Here's an interesting bit of information from Nere regarding the Absolute. I've posted the full conversation for anyone curious to read it, but I highlighted the important bits.

This conversation is gotten by letting him kill the Deep Gnomes and then join him in killing the Duergar too:

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Which is interesting as the weapon does not seem to have just protected us from the Absolute's influence in in the Goblin Camp, but seems to have incapacitated her own influence for quite some time, similarly to what it did for the Githyanki thousands of years ago. Because if we tell him that we don't hear Her either, he will outright attack us as it is completely out of the ordinary not to be able to establish a connection with Her presence.

If we tell him that we do hear Her, he will just dismiss it, thinking it's him that's the problem and send us on our way.

I assume the Absolute would sense and recognize the weapon being used against Her and probably warn every True Soul in the land. Yet neither Minthara nor Nere are able to establish a connection with Her after we enter the Goblin Camp, because She is probably weakened or temporarily incapacitated. Minthara although claims that the Absolute wants us dead, is in fact not in direct connection with Her because if she is persuaded not to kill us, she states that the Absolute must have granted her power to spare us. So she is presuming that sparing us is the Absolute's will.

Probably when we get to Moonrise Towers, the General will also not be in direct communication with Her, but my guess is that halfway through the dialogue the Absolute will regain power and that's when things start getting wild there.


As for the Dreamer and its role through all of this, it's interesting that no matter whether or not we use the tadpole, it is always with us and always using the dreams to protect us:

Astarion bite scene
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Minthara backstab scene
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And this is where things go crazy.

Drows do not sleep. They instead enter a meditative trance. Yet in both the Astarion and Minthara scene, a Drow player is actually sleeping and experiencing deep dreams. And a Drow player can in fact ask the Dreamer how is it possible that we are dreaming, to which the Dreamer replies; "How far is the deepest trance away from sleep? I leave that answer to you darling".

So at the very start of the game, the Dreamer is only able to do the things it does exclusively when our consciousness is at its lowest. And even pull a Drow into deep sleep to communicate with us.

Which brings another interesting theory as to how it saved us from the Nautiloid.

During our entire fall, we were completely knocked out due to the piece of debris that smacked us against the head. And the Dreamer at the very start can only communicate with us when our consciousness is at the lowest. Exactly because we were unconscious, it was able to take over and save us from the fall. But at the very moment our player regains consciousness, the magic itself dissipates.

Coincidence? I think not. I think that specific moment feels incredibly deliberate.