The entire evil ending is badass. Imagine attacking friggin' Vlaakith right in her throne room with a friggin' red dragon and an army of githyanki *and* illithid lol
Lae'zel of creche Sigma: > Gets lost in foreign land > Defeats the Absolute and dominates it > "HAIL QUEEN VLAAKITH. THE LAST OF HER NAME." > Refuses to elaborate > Leaves
The funny thing is... For the Githyanki, this is probably the best ending. Also nice touch showing Vlaakith concerned/afraid considering how she carried herself throughout the game
@@sharpasacueball Yes and no. It all depends on how you interpret Lazels control of the elder brain. Is she does have full controll then Ilithids now are the slaves
@@kleszczoros4885 Yep this just seems like a lawful evil ending where Laezel kills vlaaktih but also uses the mind flayers as slaves now and forever. Not necessarily a moral ending but still good for the githyanki empire
I think it's a matter of perspective, the ending implies Lae'zel is off to face Vlaakith with this massive Illithid and Gith army and wants to become queen herself. Her morals concerning the liberation of her people are still there, whether her zeal makes her a better or worse queen than Vlaakith remains to be seen
In a hilarious way this would be a canon choice for a githyanki. 1: The illithid is enslaved. Pulling a uno-reverso on the idea that back during the illithid empire. 2: Queen Vlakith is slain. 3: The githyanki now have the means to complete their ultimate goal, which is actually enslaving the entire universe.
people tend to forget that generally speaking in FR lore, the Githyanki are the personification of the idea that 'I went through hardship, therefore EVERYONE should go through it, but worse, and caused by me' that a lot of boomers and/or conservatives believe in irl
@@SkoomaDenDenisen It's not a flex, it's an interesting note about their philosophy and a possible reason they were written that way. I don't know for sure if that was the intent but it's fun to consider.
@@Wveth I doubt it was the intention for a bunch of DnD game creators to base their ideas off of boomer conservatives. If they did, it'd be based on a cooler concept. I'm just saying, bringing up conservatives and boomers into a fictional discussion about fictional beings is just odd. Plus I'm going to be blunt, the Githyanki are cool and creative by design. I never saw them as conservative boomers and I still don't. I prefer modern politics out of my games, tyvm.
@@SkoomaDenDenisen so what? the author's intention doesnt have to be taken into account when interpreting any piece of media, it has literally no influence over their meaning.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket No, but he's using the Mind Control powers of the Absolute to render all the people into Atheist, cutting off the Gods from their prayors wich grants them more strength, and since he is not a real god and is attacking Elysium and not the Material Plane, he's out of Ao's judgement.
@@shindoliferp250yearschroni5 Wouldn't it meddle with godhood business so therefore Ao could intervene? If so then he stands no chance although without Ao he does pose a real threat against the gods, even if he doesn't wage war he can just cut the ties of their followers, clerics, paladins etc.
@@elliottcrain3097 Gods always keep meddling against eachother's business. The Dead Three specificaly made this plan so that they could weaken all the other gods to bring them down, they are quite carefull of Ao's rules because they are too scared to lose their godhood. Gale is just doing exactly what the Dead Three sought to do (well the Original Plan, not the ones each had for themselves) so I think Gale is actually in this scenario is not in Ao's radar.
@@nguyentandung42 That’s very true, although if there is any companion I’d trust to have the willpower not to give into such corruption and stick to their principles, it would be Lae’zel. She knows exactly her worth, both its heights and its limits. Not saying she wouldn’t be corrupted, but but she has the best chance not to be out of all the origins.
"A good githyanki knows her enemy but also knows that a good weapon should not be cast aside as long as it remains useful" I'd argue that means that Lae'zel would not consider that under this ending 🤔
A reminder, Vlaakith is only CR 23 in the game itself. With how dragons are often overstatted for their CR, shes about even with an ancient dragon. There is a very good reason shes sweating bullets here. (and she has less than half the hp of an ancient dragon to make up the fact she can cast Wish. which is what she uses to kill you in the cutscene early on in the game if you defy her.)
@@ovencake523 They're just at most young or adults. But yes the ancients are stronger than her. Granted she has a unique protection that chromatic dragons specifically can't fight against her otherwise they'll piss off Tiamant and she'll deal with them. (She got this deal by feeding the previous gith ruler to tiamant.)
