Spare Nere AND free the gnomes

[EvilDonut]

It is possible to do both, in case you are wondering. You need to consort with the elder duergar, then pick a fight with nere during the dialogue. Then the duergar jumps in and Nere gives you a chance to go back to his side. Do it.
After the fight, he starts killing the gnomes once again, but this time you will have a wisdom check to make him release them all. There we go, Nere and Gnomes all allive.

[jack_of_tears]

Or you can just kill him and find another way to infiltrate the cult.

[sick duck]

It isn't about the Gnomes, Nere is a massive ♥♥♥♥ just in general. He can die painfully.

[Ekelak]

W Clan Flameshade

[MrSoul]

Just kill them all

[dvc]

I only cared about the one gnome girl who died, the rest of them can ♥♥♥♥ off

[Brian Sirith]

Originally posted by EvilDonut:

It is possible to do both, in case you are wondering. You need to consort with the elder duergar, then pick a fight with nere during the dialogue. Then the duergar jumps in and Nere gives you a chance to go back to his side. Do it.
After the fight, he starts killing the gnomes once again, but this time you will have a wisdom check to make him release them all. There we go, Nere and Gnomes all allive.

Nice to know. Thanks for the post

[victorvnv]

Matters not as I am pretty sure if you save him, he gets killed by Balthasar anyways and you don’t ever get to see him, plus you can’t complete the mushroom sovereign quests as they want you to bring them his head.

[Ekelak]

In my game Nere is a Glut Spore Zombie.

[Federok]

The bigger question is whyyy? The moment he a gave step outside of that hole i wanted to push him to the lava.

He really gives that vibe of a daddy boy that think is the ♥♥♥♥ because his father is the boss and not only is incompetent but cant take accountability.

At this point saving the gnomes is a plus.

[Phero]

Originally posted by Ekelak:

In my game Nere is a Glut Spore Zombie.

Did you ever find a use for his mushroom head?

[dajolie]

Thank you for sharing this! I am so curious to meet Nere with Balthazar, apparently they have some interesting dialogue later.

Another way to save both Nere and gnomes - kill all duergar before freeing Nere, free him, tell him to stop killing innocents, and then you can plant a thought to set the gnomes free.

[Kappa]

The best you can do is:
1) steal the runepowder barrel
2) tell the duergars “ I have some explosive powder”
3) drop the barrel and go back with the others.
4) ignite the barrel
5) everything will be solved instantly.

[Tijger]

Nice to know that you CAN do it but Nere has no redeeming value for me so nope, he dies every time with my playthroughs :)

[EvilDonut]

Originally posted by dajolie:

Thank you for sharing this! I am so curious to meet Nere with Balthazar, apparently they have some interesting dialogue later.

Another way to save both Nere and gnomes - kill all duergar before freeing Nere, free him, tell him to stop killing innocents, and then you can plant a thought to set the gnomes free.

No, they don't. If you spare Nere:

when you meet balthazar nere will be there, zombified after being killed off screen by the very balthazar

That's what happened to me when i did it, not sure if they changed it now