The Nightsong, Halsin and Ketheric City | Baldur's Gate 3 Story Spoilers

hello my name's chublot but because we're friends you can call me chublot story spoilers considered by many to be the most egregious form of spoiler in the world if you don't want to be spoiled for several plot points of baldur's gate 3 then may i suggest this video of penguins walking through the snow oh that's so cute in this video however we'll be discussing the night song halsen's connection to the shadow curse and what lies beyond the current endpoint for early access this video will contain data mined content and very explicit story spoilers as always if you're enjoying this content please consider subscribing and leaving a like on the video from information presented in game the night song appears to be a powerful artifact that ariden's ill-fated crew were seeking it's called the night song supposed to be hidden under the temple where the goblins jumped us on behalf of the wizard laroakin yeah that guy the names roland and leroican will be known far and wide sure jan and at the mention of the night song big druid daddy halsim was more than willing to abandon his circle despite an influx of refugees and murderous goblins which if we're being honest doesn't quite add up like many of the plot points introduced into early access so far we haven't got the full picture just yet please keep in mind that datamined content is subject to change take everything you're about to see with a healthy dose of skepticism first and foremost the question isn't what is the night song but rather who is the ninth song loading in with various models in place of your players model isn't the most difficult thing in the world most of the models you're going to see are already floating around on the internet but here are a few sort of interesting ones that i've not seen mentioned yet gilligan is listed as duke apprentice in the game files suggesting he's well an apprentice with some connection to a duke and then there's this very big boy listed in the game files as not for ea shadow cursed harper officer no idea why his model is so massive but as it's only a placeholder i assume it doesn't mean much there are also entries for the dream people of origin characters although all but one loaded in with a basic model for me the exception was wills which is his patron mizora there were also four placeholder models for dream people and several seem to have unique voice lines for spell casting otherwise i couldn't figure out what they're going to be used for anyway the one we're here to talk about is the night song this is the character linked to the shadow step ability that i mentioned in my previous video in fact she has several unique skills that rely heavily on an apparently unimplemented light check some of her abilities are only intended to work in darkness if these placeholder abilities are anything to go by i imagine a later fight with the night song could be very gimmicky i suppose that doesn't really answer the question of who is she who is she who is she where did you find her so let's hear it in her own words shah is the night singer and i am her night song i am her instrument transforming the faithful into shadows i drink their sorrow their loss their grief then i vomit it back into the world i've been here for centuries thousands of sharons came here seeking my kiss all of them are shadows now that is shah's only reward and while having a stable career sounds like a pretty good thing at the moment i want to sing my own song not shars not cataracts the night song hates her job sorry the night song doesn't feel like she's flourishing in the position she currently feels in this organization and like any good npc in an rpg she has a quest for you although i'm not too sure hr would be happy with it i was captured by ketheric he turned me into this creature find ketherick kill him so i can be free but in times like these i'm reminded of advice that my grandmother always used to give me just because a several hundred year old avatar of a dark goddess with the power to turn people into shadows in an epithet that sounds like she made it using a facebook quiz asks you to do something doesn't mean you have to do it a man a chooses obeys she must have been playing the long game with that one like with most major questlines in the game there are several ways to resolve the night song issue you can choose to kill her leave her to her fate or try to free her from the curse provided she survives the encounter you can ask her opinion on your tadpole that thing in your head must be incredibly powerful to resist a goddess perhaps it's also divine in nature and if you play your cards right it looks like the lips of darkness can become a camp follower what happens if by the time you reach the night song you're feeling especially murder hoboey well sir and or madam and or other i have good news there's an npc you can meet that wants you to kill the knight song his story is kind of long and there's not really much to show you in game but please allow me to give you a synopsis of the synopsis severin is a necromancer who was trapped in the same temple as the night song after he tried to claim her power they've been locked in battle ever since throwing shadows and skeletons at each other with no progress on either side