Originally Posted by ghettojesusxx

1: Ultimately, Isobel would have died way before Ketheric anyways, all this does is accelerate the plot, which it really doesn't have to - but if the theory of the murder being Shar's doing is true, then at least that makes Shar's character stronger.

2: Grymforge was built by Ketheric, everything else was before him by a Sharran community.

3: The Mind Flayer in the cinematic IS the Emperor. This is confirmed by Gortash's personal journal (in the Counting House, High Security Vault N6), in a book titled "The Astral Prism Heist".

4-5-7: These I wrote a lot about in my reply above, so I'd prefer not to repeat myself.

6: I've actually haven't fully completed The Blade of Frontiers, as I've severely sequence broke Wyll in my many playthroughs and ultimately couldn't be arsed to complete him, lol. So this information was unknown to me - thank you for revealing it. Nevertheless, it produces a new problem: there is a new entity that can block out hivemind comms at will, so how exactly does one learn to do this at will? Same deal for Omeluum - not to mention how big of an asshole he is as well that he never revealed whatever colony he came from.


1. True, she would have died before him but this was before her natural time to die and additionally to that, I suppose that normal resurrection failed. He surely was wealthy and influential enough to get a scroll of resurrection or a high ranking cleric to help with this but he wasn't able to resurrect Isobel or he would have. Only Myrkul could do that (could Shar prevent normal resurrection but not by Myrkul?). Might explain why he was so mad at all the gods - Selune didn't help, Shar was meant to take his mourning away but it seems that didn't work too well as he still longed to get Isobel resurrected.

2. Don't you mean the gauntlet? I don't think Ketheric build the grymforge or even knew about it. This should be ancient. The gauntlet could be newer, at least there was an entry from the Thorm Mausoleum to it and it lead the way to the Shadowfell and Nightsong, which was used for Sharrans to become Dark Justiciars by killing her

3. That is the thing - we don't know for 100%. We know the Emperor was on the ship (among other mindflayers, intellect devourers and a tadpoled strike team) but the one in the cinematic does NOT look 100% the same what you noticed too. And we don't have any reaction from Tav/companions/Emperor that he is the one who tadpoled them, which is very strange. Why didn't make Larian make the Emperor model look the same and add at least one dialog line about him being the one that tadpoled Tav/companions? So - yes it is very likely that he is the one but it isn't so clear as you wrote it.

Sorry, but for 4-5 you weren't certain but the brain says it was his action to free the Emperor so we know this for sure and don't need to assume things. And he says he broke free the moment he found the astral prism and not sometime later. Meaning he very likely was already free at the time of the cinematic. Maybe already in the prism, if he wasn't the mindflayer in the cinematic.

We also don't know for certain who killed the other mindflayers - Sharrans or the Emperor.