Likely the Absolute thing cuts the dragons off from Tiamat, like how Absolute Gale makes everyone atheist so he can kill the gods. This would allow Absolute Lae'zel to attack Vlaakith with the dragons.
@@Olafmikli oh didnt know that. hm imagine the Elder brain in Warhammer 40k. could it stop the chaos gods by making the cult of the absolute? The tadpooled people still have souls though. In 40k, it's emotions that fuel the chaos gods, mot belief ig it wouldnt work
Well, at least this has a major silver lining to it. I assume this is if you turned against Vlaakith. If Lae'zel was still on Vlaakith's side, yeesh, that could get dark.
This would actually be evil if Lae'zel mind controlled the populace of Baldurs Gate to be her army in the overthrow of Vlaakith. But the way its presented here isn't really evil.
I’d assume by the fact that she said hail vlaaketh last of her name she intends to use her power against her too. Plus the way the gith came through the portal
@@baseupp12 those GIthyanki had damaged armour, those were Gith fighting in Baldurs Gate againts the mind flayers, they weren't random citizens that were transformed.
@@NazinskyShe is a mythic level wizard (+20 level) she might not be a literal god, but that is just a technicality. A mythic wizard is arguably stronger than a god's avatar on the material plane anyways since they are not restricted in how they can act.
She is one of those big names in the dnd base lore so probably they can't kill her just like that, but Laezel succeding in her campaign wouldnt be the craziest headcanon
@@m0epinator To the brainwashed Gith, yeah, but to those who are in the know like Voss, it is a better ending, although still not the preferred seeing as Orpheus would've been the better option, I'm sure Voss would find Lae'zel acceptable if Orpheus was dead at this point as you can convince him to still help you.
It's good in theory but I suspect the implications are that instead of liberating the Githyanki like Orpheus intended to do, Lae'zel is simply disposing of one tyrant only to replace her with another: herself.
@@Cassandra_Solidor Unless you made Lae'zel really really evil, I think she's fine as a Githyanki morally, not as a normal person obviously but as a Githyanki she clearly sees the virtue in Orpheus and sees through Vlaakith's lies and is knowledgeable about what Gith truly want.
Vlaakith got what was coming to her. Pretty sad that you either have to: Become the absolute as Laezel, become a mindflayer as the player character or have to make Karlach a mindflayer in order to have a realstic chance of beating her.
@@sidecharacter7165 still he can't meddle in those affairs as a God. She is not a God. Also killing her would ultimately intervene with the gith- mortals. That's enough to be restricted. Ao would punish him
I wanted to see Vlaakith death... And epic scene on throne, you know, Lae'zel sitting there. Next to her previous queen body. Arthas as Lich King music is good audio background ☺️
This looks like the true ending if I'm being honest. Without a custom player character, the only one who's really suited to the setting on the ship is Lae'Zel, and because of the actual overarching story of Gith vs Mindflayers. it's a suiting end that she overthrows the person responsible for the mess in the first place. The "Canon" ending if the series were to continue. With this ending, the Gith and the Mindflayers all also leave the planet and things will gradually return to normal, as normal as D&D gets at least.
To all those that say Vlaakith would just use a wish spell, you do understand that a wish spell can be counterspelled and or resisted right? Yeah, don't think this is going to be a easy fight for her. Especially with what all Laezel is bringing with her and Vlaakith doesn't have Orpheus to protect her from the power of the Neterbrain.
I disagree I think there is something beautifully poetic about the minflayers ending up as slaves to gith rather than the other way round as was historically the case
Vlaakith is a fake god, but she’s still a high level Lich who’s been sitting on top of the corpse of a god and siphoning divine magic out of it for a millennia. She can cast Wish repeatedly and has a system to allow her to avoid the risk of rebound. In game terms, she is something like a level 25 Wizard/Lich, and canonically eats the soul of any Githyanki who gets to level 16. She can kill all the dominated Gith who just teleported in, in the same way she hypothetically kills the party. The threat that made her worried shouldn’t have been that a bunch of comparatively low-level gith suddenly enter her throne room with weapons drawn - what should have happened is Lae’ zel used the psionic powers of the Absolute to telepathically broadcast to the entire Gith empire in the astral plane the truth about Vlaakith, instantly destroying her cult of worship, while also using the enhanced powers of the Elder Brain to locate and obtain Vlaakith’s phylactory. Then she’s properly fucked on both the divine and arcane front.
