In Baldur’s Gate 3, there are ten different characters that you can recruit on your journey. Unfortunately, Alfira, a Tiefling bard who many fans have taken to their hearts, is not one of them. But one player managed the seemingly impossible and explains how you can get Alfira as a companion.
Who is Alfira? Alfira is a purple-haired Tiefling bard. You can meet her early in the game in the Emerald Grove, where she’s working on an ending for her song. If you’re clever, Alfira can even teach you how to play like a bard yourself – regardless of your own class.
The bard is so likeable the whole time that many players wish they could recruit her as a traveling companion.
Warning spoilers: The article contains spoilers about Alfira and the “Dark Urge” character.
The long procedure – How to get Alfira
Even though you can’t officially get Alfira as a companion, there is a trick to have her on your team.
Who can get Alfira? For the trick to work, you must play as a “Dark Urge” character. Only then will you be able to (temporarily) invite Alfira to your camp.
How do you get Alfira? To get Alfira as a companion, a few steps must be followed. cenalexis_01 explains in a Reddit post how he did it:
You can see the result of the procedure here, Alfira is now in your group:
Will Larian give in soon?
In the comments of the Reddit post, players joke about how unnecessarily complicated this path is:
At the same time, some are speculating whether there might soon be an official way to get Alfira as a companion:
It remains to be seen whether Alfira will actually become an officially playable companion at some point. There is no official information from the developer “Larian Studios” yet.
If you play as Dark Urge, Alfira’s fate is usually very tragic. This was also discovered by a father who accidentally broke his 14-year-old son’s heart: A gamer plays Baldur’s Gate 3 with his 14-year-old son and accidentally breaks his heart