Baldur's Gate 3 developer adds touching NPC tribute to a player's father living with Alzheimer's
eurogamer.netBaldur's Gate 3 includes an incredibly touching tribute to a player's father living with Alzheimer's.
To fully appreciate this tribute, we need to go back a few years. When Baldur's Gate 3 was still in early access, forum user Solfalia messaged Larian to thank the studio for releasing Act I, despite the game not being complete. This release allowed Solfalia to play the game — as it was at the time — with their father, who had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Their father had played other Larian games in the past and was a fan, so this opportunity meant a lot to them both.
«This Early Access means that this Xmas I'll be able to go on an adventure with him one last time, and I know he'll enjoy it,» Solfalia wrote in their original post from 2020.
Fast forward three years, and it transpires this initial post caught the attention of Larian, and an anonymous writer at the studio contacted Solfalia.
«It turns out my message had resonated with quite a few of you, as many of us have experienced the struggle of a family member with Alzheimers or Dementia, and [Larian] was emailing me to ask if I would be open to having something included in the game to honour my father,» Solfalia wrote in a more recent Baldur's Gate 3 forum post.
They accepted, and Solfalia and Larian discussed Solfalia's father further over email. Then, when the full game was released, Solfalia asked the anonymous Larian writer where they could find the tribute, expecting it to be something simple such as a «mention in a random book, or a plaque».
What they were told, however, was so much more than that. Larian had actually added an NPC named Golbraith Stredivas, who is inspired by Solfalia's father, to the game. Golbraith is a retired
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