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How do you know if you are *** (SPOILER)?

Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
Does your mum tell you? I imagine it must be a pretty awkward conversation.

Mum: "There's been something I've been meaning to tell you for a while now. There's no easy way of saying this. You are the spawn of Bhaal."

Child: "What? Mum! You had sex with the Lord of Murder? How could you possibly think that was a good idea?'

Mum: "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time."
Post edited by JuliusBorisov on
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  • tbone1tbone1 Member Posts: 1,985
    I can see this becoming a Jeff Foxworthy parody.

    If your soul scares a Drow priestess, y'might be a Bhaalspawn.
    sarevok57ZaghoulThacoBell
  • OlvynChuruOlvynChuru Member Posts: 3,075
    Chnapy said:

    Well it's fairly easy : Bhaalspawn's bodies turn to dust when they die, and cannot be brought back to life. Pay someone to raise you then kill yourself. If you get raised that means you weren't a Bhaalspawn.

    Then how come you can bring
    Imoen
    back to life?
    sarevok57Zaghoul
  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811

    Chnapy said:

    Well it's fairly easy : Bhaalspawn's bodies turn to dust when they die, and cannot be brought back to life. Pay someone to raise you then kill yourself. If you get raised that means you weren't a Bhaalspawn.

    Then how come you can bring
    Imoen
    back to life?
    That is their inherit power.
  • scriverscriver Member Posts: 2,072

    Chnapy said:

    Well it's fairly easy : Bhaalspawn's bodies turn to dust when they die, and cannot be brought back to life. Pay someone to raise you then kill yourself. If you get raised that means you weren't a Bhaalspawn.

    Then how come you can bring
    Imoen
    back to life?
    A horrible awful thing called story and gameplay segregation.
    UnderstandMouseMagicShikaoArtona
  • jsavingjsaving Member Posts: 1,083
    You can bring
    Imoen
    back to life because
    the devs didn't envision her being a Bhaalspawn when they wrote BG1 and didn't want to create an inconsistency by suddenly changing that in BG2.
    But you're right that strictly according to game lore, you shouldn't be able to raise her.


    ThacoBell
  • sarevok57sarevok57 Member Posts: 5,975
    jsaving said:

    You can bring

    Imoen
    back to life because
    the devs didn't envision her being a Bhaalspawn when they wrote BG1 and didn't want to create an inconsistency by suddenly changing that in BG2.
    But you're right that strictly according to game lore, you shouldn't be able to raise her.


    ah, but there was another bhaalspawn brought back to life:
    Sarevok, although he did use some tom foolery to do so


    so the idea that bhaalspawn peeps cant necessarily be brought to life might not be the true meaning of what differentiates bhaal spawn from non bhaal spawn

  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    tbone1 said:

    I can see this becoming a Jeff Foxworthy parody.

    If your soul scares a Drow priestess, y'might be a Bhaalspawn.

    If a Hooded Man starts following you around, y'might be a Bhaalspawn.
    ZaghoulSkatansarevok57ThacoBell
  • ZaghoulZaghoul Member, Moderator Posts: 3,938
    If you got into an argument with some guy at your local sawmill over the last 4x4 post (or Yeti 110 ;) ) for your underground cavern complex, and find that last nights dream allowed you to drain the life outa the other guy... ya just might be a Bhaalspawn.
  • ArtonaArtona Member Posts: 1,077
    Child: "What? Mum! You had sex with the Lord of Murder? How could you possibly think that was a good idea?'
    Mum: "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time."


    Well, he was a god. He had to have high Charisma, right?

    Permidion_Stark
  • tbone1tbone1 Member Posts: 1,985

    tbone1 said:

    I can see this becoming a Jeff Foxworthy parody.

    If your soul scares a Drow priestess, y'might be a Bhaalspawn.

    If a Hooded Man starts following you around, y'might be a Bhaalspawn.
    If you can suck the life out of a room just by walking in, literally, y'might be a Bhaalspawn.


  • Permidion_StarkPermidion_Stark Member Posts: 4,861
    Artona said:

    Child: "What? Mum! You had sex with the Lord of Murder? How could you possibly think that was a good idea?'
    Mum: "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time."


    Well, he was a god. He had to have high Charisma, right?
    Well yes, and he's got that 'bad boy' thing going for him. But it's all the more reason to practice safe sex in my opinion.

    Balrog99
  • Montresor_SPMontresor_SP Member Posts: 2,208
    sarevok57 said:

    jsaving said:

    You can bring

    Imoen
    back to life because
    the devs didn't envision her being a Bhaalspawn when they wrote BG1 and didn't want to create an inconsistency by suddenly changing that in BG2.
    But you're right that strictly according to game lore, you shouldn't be able to raise her.


    ah, but there was another bhaalspawn brought back to life:
    Sarevok, although he did use some tom foolery to do so


    so the idea that bhaalspawn peeps cant necessarily be brought to life might not be the true meaning of what differentiates bhaal spawn from non bhaal spawn

    Ah yes, but
    Sarevok
    was brought back to life using
    a part of your or Imoen's Bhaal essence
    and they came back no longer a Bhaalspawn.

    Imoen
    on the other hand is a pretty big plot hole.
    sarevok57recklessheartStummvonBordwehr
  • jsavingjsaving Member Posts: 1,083
    edited September 2017
    The solar explains at the beginning of ToB that
    the Bhaal essences scattered across his progeny must be rejoined through the deaths of each Bhaalspawn, whose divine essences then return to the source seen at the end of BG1.
    The in-game lore is silent on whether it is possible to resurrect Bhaalspawn after
    their divine essences have rejoined the pool, though the complete crumbling of the Bhaalspawns' mortal shells after death would rule out the game's resurrection spells which require bodies or at least body parts to function properly.
    This is why Sarevok needed CHARNAME to
    do the resurrection some other way, and even then, it wasn't possible to bring Sarevok back with his divine essence intact as it had already entered the pool.


    Imoen is different, because
    the devs changed her into a Bhaalspawn for BG2 after previously envisioning her as a normal human in BG1. Because the devs viewed her as a normal human in BG1, she could be resurrected like any other normal human without her body crumbling to dust. The devs were thus faced with a difficult conundrum, because the intended shock of discovering Imoen's Bhaalspawn status in BG2 would have been nullified if they retroactively patched BG1 to make her non-resurrectable (because you would see her body crumbling to dust in BG1 and realize the two of you share a common heritage, which you then inexplicably wouldn't be able to explore or even ask her about until BG2).


    This does represent a plot hole, yes, but the cause is out-of-game human error rather than inconsistent in-game lore.

    ThacoBellPermidion_StarkMirandelbrunardo
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,714
    Added the spoiler warning to the title. You know, there're those new players of the BG franchise who still are about to find out the main fact.
    Montresor_SP
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