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I mean.... Idk if this is the worst thing for the Githyanki lol all depends how in control Baezel actually is, because her using the squids to overthrow vlakith is cool with me, but idk if thats where her ambitions would end so long run definitely not the best for everyone.
Honestly, this is the best possible ending for Lae’zel, even though she killed Orpheus. I wonder if you can still get this ending if you transform into an Illithid?
personally i would have opted for something as ambitous as gales, the gith will never be made because the illithid empire will never rise and neither species will ever be. laezel has the power to end the cycle of ilithid once and for all, after so many plans they have finally completley failed, the future has been changed.
Larian needs to include a gag ending that only happens on Christmas day were Lae'Zel goes gets all the power then warps to Who'ville and steals all the presents.
so Lae'Zel, in a way, not the same, but kind of went the Killmonger route? Killmonger "killed" T'Challa and took over Wakanda to fight for his ideals, no matter how gruesome it maybe, and he'll probably only focus on his intent to gain power. Lae'Zel took over the slavers of their kind, Illithid Empire, even ousted Vlaakith... but to what end? I wonder if she plans to take all of the universe. Man, a duel boss fight of Vlaakith vs OP Ilitthid Powered Lae'Zel would be nice too
She has gotta make Sure to empty vlaakith's wish spell slots and find every phylactery she has pooped out across the astral sea though. But a githyanki elderbrain army is a good start.
And then Vlaakith proceed to cast Wish, or Time Stop, or Power Word Kill, or one of many 7-9th level spells that immediatel dispatch of Laezel and the room of mind controlled gith.
What happens if you fail the constitution test? Do you lose control over yourself? Also, why the karlach evil ending (i just watched it) didnt trigger the same test?
I haven't personally played, but my guess is that it's triggered by using too many tadpoles. I don't know how many. And I assume if you fail the Con save you turn into a mindflayer
Evil? Yes, but also like, kinda badass. I could totally see Laezel doing this. Not killing everyone for no reason, but killing Vlaakith and taking over the region.
These endings don't really make sense to me, could someone explain them? Orpheus' power was the only thing keeping the tadpoles from mind flaying us. The netherbrain had grown beyond the power of the stones. So...once Orpheus is dead what is stopping the brain from just going "wow you're dumb, welcome to mindflayer life" Am I missing something?
The way I see it the midflayer in our party did the hard part of subduing the netherbrain and reestablishing the crowns control over it. Remember the brain only got loose after one stone was unclaimed. The PC then promptly murders MFNPC before order to kill itself is issued and picks up the control where it was left off. Ultimately this is a VERY risky move. If the brain got loose again we would be a MF in no time as you said because Orpheus is dead, and his power is gone with him. But being evil is worth the risk I guess.
because the brain atp already choose to surrender itself to you, it thinks more like a computer than a mind. It will follow a master either willingly by defeating it or unwilling as with the dead 3 tried with the crown of karsus
@@elevatedmeance6807 but surely the death of the one thing that was stopping it from turning you would be grounds to reassess the situation, no? Without Orpheus (or Emperor) you don't beat the brain at all.
@@juanlaise1059 Wasn't the whole point of that final arc the brain had grown beyond the power of the stones, and it took a mindflayer's mind to be able to wield them against it? With Orpheus out of the way, what's stopping the brain from just...overcoming the stones again, like it does to us right before the invasion segment? Granted, I won't rule out that I might have missed something in that end, it's been a while since I've replayed the final chapter (because I keep starting over as different classes.)
Ona scale from zero to "Vlakith sitting in her throneroom minding her own. When suddenly a bunch of portals burst open pouring an army of Gith, Mindlfayers and an ascended all powerful godess Lae'zel riding a red dragon." How fucked are you?
The best evil ending in the game, Durge go hide in the corner. Lae is literally undoing eons of slavery by Vlaakith and Illithid empire. Truly a remarkable feat.
"Hail Queen Vlaakith. The last of Her name" is such a BADASS line omg
@@Cassandra_Solidor Badass indeed.
Goes as hard as Scar's "Long live the king"
The entire evil ending is badass. Imagine attacking friggin' Vlaakith right in her throne room with a friggin' red dragon and an army of githyanki *and* illithid lol
YESSSSS
"How 'bout goodbye?" - Commander Shepard
Astarion: "We could do it you know. Rule the world?"
