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|name = Ketheric Thorm | |||
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|filename = Moonrise Towers | |||
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|STR = 18 | |||
|DEX = 13 | |||
|CON = 17 | |||
|INT = 12 | |||
|WIS = 15 | |||
|CHA = 20 | |||
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|wis save = Yes | |||
|cha save = Yes | |||
|level = 11 | |||
|race = [[Undead]], formerly Half-Elf | |||
|type = Undead | |||
|HP = 188 | |||
|AC = 22 | |||
|speed = 9m / 30ft | |||
|size = Medium | |||
|weight = 75 kg / 165 lbs | |||
|proficiency = 4 | |||
|initiative = +1 | |||
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|class = Oathbreaker | |||
|bludgeoning = Resistant | |||
|piercing = Resistant | |||
|slashing = Resistant | |||
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|class = Paladin | |||
|background = | |||
|location = [[Moonrise Towers]]<br>[[Mind Flayer Colony]] | |||
|faction = [[Cult of the Absolute]] | |||
|family = Melodia (former wife)<br>[[Malus Thorm]] (uncle){{ref|[[Tissue and Organ Register]]}}<br>[[Gerringothe Thorm]]<br>[[Thisobald Thorm]]<br>{{Blur|[[Isobel|Isobel Thorm]] (daughter)}} | |||
|allies = {{Blur|[[Myrkul]]}}, [[Enver Gortash]], [[Orin the Red]], [[Balthazar]], [[Z'rell]] | |||
|enemies = [[Dame Aylin]], [[Jaheira]], [[Halsin]], [[Harpers]], [[Shar]], [[Deities#Selûne|Selûne]] | |||
|alt-name = Model | |||
|alt-image = [[File:Ketheric Model.png|175px]] | |||
|va = J.K. Simmons | |||
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{{SpoilerWarning|act=2}} | {{SpoilerWarning|act=2}} | ||
General '''Ketheric Thorm''' is one of the Chosen of the [[Absolute]], the enigmatic [[Cult of the Absolute|cult]] taking over the Sword Coast, and serves as one of the main antagonists in [[Baldur's Gate 3]]. | General '''Ketheric Thorm''' is one of the Chosen of the [[Absolute]], the enigmatic [[Cult of the Absolute|cult]] taking over the Sword Coast, and serves as one of the main antagonists in [[Baldur's Gate 3]]. | ||
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{{Q|I'll tell you a story, True Soul. About a man who sold himself piece by piece.|Ketheric Thorm}} | {{Q|I'll tell you a story, True Soul. About a man who sold himself piece by piece.|Ketheric Thorm}} | ||
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
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=== Gameplay === | === Gameplay === | ||
* Ketheric is | * Ketheric is an [[Undead]] that retains some features of his past life as a [[Half-Elf]] | ||
* He can be found throughout Act 2, while being referenced through dialogue and notes in Act 1 | * He can be found throughout Act 2, while being referenced through dialogue and notes in Act 1 | ||
* In combat, he's most similar to an [[Oathbreaker]] [[Paladin|paladin]], able to cast a form of Smite with his attacks, as well as having access to Aura spells and able to raise Undead minions | * In combat, he's most similar to an [[Oathbreaker]] [[Paladin|paladin]], able to cast a form of Smite with his attacks, as well as having access to Aura spells and able to raise Undead minions | ||
* Despite his status as a boss, Ketheric can still be disarmed, knocked prone or affected by other types of weapon abilities | * Despite his status as a boss, Ketheric can still be disarmed, knocked prone or affected by other types of weapon abilities | ||
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*[[Defeat Ketheric Thorm]] | *[[Defeat Ketheric Thorm]] | ||
== | == Interactions == | ||
Though the party learns about Ketheric during Act 1, his involvement in the [[Cult of the Absolute|cult]] of the [[Absolute]] is only explored during Act 2, allowing them to meet Ketheric himself in Moonrise towers before or when it's sieged. | |||
Though the party learns about Ketheric during Act 1, his involvement in the [[Cult of the Absolute|cult]] of the [[Absolute]] is only explored during Act 2, allowing them to meet Ketheric himself | |||
===Act Two=== | ===Act Two=== | ||
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Players can visit him before the finale by simply visiting on the top of Moonrise Towers. Attempting to go through the door that leads to him will make everyone around it hostile. | Players can visit him before the finale by simply visiting on the top of Moonrise Towers. Attempting to go through the door that leads to him will make everyone around it hostile. | ||
While speaking to NPCs such as [[Jaheira]], [[Z'rell]], and [[Balthazar]], it will be revealed, to some capacity depending on who you speak of, that a magical relic grants Ketheric immortality. Assisting Balthazar will reveal that sometime between his life as a Sharran, and his time serving [[Myrkul]], Ketheric Thorm had discovered the [[Dame Aylin|Nightsong]], and used it to render him unkillable. | While speaking to NPCs such as [[Jaheira]], [[Z'rell]], and [[Balthazar]], it will be revealed, to some capacity depending on who you speak of, that a magical relic grants Ketheric immortality. Assisting [[Balthazar]] will reveal that sometime between his life as a Sharran, and his time serving [[Myrkul]], Ketheric Thorm had discovered the [[Dame Aylin|Nightsong]], and used it to render him unkillable. | ||
