Halsin

Halsin is a companion in Baldur's Gate 3. He is a wood elf Druid with the Outlander background.

Halsin can be recruited in Act Two after progressing the quest to Lift the Shadow Curse to a certain point.

Halsin is Archdruid of the Emerald Grove and an accomplished healer. Before he went missing, Halsin and his apprentice Nettie were researching the recent spike in illithid tadpole infections.

In order to recruit Halsin, the quest Defeat the Goblins must be completed, and he must agree to join the party as they travel to the Shadow-Cursed Lands. Finally, after completing Lift the Shadow Curse by healing the land, Halsin will become available as a companion.

If Lift the Shadow Curse is not resolved before departing Act Two, Halsin will elect to remain behind and cannot be recruited.

Halsin will only gain or lose approval once he has joined the party as a full companion during the events of Lift the Shadow Curse. He likes those who are kind, especially to animals or children, and dislikes any decisions that involve harming the natural world or supporting corruption and cruelty.

Halsin can be romanced. Though the majority of his romance happens in Act Three, he can be flirted with in prior Acts. He is polyamorous and can be romanced alongside Astarion, Shadowheart, or Karlach, with their consent.

Despite his tenacity in combat, Halsin is a gentle, honest elf, and treasures the sanctity and beauty of nature. Though a powerful healer with a lofty title, Halsin is humble and patient, but willing to act with force if the need arises. He views carnal pleasures as a natural calling and monogamy as something that suits other people better than him; one of Halsin's core beliefs is that desire should flourish wherever it finds purchase.

As a druid, Halsin is capable of filling a variety of roles in the party. He can debilitate enemies with control spells, support the party with spells that enhance himself and his allies, and he can deal damage with elemental damage-dealing spells. His Wild Shape ability allows him to wade into battle as a melee combatant or sneak and scout as a small animal.

Many years ago, when Halsin was younger and far more foolhardy than he is now, he ventured to the Underdark to experience the beauty of its unworldly flora and instead found himself captured by a noble drow house - in his words, "something between guest, prisoner, and consort". The house's matron and patron took an interest him, seeing a wood elf from the surface as quite the novelty, and he spent nearly three years chained in their bedchamber.

Halsin did what was necessary to survive the experience, though he does not look negatively upon it as, while he feared for his life, he was willing to wait for the chance to regain his freedom. That chance came when his captors' rivals attacked, as Lolth's noble houses are constantly at each other's throats. While the drow were distracted by the battle, he escaped - though he never did learn what became of his hosts.

One hundred years ago, Halsin was part of the Emerald Grove's forces in the attack against Ketheric Thorm at Moonrise Towers. However, shortly after Ketheric's body was interred within the Grand Mausoleum, the shadow curse took hold. In the chaos that followed, Halsin lost contact with Thaniel, his childhood friend and the living spirit of the land, and worse still, the Archdruid of the Emerald Grove was lost to the curse, leaving Halsin to take command and lead the survivors to safety.

Wood Elf.

Druid.