Lae'zel: "What do you mean *WE* ?"
Based. Astarion is the absolute last peson that should have any kind of Power.
Lae'zel of creche Sigma:
> Gets lost in foreign land
> Defeats the Absolute and dominates it
> "HAIL QUEEN VLAAKITH. THE LAST OF HER NAME."
> Refuses to elaborate
> Leaves
"We? HAHAHAHA!... 'WE'."
The funny thing is... For the Githyanki, this is probably the best ending. Also nice touch showing Vlaakith concerned/afraid considering how she carried herself throughout the game
Aren't they now slaves to tentacle monsters again?
@@sharpasacueball Yes and no. It all depends on how you interpret Lazels control of the elder brain. Is she does have full controll then Ilithids now are the slaves
@@kleszczoros4885 Yep this just seems like a lawful evil ending where Laezel kills vlaaktih but also uses the mind flayers as slaves now and forever. Not necessarily a moral ending but still good for the githyanki empire
my favourite thing in any game is to always put down Any would be (GODS) like her
I think it's a matter of perspective, the ending implies Lae'zel is off to face Vlaakith with this massive Illithid and Gith army and wants to become queen herself. Her morals concerning the liberation of her people are still there, whether her zeal makes her a better or worse queen than Vlaakith remains to be seen
In a hilarious way this would be a canon choice for a githyanki.
1: The illithid is enslaved. Pulling a uno-reverso on the idea that back during the illithid empire.
2: Queen Vlakith is slain.
3: The githyanki now have the means to complete their ultimate goal, which is actually enslaving the entire universe.
people tend to forget that generally speaking in FR lore, the Githyanki are the personification of the idea that 'I went through hardship, therefore EVERYONE should go through it, but worse, and caused by me' that a lot of boomers and/or conservatives believe in irl
@@OnTheAlmondTree weird politics flex in a discussion about fictional alien people.
@@SkoomaDenDenisen It's not a flex, it's an interesting note about their philosophy and a possible reason they were written that way. I don't know for sure if that was the intent but it's fun to consider.
@@Wveth I doubt it was the intention for a bunch of DnD game creators to base their ideas off of boomer conservatives. If they did, it'd be based on a cooler concept. I'm just saying, bringing up conservatives and boomers into a fictional discussion about fictional beings is just odd. Plus I'm going to be blunt, the Githyanki are cool and creative by design. I never saw them as conservative boomers and I still don't.
I prefer modern politics out of my games, tyvm.
@@SkoomaDenDenisen so what? the author's intention doesnt have to be taken into account when interpreting any piece of media, it has literally no influence over their meaning.
This goes HARD. This is the revolution I wanted.
Where is my God-King Gale ending?
@@GreenSkinGentleman Gale’s is pretty dope too - declares war on the gods
@@Wimikk Well that's just suicide, what is he a divine rank 5?
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket No, but he's using the Mind Control powers of the Absolute to render all the people into Atheist, cutting off the Gods from their prayors wich grants them more strength, and since he is not a real god and is attacking Elysium and not the Material Plane, he's out of Ao's judgement.
@@shindoliferp250yearschroni5 Wouldn't it meddle with godhood business so therefore Ao could intervene? If so then he stands no chance although without Ao he does pose a real threat against the gods, even if he doesn't wage war he can just cut the ties of their followers, clerics, paladins etc.
@@elliottcrain3097 Gods always keep meddling against eachother's business. The Dead Three specificaly made this plan so that they could weaken all the other gods to bring them down, they are quite carefull of Ao's rules because they are too scared to lose their godhood.
Gale is just doing exactly what the Dead Three sought to do (well the Original Plan, not the ones each had for themselves) so I think Gale is actually in this scenario is not in Ao's radar.
You forget there is nothing stopping laezel to issue the destroy command to the elder brain. This can easily be turned into a very good ending.
She is our favorite (only) tsundere.
Except absolute power absolutely corrupt, no way she isn’t gonna abuse the power until someone stops her
@@nguyentandung42
That’s very true, although if there is any companion I’d trust to have the willpower not to give into such corruption and stick to their principles, it would be Lae’zel. She knows exactly her worth, both its heights and its limits. Not saying she wouldn’t be corrupted, but but she has the best chance not to be out of all the origins.
