The last act of this game takes the team from Lower Dorn’s Deep back to Easthaven. Let’s take a quick look at the fully mature group.
Leezel fought on point to the end. In her final form wearing light but tough armor made from the scales of the White Dragon Icasaracht. When pursuing the villain Marketh, it was necessary to fight several mages. Gretchen is much faster and deadlier than a mage.Hildy found herself mothering a battered Drow woman. Not normally the most sympathetic sort of figure, but Hildy’s daughter Grace is not too different.Speaking of… Grace is a fierce warrior. But she is also gentle and kind. She befriended the little Gnome girl Fegli who had been mutilated so she could no longer speak.Deep in Dorn’s the team battled many Fire Giants. Fearsome foes, that this team can handle with little difficulty.And a desecrated temple was overrun with undead. So many, Henri was forced to melee alone for several seconds, that really, felt like ten seconds or more…
*****
Epilogue
Turpin and his team have the simplest sort of epilogue. The Daughters of the North would remain in the north. Turpin would not choose to part from Hildy.
Leezel is a big woman, happy to do grunt work.Gretchen, always the agile one, worked on rooftops and other hard to get to jobs.With so much winter construction going on, Henri’s healing touch was appreciated.Grace helped train a new generation of local militia. No one seemed much worried about her dusky complexion anymore, she was a local and had proven her worth.Turpin and Hildy married and Hildy’s home became Turpin’s home. We can end pretty much how we started…
The girls had truly grown to be fine young adults. They all settled into homes not far from Hildy. They all remained close in every sense and would defend their homes whenever the north was threatened.
*****
Another fast run!
I really enjoy that IWD lets you create your whole team, and then is a comparatively fast run through to the end. I think I’ll be taking a longer break before I run it again now, I have a plan for something else after my next BG run, more about that in a couple months.
Wow. That whole run went quick. Certainly much faster than my run is going.
That archer pic with Gretchen is near perfect. Everything about the stance, bow, and arrow look bang on. I just wish I could figure out how to do pics well with arrows in flight, or an arrow just leaving a bow, or a “sniper view” shot of an arrow homing in. Best I’ve managed so far is setting up a shot like yours, then use the editor to erase the arrow and inject one on the target. And that’s not terribly satisfying.
The dragon-scale armor looks nice. The pattern and “texture” of it looks very appropriate. I really like Gretchen’s scale armor too. I haven’t had very good luck with that in the past.
Grace’s armor also looks great – particularly in that first shot. The red lacquer pattern over the plate is a really cool look.
Turpin has the same axe problem that my Karlach often does – where for some inexplicable reason the AI just likes to have them hold the axe backwards. At least with swords and spears they’re symmetric so you don’t got so much of that. But I’ve seen backwards scimitars too.
I like Leezel casually carrying the log. No big thing. I’ll just daydream through town with a tree over my shoulder.
bows, and a lot of weapons are really frustrating. It can take a lot of renders just to get one that isn’t egregiously wrong. With axes, I often see them bent too. With a head that is not in line with the shaft or mounted oddly on it. Very strange.
armors seen easier to get right, or at least in the ballpark. Although I’m not quite sure why it likes “short sleeve” armor so much? Even things like plate armor sometimes! Such things might exist in ancient settings, but I always have the descriptor “medieval fantasy”. I would think that would make it uncommon. Grace is wearing “Bathed in Blood” armor very late game, I suppose she actually got it just after meeting Fegli. But that render came out very nice.
I wanted to mention Leezel had the Gauntlets of Ogre Power at the end. But I forgot. It is an alarming image!
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