====Atop Moonrise Towers==== | ====Atop Moonrise Towers==== | ||
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If, however, the player chose to let Balthazar take the Nightsong in the Shadowfell, Ketheric will offer the player to pray at the altar of the [[Absolute]]. Doing so will skip the fight at the top of the tower and the player will instead end up imprisoned in a pod in the [[Mind Flayer Colony]] where Balthazar is tasked with recycling the party into zombies and retrieving the [[Mysterious Artefact]]. The player then needs to break out of the pods and defeat Balthazar in order to continue. | If, however, the player chose to let Balthazar take the Nightsong in the Shadowfell, Ketheric will offer the player to pray at the altar of the [[Absolute]]. Doing so will skip the fight at the top of the tower and the player will instead end up imprisoned in a pod in the [[Mind Flayer Colony]] where Balthazar is tasked with recycling the party into zombies and retrieving the [[Mysterious Artefact]]. The player then needs to break out of the pods and defeat Balthazar in order to continue. | ||
Eventually, the party finds Ketheric having a conversation with [[Enver Gortash]] and [[Orin the Red]], revealing the true form of the [[Absolute]]. The party will then engage Ketheric once more and when he falls, the last portion of the fight will begin, this time against the [[Apostle of Myrkul]] | Eventually, the party finds Ketheric having a conversation with [[Enver Gortash]] and [[Orin the Red]], revealing the true form of the [[Absolute]] and their true power. The party will then engage Ketheric once more and when he falls, the last portion of the fight will begin, this time against the [[Apostle of Myrkul]]. | ||
Defeated for good, Ketheric's body will contain the [[Ketheric's Netherstone|first Netherstone]]. | Defeated for good, Ketheric's body will contain the [[Ketheric's Netherstone|first Netherstone]]. | ||
== Combat == | == Combat == | ||
See main article: [[Ketheric Thorm/Combat]] | |||
=== Loot === | === Loot === | ||
*{{RarityItem|Ketheric's Netherstone}} | *{{RarityItem|Ketheric's Netherstone}} | ||
*{{RarityItem|Ketheric's Warhammer}} | *{{RarityItem|Ketheric's Warhammer}} | ||
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*{{RarityItem|Crumpled Note}} | *{{RarityItem|Crumpled Note}} | ||
*{{RarityItem|Supply Pack}} | *{{RarityItem|Supply Pack}} | ||
*{{RarityItem|Flail of Myrkul}} | *{{RarityItem|Flail of Myrkul}} (conditional) | ||
== | == History == | ||
A devoted worshipper of [[Deities#Selûne|Selûne]], Thorm lived with his wife Melodia and daughter [[Isobel]] in the family stronghold of [[Moonrise Towers]], ruling over the [[Reithwin Town|town of Reithwin]]. Disaster struck the Thorm family when Melodia passed away, leaving Ketheric to raise their daughter alone. With a child in his care, Ketheric persevered, and though doubts plagued his mind, he never abandoned the selunite ways he would raise his daughter in. It wouldn't be too long after, however, that tragedy would befall Ketheric once more, this time with Isobel dying. | |||
Ketheric | |||
Grief-stricken and unable to cope with her loss, he renounced the worship of the Moonmaiden and turned to worshipping [[Shar]], the Lady of Loss. In his downward spiral into darkness, Shar compelled him to build an army of [[Dark Justiciar|dark justiciars]] beneath his home village in order to cleanse the world of Light. Ketheric would trick his daughter's lover, [[Dame Aylin|Aylin]] and trap her in a prison, made to serve as a perpetual sacrifice for dark justiciar initiates. Reithwin soon became the site of battle between Ketheric's army and the combined forces of the [[Harpers]] and [[Druid|druids]] of the [[Emerald Grove]]. | |||
In the end, the sharran army was defeated, Ketheric himself perishing along with them. Yet, before the final blow was struck, he would curse the lands with a terrible darkness that would persist long after his demise, afflicting any survivors from the battle and all the inhabitants left. His body was buried in the [[Thorm Mausoleum|Thorm mausoleum]]. | |||
Years later, Thorm would be brought back from the dead by [[Myrkul]], tasked to form an alliance with the apostles of the other two of the [[Dead Three]] and bring death to the world in exchange for bringing his daughter back. Not long after, he would set out to revive his daughter [[Isobel]] with help of [[Balthazar]], though his plan at a family reunion failed when she saw his broken visage after being revived, fleeing from him. Empowered by Myrkul, and granted immortality by the [[Nightsong]], Ketheric begins amassing an army of followers of the [[Absolute]] in order to march to Baldur's Gate and sow destruction. | |||
