While it’s our lovable group of companions that take most of the spotlight, there are plenty of side characters that shine in Baldur’s Gate 3. Volo delivers some eye-popping scenes, while Raphael steals the show with his own theme song. However, the one character that most people wish got more screen time is Alfira.
The Tiefling bard was not only well-designed, but also played a relatively important part in the story of the Tieflings refugees from the Emerald Grove. Unfortunately, she can’t be recruited as a companion or be romanced, if that’s your thing. However, she does have a bigger part to play in the Dark Urge, but that doesn’t go down so well for her. However, it seems actor Rebecca Hanssen had no idea about her grim fate until the game launched.
Alfira Actor Found Out About Her Dark Urge Fate Only When Baldur’s Gate 3 Launched
Imagine telling all your friends that you’ve been recording for a game for a number of years, only to find out that your character is brutally murdered right at the start. That’s precisely what happened to Hanssen’s character in the Dark Urge plotline. It starts off with Alfira getting way more screen time, only for her to be killed in a gruesome manner.
Speaking to GamesRadar+ at The Golden Joystick Awards, Hanssen said, “I don’t think I fully realized that there could be a ‘less fortunate ending. When the game came out, a lot of my friends were messaging me in that first week like, ‘Oh.’ I don’t want to give anything away, but I think everybody’s played it by now. ‘Your character just immediately died. I thought you were recording this for, like, four years.'”
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If you make all the right decisions, Alfira manages to survive till the end of the game, but the Dark Urge path sees her killed off very early on. It seems she didn’t know this until her friends talked to her about it after playing the game.
“I was like, ‘What?! Did they just kill her off?'” she added. “So then I quickly learned, obviously, that it’s just in the [Dark Urge] run, and then it’s lovely. Because then, you know, you do have the people that get to experience her whole arc from Act 1 to Act 3.
“She means so much to so many people as well,” Hanssen comments. “So it’s nice having the juxtaposition between the two.”
- Released
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August 3, 2023
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
- Engine
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Divinity 4.0
- Multiplayer
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Online Co-Op, Local Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
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Full cross-platform play.
