Editing Elminster

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| description = Elminster is a famous and powerful wizard, as well as the favored Chosen of Mystra. 
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{{Infobox character
| name = Elminster
| full_name = Elminster Aumar
| image = Elminster.png
| voice = Crispin Redman
| titles = Sage of Shadowdale
| hometown = Suzail, Cormyr
| race = [[Human]]
| age = 1280
| class = [[Wizard]]
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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.'''

== Overview ==
=== Background ===
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."

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

== 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.

== Events of Baldur's Gate 3 ==
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]]

==Spells and abilities==
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| name = Elminster
| size = Medium
| type = Construct
| race = Construct
| armour_class = 17
| hit_points = 185
| hit_points_tactician = 240
| movement_speed_meters = 9
| movement_speed_feet = 30
| weight_kg = 75
| weight_lb = 150
| level = 20
| initiative = +9
| str = 13
| dex = 18
| con = 24
| int = 27
| wis = 18
| cha = 17
| int_save_proficiency = proficient
| wis_save_proficiency = proficient

| condition1_name = Mage Armour
| condition1_description = Base AC is 13.

| feature1_name = Alert
| feature1_description = +5 to initiative and cannot be surprised.
| feature2_name = Empowered Evocation
| feature2_description = Add your Intelligence Modifier to damage rolls with any Evocation spells. 
| feature3_name = Focused Conjuration
| feature3_description = Will not break Concentration on conjuration spells if damaged. 
| feature4_name = Magic Resistance
| feature4_description = Has Advantage on Saving Throws against spells and other magical effects. 
| feature5_name = Opportunity Attack
| feature5_description = Make a melee attack against an enemy moving out of range.
| feature6_name = Spell Sniper
| feature6_description = The number you need to roll a Critical Hit while attacking with a spell is reduced by 1.
}}
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|name=Misty Step|* Casts as a level 2 spell.

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{{Feature box|name=Sunbeam|* Casts as a level 6 spell

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{{Feature box|name=Slow|* Casts as a level 3 spell.

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{{Feature box|name=Otiluke's Freezing Sphere|link=Otiluke's Freezing Sphere (Launch)|* Casts as a level 6 spell.

{{Action}}}}{{Feature box|name=Polymorph|* Casts as a level 4 spell.

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==Gallery==
<gallery heights="200" mode="packed">
Edward-vanderghote-elminster.webp|Character portrait by Edward Vanderghote
Levinna-angelita-elminster-02-lev.webp|Concept Art by Levinna Angelita
Elminster_Model.png|Elminster's model
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Gale]]
* [[Mystra]]

== 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.

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

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