In Baldur’s Gate 3, you can become immortal and unstoppable – but to do so, you must commit one of the most evil acts possible.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, there are many hidden ways to gain some character power. But did you know that there is even a way to kill nearly all enemies in Act 1 and Act 2 without ever having to engage in combat yourself? This can be done with a nasty trick – for which you have to be utterly evil and not shy away from using children’s corpses for your purposes.
What is this trick? As the YouTuber Toyhouze demonstrates in a short TikTok clip, you can kill most enemies in Baldur’s Gate 3 in the first two acts without actually fighting them. For this, you only have to be ruthless – because you first need to kill a child and then resurrect them with spore necromancy.
This refers to the girl Arabella, who is accused of stealing something in the druid grove. As soon as the dialogue triggers, you have the chance to save the child – or ensure that she dies.
- Let Arabella die and then steal her corpse.
- Take the corpse into the Underdark.
- Find Glut and go on his quest.
- Glut can use characters as spore servants – including Arabella.
- Revive Arabella and enjoy having an undead child in your party.
Actually, Glut is limited to the Underdark, including his spore servants. However, there are several different exploits that can make Glut (and thus Arabella) leave the first act and stay with you for almost the entire duration of the second act. The simplest method is detailed by the YouTuber RageGamingVideos:
The short version is that you trigger a special cutscene with Arabella, which sends Glut to your camp. Then, you use Arabella as an “Improvised Weapon” (as if you wanted to ‘strike’ with Arabella) and leave the camp. You can see the entire process in the video.
Why is Arabella immortal? This is because children in Baldur’s Gate 3 generally – with very few exceptions – cannot die in combat. Better yet, they cannot properly join fights at all. Because as soon as a fight starts, child characters usually just flee the battlefield, ignoring any applicable rules. They don’t need to wait for their turn – they simply run away and disappear without being part of the fight.
This also applies in reverse. If a child ever attacks, they also do not enter the fight – and victims do not fight back. Therefore, a Zombie-Arabella can attack and defeat anything and anyone before a fight ever breaks out.
However, to ensure that Arabella deals enough damage, you should equip her with potions beforehand – otherwise, she simply strikes “like a girl” – which she actually is.
This is surely one of the darkest methods by which you can activate a pretty “Easy Mode” in Baldur’s Gate 3 – at least for the first two-thirds of the game. Right now, with the new Patch 7 and the dark endings, it might be worth replaying Baldur’s Gate 3.
