No Alphabets 2.2 — Baldur's Gate 3

[orinEsque]

TLDR: This mod turn NPCs that does not fit medieval sensibilities (i.e. LGBTQ) into regular citizens of Faerûn.
Video Showcase: (Nocturne), (Sebastian), (Minor NPCs_1), (Minor NPCs_2)

"No Alphabets" mod pack ensures that the gender and sexuality of world NPCs match medieval status quo. It leverages the power of Voice AI to alter Aylin, 2 quest-related and 13 minor NPCs. Where relevant, everything related to an NPC's identity have been altered i.e. appearance, voice, SFX, subtitles and how other NPCs refer to the target NPC.
Nearly 700 lines have been changed for the Ser Aylin Project alone!

Big thank you to @Crusaderknight20 for his help with these lines and also to @dantrag28 for helping with the logistics and testing.

Current Exceptions
If an identity adds to the game/ too embedded in lore / would not be out of place in medieval times it has not been altered.

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1. Raphael's er preferences were genuinely funny.
2. Fist Jara - in brothel.
3. Circus members - in a circus.
4. Alfira and Lakrissa - do not advertise their relationship.
5. Nine-fingers - in criminal underbelly & embedded in DnD lore.

Downloads

ㅤ	Version	Type	Language	Description
Aesthetics	2.1	Mandatory	n/a	Replaces specific heads and bodies
Voice	2.2	Mandatory	n/a	Replaces specific in-game audio files
Lingo	2.2	Mandatory	English	Replaces ALL in-game text and subtitles.
CCreator	2.0	Optional	n/a	Removes trans option and icon in character creator.
BeardedAylin	2.0	Optional	n/a	Ser Aylin keeps his beard permanently. Requires higher priority than "Aesthetics"
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Translations:
Lingo FR	2.2	Alternative	French	Replaces ALL in-game text and subtitles (@Tipfy)
Lingo RU	2.2	Alternative	Russian	Replaces ALL in-game text and subtitles(@Aleks1398)
Lingo RU	2.2	Alternative	Russian	Replaces ALL in-game text and subtitles(@ANONYMOUS_FRI3ND)

Older Versions

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ㅤ	Version	Type	Language	Description
Lingo	2.0	Mandatory	n/a	Compatible with Patch 4.0

Full list of Features

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Major NPCs

• Aylin is now a man. Ser Aylin's voice, portrait, sfx, flavour text and how 29 other NPCs and PCs refer to him has changed accordingly!

Quest Related NPCs

• Nocturne (T) is now a man in appearance, portrait, flavour text AND voice (Download Video). Shadowheart now speaks of Nocturne as a he.(Download Audio)
• Sebastian is now lady Sebastienne. Her portrait, body, voice, references by the narrator, you and Astarion should all match up. (Video 2)

Minor NPCs- (Video 1, Video 3 )

• Rivington boy (T) now has the right body (lifted from SniperChris' BetterAesthetics).
• Hunkers Boolean (G) is now Hannah Binary in appearance and voice.
• Zerillo(T) and Ch'kk'ch(T), have swapped appearances to match their biological sex.
• Nefula(L) in Blushing Mermaid voices her love for "Xander".
• Lunkbug(G) the deep gnome no longer calls Beldron his husband or refers to him as "my".
• Chorizo the Sauceman (G) mentions a wife.
• Ploughman Zakk (G) at Lower City entrance is now a woman.
• Kali Hammerhand (potential L) (panicbuycouple) turned into male gnome with male voice. Neno Quilltop no longer has nose ring and pink hair.
• Laridda (L) no longer calls Philomeen "my" Phil.
• Tamia Holtz at the Foundry mentions a woman's niece and man's son instead of a wife (L) and a husband (G).
• Clovia Throaks no longer mentions a lesbian lover. Blarson Throaks calls his wife's lover a "bastard" instead of minx.
• Zethino (L) the dryad speaks of a platonic relationship.

Flavour Text - Books, Journals, Item Desc etc

• Altered mentions of "his husband/her wife" (G/L)
• Yrre Sparkstruck (they) is now a "he"
• Lower city man (G) who overdoses, has a letter that now mentions a wife
• Amandus (L) writes to his wife Flora in Blighted Village.
• Quelenna (L) in act 1 carries a love letter from Alexander.
• A letter from Balduran (G) has been edited.
• A poem from dedicated to Lanpos (G) has been edited.

Compatibility with Baldur's Better Aesthetics mod.

• Names of 10 Fist members and cashguards have been altered to match their body/ethnicity.

Character Creation

• The Non-Binary option is no longer selectable
• The trans icon beside body type has been removed.

Changelog

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Lingo/Voice Version 2.2

• Zethino (L) now speaks of a platonic relationship.

