Deep Gnomes Gone After Nere Event? Can't Complete!

[O`Malley]

So I basically did the quest for killing Nere and saved the deep gnomes. I didn't talk to them yet before I went to camp to rest and now every npc is gone from the underdark's grymforge zone.

I'm trying to find where they are so I can complete the quest -- anyone else have this happen?

I can't seem to locate them and it's not marked on the map. I even went back to Thulla in the myconid zone but she just prompts me to save her kin.

UPDATE 8/24/23: I put in a ticket to Larian and they responded in kind. This is a bug with the game and they assured me they know of it and will release the next patch with a fix.

[Psychonaut]

same thing here. Can't find the little dudes

[Adramalikh]

Same, brothers. Funny enough when i was about to use elevator to the next area, one of the appeared in the cutscene. It's just ridiculous

[GALynx]

I ran into that problem, thankfully I made a save right before going off to the fungus circle to show Nere's beheaded... head to the Sovereign. But yeah, found it weird that you couldn't report saving the Gnomes if you didn't talk to them.

[jarofpretzels17]

I’m having the same problem, that I killed Nere and all the others first and then all the gnomes disappeared. I also had the cutscene when I clicked the elevator and he vanished after. I have looked EVERYWHERE for them and I just can’t find them anywhere! Gotta be a bug?? Thulla is still like “please save my people!” And I’m like “girl I did!”

[Morgian]

Don't look to hard down there. Remember the info that they are from Baldur's Gate on a mission.

[Andy P]

Yes, this is bugged (for some people, not everyone, and it's not clear what causes it).

For me, the whole of Grymforge is empty after I win the Nere fight. Tried it three different ways, and every time every NPC and every enemy vanishes from the level, completely blocking progress in any part of that story.

Some people have been able to get past it by doing the fight again and it's OK for them. I've done it three times and it's still bugged for me.

[HozzMidnight]

Seems like a bug. Where did all the Duergar go? They just vanish and if you just head south you miss some key interactions that take place in the north part of Grymforge, notably revealing the way to the freaking forge which is a pain in the ass to find blind.

[FenvalTTV]

If you spoke to the duergars after the fight, they will tell you they have nothing more to do there and leave, bringing their slaves (gnomes) with them.

I don't wanna be a bearer of bad news but I think you just watched them leave, collar around the neck, on a duergar boat while you were catching a nap, lol

[FenvalTTV]

Originally posted by HozzMidnight:

Seems like a bug. Where did all the Duergar go? They just vanish and if you just head south you miss some key interactions that take place in the north part of Grymforge, notably revealing the way to the freaking forge which is a pain in the ass to find blind.

You can find anything there is to know about the forge before getting to Grymforge ; there is 3 drows in the Underdark, each of them hold a specific information regarding the forge, such as the location (Dhourn, the petrified drow), the boss that watch over it (the crazy drow with the claw monster, near the big tree) and what to do there (Xargrim, the corpse in the vault, myconid colony).

[Muppethero]

I remember in EA no one got out of the way when i placed the bomb and killed them all lol

[Thingy]

Just got the same bug, chopped Nere's head off and now Grymforge has no NPC's. :(

[Fukund]

I have the same bug, anyone found fix yet?

[FenvalTTV]

Originally posted by Fukund Shnegr:

I have the same bug, anyone found fix yet?

Probably more of a missed opportunity than a bug, of it's the same thing as OP.

[Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers]

Originally posted by Fenval:

If you spoke to the duergars after the fight, they will tell you they have nothing more to do there and leave, bringing their slaves (gnomes) with them.

I don't wanna be a bearer of bad news but I think you just watched them leave, collar around the neck, on a duergar boat while you were catching a nap, lol

lmao this!

[skeet]

I've ran into this issue with many different quests. If you change the world through your actions there are repercussions.