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->''"So He has spoken, and so thou standest before me. Right as always."''
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* AllPowerfulBystander: All Powerful might be overselling him. Might. But he is far more powerful than he lets on, and is content to sit in camp and let you do all the work. [[spoiler:His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that he levels towards [[GreaterScopeVillain the Dead Three]] after their plan fails miserably in TheStinger implies Withers is ''definitely'' towards the All-Powerful side with how brazenly he talks down to the three Gods, even going so far as to say he "overestimated" their capabilities and that they aren't fit for the title of "gods".]]
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* AllPowerfulBystander: All Powerful All-Powerful might be overselling him. Might.''Might''. But he is far more powerful than he lets on, and is content to sit in camp and let you do all the work. [[spoiler:His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that he levels towards [[GreaterScopeVillain the Dead Three]] after their plan fails miserably in TheStinger implies Withers is ''definitely'' towards the All-Powerful side with how brazenly he talks down to the three Gods, even going so far as to say he "overestimated" their capabilities and that they aren't fit for the title of "gods".]]
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* TheComicallySerious: Withers' dry and direct nature is sometimes PlayedForLaughs, such as when he bluntly refuses to elaborate on just what exactly he ''is''-- or when he curiously observes that Tav has (or hasn't) become close to one of their companions.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite his utterly impassive and fatalistic demeanor, and his [[GodWasMyCopilot implied level of power]] absolutely dwarfing that of the party, he still takes the time to comment on the player character's [[RomanceSidequest romantic paramour]]-- or [[CelibateHero lack of one]].
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to [[spoiler:the rest of the goblins and their leadership. While the goblins by and large are a treacherous lot who'll [[UngratefulBastard turn on you]] once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness you've done what they needed you to]], making the goblin camp an unsafe place to return no matter what, Minthara genuinely sees potential in you and can be talked out of doing the same, either by asserting your value to the Absolute or romancing her. If romanced, she can fall for you so hard that she deeply regrets what she's been ordered to do, making it even easier to talk her down. Finally, if you succeed in getting Minthara to side with you, she'll direct you to a trial at Moonrise Towers where you can directly commune with the Absolute and seek answers to your predicament, unlike the likes of High Priestess Gut, who was planning to screw you over from the outset despite pretending to want to cure your condition. And with the announcement that she's a potential party member in the game proper, it's possible to form a permanent alliance (and romance) with her.]]
* ArcVillain: One of the three goblin leaders who serve as the antagonists for the Silvanus' Grove questline. Out of the three, she's TheHeavy since she's the most pro-active, organizing and leading raiding parties to capture and/or kill enemies of the Absolute.
* BadBoss: She’s quick to punish and even kill her minions for failure, even going as far as to have Sazza be fed to the spiders even after she revealed the location of Silvanus' Grove to her and apologized for her suggestion to backstab the party without knowing they were "True Souls" like Minthara. [[spoiler:And when she later ends up getting chastised by Z'rell for failing to find the Gith artifact, Minthara [[NeverMyFault pins the blame on her goblin minions for her failure]].]]
* ArcVillain: One of the three goblin leaders who serve as the antagonists for the Silvanus' Grove questline. Out of the three, she's TheHeavy since she's the most pro-active, organizing and leading raiding parties to capture and/or kill enemies of the Absolute.
* BadBoss: She’s quick to punish and even kill her minions for failure, even going as far as to have Sazza be fed to the spiders even after she revealed the location of Silvanus' Grove to her and apologized for her suggestion to backstab the party without knowing they were "True Souls" like Minthara. [[spoiler:And when she later ends up getting chastised by Z'rell for failing to find the Gith artifact, Minthara [[NeverMyFault pins the blame on her goblin minions for her failure]].]]
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to [[spoiler:the rest of the goblins and their leadership.leadership, and to an extent the entire Cult of the Absolute. While the goblins by and large are a treacherous lot who'll [[UngratefulBastard turn on you]] once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness you've done what they needed you to]], making the goblin camp an unsafe place to return no matter what, Minthara genuinely sees potential in you and can be talked out of doing the same, either by asserting your value to the Absolute or romancing her. If romanced, she can fall for you so hard that she deeply regrets what she's been ordered to do, making it even easier to talk her down. Finally, if you succeed in getting Minthara to side with you, she'll direct you to a trial at Moonrise Towers where you can directly commune with the Absolute and seek answers to your predicament, unlike the likes of High Priestess Gut, who was planning to screw you over from the outset despite pretending to want to cure your condition. And with if you manage to save her from being executed by the announcement that she's a potential party member in cult for her failure, she'll be more than willing to join you, regardless of your intentions or whether or not you romanced her prior, if only to seek vengeance against the game proper, it's possible to form a permanent alliance (and romance) with cult for disposing her.]]
* ArcVillain: One of the three goblin leaders who serve as the antagonists for theSilvanus' Emerald Grove questline. Out of the three, she's TheHeavy since she's the most pro-active, organizing and leading raiding parties to capture and/or kill enemies of the Absolute.
* BadBoss: She’s quick to punish and even kill her minions for failure, even going as far as to have Sazza be fed to the spiders even after she revealed the location ofSilvanus' the Emerald Grove to her and apologized for her suggestion to backstab the party without knowing they were "True Souls" like Minthara. [[spoiler:And when she later ends up getting chastised by Z'rell for failing to find the Gith artifact, Minthara [[NeverMyFault pins the blame on her goblin minions for her failure]].]]
* ArcVillain: One of the three goblin leaders who serve as the antagonists for the
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* TheCorrupter: Can become this to the player character, [[LadyMacbeth more so if they romanced her]], [[spoiler:as she would encourage them to obtain the Netherstones from the Absolute's Chosen in order to hijack the Netherbrain and dominate the world themselves.]]
-->'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:When we break the other Chosen and claim their Netherstones, ''we'' can take control [...] The power of the enslaved elder brain could reshape the world. ''We'' could reshape the world. And then we will need no gods. We will be their equal. We will be Absolute. We have a purpose and a bond. By my oath, I will fight with you while that purpose holds.]]
-->'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:When we break the other Chosen and claim their Netherstones, ''we'' can take control [...] The power of the enslaved elder brain could reshape the world. ''We'' could reshape the world. And then we will need no gods. We will be their equal. We will be Absolute. We have a purpose and a bond. By my oath, I will fight with you while that purpose holds.]]
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--> '''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:I take no pleasure in what I must do. In another life, I would have taken you as my consort in Menzoberranzan. But the Absolute demands your death [...] Killing you would be... bitter. I have never needed anyone, but I want you. I give you your life, on the understanding that you belong to me now - and I to you.]]
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Halsin in Act 1, although you won't be able to recruit her immediately until part-way through the next act. For this to happen, she would have to live past the Silvanus' Grove questline by letting her slaughter the tiefling refugees and druids inhabiting the grove. And if this happens without killing Halsin in the goblin camp beforehand, he will eventually hunt you down at your camp in retribution for the massacre at the grove with the game forcing you to kill him. Furthermore, she's also one to Wyll, as he will leave your party no matter what if you side with her during the raid.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:When Z’rell chews out Minthara for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact during the raid on Silvanus’ Grove, she attempts to shift the blame on her goblin minions while insisting that she would’ve been able to fulfill her mission if she had drow warriors at her command instead of goblins. Both Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm are having none of it, and the latter sends her to her doom for her lack of accountability.]]
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Halsin in Act 1, although you won't be able to recruit her immediately until part-way through the next act. For this to happen, she would have to live past the Silvanus' Grove questline by letting her slaughter the tiefling refugees and druids inhabiting the grove. And if this happens without killing Halsin in the goblin camp beforehand, he will eventually hunt you down at your camp in retribution for the massacre at the grove with the game forcing you to kill him. Furthermore, she's also one to Wyll, as he will leave your party no matter what if you side with her during the raid.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:When Z’rell chews out Minthara for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact during the raid on Silvanus’ Grove, she attempts to shift the blame on her goblin minions while insisting that she would’ve been able to fulfill her mission if she had drow warriors at her command instead of goblins. Both Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm are having none of it, and the latter sends her to her doom for her lack of accountability.]]
