Summary
In a game as large asBaldur’s Gate 3, there’s always a minute detail waiting to be discovered. This might be a rare dialogue interaction, or a strange sequence of events if you hit triggers in a way thatLarianhadn’t anticipated. This latest discovery involves both and comes fromYouTuber ShandoraTheExplorer.
First, you’ll need to access the Sacred Pool from the Emerald Grove’s ramparts without triggering the scene where Arabella’s parents try to bypass the druids to save their daughter. During this scene, the character Maggran will wild shape into a bear to bar their entry.
There’s More To This Bear Than People Know
However, if you access the Sacred Pool and convince Kagha to release Arabella through dialogue options, then the scene with the parents will never trigger, leaving Maggran in his human form. you’re able to then talk to him in his human form, and hear a very rare voice line.
The line isn’t even animated as Larian presumably forgot triggering it was even a possibility. He says, “You’re lucky I’m not in bear form… back off,” before the dialogue ends automatically. Of course the guy only known for transforming into a bear has a line where he laments that he isn’t currently a bear.
Maggran doesn’t say anything besides ‘RAWR’ normally and even that is distorted as he’s undergoing transformation, so we also learned that his voice actor speaks with a Scottish accent, which is neat.
It’s interesting that this line exists but isn’t animated. The fact that it was recorded suggests Larian was aware you could potentially interact with Maggran in his human form, but the lack of animation could mean that they hadn’t foreseen it being possible in the game’s final build. Of course, they may have just forgotten to animate it. Baldur’s Gate 3 is such a sprawling game that occasionally minor details slip through the cracks, as we saw withJaheira’s bugged Harpers.
According to the comments of theReddit post, Maggran will later move to the entrance to the Beach area where he repeats this line but still doesn’t move his mouth. Maybe he’s an expert ventriloquist; there could be a lot to Maggran we don’t know. Perhaps we were so focused in on him roaring and becoming a bear, that we failed to appreciate the true depth of his character. A shame.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.
