Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback In Game Warlock Patrons

Cool ideas! I remember being thoroughly bummed that none of the fiends or witches we encounter in game were specifically for my Warlock Tav. I kept thinking that would be the deal the first time around.

It would be cool if a Great Old One patron appeared as a Black Goat in the woods. That would be legit and then they could just have the voice on that and leave it super vague what's truly behind it. Like basically going more chaos deception even from the outset, in the first presentation, to have it start all unassuming that way. You know cause there are many other talking animals about, so it's not all that out of place. A voice in the woods that comes to our camp and eats the rotten supplies in exchange for some strange power, only to end up being just like the full on Void inside the Vase! Or they could do the Aker Beltz and make it a two faced Janus sort of thing. This would allow for some flexibility in terms, like for the pact to feel somehow distinct from what's going down with the fiends or what might go down with the fey. Maybe it comes up again during the underwater interlude, but as more of a shadow figure from the depths? Like something that could have been lurking the whole time, or that was maybe disturbed by the Netherbrain and so we're just catching the knock on effects.

I always struggle to figure out how the great old ones would figure in to mortal affairs, cause it seems like they shouldn't care at all or be moved in that way hehe, but maybe a Netherbrain being around has some sort of ripple effect on that stuff? Basically so we don't experience any of this as a rehash of the formal extra litigious pact bargain, like how things happen for Wyll, but where it instead warps and fragments or just throws shade on the events as they unfold around us. If they could somehow tie this into the Eternal return that would be even greater, because then you could just play it off like descent to madness over and over - that pointlessly repeats to the complete indifference of the outer realms beings hehe. Should have a special ending after the brain goes down that leans way into that!