The creators have accounted for just about every possibility in Baldur’s Gate 3 and have included dozens of scenes that you can only see under certain conditions. Some of these involve important decisions that impact your character.
Spoiler Warning: This is about scenes and important decisions from Act 1 that are partially relevant to the course of the further story.
What kind of scene is this?
- Near the end of Act 1, you must decide whether to save the tieflings or raid the grove. If you choose to save them, there will be a tiefling party at the camp.
- Most people are celebrating there, but there is a dark scene: Arabella’s parents want to paralyze Kagha with a paralysis poison and then slit her throat.
- What sounds like a scene for an evil run is actually pretty much the opposite. It simply follows a certain law.
That’s why the scene is so rare: Arabella is the girl who wanted to steal the druid statuette to stop the ritual. The deputy head Kagha wants to punish her for that. She uses a venomous snake as a threat.
Normally, “good” players would save Arabella by convincing Kagha that it would be too much. However, if she agrees to the punishment, Arabella will try to escape and will be killed by the snake – which is actually the “evil” ending of the quest, which some players find hard to cope with.
Those who decide to be evil would usually raid the grove with Minthara afterwards and thus see scenes that are hidden from “good” players. It almost never happens that Arabella is killed but the tieflings are still saved.
Paladins beware: If you’re too nice, you break your oath
If you’re wondering who makes such seemingly strange decisions: Lawful characters would do something like this, particularly paladins. Especially those paladins who have sworn the Oath of Vengeance, because:
- Arabella has committed a crime and must be punished by law.
- How harsh the punishment is depends on the current command authority – that is, Kagha.
- According to the law of vengeance, Kagha also has a right to retribution.
And this is where it gets tricky. As a user on Reddit learned, a vengeance paladin cannot be nice after the scene. You have the option to convince Arabella’s parents at the party to abandon their plan.
With a persuasion roll, you make it clear that executing them makes them as bad as Kagha. But: in doing so, you break the oath of vengeance, as you have denied a mother retribution for her dead child. The paladin becomes an oathbreaker, which is actually extremely difficult for a vengeance paladin.
Sticking to the law doesn’t mean always being good
– but only lawful
.
However, if you decide to simply sow chaos and spread wickedness throughout Faerûn, then the Dark Urge might be something that interests you. Because this Origin
rewards you for all the things that everyone else detests: Dark Urge: What is the Dark Urge in Baldur’s Gate 3 and why should I play it?
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