Baldur’s Gate 3 player gives Lae’zel’s nose to all companions with hilarious results
Larian StudiosA Baldur’s Gate 3 player photoshopped Lae’zel’s Githyanki nose on the other companions and the results are absolutely hilarious.
Baldur’s Gate 3‘s character customizer lets you create all sorts of characters, but mixing up their race is not possible. Some have even managed to copy the looks of the game’s companions, like Astarion, Gale, Shadowheart, Lae’zel, Wyll, and Karlach. However, one player took it a step further, deciding to merge the physical features of Githyankis with other races.
Reddit user Biribisuto edited out all the companions’ noses with Lae’zel’s Githyanki nose. They shared the bizarre results on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, and left many other players in splits. The post is titled “Yankifies your Non-gith,” which in itself, is a response to their previous post, which was titled, “Ungiths your Yanki.”
It all started when the OP shared a picture of Lae’zel with a normal, non-Githyanki nose. One user commented that when they started Baldur’s Gate 3, they “didn’t like Githyanki because their noses looked strange.” But “over the course of a hundred hours,” they got used to it.
The OP confirmed that they used to think the same, but Lae’zel now “looks uncanny with a normal nose.” The most upvoted response to the post demanded that they now “Gith all the other party members for parity.” Then, the OP decided to do the exact opposite and swapped out all the companions’ noses with a Githyanki one.
Astarion, Gale, Shadowheart, Wyll, and Karlach, all got the same treatment, with Gale and Shadowheart possibly looking the funniest. Someone explained that “having a nose like that on standard human skin tones triggers an uncanny valley effect.” So, thanks to their unusual skin tones, Astarion and Karlach didn’t seem out of place with the Gith nose.
The nose seems to suit Wyll as well, as one Redditor said that it looks like “it’s part of the same injury that took his eye.” The effects looked so natural that some mistook it for a mod. However, the OP explained that “it was just a visual photoshop tweak so I didn’t actually change anything within the game or anything like that.”
If you want to read more about what players are doing in Baldur’s Gate 3, check out how one player ruined her playthrough by simping for Astarion too hard, or how some players found out the importance of a crucial stat.