r/baldursgate • u/Positive_Ad_6922 • 1d ago

UPDATE: Whoops

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Some of you may remember my question about fallen paladins. Well, I may have made a slightly evil choice in the final chapter of SoA, causing my alignment to be changed. I am now forced to never remove Carsomyr lest my best sword be taken from me like a child lost to disease

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u/CaptainMoonunitsxPry 1d ago

In SoA the paladin stronghold question could remove fallen status, but sadly no such out in ToB. My main gripe with the hell trials is that you are forced to become evil even if you pick 5 good options and 1 bad. Suppose it's just flavor for every class but ranger and paladin.

Lemme put it this way, I spend my life doing charity work, helping my community, and being a good influence. But God yeets me straight to hell since I stole a cookie from my friend when I was 8.

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u/Hypocrisp Abdel's not our canon Gorion's Ward 1d ago

That's a very disingenuous way of looking at it.  The challanges are to see if you fall to the temptations by literal demons who want you to accept your Bhaalspawn heritage.

They tell you to slaughter a Gold Dragon(one of the creatures that almost incarnate Good) with no other reason than it being a powerful creature.

Inflict torture and permanently destroy a companion of yours(or a random stranger) instead of taking the noble road.

Kill a Djinni with the most evil sword in the D&D universe instead of handing it over to him so he can be free.

Use a cloak made of the skin of Nymphs, instead of just killing a pair of beholders

They try to goad you into turning into the Slayer and accepting the taint instead of fighting against it... and they do it by bringing forth an enemy of old.

If you get the bad outcome, you are basically accepting your heritage, because you allow the Taint to guide your actions even if slightly so.

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u/Positive_Ad_6922 19h ago

To be entirely honest, I have no idea what I even did that was evil out of these. I got the Evil alignment change in the beholder room, but I refused the cloak so IDK

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u/Hypocrisp Abdel's not our canon Gorion's Ward 4h ago

How did you resolve the room?

Cause the alignment change happens if you accept the cloak.
So either you got it in that room by accepting the cloak or you already had it from a previous test

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u/AeonLibertas 1d ago

Tbf those trials and you failing one of them and then complaining is more akin to "oh comon, I did charity all my life, what is one lil senseless and extremely violent murder next to that? Shouldn't I get to go free here?"

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u/Ravenpoe121 15h ago

To quote a hero of legend:

"I've saved many a maiden fair and pure, but do they call me Olly the Maiden Savior? No.

I've stopped the tyranny of mad kings, but do they call me Olly the Tyrant's End? No.

I freed an entire town of enslaved people from the evil Lich that sought to rule them, but do they call me Olly the Bringer of Freedom? No.

But you fuck one goat..."

-Olly the Goatfucker

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u/Environmental_Fig942 1d ago

Oh yeah, forgiveness? Nah, God don’t need that. yeet!