one more picture of Cifgha before I tear myself away to get some sleep, both to show off how good the camp clothes look and just because she's so dashing ;_;

Aaaaaand here she is. Cifgha: Release version. A little more goth, a lot more freckly, and every bit as badass <3

She was supposed to be on a hunting trip right now, you know!

For her Guardian, I went with an attempt to make an expy of Starboi. I'll be interested to see how they interact!

Cifgha hangs out with Momma Eir and Big Bro Braham!

Meet Cifgha Ramasdottir, Child of Pact Commander Siggi Vilodsdottir and Detective Rama.

Born a few years after the end of the Dragon Cycle, Cifgha grew up all around the world, as her parents regularly moved between Cantha and the Shiverpeaks, and visited any number of aunts, uncles, and auncles in various corners of Tyria, Cantha, and the Crystal Desert every so often besides.

She gets her love of hunting and shooting from her Mom, but also from her Aunt Eir and big brother Braham. Her mother preferred the longbow of course, but when her daughter was drawn to the rifle, she proudly crafted one with her own two hands. Cifgha still uses it to this day - with her own modifications now, of course.

She gets her love of technology and all things magitechnological from her Aunts Taimi and Joon. She learned everything she could at their feet, and has become a Jade technician to rival even her auncle Yao at this point. She built her Mech, Tiny, from scratch, of course, and is constantly working on fixes and upgrades.

She gets her fashion sense from her Aunts Kas and Jory, combining their bright and dark color schemes into her own black and pink ensembles.

She gets her wanderlust from her Mother, who’s glad to pass it down to her these days and live in peaceful retirement.

She gets her charm and wit from her father, who regularly complains that between Siggi, Cifgha, Min, and Eir he’s constantly outnumbered, but only in jest. He loves his family, and he’s beyond proud of his daughter and her lip.

Her unerring sense of Justice, of course, she gets from both her parents, who taught her by action and deed to always struggle to do the right thing and protect the weak and defenseless at any cost.

She travels the globe, a roving troubleshooter, putting those principles into action, sometimes taking out her rifle to protect and punish, sometimes taking out her toolbox to fix and comfort. Wherever she goes, she has friends and family, the legacy not only of her famous parents, but of her own constancy and kindness.

Karlach Romance!

Finally got her first big love scene.

I had to turn down Wyll first. I'm sorry, sweetie, in another life (game) I would so romance you, but Karlach has won my heart and since it's not clear how polyamorous this game lets you be, I needed to get with her ;_;

On the plus side, Karlach is cute as hell. Like. We do deserve a little sweetness, darling <3

"I love the way my name sounds in your mouth" I got a few other things you're gonna love in my mouth I MEAN

also the whole excited I LOVE YOU TOO OH MY GOSH I WANTED TO SAY THAT SO BAD can this girl be any more precious ;_;

Karlach, I swear we are going to find a way to remove that machine down permanently, or I am going to ascend to godhood and head down to Avernus and personally make Zariel suffer a thousand years for every day she held you captive, and a thousand more after that for good measure. >:[

Also, to be real? I found out in this scene my girl Cifgha's freckles do in fact go all the way down (or certainly all across her back and her breasts) and I LOVE that for her.

While I am still in Act 3 with Cifgha, I was taken with the whim to roll a Monk, and went with it. This is Grapara, a Silver Dragonborn Noble following the way of the Open Hand.

I kinda wanna make him co-Tavs with Cifgha. Like maybe he was visiting her to commission a Quarterstaff when they were both snatched up by the Nautiloid.

Anyway, he will probably romance either Wyll or Halsin/Shadowheart since I hear those 2 are open to poly with each other.

My Dwarven Ranger Cifgha has been rerolled for the new patch, and she's cuter than ever!

A few more pictures of Cifgha, because I LOVE how she looks on my new rig. Bonus shots of Cifgha’s “dream lady” and Alfira, because I kinda love them both, if you ignore the fact that the former is probably a manifestation of a dark power out to twist me into a horrid puppet. 

Her dream lady’s appearance is specifically meant to be modeled after a fellow Ranger she knew back in Baldur’s Gate. They’re friendly rivals in matters of skill with a bow and number of targets bagged, and Cifgha’s had a crush on her for ages. 

