Baldur's Gate 3 Player Finds a Secret, Meta Karlach Interaction and It's Only a Little Unsettling
As players continue to dig up all of Baldur's Gate 3's secrets, someone has found a hidden Karlach interaction where she looks at and talks to the player directly. It's pretty cool – and only a little bit unsettling.
As found by YouTuber Chubblot (h/t GameRant), the interaction involves fan-favorite Karlach, who's become so popular that Larian Studios included an ending with "better closure" for her romance in Patch 2. In the recently discovered clip, everyone’s favorite Tiefling Barbarian asks the player a series of questions before having what appears to be a bit of an existential crisis as she realizes she's locked in a video game, only to repeat the same hundred or so hours over and over again.
Just Karlach randomly becoming aware of her status as a video game character nbd. pic.twitter.com/9Vzq2n8AfW
At first, things start off pretty tame, with Karlach asking the player character if she can try a magic trick she learned in Avernus that involves discerning whether or not the person she's talking to is telling the truth. And, instead of facing the player character, she faces the screen and stares right at it. First she asks you what your name is, then about her name.
Things take a bit of a turn after this, as she starts to become seemingly self-aware and asks the player, "What's happening here?" Then she goes deeper still, asking questions about grand design, destiny, and the bounds of her reality. She even asks if they've played the game before. Finally, her spiral ends with asking the player if they're having fun. Chubblot says yes, and she's clearly relieved. Then things just snap back to normal, ending on, thankfully, something of a pleasant note.
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