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Serves as this out of all of the recruitable companions, as she openly serves the Cult of the Absolute, the very organization that most of your companions are fighting against. [[spoiler:And though she herself has a falling out with them after the raid on Silvanus' the Emerald Grove, it's largely a result of her [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her actual mission]] and [[NeverMyFault refusing to accept accountability for it]], ensuring that she remains just as selfish and unsympathetic when you finally do recruit her.]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:If she lives past the Silvanus’ Grove questline, the next time the party meets her at Moonrise Towers, she ends up at the mercy of Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact, eventually sentencing her to death unless the player character decides to intervene.]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:If she lives past the Silvanus’ Emerald Grove questline, the next time the party meets her at Moonrise Towers, she ends up at the mercy of Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact, eventually sentencing her to death unless the player character decides to intervene.]]
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: From how the Dream Protector was portrayed in early access compared to the full release. The Dream Visitor was more transparently implied to be a HoneyPot disguise for the illithid tadpole in early access, trying to tempt the player into embracing the tadpole's powers. Come the full release, the Dream Protector still wants you to use the illithid powers, but presents itself as more a mentor than as a seductive fantasy,[[spoiler: and they're not actually the tadpole.]] The Protector is also actively working against the Cult of the Absolute and appears to be a WellIntentionedExtremist, while the Early Access visitor made no comment about the Cult and instead showed an ominous vision of you dominating Baldur's Gate by burning it to the ground and remaking it in your image, with the strong implication that they wanted you to [[WeCanRuleTogether embrace this future and rule Baldur's Gate together with them]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: From how the Dream Protector was portrayed in early access compared to the full release. The Dream Visitor was more transparently implied to be a HoneyPot disguise for the illithid tadpole in early access, trying to tempt the player into embracing the tadpole's powers. Come the full release, the Dream Protector still wants you to use the illithid powers, but presents itself as more a mentor than as a seductive fantasy,[[spoiler: and they're not actually the tadpole.]] The Protector is also actively working against the Cult of the Absolute and appears to be their temptations come off as them being a WellIntentionedExtremist, while the Early Access early access visitor made no comment about the Cult and instead showed an ominous vision of you dominating Baldur's Gate by burning it to the ground and remaking it in your image, with the strong implication that they were a [[TheCorrupter corrupter]] who wanted you to [[WeCanRuleTogether embrace this future and rule Baldur's Gate together with them]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: From how the Dream Protector was portrayed in early access compared to the full release. The Dream Visitor was more transparently implied to be a HoneyPot disguise for the illithid tadpole in early access, trying to tempt the player into embracing the tadpole's powers. Come the full release, the Dream Protector still wants you to use the illithid powers, but presents itself as more a mentor than as a seductive fantasy,[[spoiler: and they're not actually the tadpole.]] The Protector is also actively working against the Cult of the Absolute, Absolute and appears to be a WellIntentionedExtremist, while the Early Access visitor made no comment about the Cult and instead showed an ominous vision of you dominating Baldur's Gate by burning it to the ground and remaking it in your image.image, with the strong implication that they wanted you to [[WeCanRuleTogether embrace this future and rule Baldur's Gate together with them]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: From how the Dream Protector was portrayed in early access compared to the full release. The Dream Visitor was more transparently implied to be a HoneyPot disguise for the illithid tadpole in early access, trying to tempt the player into embracing the tadpole's powers. Come the full release, the Dream Protector still wants you to use the illithid powers, but presents itself as more a mentor than as a seductive fantasy,[[spoiler: and they're not actually the tadpole.]] The Protector is also actively working against the Cult of the Absolute, which is more than the Visitor ever spoke about on the subject.
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* BaitAndSwitch: EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: From how the Dream Protector was portrayed in early access compared to the full release. The Dream Visitor was more transparently implied to be a HoneyPot disguise for the illithid tadpole in early access, trying to tempt the player into embracing the tadpole's powers. Come the full release, the Dream Protector still wants you to use the illithid powers, but presents itself as more a mentor than as a seductive fantasy,[[spoiler: and they're not actually the tadpole.]] The Protector is also actively working against the Cult of the Absolute, which is more than while the Visitor ever spoke Early Access visitor made no comment about on the subject.Cult and instead showed an ominous vision of you dominating Baldur's Gate by burning it to the ground and remaking it in your image.
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* {{Irony}}: Despite having to commit [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential some of the evilest acts in the game]] to flag her for recruitment, [[spoiler:she'll privately reflect on her own atrocities and disavow responsibility for them on the grounds that the Absolute's influence overrode her free will -- a mitigating factor that applies to you [[YouBastard not at all]].]]
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* {{Irony}}: Despite having to commit [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential some of the evilest acts in the game]] to flag her for recruitment, [[spoiler:she'll privately reflect on her own atrocities and disavow responsibility for them on the grounds that the Absolute's influence Absolute overrode her free will -- a mitigating factor that applies to you [[YouBastard not at all]].]]
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* CommonalityConnection: Defied. She will rebuff a fellow Lolth-Sworn Drow's attempt to bond over their shared heritage because she's broken away from the Spider Queen's influence.
* FallenHero: Inverted. She was a [[ReligionOfEvil paladin of Lolth but failed her oath]], and no longer holds faith with the Spider Queen. [[spoiler:Her oath to the Absolute also comes crashing down on her head when she's condemned for her failures. Whether she survives the fallout is up to you, and if she does, she'll consider herself twice-fallen.]]
* FallenHero: Inverted. She was a [[ReligionOfEvil paladin of Lolth but failed her oath]], and no longer holds faith with the Spider Queen. [[spoiler:Her oath to the Absolute also comes crashing down on her head when she's condemned for her failures. Whether she survives the fallout is up to you, and if she does, she'll consider herself twice-fallen.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Despite having to commit [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential some of the evilest acts in the game]] to flag her for recruitment, [[spoiler:she'll privately reflect on her own atrocities and disavow responsibility for them on the grounds that the Absolute's influence overrode her free will -- a mitigating factor that applies to you [[YouBastard not at all]].]]
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** Finding one of the notes from the original battle of Moonrise Towers says that he had to leave the wounded that couldn't keep up behind. Not out of malice or callousness but because [[ColdEquation any delay would result in them all dying.]] This was his first day as Archdruid.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks this way, to emphasize just how ancient he must be.
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* StrawNihilist: Of the everything turns to dust one day type. Fitting for a being connected to the god of Fatalism.
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* BaitAndSwitch: From how the Dream Protector was portrayed in early access compared to the full release. The Dream Visitor was more transparently implied to be a HoneyPot disguise for the illithid tadpole in early access, trying to tempt the player into embracing the tadpole's powers. Come the full release, the Dream Protector still wants you to use the illithid powers, but presents itself as more a mentor than as a seductive fantasy,[[spoiler: and they're not actually the tadpole.]] The Protector is also actively working against the Cult of the Absolute, which is more than the Visitor ever spoke about on the subject.
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* BearerOfBadNews: In ''Blood in Baldur's Gate'', Scleritis appears in front of the detective investigating the ongoing murders and hands him a letter written by his master, after which he proceeds to inform him he will suffer a most unpleasant death before disappearing.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: He speaks this way, to emphasize just how ancient he must be.
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* MysteriousStranger: Given his seemingly prophetic knowledge, his power over life and death, and his decision to aid you for reasons only he can tell, he's just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that might very well be a lich. The only thing he'll reveal is that he has some sort of longstanding relationship with an "arbiter of sorts". [[spoiler:Maybe even a god, or at least a god's Chosen. The "arbiter" suggests it's Jergal, Judge of the Dead, whose temple the sarcophagus is found inside.]]
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* MysteriousStranger: Given his seemingly prophetic knowledge, his power over life and death, and his decision to aid you for reasons only he can tell, he's just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that might very well be a lich. The only thing he'll reveal is that he has some sort of longstanding relationship with an "arbiter of sorts". [[spoiler:Maybe even a god, or at least a god's Chosen. The "arbiter" suggests it's Jergal, Judge of the Dead, whose temple the sarcophagus is found inside. Another possibility though is that he's Jergal himself. Jergal serves as seneschal to Kelemvor, the current god of the dead, who also holds the title of Judge of the Dead which Jergal once held.]]
