Quote Originally Posted by t209 View Post
Well, once more into the breach now.
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Now I am in a conundrum with the finale.
In my first run, I brought Lae’zel, Astarion, and Shadowheart for personal story BUT I am more close to Karlach since I used her a lot.
Basically, “be the squid wizard, let Orpheus be one, and as I finally learned let Karlach be one” (I remember about Wyll and Karlach ending BUT I am playing as a bard and 4 party limit—still in vanilla mode—kinda annoying even if justifiable in game play sense…even if they could do 5 or 6 mode for single player.
Apparently rest of the folks in the Tavern either got splatted by Illithid, being turned into one, or just busy surviving.
That or just being Gale for “special ending”.
Sorry, what was the conundrum/question? Are you trying to decide between the options in bold?

Personally I ended up going with
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convert Orpheus, convince him to stay alive and help Lae'zel from the shadows
as my canon ending, but I'm also leaning towards your #4.