With Baldur’s Gate 3 lastly out of early entry, I am certain a lot of you may be busy creating your personal customized characters proper now as you start your journey via Larian’s RPG epic. However I implore you to take a second to recollect the nice Losiir, a Githyanki soldier who most of you’ll in all probability by no means meet. That is as a result of he solely reveals up should you decide Lae’zel as your origin character, as a result of who else can be there to do her fancy sword lunge from above if not a gender-swapped model of mainly herself? However he is a superb egg, Losiir, even when his run-time as an official Baldur’s Gate companion is, err, considerably short-lived.

There is no level beating across the bush right here. He’s, to all intents and functions, a carbon copy of Lae’zel plucked from the void of necessity so gamers do not immediately die within the first quarter-hour. In case you select anybody apart from her to start out with, you will meet Lae’zel virtually as quickly as you crawl from the wreckage of the introduction’s dragon-flambéd Nautiloid ship the place you are at the moment being held captive. She seems from behind and jumps down in entrance of you pointing a sword at your throat, satisfied you are a Mindflayer in want of skewering. Fortunately, your respective Mindflayer tadpoles that had been not too long ago inserted into your eyeballs rapidly put a cease to any additional violence, and the 2 of you type a hasty alliance to attempt to escape. She’s your first correct companion character of the sport, and her predominant function within the introduction is to basically ensure you do not dilly-dally in your strategy to the helm, and to additionally offer you a much-needed preventing companion within the opening fight tutorial.

After all, should you begin with Lae’zel, then she will’t precisely whoosh down and do the identical factor for herself, can she? She begins the place each different character begins originally of Baldur’s Gate 3 – in the identical pod subsequent to, err, her, seen within the opening cinematic. Even Shadowheart begins right here should you decide her as your origin character, who you’d ordinarily meet a bit afterward within the ship should you’re taking part in as one other character (and I am not gonna lie, I used to be a teeny bit unhappy to see Shadowheart’s regular pod mendacity empty once I began as her, as I missed having some berate me from inside her glass tube).

I have been mildly obsessed by how every character begins their journey in Baldur’s Gate 3, so I used to be more than happy certainly to see that Larian had an answer for would-be Lae’zel pickers. It is but additional proof of their everything-and-the-kitchen-sink strategy to creating certain everybody’s tales make sense, and it additionally implies that Lae’zel choosers do not inadvertently cripple themselves with an unintended onerous mode proper from the beginning. Certain, you possibly can seize the creepy brain-on-legs Us as a brief companion simply earlier than that first imp combat, however Lae’zel’s skillset is not greatest suited to extracting them from their unlucky cranium jail. I failed each talent examine to prize that factor out throughout my playthrough, and I used to be apprehensive that I’ve must taken on its opening three enemies alone. That is not preferrred whenever you’ve solely bought 10HP, however fortunately, Losiir was right here to avoid wasting the day. What an excellent chap!

Now, delicate spoilers to observe, however given the shock look of this new character, I used to be secretly hoping he’d be a everlasting function of Lae’zel’s ensuing story. He was a succesful fighter, if solely as a result of he had precisely the identical assaults as Lae’zel herself, but additionally: he is a cool shock addition I wasn’t anticipating! Why would not I wish to preserve this man round?

Alas, my journey with Losiir wasn’t to be. After the Nautiloid crash lands and also you get your bearings on an unknown seaside, you rapidly discover him dashed in opposition to the sands in entrance of you, his desires of discovering a creche to purify his newly tadpoled mind savagely lower brief.

We’ll miss you, Losiir, so this is to you, the nice saviour of Lae’zel’s first child steps into the world of Baldur’s Gate 3, and unsung hero of the Mindflayer takeover. You died so Lae’zel would possibly reside (and never get immediately nuked by demons), and we thanks in your noble sacrifice.

Disclosure: Former RPS deputy editor Adam Smith (RPS in peace) now works at Larian and is the lead author for Baldur’s Gate 3. Former contributor Emily Gera additionally works on it.