"A good githyanki knows her enemy but also knows that a good weapon should not be cast aside as long as it remains useful"
I'd argue that means that Lae'zel would not consider that under this ending 🤔
@@nguyentandung42 Counterpoint: Nat 20 persuasion check
A reminder, Vlaakith is only CR 23 in the game itself. With how dragons are often overstatted for their CR, shes about even with an ancient dragon. There is a very good reason shes sweating bullets here. (and she has less than half the hp of an ancient dragon to make up the fact she can cast Wish. which is what she uses to kill you in the cutscene early on in the game if you defy her.)
wait so all of those red dragons the gith ride are stronger than vlakith?
or are those small dragons and not true powerhouses?
@@ovencake523 They're just at most young or adults. But yes the ancients are stronger than her. Granted she has a unique protection that chromatic dragons specifically can't fight against her otherwise they'll piss off Tiamant and she'll deal with them. (She got this deal by feeding the previous gith ruler to tiamant.)
So Ansur is potentially > Vlaakith?
Likely the Absolute thing cuts the dragons off from Tiamat, like how Absolute Gale makes everyone atheist so he can kill the gods. This would allow Absolute Lae'zel to attack Vlaakith with the dragons.
@@Olafmikli oh didnt know that.
hm imagine the Elder brain in Warhammer 40k. could it stop the chaos gods by making the cult of the absolute? The tadpooled people still have souls though.
In 40k, it's emotions that fuel the chaos gods, mot belief
ig it wouldnt work
3:03 the dragon quickly going in and out frame is so funny
Oops wait wrong scene let me just turn around
@@elgescherwerauchimmer700 mf realized he wasnt built for that
"Woops, sorry, missed my que"
"NOPE, NOT THERE" xD
"Oh, are you filming? Sorry."
“Heavily encumbered”
Brother what the fuck you carrying to the end, every barrel you collected in the game but refused to use?
Not even Vlaakith can stop the powers of barrelmancy
Got to save the extra runepowder for Vlaakith.
Probably had an elixir of giant strenght on with 8 STR, and when the cutscene started it removed the active effects.
She is carrying her fancy wardrobe of curse. A true queen slays in the runaway and on the battlefield.
XD
Well, at least this has a major silver lining to it. I assume this is if you turned against Vlaakith. If Lae'zel was still on Vlaakith's side, yeesh, that could get dark.
if you dont turn against Vlaakith, can you still ally with orpheus in order to betray him like this?
@@ovencake523 Believe so, yes
This would actually be evil if Lae'zel mind controlled the populace of Baldurs Gate to be her army in the overthrow of Vlaakith. But the way its presented here isn't really evil.
Its evil by Lae'zel's standards. She's betrayed everything she stood for in the name of revenge
I’d assume by the fact that she said hail vlaaketh last of her name she intends to use her power against her too. Plus the way the gith came through the portal
I mean she forced people to transform into Gityanki and to be her servants under her new Empire, that's pretty evil.
@@baseupp12 I'm not exactly sure how she did that, I guess the netherbrain's power is so strong it can change your race or something
@@baseupp12 those GIthyanki had damaged armour, those were Gith fighting in Baldurs Gate againts the mind flayers, they weren't random citizens that were transformed.
lol the evil face expression is so funny to me. Its like everyone who is evil has to do that smirk by the laws of nature
There is nothing like smirking while doing evil acts, it's true power
the Grinch smirk
you don't? I have to play games like this alone or people would think i'm insane
Its weird tbh seeing fear in Vlaakiths face
@@gord163 If anything she is afraid of her rule coming to an end.
vlaakith in dnd is an wimp IMO, she is no real god and in my opinion doesn't have the power of one
@@NazinskyShe is a mythic level wizard (+20 level) she might not be a literal god, but that is just a technicality. A mythic wizard is arguably stronger than a god's avatar on the material plane anyways since they are not restricted in how they can act.
@@ethanduncan1646 right, i agree. i personally just don't like her (though I am a fan of lolth and vhaeraun lol)
Yeah she's level 20+ these level 12 gith would probably be nothing considering the fact she has wish and other op spells
Darn it I was hoping we would get to see Vlaakith killed
That would be a full campaign length content.
@@deimosj1286 I'd pay for that
She is one of those big names in the dnd base lore so probably they can't kill her just like that, but Laezel succeding in her campaign wouldnt be the craziest headcanon
They kill her and a 2nd Vlaakith comes back fresh from her Phylactery.