So I managed to get all 4 of my team members (I never recurited Lae’zel this playthrough, just because I never found her for some reason and she wasnt gonna be part of my main walking around team anyway) to want to bed my character this playthrough of BG3 EA, and man, It was nice to see all 4 of the scenes with my MC Cifgha. 

Some thoughts (with major spoilers, ofc):

-Gale’s romance scene is still bugged to show a Dwarf woman up to her shoulders in the ground for whatever reason, but otherwise I was pleasantly surprised at how well they accounted for short characters.

-In non-romance weirdness, I assassinated the leaders at the Temple, thus preventing the invasion from ever happening, but everyone in the Grove/Camp talked as if it had happened (and was successfully repelled) anyway. I wonder if that means the in-camp assassinations wont be possible in the full game, or they just need to reprogram some triggers so people dont talk as if the goblins did do that full-scale raid?

-No-one but Astarion seems to have had any actual changes to their romance scene, but I can live with that. It’s still early access, and Gale at least still has an Under Construction section on his thing. 

-Shadowheart was... unexpectedly cute? I don’t know yet where they’re going with her character (I’m kind of hoping you can choose to either lure her to the side of good or help her ascend as a Sharran, depending on your preferences/choices), but gosh, she’s so sweet if you can actually break through her standoffish outer layer. I’m just imagining sitting by that waterfall all night, just cuddling and talking. Then that cute, hesitant kiss in the morning. Gosh, I wonder how much of this falls apart when we get to Baldur’s Gate and her memory gets unlocked, but for now... it’s nice, and I almost want to keep going with her, try to find a way to get her to trust me, not just out of curiosity, but because it feels like she really needs someone on her side, and Cifgha would love to be that person, as a friend or a lover.

-Gale, height problem aside, was just as sweet and suave as ever. I think, oddly enough, I wasnt offended by his keeping Mystra’s romance from me. He told me enough about the thing in his chest that I could understand it was an issue and one I was already willing to help him with given I gave him some powerful artifacts to absorb, and like, given Mystra very obviously dumped him, I don’t think he was cheating on her with me and he didn’t necessarily owe me an up-front explanation about her. I can certainly see a future storyline where he DOES need to choose between Mystra and me, but hell, wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been dumped cuz my ex went back to an old flame. 

Regardless, I still love his nerdy romantic speeches and his love of knowledge and his beard, and he’s still a strong contender for my canon romance.

-It was nice to see Wyll on my character since I wasnt able to get him on my first playthrough and he was my first choice for romance before I played the game and still strongly in the running for canon romance. I’m a big fan of the suave dashing guys who want to save the entire damn world and he fulfills that for me in spades. And his romance scene is understatedly nice and lowkey, just letting you cuddle the poor guy and take his mind off Mizora for a moment. 

-Astarion... well, he was Astarion. I don’t like him as much as most of Tumblr, but I can see the allure, and the new parts we got for his romance scene was definitely hot as heck. I hope the finished Gale and/or a future Wyll Scene at least have some of that. 

Anyway, Still enjoying EAing, wondering if my “Explode all the goblins with Powder barrels I stole from that shady halfing merchant with a few strategic uses of Misty Step” strat will work in the full game. We’ll see what future updates bring! Here’s hoping Gale’s romance gets an update/fix next!

I’m getting a little concerned about my latest playthrough, I havent been able to trigger Gale’s Weave scene yet, and he’s high approval going into the Goblin Camp. I hope I can get it, I really want to see if they made improvements/additions to the animations for his romance scene.

If not, I am oddly doing much better with Shadowheart this run (possibly because Cifgha is putting her own survival first even if she has to lie or cheat in this iteration of her character), so maybe I can trigger her romance? Wyll still thinks I killed that Goblin at the Blighted Village before he could question him after I specifically spared him so Wyll could question him, so I bet I’m locked out of his again this playthrough. Still gonna let him have a go at Spike tho, so we’ll see if that gets him back on track.

We’ll see how it goes! Regardless, just playing through again on a Rig that has decent graphics has been great. 

Another weird thing: I missed getting Lae’zel again after the crash this time? I just kinda... didnt stumble on her before I found the Druid Grove, and just kinda kept ambling through stuff and really didnt think about how weird it was until I was near the Goblin camp. 

Anyway, it’s fun! I also found the owlbear and Ethel this playthrough when I didnt last time. Still havent found that poor dog :(