Baldur's Gate 3 Prep - The Story of BG1 & 2 (Narration w/ Visuals)

just want to let you all know that this is a re-upload of two videos that I did almost four years ago at this point so don't judge my past self too harshly now okay a lot of things have changed since then so sit back relax and enjoy this extremely summarized narration of the stories of BG one and two which should help enhance your Baldur's Gate 3 experience although it's not necessary to know all of this huge thank you to YouTube channel altamar gaming who let me use his let's play series so you guys could have some visuals so make sure to go check them out it's a wonderful wonderful Channel I'll leave a link below in the video description [Music] Your Story begins in the Citadel of candle keep nestled Atop The Cliffs that rise from The Sword Coast year 1368 Dal Reckoning which is just over 100 years before the story of Baldur's Gate 3 will begin within this Fortress are Halls of knowledge filled with the most comprehensive collection of writings on the face of faerun you have spent most of your 20 years of life within the keeps walls under the tutelage of the sage garayan who's acted as a father and a mentor to you he raised you on a thousand Tales of battles and tragedies and heroes villains but there's one story he would not tell and that is of your true heritage you have been told that you are an orphan and that your past is largely unknown but deep down you feel there is much more to it than that one day gorion started acting distant from you you can tell something is weighing heavily upon Him uncharacteristically interrupting you from your daily chores in an agitated State he tells you to equip yourself for travel for you are to go on an Unexpected Journey a journey that he will not tell you what for but it sounds urgent as you gather supplies you are approached by some residents of the keep asking if you are the ward of gorion and stating things such as you don't look dangerous one of the residents of the keep even attempts to kill you but meets a grave end you know something very troubling is going on why would someone attack you you're just a young Ward learning the ways of the world you then learn from a guard of the keep that there is a serious iron shortage going on creating tension between the city of balder's gate in the wealthy neighboring nation of um Iron is an extremely valuable resource in this setting and it would be similar to us presently experiencing something such as an oil shortage feeling as prepared for your journey as you possibly can be given the circumstances you head back to gorion who tells you that we must leave immediately that if we're ever separated from each other you should make your way to the friendly arm Inn where you will meet Khalid and Jahira whom you can trust not long after leaving the keep you find yourself in the middle of an ambush where a mysterious armored figure the leader of these Bandits tells gorion to hand over your ward and no one will be hurt Ryan yells for you to run away as he relentlessly attacks and holds back the bandits only to be eventually cut down by their leader Disturbed frightened and confused you have escaped but you are now alone and cannot head back to the keep for you will be denied entrance without the influence of gorion to circumvent the Steep entry fee knowing no other place to go you decide to heed gorion's words and head to the friendly arm in and seek help not long after you head out your childhood friend and fellow orphan imowen joins your company seeking to help upon reaching the outside of the end and having to lie about your true identity for fear of what it may bring you and emowin enter the n and meet Khalid and Jahira although they offer no Solutions as to why you are being attacked they do offer their companionship after hearing even more about the current iron crisis and the severity of it you decide to investigate and you and your newfound party head to the mines to the South near a town called Nashville is currently Gathering up Adventures to help solve the iron crisis and this may offer some insight as to if there is a link between the iron shortage and what seems to be a bounty on your head after successfully sabotaging the mind and learning that it was in fact under the control of the Iron Throne you and your party decide to head to the city of Baldur's Gate to get to the bottom of this within the city you find the Iron Throne headquarters and you head inside through some clever words and eventually a hostile encounter you end up learning that actual proof of the organization's involvement with the iron crisis was taken by one of the regional leaders who is currently back in Candle keep for an important meeting you and your party decide to seek out Duke Elton the leader of the Flaming fist which is a mercenary company that serves as the city's guard you tell the Duke what you have learned and he decides to give you a rare and valuable book which will serve as the entry fee for you to get back into candle key for this mysterious meeting is being held after traveling back to Candle keep which is south of Baldur's Gate you head into the citadel's library seeking new information and you end up finding a prophecy written by the ancient Seer