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| name = Minsc | | name = Minsc | ||
| title = The Mad Rashemaar | | title = The Mad Rashemaar | ||
| class = [[Ranger]] | | class = [[Ranger]] | ||
| subclass = [[Hunter]] | |||
| image = <gallery> | | image = <gallery> | ||
Portrait Minsc.png|Portrait | |||
Minsc.webp|In-game | Minsc.webp|In-game | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
| race = [[Human]] | | race = [[Human]] | ||
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| dex save prof = yes | | dex save prof = yes | ||
| passives = Opportunity Attack | | passives = Opportunity Attack | ||
| athletics = 5 | |||
| acrobatics = 2 | |||
| perception = -2 | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''Minsc of Rashemen''' is a recruitable [[ | '''Minsc of Rashemen''' is a recruitable [[Companion]] with the [[Folk Hero]] background, returning from both ''Baldur's Gate'' and ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn''. He is a [[Human]] and a [[Hunter]] [[Ranger]] first appearing during [[Act Three]]. | ||
After spending decades in petrification together, Minsc and his beloved hamster sidekick {{CharLink|Boo}} have finally been revived, and they seek a life of "butt-kicking" evildoers to serve as a force of goodness, justice, and glory. He can first be found in [[The Counting House]], where he has been mind-controlled by the [[Absolute]] into becoming a True Soul and criminal gang leader known as the '''Stone Lord'''. He is found again in the [[Abandoned Cistern]], and knocking him out in the ensuing fight allows him to be freed from his brainwashing and recruited into the party. He cannot be romanced by any character. | After spending decades in petrification together, Minsc and his beloved hamster sidekick {{CharLink|Boo}} have finally been revived, and they seek a life of "butt-kicking" evildoers to serve as a force of goodness, justice, and glory. He can first be found in [[The Counting House]], where he has been mind-controlled by the [[Absolute]] into becoming a True Soul and criminal gang leader known as the '''Stone Lord'''. He is found again in the [[Abandoned Cistern]], and knocking him out in the ensuing fight allows him to be freed from his brainwashing and recruited into the party. He cannot be romanced by any character. | ||
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===Petrified for a century=== | ===Petrified for a century=== | ||
[[File:Awaken, my Minsc1.webm|gif|thumb| | [[File:Awaken, my Minsc1.webm|gif|thumb|right|class=notpageimage|Minsc's petrified statue]] | ||
[[File:Awaken, my Minsc2.webm|gif|thumb| | [[File:Awaken, my Minsc2.webm|gif|thumb|right|class=notpageimage|Combat in front of the statue]] | ||
[[File:Awaken, my Minsc3.webm|gif|thumb| | [[File:Awaken, my Minsc3.webm|gif|thumb|right|class=notpageimage|Awaken, my Minsc]]At some point in their travels Minsc and Boo were ambushed by someone unknown and petrified in the middle of marketplace in the [[Upper City]] of [[Baldur's Gate]]. For a long time Baldurians believed it was a statue, commissioned by a merchant to commemorate the city's renowned heroes. It became a popular landmark under the title "Beloved Ranger". | ||
80 years later a wild mage Delina tried to defend herself against a gargoyle and accidentally struck the statue with a {{Pass|Wild Magic|wild magic surge}}. The surge dispelled petrification and Minsc and Boo returned to life, unaware of the passing of time. They joined together and travelled for a while. | 80 years later a wild mage Delina tried to defend herself against a gargoyle and accidentally struck the statue with a {{Pass|Wild Magic|wild magic surge}}. The surge dispelled petrification and Minsc and Boo returned to life, unaware of the passing of time. They joined together and travelled for a while. | ||
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They were the first to uncover information about the threat of the Absolute. Due to Minsc's eagerness to fight he got captured by the cultists and Jaheira, realising that they were severely unprepared and unarmed against the cult decided to leave him in order to share news about the cult. | They were the first to uncover information about the threat of the Absolute. Due to Minsc's eagerness to fight he got captured by the cultists and Jaheira, realising that they were severely unprepared and unarmed against the cult decided to leave him in order to share news about the cult. | ||
Captured by the cult, Minsc was infected with a [[Tadpole]] and brainwashed into following a | Captured by the cult, Minsc was infected with a [[Tadpole]] and brainwashed into following a {{CharLink|Jaheira (doppelganger)|doppelganger imitating Jaheira}}. Under the tadpole's influence, he became a feared murderer under the moniker "Stone Lord". Minsc was also separated from Boo as the tadpole suppressed his memory of the hamster. Their latest crime is robbing the [[Counting House]]. | ||
== Involvement == | |||
=== Act Three === | |||
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During Act Three, should the party arrive at the [[Counting House]] and delve into the vaults, they will encounter Minsc and a doppelganger imitating Jaheira, with Minsc revealing himself by tearing his way out of the maw of a [[Mimic]]. When encountering Minsc in the Counting House he immediately leaves the building. | |||
=== Epilogue === | |||
Minsc's appearance and dialogue at the party depend on the outcome of {{Quest|Aid the Underduke}} and the subsequent conversation with {{CharLink|Nine-Fingers Keene}}. | |||
Ambient chatter from Minsc in either ending has him impressed with the quality of meat Withers provided, though neither he nor {{CharLink|Boo}} knows where Withers sourced it. | |||
===== Zhentarim Prisoner ===== | |||
If Minsc was not present for the conversation with Nine-Fingers, he refused to make amends with her, and/or the player character sided with the [[Zhentarim]], he arrives looking worse for wear, decked in rags. Without knowing the gravity of his situation, he reveals that he has been kidnapped by the Zhentarim and was nearly about to be executed until Withers rescued him by spiriting him away for the party. | |||
===== Berserker Lodge ===== | |||
If Minsc agreed to help the Guild as their "berserker lodge", he appears well-dressed and accompanied by a [[halfling]] from the Guild, {{CharLink|Happy Hoarson}}, whom he was in the middle of terrorizing for looting corpses. Minsc commends the player character and their companions for being ideal heroic role models, the kind of people Happy should strive to be more like. He also says that he no longer sleeps in "that" sewer, instead having found a much nicer sewer to sleep in. | |||
An additional line of ambient chatter from Minsc in this ending has him exclaim to Boo that Happy must be treated nicely if he is to reform. | |||
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== | ==Related Literature== | ||
* {{MdRarityItem|Domovoi Invocation}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Register of Goods Received}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|Stolen Property - Reward Offered!}} | |||
* {{MdRarityItem|The Stone Lord's Sketches}} | |||
==Loot== | ==Loot== | ||
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[[Category:Returning Characters]] | [[Category:Returning Characters]] | ||
[[Category:Rashemi]] | [[Category:Rashemi]] | ||
[[Category:Rangers]] | |||
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