Baldur’s Gate 3 continuously delights with new discoveries in the game that players are still finding 2 years after release. However, a mystery regarding a few hidden campers still exists.
What mystery is being referred to? It concerns a few hidden badgers that are located in the camp of Rivington during the third act of the game. They are located in the ruins of a collapsed building and are no longer alive.
There is currently no precise information in the game about where these badgers come from, what they are doing there, or what to do with them now. You cannot reach them on foot to loot them or investigate further.
The community has been chewing on the meaning of the dead badgers for years. Despite being amidst diehard fans, data miners, and players with hundreds of hours of gameplay, no evidence of a solution has been found so far.
However, there are some hypotheses that would make sense.
Here you can see the animated short film for Patch 8 from Baldur’s Gate 3:
Fans find no evidence, but meaningful solutions
What hypotheses do the players have? Since there is no message, no dialogue, or further clues regarding the reason for the badgers, fans have come up with their own hypotheses:
Z3t4 writes: “Astarion’s snacks.” Even Entropy_head believes that the badgers could be the untidy remnants of the vampire: “Damn, Astarion really needs to learn to clean up after himself.”
Other players, on the other hand, think that the badgers might belong to an Easter egg related to a 17-year-old meme song that Larian also mentioned in one of their animated short films. So, it might not be that far-fetched.
What is the most widespread hypothesis? What works as a plausible hypothesis within the context of the game’s narrative and other clues throughout the game is that the badgers could be former spies of the druid Jaheira.
“Maybe the Jaheira’s agents (like the one in her cellar), were killed by the forces of the Cult of the Absolute after being discovered,” writes CombinationHefty7534.
Bowie_Soldeagua provides more details on this assumption, as the player directly addressed the badger: “[…] I arrived at Jaheira’s secret place, beneath her house in Baldur’s Gate. There is a badger, and it told me that the others were ‘eyes and ears’ of Jaheira and that only it remains.”
As a combination, that sounds quite coherent. While it’s not direct evidence, it certainly comes closest in this case. Of course, it might still be that a developer at Larian had an earworm from the Badger song.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is still not 100 percent explored even 2 years after its release. If you have a great interest in mysterious or hidden content in the game, we have listed a few more that you might not have heard of: 10 cool secrets in Baldur’s Gate 3 that you didn’t know about
