Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access most interesting NPC character
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In this video I talk about one of the most interesting NPC character’s that we meet in Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access… the hooded skeleton. There’s a good theory behind who he might be, which brings some good lore to the video as well. More BG3 videos on the way, subscribe.
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Oh, I missed lore videos so much; I would say that Jyrgal seems the most likely option at the moment
Wait, how does his answer exclude him being Kelemvor? If he is Kelemvor hw would not be a chosen of himself right? ^^
Is he maybe a baelnorn lich?
Great video, how did you get shadowhart to join your party. She says yes to join but will not come with me. Possible bug ?
The question of the Hooded skelly sounded for me as a homage to the "what can change the nature of a man" question from another D&D game
He is jergal for sure 100%
I'm just here for the ride
I have a question for all the people that have been following and or even playing BG3. I’m a huge fan of the original series, does this “bg3” game have anything to do with the original series? Seems like there are no old NPCs, barely any references, and zero meaningful connection to the originals.
This guys is just a joke NPC right? He looks exactly like Fane from DOS2. He even has the gold just like the Eternals from DOS2. I could never take this guy serious if he was an actual NPC in the game.
Don't know if it is possible but would love a twist where it is the protagonist from BG1 and 2. An alternate ending/ continuation of a story where the protagonist from BG1 and 2 failed to replace Bhaal. BG3 being a plot that happens because of a fallen hero's story would be new. He gives off the vibe of a student of Gorion and his "situation" might be demigod/torn soul after his interaction with Jon Irenicus. not likely to be right yet would be something we haven't seen before.
That's definitely Jergal. Why else he would be in a Jergal temple. In the agree with you, Jergal is definately instructed, either by AO or Kelemvor. I think there is a divine plot going on and the player is in the middle of it:
1) the game promote certain pieces of Forgotten Realms lore more than other to set the scene: Dead Three (Bane, Myrkul, Bhaal) and Shar/Selune . that's a chekhov's gun.
2) we know that tadpole's are infused with shadow magic, which is difference than regular magic. Regular Magic is based on Waeve (Mystra) and Shadow Magic is based on Shadow Weave, controlled by Shar. This brings the question whether mind flayers are in cahoots with Shar. Shadow Magic cannot be undone with regular magic. The party will need a spellcaster that uses Shadow Magic to get rid of the tadpoles. Also, Shar being the goddess of secret, I assume her clergy won't be aware of her plot, hence Shadowheart's lack of knowledge in this topic.
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3) The game also talks about Sundering. during the event of the Sundering, Shar was a major deity. She used the Shadow Magic and Shadovar Netherese empire to expand her rule. At the end of the Sundering, the Netherese lost, and her power has been reduced significantly by AO. It is only normal that she will plot a comeback.
4) The Dead Three were powerful deities prior to Time of Trouble (happened before the Sundering) at the end of which they were dead. by the end of the Sundering they are back but reduced to average/minor deities. It is fair to assume that they are plotting a comeback. BG I & II were about Bhaal's plot to come back as a deity.
5) All other major deities like Mystra, Kelemvor will oppose a Shar & Dead Three plot
Volo also is super intriguing, though not as much interesting 😛
"Hooded" skeleton? Am I missing something?
Well done ! Your theory is really good.
I don't think he is Jergal. I think he is a Chosen of Jergal. The temple he is buried in is likely very very old, Jergal has been a small power since he relinquished his position to the Dead Three, sometime around the fall of Netheril. I believe that whoever hthe hooded skeleton is, he is a Chosen that Jergal "stored" in the temple way way back then, as a failsafe of sort against an event he knew was coming. Why do I believe that?
1°) first, there is the quote on the sarcophagus "here lies the guardian of tombs. Through knowledge comes atonement." If the body in the tomb is Jergal, it makes no sense: why would a god need atonement through knowledge? Instead I think the guardian of tombs is a title of a high ranking priest of Jergal. The fact that he is entombed in a temple of his god with a cadre of skeleton (who were likely former members of Jergal"s clergy, considering the place they were in and the fact they animated when his tomb was disturbed) land the fact that he needs "atonement through knowledge" likely comes from him having displeased Jergal and Jergal having punished him by revealing a secret unfit for mortal ears to him and then emprisonning him until said secret would play out. This knowledge also explains why he doesn't want to be here but thinks he has to.
