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Baldur's Gate Who Am I?

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  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    I am a leader of my fellows. Small we are, yet we hide among the large. We are hunted by many but we can hold our own. If things get too dangerous we may flee or I will draw upon the power of my disease. We are a bit of a mystery.
  • ShYarivShYariv Member Posts: 119
    Chinchilla.
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    edited November 2016
    Wow... That was fast... @ShYariv is next.

    For those who are wondering, Chinchilla has lycanthropy, which is the disease I was referring to. The rest should be pretty obvious.
  • ShYarivShYariv Member Posts: 119
    This one should be easy:

    I am not from where I'm going to.
    I've been there already once before - It was quite popular in the old days.
    Hmm, there's another dimension to it, and it will be popular once again!
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    I know the answer, but I am going to give someone else a turn for now.
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Sounds like Lord Foreshadow, @ShYariv.

    @Mush_Mush, @Tresset - no wonder I couldn't figure out @Mush_Mush's riddle, I've no idea who Kholynnus Paac is. Caould one of you explain who he is and why he's the answer, please?
  • ShYarivShYariv Member Posts: 119
    It is indeed Lord Foreshadow, @Gallowglass. :smile:
    He references the Neverwinter Nights game that was in early development back then (when BG1 came out), and mentions the original online Neverwinter Nights.
  • Mush_MushMush_Mush Member Posts: 476

    @Mush_Mush, @Tresset - no wonder I couldn't figure out @Mush_Mush's riddle, I've no idea who Kholynnus Paac is. Caould one of you explain who he is and why he's the answer, please?

    She is a Mage that helps return the Solamnic Knights back to their home plane. You can hire her for 9000 gold and in return you are awarded the golden girdle from Reyna. It's during the planar sphere stronghold questline.
  • gorgonzolagorgonzola Member Posts: 3,864
    What is funny is that, at least in the original, you can first kill her in the last of the battles with Cowled Wizards if you don't pay the license and than hire her to deal with the Solamnics.
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    @Mush_Mush - ah yes, now I remember! I haven't done the Mage stronghold for quite some time, and I'd forgotten about her. Thanks very much for explaining. And thanks for a good riddle!

    Now I've got to think of one, give me a few minutes.
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Okay, here's one for you ...

    I tell the truth, I say!
    Hand-waving will get you nowhere.
    I hear Dorn is pretty wearing.
  • Mush_MushMush_Mush Member Posts: 476
    Gaal?
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    No. Keep trying ...
  • Mush_MushMush_Mush Member Posts: 476
    Hm, Dorotea?
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Still no ... although I agree that Dorothea almost fits the clues. I'm afraid it's a little more obscure and cryptic than that, though!
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    No-one has offered a solution for a while, so I guess I've again made it pretty difficult. Time for a helpful hint, I reckon ...

    The first clue is literal.
    The second clue is deductive.
    The third clue is cryptic (like a crossword cryptic).
  • RelSundanRelSundan Member Posts: 918
    I think we need another clue..
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Yep, looks like I'm still being too obscure. Okay ...

    Trading with me is idiomatically almost worthless.
  • SkatanSkatan Member, Moderator Posts: 5,352
    Lucky Aello?
  • Mush_MushMush_Mush Member Posts: 476

    Still no ... although I agree that Dorothea almost fits the clues. I'm afraid it's a little more obscure and cryptic than that, though!

    Damn, I thought Gaal was a good fit too...

    1. He claims to speak the truth and his whole gig is about knowing the truth
    2. He's blind
    3. He is (sortof) in earshot of where you find Dorn.

    :)
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    @Skatan - no.

    @Mush_Mush - I agree that Gaal fits the first two clues, but he doesn't really fit the third, nor indeed the fourth clue I gave as a hint. (But I've already warned you that the third clue is a cryptic, not a literal!)

    Further hint: if you can figure out which particular idiom the fourth clue is referring to, the answer will be obvious even without the original three clues.
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Aw heck, this is getting too long without a solution! Obviously I've gone and made it too difficult again.

    Summoning @Jaheiras_Witness as OP and @Tresset and @Montresor_SP as leading solvers: is it within the rules, guys, for me simply to declare myself the winner of my own riddle (because no-one is solving it), and offer another instead?
  • Mush_MushMush_Mush Member Posts: 476
    I'm still intrigued but the cryptic clue is wasted on me I'm terrible at those kinds of things :D

    Perhaps if you just say which game the character appears in to narrow down a little?
  • FrancoisFrancois Member Posts: 452
    edited November 2016
    Is it (and this is really a shot in the dark) Reginald Longtooth Worthington III?

    He is certainly idiomatically worthless but I don't remember his script to know if he really fits the other clues.
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    @Mush_Mush - this one's from BG2.

    @Francois - nope.
  • gorgonzolagorgonzola Member Posts: 3,864
    Sassar?
  • Mush_MushMush_Mush Member Posts: 476
    Fael?
  • Mush_MushMush_Mush Member Posts: 476
    Oh! is it Jahaboam?
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    @gorgonzola - no. (Further hint: blindness is not the explanation for the second clue.)

    @Mush_Mush - no and no. (I see you're focussing on the trading implication of the fourth clue ... Fael may be closer to the right sort of thinking than Jahaboam.)
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Hmmm, still no-one figuring this out. Okay, one more helpful hint ... this time a big one which really ought to narrow it down enough for someone to crack the riddle:-

    The solution is in the Underdark.

    (Now if even that doesn't shake loose a winner, I'm going to give up on this one and try to think of an easier riddle instead.)
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