Baldur’s Gate 3’s various quests can mostly be tackled in whichever order you’d like, especially once you enter Act 3. However, the game does guide you to complete certain tasks first, so there are many shared experiences across our different playthroughs.
One of those is Gortash’s coronation as Archduke. Here, you’ll finally find Duke Ulder Ravengard - Wyll’s father. This advances Wyll’s personal quest to the point where Mizora pops up again, telling us that the Duke was taken away and locked up. She won’t tell you where unless Wyll agrees to stay in his warlock pact.
But what if you’ve already played the game and know the location? Surely, you could just skip all of this and make a beeline for theIron Thorne, where the Duke is taken after the coronation. Well, as one player discovered, the game does account for this - and it only makes the entire situation worse.
As shared by Gaming Birch on YouTube, skipping the conversation with Mizora until after the Iron Throne doesn’t make it any easier to save Duke Ravengard. In fact, by the time you get there, he’s already dead, which Wyll reacts to in dialogue that most players wouldn’t see.
you may’t outsmart the game by skipping the coronation altogether either. As discovered by TikTok user limealime_, it just means that Ravengard won’t be in his cell yet, since he’s still at the ceremony. After this, there’s no underwater prison to send him to, so Wyll’s dad will be killed off-screen instead, with Mizora showing up to camp to break the news.
Since Wyll’s dad is already dead, this changes the terms of Mizora’s deal with Wyll. Instead of offering the location of the Iron Throne, she instead offers to bring Ravengard back to life. This is even worse than the decision you’d usually be faced with, since you can turn down Mizora’s offer for the prison’s location and still find it yourself, saving Ravengard in the process. Sure, she’ll make it a lot harder to keep him alive during the escape, but it’s possible to keep Wyll free from his pactandreunite him with his father. Not here though. It’s one or the other - either Wyll is tied to Zariel forever, or he loses the last of his family.
This is far from the only example of the game accounting for unlikely player actions. As we covered last year, one Baldur’s Gate 3 player found that there’san entire set of replacement tieflings on standbyin case you, for some reason, slaughter the first, but then decide to help them defeat the goblins anyway.
