Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart writer had to sit down with his Lae'zel counterpart to make sure that their joint romance would actually make sense: "That allowed us to reframe their initial clash"

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing Lae'zel, a Githyanki woman with olive green skin and tied-back red hair, smirking.

It's no secret that Baldur's Gate 3 companions Lae'zel and Shadowheart have a bit of a, um, strained relationship straight off the bat, but they do admittedly share a lot of similarities – and Larian Studios writers used these while creating their scripts.

Speaking in a recent edition of Edge magazine, writer Kevin VanOrd and John Corcoran recall as much. "Sometimes I yearn for linear storytelling," VanOrd admits first – the Baldur's Gate 3 world is so big, after all, so it's not surprising to hear that it pulled writers off their path as much as it does players.

While attempting to solidify some limits early on in development, VanOrd sat down with Corcoran to discuss similarities between the characters they were writing.