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}}'''Raphael''' is a [[cambion]] NPC in [[Baldur's Gate 3]] who first appears to players disguised as an enigmatic [[Human]], but quickly reveals his true form and intentions.

{{Q|The mouse smiled brightly: it outfoxed the cat! Then down came the claw and that, love, was that.|Raphael ~~telling the player~~ a lullaby.}}

{{Q|The mouse smiled brightly: it outfoxed the cat! Then down came the claw and that, love, was that.|Raphael reciting a lullaby.}}

== Overview ==

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Back home in the hells, Raphael resides in the [[House of Hope]], a lavish and seemingly welcoming place where he brings potential clients.

=== Description ===

Raphael is cunning, manipulative, and incredibly confident, though easily angers when he is undermined. Although his station grants him power and rank higher than many other devils, he hungers for more, and is resolute in his goals.

Raphael enjoys poetry and his own theatricality, as well tormenting and playing with people in creatively cruel ways. He is also narcissistic to the point that his father sent an incubus, who could appear as a more youthful version of Raphael, to distract him. {{ref|[[Haarlep]]'s Speak with Dead dialogue|name=HaarlepSWD}}

Physically, Raphael has dark hair and faintly red skin, which deepens into a brighter red when he sheds his human disguise. In his true form, he has the tell-tale characteristics of a cambion; significantly with thick and decorative curved horns, and a set of pointed wings with visible membranes, similar to that of a bat.

While fiendishly ascended, Raphael's form forgoes it's remaining humanoid qualities. Wreathed in flame and two sloping horns, his head is an amalgamation of three animalistic faces with skin is stretched tight over bone. His faces total three glowing, yellow eyes, each with tusked gums and open nasal cavities, exposing bloody muscle. His body visibly glows with hellfire, laced with dark, bone-like structures that lead down his arms, torso and digitigrade legs.

=== Related quests ===

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* [[The Pale Elf]]

* [[The Githyanki Warrior]]

== History ==

Raphael is heir to the archdevil [[Mephistopheles]], a status granting him power and rank above that of other devils. He is proprietor to the [[House of Hope]], a falsely welcoming home used to lure in those he wishes to bind into his service with infernal contracts.

The nature of Raphael's contracts are such that the contractee will inevitably owe him a debt. Those individuals would eventually become [[Eternal Debtor]]s.

One such contractee was the architect of [[Moonrise Towers]]. They bargained to end [[Ketheric Thorm]]'s [[Dark Justiciar]] army in exchange for their soul. {{ref|''[[Mason's Log]]'' by [[Infernal Mason]]}} Raphael contracted [[Yurgir]] and his legion of [[Merregon]]s, who destroyed all but one of the Justiciars. As Yurgir did not technically complete his end of the bargain, he remained trapped in the [[Gauntlet of Shar]] and under contract of Raphael.

Raphael bore witness to the fall of Netheril through [[Netheril#Karsus'_Folly|Karsus' Folly]]; a magocracy destroyed by Karsus' inability to control the [[Crown of Karsus]]. However, Raphael saw also Karsus' ambition for creating a "better world" and ever since, coveted the crown for use in uniting the Nine Hells under his rule as Archdevil Supreme. {{ref|Raphael in the [[Devil's Den]]}}

Before he could retrieve the crown, however, his father Mephistopheles archived it to one of his vaults. He continued to monitor the crown, observing later how the Dead Three managed to steal it from its vault, and then use it to control an [[Elder Brain]] and subsequently its tadpoled servants.

At some point, likely after the fall of Netheril, Raphael's father sent him an incubus, [[Haarlep]], to distract him from an unknown task (possibly his designs on the crown, though this is task is not expanded upon anywhere). This was met mostly with success, thanks to Raphael's arrogance and narcissism. {{ref|name=HaarlepSWD}}

Raphael finally saw his chance to obtain the crown when a group of adventurers who had been implanted with tadpoles under the Dead Three's plan, managed to retain their autonomy. He met with them soon after their escape from a Nautiloid ship, and began to set in motion an exchange for the crown through an infernal contract.

==Interactions==

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:: {{Approval|Astarion|+5}} {{Approval|Gale|+1}} {{Approval|Karlach|+5}} {{Approval|Wyll|+1}}

~~== History ==~~

~~{{SpoilerWarning}}~~

Raphael is heir to the archdevil [[Mephistopheles]], a status granting him power and rank above that of other devils. He is proprietor to the [[House of Hope]], a falsely welcoming home used to lure in those he wishes to bind into his service with infernal contracts.

