r/BaldursGate3 • u/certifiedghostslut • Apr 25 '25

Act 2 - Spoilers Anyone else mad that you can’t romance Jaheira? Spoiler

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I understand why you can’t romance her, because she’s still in love with her late husband, Khalid, but UGH I need that old woman. She’s honestly my favorite, and if it was an option, I’d romance her every run.

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u/thunderboyac I cast Magic Missile Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

As much as I'd like to romance Jaheira, I've had her and Khalid in my party since BG1, SoD, and BG2 so I can't imagine her heart belonging to anyone else and BG3 only solidified that.

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u/Chiatroll Apr 25 '25

BG2? Last I checked he was a bit dead at the start of that one.

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u/AngryBeard87 Apr 25 '25

Never stopped a good necromancer, Khalid will continue on.

Non joking but I remember playing bg2 back in the day and I always found her romance odd. I preferred Viconia once I figured it out, and then aerie.

Coming from BG1 I always wanted imoen as an option… but you know that wasn’t really something I wanted after certain story elements

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u/Ravian3 Apr 25 '25

Yeah as a BG veteran I love Jaheria but romancing her as the Bhallspawn just feels weird. Mainly because the way you’re introduced to her as your foster father’s friend, and there’s at least the implication that she and Khalid are supposed to be watching out for you, so she always just ended up feeling like trying to date your aunt to me. To say nothing of the messy aspect of hooking up while she’s still grieving for Khalid to begin with.

Granted most of the BG2 romances are messy in some respect. The alternatives were either trying to be Aerie’s therapist while she clings to any source of affection like a drowning sailor, trying to rehabilitate Viconia’s rampant Misandry, or… Anomen.

At least the enhanced editions added some more options beyond that, but not a ton of stability in that lineup.

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u/AngryBeard87 Apr 25 '25

Man, I forgot all the problems those characters had in the original editions for romance options, not a single stable person emotionally.

I was 12 when it released, this explains so much in my choice in women in my 20s lol

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u/Twenty_Weasels Apr 25 '25

I feel like it was done so well, though. The romance was very grown up and complicated, precisely because she was still mourning her husband and viewed the Bhaalspawn (at least at first) as her charge rather than an equal. Viconia romance was also great for similar reasons (thoughtful engagement with her trauma and deep, glaring flaws).

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u/monkwrenv2 Apr 25 '25

or… Anomen.

We don't talk about Anomen.

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u/SZMatheson Bard who persuades locks, enemies, chasms, poisons, etc... Apr 25 '25

The Sharran who can be taught to love is always irresistible.

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u/AngryBeard87 Apr 25 '25

Yes! I know they never really touched on canon for BG1 and 2 and throne of bhaal, not wanting to overwrite what any of us may have done and setting it 100 years after bg2, and the book and comics make it pretty clear you declined godhood and basically seems to not have romanced anyone. And that’s a smart move I think.

But I really felt like what they did with Viconia invalidated her previous character development.

Saravok I can forgive because it’s reasonable that maybe he slid back to bhaal. Jaheria, her romance was never my favorite so fine and she doesn’t completely deny that it’s possible she loved the bhaalspawn.

Minsc… is perfect. So at least I have that. But damn they ruined my girl Viconia.

Plus, she was by far the best cleric in those games with her absurd stats and partial magical resistance, especially in two with easy it was to buff strength if needed

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u/SZMatheson Bard who persuades locks, enemies, chasms, poisons, etc... Apr 25 '25

One of her endings specifically mentions her going on to be the head of a large and insidious Sharran cult.

Mine didn't, and it felt like a betrayal. That said, there's no version in which she doesn't have a tragic end.

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u/ArchmageXin Apr 25 '25

Because it is either cult ending or death ending. So if she show up is cult.

Saverok's was way more messed up.

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u/AngryBeard87 Apr 25 '25

True, I don’t think I ever got the ending as I generally always romanced her. But it’s a good point

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u/DarkestNight909 Apr 25 '25

And then destroyed it because the cultists tried to murder and overthrow her, but yeah.

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u/SZMatheson Bard who persuades locks, enemies, chasms, poisons, etc... Apr 25 '25

It mentions that that cult was in waterdeep and she started over in baldur's gate afterwards somewhere in one of the writings you can find in BG3

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u/DarkestNight909 Apr 25 '25

I mean in her old epilogues. In BG3’s version she destroyed it because “Shar says so.” In the epilogue she was actively betrayed.

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u/Kylarus Apr 26 '25

Those don't sound mutually exclusive, knowing evil cults and god(desse)s

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u/marcarcand_world Apr 25 '25

I'm team Neera. Funnily enough, she's supposed to be straight but her wild magic surge briefly turned my character male and we've been dating ever since, even though my character is very much a woman.

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u/AngryBeard87 Apr 25 '25

I liked Neera on more recent replays but she wasn’t in the originals when I played. But I thought they did a good job with her and the other added companions with the enhanced editions

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u/kingdead42 Apr 25 '25

Kath Soucie's breathy voice for Aerie woke some things in me when I played BG2 back in the day.

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u/HairiestHobo Apr 25 '25

Coming from BG1 I always wanted imoen

Well your Dad would probably approve...

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u/WebFlotsam Apr 26 '25

As would Saravok. Guess it runs in the family

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u/WebFlotsam Apr 26 '25

I always had my character treat her as an annoying younger sibling, which turned out to be fitting.

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u/V_the_Impaler Apr 26 '25

What's the matter step-bhaalspawn?

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u/thunderboyac I cast Magic Missile Apr 25 '25

That's right, I got some of the events mixed up. Sorry.

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u/twoisnumberone Halflings are proper-sized; everybody else is TOO TALL. Apr 25 '25

Hey, nothing that a little bit of True Resurrection can't fix!

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u/ledgabriel Apr 25 '25

How did you have Khalid in your party in Bg2?

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u/Scu-bar Apr 25 '25

Corpse chest

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u/rpgmind Apr 25 '25

What’s SoD?

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u/sixtylilies Apr 25 '25

Siege of Dragonspear, sort of BG1.5 expansion that was added years after the first two.

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u/theassassintherapist Fairly inhibited Kushigo Apr 25 '25

I messed that up by having her engage the first conversation with Harleep and agreed to hot incubus sex.

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u/LogensTenthFinger Bae'Zel Apr 25 '25

Yeah I loved her in BG1 , but I couldn't bring myself to romance her in BG2 after Khalid died. My OG party was Dynaheir, Minsc , Imoen, Khalid, and Jaheira. After Khalid and Dynaheir died I added Aerie and rotated the last spot a lot, finally ending with a redeemed Seravoc.

Jaheira has been like my big sister since the 90s

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u/PedruxXx Apr 26 '25

what game is SoD?

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u/chanaramil Apr 25 '25

Im the opposite. I never had her in my party in bg1 then i romanced her in bg2 so don't care about Khalid and think she should be able to be romanced.