Lingo/Voice Version 2.1

1. Patch 5 compatibility
2. Altered 3 additional voice lines + subtitles that we missed.

Aesthetics Version 2.1 (Hotfix)
Changed Ser Aylin's portraits to match new hairstyle

Version 2.0

• Say Hello to SER AYLIN!
• His portraits and body reflect this.
• His voice lines (700+ lines) and that of 29 NPCs (162 lines) have been changed to maintain immersion!
• The Bearded Aylin mod lets you keep Aylin's beard permanently! It needs to load after i.e. have higher priority over Aesthestics to work.
• The CCreator mod component lets you remove they pronouns and trans icon from character creator.
• Shimmer is now a woman in looks, and in flavour text. I have not been able to find him yet, so I don't know what his voice lines are.

Version 1.6

• Sebastian is now Sebastienne.
• Her portrait, body and voice reflect this.
• The narrator refers to her as "her". So does Astarion. (Watch Video)

Version 1.5

• Tamia Holtz at the Foundry mentions a "niece" and "son" instead of a wife (L) and a husband (G).
• Clovia Throaks at Elfsong Tavern no longer mentions her darling Tamia.
  • Blarson Throaks will call her lover a "bastard" instead of minx
• Quelenna in act 1 carries a love letter from Alexander.

Version 1.4

• Lunkbug (G) no longer says "my" Beldron and calls himself his healer.
• Laridda (L) no longer calls Philomeen "my" Phil.
• Chorizo the Sauceman mentions a wife.
• Ploughman Zakk at Lower City entrance is now a woman.
• Nefula's father at Blushing mermaid calls her lover, the peddler's "son".
• Hunkers Booleans and Kali Hammerhand have their old outfits again.

Version 1.3

1. Fixes for patch 4.0 compatibility
2. Nefula(L) in Blushing Mermaid voices her love for "Xander".
3. Shadowheart now speaks of Nocturne as a he.
4. Kali and Hunkers Boolean's voices are correctly gender swapped now.

Version 1.2
Lingo, Aesthetics and voice combo
Nocturne is now a complex man. In face, voice, portrait and flavour text. Biggest change I've made so far!

1. People now refer to Nocturne as a "he". If I missed a line flag it!
2. He is now a male tiefling.
3. His diary has now changed. Read it to find out his new story!
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4. Check out his new voice and appearance in the video file below.
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Version 1.1
Lingo
Fix mentions of "his husband/her wife"
LOW_SewersBoosters_Overdose_Letter now mentions a wife
Amandus (not Amanda) writes to his wife Flora in Blighted Village.

Aesthetics
Neno Quilltop (panicbuycouple) no longer has nose ring and pink hair.

Lingo, Aesthetics and voice combo
Hunkers Boolean turned into Hannah Binary + voice AI.
Kali Hammerhand (panicbuycouple) turned into male gnome + voice AI

Version 1.0
Lingo

1. Yrre Sparkstruck is now a "he"
2. Alys sends a love letter to Quayle instead of Quelenna

Aesthetics

1. The child, Rhett in Rivington, now has the body of a boy (lifted from SniperChris' BetterAesthetics).
2. The children, Zerillo and Ch'kk'ch, have swapped appearances to match their biological sex.

Upcoming Changes

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• Change Masc, Femme to male and female.
• Fix line: She knows something about you, Spare her, see what she has to say.

Installation
Two Options:
1. BG3 Mod Manager.
2. Unzip and drop the .pak files in the folder: AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\Mods
Note: Make sure there isn't any English.pak in that directory.
3. If you wish to give Aylin a permanent beard, you will need BG3 Mod Manager, and set "BeardedAylin" to load after "Aesthetics".

Compatibility

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Now fully compatible with patch 5 (4.1.1.4061076)
Savegames

• You can enable and disable all NoAlphabets mods whenever you want.They will never affect your save games.. Patch 5 has a bug where you have trouble loading a save if any mod you saved the game with is missing. Hopefully they fix this soon!
• If you ever see a "Cannot create a working story" message, I may have accidentally removed a line from the "Lingo" mod. Try disabling "Lingo" mod, and if this removes this error message please let me know!

Future Patches

1. "Voice" and "Aesthetics" will always work, regardless of patches.
2. "Lingo" needs to be updated whenever devs alter in game text, typos etc. Lingo: it mod overrides all in-game text/subtitles.
3. For "CCreator", note the version compatibility given above. If devs made any major changes to character creator, this mod may cause major conflicts.

Other mods

• "Lingo" will conflict with any mod that replaces existing in game text", but not those that add new in game text. Only 1 text replacing mod can work at a time. You will have to decide which one to use. For your convenience I have put all text I changed at the bottom of the english.loca file. If you REALLY wanted to use another modder's localisation file alongside with mine, you need to merge changes from both. You will find all my changed lines at the bottom of the english.loca file. Follow the instructions in the "How to Translate this Mod" section below to unpack, extract and then edit and pack the loca file.
• Note: Do not download SniperChris' Baldur's Better Aesthetics (outdated). Instead install either my BBA Minimalist version or @AlbertHeinous's BBA (whiter) version.