2°) Neither Ao nor Kelemvor are likely to use Jergal as a patsy to go against the Dead Three. Both are big boys with their own avatars and means of action. If Kelemvor wanted to go against the Dead Three, he would send one of his own avatars (he knows that Jergal used to serve Myrkul and is a previous god of death, he also knows that Jergal is all in all a rather passive deity). Ao would simply blast the Dead Three to kingdom come. Furthermore whatever the Dead Three have planned, it's unlikely to stir Ao to react: he barely batted an eye when Cyric freed Kezef, killed Leira, Mask and Mystra or wrote the Cyrinishad. The only thing that seems to make him react is a conflict between Gods and Primordials: he separated Abeir from Toril to prevent a war and was pissed someone touched the Tablets of Fate because it ended up bringing the two planets together again.
We also know that a Chosen that has displeased his divinity can't be "unchosen": Samaster, a Chosen of Mystra, became completely insane upon the power of the godess entering him and created the Cult of the Dragon and invented the Dracoliches. Mystra was unable to do anything about it and it was Lathander that had to step in and blast him through an avatar.
one of the best early acces title ive seen, it even has its own little mysteries
This analysis is so good it needs a part 2.
It’s Fane. They brought Fane back lol
Thank so much.. got Lore +1
He’s A LICH! (Also, you can pick pocket him and get a few resurrection scrolls)
Well mistra and kelemvor were lovers when human when she was known as midnight, so could be her to stops you going splat
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I thought this moment was done by the tadpole as a self preservation feature.
@WolfHeartFPS The skeleton is NIOT wearing a hood! Secondly he is most likely Vecna or a servant of Vecna trying to find his hand and eye (that's my guess anyway).
Keep grinding!
I can’t hear the word Jergal again lol
I cant wait for this game to be in full release, im not playing EA so i dont ruin my full game experience
I think the mindflayer you look at as the nautaloid is descending uses telekinisis to launch a rock at your head and send you flying to the ground. Also saves you before crashing so that it's tadpole army may flourish.
He appears to be more of a wight than a pure skeleton.
great vid. never thought of it but you bring up a good point about nergal
I put 35 hours or so into BG3, then stopped, doing 90% of the overland quests (for 1 run, I know different choices would have opened up other quests/options) and maybe 1% of the underdark. I idn't stop bc of bugs, and I was a day 1 downloader. I stopped because the game was so good I didn't want to miss out on too many *"First Kiss"* experiences so-to-speak. I hit the original lvl 4 soft lvl. cap and called it a day essentially.
What I don't understand is why more people aren't going nuts in anticipation over this game. Wastelands 3 was received exceptionally well, and as much as I really, really enjoyed it (best RPG of 2020 imo,) but it still wasn't quite up to the BG3 lvl. Actually, I don't think there has been a true turn based CRPG that has hit these notes since, well darnit, Divinity: Original Sin 2. Lol, but excluding games made by Lariam we are going back to Dragonage: Origins. Yeah yeah, real-time with pause, but I essentially played it as a turn based game. When I look at BG3 for what it was when I stopped playing about 1 week after launch, it had nailed everything that you could ask for out of a true CRPG. l'll admit, real-time with pause would be nice, but besides that, with the understanding that the few quests that weren't finished will obviously be done, and the (what were for me) minor bugs (weird views when panning the camera, certain helmets or armor/clothing pieces making my character appear bald, especially on the Avatar Card page…cough cough…Cyberpunk 2077 Mirrors, Wets suits…cough…) things seemed like they were coming along fantastic. Balance was decent and will never be perfect, no game is, and I'd rather have rule exploits left in than removed or nerfed for people to use as they see fit. People who want a challenge will use things normally, people who want an extreme power fantasy will just use a trainer anyway, so I love that they are just trying to stick as close to the rules as possible and only tweaking things that are just 100% broken without a live D/GM running the session.
Lariam sold quite a few copies of D: OS 1, millions of copies of D: OS 2 (which still continues to sell pretty well), yet the BG3 hype has nearly completely fallen off a cliff. I honestly don't get it. A year or so out, with a pretty darn *HUGE* pre-release demo, I'd think that people would be frothing to play this game. Add to that the fact that it runs great on 4 year old $500 HP Desktops (Well, you may want more than the 4/8 A Pavilion Pro offered in 2016 as turns go by much faster with a 6/12 or 8/16 because the AI is pretty damn good and takes a few seconds to make up it's mind sometimes, but graphically a 4GB 570/580 or 3GB 1060 handles what are some damn impressive CRPG graphics very well), I am at a loss as to why more people aren't frothing to play this.
