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| title = Elminster
| title = Elminster
| description = Elminster is a famous and powerful wizard, as well as the favored Chosen of Mystra.  
| description = Elminster is a famous and powerful wizard, as well as the favored Chosen of Mystra.  
| image = Elminster.png
| image = Elminster Model.png
}}
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{{CharacterInfo
| name = Elminster
|title = Sage of Shadowdale
| full name = Elminster Aumar
|name = Elminster Aumar
| image = <gallery>
|image=[[File:Elminster.png|350px]]
Elminster.png|In-game
|STR=12
Portrait Elminster.png|Portrait
|DEX=10
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|CON=10
| va = Crispin Redman
|INT=22
| title = Sage of Shadowdale
|WIS=18
| hometown = Suzail, Cormyr
|CHA=10
| age = 1280
|int save = proficient
| class = [[Wizard]]
|wis save = proficient
| size = Medium
|level=20
| type = Construct
|race=[[:Category:Constructs|Construct]]
| race = [[Construct]]
|type=Construct
| ac = 17
|HP=96
| hp = 185
|AC=10 (13 with Mage Armor)
| t hp = 240
|speed=30
| extra init = 5
|size=Medium
| movement m = 9
|weight=150 lbs
| weight kg = 75
|proficiency=
| level = 20
|initiative=5
| str = 13
|location = [[Rosymorn Monastery Trail]]
| dex = 18
|allies = [[Mystra]]
| con = 24
|alt-name = Model
| int = 27
|alt-image = [[File:Elminster Model.png|200px]]
| wis = 18
|va = Crispin Redman
| cha = 17
| int save prof = yes
| wis save prof = yes
 
| conditions = Mage Armour
 
| passives = Alert, Empowered Evocation, Focused Conjuration, Magic Resistance, Opportunity Attack, Spell Sniper
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'''Elminster Aumar''', commonly known as simply '''Elminster''', is a renowned wizard who appears in ''[[Baldur's Gate 3]]''. He is the current Chosen of the Goddess [[Mystra]], and plays a key recurring role in the story of [[Gale]]. The player first encounters him under the name '''Weary Traveler.'''
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'''Elminster Aumar''', also referred to simply as '''Elminster''', is a wizard NPC who appears in [[Baldur's Gate 3]]. He is the current Chosen of the Goddess [[Mystra]], and plays a key recurring role in the story of [[Gale]].
{{DiQ|Ho there, wanderer. Stay thy course a moment to indulge an old man.|Elminster| greets the party}}
 
== Overview ==
Elminster  is a recurring character in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons, including previous entries in the Baldur's Gate series. The steeple-hatted wizard is of legendary renown across realmspace, having appeared in over twenty novels, four adventures, and each prior installment in the ''Baldur's Gate'' series. He is an old acquaintance of  [[Volo]] and occasionally fact-checks his books, including ''[[Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate]]''. Gale describes him as being approximately "thirteen centuries old."
 
=== Appearance ===
Elminster wears a flowing orange-red robe with a matching hat, whose drooped steeple hangs backwards. Luscious silver locks of hair pour outward from the wide brim of his hat and blend into an equally long beard, between which sits a round, wizened face. A brilliant blue sash, decorated with jewels and signets, is draped between his left shoulder and right hip. Completing his finery is a necklace gold and silver plates and a single blood-red jewel, with a belt to match. In stark contrast to this opulent getup, he wields a single plain, unenchanted quarterstaff.
 
Though bearing his humanoid appearance, the Elminster that appears in the game is a [[construct]] which when defeated melts into a pile of water, strongly suggesting him to be a [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Simulacrum simulacrum] of the real wizard.
 
== Involvement ==
Gale must be alive and recruited as a companion (or be the player character himself) in order for any encounters with Elminster to trigger.
 
===Act Two===
Elminster can first be found near the entrance to the [[Shadow-Cursed Lands]] from [[Rosymorn Monastery Trail]] or near the ruined Sharran temple if the party used the elevator from [[Grymforge]]. If the player avoids the Elminster at the earlier 2 locations, he will appear on the stone bridge right in front of [[Moonrise Towers]], close to the [[Waypoint]]. Gale's personal quest, [[The Wizard of Waterdeep]], must have progressed to the point where his condition is no longer responding to treatment for Elminster to appear. If Gale does not receive all three items by the time he reaches the Shadow-Cursed Lands, then Elminster appears in camp after a long rest once he has received the last item.
 