Alando for telling how The Offspring created in the time of Troubles by the dead God ball the Lord of murder will sow chaos until only one remains to become the new Lord of murder the time of troubles took place not long before Baldur's Gate won and was a time when the gods of faerun were forced by the overlord God IO to walk the land as Mortals within this time ball the Lord of murder was killed but he left behind spawns of himself to help ensure his resurrection one day I did do a lore video on the story of the Dead 3 which ball was a part of link to that will be directly below learning of this prophecy becomes even more startling when you find a letter written by your former Mentor garayan stating that you yes you are Among The Offspring of ball you are a ball smell this newly found information is intense but it's starting to provide reasons for why you may have been attacked so many times since the day of gorion's death soon after your party is discovered and is charged with the murder of the Iron Throne leaders apparently this meeting that was supposed to take place did not go as planned you likely have not committed these acts but depending on your decisions in the game you may have actually been responsible either way you have been arrested charged and imprisoned and will remain in Candle keep until you can be transported to Baldur's Gate to be executed while imprisoned your party is visited by a prominent leader in Candle key known as tethero who reveals to you that the man responsible for gorion's death is named sarahvak serovak is a foster son of one of the Iron Throne leaders that were just murdered and later on you will learn that he is actually responsible for these murders if you didn't actually take the actions yourself tetherel then decides to teleport you and your party into the catacombs Beneath The Fortress to help you escape for he believes you to be innocent in the catacombs you face off against doppelgangers likely controlled by sarahvak himself which are trying to kill you and your party this must have something to do with you being a ball spawn Escaping The Catacombs is not easy but you and your party Prevail and head back to Baldur's Gate upon arriving you find yourselves accused of multiple crimes someone must be really wanting you and your party to be gone while you were away at Candle keep the poisoning of Duke Elton took place in balder's gate and a flaming fist is now after you and your party you have also been accused of assassinating one of the city's Grand Dukes as well as playing a major role in the cause of the iron crisis something is going on here and you need to get to the bottom of it before it costs you your life forced to stay low to not be spotted by The Flaming fist your party goes on to discover new valuable information you learn that the Iron Throne has orchestrated the entire iron crisis to give themselves a monopoly over the iron trade and with the rising tension between Baldur's Gate and amn the Iron Throne could then sell their stockpiled iron for extremely high prices you also discover that cerevac the one trying to kill you is also a ball spawn like yourself he is fueling the distrust between Baldur's Gate and am by making each think that the other is responsible for the iron crisis this will cause war and chaos and give him an opportunity to become the Lord of murder sarahvak had supported his foster father for many years until hearing of his father's meeting in Candle keep this meeting that took place could have actually created peace while greatly profiting the iron throne but sarahvak needed War he needed chaos and to stop these plans he had to cause the death of the Iron Throne leaders including his foster father take control of the group himself he could then take the stockpiled iron to the city of balder's gate where he would be recognized as their Savior and cerevac did just that his plan was working however he needed you to be dead to truly become the Lord of murder the Assassin parties hired to kill you would make this quite evident in order to stop this madness you and your party gain entry into the palace where the coronation of cerevac to become the Grand Duke of balder's gate was to be held within the palace you present your findings of what saravacas actually done and this forces sarahvak to flee into an ancient underground ruin beneath Baldur's Gate knowing that cerevox assassination attempts and his evil schemes would never truly end you and your faithful party head down to the underground ruins to find and kill him within an ancient Temple of ball you confront cerevac and ultimately defeat him saving the sword Coast from his evil schemes [Music] in the final ending cinematic sarahvox tainted Soul departs his body and travels deep underground to a large circular chamber of alcoves where he destroys a statue of himself contained in one of the alcoves it is now revealed that the other alcoves each contain a statue of a ball spawn that exists in faerun and that is the story of Baldur's Gate 1. [Music] foreign begins in the cold dark dungeons deep beneath the city of atkatla in the nation of am which is south of Baldur's Gate it's the year 1369 Dal Reckoning just after the events of walder's gate one not long ago you and your party