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* EvilVersusEvil: One of the dungeons is a former temple of Bhaal, invaded and desecrated by followers of Cyric. [[spoiler:Who were, in turn, dealt with by a powerful mind flayer.]]
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* KangarooCourt: Zizagged in the epilogue. [[spoiler:You ''can'' convince both Duke Belt and Corwin that you didn't murder Skie depending on your past actions in the story and your dialogue choices during the trial, but even so, they both end up getting overruled by the other Dukes, who are unwilling to risk your Bhaalspawn nature turning you into "another Sarevok".]]
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* TheDragon: Ashatiel to Caelor, Hephernaan to [[spoiler:Belhifet.]]
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* IjustWantToBeBadass: Skie's motivation this time around, which causes some inevitable problems with [[RoyalBrat her personality]] and leads to her taking foolish risks.
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* BackFromTheDead: Entar Silvershield, whose death was a plot point in the first game, was [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration brought back to life by his healers]].
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* BigBad: Caelar Argent, the Shining Lady [[spoiler:is a subversion, revealed to be an UnwittingPawn to Belhifet.]]
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* DidntSeeThatComing: The appearance of [[spoiler:Belhifet, the main antagonist from ''Icewind Dale'', who is the FinalBoss and the true BigBad this time as well.]]
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** FallenHero: If not, [[spoiler:she loses what moral rectitude she had left, becomes a Blackguard in his service, and sides with him in the final battle.]]
** FallenHero: If not, [[spoiler:she loses what moral rectitude she had left, becomes a Blackguard in his service, and sides with him in the final battle.]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice: To the delight of fans, a ''lot'' of voice actors from the original games have returned, some sixteen/eighteen years later, to reprise their roles.
* IjustWantToBeBadass: Skie's motivation this time around, which causes some inevitable problems with [[RoyalBrat her personality]] and leads to her taking foolish risks.
* IjustWantToBeBadass: Skie's motivation this time around, which causes some inevitable problems with [[RoyalBrat her personality]] and leads to her taking foolish risks.
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-->'''Edwin''': Thus ends another chapter in the great tale of Edwin Odesseiron.
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:Skie, whose death leads to CHARNAME's disgrace, escape from prison, and capture by Irenicus.]]
* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:Skie, whose death leads to CHARNAME's disgrace, escape from prison, and capture by Irenicus.]]
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Inverted with a twist. [[spoiler:If Caelar becomes a Blackguard, she will beseech Belhifet to kill Hephernaan, who deceived and betrayed her. He happily grants her request.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Inverted with a twist. [[spoiler:If Caelar becomes a Blackguard, she will beseech Belhifet to kill Hephernaan, who deceived and betrayed her. He happily grants her request.]]
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* TreacherousAdvisor: Hephernaan.
* TrueCompanions: Although she remains behind during this adventure, the game further emphasizes Imoen as your unfalteringly loyal life partner. Come hell, high water, or [[spoiler:first degree murder charges]], she's always got your back, and will always see the best in you. [[spoiler:Aside from her, however, this is soberingly downplayed at the end of the game, with the other members of the canonical ''Baldur's Gate 2'' party expressing varying degrees of unenthusiasm in your escape and their predicament because of it. ''Especially'' Dynaheir.]]
* TrueCompanions: Although she remains behind during this adventure, the game further emphasizes Imoen as your unfalteringly loyal life partner. Come hell, high water, or [[spoiler:first degree murder charges]], she's always got your back, and will always see the best in you. [[spoiler:Aside from her, however, this is soberingly downplayed at the end of the game, with the other members of the canonical ''Baldur's Gate 2'' party expressing varying degrees of unenthusiasm in your escape and their predicament because of it. ''Especially'' Dynaheir.]]
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* ForegoneConclusion: Because it's an {{Interquel}} (below), we know that some of the characters showing up in it are going to die no matter what.
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** Additionally, we know that Charname eventually loses the support of Baldur's Gate due to the city fearing their Bhaalspawn nature, forcing them to leave and give Irenicus the chance to capture them. [[spoiler:It turns out its because Irenicus tricked Charname into murdering Skie by turning her into a Ravager and orchestrating the crime scene in such a way that, even in the off-chance Charname ''is'' cleared of the charges, the event causes Baldur's Gate's fear and distrust of the Bhaalspawn to force them to leave anyway.]]
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**Additionally, we We know that Charname eventually loses the support of Baldur's Gate due to the city fearing their Bhaalspawn nature, forcing them to leave and give Irenicus the chance to capture them. [[spoiler:It turns out its because Irenicus tricked Charname into murdering Skie by turning her into a Ravager and orchestrating the crime scene in such a way that, even in the off-chance Charname ''is'' cleared of the charges, the event causes Baldur's Gate's fear and distrust of the Bhaalspawn to force them to leave anyway.]]