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* AllPowerfulBystander: All Powerful might be overselling him. Might. But he is far more powerful than he lets on, and is content to sit in camp and let you do all the work.
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* AllPowerfulBystander: All Powerful might be overselling him. Might. But he is far more powerful than he lets on, and is content to sit in camp and let you do all the work. [[spoiler:His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that he levels towards [[GreaterScopeVillain the Dead Three]] after their plan fails miserably in TheStinger implies Withers is ''definitely'' towards the All-Powerful side with how brazenly he talks down to the three Gods, even going so far as to say he "overestimated" their capabilities and that they aren't fit for the title of "gods".]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In TheStinger [[spoiler: he gives one to the Dead Three, pointing out that as mortal souls as destroyed when mortals become mind flayers, the Trio's plan was doomed to failure as it would have innevitably drawn the attention of all the gods, much like how it did draw Wither's own attention. He further says that the three having met their defeats at the hands of mortals whom they keep underestimating only further shows they are very poor excuses for Gods themselves.]]
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* BigGood: Of the Silvanus' Grove questline. Several people you talk to within the grove insist that he would never stand for Kagha's way of running things and would be much more sympathetic to the refugees if he were there. If rescued, he'll point you in the right direction to a cure for your tadpole infection and even tags along as a recruitable companion.
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* BigGood: Of the Silvanus' Emerald Grove questline. Several people you talk to within the grove insist that he would never stand for Kagha's way of running things and would be much more sympathetic to the refugees if he were there. If rescued, he'll point you in the right direction to a cure for your tadpole infection and even tags along as a recruitable companion.
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* DareToBeBadass: [[spoiler:Is very deeply impressed when The Dark Urge refuses to rejoin Bhaal's service, despite dying in the process as Bhaal reclaims his blood from them, which encourages Withers to show a glimpse of their true power by [[BackFromTheDead invoking their own claim]] to prevent the Dark Urge's soul from passing into [[PurgatoryAndLimbo the Fugue Plane]] under the condition they continue to defy expectation and rise to the challenge.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Literally. Cough up the 200 gold he asks for - less than the going price for most magical items and scrolls - and he can resurrect any dead party member. [[spoiler:He'll refuse to revive Alfina, however, reasoning that she is better off staying dead than risk being near the Dark Urge when it becomes clear that they can and will lose control of their murderous impulses.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Literally. Cough up the 200 gold he asks for - less than the going price for most magical items and scrolls - and he can resurrect any dead party member. [[spoiler:He'll refuse to revive Alfina, Alfira, however, reasoning that she is better off staying dead than risk being near the Dark Urge when it becomes clear that they can and will lose control of their murderous impulses.]]
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Scleritis is very vocal about his approval about the Dark Urge's bloodlust, especially if you give in to your murderous impulses. [[spoiler:He's similarly happy when the Dark Urge notes how Alfina's corpse smelled like fair perfume.]]
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!!Sceleritis Fel
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBowles
A mysterious individual who exclusively appears on a Dark Urge playthrough. He appears before the player early in their quest, claiming to be their personal "butler" and encouraging them to give in to their Urge's murderous desires.
!!Sceleritis Fel
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBowles
A mysterious individual who exclusively appears on a Dark Urge playthrough. He appears before the player early in their quest, claiming to be their personal "butler" and encouraging them to give in to their Urge's murderous desires.
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!!Sceleritis Fel
!! Oathbreaker Knight
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->'''Race:''' Undead
->'''Class:''' Paladin (Oathbreaker)
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Surprising, given the Oathbreaker subclass's history in the tabletop game. The Knight is also a believer of this regarding the powers gained as an Oathbreaker, and says as such when you choose to walk that path.
-->'''Oathbreaker Knight:''' Though born of a vile source, these powers can be used for good or ill.
* DefectorFromDecadence: If you ask him about his past, he reveals that he once served a noble lord and fought for him without question. When the Knight finally realized what he had done, he confronted his lord and broke his oath by slaying his lord.
* TheOathbreaker: He committed several atrocities in the name of the nobleman he was sworn to. Once he finally hit his limit, he killed his liege.
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[[folder:Scleritis Fel]]
!!Sceleritis Fel
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBowles
A mysterious individual who exclusively appears on a Dark Urge playthrough. He appears before the player early in their quest, claiming to be their personal "butler" and encouraging them to give in to their Urge's murderous desires.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Surprising, given the Oathbreaker subclass's history in the tabletop game. The Knight is also a believer of this regarding the powers gained as an Oathbreaker, and says as such when you choose to walk that path.
-->'''Oathbreaker Knight:''' Though born of a vile source, these powers can be used for good or ill.
* DefectorFromDecadence: If you ask him about his past, he reveals that he once served a noble lord and fought for him without question. When the Knight finally realized what he had done, he confronted his lord and broke his oath by slaying his lord.
* TheOathbreaker: He committed several atrocities in the name of the nobleman he was sworn to. Once he finally hit his limit, he killed his liege.
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[[folder:Scleritis Fel]]
!!Sceleritis Fel
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBowles
A mysterious individual who exclusively appears on a Dark Urge playthrough. He appears before the player early in their quest, claiming to be their personal "butler" and encouraging them to give in to their Urge's murderous desires.
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[[center:[-''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' | [[Characters/BaldursGateIII Main Character Index]]\\
[[Characters/BaldursGateIIIOriginCharacters The Origin Characters]]\\
'''Other Companions & Camp Followers''' | [[Characters/BaldursGateIIITheCultOfTheAbsolute The Cult of The Absolute]] | [[Characters/BaldursGateIIINPCsAndFactions NPCs and Factions]]-]]]
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!!Non-Origin Companions
Characters who can be recruited as playable companions, but not as Origin characters.
[[folder:Halsin]]
!!Halsin
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaveJones
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->'''Race:''' Wood Elf
->'''Class:''' Druid (Circle of the Moon)
The leader of a druid enclave inhabiting Silvanus' Grove.
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* BadassInDistress: He's a legitimately powerful druid, but it didn't do him much good against the goblins' [[ZergRush sheer numbers]].
* BigGood: Of the Silvanus' Grove questline. Several people you talk to within the grove insist that he would never stand for Kagha's way of running things and would be much more sympathetic to the refugees if he were there. If rescued, he'll point you in the right direction to a cure for your tadpole infection and even tags along as a recruitable companion.
* TheBigGuy: He's big for a human, let alone a Wood Elf. This is even remarked on in-game with him acting like it's a frequent comment.
* BreakoutCharacter: Halsin was originally going to be a non-companion camp follower, but proved so popular in Early Access that he was soon upgraded into a recruitable companion and romance option.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Was actually happy to give up his title and position as he had far too many responsibilities to actually be among nature.
* HeroicBuild: He's got some impressive musculature, especially for an elf, and is much nicer than his NumberTwo Kagha.
* HiddenDepths: He whittles when he manages to get some spare time. Mostly ducks. He likes ducks.
* ItsAllMyFault: Discussed. He's aware that the failure to prevent Moonrise Towers is shared among everyone who tried and failed to stop it. But he's one of the few left alive to regret not being able to stop it, so it falls to him to feel all that regret. He knows it's irrational, but he wants to feel it anyway.
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Minthara in Act 1, as recruiting him into your party later on would require rescuing him from the goblin camp as well as to kill all three goblin leaders, Minthara included, to save Silvanus' Grove.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: 350 years old and looks like he's barely pushing 30.
* ShapeshiftingSquick: During his romance scene, [[PowerPerversionPotential the player character may let him use his Wild Shape to transform into a bear]] before they hook up. A nearby squirrel sees what happens next and drops its acorn in shock.
* SweetTooth: He likes honey, and is unashamed of how on the nose it is with his preferred Wild Shape being a bear.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: [[spoiler:If you encounter him while he's being tortured (in bear form) inside the Goblin Camp he'll immediately turn hostile and target you in his ensuing rampage unless you turn on the goblins torturing him, even if you're trying not to intervene either way so as to consider your options. [[{{Unwinnable}} This can easily trip up players going in blind]] who intend to rescue him, since it's not readily apparent that he and the bear being tortured are one and the same.]]