had killed your half-brother cerevac who was a ball spawn like yourself essentially saving the sword Coast from his evil schemes with the iron crisis and his plans to become the Lord of murder unfortunately it wasn't enough to keep you safe for word has spread of your shared lineage with sarahvak you are a spawn of the Lord of murder fall and many have been out to capture or kill you you survive these assassination attempts for a while but one day you find yourself captured and you awaken in a cage with severe pain racking through your bones an Elven Mage stands in front of you and says Ah the child of ball has awoken it's time for more experiments the pain will only be passing you should survive the process this mysterious and dark Mage then leaves to investigate an intrusion in his complex from a Thieves Guild known as The Shadow thieves with the Mage temporarily gone your childhood friend and a likely companion who stuck with you throughout Baldur's Gate 1 Moen appears and seems to have escaped her cage she frees you and you discover Jahira and the legendary Minsk in his hamster boo both characters from baldus gave 1 imprisoned in cages nearby Minsk will be free liberally kicked in good measure you set them free to either become Companions of yours or for them to go their separate ways fighting your way through the underground complex you learn more and more about the mysterious and dark Mage who has imprisoned you and he goes by the name John irenicus finally escaping the complex you emerge into the city of atcatla where you witness your captor irenicus fighting off the shadow thieves Intruders ironicus destroys them in front of you and then turns his attention to you and your party out of sheer anger and relatable hatred Min attacks irenicus and a magical battle ensues unfortunately a group known as the cowled Wizards have caught onto this unsanctioned use of magic and they appear on the scene and teleport both irenicus and emowin Away to an asylum known as spellhold what being involved in illegal use of magic you will come with us I'm not going with him the cowald Wizards were a secretive cabal of wizards and on who obsessively monitored the unsanctioned uses of magic and those who were caught were often times brought to the residence for the magically deviant spellhold a prison Asylum and a place for experimentation on those that have violated the cowled Wizards rules of magic you must now find and Save emowin which will also lead to iranicus and to answers long overdue you head into the city of atcatla in search of help in the slums you meet a man named Galen Bell who offers you the help of a powerful organization that he says is the only way you'll be able to find imoen you later find out that this powerful organization is actually the shadow thieves themselves however this assistance comes at a hefty price of 20 000 gold pieces knowing no other way you gather a party that you see fit for your goals an adventure through the city and the surrounding lands in hopes of raising enough funds to return to gal and save Moen meanwhile in spellhold irenicus breaks free of his bonds and kills his captors within his new powerful base he then resumes experiments on poor emoin new prisoner he's escaped what when where is he he's in the lower Gods no he comes he's here I cannot be caged during your quest to acquire enough gold for Galen you fight trolls Undead goblins explore tombs kill slavers and possibly steal from Nobles until you finally meet an Elven vampire named Bodhi Bodhi is the head of a vampiric Thieves Guild that has a deep hatred for the shadow thieves she knows that you're currently working for the shadow Thieves Guild and she offers an alternative for 15 000 gold pieces and some help with destroying her rival Guild she says she can help you get mon Bodhi also states that she has her own personal interest in iranicus interesting the decision is yours with whom to work with the shadow thieves are this dark Elven vampire whichever path you choose your outcome will eventually lead you to a seller named seimon havarian who grants you passage on his ship galante to the island called brynlaw where spellhold is located the journey across the sea turns out successful and you arrive in a pirate town you need to somehow gain entrance into spellhold so you head to the pirate lore desharic's quarters and successfully convince him that you are insane and should be under the control of the cowled Wizards in the asylum you and your companions are sent to spellhold where you find ironicus under no shackles he tells you that this was his plan the entire time with surprise on his side and his powerful magic he puts you and your party to sleep and you wake finding yourself in a capsule of some sort iranica Sten reveals to you that mon is a ball spawn like yourself which is why he is conducting experiments on the both of you he then points around the room at all of the Shadow Thieves Guild members Bodhi has captured and tells you that the deaths of them shall Force the Divine soul from you the shadow thief's captives start to die one by one until the last one Falls and you find yourself entering a dreamlike state in this dream you find emuin who tells you to summon the demon ball for together you can defeat