Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion How did Gale and Shadowheart get aboard the nautiloid?

Gale: Was travelling when he was snatched up, but the Nautiloid was nit anywhere near Waterdeep or Baldurs Gate, so must have been captured by the cult and only loaded into the Nautiloid before it launched. Why did no one notice that they had captured a chosen and one if the most powerful person on the planet, thus also being quite famous? Don't think about it, Larian certainly didn't.

Karlach and Wyll: Yes the Nautiloid went through hell. But only for a few minutes at both high speed and altitude with neither Karlach or Wyll can fly or teleport. How did they get on biard and got tadpoled before the ship crashed when most of the Nautiloids crew was dead? Don't think about it, Larian didn't.

Astarion: Must have been snatched by the cult in Baldurs Gate at night as he can't leave the city. And just to make it clear, the city the Nautiloid attacked in the intro was nit Baldurs Gate. So for some reason the cult left him untadpoled, loaded him onto the ship and only tadpoles him there, all the while somehow managing to keep him restrained and not burning him to death.

Shadowhearts story is at least so vague that you can come up with some explanation when it could have happened.

You also have to consider that the Nautiloid was not on a farming mission to get more people but on a highly dangerous attack mission and thus would be staffed by already tadpoled people who have proven to be powerful. It would not tadpole people on the go.

The only one who has a reasonable story of how they ended up on the Nautiloid is Lae'zel.