Want to help?
Found a token deviant? Did I miss something?
1. Screenshot/ write out a unique sounding portion of the offending line.
2. Flag offensive NPCs, notes, weapon flavour text etc.

How to Translate this Mod

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Required Applications

1. Notepad++ or something similar (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
2. Norbyte's LSLib Export tool (https://github.com/Norbyte/lslib/releases)
3. ShinyHobo's Multi-Tool (https://github.com/ShinyHobo/BG3-Modders-Multitool)

1. Extract Language Pak
We will assume you are extracting a French pak file

1. Find your localization file under a path similar to: Baldurs Gate 3\Data\Localization\French.pak (this can be English.pak, Italian.pak etc)
2. Open LSLib and navigate to the PAK/LSV Tools Tab
3. Under "Extract package" section, in the Package Path field, copy and paste the location and filename of your French.pak file
4. Under Destination path, paste in the name of the folder where you want to extract the package. Let's go with C:\Desktop\French
5. Hit Extract Package
6. Download and unzip the NoAlphabets Lingo mod. Inside you will find the NoAlphabetsLingo.pak
7. Use the exact same methods as above to extract this packaged into for example C:\Desktop\NoAlphabetsLingo folder.

2. Get a human readable Loca file

1. You can now navigate to C:\Desktop\French\Localization\French. There you will see a "french.loca"
2. Open LSLib and navigate to the Localization Tab
3. Under Input file path, copy and paste the location and filename of your loca file, in this case, C:\Desktop\French\Localization\French\french.loca
4. Under Output file path, paste the exact same path, but replace the file name from french.loca to french.xml
5. Hit Convert
6. Repeat the same process for C:\Desktop\NoAlphabetsLingo\Localization\English\english.loca

3. Editing Loca file

1. Open the <language>.xml file in notepad++ or similar application
2. Below is a sample. contentuid, otherwise known as handle, will be same across languages and must NOT be changed. Only change the part where it says "This is an ingame text".

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   <contentList>
     <content contentuid="h798o7982132132" version="1">This is an ingame text </content>
     <content contentuid="h21387921371232"  version="1">This is an ingame text </content>
   </contentList>

3. Open NoAlphabetsLingo's english.xml. All the changed lines are at the bottom of the file. Just search for "Yrre Sparkstruck", there is where it starts. You can search for the contentuid / handle to find the equivalent text in your french.xml file.
4. Alternatively, this file tells you the lines that needs changing, it's only helpful if you are doing stuff programmatically imo.

4.Packing your translated Lingo mod

1. Place your french.loca within the folder: Desktop\NoAlphabetsLingo-FR\Localization\French
2. Copy the meta.lsx from my Desktop\NoAlphabetsLingo\Mods\NoAlphabetsLingo to Desktop\NoAlphabetsLingo-FR\Mods\NoAlphabetsLingo-FR
3. Open meta.lsx and search for "orinEsque", add your name to it. e.g. "orinEsque, you"
4. In the same file look for NoAlphabetsLingo, and change it to NoAlphabetsLingo-FR. Must match the folder name in bold in this case NoAlphabetsLingo-FR.
   This is what the English version looks like.
   
5. Now open ShinyHobo's bg3-modders-multitool drop the entire NoAlphabetsLingo-FR folder in your Desktop where it says "Drop mod workspace folder or a mod .pak here". And you will now get a NoAlphabetsLingo-FR.zip file.
6. Upload and share

FAQs

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1. Do I need to install Baldur's BetterAesthetics? Or does this mod incorporate it?
   No this mod does not incorporate BBAesthetics changes. But please do not install SniperChris' original version, its outdated. Instead install this either my BBA Minimalist version or @AlbertHeinous's BBA (whiter) version.
2. Is this mod up to date?
   Check the compatibility section. If it looks too out of date, then disable the Lingo mod. The looks and voice of all NPCs should work fine. But the subtitle and the way you refer to them in text will misgender them.

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[Rand]

I need YOUR help!
If you are the kind of person that reads flavour text, I would like you to flag offensive flavour text in this thread. All I need is an identifiable excerpt from the offending item. For example, to find everything related to Yrre, I just used "Yrre" to pull out the relevant xml fields using R. The process is mostly automated, I just need you to identify to me what needs changing.

If I ever play the game for real, I'll be using BBAesthetics and this, so I'll take notes.

