Summary
- A Baldur’s Gate 3 player has shown off a rare interaction from the game’s first act.
- The brutal scene involves Kagha and Arabella’s parents.
- The moral juxtaposition of the preceding decisions means most players won’t trigger this scene.
It doesn’t matter how many playthroughs of Baldur’s Gate 3 you complete, you’ll always learn something new in the next one. It’s one of those rare roleplaying experiences where the narrative threads and choices have such complexity, that no two runs end up the same.
This maxim rang true recently as cascadingtundra on Reddit revealed a rare interaction in the game’s first act that not many players are likely to have witnessed before. The scene involves Komira, the mother of the Tiefling child Arabella, and Kagha, the unpleasant druid in charge of the Emerald Grove in Halsin’s absence.
A Grisly Fate
When you first encounter Kagha and Arabella, the latter is being threatened by Kagha’s snake Teela. If the party doesn’t intervene, Kagha will allow Teela to kill Arabella for her crime of stealing the Idol of Silvanus. If this happens, you can investigate Kagha and uncover her connection to the Shadow Druids.
In the rare scenario where you allow Arabella to die, Kagha lives and the Grove is saved from the Goblins, Komira and her husband Locke will conspire to poison Kagha at the celebration party.
“Her name was Arabella. Picture her. How scared she was. And know – this will hurt,” Komira utters as she fatally stabs Kagha. As the original poster rightly points out, players won’t often see this scene because if they’re doing an “evil run,” they would most likely raid the Emerald Grove, killing everyone involved in the scene. Also, a moral character probably wouldn’t let Arabella die because there are multiple ways to save her and talking Kagha down isn’t particularly difficult.
The commenter breadboi196 points out that paladins can break their oath of vengeance by trying to convince the couple not to enact their revenge on Kagha. This shouldn’t be surprising though, because avenging a slain child is exactly the kind of behaviour a vengeance-fuelled paladin would be strongly in favour of.
If you convince Kagha that the Shadow Druids are evil during the follow-up quest, she disassociates with them and expresses genuine remorse about what happened to Arabella. You are presented with yet another moral choice regarding whether you should save Kagha from Arabella’s grieving parents, or let her meet a grisly fate.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.