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[[folder:Jaheira]]
!!Jaheira
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HeidiShannon (''[=BG1=]'' & ''[=BG2=]''), ''unknown'' (''[=SoD=]''), Creator/TracyWiles (''[=BG3=]'')
[[quoteright:981:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jaheira.PNG]]
-> '''Race:''' Half-Elf
-> '''Class:''' Fighter/Druid
-> '''Place of Origin:''' Tethyr
A battle-scarred veteran, a Harper, and a zealous protector of nature, Jaheira returns to the Sword Coast determined to eliminate the threat the Cult of the Absolute poses. See [[Characters/BaldursGateMainPartyMembers Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Party Members]] for her character entry in the previous games.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Has shifted more towards this in her later years. If you complain about how no one ever just says hello to you, she'll say hello. While currently having you completely bound up in vines.
* FamedInStory: After the Bhaalspawn crisis, she went on to rejoin the Harpers, and became one of the most famous protectors of the cities. Enough so that children literally grew up hearing stories about her.
* HappyEndingOverride: Inverted. Her non-romanced epilogue in ''Throne of Bhaal'' said she never returned to the Sword Coast and had a chilly relationship with the Harpers. A hundred years later she's the head of the Harpers in Baldur's Gate.
* InkSuitActor: [[Creator/TracyWiles Tracy Wiles]] did her motion capture, voice work, and Jaheria's face was obviously modeled after hers.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Downplayed, but when you meet her, she's level matched to the same level as your current party. Which as someone who survived the entire Bhaalspawn saga and then another century as a Harper, is rather underwhelming.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She certainly doesn't look like someone well into their second century of life that's for sure.
* SilverFox: She's looking middle-aged nowadays and still looks amazing.
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[[folder:Minsc & Boo]]
!!Minsc
!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]] (''[=BG1=]'' & ''[=BG2=]''), Creator/MatthewMercer (''[=BG3=]'')
[[quoteright:507:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/507px_minscvga.png]]
-> '''Race:''' Human
-> '''Class:''' Ranger
-> '''Place of Origin:''' Rashemen
The Beloved Ranger himself and his stalwart miniature giant space hamster who got petrified by an evil wizard and spent nearly a century as an ornamental statue in the Wide of Baldur's Gate. They were eventually [[ComicBook/LegendsOfBaldursGate freed from their curse by the wild mage Delina]] and have been adventuring ever since. See [[Characters/BaldursGateMainPartyMembers Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Party Members]] for his character entry in the previous games.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Sometime after his adventures with the Bhaalspawn in the 14th century DR, he somehow ended up [[TakenForGranite being petrified]] and became a fixture at the Wide in Baldur's Gate for over a century until the 1480s DR when Delina freed them by accident.
* LivingLegend: After being freed from petrification for over a century, he becomes this within the present day as he continues to kick evil's butt wherever his adventures take him to.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Ultimately justified. Despite having been petrified and coming back in his prime, the comics dealing with the Descent to Avernus had him fall to the River Styx and lose most of his memories. Presumably, his skills and levels went along with it.
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[[folder:Minthara]]
!!Nightwarden Minthara [[spoiler:Baenre]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EmmaGregory
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minthara_armored.png]]
->'''Race:''' Lolth-Sworn Drow
->'''Class:''' Paladin
One of the three leaders of a goblin camp located in an abandoned temple of Selûne. Like the other goblin leaders, she is infected with an illithid tadpole and is regarded as a True Soul within the Cult of the Absolute.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:At Moonrise Towers, Minthara begs Ketheric Thorm for mercy as she’s being taken away by other cultists after he decides to [[YouHaveFailedMe dispose of her for failing to find the Gith artifact]].]]
--> '''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:No! Please, mercy! Please!]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to [[spoiler:the rest of the goblins and their leadership. While the goblins by and large are a treacherous lot who'll [[UngratefulBastard turn on you]] once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness you've done what they needed you to]], making the goblin camp an unsafe place to return no matter what, Minthara genuinely sees potential in you and can be talked out of doing the same, either by asserting your value to the Absolute or romancing her. If romanced, she can fall for you so hard that she deeply regrets what she's been ordered to do, making it even easier to talk her down. Finally, if you succeed in getting Minthara to side with you, she'll direct you to a trial at Moonrise Towers where you can directly commune with the Absolute and seek answers to your predicament, unlike the likes of High Priestess Gut, who was planning to screw you over from the outset despite pretending to want to cure your condition. And with the announcement that she's a potential party member in the game proper, it's possible to form a permanent alliance (and romance) with her.]]
* ArcVillain: One of the three goblin leaders who serve as the antagonists for the Silvanus' Grove questline. Out of the three, she's TheHeavy since she's the most pro-active, organizing and leading raiding parties to capture and/or kill enemies of the Absolute.
* BadBoss: She’s quick to punish and even kill her minions for failure, even going as far as to have Sazza be fed to the spiders even after she revealed the location of Silvanus' Grove to her and apologized for her suggestion to backstab the party without knowing they were "True Souls" like Minthara. [[spoiler:And when she later ends up getting chastised by Z'rell for failing to find the Gith artifact, Minthara [[NeverMyFault pins the blame on her goblin minions for her failure]].]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite her strong and willful exterior, Minthara held feelings of great fear that she kept hidden deep within her psyche. [[spoiler:If the player character uses their illithid powers to reach into her fears during her first romance scene, they are then treated to her constant fears of being betrayed and memories of losing many of her loved ones, implying that she had a very rough and dangerous life back in Menzoberranzan before she was taken into the Cult of the Absolute.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: If the player character successfully aided her in killing the refugees and druids in Silvanus' Grove, Minthara will be so impressed by their ruthlessness that she [[OptionalSexualEncounter offers herself to spend the night with them to celebrate]].
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:If the player character hooks up with Minthara without peering into her inner fears and later catches her trying to kill them in their sleep, the drow laments that she can't actually bring herself to do it, even under the Absolute's orders, as she has quickly grown to love them.]]
--> '''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:I take no pleasure in what I must do. In another life, I would have taken you as my consort in Menzoberranzan. But the Absolute demands your death [...] Killing you would be... bitter. I have never needed anyone, but I want you. I give you your life, on the understanding that you belong to me now - and I to you.]]
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Halsin in Act 1, although you won't be able to recruit her immediately until part-way through the next act. For this to happen, she would have to live past the Silvanus' Grove questline by letting her slaughter the tiefling refugees and druids inhabiting the grove. And if this happens without killing Halsin in the goblin camp beforehand, he will eventually hunt you down at your camp in retribution for the massacre at the grove with the game forcing you to kill him. Furthermore, she's also one to Wyll, as he will leave your party no matter what if you side with her during the raid.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:When Z’rell chews out Minthara for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact during the raid on Silvanus’ Grove, she attempts to shift the blame on her goblin minions while insisting that she would’ve been able to fulfill her mission if she had drow warriors at her command instead of goblins. Both Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm are having none of it, and the latter sends her to her doom for her lack of accountability.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:You were ordered to retrieve the artifact - you failed to do so.]]\\
'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:If I had been given drow warriors instead of goblin trash!]]\\
[...]\\
'''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:Let me make sure I understand this - you're claiming that General Thorm gave you the wrong soldiers?]]\\
'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:Yes - no!]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:You blame the Absolute's Chosen for your failure?]]\\
'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:Of course it is not the General's fault.]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:Whose, then?!]]
* NeverSleepAgain: [[spoiler:During the night with the goblins after their successful raid on Silvanus' Grove, Minthara attempts to kill the player character in their sleep. Fortunately, the player character narrowly avoids this as they have [[ForeseeingMyDeath foreseen it in a dream]].]]
* PsychoSupporter: As a potential companion, Minthara will become this if you recruit her. While there are plenty of companions with dark histories and questionable morals, Minthara is the most openly evil and unhinged even by their standards, and a major reason she takes a liking to the player character is because of [[InLoveWithYourCarnage their capacity for cruelty and bloodshed.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Serves as this out of all of the recruitable companions, as she openly serves the Cult of the Absolute, the very organization that most of your companions are fighting against. [[spoiler:And though she herself has a falling out with them after the raid on Silvanus' Grove, it's largely a result of her [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her actual mission]] and [[NeverMyFault refusing to accept accountability for it]], ensuring that she remains just as selfish and unsympathetic when you finally do recruit her.]]
