Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players wonder if the Emperor is as smart as he thinks Larian StudiosThe Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 community has always been divided over the Emperor, but now they\u2019re beginning to question his intelligence. The mindflayer chilling out inside the astral prism has always been one of the more enigmatic characters in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. From the moment he begins catfishing you as your guardian, the Emperor is always hiding information from you. Sure, he\u2019s a useful guy to have on your team, and the mindflayer powers he can grant you are definitely worth the strange eye makeover, but there\u2019s something about siding with an illithid that is giving a few players pause for thought, especially when they break down the exact elements of his plan. In particular, players aren\u2019t quite sure how to approach the choice of dealing with Prince Orpheus, who\u2019s also trapped in the prism, seeing as he is the only reason you\u2019re not corrupted by the tadpole. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players still don\u2019t know what to make of the Emperor One player on the Baldur\u2019s Gate subreddit claimed the Emperor was overselling himself, saying: \u201cBoth Orph and Empy require a leap of faith, even moreso if you\u2019re siding with the Emperor. I always see the argument that choosing Emperor is apparently the pragmatist\u2019s choice as he\u2019s been \u2018helping us\u2019 right from the start. That without \u2018metagaming\u2019, there\u2019s no reason to trust Orpheus. \u201cBut at that point of the game, there\u2019s also NO reason to trust Emperor and his decisions when it\u2019s revealed that he was being played like a fiddle by the Netherbrain the whole time! \u201cHe never had complete free will. He was an unwilling pawn to Netherbrain\u2019s schemes all along. He\u2019s NOT this brilliant grand strategist, puppet master pulling the strings as he liked to think himself as. All the Emperor made us do only served to make the Netherbrain stronger.\u201d Another player pointed out that the Emperor\u2019s reading material didn\u2019t make for the most trustworthy companion: \u201cOne of my favorite things is when you go down to his hideout under the Elfsong and it\u2019s just full of books like \u2018how to deal with your loss of Morality\u2019 and \u2018how to make friends and influence people with your psychic powers.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players wonder if the Emperor is as smart as he thinks Larian StudiosThe Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 community has always been divided over the Emperor, but now they\u2019re beginning to question his intelligence. The mindflayer chilling out inside the astral prism has always been one of the more enigmatic characters in Baldur\u2019s Gate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}