#nere fight

[xeaxeo]

going 2 brag that i'm good at video games cuz i beat the nere fight in baldur gate 3 hehehhehee

i had a save at a point where the fight was going well only went back to it twice only pushed 2 people into lava no one in my party died (like dead dead, had to revive twice if i remember right it is all a blur) had wyll, shadowheart, and astarion in party (and myself, dream)

[chopshajen]

21. Nere

Ah, True Soul Nere. I’m glad to hear that many people have killed him, and in many different ways LOL During my battle with him he cast Shield of Screams, a spell unique to him that inflicts psychic damage when you hit him with melee, so I just stood like 10 feet away and shot him from there

[silver-horse]

it's been 2 years since grymforge was added to bg3 but every time I post something about Nere here on tumblr or on youtube, people still comment "wait what? I had no idea you can save this guy" and "how do you get this option?" and I explain step by step every time. I guess this is protecting a blorbo since day 1 lmao your online guide for keeping the victorian child alive against all odds

[swordmaid]

What did Shri'iia do that finally broke her oath? I love hearing about your bg3 character arcs, and my fav play through I was an oathbreaker durge- so I'm interested in hearing more!

so for some background context for Shri’iia - she was a paladin of Lolth who was in service to the matriarch of House Faen Tlabbar for like 100+ years or so. She’s kind of like the matriarch’s hidden weapon, no one knew about her existence except for the matriarch (bc before she was a paladin, she was just another commoner who didn’t belong to any noble house) and she was kept in the dark until her matriarch had some use for her. Like Menzoberranzan is a city that thrives in deceit and secrecy and the best weapon someone could have is a weapon that’s unknown to everyone else but completely loyal to you. Shri’iia agreed to this arrangement since didn’t belong to any noble houses prior - and she’s ambitious as hell lmfao she wanted to be at the top of their hierarchy. To her, she had everything to gain and nothing to lose - not to mention that the matriarchs were the closest beings to Lolth and through them, her will is re-enacted so how could she refuse? so she is like a well trained hound in a way, who’s completely loyal to the spider queen and her matriarch and she does not know anything else but to serve her spider queen bc Lolth is everything….!!!!

that is, until she gets kidnapped, tadpoled, and left in the surface

and the thing is, in all her years she has never once stepped foot in the surface. she hasn’t even explored the entirety of menzoberranzan bc she spent most of her days hidden away. not to mention everything she knows about the surface is from gossip and the horrible shit they tell you about how drows are hated there, and how you’ll be hunted like an animal the moment they see your red eyes, and all that terrible shit. so suffice to say shri’iia is terrified! she hasn’t even seen the sun ever before and she hasn’t touched grass either so now you’re expecting her to be fine when she’s left in a place that could kill her bc she’s a drow? not to mention the tadpole in her head? like early act 1 is just a stressful time for her and the fact that she joins up with these other tadpoled folks who could kill her anytime doesn’t make it less stressful

anyway, bc she’s so paranoid and rn she’s like a professional liar in her nature 🫶 (she’s a charlatan) she makes up this story about how she was born in the surface in some small town that has a population of less than 100, and she obviously does not worship Lolth ew and her oath? she follows a noble cause don’t worry about it (:. so she sticks by that back story to earn the other’s trust! and to save her own skin, more or less but by doing so she’s essentially hiding and being ashamed of her Lolth worship and oh that’s not -

in the ACTUAL game, shri’iia breaks her oath because she tells minthara where the grove is. in her head, what better way to punish a traitor of Lolth than to kill her where everyone is watching! 🤭🤭 like punishments for traitors has to public and humiliating like that is such a good plan (in her head!) except that she didn’t take into account that Lolth was getting tired of her ass for hiding her Lolth worship NOT to mention that she’s not acting like how a paladin of lolth should be acting like why are you listening to some man first of all (since I hc gale is the leader of the party). and by killing minthara in front of the grove she offhandedly saves the tieflings which is another 🫤🫤🫤 as a paladin of Lolth like she‘s gonna have such a bad grade in being an evil aligned paladin

So tl;dr - Shri’iia ends up lying about her entire backstory out of self preservation meaning that she has to lie about her Lolth worship. Lolth is a fickle and proud goddess who doesn’t stand by that shit and drops her ass, now Shri’iia spends the remaining half of act 1 in denial trying to win back Lolth’s favour or else she has to deal with the fact that her identity is essentially gone and she’s been abandoned by the goddess she has fully devoted herself to 🫶🫶

[manyothermusingsofmine]

the one toxic trait that remains in me as a skyrim veteran playing BG3 is that I genuinely believe I should be allowed to loot Nere's corpse without consequences

[sleepssquidsideblog]

PSA AVOID CRUEL_SISYPHEAN_EIGHT-SHAPED.FLOOR AT ALL FUCKING COSTS!!!!!