“Man, glad I’m not that lady.”
@@nealenthenerd399
With the Absolute, Lae'zel can pry that information out of Vlaakith.
"How 'bout "goodbye"." - Laezel after she tossed Vlaakith into endless void
I love the Mass effect reference 😂
Omg not going to lie, I love shadowheart and laezel evil ending. They get their vengeance against their former oppressors lol
I do not see this as evil ending. This is good ending.
@@milijanpetrovic7228 I‘d consider this a Good ending, too. Even though it might be evil in the githyanki world.
@@m0epinator To the brainwashed Gith, yeah, but to those who are in the know like Voss, it is a better ending, although still not the preferred seeing as Orpheus would've been the better option, I'm sure Voss would find Lae'zel acceptable if Orpheus was dead at this point as you can convince him to still help you.
It's good in theory but I suspect the implications are that instead of liberating the Githyanki like Orpheus intended to do, Lae'zel is simply disposing of one tyrant only to replace her with another: herself.
Nah, you're just evil.
@@Cassandra_Solidor Unless you made Lae'zel really really evil, I think she's fine as a Githyanki morally, not as a normal person obviously but as a Githyanki she clearly sees the virtue in Orpheus and sees through Vlaakith's lies and is knowledgeable about what Gith truly want.
I think this is my favorite ending ever.
So for Lae'zel it seems like it's
Vlaakith Ending - Bad End
Evil Ending - Neutral End
Leave Ending - Good End
Orpheus Ending - True End
@@oxymrn7038 i agree with this
no such thing as a true end in an rpg game.
@@jamesj5612 no, there is.
@@jamesj5612 Until the next game comes out and you see how the dust settled.
Lae'zel + TAV going to fight Vlaakith Ending - True End.
Vlaakith deserves it
Yeeess! Such a complete ending, I love it!
Seeing the fear in Vlaakith's eyes... Man what i wouldn't give to see the her demise to the fullest...
Vlaakith got what was coming to her. Pretty sad that you either have to: Become the absolute as Laezel, become a mindflayer as the player character or have to make Karlach a mindflayer in order to have a realstic chance of beating her.
I mean, Ambition deity Gale could
@@sidecharacter7165 God Gale stated that he wouldn't intervene in mortal affairs.
@@Lil_Harvard Vlaakith isn’t mortal
@@sidecharacter7165 still he can't meddle in those affairs as a God. She is not a God. Also killing her would ultimately intervene with the gith- mortals. That's enough to be restricted. Ao would punish him
@@sidecharacter7165 She isn't a god either. She leads a mortal race directly as it's queen, and fighting her would mean interfering in mortal affairs
I wanted to see Vlaakith death... And epic scene on throne, you know, Lae'zel sitting there. Next to her previous queen body. Arthas as Lich King music is good audio background ☺️
This looks like the true ending if I'm being honest. Without a custom player character, the only one who's really suited to the setting on the ship is Lae'Zel, and because of the actual overarching story of Gith vs Mindflayers. it's a suiting end that she overthrows the person responsible for the mess in the first place. The "Canon" ending if the series were to continue.
With this ending, the Gith and the Mindflayers all also leave the planet and things will gradually return to normal, as normal as D&D gets at least.
She is so badass… a gith commanding mindflayers to take out her queen is straight up WILD
02:06 Grinch smile
God damn! This was the ending I wanted in my first playthrough, I just wanted to give Lae'zel the vengence she deserved. This was catharsis
Love Gale standing next to Laezel on the throne looking around all well that just happened
That last line gave me GOOSEBUMPS damn Devora being amazing as always
That's the first time I've ever seen the illithid choices mattering in the narrative
That nat 20 was clutch
bro HONESTLY?? this isnt even an evil ending, Laezel is fucking saving the gith with this one this is amazing
I imagine that Vlaakith will prove a mighty foe, indeed. This will be a conflict such as to engulf the Great Wheel, entire, in war.
Not really. She has 180 hp...
To all those that say Vlaakith would just use a wish spell, you do understand that a wish spell can be counterspelled and or resisted right? Yeah, don't think this is going to be a easy fight for her. Especially with what all Laezel is bringing with her and Vlaakith doesn't have Orpheus to protect her from the power of the Neterbrain.
This is more like a "badass ending" than an evil one.
Laezel truly has the most evil ending. For her to join Mindflayers is against ALL Gith have ever known.
