factor, the Dark Urge was ''[[CompleteMonster way, way worse]]'' than most Bhaalspawn.]]

* TheBerserker: Comes naturally with the Barbarian class.

* CursedWithAwesome: The mind-flayer tadpole grants a wide variety of useful abilities, including mind-reading, psychic domination, some seriously powerful telekinesis, and turning into a displacer beast; druids even get the ability to turn into a ''intellect devourer''. You can choose how much you want to give in to it, but there is a very real risk of giving in ''too'' much. And of course, there's the danger that if you don't get the damned thing out it might turn you into a mind flayer yourself.

* AxCrazy: You'd have to be this if you wanted to be a serial killer. The Dark Urge is a {{Sadist}} who enjoys watching people suffer and wants to inflict pain to others as well. It's ultimately up to the player to decide whether the Dark Urge goes back to being the monstrous serial killer who plagued Baldur's Gate fifteen years ago or treat their murderous urges as invasive thoughts. [[spoiler:It's ultimately revealed that their impulses stem from their status as a Bhaalspawn, who seem to suffer from similar impulses as a sort of "genetic trait". Being AxCrazy, as it turns out, runs in the family.]]

* TokenHeroicOrc: One of the ''very'' few [[spoiler:Bhaalspawn that isn't batshit crazy (or at the very least not willingly homicidal), assuming you're not trying to murder everyone first chance you get]].

* MaliciousMisnaming: She tends to refer to Selûne as "that/the Moon-Witch."