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Ketheric Thorm
	Stats
	Level 11
Race	[[High Half-Elf\|High Half-Elf]]
Type	Undead
HP	188
AC	22
	Passive features
	Darkvision Defence Divine Health Extra Attack Fey Ancestry Immutable Form Improved Divine Smite Opportunity Attack
	Resistances
Character information
Location	Moonrise Towers; Mind Flayer Colony
Faction	Cult of the Absolute
Family	Isobel (daughter); Thisobald (son)
Allies	Myrkul, Enver Gortash, Orin the Red, Balthazar, Z'rell
Enemies	Dame Aylin, Jaheira, Halsin, Shar
Additional information
Voice actor	J.K. Simmons
Model

Revision as of 05:38, 29 September 2023

General Ketheric Thorm, is one of the chosen of the Absolute. He is a powerful necromancer, who was defeated a century ago by the Harpers and druids of the Emerald Grove but has risen from the grave to lead the Absolute's forces and is now said to be invincible. He has an undead dog companion Squire.

“	I'll tell you a story, True Soul. About a man who sold himself piece by piece.	„
	— Ketheric Thorm

Background

Spoiler warning! This section reveals details about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

Ketheric Thorm was once a worshipper of Selûne, who lived with his wife and daughter. His wife unfortunately passed away leaving Ketheric to raise their daughter alone but he persevered and raised her in the Selunite ways. Tragedy would strike again at Ketheric, as his daughter Isobel died. Unable to cope with her loss he renounced the worship of the Moonmaiden and began worshipping her dark sister; Shar. In Shar's service he built an army of Dark Justiciars beneath his home village and curse the land with the Shadow Curse. His army was ultimately defeated and Ketheric himself was slain by the alliance of the Harpers and Druids which Jaheira and Master Halsin were part of. His body was buried in the Thorm family mausoleum.

Act Two

Spoiler warning! This section reveals details about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

The Party's first encounter with Ketheric Thorm starts with the General judging the members of the Absolute's forces from the Goblin Camp, including Sazza and Minthara if either of them are still alive. Should Minthara be alive, he will send her to the dungeons to be punished, and is left with the Goblins, who attack him. Even when impaled, or nearly decapitated with a Halberd, he shrugs off the wounds as if they were minor annoyances, killing one of the Goblins as punishment. He will leave the fate of the rest of the Goblins to the player.

While speaking to NPCs such as Jaheira, Z'rell, and Balthazar, it will be revealed, so some capacity depending on who you speak of, that a magical relic grants Ketheric Invulnerability. Assisting Balthazar will reveal that sometime between his life as a Sharran, and his time serving Myrkul, Ketheric Thorm had discoverd the Nightsong, and used it to render him unkillable.

The party may encounter him again at the top of Moonrise Towers. Depending on the player's choices, namely if Isobel is to die, he will recount his life story, and his sacrifices, ultimately blaming the party for her death, but not punishing them, as he wishes to keep up the façade of the Absolute's judgement.

Ketheric Thorm's actual battle has three individual stages.

After either destroying, or liberating the Nightsong, his invulnerability is lost, and he can finally be killed. During the first stage of the boss fight, he will eventually flee to the lower levels of the Tower, towards the Mind Flayer Colony to reconvene with Lord Enver Gortash and Orin the Red, revealing himself, Gortash, and Orin as the Chosen of Myrkul, Bane, and Bhaal respectively.

Depending on certain choices involving Gale (SPOILERS), the game can end at this very moment, allowing the party to kill Ketheric Thorm, Enver Gortash, Orin the Red and the Absolute in one fell swoop.

The latter two will leave Ketheric to retrieve the Mysterious Artefact in order to lead the Absolute's army to Baldur's Gate. During this second segment of the boss fight, which the player can bypass entirely with a successful Charisma skill check. In either case, if the Nightsong has not been destroyed, he will retrieve it once more, and either he, in the second stage or the Apostle of Myrkul in the third, will regain their invulnerability - but this can be rectified by using a Help Action on Nightsong.

Once he is defeated, he will finally die for good, allowing the party to retrieve his Netherstone, and proceed to Baldur's Gate.