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=== Characters == | === Characters === | ||
==== Dream Visitor ==== | |||
In Early Access, the [[Dream Guardian]] was known as the ''Dream Visitor'', and was portrayed differently than in the full release, wearing ornate dress similar to the [[Elegant Robe]] camp clothing rather than a set of armour.{{ref|The Dream Visitor still uses the ornate dress in one of the dreams, likely as a callback.}} | |||
Named "'''Daisy'''" in the game files (even after release), the Dream Visitor would grant the player character visions of domination and power, and became hostile should they resist these visions.<ref>YouTube Video: Drowsy. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6b4ov51sFg Baldur's Gate 3 EA Dreams 1 - 3 All Dialogue Options (Drow)]</ref><ref>YouTube Video: DanaDuchy. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LWTytZcsWk Dreams Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access]</ref> | |||
The Dream Visitor would also attempt to seduce the player character. It is likely, the song ''Down by the River'' was originally based on these interactions as the Dreams took place by the river and the song asks the player to stay there in the dream with them forever (''Don't wake me up, Just leave me there dreaming''). | |||
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Early_Access_Daisy.webp|''Tell me. Who do you dream of at night?'' - Narrator | |||
Daisy 1.webp|Waking up in a dream<ref>YouTube Video: Drowsy. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6b4ov51sFg Baldur's Gate 3 | EA | Dreams 1 - 3 | All Dialogue Options (Drow)]</ref> | |||
Daisy 2.webp|Watching Baldur's Gate burn<ref>YouTube Video: DanaDuchy. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LWTytZcsWk Dreams | Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access]</ref> | |||
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[[File:Nightsong EA.png|100px|right]] | |||
==== Minsc ==== | ==== Minsc ==== | ||
{{CharLink|Minsc}} may have at some point been intended to be an origin character available as early as Act One, with datamined dialogue in the Druid Grove of {{CharLink|Guex}} talking with Minsc and mentioning an attack {{CharLink|Boo|hamster}}.<ref>YouTube Video: Chubblot. [https://youtu.be/-g9nAqpa-jE?si=CxiggWm-W4cUSZYS&t=254 Origin Tags: Karlach, Helia and Minsc]</ref> | {{CharLink|Minsc}} may have at some point been intended to be an origin character available as early as Act One, with datamined dialogue in the Druid Grove of {{CharLink|Guex}} talking with Minsc and mentioning an attack {{CharLink|Boo|hamster}}.<ref>YouTube Video: Chubblot. [https://youtu.be/-g9nAqpa-jE?si=CxiggWm-W4cUSZYS&t=254 Origin Tags: Karlach, Helia and Minsc]</ref> | ||
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==== | ==== Nightsong ==== | ||
{{main|Aylin/Cut content}} | |||
The Nightsong plot apparently had significant differences during early development from what appears in the full game. | |||
{{CharLink|Isobel Thorm|Isobel}} was supposed to have been killed by {{CharLink|Balthazar}}, and Aylin was framed for her murder. Isobel's father {{CharLink|Ketheric Thorm}} turned {{CharLink|Aylin}} into Nightsong as an act of revenge. A century later, Ketheric tasked Balthazar with bringing Isobel back. This ritual also bound Isobel's life to Ketheric, sharing his immortality with her. If Ketheric was killed before unthethering Isobel from him, they would both go to the afterlife.<ref>YouTube Video: Chubblot. [https://youtu.be/U0MN5qbkhPM?si=XNloimpjlsueifNb&t=198 The Nightsong, Halsin and Ketheric City: 3:18]</ref><ref>YouTube Video: Chubblot. [https://youtu.be/U0MN5qbkhPM?si=oHLbJg8CDeiNfHtx&t=167 The Nightsong, Halsin and Ketheric City: 2:17]</ref><ref>Reddit thread: labotor [https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/qxfczx/minor_and_major_act1_datamining_spoilers/ MINOR AND MAJOR ACT1 DATAMINING SPOILERS]</ref> | |||
==== Rugan ==== | |||
