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After I saw the powers presented from accepting more tadpoles, combined with the warlocks “The great old one” pact… I wanted to make a character who was still… Good alighted, but decides to take the emperor up on his offer of evolution. In a way, the emperor kinda reminds me of the octolings in splatoon. Specifically DJ Octavio come splatoon 3. And that makes me wanna side with him. Maybe I’m just weird.

Nobody needs exploding tadpole in their noggin. Really the game should have made the tadpoles crawl out before killing them. Wouldn't that have made a fun cutscene.

wait ive only beaten the game by freeing orpheus, does he die if you don't?

I think if I was in Lae’zel’s position here, I’d head to Limbo and throw in with the Githzerai.

Emperor: Living my best life Tav: Astarion is dying Emperor: This ain't about him

Do we have to become illithid if we choose to ally ourselves with the Emperor and not free Orpheus?

My choices would be to first seek out Omeluum and learn from him to disquise myself from any outstanding influence, probably take over the abandonded Arcane Tower in the underdark for my main operations. Create a connection/agreement with the Emperor in Baldurs Gate and work in the shadows.

best ending obviously... he's hot and now you get to be together... what could be better??

I like this ending but I also really wish there was a way to stay with him without becoming a mind flayer. It makes absolutely no sense that it's not even an option to offer to rebuild the Knights of the Shields with him. I really hope they change that in future patches and give us another nice ending with him.

"They must have all died with the brain" So, now you have a roughly finger-sized dead worm behind your eye (or more like, between your brain and eye or even _in_ your brain) currently rotting? Oh yes, great. Joy. Can't see anything bad coming of that.

0:10 Nice save, Shadowheart 😂

I'd rather my character die than become a squid but this is cute, I guess. I would like the emperor more if he would just agree to freeing Orpheus.

Okay but what next! Gimme!

2 things: 1-why do we get a super ugly illithid form compared to the emperor? 2-no one realizes that having the rotting corpse of an illithid tadpole in their brain will kill them?

I think Withers is 100% wrong about mind flayers.

For some reason this ending feels the most natural to me. How I played it, Tav embraced the tadpole, became half-illithid and romanced the Emperor. So this feels natursl

Lae'zel might miss all the time in combat but I would still choose her over the "emperor" every time.

I hope they add a little more to the "romance route" with the Emperor. I really wanted to make a Tav for him, had the entire journey and major choices decided based on a careful and complex personality and backstory to carry on said choices. However, I feel no joy in playing the entire game again to have... this. Yeah yeah, mind flayers aren't known for being sentimental, but this purple flying squid flirted with me first. He has what it needs for a little bit more. I should at least feel like, if you accepted his advances, you two are "a little more" close than a simply partneship. Which is what feels for me in this ending, a simple and plain partneship. Give the monster-love fans their service. Even if is just crumbs, pleeease T-T P.s.: Im aware he's morally gray, and great chances every single thing he does and say is pure manipulation. That's why in my main save I said "DONT TRUST YOU" to his face at the end. But some characters have walking red flags endings, why not a questionable "romance" route and proper ending for the Emperor? I felt robbed here. His VA gives him so much charisma, I felt truly charmed by him, I wanted a little more ;-;

Yikes! How do you have 300 health?

My greatest regrets for this game is the fact that the only way you can stay with the emperor is to choose to became an illithid as him... But hey! I would like stay with him also in my humanoid form ! 😉 😅

The main reason I refuse to become a mindflayer and side with Balduran, is because I refuse to be a part of this comical "Don't talk to me or my son ever again" pairing

Besides the obvious thing you are showing here, how the hell did you reach 346 hitpoints?

346hp???

There needs to be an Emperor and Omellum interaction. Or another alternative ending with Omellum, at least he’s not a prick

Put yourself in prison

Absolute best ending! <3 Squidaddy!

Yeah no thank you. You are bound by your illithid urges and need to consume sentient brains. You by your very nature cannot coexist with other races. You already are developing a superiority complex. You’re going to end up like ascended Astorian. You are a memory husk with no soul. The emperor is a manipulative liar with the same complex. If you want to be evil go right ahead become a mindflayer but this is not a “good” ending. Even with the netherbrain destroyed.

