Baldur's Gate 3 Companion Quest Deep Dive: Lae'zel

[Music] welcome back in today's video we'll be taking a deep dive into one of my personal favorite companions in baldur's gate 3's early access lazelle going to go over her quest and her story stopping along the way to talk about what things mean and what they might mean if you end up enjoying this video please subscribe there'll be much more baldur's gate 3 content on the way i want to give a quick shout out to some recent youtube channel members baller bill sasquatch sean rifter6 josh h and erica lee and also some recent channel patrons jessica and ena i really appreciate your guys support let's get right into it [Music] we first meet laizelle on the nautoloid ship at the start of our early access journey like ourselves she has been captured by a mind flare and infected with a tadpole for those who might not know tadpoles caused their hosts to ultimately turn into mind flares themselves right away upon seeing laizelle her facial features skin color and somewhat emaciated appearance lets us know that she is of the githyanki race the story of laizelle already gains a level of intensity for the gift were survivors of a long enslavement by the mind flayers after the gift revolted in an unprecedented uprising the race went through a civil war that would ultimately split them into two the githyanki and the gith githzerai laizelle's people the githyanki sought vengeance that could only end with the extinction of the mind flayers and the conquering of the multiverse while the gith believed that this path forward would lead them into similar tyranny that their former masters enforced during the intro cinematic we witness a flight of red dragons attacking the nautiloid ship and these dragons are being ridden by some githyanki riders this does have some significant lore behind it after the gifts split into two the githyanki's leader named gith who led the mind flayer rebellion traveled to the nine hells in search of allies for his war efforts in particular to tiamat the evil goddess of dragons geth did not return from his journey though instead a dragon envoy returned with a pledge from tiamat that all red dragons would be allies to the githyanki and that a small contingent of red dragons would serve them as steeds this dragon envoy also decreed that gith's advisor vlacketh the first would now rule the githyanki in place of gif no one knows exactly what deal was made or even necessarily why but vlacketh was the one to advise gith to seek an audience with tiamat in the first place at first sight in the intro cinematic one might think that these dragon riders are here to save laizelle but it more so seems as if they're there to destroy the ship at all costs even if it results in the death of one of their own when the nautiloid ship jumps to avernus and we the players take control of our character lizelle drops down in front of us ready to kill until she realizes that we are not a thrall if yankee are typically not a race you would want to come across in fact they are an evil race who is proud and xenophobic instead of killing us laizel says blacketh blesses me this day together we might survive vlakketh the 157th is currently the ruler of the githyanki and she's almost revered as a deity in the githyanki culture she is also known as the lich queen for she previously died ascending the githyanki throne without giving birth to an heir but returned as a lich blacketh has now ruled the githyanki for over 1 000 years she not only has the abilities of a fully developed githyanki but also the abilities of a lich and she's a powerful wizard with a specialization in necromancy and transmutation after working with laizel to get to the helm of this ship we are able to jump the nautiloid out of the nine hells back to faerun in the material plane after getting knocked off the ship and saved by some mysterious power we eventually meet laizelle once again this time she is prisoner to two teeflings if you decide to free her this is the real beginning of laissel's companion quest it is here that you can see for yourself how rare it is to see a gethyanki for the githyanki are from the astral plane if you were to see one you would likely be the victim of one of their viking-like raids or if you're lucky they may just be hunting mine flares which do reside in the underdark on faerun if you can find a way to get along with this rather discourteous and some would say arrogant companion lizelle will reveal to you that she knows of a place where you and her can be cured of your infection this place is a githyanki crash called crush clear if yankee crushes were locations where the githyanki raised and trained their young and they often resided in remote places on the prime material plane crashes were necessary to the race because on the astral plane where the githyanki are from the effects of time are slowed almost to a stop which prevents aging youngeth yankee which hatch from eggs are brought to a crash so they can mature it is here that they undergo a rigid regime of training and combat practice and are told tales of lacketh and her immortal warriors the final test of a githyanki's training was to slay a mind flare and bring back their head to vlakiv this rite of passage marked entry into adulthood and into the githyanki community itself as we progress on we do learn that laizelle is part of this crush clear and maybe she's attempting to complete her final rites of passage this would explain as to why the githyanki riders didn't seem to care for her much she hasn't proved herself as a gift yankee yet baezel's tiefling captors revealed that a tiefling by the name of zoru has recently seen some githyanki in the area with this information laizelle wants you and her to go find zoru which will hopefully lead to finding the githyanki getting to the crash and ultimately our purification once you and your party make it to the druids grove and find zoru you really get to see the nature of a githyanki in crash clear a formal greeting begins with a bow is this monster with you lower zorro reveals that he saw geth yankee on the road to baldur's gate near the mountain pass saw us for we saw it jammed its blade through yule's belly straight to the other side no twisting ken must have been in a hurry after her conversation with zoru you can speak to her and with a successful insight check you can tell that something is off her intentions are not entirely sincere if you then use your lifted tadpole powers to peer into her mind you will see that lazel looks at you as if you're already a mind flare a monster in all but appearance i would assume that if laizel did not have the tadpole problem herself she might have attempted to just kill us outright this would make sense for any githyanki because they are raised to kill mind flares and we could very well end up becoming one despite our tadpoles acting strangely and delaying the process this particular dialogue may change your future decisions and how you go about with this companion at this point in time it doesn't sound wise to entirely trust her but then again can you trust any of the companions further on in the conversation you learn that this crush clear holds something called the zaphisk which is apparently what is needed to cleanse you and her from the tadpole unfortunately we cannot learn anything about this zaythisk because laizel says that by covenant she can say no more so what is it that's going to purify us is it a device an artifact is our purification perhaps death itself laissel