Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General [HUGE SPOILERS] Datamining Thread

You got a frigging weave addict in the party. What do you expect? I only hope you can deal with that condition without losing all the good loot.

Has there been any evidence found whatsoever that would point towards Halsin or Kagha being recruitable companions? or any druid companion in general? I just would really love a druid in the party ....

Just had a thought, the reason the Gith riders followed the illithid ship so aggressively into hell was that little box is a certain phylactery? That would really explain the importance of said gith box.

Datamining has already revealed info on the contents of the box.

be much cooler is it was the Lich Queens phylactery.

Yeah. At this point my characters might just hand the box back to 'em. We're not given much reason to keep it (except Shadowheart objecting, but she's not even around in most of my playthroughs).

I play a wizard so I now see no reason to keep Gale around, unless they pull a DOS2 on me and have him become an antagonist whenver I decide not to help him. That may be different once we learn of the discoveries made earlier down this thread. The artifact seems to be central to the game's plot.

I get the feeling that even if you give it back, you'll end up gaining it back anyway. It pretty much force Shadowheart to commit suicide so you pick it up from her corpse if you do no recruit her (you need to win DCs to not kill her).

IIRC, according to the dataminers -



Questions to be answered later, maybe.

First time I read of this and I personally datamined things about the artifact and what is inside of it. There is nothing about it in the game file outside

Well, as long as half the party doesn't randomly perish DOS2 style I'm fine with them going their own way... now on to that spoiler piece.

I haven't seen this mentioned yet... But it's been bugging me for a while that Gale, Shadowheart AND Karlach all have near-identical recordings of Shar devotion. The first two, I could imagine, but I never got the sense that Karlach was the sort to lean that way. (I could well be wrong, we've seen so little of her)

But, what if it's the Nightsong encounter that causes you, and some of the more susceptible members of your group, to turn to her? And that it's only by not using the tadpole at all that makes it impossible, while also allowing you to break Shar's hold over the Nightsong? It would explain why Wyll doesn't have any of these voiced lines, because his soul is already contracted to the Hells/a cambion. I'm not sure about Lae'zel, perhaps she really is as special as she thinks she is, or her faith in Vlakith is just that unshakeable.

It wouldn't be that awkward to implement. The way I see it, we'll just have to roll another check at various points where Shar tries to assert her control, just as you must make a roll on perception checks once you get hag-eyed, or the wisdom checks we already roll on, constantly, regarding the tadpole or Absolute. And it doesn't always have to be a quote-on-quote "Bad" decision. Eg. it could be the only thing that keeps Astarion from betraying you/allows Astarion to resist his master's pull (considering the possibility that he already IS contracted to the Hells.), just as Hag-eyed may be the only that that gives you a guaranteed save/perception check on a roll later on.

Almost all of theories I've seen, and the ones I've had knocking about myself, have been operating under the assumption that there are limitations to the amount of branching plot points that a the three-act story structure can manage without becoming ridiculously inefficient to game development... What if this is simply isn't so, at least in the case of the Nightsong/Shar/Dead3/Illithid/Infernal/Alaundo, because we're assuming that we are special/chosen/protected, and what we "want" is always going to be honoured over what we "chose"?

I was wondering about that as well. Someone (sorry, forgot who) mentioned that Karlach also has Selune devotions. My best guess is that is an origin story feature where you can chose to play Karlach as a cleric of Shar. Just like in DOS2 you could build Ben as a conjurer if you wanted.

I guess these are the default comments that any shar priest has.

Bumped. Nothing new on the horizon at the moment.

You would rather he blow up or what?

Barbarian, Druid, Monk, Paladin and Sorcerer tag responses. The Kagha thread will have to be updated soon because of the Druid tag responses, seeing as

HELIA PLAYERMODEL Link She looks like a dwarf, not a halfling.