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.'”