At camp, Elminster delivers Mystra's message to Gale, charging him with detonating the orb of malevolent magic within his chest in order to destroy "the Heart of the Absolute" in a suicidal attack. To help ease the task, Elminster also imparts an enchantment on Gale which stabilizes the orb, negating the need to consume more magical items. He then departs as quickly as he arrived, leaving Karlach (should she be in your camp) wondering if he was "Gale's grandad".
 
===Act Three===
After Gale reads [[The Annals of Karsus]] in the [[Sorcerous Vault]] during [[The Wizard of Waterdeep]], Elminster appears for a second time, either outside [[Sorcerous Sundries]] or in your camp. He brings a message from [[Mystra]], asking Gale to meet her at her holy shrine in the [[Stormshore Tabernacle]]
 
==Combat==
===Attacks and abilities===
Fighting Elminster is ill-advised. To say nothing of his overleveled stats relative to the party when he is encountered in Act One, he also leaves no loot and his hostility will lock [[Gale]] out of progressing in his personal quest. If the player does successfully defeat Elminster in combat, though, the party is awarded 1000 experience.
 
{{Feature box|Misty Step}}
 
{{Feature box|Sunbeam}}
 
{{Feature box|Slow}}


{{Feature box|Otiluke's Freezing Sphere}}
==Gameplay==


{{Feature box|Polymorph}}


== Related Quests ==
==Interactions==
*[[The Wizard of Waterdeep]]


== Related literature==
===Locations===
* [[Volo's Complete Guide to the Behaviour of Nymphs]]
Players are given a limited number of opportunities to interact with Elminster. The list below contains the situations currently known, but it may not be complete, and conditions may vary for Origin Gale vs. Companion Gale.
* [[Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate]]
* If Gale has either been recruited or is in the player's party, Elminster first appears in the game world immediately prior to the start of Act Two, regardless of which path the player used to exit Act One.
* [[Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate (Signed)]]
** Elminster can first be found near the entrance to the [[Shadow-Cursed Lands]] from [[Rosymorn Monastery Trail]] or near the ruined Sharran temple if the party used the elevator from [[Grymforge]], assuming [[Gale]] is still alive and has not left the party. [[Gale]]'s personal quest [[The Wizard of Waterdeep]] must have progressed to the point where his condition is no longer responding to treatment for Elminster to appear. If Gale does not receive all three items by the time he reaches the Shadow-Cursed Lands, then Elminster appears in camp after a long rest once he has received the last item.
* If Gale survives into the events of Act Three, Elminster appears in the players Camp for a second time, after Gale's story quest has progressed to visit the vaults of [[Sorcerous Sundries]].


==Gallery==
===Unique===
<gallery heights="200" mode="packed">
* When first meeting Elminster, a player using the [[Bard]] class is given multiple unique dialogue options.
Edward-vanderghote-elminster.webp|Character portrait by Edward Vanderghote
* If Karlach is a companion, and is spoken to after Elminster first departs the camp, she will ask if Elminster is "[[Gale]]'s Grandpa" and has additional dialogue depending on how the player responds.
Levinna-angelita-elminster-02-lev.webp|Concept Art by Levinna Angelita
Elminster_Model.png|Elminster's model
</gallery>


== See also ==
== Related Content ==
* [[Gale]]
* [[The Wizard of Waterdeep]]
* [[Mystra]]


== Notes ==
== Trivia ==
* When meeting Elminster, he will greet the party by saying "Ho there, wanderer. Stay thy course a moment to indulge an old man." This is a reference to the first Baldur's Gate game, where he greets the player the exact same way.
* Elminster is voiced by [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714995/ Crispin Redman], replacing [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919798/ Frank Welker] from previous games.
* Elminster rewards 1000 experience if killed.
* Elminster's race is [[human]], though when examined, his character sheet displays him as being a Level 1 [[:Category:Constructs|construct]]. It's possible that the Elminster we meet in the game is a copy or a [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Simulacrum simulacrum] of the real wizard.
* ''"Behold! Elminster's ball-bag."'' is a possible voice line for attacking an elemental with [[Vicious Mockery]].
* During Act 3 dialogue, [[Gale]] describes Elminster as being ''"thirteen centuries old."''<ref>This dialogue option becomes available after Elminster visits camp to discuss what the player read in a certain book.</ref>
* Elminster can be attacked under certain circumstances, and uses at least the spells of [[Sunbeam]] and [[Slow]]. If he reaches 0 hit points, he will teleport out of camp rather than leave a corpse behind. He also says, "*Creak!*".


==External links==
== External Links ==
*{{FRWiki|Elminster|long}}
* {{FRWiki|Elminster|long}}


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