[Oyster Sauce]

Perfect, I just finished BG3 so I remember a bunch

-there's a githyanki woman in the mountain pass creche infirmiry with vitiligo
-Fist Silena at the South Span Checkpoint to Wyrm's Crossing has vitiligo
-man sleeping in the sewer next to potions of sleep: a note nearby mentions his husband
-Hunkers Boolean and Gaheid Slickjaw are NPCs who devoted their allotted one sentence to being faggots
-There's a Gondian halfling woman in the first room of the Steel Watcher warehouse. If you trigger the cutscene with the guard, the guard mentions holding her wife hostage.
-I think one of the Ironhand gnome guys you rescue from the cave in will call another gnome his husband

Actually just found this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_with_LGBT_characters:_2020s#:~:text=The%20player%20character%20in%20Baldur%27s,entirely%20up%20to%20the%20player.

"Beldron and Lunkbug are Gnomish husbands being held captive in Grymforge when the player meets them. Their fate after that is up to the player.[86]"
"Aylin and Isobel are followers of Selune who can be reunited by the player's actions. If they are, they embrace, and reveal their relationship."
"Omeluum is an Illithid, separated from the Hivemind its people normally obey. It has instead joined the Society of Brilliance, a group of scholars studying the peoples and places in the Underdark. Omeluum uses it/its pronouns."
"Nine-Fingers Keene leads the Baldur's Gate Thieves Guild with her girlfriend, Rilsa Rael. Their relationship was implied in the adventure module "Murder in Baldur's Gate", and later confirmed in the Magic: The Gathering set "Battle for Baldur's Gate", by the set's narrative lead, Justice Geddes.[89]"
"The player can meet Nafula in the tavern 'The Blushing Mermaid', where they overhear her father trying to convince her to marry into wealth. Nafula asks the player to weigh in on whether she's being unreasonable by refusing. When you side with her, her father pressures further until she states she just wants to be happy, and she's happy with Sasha; much to her father's chagrin."
"Jara is a member of the Flaming Fist. You can encounter her getting intimate with Naoise, the female nymph courtesan, before it is revealed she is a cultist of the game's antagonist, the Absolute. At this revelation, her transformation is triggered and she becomes a hostile Illithid.[90]"
"An old friend of Shadowheart's she'd been forced to forget by her Goddess' will, she can be reminded of her friend Rennald by consuming a mushroom called Noblestalk that is said to cure all ills. Upon returning to the cloister where she was trained you can be reunited with and reintroduced to her as Nocturne. She is also voiced by Abigail Thorn, a transgender actress and playwright.[92][93]"
"Raphael is a cambion who offers his aid to the player, for a price. The player can venture into his house and encounter Haarlep, Raphael's personal Incubus, in his boudoir. Haarlep is able to take whatever form most please Raphael, and most of the time, that is the form of Raphael himself, though Haarlep reveals they're occasionally asked to instead take the form of "Archduchess Raphael", a female version of the cambion.[94]"
"Chorizo is the chef at the brothel Sharess' Caress. When the player approaches him, he assumes they think he's a courtesan and immediately shuts them down, telling them he has a husband. And that you're not his type.[95]"

[orinEsque]

Perfect, I just finished BG3 so I remember a bunch

-there's a githyanki woman in the mountain pass creche infirmiry with vitiligo
-Fist Silena at the South Span Checkpoint to Wyrm's Crossing has vitiligo
-man sleeping in the sewer next to potions of sleep: a note nearby mentions his husband
-Hunkers Boolean and Gaheid Slickjaw are NPCs who devoted their allotted one sentence to being faggots
-There's a Gondian halfling woman in the first room of the Steel Watcher warehouse. If you trigger the cutscene with the guard, the guard mentions holding her wife hostage.
-I think one of the Ironhand gnome guys you rescue from the cave in will call another gnome his husband

Actually just found this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_with_LGBT_characters:_2020s#:~:text=The%20player%20character%20in%20Baldur%27s,entirely%20up%20to%20the%20player.

