{"id":20803,"date":"2025-01-28T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/baldurs-gate-3-player-discovers-saddest-thing-in-shadow-cursed-lands-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:38:51","slug":"baldurs-gate-3-player-discovers-saddest-thing-in-shadow-cursed-lands-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/baldurs-gate-3-player-discovers-saddest-thing-in-shadow-cursed-lands-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player discovers \u201csaddest thing\u201d in Shadow-Cursed Lands &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player discovers \u201csaddest thing\u201d in Shadow-Cursed Lands Larian StudiosA BG3 player who recently explored the Shadow-Cursed Lands shared details about \u201cone of the saddest things\u201d they encountered in the game. The Shadow-Cursed Lands in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 serves as the primary region for the second act. Notably, the area\u2019s eponymous shadow curse wreaks havoc on the land and its surrounding areas, killing off all who come into contact with it. While some locales such as the Last Light Inn have protection from the deadly curse, players still struggle to navigate the territory unscathed. But potent environmental storytelling reveals the sad truth about the curse\u2019s devastating effect on the locals. BG3 fan shares depressing discovery in the Shadow-Cursed Lands Reddit user IckyBB stumbled across a house near the Last Light Inn while exploring the cursed lands. Perhaps they were on the hunt for loot, but what they found instead proved rather heart-wrenching. The player entered a bedroom and came face-to-face with a pair of skeletons holding onto one another in a small bed. IckyBB called it \u201cone of the saddest things\u201d they\u2019ve found in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 to date. A closer look at the screenshot they shared demonstrates why. The Redditor said what\u2019s especially \u201cheartbreaking\u201d is that both skeletons wore rings whose item descriptions read, \u201cA date was once inscribed on this ring, but most of it has since been worn away by time.\u201d Several BG3 players responded to the shocking Shadow-Cursed Lands moment in the thread. One user noted, \u201cThey died in each other\u2019s arms, they are the lucky ones.\u201d Someone else agreed with the above sentiment, calling the sight \u201csweet.\u201d They explained, \u201cI actually thought this was kinda sweet\u2026 slowly dying to the shadow curse must suck, but some people at least got to do it cuddled up to a loved one, rather than alone and scared and writing increasingly miserable diary entries.\u201d Further down the thread, another BG3 fan pointed out something even more painful about the implied scenario. Apparently, there\u2019s another room in the house with a double bed, suggesting the pair lost their child and chose the kid\u2019s room as their final resting place. This is one subtle story beat that Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 player discovers \u201csaddest thing\u201d in Shadow-Cursed Lands Larian StudiosA BG3 player who recently explored the Shadow-Cursed Lands shared details about \u201cone of the saddest things\u201d they encountered in the game. The Shadow-Cursed Lands in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 serves as the primary region for the second act. Notably, the area\u2019s eponymous shadow curse [&hellip;]<\/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-20803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803","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=20803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}