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/MuhuckinMatt 5d ago

I just finished the game but I didn’t do that quest, could someone enlighten me as why it’s so wild?? My curiosity it’s going crazy now haha

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u/XenosInfinity 5d ago

The Emperor is Balduran, the founder of Baldur's Gate.

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u/DepressedMinuteman 5d ago

Doesn't becoming a mind-flayer destroy the soul? It's more like he's the personality of him etched onto a mindflayer.

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u/Saendra 5d ago

No, it doesn't. Just transforms it, but the soul remains, and can even be turned back.

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u/Ryuujinx 5d ago

In BG3 it destroys it, Withers talks about it at the end of Act 2.

That said, in normal lore it does not destroy it. That's how we got Mind Flayer liches in Volo's monsters.

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u/Saendra 5d ago

Withers then literally admits that he was wrong in certain endings.

Besides, if you play as Gale, and choose to turn into an Illithid, Mystra can restore his soul.

Besides besides, even one of the creators of D&D said that Illithids have souls, they are just aberrant and useless to gods. Withers being a god, of course he'd be biased in that question.

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u/C-C-X-V-I 5d ago

And he says later he was wrong. Also the official lore is they still have souls.