"Beldron and Lunkbug are Gnomish husbands being held captive in Grymforge when the player meets them. Their fate after that is up to the player.[86]"
"Aylin and Isobel are followers of Selune who can be reunited by the player's actions. If they are, they embrace, and reveal their relationship."
"Omeluum is an Illithid, separated from the Hivemind its people normally obey. It has instead joined the Society of Brilliance, a group of scholars studying the peoples and places in the Underdark. Omeluum uses it/its pronouns."
"Nine-Fingers Keene leads the Baldur's Gate Thieves Guild with her girlfriend, Rilsa Rael. Their relationship was implied in the adventure module "Murder in Baldur's Gate", and later confirmed in the Magic: The Gathering set "Battle for Baldur's Gate", by the set's narrative lead, Justice Geddes.[89]"
"The player can meet Nafula in the tavern 'The Blushing Mermaid', where they overhear her father trying to convince her to marry into wealth. Nafula asks the player to weigh in on whether she's being unreasonable by refusing. When you side with her, her father pressures further until she states she just wants to be happy, and she's happy with Sasha; much to her father's chagrin."
"Jara is a member of the Flaming Fist. You can encounter her getting intimate with Naoise, the female nymph courtesan, before it is revealed she is a cultist of the game's antagonist, the Absolute. At this revelation, her transformation is triggered and she becomes a hostile Illithid.[90]"
"An old friend of Shadowheart's she'd been forced to forget by her Goddess' will, she can be reminded of her friend Rennald by consuming a mushroom called Noblestalk that is said to cure all ills. Upon returning to the cloister where she was trained you can be reunited with and reintroduced to her as Nocturne. She is also voiced by Abigail Thorn, a transgender actress and playwright.[92][93]"
"Raphael is a cambion who offers his aid to the player, for a price. The player can venture into his house and encounter Haarlep, Raphael's personal Incubus, in his boudoir. Haarlep is able to take whatever form most please Raphael, and most of the time, that is the form of Raphael himself, though Haarlep reveals they're occasionally asked to instead take the form of "Archduchess Raphael", a female version of the cambion.[94]"
"Chorizo is the chef at the brothel Sharess' Caress. When the player approaches him, he assumes they think he's a courtesan and immediately shuts them down, telling them he has a husband. And that you're not his type.[95]"

Thanks, If you can remember a portion of the letter that would help. Also I'm leaving Raphael as he is, its just too funny. "It" is the most sane pronoun for an illithid I've ever seen

[Oyster Sauce]

Perfect, I just finished BG3 so I remember a bunch

-there's a githyanki woman in the mountain pass creche infirmiry with vitiligo
-Fist Silena at the South Span Checkpoint to Wyrm's Crossing has vitiligo
-man sleeping in the sewer next to potions of sleep: a note nearby mentions his husband
-Hunkers Boolean and Gaheid Slickjaw are NPCs who devoted their allotted one sentence to being faggots
-There's a Gondian halfling woman in the first room of the Steel Watcher warehouse. If you trigger the cutscene with the guard, the guard mentions holding her wife hostage.
-I think one of the Ironhand gnome guys you rescue from the cave in will call another gnome his husband

Actually just found this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_with_LGBT_characters:_2020s#:~:text=The%20player%20character%20in%20Baldur%27s,entirely%20up%20to%20the%20player.

"Beldron and Lunkbug are Gnomish husbands being held captive in Grymforge when the player meets them. Their fate after that is up to the player.[86]"
"Aylin and Isobel are followers of Selune who can be reunited by the player's actions. If they are, they embrace, and reveal their relationship."
"Omeluum is an Illithid, separated from the Hivemind its people normally obey. It has instead joined the Society of Brilliance, a group of scholars studying the peoples and places in the Underdark. Omeluum uses it/its pronouns."
"Nine-Fingers Keene leads the Baldur's Gate Thieves Guild with her girlfriend, Rilsa Rael. Their relationship was implied in the adventure module "Murder in Baldur's Gate", and later confirmed in the Magic: The Gathering set "Battle for Baldur's Gate", by the set's narrative lead, Justice Geddes.[89]"
"The player can meet Nafula in the tavern 'The Blushing Mermaid', where they overhear her father trying to convince her to marry into wealth. Nafula asks the player to weigh in on whether she's being unreasonable by refusing. When you side with her, her father pressures further until she states she just wants to be happy, and she's happy with Sasha; much to her father's chagrin."
"Jara is a member of the Flaming Fist. You can encounter her getting intimate with Naoise, the female nymph courtesan, before it is revealed she is a cultist of the game's antagonist, the Absolute. At this revelation, her transformation is triggered and she becomes a hostile Illithid.[90]"
"An old friend of Shadowheart's she'd been forced to forget by her Goddess' will, she can be reminded of her friend Rennald by consuming a mushroom called Noblestalk that is said to cure all ills. Upon returning to the cloister where she was trained you can be reunited with and reintroduced to her as Nocturne. She is also voiced by Abigail Thorn, a transgender actress and playwright.[92][93]"
"Raphael is a cambion who offers his aid to the player, for a price. The player can venture into his house and encounter Haarlep, Raphael's personal Incubus, in his boudoir. Haarlep is able to take whatever form most please Raphael, and most of the time, that is the form of Raphael himself, though Haarlep reveals they're occasionally asked to instead take the form of "Archduchess Raphael", a female version of the cambion.[94]"
"Chorizo is the chef at the brothel Sharess' Caress. When the player approaches him, he assumes they think he's a courtesan and immediately shuts them down, telling them he has a husband. And that you're not his type.[95]"

Thanks, If you can remember a portion of the letter that would help. Also I'm leaving Raphael as he is, its just too funny. "It" is the most sane pronoun for an illithid I've ever seen

I fought 27 mephits just for you

[orinEsque]

Thanks! I'll fix that. Also I will leave Vitilgo changes for (Fist Yilena and Pyrindath) to people working on Aesthetics in general, I personally never even noticed. And the NoAlphabet mods are a bit more... specialised .

