Baldur’s Gate 3 is already almost 2 years old, yet players and data miners are still discovering more partially lost content that surprises the community. One player collected all this content into a long list that shows how much a certain druid has evolved since the initial idea.
What does the player report? In a long and detailed Reddit post, a fan of the druid Halsin from Baldur’s Gate 3 summarizes all the changes, cut content, and early versions of the character.
This list makes it clear how much the game has changed since the initial idea phase and how the druid has changed during development.
Here you can see more about secrets in Baldur’s Gate 3, but those of the players:
An old man with bear friends and great responsibility
How could Halsin have been? The player mentions several changes among others:
- Halsin was initially an old man, which is remembered by the item “Halsin’s Pipe”, which is still in the game. When fans began to idolize the “new”, younger Halsin, the writers were initially confused because they were unaware of the change and did not quite understand why players would be so taken with an old man.
- Halsin was not originally planned to be the only archdruid of the grove. Instead, there was a second one named Denor, who worshiped Eldath. A conflict-driven story developed between the two, which was eventually cut down and resulted in one druid – Halsin and his circle of Silvanus druids.
- A cut companion named Helia would not only have been a friend of Halsin but would have also been captured by goblins along with him.
- Judging by the cut lines, Halsin had two bear companions, one male and one female. It would have been possible for both Halsin and one of the bears to die in the goblin camp, resulting in the other bear losing its companion as well as its friend.
- Speaking of bears: The sex scene with Halsin in bear form was initially meant to be an off-screen scene that was more of a joke. Ultimately, however, it was included in the main romance.
How could Halsin have played an even larger role? Especially in the second act of the game, much of Halsin’s story has changed. He would not only have been kidnapped up to the towers of the rising moon, but also could have had more influence on the salvation of the shadow cursed lands:
- Thaniel became a friend of Halsin later as a form of motivation. Because previously, the druid was more focused on saving the land rather than a child.
- Instead of getting the information from the sleeping Art Cullagh, Halsin had his own mission to learn more about the curse. He needed a bone from each of the Thorm siblings (whom you can defeat or talk to) from which Isobel would create a remedy for a ritual that we know in the game as the fight for the portal.
- As for the fight for the portal: Here, there would have also been the opportunity to bypass Halsin’s request and destabilize the portal, which would have caused him to angrily leave the group.
These were just a few points mentioned by the player in his Reddit post and likely not the only ones, as he himself clarifies: ‘This list is not exhaustive. There are probably more things we will never learn about.’ However, for those who want to learn more about cut or lost content from Baldur’s Gate 3 beyond Halsin, you can read more about it here on MeinMMO: Player shows the huge iceberg of content that never made it into Baldur’s Gate 3
