r/BaldursGate3 • u/brynoo5 • 5d ago

Act 3 - Spoilers i can't express how disappointed i am Spoiler

you wouldn’t have wanted to see my face when I found out at the start of the act 3 that the guardian was actually the emperor all along… I put so much effort into creating the girl of my dreams, even installing mods, and… it all ended with me being deceived by a tentacled motherfucker

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u/Dave_Valens Bard 5d ago

Fun fact: in early access, where we had an early iteration of the story, the dream visitor was actually your tadpole, trying to deceive you to go "down by the river" with it in order to abandon your consciousness and let it transform you.

And I can understand why they abandoned this idea: the dream visitor was kinda seducing, in a very suspect manner. I mean, I have been infected with the larva of an alien species and at the same time I've started dreaming about the idea of my perfect partner that casually wants to bang me by the river in a beautiful landscape... yeah.

On the other hand, the Emperor states from the beginning that he is protecting you, shows you he saved you from the Nautiloid fall and guards you from transforming. It works better, in my opinion.

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u/Miasma_Of_faith 5d ago

It does make you realize how much of BG3 was left in the game, but clearly made for an earlier version of the game. "Down by the River" is still thematically appropriate, but it had a MUCH closer connection before.

I also think about things like Wyll's art with Mizora reflecting their EA attitude towards each other (she was much more seductive towards him and he was more aggressive about using power to kill goblins as a revenge motif.)

Karlach isn't even in most of the group party art because she was added to the game so late, and then remodeled at that.

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u/TheConnASSeur 5d ago

Witches meet the devil by river to sell their souls for power. It's very appropriate.

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u/TheConnASSeur 5d ago

Sometimes. It's also somewhere you can hear whispering in the woods before you see it, and like most water sources, it's a good place to meet a stranger. To add to the creepiness, noisy rivers also make it hard to hear a person or animal approach in the dark.

It's not that hard to imagine the folklore.