Baldur's Gate 3 Player Recreates Triss Merigold From The…

Summary

Baldur's Gate 3 offers incredibly versatile character creation features, as demonstrated by a player who recreated Triss Merigold from The Witcher series.
The game allows players to design a Guardian character who assists them on their adventures, providing even more customization options.
The majority of the game's world reacts differently to the player's avatar based on their race, gender, and appearance, making multiple playthroughs with different characters encouraged for a complete experience.

One Baldur's Gate 3 player managed to recreate Triss Merigold from The Witcher series in Larian's critically acclaimed RPG. Their achievement is yet another example illustrating the incredible versatility of the character creation features in Baldur's Gate 3.

As a game based on the Dungeons and Dragons tabletop, Baldur's Gate 3 goes out of its way to provide fans with plenty of options for granular character design. Apart from the ability to create a custom Baldur's Gate 3 character, the RPG also allows players to design a Guardian, a mysterious figure who will help them on their adventures, much like their title suggests.

After some fiddling with the game's many appearance options, Reddit user miniladds-clone managed to turn their Guardian into a fairly faithful recreation of Triss Merigold from The Witcher series. Their character's red set of hair tied up in a low bun is extremely close to Merigold's rendition from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, as are her piercingly blue eyes and high cheekbones. While many fans reacting to this design feat agreed that the resulting Guardian looks like Triss Merigold, some others opined that she even more closely resembles the human version of Princess Fiona from the Shrek franchise.

The author of this design did not elaborate on their creation process, though it would appear that they used the female Half-Elf template as the starting point for making their Baldur's Gate 3 version of Triss Merigold. Namely, the face features of the default model for the High Half-Elf subrace are already fairly close to the look of this recently shared Guardian. Half-Elves in Baldur's Gate 3 can also be of the Wood and Drow variety, depending on the player's lineage preference.

While the Guardian in Baldur's Gate 3 has the same story role regardless of their race, gender, and overall appearance, the majority of the game's world will react slightly differently to the player's avatar depending on their identity. The only major exceptions to that are romances, as the player's choice of a race and gender will not affect their ability to romance any companion. Nevertheless, anyone looking to get the complete Baldur's Gate 3 experience is hence encouraged to do multiple playthroughs with a wide variety of characters.

Newcomers to classic CRPGs based on Dungeons and Dragons would also do well to consider picking one of the Origin characters for their first Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough. Doing so will essentially repurpose one of the game's companions into its protagonist, thus ensuring that the players who aren't deeply familiar with the RPG's mechanics aren't locked into subpar builds from the get-go.