[orinEsque]

Upcoming Changes

• Remove any mention of "his husband/her wife"
• LOW_SewersBoosters_Overdose_Letter will mention a wife (credit: @Oyster Sauce )

[Slavic Sorcerer]

I imagine it will be quite the hassle to chop chop interactions between Isobel and Aylin, but they are not as obnoxious - which means they are easy to spot and cutting them out won't change much of the context





- optional. An outsider would think that a priestess of Selune had died, and Ayling - being the child of Selune - mourns. Unless any mentions of Isobel as Aylin is gay. Just posting it there

[General Reign]

I think if you tried to do this with Pathfinder you would find your work cut out for you.

I had to find where that phrase came from since it sounded odd...

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It's widely understood that the idiom originated in the 1600s when tailors were cutting out bits of fabric in preparation for a garment (via Word Histories) though its meaning has since changed almost completely as it was further absorbed into our cultural lexicon. You could almost say we've "tailored" it to our needs.

[rusty_shackleford]

Fucking hated aylin holy shit

[Oyster Sauce]

As soon as it's revealed they're a couple, they both cease being characters. They literally don't say anything that isn't some variation of "OMG I love my girlfriend uguu~~~". You could cut it all.

[orinEsque]

I imagine it will be quite the hassle to chop chop interactions between Isobel and Aylin, but they are not as obnoxious - which means they are easy to spot and cutting them out won't change much of the context





- optional. An outsider would think that a priestess of Selune had died, and Ayling - being the child of Selune - mourns. Unless any mentions of Isobel as Aylin is gay. Just posting it there

Future changes (not anytime soon):
1. Dame Aylin will be Ser Aylin
2. Ai to change Aylin's voice to male.
3. Ima change his head no problem. Loving blender.
3. Find way to remove his (its a he now in my head) line about telling me to fuck off from my own camp.
If anyone remembers all the books/letters relating to the two falling in love. That would be great. I would much prefer a hot male Aesimar than this obnoxiousness.

[rusty_shackleford]

they managed to make lesbians unattractive, that's a talent
aylin might as well be a dude, acts entirely like a dude

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Fucking hated aylin holy shit

they managed to make lesbians unattractive, that's a talent
aylin might as well be a dude, acts entirely like a dude

I wished Aylin was a male Aasimar
She is written like she would be a dude from the start. It would be more wholesome too

But modern writing for "strong women" is just writing a dude and place female head and tits on him

Even Sisters of Battle from WH40k have more femininity than Aylin, and they are twice as zealous about fighting for their faith

At first I liked the theme of a Priest banging the child of the god they follow, but Aylin is just...insufferable

If they were lesbians like Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, it would be much more bearable, but Isobel is far from feminine like Neptune is, and Aylin has neither the charm nor stoicism of Uranus.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

I imagine it will be quite the hassle to chop chop interactions between Isobel and Aylin, but they are not as obnoxious - which means they are easy to spot and cutting them out won't change much of the context





- optional. An outsider would think that a priestess of Selune had died, and Ayling - being the child of Selune - mourns. Unless any mentions of Isobel as Aylin is gay. Just posting it there

Future changes (not anytime soon):
1. Dame Aylin will be Ser Aylin
2. Ai to change Aylin's voice to male.
3. Ima change his head no problem. Loving blender.
3. Find way to remove his (its a he now in my head) line about telling me to fuck off from my own camp.
If anyone remembers all the books/letters relating to the two falling in love. That would be great. I would much prefer a hot male Aesimar than this obnoxiousness.

I'm highly suggesting giving Ser Ayling a beard
I just jest xD
Clean shave would be fine too
If I spot something, I'll let you know. I have multiple playthroughs - some of them before meeting the two

You can throw making Isobel white in there as a package, unless whitewashing Isobel is part of better aesthetics

[orinEsque]

I imagine it will be quite the hassle to chop chop interactions between Isobel and Aylin, but they are not as obnoxious - which means they are easy to spot and cutting them out won't change much of the context





- optional. An outsider would think that a priestess of Selune had died, and Ayling - being the child of Selune - mourns. Unless any mentions of Isobel as Aylin is gay. Just posting it there

Future changes (not anytime soon):
1. Dame Aylin will be Ser Aylin
2. Ai to change Aylin's voice to male.
3. Ima change his head no problem. Loving blender.
3. Find way to remove his (its a he now in my head) line about telling me to fuck off from my own camp.
If anyone remembers all the books/letters relating to the two falling in love. That would be great. I would much prefer a hot male Aesimar than this obnoxiousness.