[elfboypussy]

im trying to make a compilation of Honour Mode Durge Monk Barbie beating the shit out of things in heels and fun outfits for my own amusement but this fucking clip i got where the bulette decided to show up at the worst fucking time and aggro literally every single enemy in the area. i was like. really? in front of my hook horrors?

[libartz]

Look. If your boss has a cool outfit and they don’t drop it when killed, I am coming to your house

[prettyboykatsuki]

me making eye contact with lambs wyll ask like an animal with rabies

[1800duckhotline]

The underdark abandoned village fitght had me fighting for my life.

[wildmansters]

congrats lil buddy that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it

[thisaccountisagainstmywill]

Shout out to Sergeant Thrinn. I'm sorry the Absolute got you first, you would've thrived as a Banite.

[thedragonagelesbian]

oh yeah baby it's all coming together*

cyrus and wyll take their first levels of fighter & bard respectively after cyrus goes down in the nere fight uwu

[herrfivehead]

druid shart was the real MVP of that spectator fight bc by putting her in owlbear form beforehand she tanked all of that asshole's damage. by the time it was dead she was back in humanoid form with practically all her health, even while paralyzed

[swordmaid]

im trying to hurry and get to act 2 but the underdark is so big sobs and shri’iia’s time down there is such an important arc for her story bc that’s rlly when the cult indoctrinations starts to fall apart…! and that’s when she fully realised that she’s been abandoned and she’s all alone now and she can’t return to the world she knows anymore. and the underdark is one of the places she’s been wanting to go back to the moment she was dropped off in the surface bc it’s her home…! except it’s not anymore, and she has such a terrible time down there and by the end, she chooses to perform her first selfless paladin feat (freeing the enslaved gnomes), chooses to pursue the oathbreaker path and this new freedom, and leave lolth behind. I also think that’s the last time she’s in the underdark like ever, in her life, bc going back down there is dangerous esp now that she’s forsaken lolth.

but anyway, I want to get to act 2 bc that’s when she actually explores this new freedom and her new oath…! she’s free now and all the consequences are hers to bear but what does that mean exactly? if paladin talents derived from their own self will and belief to their oath, how would that affect her when she isn’t even sure about her new oath yet? and how far would she go for it? I think act 2 shri’iia is in a significantly weaker state than she was before just because her own beliefs aren’t fully realised, and I think that’s when she practices more martial skills (picks up the halberd) since her smites aren’t so powerful and constant. and I like the idea that’s the time when she’s actively choosing to do the more good, selfless deeds - things that she’s been taught to reject and scorn at but now they are things she’s actively trying to do - just bc she’s exploring this new freedom and how it feels to her. and it’s difficult too bc she is so used to having someone or something dictate her every decision, and she’s so used to always seek for their approval, but now she only has to rely on herself - the self that’s lost to her bc in her pursuit of trying to become lolth’s ideal, she’s chosen to forsake her own individuality in favour of accepting to be whatever lolth or her matriarch wanted her to be. but act 2 is definitely a transformative period for shri’iia. I also think that’s the time where she’s learning how to be kinder and to give more grace to people just because she has a better support system now than before, and she’s actually seeing kindness now compared to before where that very concept is nonexistent. there are times where she’ll slip up ofc and she unintentionally hurts someone she cares about, or she does something cruel without even considering how cruel it is, and it’s so important to me that she does make those mistakes and she learns from them. it’s a learning period for her!!!

and if act 2 is about the exploration of her oath then act 3 is about the exploration of her own self…!! and it’s also the part where she turns half illithid and her face turns into something different - she doesn’t have the red eyes of lolth’s children anymore, and she loses the beauty that drows are known to have (and she was once proud of tbh). like act 3 is such an interesting time for her too, it’s def a bit more personal, and in the end it’s either she becomes a more fully realised version of herself or she rejects the whole experience and regresses back to lolth bc she was her home but that’s for another time 🤭🤭🤭

[hexblooddruid]

Oooh Gale first death of Rei’s campaign