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* TheChessMaster: [[spoiler:Irenicus once again proves himself to be a master planner and manipulator, tricking Charname into killing Skie and manipulating the circumstances and events of her murder in such a way that its all but impossible for Charname to prove their innocence, cutting them off from Baldur's Gate's support and leaving them and their party ripe for him to capture.]]
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* BoisterousBruiser: Voghiln is a strong, jovial fellow always looking for wine, women, and adventure.
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* LightIsNotGood: She's called The Shining Lady and looks angelic, but her actions have brought misery and death to thousands of people.
* TheNameless / TheFaceless: The identity of the mysterious Hooded Man is never revealed in the game itself. To anyone who's played BG II, however, it's patently obvious that he is [[spoiler: Jon Irenicus]].
* TheNameless / TheFaceless: The identity of the mysterious Hooded Man is never revealed in the game itself. To anyone who's played BG II, however, it's patently obvious that he is [[spoiler: Jon Irenicus]].
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* ButThouMust: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:even if you convince the Dukes that you didn't kill Skie (which ''is'' possible, but requires ''very'' specific dialogue choices), they still end up exiling you because they don't want to risk your Bhaalspawn powers resurfacing.]]
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* DivineParentage: It's said that the Shining Lady, leader of the "crusade" now seeming to threaten Baldur's Gate, is the child of a god. Whether that means she's Bhaalspawn ([[spoiler:and therefore a sibling of the player character]]) or something else is yet to be determined.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: [[spoiler:Irenicus' scheme leaves you standing with a bloody dagger over Skie Silvershield's dead body.]]
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* EnemyMine: The menace of the Crusade unites the often-bickering Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and Daggerford. Over the course of the game, you can gain even stranger allies, like ogres and trolls.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: [[spoiler:Avernus]]
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* ObviousBeta: Like most Beamdog games at launch, the expansion's initial launch version had a plethora of bugs and glitches ranging from simple graphics fuck-ups to broken dialogue trees and a multitude of crashes and freezes, up to and including corrupted save files.
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* AscendedExtra: Voghiln the Vast, one of the new companions, previously showed up as a gladiator in the Black Pits, and also popped up in Neera's quest in ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]''.
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** Voghiln the Vast, one of the new companions, previously showed up as a gladiator in the Black Pits, and also popped up in Neera's quest in ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]''.
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* ObviousBeta: Like most Beamdog games at launch, the expansion's initial launch version had a plethora of bugs and glitches ranging from simple graphics fuck-ups to broken dialogue trees and a multitude of crashes and freezes. Most notoriously, the Steam and GOG versions of the game ''completely broke support for most mods'' due to the way those versions handle the expansion's content in relation to the original campaign's content.
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It was released on March 31, 2016 for Windows, Mac, and Linux via [[http://www.siegeofdragonspear.com/ direct download from the Beamdog website]] and UsefulNotes/Steam.
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* HeroAntagonist: Preliminary reports indicate that the Shining Lady ''is'' a heroic, good-aligned character, just one whose goals are going to put her in opposition to the player character.
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''Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear'' is an ExpansionPack to ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' (the first game of the [[Franchise/BaldursGate Baldur's Gate series]]). It is being developed more than a decade after the original game was released, and by a different developer: Creator/{{Beamdog}}, founded by people who worked on the original game at Creator/BioWare.
Story-wise, ''Siege of Dragonspear'' is an {{Interquel}} to the original games. ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' begins with the player character and a selected group of companions (not necessarily the ones players actually had) waking up in a dungeon, with only vague indications of how they got there. This expansion is supposed to bridge the gap.
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!!The game expansion provides examples of the following tropes:
* ArcherArchetype: One of the new companions, Schael Corwin, is described as a "deadshot archer".
* AscendedExtra: Voghiln the Vast, one of the new companions, previously showed up as a gladiator in the Black Pits, and also popped up in Neera's quest in ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]''.
* TheBard: Voghiln the Vast, a "skald from the north who inspires his allies with epic tales", is a new party member.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: The branches were already cut between ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' and ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', but this {{Interquel}} may zoom in on that cutting. Depending on how its done, it may even technically "uncut" some of the branches by providing an explanation as to how you got from I to II which doesn't involve just overriding things.
* DivineParentage: It's said that the Shining Lady, leader of the "crusade" now seeming to threaten Baldur's Gate, is the child of a god. Whether that means she's Bhaalspawn ([[spoiler:and therefore a sibling of the player character]]) or something else is yet to be determined.
* ForegoneConclusion: Because it's an {{Interquel}} (below), we know that some of the characters showing up in it are going to die no matter what.