My headcannon is that my Tav is partners with the Emperor, curbing his morally grey tendencies. She's still will Halsin for however long they both want (or until he dies). The Emperor eventually sees Tav as a true partner and they are together for the rest of their lives. Tav tries to do at least 1 good act every time the Emperor does something less than moral.

I wonder what happens with the new party epilogues if you choose this.

346 health????

Nah! Just eat emperor brain, simple way

"I couldn't have asked for a better thra- I mean companion!" - The Emperor

Thank you for posting this. I was actually wondering if there was an outcome where he doesn't just leave at the end. I found it disappointing that there was no option to ask him to stay or ask to go with him. There should be a dialogue option for this even if you don't become a Mind Flayer. Just watching him walk away without a word makes no sense given everything you've been through, especially if you've befriended and/or romanced him. I hope this is something they might change in future patches.

Larion is on a roll with these post release patches and hotfixes. I reckon if we ask hard enough, they might go out of their way and add an ending where he's present with everyone else at Wither's party.

They look like theyre hula hooping

Tldr you turn into a twink mindflayer ending

Fk i hate lae'zel. Most annoying character ever

I'm so sad! I didn't get this at all. I don't know if it's bugging or if it's related to the amount of tadpoles my Tav consumed in my HM run, but everyone including the Emp tried to talk my Tav out of changing. I never got a conversation with Emp after the final battle and it was really ominous dialogue from the narrator only. In the epilogue I had to watch my party all being happy to see me while I made roll after roll to avoid murdering everyone 😢. It kinda put a damper on the HM completion, because I honestly thought there might be a little hunger but ffs Emp and Omeluum managed to not be brain crazed weirdos 🤦 Anyway, thank you for posting this. It's exhausting constantly being told we're wrong/delusional when these scenes so rarely trigger and no-one believes they exist. 💜

Wanted to see more and rhe full end scene

,,No more grand design'' - nope. Every ilithid has a potential of evolving into another elder brain. So as long as there is a single one entire world is at risk. Even more so since Orpheus is dead now.

He is putting his foot down and with what he is saying I can not blame him. You have to meow for your rights.

Do you have to also be a mind flayer to get this ending?

Them Mindflayers movin them hips haha 😂

Sucks how the Emperor is 10000% exaggerating his appreciation for Tav so they feel indispensible, meanwhile Emps will be looking for ways to ensure it comes out on top if there are any power struggles. Like, the Emperor talks about its "great friendship" with Duke Stelmane when they ran the Knights of the Shield together. However, it actually psychically attacked her, making her suffer a debilitating stroke and putting her in a coma for days while they psionicly battled for control of her mind. The Emperor won, gaining a well connected and intelligent pawn to use for like a decade.

it's wild that the narrator is telling you that "whatever self you possess is quickly ebbing away" when if Karlach is the Mindflayer she shows up to the six month reunion still very much in possession of her personality and moral alignment.

Omg, "there's only room for one mindflayer, eat its brain" 😂

How do you have 346 hp there? even a gold dwarf barbarian with the tough feat, the Amulet of Greater Health and a level 6 aid spell you'd only have like 234 at most.

I really wished to get this ending, I turned into a mindflayer, sided with the emperor... but for some reason I didn't get it. I got all the interactions with all the other characters except the Emperor. I am really not sure what I did wrong :[[[ I hope it is not because he died when I was fighting the netherbrain... Cause If it is, Ima have to refight it.

Epilogue: Mind Flayers are careless monstrosities. Omellum: Am I a joke to you?

I like to think the special tadpole you were given has changed you into something new, a free mindflayer whilst you still have the nature of one you are more free to define yourself much like the freed emperor was but perhaps you don't even need anything to suppress control seen as the tadpole was created by combining it with Orpheus power. I like to think you'd go on to create a new free faction of Mindflayers who keep their personality and will intact. Doesn't make sense after such bizarre circumstances you'd just end up another average mindflayer despite the special tadpole you possess.