* TribalFacePaint: Minthara has a glyph tattooed on her neck, [[spoiler:specifically the glyph of House Baenre, the oldest and most powerful drow house in Menzoberranzan. Her association with the house is further cemented by one of her responses when interrogated with the ''[[InterrogatingTheDead speak with dead]]'' spell]].
--> '''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:Minthara... Adept... House Baenre...]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Has no qualms about murdering even the child refugees in Silvanus' Grove.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Should the player character sneak Sazza out of Silvanus' Grove and accompany her back to the goblin camp, the goblin will reveal the grove's location to Minthara. The drow then orders that she be tossed into a spider pit, unless the player character decides to intervene.
** [[spoiler:If you side with her during the raid on Silvanus' Grove, she'll soon try to kill you during the celebration at night unless you talk her out of it.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:If she lives past the Silvanus’ Grove questline, the next time the party meets her at Moonrise Towers, she ends up at the mercy of Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact, eventually sentencing her to death unless the player character decides to intervene.]]
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[[folder:Hirelings]]
!!Hirelings
Assorted souls slain by the forces of the Absolute, who Withers can resurrect to aid you for a price.
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* EmptyShell: Most of their mind and personality is gone thanks to their time dead. What's left of the original is enough to serve their role in combat, anything beyond that is merely Withers puppeting them.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Almost. Of the twelve available hirelings there's six women, five men, and one non-binary.
!!!Brianna Brightsong
->'''Race:''' Lightfoot Halfling
->'''Class:''' Bard
!!!Danton
->'''Race:''' Mephistopheles Tiefling
->'''Class:''' Druid
* AnimalMotifs: Peacocks. He reared them, and used his druidic powers to (wildshape into one to escape when attacked by Absolutist marauders.
!!!Eldra Luthrinn
->'''Race:''' Gold Dwarf
->'''Class:''' Barbarian
* HollywoodDrowning: When she was hunting cultists of the Absolute, they drowned her to death.
!!!Sir Fuzzalump
->'''Race:''' Rock Gnome
->'''Class:''' Wizard
* AmbiguousSituation: The only hireling with no mention made of how or why he died, nor why he hates the Absolute enough for Withers to return from the dead.
* TheStoic: He was mocked among other gnomes for being dour, and claims to have not giggled in over a decade, nor has he ever frolicked.
!!!Jacelyn
->'''Race:''' High Half-Elf
->'''Class:''' Sorcerer
* MagicalSeventhSon: He is/was one, and the Absolutist who killed him joked that his parents 'Probably should have left it at six.'
!!!Kree Derryck
->'''Race:''' Duergar
->'''Class:''' Warlock
* BaldOfEvil: The only bald hireling, and one of only two who was an Absolutist in life.
* TokenEvilTeammate: As much as an empty shell can be evil, she was one of two hirelings who fought ''for'' the Absolute in life.
* WordsCanBreakMyBones She could 'kill with a whisper,' though it's unclear whether there was a lethal trait to her voice itself or if she had a CompellingVoice.
!!!Maddala Deadeye
->'''Race:''' Human
->'''Class:''' Rogue
* ForcedToWatch A particularly cruel example. She refused to join the cult of the Absolute, so a True Soul cured her blindness just to make her watch her village be burned to the ground before killing her too.
* MeaningfulName: 'Deadeye' not as in accurate, but as in her eyes are ''dead''. She was blind before a True Soul cured her.
!!!Kerz
->'''Race:''' Half-Orc
->'''Class:''' Paladin
!!!Sina'zith
->'''Race:''' Githyanki
->'''Class:''' Monk
!!!Varanna Sunblossom
->'''Race:''' Wood Half-Elf
->'''Class:''' Fighter
* TokenEvilTeammate: As much as an empty shell can be evil, she was one of two hirelings who fought ''for'' the Absolute in life.
!!!Ver'yll Wenkiir
->'''Race:''' Lolth-Sworn Drow
->'''Class:''' Ranger
!!!Zenith Feur'sel
->'''Race:''' High Elf
->'''Class:''' Cleric (Selune)
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!!!Camp Followers
Characters who accompany the party throughout the journey and can often be found at camp.
[[folder:Withers]]
!!Withers
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/withers.png]]
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
->'''Race:''' Undead
A mysterious and powerful undead being interred in an ancient temple of Jergal.
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* AllPowerfulBystander: All Powerful might be overselling him. Might. But he is far more powerful than he lets on, and is content to sit in camp and let you do all the work.
* DeathIsCheap: Literally. Cough up the 200 gold he asks for - less than the going price for most magical items and scrolls - and he can resurrect any dead party member. [[spoiler:He'll refuse to revive Alfina, however, reasoning that she is better off staying dead than risk being near the Dark Urge when it becomes clear that they can and will lose control of their murderous impulses.]]
* InvulnerableCivilians: His health is listed as "infinity" - a notable stand-out in a game where even the children have hit-point values, and thus can be killed.
* MysteriousStranger: Given his seemingly prophetic knowledge, his power over life and death, and his decision to aid you for reasons only he can tell, he's just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that might very well be a lich. The only thing he'll reveal is that he has some sort of longstanding relationship with an "arbiter of sorts". [[spoiler:Maybe even a god, or at least a god's Chosen. The "arbiter" suggests it's Jergal, Judge of the Dead, whose temple the sarcophagus is found inside.]]
* PetTheDog: Despite being connected to Jergal, the god of Fatalism, he has his moments.
** [[spoiler: He calmly puts up with Arabella's behavior, and soothes her when she finds out her parents died. He even shows her the path their deaths set her on, giving her a reason for why they died.]]
** He'll refuse to bring back [[spoiler: Alfina when the Dark Urge origin kills her]] because it would be horrible to undergo such a fate for a second time.
* SealedEvilInACan: To meet him, you have to free him from a sarcophagus hidden inside a secret room in an abandoned temple guarded by undead warrior scribes. Though the "evil" part is admittedly ambiguous - he doesn't seem to have any evil plans of his own, even if he'll help an evil character just as readily as he will a good one. For that matter, even the "sealed" part is ambiguous; for all that he reveals to you, he may have been a PlayAlongPrisoner or even have placed ''himself'' in that tomb.
* StrawNihilist: Of the everything turns to dust one day type. Fitting for a being connected to the god of Fatalism.
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[[folder:Volo]]
!!Volothamp Geddarm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/volo.png]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/StephenHogan
->'''Race:''' Human
->'''Class:''' Wizard
A famous explorer and author of several novels who always gets himself into trouble.
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* AscendedExtra: In previous entries of the franchise, he only made cameo appearances at taverns in [[VideoGame/BaldursGate Nashkell]] and [[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Saradush]]. Here, the player can run into him multiple times during the main storyline.
* ItsForABook: In Act 1, Volo visits the goblin camp in order to research their worship of the Absolute. As a famous writer who hasn't yet heard of this newly-worshipped deity, [[SubvertedTrope his intent is actually pretty genuine]]. It didn't stop the goblins from assuming he was a spy and tossing him in a cage, or course.
* UnreliableExpositor: It wouldn’t be Volo if he wasn’t willing to bend the truth for a more interesting story, i.e. insisting that the small band of goblins that attacked the gate of Silvanus' Grove had a ''dragon'' with them.
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[[folder:The Guardian]]
!!The Guardian
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DianaBermudez
->'''Race:''' Custom
The Guardian is a mysterious entity that you customize in character creation and will appear to the player character in his dreams.
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[[folder:Scratch]]
!!Scratch
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
->'''Race:''' Beast
A dog that can be found in the Forest outside the grove, mourning its dead owner. The player can adopt him, recruiting him into camp.
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* CanineCompanion: Was a dog companion for his previous owner Gomwick, who worked as a messager in Baldur's Gate, traveling with him all over the Sword Coast. If recruited, he'll do the same with the party, although he'll stay at camp, away from danger.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: You can find him still guarding his owner's body, who died from his wounds from a Gnoll ambush. He'll be upset with a player who points out Gomwick is dead, and hostile if they mess with his body.
