Baldur's Gate 3 Fan Achieves Astonishingly Accurate Triss Merigold Recreation from The Witcher

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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 offers players the opportunity to create a Guardian character that accompanies them on their adventures, adding a higher level of customization.

The game's world reacts distinctively to the player's avatar, taking into account their race, gender, and appearance. This encourages multiple playthroughs with different characters to fully immerse themselves in the experience.

One player of Baldur's Gate 3 successfully recreated Triss Merigold from The Witcher series in Larian's highly praised RPG. This accomplishment further demonstrates the remarkable flexibility of the character creation features in Baldur's Gate 3.

As a Dungeons and Dragons-based game, Baldur's Gate 3 goes above and beyond to offer fans a wide array of choices for detailed character customization. Alongside the option to create a personalized Baldur's Gate 3 character, players can also design a Guardian, a enigmatic individual who aids them during their journeys, as the title implies.

After experimenting with the game's various appearance options, Reddit user miniladds-clone successfully transformed their Guardian into a remarkably accurate representation of Triss Merigold from The Witcher series. The character's red hair tied in a low bun, striking blue eyes, and prominent cheekbones closely resemble Triss' appearance in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. While many fans agreed that the resulting Guardian truly resembles Triss Merigold, some others noted a striking resemblance to the human version of Princess Fiona from the Shrek franchise.

The creator of this design did not provide additional details about their process, but it seems likely that they used the female Half-Elf template as a base to recreate Triss Merigold in Baldur's Gate 3. Interestingly, the facial features of the default model for the High Half-Elf subrace already bear a strong resemblance to the shared image of the Guardian. In Baldur's Gate 3, Half-Elves can also be of the Wood or Drow varieties, depending on the player's preference for lineage.

The Guardian in Baldur's Gate 3 plays the same role in the story regardless of race, gender, or appearance. However, the game's world will react differently to the player's avatar based on their identity. Romances are the only exception, as the player's race and gender do not affect their ability to romance any companion. To fully experience Baldur's Gate 3, it is recommended to play through the game multiple times with different characters.

For newcomers to CRPGs based on Dungeons and Dragons, choosing one of the Origin characters as their first playthrough in Baldur's Gate 3 is a good idea. This allows the player to focus on a companion as the main protagonist and avoids potential mistakes in character building for those unfamiliar with the game's mechanics.

Baldur's Gate 3 is available now on PC and launches September 6 on PS5, with an Xbox Series X/S port also in development.