him I'm within you you can put it it is weak and will not help again you are empty inside there is nothing within but the Instinct something is wrong I no not again not again you awaken to find that your soul has been drained in the Divinity within is Gone Eminem has suffered a similar fate but is in a more hallowed and worsened condition her soul was given to Bodhi Bodhi and irenicus are now even more powerful while you and your party are in weakened forms irenicus wishes to kill you but his sister Bodhi has other plans and surprisingly ironicus lets her do as she pleases your weekend party is then released to the maze dungeons beneath spellhold so that you may undergo a series of trials that you have to survive to prolong your life it's more of a sick torturous game than anything else you and your party make it through the various traps and riddles but near the end Bodhi appears once again not willing to let you leave Here and Now anger overwhelms you in your altered state and you feel your control slipping as evil beckons you your body then involuntarily transforms into an avatar form of ball the Lord of murder himself a form known as Slayer Bodhi caught by surprise Retreats back to tell irenicus of what has happened you then return back to normal form before almost destroying your party what just happened to you with no choice but to move on you and your party Escape The Maze and go on to release some of the Mages that are currently prisoners of spellhold from there you go on to find irenicus a great battle ensues but you your party and the Mages you have released Prevail forcing irenicus to flee to the underdark for there's a secret entrance within spellhold you and your party pursue but he does slip away within the underdark you get caught up with drow imprisoned by mind flayers fight a Beholder and encounter various other evil lurkers of this deep and dark place but ultimately you do return to the surface world at a location where you encounter an Elven Legion from the Elven city of saulden SLR from the elves you find out that irenicus has infiltrated their city and magically sealed the entrance hiding the city from those seeking it including the native elves the elves tell you that in order to find the city once again in irenicus within your party must find an artifact an ancient Lantern called Rin lanthorne no magic can bar this lantern from returning to Elven lands the elves inform you that it has been stolen by a servant of irenicus it must have been Bodhi you are given vials of the wrath of celdarine which will prove effective against those who have wronged the temple where the ancient Lantern was once kept you and your party then leave the Elven camp with an understanding that both you and the elves want irenicus dead you can work together to achieve this goal it's time to find and kill Bodhi and retrieve the artifact shortly after departing the Elven Camp you run into perhaps the most legendary heroic adventuring party on the face of faerun the companions of the hall will you make friends with drist or enemies it's up to you if you kill drist there's a special place in the nine Hells for you but also let us know in the comments below because you're a damn good warrior you and your party find bodhi's crypt and defeat her and her vampire minions after driving a stake through her heart emoyn's soul is freed and you find the ancient Lantern within bodhi's coffin it's now time to head back to the elves of salvinessilar the ancient Lantern proves its worth and guides you and the elves revealing the entrance to the currently Hidden City your party enters to find a beautiful Elven City but a city that is overrun by evil you fight your way through the city and find irenicus draining the power of the tree which will ultimately Doom the city and Grant him immortality irenicus was once an elf of salvinessilar himself but he betrayed his people by attempting to become a god with his sister Bodhi and they were both cast out of the city battling it out with irenicus you and your party defeat him but because iranicus has your soul you are all dragged with him into hell I need it [Applause] for the final battle against this ruthless evil Elven Mage your party strikes him down ultimately returning your soul to your body the elves of Salman SLR honor your party for you have saved their City and that concludes the story of baldu's gate 2. now there are some expansions to both of these games Throne of ball probably being the most important here but I didn't get around to playing that one myself so hopefully I can do that sometime soon or at least do some research and maybe update you guys on what happens in that DLC thank you all so so much for watching there's a lot of videos in this updated lore playlist even though this is a re-upload there's a lot of new videos in this lore playlist if you missed any of them make sure to go check them out I will leave a link below and also thank you to new patrons of the channel big thank you Patrick P also Danny little princess Michael Kirk Austin DJ dungeon master and Sandra I appreciate you guys I'll catch you on the next one

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Length: 24min 6sec (1446 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2023