I'm highly suggesting giving Ser Ayling a beard
I just jest xD
Clean shave would be fine too
If I spot something, I'll let you know. I have multiple playthroughs - some of them before meeting the two

You can throw making Isobel white in there as a package, unless whitewashing Isobel is part of better aesthetics

I couldn't have put it better myself. Silly me for thinking I'd like to be "strong woman" in that my talents as a person will be amped up, not me suddenly becoming the definition of alpha male. Fucking reddit is the most sexist piece of shit, pretending to be all "woman are the better sex" while telling women to be men!

I prefer my men to have a little beard. But I will have to judge based on when I remodel the face.

Er isn't isobel white already? Her skin looks... ashen... fits the whole resurrected from death with an unholy ritual type of vibe. (but yes that would be for the other mod, we're dealing with alphabets here.)

[Slavic Sorcerer]

I couldn't have put it better myself. Silly me for thinking I'd like to be "strong woman" in that my talents as a person will be amped up, not me suddenly becoming the definition of alpha male. Fucking reddit is the most sexist piece of shit, pretending to be all "woman are the better sex" while telling women to be men!

Based as fuck, sister

Er isn't isobel white already? Her skin looks... ashen... fits the whole resurrected from death, spent a long time in the curse vibe. (but yes that would be for the other mod, we're dealing with alphabets here.)

Hmm.. You're right. I forgot she was resurrected for a minute

It might me just me with mod installed that makes my character's skin porcelain white, cause the brightest of white skins is still way too dark for my taste
I lack representation in modern games in this manner; I'm deathly pale

So compared to my character, Isobel is quite dark

I prefer my men to have a little beard. But I will have to judge based on when I remodel the face.

I can toast to that

[FloSharChosen]

You're a true blessing, do you have any plan for no-English version? I'm french and I can help if need for my fatherland.

[orinEsque]

You're a true blessing, do you have any plan for no-English version? I'm french and I can help if need for my fatherland.

I can certainly write a tutorial on how to do the edits. Unfortunately my french is limited to the word baguette. *honhonhon*. Unless you know R though, the best I can do is identify the lines that need changing and which file, and you'd have to do this manually. And Every time there's a patch.

[FloSharChosen]

You're a true blessing, do you have any plan for no-English version? I'm french and I can help if need for my fatherland.

I can certainly write a tutorial on how to do the edits. Unfortunately my french is limited to the word baguette. *honhonhon*. Unless you know R though, the best I can do is identify the lines that need changing and which file, and you'd have to do this manually. And Every time there's a patch.

Let's go, it's a good deal for me. This woke vibes made me sick, I hate cultural marxism.

[orinEsque]

REJOICE PEASANTS! For I bring you AI altered voices!
I've started with two easier NPCs. NightSong will be last to be tackled because she needs a LOT of changes. I'm new to this voice changing AI, so I will use these throwaway NPCs as a stepping stone. The mod now has an added component! "NoAlphabetsVoice". Make sure to download that otherwise there will be appearance and voice mismatch.

Version 1.1
AI Voice changes are here!

Lingo
Fix mentions of "his husband/her wife"
LOW_SewersBoosters_Overdose_Letter now mentions a wife
Amandus (not Amanda) writes to his wife Flora in Blighted Village.

Aesthetics
Neno Quilltop (panicbuycouple) no longer has nose ring and pink hair.

Lingo, Aesthetics and voice combo
Hunkers Boolean turned into Hannah Binary + voice AI.
Kali Hammerhand (panicbuycouple) turned into male gnome + voice AI

Upcoming Changes
Ironhand Gnome with one liner will be turned into a woman
Chorizo - Dwarf cook in Sharess' caress will be turned into a woman
Cow owner at Lower City entrance will be turned into a woman
Other smaller text edits

[orinEsque]

What are your opinions of Alfira and Lakrissa? It isn't as shoehorned and dislikeable as Aylin... I'm a bit divided.

Nocturne will now be a man who is good with doing girls' hair and tried turning himself into a woman with a potion but hated it. He now changed his name to become a new man that embraces his feminine talents. His journal entry will reflect this.


Note: I'm leaving the Fist Jara as is, because she's in a backroom of a brothel.

[orinEsque]

HAH! Nocturne is now a man in name, appearance portrait and voice! You and npcs should also now refer to him as a "he". Report if I missed a line.

Version 1.2
Lingo, Aesthetics and voice combo
Nocturne is now a complex man. In face, voice and flavour text. Biggest change I've made so far!

1. People now refer to Nocturne as a "he". If I missed a line flag it!
2. He is now a male tiefling.
3. His diary has now changed. Read it to find out his new story!
   ► Show Spoiler

   
4. Check out his new voice and appearance in the video file below.
   ► Show Spoiler

   

[rusty_shackleford]

That's actually pretty good for AI voice, what tools did you use to make it?

[orinEsque]

That's actually pretty good for AI voice, what tools did you use to make it?

