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I just saw a quote from Larian, that amounted to "you guys have no idea what we have in store for you"

Im pretty sure I do... and I am I a bit concerned Larian thinks its more clever than it is.

The player is already a mind flayer, and so is everyone else... there is no going back, because our brains have been fully replaced by the tadpole already. We just dont look like a Mind Flayer, and we are operating off the memories of the person whose body we stole.

Like thats the plot twist right? thats the thing you will drop on us in the middle of the last act, and be like "how do you feel knowing you are the shadoooooow of a persoooon oooooohhhhhhhhh spoopy woah you arent you woah"

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Honestly, I don't think the big twist is going to be that simply because it doesn't quite feel crazy enough. I feel like the big twist is going to be something way more out of left field. Not necessarily something smarter, just something more weird and kind of ridiculous. Also my gut says that the big twist will happen before the end. Or at least there will be *a* big twist before the very end.

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Nay. So far story doesn't even revolve around mindslayers, with hells and "Absolute" playing far bigger role. Tadpole is just a plot device.

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The big twist is likely going to be whatever ties this squarely into BG1+2 I think.
Clearly the Absolute is Tiax. (Joking, maybe)

Most likely, I think the twist is the identity of the absolute AND the exact why we aren't turning, our purpose.

If the twist ends up being, oh no look all the companions you have recruited but not active right now turned into mindflayers! I will be pissed.

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When i was fantasying about the plot twist back when all we have seen was Cinematic trailer (aka first cinematic in game) ...
I was thinking that in the end we shall turn into Mind Flayer, and go back in time to kidnap our past-self. To ensure our survival. laugh laugh laugh


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Originally Posted by Wormerine
Nay. So far story doesn't even revolve around mindslayers, with hells and "Absolute" playing far bigger role. Tadpole is just a plot device.
Hells, or rather Zariel, certainly looks to be involved. In the secluded cove you can find a note and a journal, which could be just an easter egg, or could be part of the main plot.

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Is this what you mean?
Wyll at one point (as well as Gale, I think), recalls having been extremely powerful, but now being reduced in power since the tadpole. Laezel also speaks of tremendous feats of power (though, she could well just be bragging/exaggerating/lying). And Shadowheart has these flare ups, as well, that she doesn't recognize. It does appear as though something has been 'lost,' so to speak, in this transition.
The most perplexing would be Astarion's... well, changes, no longer being subject to the rules that he 'used' to have to live by. It does appear that there is a sharp disjunction between who we were before the tadpole's insertion and now.
To go along with your argument, perhaps Astarion's belief about his 'former' self, for instance, is just that: entirely constructed. After all, we all came out of the mindflayer pods, and we remember how quickly someone can "transition" in one of those pods: at a flip of the switch, apparently... It was portrayed to us players as a "transition" into a mindflayer: perhaps it wasn't a transition at all.

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the problem with "you have no idea what we have in store" is that the internet is SCARY smart. They most definitely DO know what you have in mind. All the twists and turns you have in mind are going to be met with "okay...and?". Don't try to be cute, try to tell a good story.

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Originally Posted by CJMPinger
If the twist ends up being, oh no look all the companions you have recruited but not active right now turned into mindflayers! I will be pissed.

This + Party Lock after Act 1 will completely ruin the game.

hear that Larian, dont ruin the game because you THINK you are smart.

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Im keeping my theories of the plot to myself so I can be secretly proud of figuring it out just from playing EA :V *and research on mind flayers

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Originally Posted by CJMPinger
The big twist is likely going to be whatever ties this squarely into BG1+2 I think.
Clearly the Absolute is Tiax. (Joking, maybe)

Probably not, but I will totally lose my shit (in a good way) if the last line in BG3 is "Tiax Rules!"

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Or it can be something as simple as Shar once again trying to rebuild the shadow weave. There are many hints to that in the game.

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Originally Posted by Boblawblah
the problem with "you have no idea what we have in store" is that the internet is SCARY smart. They most definitely DO know what you have in mind. All the twists and turns you have in mind are going to be met with "okay...and?". Don't try to be cute, try to tell a good story.

this

And yes other guy guy, the reason for this theory is that everyone is now inexplicably weak compared to there backstory, or even has mismatching biology (vampire), and how scary fast people can be "turned"

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I'm hoping my guess is not right, but if they end up copy&pasting the central plot twist of act 2 from BG2 for it's nostalgia inducing effects, and for railroading reasons, we'll simply be betrayed/apprehended at the start of act 2 and delivered to moonrise towers. This would happen regardless of the route choices and alliances we made in act 1, and in a way that renders the choice between allegiances mostly meaningless. Awakening all helpless at the slaver central, with a control instrument rammed into/onto our heads, would also basically repeat yet again the plot premise of DOS2.

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Originally Posted by urktheturtle
I just saw a quote from Larian, that amounted to "you guys have no idea what we have in store for you"

Im pretty sure I do... and I am I a bit concerned Larian thinks its more clever than it is.

The player is already a mind flayer, and so is everyone else... there is no going back, because our brains have been fully replaced by the tadpole already. We just dont look like a Mind Flayer, and we are operating off the memories of the person whose body we stole.

Like thats the plot twist right? thats the thing you will drop on us in the middle of the last act, and be like "how do you feel knowing you are the shadoooooow of a persoooon oooooohhhhhhhhh spoopy woah you arent you woah"

AND I THOUGHT ALL OUR BRAINS HAVE BEEN allready REPLACED BY VARIANTS of

Our Mind, Dark Mind and Slave Mind (Brains ofc)

So all is again totally unpredictable besides that Soul Coins are the most important Part in the solution of the whole game. wink

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I'm actually guessing the core plot point will turn out to be the genesis/return of some unknown/forgotten god.
Parroting a bit the Bhaalspawn saga, basically.

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Imoen is the Absolute

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Hi ya it’s a me Imoen!

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Imoen has been hanging out with Mario lol. Now i'm hearing that line with his voice laugh

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Tiax Rules!

But Imoen is the puppet master pulling his strings.

And has been all along... playing the long game for world domination.

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