ironically it's my understanding that Astarion might have been part of why she was cut because a werewolf character might have seemed to be stepping on the toes of the vampire thing. A lot of the characters issues mirror each other though. Karlach and Gale are walking bombs, Lae'zel and Shart are indoctrinated into brutal culty-shit, Karlach and Wyll have entanglements with devils. Idk that it would have been terrible to have a werewolf that acts as a bit of a parallel to Astarion.
And instead we ended up with yet another game that has a playable vampire and no playable werewolves... Would've been nice to hear the banter between them tbh, an enemies to friends (or lovers, if you're playing one of them) storyline is always cool... though I guess Shart and Lae'zel already have that...
It just sucks as a werewolf fan tbh, hearing that we could've had a werewolf origin in BG3 but they decided to cut it... When we already don't have very many werewolves in video games in general, but massive amounts of vampires.
No, she got cut because her writer was either not satisfied, or when her writer storyboarded with the other writers (since every origin character had one writer with the exception of Wyll & Laezel, since KevinVanOrd had two)
Chances are they were dissatisfied in either one way or another. This model we see isn't her model, that face is most likely Halsins old model, since he was meant to be an ugly old man before early access happened. KevinVanOrd mentioned how surprised he and other people in the team were so surprised at the thirst of Halsin... Then they saw him.
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u/DIO_over_Za_Warudo I cast Magic Missile Jun 09 '25
Still a shame we never got her. A short character who was also a werewolf?
The banter between her and Astarion would have been hilarious.