After 4 years with Larian, Baldur's Gate 3 Alfira actor didn't know her character could immediately die until it had already happened: "I was like, 'What?! Did they just kill her off?'"

Baldur's Gate 3 is a game of possibilities, but only some are worthy of your favorite funeral dirge. Alfira actor Rebecca Hanssen learned this the hard way.

"I don't think I fully realized that there could be a 'less fortunate ending,'" Hanssen tells GamesRadar+ when we ask at the Golden Joystick Awards. "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.'"

Alfira, a sensitive tiefling, is struggling to compose a song to express her grief when you first meet her. Players can help her either finish the song – which is worthwhile – or, if they're on the Dark Urge path, disembowel her with their bare hands.

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"I was like, 'What?! Did they just kill her off?'" Hanssen recalls thinking. "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." Music and intestines – just a typical day for Alfira.

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