Talk:Kivan and Tazok/@comment-2607:FEA8:D1F:F7F8:7C78:5BA9:1C0C:D1D-20190430220858/@comment-73.157.63.243-20191019071530

CompleCCity wrote: " ... as I think – not sure, though – that his level is set according to the party when first arriving there."

As per the above, I have verified that Kivan's level is, indeed, set according to when the party FIRST arrives in High Hedge -- and so if you plan on recruiting Kivan then do NOT visit High Hedge until you are ready to add him. In one of my early test runs, I visited High Hedge when party was at Level 1 but did not recruit Kivan. I returned there when party was at Level 4 and then recruited him, only to find he would not level past Level 1. I thought it was a bug, and maybe it is, since this quirk doesn't seem to apply to other recruitable companions (I visited Nashkel many times before recruiting Minsc, but he level up to my party's higher level when I did finally recruit him in Chapter 4).