* TeamPet: The part adopts him as one of their pets, and doing so and being nice to Scratch is an easy way to get approval from most of the party.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Owlbear Cub]]
!!Owlbear Cub
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RosieJones
->'''Race:''' Beast
An Owlbear Cub whose mother was killed while he was still young. The player can adopt him, recruiting him into camp.
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* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: PlayedWith. As an owlbear, he's at first far more wild than Scratch, but after a few camp events he'll start becoming more domesticated and will even allow you to pet him.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Apparently his older brother was eaten by his mother. There's a reason why he quickly settles into camp.
* TeamPet: The part adopts him as one of their pets, and while he acts wild at first and is scared of the rest of the party, he eventually permanently joins the camp and even befriends Scratch.
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[[folder:Scleritis Fel]]
!!Sceleritis Fel
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBowles
A mysterious individual who exclusively appears on a Dark Urge playthrough. He appears before the player early in their quest, claiming to be their personal "butler" and encouraging them to give in to their Urge's murderous desires.
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* BadSamaritan: He is essentially the devil on the Dark Urge's shoulder, encouraging them not just to indulge in their murderous impulses, but to ''revel'' in it.
* TheCorrupter: Scleritis constantly tempts the Dark Urge to not hold back on their desires, with said desire being the urge to brutally kill the nearest living creature. [[spoiler:He's either very happy to see you following his advice or annoyed you're holding yourself back.]]
* DisappointedInYou: [[spoiler:If you successfully resist the Dark Urge throughout the game (or at least its worst moments), in act 3 he makes his displeasure known.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Scleritis is very vocal about his approval about the Dark Urge's bloodlust, especially if you give in to your murderous impulses. [[spoiler:He's similarly happy when the Dark Urge notes how Alfina's corpse smelled like fair perfume.]]
-->'''Scleritis:''' My, my. We will be reintroducing necrophilia to your schedule in no time.
* MinorMajorCharacter: He has only two scenes in the ''Blood in Baldur's Gate'' prequel, but he's a major character and heavily tied to the Dark Urge's MysteriousPast.
* NumberTwo: He claims to be a faithful servant of the Dark Urge and obeys their every whim. [[spoiler:At least until they start rejecting their Bhaalspawn heritage and their psychotic urges.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: He has a sinister appearance, and he tells you to just give in to your baser instincts. [[SarcasmMode He's the most trustworthy individual in the game, surely?]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: An InUniverse example. [[spoiler:A morally-good Dark Urge frustrates Scleritis and disappoints him, seeing as how his former master was a serial killer who left behind a bloody trail of bodies in their way from fifteen years ago. His attempts to corrupt you are mostly an attempt to "revive" the Dark Urge's AxCrazy self.]]
[[/folder]]
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[[Characters/BaldursGateIIIOriginCharacters The Origin Characters]]\\
'''Other Companions & Camp Followers''' | [[Characters/BaldursGateIIITheCultOfTheAbsolute The Cult of The Absolute]] | [[Characters/BaldursGateIIINPCsAndFactions NPCs and Factions]]-]]]
[[foldercontrol]]
!!Non-Origin Companions
Characters who can be recruited as playable companions, but not as Origin characters.
[[folder:Halsin]]
!!Halsin
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaveJones
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/halsin.png]]
->'''Race:''' Wood Elf
->'''Class:''' Druid (Circle of the Moon)
The leader of a druid enclave inhabiting Silvanus' Grove.
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* BadassInDistress: He's a legitimately powerful druid, but it didn't do him much good against the goblins' [[ZergRush sheer numbers]].
* BigGood: Of the Silvanus' Grove questline. Several people you talk to within the grove insist that he would never stand for Kagha's way of running things and would be much more sympathetic to the refugees if he were there. If rescued, he'll point you in the right direction to a cure for your tadpole infection and even tags along as a recruitable companion.
* TheBigGuy: He's big for a human, let alone a Wood Elf. This is even remarked on in-game with him acting like it's a frequent comment.
* BreakoutCharacter: Halsin was originally going to be a non-companion camp follower, but proved so popular in Early Access that he was soon upgraded into a recruitable companion and romance option.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Was actually happy to give up his title and position as he had far too many responsibilities to actually be among nature.
* HeroicBuild: He's got some impressive musculature, especially for an elf, and is much nicer than his NumberTwo Kagha.
* HiddenDepths: He whittles when he manages to get some spare time. Mostly ducks. He likes ducks.
* ItsAllMyFault: Discussed. He's aware that the failure to prevent Moonrise Towers is shared among everyone who tried and failed to stop it. But he's one of the few left alive to regret not being able to stop it, so it falls to him to feel all that regret. He knows it's irrational, but he wants to feel it anyway.
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Minthara in Act 1, as recruiting him into your party later on would require rescuing him from the goblin camp as well as to kill all three goblin leaders, Minthara included, to save Silvanus' Grove.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: 350 years old and looks like he's barely pushing 30.
* ShapeshiftingSquick: During his romance scene, [[PowerPerversionPotential the player character may let him use his Wild Shape to transform into a bear]] before they hook up. A nearby squirrel sees what happens next and drops its acorn in shock.
* SweetTooth: He likes honey, and is unashamed of how on the nose it is with his preferred Wild Shape being a bear.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: [[spoiler:If you encounter him while he's being tortured (in bear form) inside the Goblin Camp he'll immediately turn hostile and target you in his ensuing rampage unless you turn on the goblins torturing him, even if you're trying not to intervene either way so as to consider your options. [[{{Unwinnable}} This can easily trip up players going in blind]] who intend to rescue him, since it's not readily apparent that he and the bear being tortured are one and the same.]]
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[[folder:Jaheira]]
!!Jaheira
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HeidiShannon (''[=BG1=]'' & ''[=BG2=]''), ''unknown'' (''[=SoD=]''), Creator/TracyWiles (''[=BG3=]'')
[[quoteright:981:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jaheira.PNG]]
-> '''Race:''' Half-Elf
-> '''Class:''' Fighter/Druid
-> '''Place of Origin:''' Tethyr
A battle-scarred veteran, a Harper, and a zealous protector of nature, Jaheira returns to the Sword Coast determined to eliminate the threat the Cult of the Absolute poses. See [[Characters/BaldursGateMainPartyMembers Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Party Members]] for her character entry in the previous games.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Has shifted more towards this in her later years. If you complain about how no one ever just says hello to you, she'll say hello. While currently having you completely bound up in vines.
* FamedInStory: After the Bhaalspawn crisis, she went on to rejoin the Harpers, and became one of the most famous protectors of the cities. Enough so that children literally grew up hearing stories about her.
* HappyEndingOverride: Inverted. Her non-romanced epilogue in ''Throne of Bhaal'' said she never returned to the Sword Coast and had a chilly relationship with the Harpers. A hundred years later she's the head of the Harpers in Baldur's Gate.
* InkSuitActor: [[Creator/TracyWiles Tracy Wiles]] did her motion capture, voice work, and Jaheria's face was obviously modeled after hers.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Downplayed, but when you meet her, she's level matched to the same level as your current party. Which as someone who survived the entire Bhaalspawn saga and then another century as a Harper, is rather underwhelming.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She certainly doesn't look like someone well into their second century of life that's for sure.
* SilverFox: She's looking middle-aged nowadays and still looks amazing.
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[[folder:Minsc & Boo]]
!!Minsc
!!!'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]] (''[=BG1=]'' & ''[=BG2=]''), Creator/MatthewMercer (''[=BG3=]'')
[[quoteright:507:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/507px_minscvga.png]]
-> '''Race:''' Human
-> '''Class:''' Ranger
-> '''Place of Origin:''' Rashemen
The Beloved Ranger himself and his stalwart miniature giant space hamster who got petrified by an evil wizard and spent nearly a century as an ornamental statue in the Wide of Baldur's Gate. They were eventually [[ComicBook/LegendsOfBaldursGate freed from their curse by the wild mage Delina]] and have been adventuring ever since. See [[Characters/BaldursGateMainPartyMembers Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Party Members]] for his character entry in the previous games.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Sometime after his adventures with the Bhaalspawn in the 14th century DR, he somehow ended up [[TakenForGranite being petrified]] and became a fixture at the Wide in Baldur's Gate for over a century until the 1480s DR when Delina freed them by accident.
