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…siding with the rebels over Nere at the forge?
I’m doing a second playthrough and I just got to this part. It didn’t make her hate me but I don’t get why she’d be upset at all that I told the Absolute’s precious little boy to fuck off.
She’s fine with freeing the Deep Gnomes, but she’s not big on siding with the Duergar as they are literal Slavers. She’s not big on slavery for, if you take some time to think about it, very obvious reasons.
Karlach is a simple gal, Duergar are bad slavers, Nere is bad Absolutist and also a slaver. Why side with either when you can chop both into pieces and kill two slaver birds with one greataxe!