owlbear egg

[richardbook]

the owlbear egg keeps disappearing from my inventory before i can pass it off as a gith egg

[Raz]

Is it in your Supply bag?

[AlphaVictorKilo]

You may have eaten it as camp supplies...

[richardbook]

was in back pack , made sure I didnt eat it by mistake , only thing I can think of is the owlbear cub ate it when you feed it at camp or elminster ate it while he was waiting for me at camp

[Raz]

Hit Tab to bring up all inventories then click sort all inventories (not just your personal inventory but all characters at once). Sometimes items will go invisible for some reason but will always appear (least for me) when sorting everyone's inventory at once.

[Favonius]

Check Laezel's tent, she might be brooding it :p

[Mike Garrison]

Maybe it hatched. Do you happen to have a baby owlbear in your camp?

[richardbook]

yes but that is the one from the goblin camp

[seeker1]

Seriously, the game does NOT prevent you from selecting it as a camp supply item to be consumed, so you can most definitely accidentally eat it if it's in your camp supply sack. Make sure to deselect it if you "Auto Select" your camp supplies for the night and it gets highlighted.

Spoilers?

BTW, what I find really interesting about the owlbear egg is not only can you deceive Esther into believing it's a Gith egg, but you can TELL her it's an owlbear egg, and just go ahead and lie to the Society and have her deceive THEM about what it is.

There is a payoff for getting the real egg for Esther in a story sense, not so much a mechanical sense. But it doesn't usually turn out well for members of the Society.

The egg will hatch in Act 3 and become a fully grown Githyanki named Ptaris. (Either they used magic to accelerate the process, or Githyanki just become fully grown very quickly.)
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Ptaris

If you go to the Society of Brilliance in Act 3, Ptaris will have murdered Esther and all the other members of the Lodge, and then threaten the party. If you don't talk him down, he will attack the party. The Wiki doesn't say this, but I remember reading elsewhere if you DO talk Ptaris down, at the end of the game Lae'Zel can "adopt" him.

[Mike Garrison]

Things you can do with the owlbear egg:

1) eat it (possibly by accident)
2) fool Esther into thinking it is a Gith egg
3) convince Esther to fool the Society of Brilliance into believing it is a Gith egg
4) sell it

[Isengrym]

Re: seeker1's post: I did that in my first playthrough, and the duergar who raised Ptaris said in his journal that he accelerated the child's growth process in order to get the results of his experiment sooner. What a terrible scientist and an absolute moron he was! I guess I was a moron, too, for going that route, but I aggro'd the creche, and by the time I left, there was no one left to take care of that egg. At that point, giving it to Esther seemed like the best option. (I think I read that a patch added a comment from Lae'zel about wanting to raise it, but that wasn't in there when I did it.)

I'm kind of glad I did that stupidity on my first run, as I'm not sure I could bring myself to do it on purpose, but I'm glad I got to see that content once and meet Ptaris. I didn't get anything about Lae'zel adopting him, was that added in a patch, or does it depend on which ending she gets?

Is it dangerous to give the Society an owlbear egg, too?

[Mike Garrison]

Some time ago (I'm not going to look up the exact patch), they added content allowing Lae'zel to decide to adopt the egg. The gith egg, I mean, not the owlbear egg.

I am not certain if the egg has to remain in her inventory or if you can leave it in camp, although if you ask her about it she expresses that it is safer on her person.

Anyway, if you have Lae'zel keep the gith egg, you find out at the party that it has hatched and that she intends to raise him to be whatever he wants to be. She specifically rejects the idea of forcing him to train as a warrior the way she did.

[Isengrym]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Some time ago (I'm not going to look up the exact patch), they added content allowing Lae'zel to decide to adopt the egg. The gith egg, I mean, not the owlbear egg.

I am not certain if the egg has to remain in her inventory or if you can leave it in camp, although if you ask her about it she expresses that it is safer on her person.

Anyway, if you have Lae'zel keep the gith egg, you find out at the party that it has hatched and that she intends to raise him to be whatever he wants to be. She specifically rejects the idea of forcing him to train as a warrior the way she did.

That's lovely. I need to make that happen!

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by Isengrym:

Is it dangerous to give the Society an owlbear egg, too?

It's not dangerous to you.

[Favonius]

Originally posted by Isengrym:

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Some time ago (I'm not going to look up the exact patch), they added content allowing Lae'zel to decide to adopt the egg. The gith egg, I mean, not the owlbear egg.

I am not certain if the egg has to remain in her inventory or if you can leave it in camp, although if you ask her about it she expresses that it is safer on her person.

Anyway, if you have Lae'zel keep the gith egg, you find out at the party that it has hatched and that she intends to raise him to be whatever he wants to be. She specifically rejects the idea of forcing him to train as a warrior the way she did.

That's lovely. I need to make that happen!

If you do that, some time later you have the opportunity to ask Laezel if you can call her 'Mamma Laezel' don't miss it, her answer is so funny it's worth the price of the egg imo

[seeker1]

Spoilers again.

I have always and only given Esther the owlbear egg. I kinda find child stealing and experimentation, even if Esther rationalizes it as just egg stealing, bothersome. Other than that also trying to steal the egg will upset its guardians in the Creche. I had heard about the Ptaris outcome with Lae'zel but until just now didn't know exactly what triggered it.

Ah, OK. So that happens if you DON'T give the Gith egg to Esther but instead have Lae'Zel keep it. Obviously, a different outcome, as if it hatches under her care, she isn't subjecting it to magical accelerants or running experiments on it.

I have heard that a romanced Lae'Zel can discuss with Tav about raising Ptaris together if it happens that he hatches under her care. Anyway, none of this is on the BG3 Wiki, but I know I've seen it on here.

(Reminds me of BG2 where Aerie can give birth to CHARNAME's baby, and your child literally becomes an inventory item she starts carrying around.)