Tasked with the recovery of the mysterious artifact, the only object capable of thwarting the [[Dead Three|Dead Three's]] plans, he ultimately fails and falls at the hands of the party who kill him for good. | |||
== | == Personality == | ||
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== Dialogue == | |||
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== | == Related Items == | ||
* {{RarityItem|Letter to Ketheric}} | |||
* {{ | * {{RarityItem|Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1}} | ||
* {{ | * {{RarityItem|Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 2}} | ||
* {{ | * {{RarityItem|Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3}} | ||
* {{ | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* His [[Invulnerable_(Condition)|invulnerability]] is removed by completing the Shadowfell portion of the [[Find the Nightsong]] quest. Until completed, Ketheric is unkillable. | * His [[Invulnerable_(Condition)|invulnerability]] is removed by completing the Shadowfell portion of the [[Find the Nightsong]] quest. Until completed, Ketheric is unkillable. | ||
* If disarmed during the first encounter on top of Moonrise Towers, and he's not given the chance to pick his weapon up, Ketheric will wield a {{RarityItem|Flail of Myrkul}} for the next phase. | * If disarmed during the first encounter on top of Moonrise Towers, and he's not given the chance to pick his weapon up, Ketheric will wield a {{RarityItem|Flail of Myrkul}} for the next phase. | ||
* A note written by [[Malus Thorm|Malus]] found in the House of Healing refers to Ketheric as nephew | |||
== Trivia == | |||
* A [[Tissue and Organ Register|note]] written by [[Malus Thorm|Malus]] found in the House of Healing refers to Ketheric as nephew, thus it can be safely inferred that Malus is indeed his uncle. | |||
* It's unclear what degree of kinship Ketheric and [[Gerringothe Thorm|Gerringothe]] share. It can be presumed she's his aunt following Malus' situation, however, notes and narration mention that Ketheric dug up many of his ancestors tombs, which could indicate she could be a far older relative if necromancy was practiced on the corpse too. | * It's unclear what degree of kinship Ketheric and [[Gerringothe Thorm|Gerringothe]] share. It can be presumed she's his aunt following Malus' situation, however, notes and narration mention that Ketheric dug up many of his ancestors tombs, which could indicate she could be a far older relative if necromancy was practiced on the corpse too. | ||
* Ketheric's kinship with [[Thisobald Thorm|Thisobald]] is not quite clear, either. Though Thisobald refers to Ketheric as "father", neither Ketheric nor {{Blur|Isobel}} ever acknowledge him in dialogue or otherwise. Given that Ketheric and [[Balthazar]] have desecrated the Thorm mausoleum and resurrected {{Blur|Isobel}}, it's possible that Thisobald is another resurrected relative and refers to Ketheric as father not in the paternal sense, but as "creator". | * Ketheric's kinship with [[Thisobald Thorm|Thisobald]] is not quite clear, either. Though Thisobald refers to Ketheric as "father", neither Ketheric nor {{Blur|Isobel}} ever acknowledge him in dialogue or otherwise. Given that Ketheric and [[Balthazar]] have desecrated the Thorm mausoleum and resurrected {{Blur|Isobel}}, it's possible that Thisobald is another resurrected relative and refers to Ketheric as father not in the paternal sense, but as "creator". | ||
* Ketheric's | * Ketheric's method of immortality derived from the Nightsong isn't clearly explained in the game. The Nightsong mentions being taken captive shortly after the death of Ketherics daughter, and being used as the sacrifice for the dark justiciar initiates employed by Thorm. Given she hasn't been moved in over a century, it can be assumed that Ketheric enjoyed the same immortality back then as he did in the present, however, if that were the case, it's unclear how he was able to be defeated in the first place. | ||
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==Gallery== | |||
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Edward-vanderghote-ketheric.webp|Character portrait by Edward Vanderghote | |||
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== External links == | |||
* {{FRWiki|Ketheric Thorm|long}} | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
{{NavShadowCursedLands}} | {{NavShadowCursedLands}} | ||
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[[Category: Bosses]] | [[Category: Bosses]] | ||
[[Category: Followers of the Absolute]] | [[Category: Followers of the Absolute]] | ||
[[Category: Characters in Act 2]] | |||
[[Category:Myrkulite]] | [[Category:Myrkulite]] | ||