~~The nature of Raphael's contracts are such that the contractee will inevitably owe him a debt. Those individuals would eventually become [[Eternal Debtor]]s.~~

One such contractee was the architect of [[Moonrise Towers]]. They bargained to end [[Ketheric Thorm]]'s [[Dark Justiciar]] army in exchange for their soul. Raphael contracted [[Yurgir]] and his legion of [[Merregon]]s, who destroyed all but one of the Justiciars. As Yurgir did not technically complete his end of the bargain, he remained trapped in the [[Gauntlet of Shar]] and under contract of Raphael.

Raphael bore witness to the fall of Netheril through [[Netheril#Karsus'_Folly|Karsus' Folly]]; a magocracy destroyed by Karsus' inability to control the [[Crown of Karsus]]. However, Raphael saw also Karsus' ambition for creating a "better world" and ever since, coveted the crown for use in uniting the Nine Hells under his rule as Archdevil Supreme.

Before he could retrieve the crown, however, his father Mephistopheles archived it to one of his vaults. He continued to monitor the crown, observing later how the Dead Three managed to steal it from its vault, and then use it to control an [[Elder Brain]] and subsequently its tadpoled servants.

Raphael finally saw his chance to obtain the crown when a group of adventurers who had been implanted with tadpoles under the Dead Three's plan, managed to retain their autonomy. He met with them soon after their escape from a Nautiloid ship, and began to set in motion an exchange for the crown through an infernal contract.

== Notable loot ==

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*{{MdRarityItem|Raphael's Diary - Chapter 2}}

*{{MdRarityItem|Raphael's Diary - Chapter 3}}

~~==Notes==~~

*You can't attack, pickpocket, examine, or interact with Raphael on your first meeting in any other way than answering his questions.

*[[Mephistopheles]] is Raphael's father.

*The first encounter with Raphael is triggered when the following requirements have all been met:

*#Player has crossed the bridge from the Druid Grove toward the Blighted Village.

*#Player takes a Long Rest.

*#Player arrives at any of the following locations:

*#*The plateau southwest of the druid's grove {{coords|155|365}}

*#*The path leading to the [[Secluded Cove]]

*#*Under the archway to East of the Druid's circle and Idol of Silvanus {{coords|270|524}}

*#*In the Shattered Sanctum, in the upper rafters (X:313 Y:-26) after collapsing the corridor wall from the Goblin Camp side {{coords|-105|478}}

*#*At the Selunite Outpost in the Underdark (near the statue with the orb)

*#*At the broken bridge between the Blighted Village and Waukeen's Rest

*#*At the Risen Road near where Karlach is recruited (''to be verified'')

*#The encounter can trigger with or without a long rest.

==Gallery ==

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<embedvideo service="youtube" dimensions="480">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMo7ugWudCA</embedvideo>

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==Notes==

*You can't attack, pickpocket, examine, or interact with Raphael on your first meeting in any other way than answering his questions.

*[[Mephistopheles]] is Raphael's father.

*The first encounter with Raphael can be triggered under one of the following conditions:

*#Player has crossed the bridge from the Druid Grove toward the Blighted Village.

*#Player takes a Long Rest.

*#Player arrives at any of the following locations:

*#*The plateau southwest of the druid's grove {{coords|155|365}}

*#*The path leading to the [[Secluded Cove]]

*#*Under the archway to East of the Druid's circle and Idol of Silvanus {{coords|270|524}}

*#*In the Shattered Sanctum, in the upper rafters {{coords|313|-26}} after collapsing the corridor wall from the Goblin Camp side {{coords|-105|478}}

*#*At the Selunite Outpost in the Underdark (near the statue with the orb)

*#*At the broken bridge between the Blighted Village and Waukeen's Rest

*#*At the Risen Road near where Karlach is recruited {{verify}}

*#The encounter can trigger with or without a long rest.

== See also ==

* [[Korilla]]

* [[Haarlep]]

* [[House of Hope]]

== Related literature ==

*{{RarityItem|Raphael's Diary - Chapter 1}}

*{{RarityItem|Raphael's Diary - Chapter 2}}

*{{RarityItem|Raphael's Diary - Chapter 3}}

*{{RarityItem|White Pawn - Orders}}

*{{RarityItem|White Bishop - Orders}}

*{{RarityItem|White Knight - Orders}}

*{{RarityItem|Devil Don't Rhyme - A Verse Epic}}

*{{RarityItem|Supplication Scrapbook}}

== References ==

== External links ==

* {{FRWiki|Raphael|long}}

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