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There are many different permanent character enhancements or bonuses that can be obtained throughout Baldur's Gate 3. See below for details on these bonuses and how they can be obtained.

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Chapter One

  • The following permanent character bonuses can be obtained in Chapter One of the game's story.
Name Effect How to Obtain Notes
BOOOAL's Benediction Gain Advantage Icon.png Advantage on Attack Rolls against Bleeding targets. Sacrifice a companion to BOOOAL in The Festering Cove or pass a DC 20 [Needs Verification] Persuasion check. Effect stops working if all Kua-Toa are killed [Needs Verification]
Paid the Price You have a +1 bonus to Intimidation checks, but Disadvantage Icon.png Disadvantage on Perception checks. Additionally, you have Disadvantage Icon.png Disadvantage when attacking Hags. Changes the chosen eye's appearance. Accept Auntie Ethel's deal to remove the parasite at the Riverside Teahouse.
Auntie Ethel's Hair Gain +1 to an Ability Score of choice. Defeat Auntie Ethel during Save Mayrina and take her deal to spare her life.
Volo's Ersatz Eye Grants a permanent See Invisibility See Invisibility effect. Changes the right eye's appearance. Rescue Volo from the Goblin Camp. When speaking to him in the Campsite afterwards, tell him about your Tadpole infection and agree to his experimental surgery. Effect is lost if the character dies and is revived.
Brand of the Absolute Allows the benefits from Absolute Equipment. Agree to let a character be branded by Gut in the Goblin Camp. Multiple characters can receive the brand.
Instrument Proficiency You know how to play a variety of musical instruments and are able to entertain a crowd with them. Pass two Charisma checks while helping Alfira with her song in the Druid Grove.
Loviatar's Love When you have 30% Hit Points or less, you gain a +2 bonus to Attack Rolls and Wisdom saving throws. Submit to Abdirak and put on a good performance for him in the Shattered Sanctum. Effect is lost if the character dies and is revived.
Survival Instinct Gain the additional Illithid Power Survival InstinctSurvival Instinct. Help Omeluum investigate the parasite. Any class can receive this additional power.
Necromancy of Thay Gain the Forbidden Knowledge Forbidden Knowledge passive feature and Speak with Dead Speak with Dead spell once per long rest. Turn all three pages while reading Necromancy of Thay, a book found in a hidden area in the Apothecary's Cellar beneath the Blighted Village. Turning only 1 page will grant only Speak with Dead. The reader does not need to succeed on the Saving Throws associated with turning the pages.
Find Familiar: Scratch Summon the best boy. Scratch's keen nose can discover many things hidden around the world. Leave Scratch with your scent so he joins your camp, then later when he offers you a ball, throw it to play fetch with him.
Find Familiar: Shovel Summon Shovel, the Cheeky Quasit. Pact of the Chain unnecessary. Find the unique scroll of find familiar in one of the coffins of the hidden area in the Apothecary's Cellar beneath the Blighted Village. Instead of using the scroll, have Gale (or any wizard) learn the spell to gain a permanent Quasit familiar.

Chapter Two

  • The following permanent character bonuses can be obtained in Chapter Two of the game's story.
Name Effect How to Obtain Notes
Potion of Everlasting Vigour Gain +2 Strength Convince Astarion to bite Araj Oblodra in Moonrise Towers Can be raised above 20
Awakened You can use all of your Illithid Powers as a Bonus Action Make the Zaith'Ish in the githyanki infirmary explode [Needs Verification] If you fail any of the saving throws you will take permanent ability damage to one of your mental scores [Needs Verification]
Arabella's Shadow Entangle Entangle an undead or shadow creature Tell Arabella about her parents' fate after Save Arabella
Githzerai Mind Barrier Advantage Icon.png Advantage on Intelligence Saving Throws Take the Waking Brain (found after the brain connect puzzle in the Illithid Colony) to the Mind-Archive Interface, and agree to purge the mind when talking to the Slack-Skinned Head Effect is lost if the character dies and is revived.

Chapter Three

  • The following permanent character bonuses can be obtained in Chapter Three of the game's story.
Name Effect How to Obtain Notes
Partial Ceremorphosis Gain access to tier 3 Illithid Powers, and automatically unlock all tier 1 Illithid Powers and the Fly tier 3 Illithid Power Consume the Astral-Touched Tadpole offered by the Emperor
The Tharchiate Codex: Blessing Once per long rest, gain temporary hit points Read The Tharchiate Codex (found at the end of the Vault puzzle in Ramazith's Tower) Remains active if The Tharchiate Codex is also used to obtain Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre Create 6 ghouls that fight alongside you Read The Tharchiate Codex (found at the end of the Vault puzzle in Ramazith's Tower), then read the last page of the Necromancy of Thay (from Act 1) and pass a 20 Wisdom Saving Throw Comes with a curse that lowers Constitution by 5, but can be removed with the Remove Curse spell while keeping Danse Macabre
Mirror of Loss Gain +2 to an Ability Score of choice Sacrifice the knowledge of the Necromancy of Thay to the Mirror of Loss in the House of Grief.

Alternatively, offer a prayer (25 Religion Check), then sacrifice your memories (-2 to an Ability Score of choice) to the Mirror of Loss in the House of Grief.

Can be raised above 20

If no prayer is offered to the mirror prior to sacrificing memories, no bonus is received, only the penalty.

As of Hotfix #2.1, all the bonuses from the Necromancy of Thay are retained when you sacrifice its knowledge, along with the Ability Score increase - this is likely a bug.

Unstable Blood Your blood is now highly flammable and will explode on contact with fire Give your blood to Araj Oblodra in Moonrise Towers in Act 2, then meet her again east of The Blushing Mermaid in Act 3 and help her again. She will give you a potion that grants this feature once drunk.