{"id":364780,"date":"2026-01-11T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:31:14","slug":"a-baldurs-gate-3-writer-explains-wylls-disappointing-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364780\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Writer Explains Wyll’s Disappointing Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who\u2019ve played\u00a0Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u00a0love the characters, and if there\u2019s one common observation made about them, it\u2019s that Wyll Ravengard<\/a> feels underdeveloped. Compared to others like Astarion and Karlach, his personal story has come across as lacking after his debut in the Early Access build, and that sentiment further grew when Larian made several post-launch updates<\/a> to the game\u2019s ending and epilogue,<\/a> where he seemed to get the short end of the stick.<\/p>\n

On Friday, several Larian developers conducted a Reddit AMA<\/a>, where senior writer Kevin VanOrd acknowledged Wyll having \u201csparser\u201d content than he\u2019d have preferred, saying he was \u201csplit into two stories\u201d between his infernal patron Mizora and the Ravengards. The team wasn\u2019t really feeling his quest and recruiting in the initial Early Access version and opted to start over. Unfortunately, a lot of where Wyll ends up in the final version of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u00a0came to \u201cless than ideal\u201d circumstances owing to coming late in development.<\/p>\n

When Larian restarted him, the personal stories for most of the core cast were \u201cfairly solid,\u201d and much of where he ends up in the final version of\u00a0Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u00a0came late in development. One example VanOrd cited was a \u201ckey situation\u201d at Baldur\u2019s Gate meant to feature Wyll prominently in the Red War College, which then got cut. That eventually led to him being the son of Duke Ravengard, which the writer then developed shortly before getting sick, and then again after the epilogue came out.<\/p>\n

As for the Wyrmway, a sub-quest for Wyll gained after saving Ulder Ravengard (or if Wyll breaks his pact with Mizora), VanOrd said the team had resources for a standalone dungeon and opted to tie it to him. The writer said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t get more than a dungeon boss\u201d out of the location and that he had to start writing once the encounters were in place.<\/p>\n

VanOrd went on to call it a \u201cmistake in hindsight\u201d to divide Wyll\u2019s arc like that, but he\u2019s still immensely proud of what was done with the character\u2014in particular his \u201csincerity, good nature, and eager heroism.\u201d And he wishes the Blade of the Frontiers could\u2019ve had a more satisfying ending, something the character\u2019s fans have already done on their own time.<\/p>\n

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