* LivingLegend: After being freed from petrification for over a century, he becomes this within the present day as he continues to kick evil's butt wherever his adventures take him to.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Ultimately justified. Despite having been petrified and coming back in his prime, the comics dealing with the Descent to Avernus had him fall to the River Styx and lose most of his memories. Presumably, his skills and levels went along with it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Minthara]]
!!Nightwarden Minthara [[spoiler:Baenre]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EmmaGregory
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minthara_armored.png]]
->'''Race:''' Lolth-Sworn Drow
->'''Class:''' Paladin
One of the three leaders of a goblin camp located in an abandoned temple of Selûne. Like the other goblin leaders, she is infected with an illithid tadpole and is regarded as a True Soul within the Cult of the Absolute.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:At Moonrise Towers, Minthara begs Ketheric Thorm for mercy as she’s being taken away by other cultists after he decides to [[YouHaveFailedMe dispose of her for failing to find the Gith artifact]].]]
--> '''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:No! Please, mercy! Please!]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to [[spoiler:the rest of the goblins and their leadership. While the goblins by and large are a treacherous lot who'll [[UngratefulBastard turn on you]] once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness you've done what they needed you to]], making the goblin camp an unsafe place to return no matter what, Minthara genuinely sees potential in you and can be talked out of doing the same, either by asserting your value to the Absolute or romancing her. If romanced, she can fall for you so hard that she deeply regrets what she's been ordered to do, making it even easier to talk her down. Finally, if you succeed in getting Minthara to side with you, she'll direct you to a trial at Moonrise Towers where you can directly commune with the Absolute and seek answers to your predicament, unlike the likes of High Priestess Gut, who was planning to screw you over from the outset despite pretending to want to cure your condition. And with the announcement that she's a potential party member in the game proper, it's possible to form a permanent alliance (and romance) with her.]]
* ArcVillain: One of the three goblin leaders who serve as the antagonists for the Silvanus' Grove questline. Out of the three, she's TheHeavy since she's the most pro-active, organizing and leading raiding parties to capture and/or kill enemies of the Absolute.
* BadBoss: She’s quick to punish and even kill her minions for failure, even going as far as to have Sazza be fed to the spiders even after she revealed the location of Silvanus' Grove to her and apologized for her suggestion to backstab the party without knowing they were "True Souls" like Minthara. [[spoiler:And when she later ends up getting chastised by Z'rell for failing to find the Gith artifact, Minthara [[NeverMyFault pins the blame on her goblin minions for her failure]].]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite her strong and willful exterior, Minthara held feelings of great fear that she kept hidden deep within her psyche. [[spoiler:If the player character uses their illithid powers to reach into her fears during her first romance scene, they are then treated to her constant fears of being betrayed and memories of losing many of her loved ones, implying that she had a very rough and dangerous life back in Menzoberranzan before she was taken into the Cult of the Absolute.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: If the player character successfully aided her in killing the refugees and druids in Silvanus' Grove, Minthara will be so impressed by their ruthlessness that she [[OptionalSexualEncounter offers herself to spend the night with them to celebrate]].
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:If the player character hooks up with Minthara without peering into her inner fears and later catches her trying to kill them in their sleep, the drow laments that she can't actually bring herself to do it, even under the Absolute's orders, as she has quickly grown to love them.]]
--> '''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:I take no pleasure in what I must do. In another life, I would have taken you as my consort in Menzoberranzan. But the Absolute demands your death [...] Killing you would be... bitter. I have never needed anyone, but I want you. I give you your life, on the understanding that you belong to me now - and I to you.]]
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Halsin in Act 1, although you won't be able to recruit her immediately until part-way through the next act. For this to happen, she would have to live past the Silvanus' Grove questline by letting her slaughter the tiefling refugees and druids inhabiting the grove. And if this happens without killing Halsin in the goblin camp beforehand, he will eventually hunt you down at your camp in retribution for the massacre at the grove with the game forcing you to kill him. Furthermore, she's also one to Wyll, as he will leave your party no matter what if you side with her during the raid.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:When Z’rell chews out Minthara for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact during the raid on Silvanus’ Grove, she attempts to shift the blame on her goblin minions while insisting that she would’ve been able to fulfill her mission if she had drow warriors at her command instead of goblins. Both Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm are having none of it, and the latter sends her to her doom for her lack of accountability.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:You were ordered to retrieve the artifact - you failed to do so.]]\\
'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:If I had been given drow warriors instead of goblin trash!]]\\
[...]\\
'''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:Let me make sure I understand this - you're claiming that General Thorm gave you the wrong soldiers?]]\\
'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:Yes - no!]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:You blame the Absolute's Chosen for your failure?]]\\
'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:Of course it is not the General's fault.]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Z'rell]]:''' [[spoiler:Whose, then?!]]
* NeverSleepAgain: [[spoiler:During the night with the goblins after their successful raid on Silvanus' Grove, Minthara attempts to kill the player character in their sleep. Fortunately, the player character narrowly avoids this as they have [[ForeseeingMyDeath foreseen it in a dream]].]]
* PsychoSupporter: As a potential companion, Minthara will become this if you recruit her. While there are plenty of companions with dark histories and questionable morals, Minthara is the most openly evil and unhinged even by their standards, and a major reason she takes a liking to the player character is because of [[InLoveWithYourCarnage their capacity for cruelty and bloodshed.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Serves as this out of all of the recruitable companions, as she openly serves the Cult of the Absolute, the very organization that most of your companions are fighting against. [[spoiler:And though she herself has a falling out with them after the raid on Silvanus' Grove, it's largely a result of her [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her actual mission]] and [[NeverMyFault refusing to accept accountability for it]], ensuring that she remains just as selfish and unsympathetic when you finally do recruit her.]]
* TribalFacePaint: Minthara has a glyph tattooed on her neck, [[spoiler:specifically the glyph of House Baenre, the oldest and most powerful drow house in Menzoberranzan. Her association with the house is further cemented by one of her responses when interrogated with the ''[[InterrogatingTheDead speak with dead]]'' spell]].
--> '''Minthara:''' [[spoiler:Minthara... Adept... House Baenre...]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Has no qualms about murdering even the child refugees in Silvanus' Grove.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Should the player character sneak Sazza out of Silvanus' Grove and accompany her back to the goblin camp, the goblin will reveal the grove's location to Minthara. The drow then orders that she be tossed into a spider pit, unless the player character decides to intervene.
** [[spoiler:If you side with her during the raid on Silvanus' Grove, she'll soon try to kill you during the celebration at night unless you talk her out of it.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:If she lives past the Silvanus’ Grove questline, the next time the party meets her at Moonrise Towers, she ends up at the mercy of Z’rell and Ketheric Thorm for her failure to retrieve the Gith artifact, eventually sentencing her to death unless the player character decides to intervene.]]
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[[folder:Hirelings]]
!!Hirelings
Assorted souls slain by the forces of the Absolute, who Withers can resurrect to aid you for a price.
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* EmptyShell: Most of their mind and personality is gone thanks to their time dead. What's left of the original is enough to serve their role in combat, anything beyond that is merely Withers puppeting them.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Almost. Of the twelve available hirelings there's six women, five men, and one non-binary.
!!!Brianna Brightsong
->'''Race:''' Lightfoot Halfling
->'''Class:''' Bard
!!!Danton
->'''Race:''' Mephistopheles Tiefling
->'''Class:''' Druid
* AnimalMotifs: Peacocks. He reared them, and used his druidic powers to (wildshape into one to escape when attacked by Absolutist marauders.
!!!Eldra Luthrinn
->'''Race:''' Gold Dwarf
->'''Class:''' Barbarian
* HollywoodDrowning: When she was hunting cultists of the Absolute, they drowned her to death.
!!!Sir Fuzzalump
->'''Race:''' Rock Gnome
->'''Class:''' Wizard
* AmbiguousSituation: The only hireling with no mention made of how or why he died, nor why he hates the Absolute enough for Withers to return from the dead.
* TheStoic: He was mocked among other gnomes for being dour, and claims to have not giggled in over a decade, nor has he ever frolicked.
!!!Jacelyn
->'''Race:''' High Half-Elf
->'''Class:''' Sorcerer
* MagicalSeventhSon: He is/was one, and the Absolutist who killed him joked that his parents 'Probably should have left it at six.'
