In the endgame many Nautiloid's appear, so while your Nautiloid covered the environs of Baldur's Gate, these others may have been active elsewhere.
You encounter many NPC's who are tadpoled and under the control of the elder brain. They don't try to escape. Only the survivors of your Nautiloid do, and that is because they are protected by the prism.
Why did the prism protect just these survivors ? You know, predestination and fate is a very common theme in fantasy and myth. I think Whithers is the answer. You were destined to meet him and he protects you.
Let's just imagine The Gods chose you for this mission. Which makes you special.
If you do the dark urge run, and kill Orin in duel, then refuse Bhaal's offer to make you his chosen assassin. See what happens. I won't spoil this even in a spoiler. It made the God-chosen option very convincing for me. I then extrapolate it to the normal (not DU) run and imagine my character now as a demi-god without him/her knowing it.
The same prism SH has when it's an open question why the Sharrans are involved at all? The ship that only ends up in Avernus by accident because it was attacked still leaves Karlach and Wyll an open question as well. SH being a Sharran from Cormyr who got snatched still puts her in the party to help without the plot holes? Astarion being from Neverwinter and Cazador tracked him back down changes very little? Gale can be less stupid?
I don't understand what predestination has to do with everyone conveniently being a native of or needing something from Baldur's Gate. The actual quest is the Chosen of the Dead Three and their harebrained scheme, the city is just a city. It's also just you being in your own head making stuff up too? That's not something Larian wrote. It might be just me, but 'the gods did it' is also really, really lame imo.
Wyll: Pursuing Karlach. Tadpoled. ...same questions. When? Son of the duke of BG?? O....kay
That was after His rewrite, before in EA, he had more Beef with Goblins than with Karlach, he wasn't even hunting her, him hating Karlach was completely out of left field, not sure if he was related to the Duke in EA However his pact with Mizora involved him being the sole survivor of a Goblin raid, there was no Mention of Tiamat Cultists.
Wyll's story seemed incredibly stupid, not going to lie. Because it seemed like his entire issue was that he wasn't given 5 seconds to explain himself. That seemed very, very contrived.
Yes, well then I don't understand why you ask the question. Take the he Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion. Everything was predestined by the song of Eru. The Iliad ? Troy was destined to lose, but the Gods wanted to allow a decade of battle... and so forth. It's a myth/fantasy theme.
You were the chosen and so the surviors of the nautiloid crash that you were on were selected to help you on your quest.
We have Shar, Selune, Jergal and Mystra all getting involved, so something important is happening, and mundane things might not matter so much anymore.
Yes, I make this stuff up in my own head. You ask others to explain this to you, and that's what I just did. Do you want an explanation that is not made up in one's head ? Then you'll have to ask a headless one.
