About Moonrise tower. The confusion comes from cut content. The tower we see is the second version that Keitheric rebuilt (before his first fall). There was a quest that would’ve taken us to the old ruins under the rebuilt one. I don’t remember why they cut this info; however, they kept some hints and odd time warps in a few areas without any explanation. Thus the confusion.
It was the first tower that Baldurian/the Emperor visited.
And (I am fuzzy on this lore), the resident mindflayer colony collapsed (why?) and it’s elder brain went into a form of hibernation before awakening by the game’s antagonists. Before it did so, it seems to have planned the events of BG3 and “freed” some of it’s mindflayers (to unknowingly carry out this mission). The Emperor is one, but I suspect the other “free” and “nice” one (Omeluum) was also apart of this defunct colony.
Also, about them forgetting their stats, they did Minsc wrong on so many level. His personal stat block also gets readjusted when you recruit him. Look at his stats before you defeat him and then after you recruit him. The only why I can head cannon this is that the elder brain allows you to retain your old abilities as long as you serve (plus some gifted abilities). Once you come under Orpheus’s influence it mostly reverts to any thing you learn after you got the worm. Only issue… Minsc apparently got weaker but got wiser and smarter with a side of extra rizz.
Jaheira I can chalk up to old age (I am over 3 decades from my twenties and I can honestly attest). IIRC she is equivalent of 60 to 70 human years. Druids in 5E apparently don’t age any slower unless they do the rite that slows aging.
No clue on Halsin and the others.
Last edited by avahZ Darkwood; 23/06/25 08:49 PM.