!!!Kree Derryck
->'''Race:''' Duergar
->'''Class:''' Warlock
* BaldOfEvil: The only bald hireling, and one of only two who was an Absolutist in life.
* TokenEvilTeammate: As much as an empty shell can be evil, she was one of two hirelings who fought ''for'' the Absolute in life.
* WordsCanBreakMyBones She could 'kill with a whisper,' though it's unclear whether there was a lethal trait to her voice itself or if she had a CompellingVoice.
!!!Maddala Deadeye
->'''Race:''' Human
->'''Class:''' Rogue
* ForcedToWatch A particularly cruel example. She refused to join the cult of the Absolute, so a True Soul cured her blindness just to make her watch her village be burned to the ground before killing her too.
* MeaningfulName: 'Deadeye' not as in accurate, but as in her eyes are ''dead''. She was blind before a True Soul cured her.
!!!Kerz
->'''Race:''' Half-Orc
->'''Class:''' Paladin
!!!Sina'zith
->'''Race:''' Githyanki
->'''Class:''' Monk
!!!Varanna Sunblossom
->'''Race:''' Wood Half-Elf
->'''Class:''' Fighter
* TokenEvilTeammate: As much as an empty shell can be evil, she was one of two hirelings who fought ''for'' the Absolute in life.
!!!Ver'yll Wenkiir
->'''Race:''' Lolth-Sworn Drow
->'''Class:''' Ranger
!!!Zenith Feur'sel
->'''Race:''' High Elf
->'''Class:''' Cleric (Selune)
[[/folder]]
!!!Camp Followers
Characters who accompany the party throughout the journey and can often be found at camp.
[[folder:Withers]]
!!Withers
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/withers.png]]
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
->'''Race:''' Undead
A mysterious and powerful undead being interred in an ancient temple of Jergal.
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* AllPowerfulBystander: All Powerful might be overselling him. Might. But he is far more powerful than he lets on, and is content to sit in camp and let you do all the work.
* DeathIsCheap: Literally. Cough up the 200 gold he asks for - less than the going price for most magical items and scrolls - and he can resurrect any dead party member. [[spoiler:He'll refuse to revive Alfina, however, reasoning that she is better off staying dead than risk being near the Dark Urge when it becomes clear that they can and will lose control of their murderous impulses.]]
* InvulnerableCivilians: His health is listed as "infinity" - a notable stand-out in a game where even the children have hit-point values, and thus can be killed.
* MysteriousStranger: Given his seemingly prophetic knowledge, his power over life and death, and his decision to aid you for reasons only he can tell, he's just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that might very well be a lich. The only thing he'll reveal is that he has some sort of longstanding relationship with an "arbiter of sorts". [[spoiler:Maybe even a god, or at least a god's Chosen. The "arbiter" suggests it's Jergal, Judge of the Dead, whose temple the sarcophagus is found inside.]]
* PetTheDog: Despite being connected to Jergal, the god of Fatalism, he has his moments.
** [[spoiler: He calmly puts up with Arabella's behavior, and soothes her when she finds out her parents died. He even shows her the path their deaths set her on, giving her a reason for why they died.]]
** He'll refuse to bring back [[spoiler: Alfina when the Dark Urge origin kills her]] because it would be horrible to undergo such a fate for a second time.
* SealedEvilInACan: To meet him, you have to free him from a sarcophagus hidden inside a secret room in an abandoned temple guarded by undead warrior scribes. Though the "evil" part is admittedly ambiguous - he doesn't seem to have any evil plans of his own, even if he'll help an evil character just as readily as he will a good one. For that matter, even the "sealed" part is ambiguous; for all that he reveals to you, he may have been a PlayAlongPrisoner or even have placed ''himself'' in that tomb.
* StrawNihilist: Of the everything turns to dust one day type. Fitting for a being connected to the god of Fatalism.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Volo]]
!!Volothamp Geddarm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/volo.png]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/StephenHogan
->'''Race:''' Human
->'''Class:''' Wizard
A famous explorer and author of several novels who always gets himself into trouble.
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* AscendedExtra: In previous entries of the franchise, he only made cameo appearances at taverns in [[VideoGame/BaldursGate Nashkell]] and [[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Saradush]]. Here, the player can run into him multiple times during the main storyline.
* ItsForABook: In Act 1, Volo visits the goblin camp in order to research their worship of the Absolute. As a famous writer who hasn't yet heard of this newly-worshipped deity, [[SubvertedTrope his intent is actually pretty genuine]]. It didn't stop the goblins from assuming he was a spy and tossing him in a cage, or course.
* UnreliableExpositor: It wouldn’t be Volo if he wasn’t willing to bend the truth for a more interesting story, i.e. insisting that the small band of goblins that attacked the gate of Silvanus' Grove had a ''dragon'' with them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Guardian]]
!!The Guardian
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DianaBermudez
->'''Race:''' Custom
The Guardian is a mysterious entity that you customize in character creation and will appear to the player character in his dreams.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scratch]]
!!Scratch
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
->'''Race:''' Beast
A dog that can be found in the Forest outside the grove, mourning its dead owner. The player can adopt him, recruiting him into camp.
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* CanineCompanion: Was a dog companion for his previous owner Gomwick, who worked as a messager in Baldur's Gate, traveling with him all over the Sword Coast. If recruited, he'll do the same with the party, although he'll stay at camp, away from danger.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: You can find him still guarding his owner's body, who died from his wounds from a Gnoll ambush. He'll be upset with a player who points out Gomwick is dead, and hostile if they mess with his body.
* TeamPet: The part adopts him as one of their pets, and doing so and being nice to Scratch is an easy way to get approval from most of the party.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Owlbear Cub]]
!!Owlbear Cub
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RosieJones
->'''Race:''' Beast
An Owlbear Cub whose mother was killed while he was still young. The player can adopt him, recruiting him into camp.
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* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: PlayedWith. As an owlbear, he's at first far more wild than Scratch, but after a few camp events he'll start becoming more domesticated and will even allow you to pet him.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Apparently his older brother was eaten by his mother. There's a reason why he quickly settles into camp.
* TeamPet: The part adopts him as one of their pets, and while he acts wild at first and is scared of the rest of the party, he eventually permanently joins the camp and even befriends Scratch.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scleritis Fel]]
!!Sceleritis Fel
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBowles
A mysterious individual who exclusively appears on a Dark Urge playthrough. He appears before the player early in their quest, claiming to be their personal "butler" and encouraging them to give in to their Urge's murderous desires.
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* BadSamaritan: He is essentially the devil on the Dark Urge's shoulder, encouraging them not just to indulge in their murderous impulses, but to ''revel'' in it.
* TheCorrupter: Scleritis constantly tempts the Dark Urge to not hold back on their desires, with said desire being the urge to brutally kill the nearest living creature. [[spoiler:He's either very happy to see you following his advice or annoyed you're holding yourself back.]]
* DisappointedInYou: [[spoiler:If you successfully resist the Dark Urge throughout the game (or at least its worst moments), in act 3 he makes his displeasure known.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Scleritis is very vocal about his approval about the Dark Urge's bloodlust, especially if you give in to your murderous impulses. [[spoiler:He's similarly happy when the Dark Urge notes how Alfina's corpse smelled like fair perfume.]]
-->'''Scleritis:''' My, my. We will be reintroducing necrophilia to your schedule in no time.
* MinorMajorCharacter: He has only two scenes in the ''Blood in Baldur's Gate'' prequel, but he's a major character and heavily tied to the Dark Urge's MysteriousPast.
* NumberTwo: He claims to be a faithful servant of the Dark Urge and obeys their every whim. [[spoiler:At least until they start rejecting their Bhaalspawn heritage and their psychotic urges.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: He has a sinister appearance, and he tells you to just give in to your baser instincts. [[SarcasmMode He's the most trustworthy individual in the game, surely?]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: An InUniverse example. [[spoiler:A morally-good Dark Urge frustrates Scleritis and disappoints him, seeing as how his former master was a serial killer who left behind a bloody trail of bodies in their way from fifteen years ago. His attempts to corrupt you are mostly an attempt to "revive" the Dark Urge's AxCrazy self.]]
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