Consequences for letting the emperor evolve the player?

[Asenath]

I am wondering what the consequences for letting the emperor evolve the player Ending Consequences?

[Orion Invictus]

You change your appearance and gain access to a few new abilities, including flight.

[Asenath]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

You change your appearance and gain access to a few new abilities, including flight.

So the player wont become full Illithid? and can the player still give the master brain a lobotomy by defeat the brain ending?

[Яeplicant]

Originally posted by Asenath:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

You change your appearance and gain access to a few new abilities, including flight.

So the player wont become full Illithid? and can the player still give the master brain a lobotomy by defeat the brain ending?

For the remainder of the game, you'll just gain a new squiddy look as well as abilities while being still the same person.

However, which I might be misremembering, there are talks or hints about the PC eventually "forgetting" who he or she is but that is more of a post-game kind of problem.

[seeker1]

Often asked. Obvious spoilers.

At the start of Act 3, you will be offered by Emp something called the Astral Tadpole. If you accept it, you can unlock the "outer ring" of Tier 2 illithid powers. You also can reject it. However, the more tadpoles you have used to that point, the harder the DC check for rejecting it. (If you reject it, you can ask some other companions to use it. But you will need to even persuade Gale or Astarion to use it, even if they gobbled down Tier 1 tadpoles. Minthara is the only one who will use it without persuasion.)

The key consequence of using the Astral: your appearance becomes ugly half-illithid. Oh and Lae'Zel and some others will chide you for doing so, then go on to basically ignore the choice. It has no big impact, not even on their approval. This BTW is easy to cancel with mods.

When you face the choice to become full-illithid, whether you went halfway there or not doesn't matter one iota.

That's it. There were more consequences in EA, some wish there still were more consequences, but that's it.

[One Man Army]

Oh that's sad to hear that such an important choice has no impact to the rest of the game.
It feels like content that was cut out :/

[StrayBullet]

If you go evil ending with partial illithid you have to roll a DC 25 con save at the end of the game or you basically lose your save file, forcing you to become a full illithid slave over something you have dominated to follow your will ... (how the ♥♥♥♥ does that make sense) because Larian is a scolding ♥♥♥♥ like that ... if you go good ending there are no consequences other than cosmetic...

[Asenath]

Originally posted by StrayBullet:

If you go evil ending with partial illithid you have to roll a DC 25 con save at the end of the game or you basically lose your save file, forcing you to become a full illithid slave over something you have dominated to follow your will ... (how the ♥♥♥♥ does that make sense) because Larian is a scolding ♥♥♥♥ like that ... if you go good ending there are no consequences other than cosmetic...

I've always in every game-play let gale blow up the brain so I never get to face the brain is this something I can still do being half and half? as for the dice rolls well I kind of cheat without breaking game-play I use the bg3 trainer from a trustworthy site it is a stand alone wemod trainer that don't req the wemod program so minimum dicerolls /always succeed.

[seeker1]

If you're going to cheat, and I have no judgement on doing so, use the many cheat mods at mod.io, there are plenty, and are less likely to break your game than wemod or other external trainers. There are a ton of cheat mods for cheating dice rolls.

The rest is now spoiler territory.

As Emp and Orpheus will both explain to you, it takes a (full) mindflayer to use the Netherstones to enslave the brain. Does that mean it must be you who fully transforms? Not necessarily, but, again... "half and half" is not a complete transformation.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by One Man Army:

Oh that's sad to hear that such an important choice has no impact to the rest of the game.
It feels like content that was cut out :/

There is impact, and it was explicitly stated in this thread. But what exactly did you expect?

[Asenath]

Originally posted by seeker1:

If you're going to cheat, and I have no judgement on doing so, use the many cheat mods at mod.io, there are plenty, and are less likely to break your game than wemod or other external trainers. There are a ton of cheat mods for cheating dice rolls.

The rest is now spoiler territory.

As Emp and Orpheus will both explain to you, it takes a (full) mindflayer to use the Netherstones to enslave the brain. Does that mean it must be you who fully transforms? Not necessarily, but, again... "half and half" is not a complete transformation.

Well I always give the stones to the emperor and he devours the brain of Orpheus and then when we get to the door to the brain in baldur's gate that is in ruins only gale goes in to blow it up it's my fav and only ending that I like but I did have a ending where I romanced karlach and went with her to the hells and another ending with shadowheart on a farm with her parents that one if my fav so far Idk what the ending is if the player romanced Minthara I am currently romancing her I just wonder if her ending scene is with her only or both the player and her if the brain is destroyed?

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by Asenath:

Originally posted by seeker1:

If you're going to cheat, and I have no judgement on doing so, use the many cheat mods at mod.io, there are plenty, and are less likely to break your game than wemod or other external trainers. There are a ton of cheat mods for cheating dice rolls.

The rest is now spoiler territory.

As Emp and Orpheus will both explain to you, it takes a (full) mindflayer to use the Netherstones to enslave the brain. Does that mean it must be you who fully transforms? Not necessarily, but, again... "half and half" is not a complete transformation.

Well I always give the stones to the emperor and he devours the brain of Orpheus and then when we get to the door to the brain in baldur's gate that is in ruins only gale goes in to blow it up it's my fav and only ending that I like but I did have a ending where I romanced karlach and went with her to the hells and another ending with shadowheart on a farm with her parents that one if my fav so far Idk what the ending is if the player romanced Minthara I am currently romancing her I just wonder if her ending scene is with her only or both the player and her if the brain is destroyed?

Just play the game and find out.