Nalia & Imoen Options

[Providence]

The biggest argument for Imoen's theiving skills in BG2 is that she was a single-classed thief in BG1. I always thought that switching her to a dualed mage in BG2 was a cheesy plot device used to get her hauled off to Spellhold rather than any natural progresson or career inclination. But many players do treat them as completely unrelated games, I suppose.

Well, she started out with an intelligence of 17 in BG1. That's just enough to dual-class her to Mage. Personally, I doubt that her intelligence score was a coincidence.

[Magnus_025]

Yeah, they probably wanted us to dual her to a mage, or have someone with enough lore to actually identify something.

[Providence]

Yeah, they probably wanted us to dual her to a mage, or have someone with enough lore to actually identify something.

At least it looks like they suggested it, by keeping the option open. IIRC, there's only one other BG1 NPC who can be dual-classed without using tomes to increase their stats (i.e. Shar-Teel to Thief).

Anyhow, that makes Imoen's dual-classing look like more than a simple plot-device to me. But that's just my personal perception of it.

[lroumen]

They could have kept her a thief, given her a Wand of Magic Missiles like in BG1 and cast that at Irenicus. Then she'd still be hauled off to Spellhold for disallowed use of magic, mage or no mage .

[Shaitan]

Besides BG1 didn't really need a mage thus perhaps giving her the high int beacuse of her heritage?