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“What’s better than a devil you don’t know?
A devil youdo.”
It’s an unforgettableBaldur’s Gate 3line, simple yet effective in establishing the game’s most entrancing villain.
Naturally, I meet his words with a face-splitting grin.
Where better to start than with a piece of script that sums up the character’s very essence?
“But he is nothing if not theatrical.”
He’s still acting using primarily voice, but also gesture.
Every line has a sort of physical corollary," he says, flourishing his hands to demonstrate.
So that’s where I felt it crossed over into theater."
This essence of theater would go on to infuse Raphael’s very being.
“They’re not just any one thing.
They’re a mixture of often contradictory things.
So my way into Raphael was to, as the devil, find his charm.
“You see glimpses of the steel, of the power.
But essentially, he’s charming and witty and urbane and that makes him interesting to me.”
Love is the Devil
That epilogue does suggest that you might have a DLC.
It opens the door to another avenue an Avernus Avenue.
This ‘pleasing shape’ is bolstered by Raphael’s greatest instrument: his voice.
Not only that, but the diction and pentameter of how he actually speaks.
“And the way I was delivering the lines, they wrote more for me along those same lines.
I had terrific speeches, and they were a joy to play.”
“It’s interesting you mentioned Iago,” Wincott says.
He plays with the audience’s expectations of his villainy.
It becomes a question of ‘which motive is it today?'”
Yet, his intentions are inscrutable at best.
“That’s very Raphael-like, I think.
Especially [Iago’s] line at the end of the play: ‘Demand me nothing.
What you know, you know.
From this time forth, I never will speak word.'”
“Perfect tease.”
Namely, Raphael’s death, and the song he sings to usher in the moment.
“We ran through it a few times, and then they recorded it a couple of times.
We’ll just go for it,'” recalls Wincott.
“So in other words, incorporate it, but follow your instincts.
“By then I’ve got a sense that it was like a stage musical,” he laughs.
“By then, nothing really was surprising, so I just went with the flow.
But we only had one hour!”
Hell is empty or is it?
You see glimpses of the steel, of the power.
But essentially, he’s charming and witty and urbane.
And there, in fair Avernus, is where Raphael would lay his final scene.
“Well, it would be very difficult saying no.
Wincott says, picking his words carefully.
“But if he is Larian’s creation, he’s also mine.
“That epilogue does suggest that you might have a DLC.
It opens the door to another avenue an Avernus Avenue,” Wincott jokes, grinning.
But that’s a great idea,” he says finally.
“I’m with your friend.”
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