Did she join though? Or did she take the power to control them?
I disagree I think there is something beautifully poetic about the minflayers ending up as slaves to gith rather than the other way round as was historically the case
OMG Lae'zels ending is amazing! This is what we want to see more of!
This really makes me wanna do a Lae'Zel run
Vlaakith is a fake god, but she’s still a high level Lich who’s been sitting on top of the corpse of a god and siphoning divine magic out of it for a millennia. She can cast Wish repeatedly and has a system to allow her to avoid the risk of rebound. In game terms, she is something like a level 25 Wizard/Lich, and canonically eats the soul of any Githyanki who gets to level 16. She can kill all the dominated Gith who just teleported in, in the same way she hypothetically kills the party. The threat that made her worried shouldn’t have been that a bunch of comparatively low-level gith suddenly enter her throne room with weapons drawn - what should have happened is Lae’ zel used the psionic powers of the Absolute to telepathically broadcast to the entire Gith empire in the astral plane the truth about Vlaakith, instantly destroying her cult of worship, while also using the enhanced powers of the Elder Brain to locate and obtain Vlaakith’s phylactory. Then she’s properly fucked on both the divine and arcane front.
been wanting this ever since the 1st playthrough
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Yeah tbh using the netherbrain to take down Vlaakith feels like an appropriate end for her
Good Laezel ending
*sighs and starts a Lae'zel run*
I mean.... Idk if this is the worst thing for the Githyanki lol all depends how in control Baezel actually is, because her using the squids to overthrow vlakith is cool with me, but idk if thats where her ambitions would end so long run definitely not the best for everyone.
I wonder if this ending is available for all githyanki characters?
I need bg3 modders to make a Vlaakith epilogue fight with the dragons and gith as your allies.
Honestly, this is the best possible ending for Lae’zel, even though she killed Orpheus. I wonder if you can still get this ending if you transform into an Illithid?
Seeng Vlaakith shit herself is funny af
I'd still pay another $30 just for a DLC where you take on Vlakkith in her domain.
Hopefully Lae’Zel can find Vlakith’s phylactery or Vlakith will end up a reoccurring problem.
@@roarytheromanarcanine I wonder if she would have enough psychic might to rip the location of it from the would be god queens head
You can KILL Vlaakith? How is this the bad ending?
Vlaakith has had it coming for ages. 😅
Oh my gods have they actually added consequences for using the tadpole too much?!
Oooh chills!! This was AWESOME!!
Does anyone know how this plays if you make Karlach become the mindflayer? Does orpheus just let you do this or does he intervene somehow?
For the Githyanki I'd say this is a pretty mild ending, but overall I i like it!
Honestly, this is the least evil ending of all. Letting Vlaakith live and rule Githyanki definitely feels more evil so therefore go Bae'zel!
I still get goosebumps when i watch evil endings on youtube
6:33 5) is basically MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WOOORLD
personally i would have opted for something as ambitous as gales, the gith will never be made because the illithid empire will never rise and neither species will ever be. laezel has the power to end the cycle of ilithid once and for all, after so many plans they have finally completley failed, the future has been changed.
Larian needs to include a gag ending that only happens on Christmas day were Lae'Zel goes gets all the power then warps to Who'ville and steals all the presents.
Okay Vlaakith, let’s see you wish yourself out of that.
so Lae'Zel, in a way, not the same, but kind of went the Killmonger route?
Killmonger "killed" T'Challa and took over Wakanda to fight for his ideals, no matter how gruesome it maybe, and he'll probably only focus on his intent to gain power.
Lae'Zel took over the slavers of their kind, Illithid Empire, even ousted Vlaakith... but to what end? I wonder if she plans to take all of the universe. Man, a duel boss fight of Vlaakith vs OP Ilitthid Powered Lae'Zel would be nice too
5-10lvl vs 23? How many attacks she can do for 1 turn?
Lol @ vlaakith's "oh shit" face
Badass Lizel , she deserves to be a queen
frickin badass ending hands down
She has gotta make Sure to empty vlaakith's wish spell slots and find every phylactery she has pooped out across the astral sea though.
But a githyanki elderbrain army is a good start.
8:21 Lawd she comin'
Goddammit, time to start a new playthrough
7:18 Girl just casually hailing for a taxi
Good for her ❤
What clothes are those? I don't think I have seen them before
"Nice shoes Lae'zel".