when the player shows up severan sees an opportunity and tries to convince the party to stab the night song with a special dagger that will absorb her power sevren also has an apprentice and like any good sith the student wants to kill the master you can choose to help him with this but severin is already aware of his student's plot if you work with severan he can try and help out with your tadpole problem but the slimy bugger creeps him out too much and i think it's saying something when a necromancer is spooked by a poliwag [Music] but the knight song isn't the only interesting character related to shah she mentions a man named kethryk several times i can't show you the man himself but i am able to show you his city if you manage to slip past the cut scene at the current end of early access you'll find yourself in a dwegar camp referred to in the game files as ketheric city the area itself is actually pretty complete just lacking a bit of polish here assuming you didn't launch him into low orbit you can meet the windmill gnome and big surprise he's in trouble again there's three gnomes trapped behind these rocks stuck with a drow and i suppose you could crush these rocks when all of us barely made a dent you can also meet the infinitely punchable true soul near finally as for these defective slaves they caused the cave-in eliminate them he grasps your mind and claws it open rage floods your senses you have to kill assuming you help barca survive his second round of misfortune you can invite him to join you at your camp certainly not i'll rest when i've sussed out walbrin's whereabouts i was unlucky twice the odds of being unlucky a third time are very slim then again a small rest might be prudent give me time to think show me where to go and i'll try my luck in game we get several references to ketherik from books in the grove the majority through a fan fiction account of the fall of moonrise written by a druid called rhone featherway which features a self-insert character that might give ebony darkness dementia ravenway a run for her money but halsin's writings also mention ketherick by name so what connection does halsen have to kethrick and to the shadow curse i'm glad for your help but i'd hoped you were helsing so i am confusion well you can ask him why he seems so invested in the curse but he doesn't really give you a straight answer there's hardly anyone left to share the responsibility with few who witnessed the fall of moonrise still draw breath so i guess i'll have to do it for him i'll do it myself one of helsin's diary entries mentions someone called isabelle she was killed by halsin using the glaive now hidden under the grove and isabel was ketheric's daughter halsem believes that reflexively killing her when she randomly attacked him is what pushed kethryk to unleash the shadow curse this whole subplot is pretty interesting as we have clear evidence that part of it changed during development the file dealing with isabelle's death notes that halsen stabbed her with a dagger rather than a glaive and when you pick up the glaive the voice line still refers to it as a dagger the dagger the druids notebook mentioned its owner thought it was cursed the dagger in question is still present in the game files now named the dagger of shah it's likely that this is the final form of the dagger that you can use to drain the night song's powers it deals additional necrotic damage to any enemy not standing in sunlight which makes it a pretty powerful dagger to skulk around the underdark with and significantly better than the sorrow which does psychic damage to the wielder when they land a hit also of note in catholic city is this creepy underlying tendril of plot someone or something is whispering in the ears of people around the fort the voice isn't too picky as it's even speaking to the deep prophet the voices hiding in the rock say go go to them free us free everyone take us to the temple at the temple there is no whipping no pain though it has less success with true soul near in the meantime i the drow suddenly stops as a whisper envelops you stealing your breath for a brief moment your minds connect and you feel the true soul shudder you carefully pick at the shiver peeling it apart fear grips your heart the whispers just won't stop now fortunately or unfortunately i really don't know which isabelle's death was about as permanent as any marvel character not named uncle ben several files refer to her still being around sitting on a tomb and offering players quizzes and milk as you do which may explain this line that smell is that milk it isn't totally clear if the isabella game is the real isabel an apparition or some sort of undead but what is clear is that she's in possession of a very powerful weapon which we'll have to talk about next time because now all that's left for me to do is to thank you for watching so thank you esteban julio ricardo montoya de la rosa ramirez for watching bye go on we must not dawdle

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Keywords: baldur's gate 3, baldursgate, chubblot, datamine, datamining, spoilers, nightsong, halsin, ketheric, bg3, baldursgate3, baldursgateiii

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Length: 11min 42sec (702 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 27 2020