doesn't exactly come across as a well-renowned respected githyanki despite her combat prowess she may in fact be wary of her own plans or could even be leading us into a trap but since i love her we're going to trust her anyways at some point later in the game and i wasn't able to capture this we find out that as tough as she is she does have an overwhelming fear of failure failure of not pleasing her ruler vlacketh and not being accepted into the githyanki community she is obviously very talented and ambitious probably gifted in many ways but she fears that this will not be recognized and she will fade into nothingness after heading to the road to baldur's gate near the mountain pass it's time to meet some morgith yankee as you near the location looking down at the bridge you can see what appears to be three gift yankee four flaming fist soldiers and some dead soldiers the flaming fists for those who don't know serve as the military force for baldur's gate one of these githyanki is labeled as a gish which were githyanki who mastered their psionic abilities and were well versed in spell casting if you end up fighting this patrol you'll notice that gish can teleport and also put you to sleep the githyanki's long enslavement from the mind flayers allowed them to develop many psionic type abilities which is also why we get jump at level three when playing with lazelle the flaming fist soldiers on the bridge are attempting to stop the githyanki patrol from whatever it is they are doing this situation is likely not in the soldier's favor it doesn't get any better when a red dragon shows up and kills them all who brings a dragon to a swordfight the githyanki do the writer of this dragon is referred to as kithrak which means captain and refers to githyanki knights the githyanki knights were honored in the githyanki society and were the riders of the red dragons when kithrak dismounts he says this no excuses question kill then move on find the weapon our queen watches us fail her at your peril so this githyanki patrol is on a mission to find a weapon whatever that may be after this scene ends lazell says that she envies the dragon knight and that she wants to one day ride such a steed she then tells us to join her as she hurries off to go speak with the patrol when you arrive down there regardless of how you answer in dialogue lizelle is treated poorly by kithrak and called child multiple times this confirms that she has yet to complete her rites of passage on crush clear kithrak then goes on to reveal a gay vessel has fallen from the sky lizelle thieves aboard have taken a weapon most precious it is polyhedric in shape and inscripted with the sacred runes of our people if you successfully convince laizelle to go along with kithrak and not stir up trouble because she seems not to trust him at this point kithrak tells her to take your slaves and hunt those who escape the ship for they must carry the weapon those of you who may have noticed shadowheart who was also on the nautoloid ship has a mysterious item in her inventory and it just so happens to fit kithrak's description of the weapon he seeks polyhedral in shape and inscripted with githyanki runes after the patrol leaves lazelle says shketh i have followed protocol he does not speak for blacketh we carry the weapon he seeks it must be powerful for a cathract to betray his own queen's children she believes kithrak has betrayed his own kind for he says he speaks for vlakketh the weapon he seeks must be extremely powerful for him to betray his own kind for it if your conversation with the patrol doesn't go well you laisel and the rest of your party will be forced to fight for your lives but kithrak leaves trusting his patrol to do the dirty work killing the patrol will result in the same response about kithrak from lazell but taking this route will allow you to go one small step further in lazelle's companion quest the githyanki in the patrol named sarth beretha has a special item on her that can be looted this item is labeled as an elaborate slate upon examining it could this be magical energy courses through the slate then to lazell your own body buzzes in resonance you find the markings on it that reveal the location of a githyanki crash this crash is nestled in the mountains beyond the western bridge where we cannot go in early access it's important to note that crush clear which we believe laysell is from is also known as stardoc and is located on the tears of seluna which are an asteroid cluster that follows the moon of seluna in its orbit around the planet of toril where the continent of feyrun is you will educate me on matters of this fey run this particular asteroid crash clear was connected to faerun in a place called the under mountain under mountain was a multi-tiered dungeon beneath the city of waterdeep which is far north of baldur's gate and within it there is a portal known as the rift which will bring you to crush clear so this crash that we'll be heading to on leisel's quest might not contain the zathisk or whatever laizel is ultimately seeking because this one lies in the mountains upon finding this item it marks the end of laissel's companion quest for early access the mysterious weapon in shadowheart's inventory you can inspect but not open but it's obvious that it is of great importance to shadowheart as well as to what it is we can only speculate considering that it has gift yankee runes on it we're going to assume that it is made by the githyanki it also gives off the sound of a beating heart as if something is alive within it could this be a phylactery could this actually be the repository used to store vlakis life force maybe kithrak wants this to overthrow vlakis rule and take over the yankee himself whatever it is laizelle is going to have to confront shadowheart on it at some point and seeing how they're already such good friends that's a joke this could be a very important moment in our full games playthrough lizelle is the most interesting companion in my opinion because of her racist connection to the mind flayers which obviously play an important role in the plot her quest in early access is fairly short but the next parts to it should prove to be extremely interesting if we get to visit a crash i fear it will be our last day alive on faerun but it would be really cool to see one if we somehow make it to crush clear on the asteroid it would be even cooler despite lazell being rude demanding and arrogant i still get the feeling that she might prove to be different than a typical gift yankee her facial expressions when the red dragon destroys the flaming fist showed to me that she does have some remorse and might even have a little good deep down inside i think of her as a late teen or early 20 year old geth yankee who is extremely gifted but has been in a way brainwashed but not to a point of no return now that she feels kithrak has betrayed her we might even be able to form a close relationship with her and yes laizelle can be romanced in early access but she doesn't seem to look at it as anything but a quick personal satisfaction who would have guessed thanks so much for watching guys and feel free to share any information or speculations you might have on lazell or the githyanki down below in the comments if you end up enjoying this video please like comment and subscribe i really appreciate it's a huge help to my videos i 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Length: 16min 45sec (1005 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 14 2021