{{CharLink|Rugan}} had originally been planned to be present at the [[Guildhall]], but his presence in Act Three was seemingly cut from the released version of the game. Despite this, there are still trace amounts of information in the game files that attest to his unimplemented role. | |||
By saving Rugan from the gnolls in Act One, and remaining on friendly terms with the [[Zhentarim]] of the [[Zhentarim Hideout]], Rugan will tell the party to look for him once they were in [[Baldur's Gate]], promising to buy them a drink should they ever cross paths again. Nevertheless, in the release version of the game, Rugan is never seen again from this point forward - were his cut content implemented however, the party would've originally been able to find him the Guildhall alongside both members of [[The Guild]] and the other Zhents; tipsy and dejected, he'd attempt to celebrate the party's arrival by telling the Zhents around him his rescue from the gnolls, only to elicit no reaction and get ignored by everyone around him. | |||
Rugan then goes on to reveal that the original Zhentarim in Baldur's Gate were backstabbed and put under ''"new management"'' in an internal power play, with every single Zhent beneath [[Waukeen's Rest]] returning to the city being betrayed, turned to the [[Steel Watcher (creature)|Steel Watch]], and then hanged. He then explains that their new superiors thought they were responsible for the kidnapping of {{CharLink|Ulder Ravengard|Duke Ravengard}}, and that he owes his survival to his decision to confess to the lies and accusations as though they were true. Further dialogue elaborates that he is the only original "Gate crew" Zhentarim left and that he'd drink to his fallen comrades. Upon asking who the new Zhent management are, he simply says that he has no idea who they are, but that they impressed {{FRWiki|Darkhold}} enough for them to send additional support in the form of reinforcements. As he's still loyal to the Zhentarim after all this, the party could then convince him to leave their ranks. | |||
* {{Dialogue option|The Zhentarim have brought you nothing but trouble, Rugan. Cut your losses.|roll=Persuasion|dc=15}} | |||
* {{Dialogue option|The Zhentarim sold your friends out. You think they wouldn't do the same to you?|tags=rogue|roll=Persuasion|dc=10}} | |||
* {{Dialogue option|The Zhentarim made you turn on your people. You really think you owe them loyalty?|tags=rogue|roll=Persuasion|dc=10}} | |||
Successfully doing so will make him move away from his posting in the Guildhall, and head towards the bar where he'd start drinking incessantly; there, he'd drink to his fallen comrades, like {{CharLink|Olly}}, who he'd rather humorously misremember his name to be Ronnie or Ozzy. During the Zhentarim's attempted takeover of the Guild, Rugan will not join combat and keep drinking. Talking with Rugan after the battle ends simply has him ask the party incredulously if a fight happened. | |||
As Rugan's involvement in Act Three has been cut from the game, much of the story and information concerning the original [[Risen Road]] Zhentarim and the Zhents' internal intrigue has been lost. The only piece of information about this that the party can learn comes in the form of an interaction with {{CharLink|Slick Inatra}}, who only reveals it to the party if the latter seized the {{SmRarityItem|Caravan Strongbox}} from Rugan in the first place, received the quest to deliver the strongbox to Inatra from {{CharLink|Zarys}}, and killed Rugan on her orders. Slick Inatra then simply states that the original caretakers of the cargo are already dead, and that there is new Zhentarim leadership in the city, without elaborating any further. | |||
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It's unclear as to who the new management refers to, though it may be possible that it may refer to either {{CharLink|Roah Moonglow}}, {{CharLink|Boss Friol}}, or {{CharLink|Trinoda}} as Rugan never seems to acknowledge or is aware of their existence. Likewise, it appears that the rest of the Zhentarim in Act Three are either the new crew, and/or reinforcements from Darkhold. | |||
==== Shadowheart ==== | ==== Shadowheart ==== | ||