Posted it here: viewtopic.php?t=1090-npc-modders-resour ... r-s-gate-3
With additional input not in the video

The tool can pull out any NPCs lines as long as you know their voice code. Not hard to find. Companions, Narrator, Isobel and Nightsong are already there for you to pick. Not surprised about the latter, Asians are based.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

What are your opinions of Alfira and Lakrissa? It isn't as shoehorned and dislikeable as Aylin... I'm a bit divided.

Nocturne will now be a man who is good with doing girls' hair and tried turning himself into a woman with a potion but hated it. He now changed his name to become a new man that embraces his feminine talents. His journal entry will reflect this.


Note: I'm leaving the Fist Jara as is, because she's in a backroom of a brothel.

I took them as sisters or besties, but I never thought "omg they are lesbians"
Maybe my lesbian radar is just broken

At this point I doubt there are any gay couples in Baldur's Gate TBH
I'm not talking about diary entries, but I'm talking more-or-less story relevant NPCs that do have some voice lines
(and no, neither Astarion, Gale, Wyll, nor Halsin count. Companions are Playersexual, as I discussed in the other topic)

Should I be wrong, please do correct me

[orinEsque]

Your lesbian radar is 100% broken. We don't talk to our beasties about getting our own house with a fence. And in act 3 Lakrissa will tell you she's with alfira if you ask her for a kiss. And then the googly eyes she makes at her (in that most cliche way) when Alfira says bg city is beautiful, and Lakrissa a stares at Alfira and agrees.

Any how i think I'll leave them in. They aren't openly gay and not megaphoning to the world about it, and keeping it mostly unsaid is how they would have existed in a medieval era.

I had no plans to change the companions. I like them all.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Your lesbian radar is 100% broken. We don't talk to our beasties about getting our own house with a fence. And in act 3 Lakrissa will tell you she's with alfira if you ask her for a kiss. And then the googly eyes she makes at her (in that most cliche way) when Alfira says bg city is beautiful, and Lakrissa a stares at Alfira and agrees.

That explains a lot
I never chose options to kiss female NPCs, so I missed that completely
And I might have skipped some dialogues

I didn't reach much into their other interactions, but I admit I didn't interact them a lot
Alfira's quest, and maybe some interactions with Alfira as a bard, since there are nice dialogues with her if you're a fellow Bard

Any how i think I'll leave them in. They aren't openly gay and not megaphoning to the world about it, and keeping it mostly unsaid is how they would have existed in a medieval era.

It's reassuring we have similar views on that.
I would give Isobel and Aylin a pass
They were reunited so I get it - they didn't care for the whole team is watching their proclamations of love
I would've done the same with my bf

But Aylin is an insufferable beacon of modern female character writing
And is willing to share horny details later in the camp in a casual conversation, which is obnoxious TMI

I had no plans to change the companions. I like them all.

Same
I might give Shadowheart, Karlach and Lazz a chance one day, just for the sake of achievments
Yeah I frequent women hating megathread, but that doesn't mean I'm not rational, and knowing Larian - I'm sure they are well written

[orinEsque]

Your lesbian radar is 100% broken. We don't talk to our beasties about getting our own house with a fence. And in act 3 Lakrissa will tell you she's with alfira if you ask her for a kiss. And then the googly eyes she makes at her (in that most cliche way) when Alfira says bg city is beautiful, and Lakrissa a stares at Alfira and agrees.

That explains a lot
I never chose options to kiss female NPCs, so I missed that completely
And I might have skipped some dialogues

I didn't reach much into their other interactions, but I admit I didn't interact them a lot
Alfira's quest, and maybe some interactions with Alfira as a bard, since there are nice dialogues with her if you're a fellow Bard

Any how i think I'll leave them in. They aren't openly gay and not megaphoning to the world about it, and keeping it mostly unsaid is how they would have existed in a medieval era.

It's reassuring we have similar views on that.
I would give Isobel and Aylin a pass
They were reunited so I get it - they didn't care for the whole team is watching their proclamations of love
I would've done the same with my bf

But Aylin is an insufferable beacon of modern female character writing
And is willing to share horny details later in the camp in a casual conversation, which is obnoxious TMI

I had no plans to change the companions. I like them all.

Same
I might give Shadowheart, Karlach and Lazz a chance one day, just for the sake of achievments
Yeah I frequent women hating megathread, but that doesn't mean I'm not rational, and knowing Larian - I'm sure they are well written

Hah average woman. Don't compare me to those simians. My intelligence and talent far surpasses the vast majority of men AND woman (edwin odesseiron voice). You don't have to make excuses for participating in woman haters thread to me.

As far as I'm concerned adults can do to each other what they want in their bedroom. I expect 1400s Africa to have mainly black people. If these sentiments make me a ist/ phobe to the woke crowd. So be it.

[gunbino]

Created an account just to follow your work and thank you. Will be buying the game once you've made some more progress. Let us know if there's a way to buy you a coffee/beer.