Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Is there a way to get rid of the artifact before visiting the goblin camp?

Everyone appreciated the cut scene where the Absolute speaks to the player on the first visit to the Goblin Camp. Then the cut scene is interrupted due to the Shadow Heart artifact. The party gets a buff "protected from the voice of the Absolute"

I'm wondering what will happen if the artifact is not in our party when we visit the goblin camp.

I've tried the following ways:

1. Didn't take Shadow Heart to the party. She caught up with us at the entrance to Camp Goblin herself.
2. Threw Shadow Heart off Natuloid. The artifact appeared near the place from where she flew, and it seems like it remains in our inventory automatically (?)
3. It is impossible to throw the artifact yourself, it is also impossible to get rid of it by killing Shadow Heart.
4. Give artifact to the Git Patrol - in the early version of the game there was such an opportunity, now it was cut out of the game, or I just did not find such an opportunity?

Nope ... that damned box is bound to our souls.
Or at least i didnt find any way to get rid of it, and believe me i tryed. :-/

There is One way to get it completely out of your, or any other character's inventory - and that is to throw the character carrying it down a bottomless pit, so they warp to camp. Doing so causes all of their 'story' items to litter the edge of the hole you threw them down - including the lament configuration.

However, no matter what else you do, the puzzle box teleports to the character triggering the scene and binds to them immediately.

I guess the artifact is a significant item that is related to the story. Therefore there is no way you can get rid of it, especially it's just Act 1.

If I understood correctly from the YouTube letsplay, you can still give the artifact to the main guy on the git patrol by choosing the necessary dialogue options, but this causes an ultra hardcore battle with them.

We should try to do that and go to the goblin camp for the first time after. This deserves some kind of cool easter egg, because the probability that the player will do it by accident is almost 0%. This is probably the dumbest thing you can do in the game.

You are unlikely to find the required line of dialogue at all, and after that you are unlikely to decide to give up the artifact, especially since it causes a battle. That is, there is zero sense in this.

After that you need to survive in a very difficult battle. After that, come to the goblin camp for the first time, which in 99% of cases has already been visited, since it is located earlier than the Gith patrol.

Well, Shadow Heart will also leave the party most likely. At the same time, the Absolute will go crazy with rage when he finds out how stupid our hero is.

I think the easter egg is really needed.

You mean this one?

Im affraid he didnt "get it" to them ...
He simply presented the item, and then Kithrak fly off ... while the artefact remains in your inventory.

I believe it will still reappear in your inventory, once story requires it ...
DIdnt try tho, but since that is how it work when you kill Shadowheart and dont loot it ... i presume it would be simmilar.