And still textures loading speed in cutscenes is atrocious. That's actually hilarious
Might just be the person's PC, not necessarily a problem with the game
@@emmasilver2332 nah, it's happening on every available pc. It's just sometimes it's better and sometimes it's worse
@@homeostasis1103 It hasn't happened on mine
Surprised she didnt merge the brain with the dragon. Would have been a cool easter egg.
And then Vlaakith proceed to cast Wish, or Time Stop, or Power Word Kill, or one of many 7-9th level spells that immediatel dispatch of Laezel and the room of mind controlled gith.
Counterspell
What happens if you fail the constitution test? Do you lose control over yourself?
Also, why the karlach evil ending (i just watched it) didnt trigger the same test?
I haven't personally played, but my guess is that it's triggered by using too many tadpoles. I don't know how many.
And I assume if you fail the Con save you turn into a mindflayer
@@gustavoaroeira7329 yeah, you turn into mind flayer. Idk why karlach didn't have to do the test, maybe she didn't use the tadpole powers
I want the OST of this specific ending but it's impossible to find :(
Evil? Yes, but also like, kinda badass. I could totally see Laezel doing this. Not killing everyone for no reason, but killing Vlaakith and taking over the region.
Is the ending where she kills Karlach and Orpheus lives different?
To DnD Experts: Why would Vlaakith fear the Netherbrain's power if she has the power of Wish?
Honestly, this doesnt seem like THAT bad of an ending. A sort of doing terrible things for the right reasons sort of thing.
This is SICK
Is this ending also possible for githyanki tav? Can someone confirm this ?
So do you only get this ending by playing as lazelle and choosing to control the brain
I wonder why dont Vlaakith wish for those back to normal again? Lmao
These endings don't really make sense to me, could someone explain them? Orpheus' power was the only thing keeping the tadpoles from mind flaying us. The netherbrain had grown beyond the power of the stones. So...once Orpheus is dead what is stopping the brain from just going "wow you're dumb, welcome to mindflayer life" Am I missing something?
The way I see it the midflayer in our party did the hard part of subduing the netherbrain and reestablishing the crowns control over it. Remember the brain only got loose after one stone was unclaimed. The PC then promptly murders MFNPC before order to kill itself is issued and picks up the control where it was left off. Ultimately this is a VERY risky move. If the brain got loose again we would be a MF in no time as you said because Orpheus is dead, and his power is gone with him. But being evil is worth the risk I guess.
because the brain atp already choose to surrender itself to you, it thinks more like a computer than a mind. It will follow a master either willingly by defeating it or unwilling as with the dead 3 tried with the crown of karsus
@@elevatedmeance6807 but surely the death of the one thing that was stopping it from turning you would be grounds to reassess the situation, no? Without Orpheus (or Emperor) you don't beat the brain at all.
@@ValtheJean
The stones already took control of the brain again. Orpheus was no longer needed.
@@juanlaise1059 Wasn't the whole point of that final arc the brain had grown beyond the power of the stones, and it took a mindflayer's mind to be able to wield them against it? With Orpheus out of the way, what's stopping the brain from just...overcoming the stones again, like it does to us right before the invasion segment? Granted, I won't rule out that I might have missed something in that end, it's been a while since I've replayed the final chapter (because I keep starting over as different classes.)
Judging by Vlaakith's record how can this be considered a bad ending?
A satisfying ending for evil lich queen. Hail evil lazael !!!!
Finally I found the evil ending I can run... And a dragon for Bae'zel!!!
Ona scale from zero to "Vlakith sitting in her throneroom minding her own. When suddenly a bunch of portals burst open pouring an army of Gith, Mindlfayers and an ascended all powerful godess Lae'zel riding a red dragon." How fucked are you?
Any last Wish Vlaakith? Do you wish me "to end" now? >:)
I looked at the preview pic for this video without reading the caption and my first thought was "When did 'Shadow of War' get female Uruks?"
Vlaakith realizing she has no choice but to use her Wish spell now.
Idk about that, considering that ancient dragon she'll have to deal with
dont know when i gota do this but im def doing this
Im torn between the unique Shadowheart evil ending and Laezel's unique evil ending!
The best evil ending in the game, Durge go hide in the corner. Lae is literally undoing eons of slavery by Vlaakith and Illithid empire. Truly a remarkable feat.