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==== The Wyrmway ==== | ==== The Wyrmway ==== | ||
{{see also|Wyrmway|The Blade of Frontiers}} | {{see also|Wyrmway|The Blade of Frontiers}} | ||
Once the party completes the Wyrmway trials, they will find the corpse of | Once the party completes the Wyrmway trials, they will find the corpse of {{CharLink|Ansur}} the Dragon. Interacting with his body will awaken Ansur's spirit, which briefly possesses the player character in order to communicate. As Ansur's introduction concludes, he will detect the Emperor within the Astral Prism. | ||
Ansur will reveal that the Emperor in fact was formerly [[Balduran]], the founder of [[Baldur's Gate]]. Furthermore, he explains that while the Emperor initially did not want to become a mind flayer, it eventually fully embraced its new form, and its comfort with this caused a rift between the Emperor and Ansur. After "exhausting all possibility of reversing (the Emperor's) condition", Ansur was agonizing and the Emperor (as seen in the letter on Ansur's body) attempted to convince him to leave. Ansur then attempted to murder the Emperor during its sleep as a mercy killing, and the Emperor killed Ansur in self-defense. | Ansur will reveal that the Emperor in fact was formerly [[Balduran]], the founder of [[Baldur's Gate]]. Furthermore, he explains that while the Emperor initially did not want to become a mind flayer, it eventually fully embraced its new form, and its comfort with this caused a rift between the Emperor and Ansur. After "exhausting all possibility of reversing (the Emperor's) condition", Ansur was agonizing and the Emperor (as seen in the letter on Ansur's body) attempted to convince him to leave. Ansur then attempted to murder the Emperor during its sleep as a mercy killing, and the Emperor killed Ansur in self-defense. | ||
This development is somewhat foreshadowed when the player character first meets The Emperor in their true form, as the song that plays during the encounter is a variation of [[The Elf Song]], which prominently features Balduran in its lyrics. | This development is somewhat foreshadowed when the player character first meets The Emperor in their true form, as the song that plays during the encounter is a variation of [[The Elf Song]], which prominently features Balduran in its lyrics. | ||
===Endings=== | ===Endings=== | ||