A brand new Dungeons & Dragons lore e book has supplied new particulars in regards to the destiny of everybody’s favourite Baldur’s Gate 3 barbarian tiefling, formally confirming a happier canon ending than the one supplied by the sport itself.
caveat! Spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 comply with…
Inside Baldur’s Gate 3 itself, varied finales are doable in your companion Karlach, whose mechanical coronary heart at all times appears to be getting ready to stopping.
In truth, gamers can watch Karlach’s infernal engines lastly combust and tragically flare up with out intervention. Alternatively, you may sacrifice your self and change into a thoughts flayer. In the meantime, an alternative choice would have the participant persuade Karlach to go away FaerΓ»n and reside in Avernus in hopes of a extra everlasting treatment, though the character’s final survival is debatable.
Now, followers suppose they lastly have a solution to what occurs subsequent if Karlach returns to Avernus, because of Astarion’s E book of Hungers D&D growth. The e book confirms that two different D&D works that includes Karlach are set after Baldur’s Gate 3. So, canonically, Karlach survives for a number of years after the sport’s epilogue and returns to FaerΓ»n.
“The yr strikes ahead to 1501 and Karlach is on the town once more, implying that she might be repairing the engine in canon,” wrote social media person RenMasaoAn Koku, noticed by GamesRadar+.
They advance the yr to 1501 and Karlach is on the town once more, implying that she repairs the engine with the cannon https://t.co/A8akZTyUzQ
β Ren Masao Ankoku (@RenMasaoAnkoku) November 12, 2025
This publish shares the official timeline of the lifetime of Companion Astarion, written by Dalereckoning (DR), chronicling the “Occasions of Baldur’s Gate 3” in 1492. In the meantime, the occasions of Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun and Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun, by which Karlach seems, happen three years later in 1501 DR.
This matches what we already know in regards to the doable future if Karlach is satisfied to return to Avernus. Within the recreation’s epilogue, set six months later, Karlach mentions a latest journey by which she obtained a set of blueprints that supplied a doable resolution to her infernal engine. Apparently these labored for at the very least just a few extra years, permitting her to return to FaerΓ»n and hopefully reunite along with your get together.
Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian might have accomplished main updates, however they nonetheless launch hotfixes every so often. In the meantime, the vast majority of the studio is engaged on the corporate’s subsequent providing, and it will not be Baldur’s Gate 4. Nonetheless, it is anticipated that one other studio will ultimately create a sequel to the massively profitable role-playing recreation. I hope Karlach will seem in it once more.
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