With D: OS2 bringing in a ton of new fans, Wast5elands doing exceptional and this being the sequel to *BALDUR's-Fricken_GATE 2/ToB,* yeah, I'd think that more mainstream fans, along with the 8-some-odd million who bought the original BG2, would be banging down Lariam Studio's door.
Idk, this is a huge release for me. BG1 essentially got me back into real CRPG's, DA: Origins was the last AAA quality level (or where AAA quality should be) CRPG released until D: OS2 (Yes, Wasteland 2 and D: OS1 were very good, but they didn't have all the QoL that AAA releases have, especially when it comes to voice acting, limited re-use of assets per square meter of game world; the little things that A and AA games typically can't put in the budget) CRPG for, quite literally, a decade! Yes we had New Vegas, The Witcher 2 and 3, 59 Final Fantasies, and a ton of *GREAT* RPG's, but they were all action based with varying degress of that X-Com meets high fantasy/futurism meets a great story that bends, dips, weaves and changes based on small and large dialogue options meets the old Gold box Games meets great animations, voice acting, and a fantastical easy to suspend disbelief world. Yikes that was a mouthful.
Anyway, I'm still pretty hyped, and can't wait for the full version to be released. I also have a funny feeling the level cap is going to go way up past the 10/12 they keep toying with. Their worlds are just too big (in a good way) to put a low cap on. Even with a great story, most people don't want to play the last 45 hours of a game at max level. One of the downsides of a huge open-world with a bazillion quests, is some people will do most of them, so the level cap will need to go up…or they can end it early and use the rest for BG4, or and expansion, but I'd rather they just throw the jambalaya in front of us and let us pig out. BG 1 had a lvl cap or 8 and was maybe 15 hours longer than the pre-release version I played (where I capped after roughly half the content, at least XP-wise, skipping the highest level areas pretty much completely). So yep, raise the cap. If they need to pull us back to 10 for a sequel (I'd rather start at 1 with a new character altogether as I'm not a big fan of DnD CRPG's that start near the Epic levels, but that may just be me) then I'm fine with that. There's just so much here already, and you can tell the surface has barely been scratched, a low cap makes just as much sense as how the hype for this game has dropped off; none.
This game is so good, loving your content!
I'm finding it hard to keep playing this game in early access. Now I can see why some people are waiting for the full experience
Loved this video! It will make that NPC and the story so much interesting. Thank you for sharing your lore knowledge with us!
The Skeleton is Jergal. Oh yeah, Spoiler alert. Also the overgod AO is (Alpha Omega)
The first time I saw the skeleton I was hoping it would have something to do with bringing Jon Irenicus into the story.
Definitely shaping up to be a great game!
I think it’s a archlynch, possibly a Priest of Jurgal that vomited a grave offense out of ignorance, that amulet may be his phlactory
Fairly sure the dude's Jergal and that Helm put him there to wait for you.
Fane!
Just to note, the tablets of feat don't have any real important ether then keeping abir and toril separate, Ao was angry on the gods for their behaviour towards their followers, that the gods ceard more for their on need instead of the mortals, that why in the end of the trilogy novels of the time of trubel he destroyed the tablets and change the rules of gods and mortals.
I don’t think AO would give a hoot about any of this
Actually, this video seems to be getting relatively popular for the lore one; that's cool
The thing that saved your from fall damage after
Nautiloid crash was a tadpole itself, I think that was already explained.
Dang I missed the scene where you meet this guy but saw him at camp & resurrecting party members. Cool trying to guess his lore.
Wow man love the in depth work checking it out with different characters and all. Well done, thanks for the lore videos :-).
I know this may be a little off topic, but is there any news on an update for the game? Last I heard there was supposed to be a big update after the holidays, possibly new classes/races? Anything beyond that? Any info is greatly appreciated! Love the DnD lore videos and pretty much everything about Baldur's Gate, very interesting!
4:32 there’s also a dialogue for your cleric character that plays when you enter the chapel first.. something along the lines of ‘I can feel divine presence’ where shadow heart chimes in about who is that patron god