Baldur's Gate 3 | What are Cambions and why is Raphael important?

hello and welcome back everyone sorry for being gone for a while today we're going to be talking about everyone's favorite campaign raphael but more importantly what a cambian actually is and how they tie into baldr's gate 3. to start things off did you know the word cambian actually originated from the ancient celtic root word for crooked and exchange by the time the 13th century came around this is where changelings became a thing as babies replaced at birth by cambian babies and was considered a common explanation for those who were very unruly and never satisfied amazingly for those who believed in demons it was thought that to create a cambian a succubus had to take the seed of a man give it to an incubus to corrupt that seed and then implant that seed back into a female human this reasoning was largely due to the belief that since demons didn't have physical bodies they couldn't outright create life but enough of that let's get over to our handsome man raphael and learn more about him over the years both in rum's lore and in d d classifications the term cambion has changed multiple times some would consider true cambians to be the offspring of a plane touched woman and one of the dominant races of demons from the abyss while others would be considered a brand of nobility if sired by a demon lord and a female half fiend usually a tiefling meanwhile after the events of the spellplague the meaning of cambian changed to mean the union of a devil and a mortal female sadly after the rabbit hole of research i found myself in it looked like champions across the board are just a broad mix of something like one-third or one-fourth of their heritage being mortal while the rest is some sort of mix of outsider bloodlines with emphasis on demons and devils although cambians themselves can breed with each other they usually sought out mortal mates to create tiefling children i suppose in regards to the hierarchy of fiend bloodlines this would be how a true tiefling is made as opposed to the general population we get to meet in the game just going by the eyes though i'd say zevlor makes the cut as a true tiefling but of course like any half breed of an outsider race your additional strengths are largely determined by your bloodlines meaning you could look the part with enhanced physical traits and nothing else or you could look the part and wield incredible powers that allow you to become an expert assassin great leader information broker or literally anything regardless of the path they chose in life they were always exceedingly ambitious and were often the catalyst for major events in the world although a good campaign isn't impossible these beings are usually always evil aligned and grow up as a bitter twisted loner due to not being accepted by either society that they were born from the upside to one of them being born on the material plane is a chance at having freedom in their lives sadly if they were born and abandoned in the abyss they'd grow up constantly being abused by other demons and i can't imagine that route yielding a high survival rate for them in general being abandoned in hell though they would at least have a chance to be used as soldiers in the blood war and now that zariel is in charge of avernus i feel like any discrimination from devil kin may have gone down a bit we've actually met a number of champions already there was the one that we briefly met in the dungeons underneath am in the second game the two siblings we defeated in icewindale2 and of course raphael and the group accompanying commander zulk in the starting zone of bg3 and yes if you've never noticed it before commander zalk on the nautoloid is also a cambian and so are the additional enemies that show up if you stick around too long during the fight since they all look alike and zok talks like they serve zario that tells us that they are all devil offspring champions fighting in the world war on the side of hell meanwhile raphael tells us immediately what he is with the wwe don't line but looking at the differences it's most likely zolk and the other soldiers were born and raised in hell while raphael was born having free reign across torel but then again it's also possible raphael is just tasked with collecting souls to send to zarya to be used in the war it's hard to tell really while souls are sought after by devils for the sake of the blood war it's for that very reason that they're worth so much as just currency among them something with high value to be traded amongst each other for different reasons looking at the surroundings we're teleported to when we meet raphael i'd say it's a safe bet we were in some city like waterdeep or baldur's gate i tried to spot anything at all in the environment that could give us a better clue as to where we were then it hit me he actually told us straight up where we were he was being literal when he called this place the house of hope after some digging i found out that the house of hope was actually a temple to the goddess of luck taimora in the city of tantras if you're unfamiliar with the name it's a city far to the east of the sword coast just next to symbia and cormanthor the city actually played a part in the avatar series of books that series was of course about the events during the time of troubles when the gods were forced to walk the world as mortals there was a number of deitic temples in the city known as the house of something but it looks like the lore of the city hasn't been touched since second edition all in all the city was known as a major hub for the faithful of torm the paladin god and over the course of the last hundred years has supposedly changed into a structured society with rigid class divisions dependent on socioeconomic and political power so with all this loosely in mind it seems like a perfect hiding spot for a cambian like raphael keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer seems to fit quite well here hypothetically he could be running this temple as a farce to trap people from time to time as a way to passively acquire souls and possibly provide sanctuary for other cambians if kambians truly are ambitious fellows with the capability to be the catalyst for big events this seems like the perfect place for him to be in figuring out his true intentions is another struggle entirely is he creating a haven for other cambians who knows is he plotting to enact another alteral incident possibly is he just one guy with a really nice thing going on and is just living his best life absolutely possible for now that is all i have for you on kambians and raphael if you liked this video be sure to like and subscribe to the channel and remember until next time stay safe out there [Music] you

Channel: McAllik

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Keywords: Baldur's Gate 3, Cambions, Raphael, Devils, D&D, Larian

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Length: 6min 35sec (395 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021