Mod idea: Sarevok Kills Charname

What if CHARNAME walks out of Candlekeep with Gorion and gets ambushed by the Armored Figure and Tamoko. Gorion shouts to run away, CHARNAME tries to run but Tamako casts Hold Person (?) and succeeds). Gorion manages to kill the lesser goons. Then tries to dispel CHARNAME’s state. The armored figure kills Gorion before the spell finishes. Tamoko chunks the paralyzed CHARNAME… the end?

How difficult is it to start a BG2 game with this sequence.

You (Sarevok) plan to meet up with (Tranzig, Tazok, Davereon, Tarnesh?) in (FAI, Beregost?) but you were captured by mysterious cloaked figures. Unable to cast spells and worn from the battle with Gorion you stood no chance...

A soft woman’s voice wakes you up. You see no-one but you hear some fiddling on the lock. The lock opens and a woman appears as if she materializes right in front of you. It’s Tamoko and she asks you to flee with her, to get out of this dungeon.

Hold up! Tamoko hides in the shadows?? Yes in official resoures (dragon magazine, don’t read the Jaheira and Abdel part (puke smiley)) Tamoko is some sort of ninja from Wu (Kara-tur). So if we make her a Shadowdancer (lvl 5-7) dualed to cleric (of Mask? Or some other Evil or neutral Deity) we have an interesting start point.

You track your way out of the dungeon (encountering your sword) on the way. You encounter Yoshimo and Tamoko is very suspicious (or very happy) to meet someone else from Kara-tur.
You get out together and a spell battle is raging….

We were discussing a bug on the start sequence of BG1 (on reddit) and someone thought it would be cool if Sarevok killed CHARNAME at the start of the game. And I’m thinking about this for some weeks now. I think it would be cool to play BG2 with Sarevok as protagonist. Has someone modded something like this?

Sarevok:
A pre made character.
Lvl 7/8 Fighter with Minor deathblow as skill. Can dual-class to mage or thief (as per ToB). Maybe he has the Bhaal power charname would’ve had.

Tamoko:
NPC
Lvl 5 Shadowdancer  Lvl 7 Cleric . Follows Mask unless there is a more suitable Deity. I have to check if he already escaped Godsbane at this point. But I think he did.

Imoen:
She saw you kill CHARNAME
Is she captured with you or has she followed you to Amn? We can’t leave her out completely do we?

Minsc and Jaheira are not present here.
Are they dead or do we encounter them in Atkatla or the wilderness?

Do we need another NPC?
We could replace Tamoko with Cythandria if we assume Sarevok is captured on a later moment.

THOUGHTS on the workload

- I think BG 2 is really suitable to play as Sarevok. I plan to keep notes on places where he is mentioned or where they are really specific about CHARNAME (Candlekeep, Gorion, Hero of Baldur’s Gate etc.)
- If we forget Jaheira and Minsc we lose a lot of problems with that.
- It’s easy to say to the returning BG1 NPC’s that you never met them.
- The dream sequences are one of my main concerns, they are about Candlekeep, Gorion and Sarevok so that’s weird
- What about Immi, she plays a major role in the story, and getting Tamoko caught by the Cowled wizards is a bit far fetched
- In the hell trails you fight the one Bhaalspawn from Aloundo’s prophecy (a.k.a. Charname)
- In ToB we delete Sarevok (no big deal imho)
- What do we do with Reiltar Anchev?
- We assume the Iron Crisis was resolved by the dukes, without proper leadership the Iron Throne toppled.
- Can you run an normal game and a Sarevok game in the same install with ingame scripts