* {{Interquel}}: ''Siege of Dragonspear'' slots in between the two main games of the Baldur's Gate series. In the words of the developers, the "events occurring between Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II are at last revealed".
* JeanneDArchetype: The Shining Lady, a warrior who came from nowhere to lead a crusade.
* LandmarkOfLore: One of the locations you can visit is [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Boareskyr_Bridge Boareskyr Bridge]], where the gods Cyric and Bhaal fought a battle. The latter's defeat is of significant importance to the setting in general but also to the ''Baldur's Gate'' series in particular.
* OldSaveBonus: Character import and export will be supported, enabling this.
* MasterOfIllusion: Glint, one of the new companions, is a priest of [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baravar_Cloakshadow Baravar Cloakshadow]], the gnomish god of illusion. He's a heroic example of the trope, because Baravar is a strictly good-aligned god of ''protective'' illusion and concealment, not villainous deception.
* RedBaron: The leader of the army approaching from the north is just called the Shining Lady. Much more than that isn't known.
* SoulPower: The expansion adds the Shaman class (which [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Shaman existed]] in ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' lore, but was not previously available in the games). The class is based on being able to see and manipulate spirits. M’Khiin, a new party member, is a shaman.
* [[TokenHeroicOrc Token Heroic Goblin]]: In a first for the series, there's a goblin party member, M’Khiin. (Of course, the "heroic" part may yet be disproved...)
* UndergroundLevel: The underground ruins of Kanaglym, an abandoned Dwarven town, are one of the places to visit. There's also an underground ex-temple of Bhaal.
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''Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear'' is an ExpansionPack to ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' (the first game of the [[Franchise/BaldursGate Baldur's Gate series]]). It is being developed more than a decade after the original game was released, and by a different developer: Creator/{{Beamdog}}, founded by people who worked on the original game at Creator/BioWare.
Story-wise, ''Siege of Dragonspear'' is an {{Interquel}} to the original games. ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' begins with the player character and a selected group of companions (not necessarily the ones players actually had) waking up in a dungeon, with only vague indications of how they got there. This expansion is supposed to bridge the gap.
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!!The game expansion provides examples of the following tropes:
* ArcherArchetype: One of the new companions, Schael Corwin, is described as a "deadshot archer".
* AscendedExtra: Voghiln the Vast, one of the new companions, previously showed up as a gladiator in the Black Pits, and also popped up in Neera's quest in ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal Throne of Bhaal]]''.
* TheBard: Voghiln the Vast, a "skald from the north who inspires his allies with epic tales", is a new party member.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: The branches were already cut between ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' and ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', but this {{Interquel}} may zoom in on that cutting. Depending on how its done, it may even technically "uncut" some of the branches by providing an explanation as to how you got from I to II which doesn't involve just overriding things.
* DivineParentage: It's said that the Shining Lady, leader of the "crusade" now seeming to threaten Baldur's Gate, is the child of a god. Whether that means she's Bhaalspawn ([[spoiler:and therefore a sibling of the player character]]) or something else is yet to be determined.
* ForegoneConclusion: Because it's an {{Interquel}} (below), we know that some of the characters showing up in it are going to die no matter what.
* {{Interquel}}: ''Siege of Dragonspear'' slots in between the two main games of the Baldur's Gate series. In the words of the developers, the "events occurring between Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II are at last revealed".
* JeanneDArchetype: The Shining Lady, a warrior who came from nowhere to lead a crusade.
* LandmarkOfLore: One of the locations you can visit is [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Boareskyr_Bridge Boareskyr Bridge]], where the gods Cyric and Bhaal fought a battle. The latter's defeat is of significant importance to the setting in general but also to the ''Baldur's Gate'' series in particular.
* OldSaveBonus: Character import and export will be supported, enabling this.
* MasterOfIllusion: Glint, one of the new companions, is a priest of [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Baravar_Cloakshadow Baravar Cloakshadow]], the gnomish god of illusion. He's a heroic example of the trope, because Baravar is a strictly good-aligned god of ''protective'' illusion and concealment, not villainous deception.
* RedBaron: The leader of the army approaching from the north is just called the Shining Lady. Much more than that isn't known.
* SoulPower: The expansion adds the Shaman class (which [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Shaman existed]] in ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' lore, but was not previously available in the games). The class is based on being able to see and manipulate spirits. M’Khiin, a new party member, is a shaman.
* [[TokenHeroicOrc Token Heroic Goblin]]: In a first for the series, there's a goblin party member, M’Khiin. (Of course, the "heroic" part may yet be disproved...)
* UndergroundLevel: The underground ruins of Kanaglym, an abandoned Dwarven town, are one of the places to visit. There's also an underground ex-temple of Bhaal.
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