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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}} | ||
== Background == | == Overview == | ||
=== Background === | |||
Risen from the grave a hundred years after the events that lead to his downfall, Thorm serves as the main antagonist of Act 2 of the game, being introduced during Act 1 through dialogue and in-game notes first. As the party searches for ways to cure their tadpole situation, many clues point towards Moonrise Towers and Ketheric himself and the party is ultimately tasked with bringing Ketheric down in order to rid the Shadowlands from its curse. | Risen from the grave a hundred years after the events that lead to his downfall, Thorm serves as the main antagonist of Act 2 of the game, being introduced during Act 1 through dialogue and in-game notes first. As the party searches for ways to cure their tadpole situation, many clues point towards Moonrise Towers and Ketheric himself and the party is ultimately tasked with bringing Ketheric down in order to rid the Shadowlands from its curse. | ||
Through battle with him, and later exploring the Illithid colony under the stronghold, the party discovers there's something more perverse going on with the tadpoles in their heads. Ketheric's alliance with [[Enver Gortash]] and [[Orin the Red]] is also exposed, and in the process of the fight against him, it's revealed that it was [[Myrkul]] that brought Ketheric back from the dead. With Thorm dead, the party now have one of the Netherstone that power the trio, and the clues to their next destination: Baldur's Gate. | Through battle with him, and later exploring the Illithid colony under the stronghold, the party discovers there's something more perverse going on with the tadpoles in their heads. Ketheric's alliance with [[Enver Gortash]] and [[Orin the Red]] is also exposed, and in the process of the fight against him, it's revealed that it was [[Myrkul]] that brought Ketheric back from the dead. With Thorm dead, the party now have one of the Netherstone that power the trio, and the clues to their next destination: Baldur's Gate. | ||
== Gameplay == | === Gameplay === | ||
* Ketheric is an [[Undead]] that retains some features of his past life as a [[High Elf]] | * Ketheric is an [[Undead]] that retains some features of his past life as a [[High Elf]] | ||
* 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 in Moonrise towers before or when it's sieged. | ||
=== | ===Meeting at Moonrise Towers=== | ||
The Party's first encounter with Ketheric Thorm starts with the general judging the members of the Absolute's forces from the [[Goblin Camp]], including [[Sazza]], [[Fezzerk]], and [[Minthara]] if any of them are still alive. Should Minthara be alive, he will send her to the dungeons to be punished, and is left with the goblins, who attack him out of fear. Even when impaled, or nearly decapitated with a halberd, he shrugs off the wounds as if they were minor annoyances, killing one of the goblins as punishment. He will leave the fate of the rest of the goblins to the player. | The Party's first encounter with Ketheric Thorm starts with the general judging the members of the Absolute's forces from the [[Goblin Camp]], including [[Sazza]], [[Fezzerk]], and [[Minthara]] if any of them are still alive. Should Minthara be alive, he will send her to the dungeons to be punished, and is left with the goblins, who attack him out of fear. Even when impaled, or nearly decapitated with a halberd, he shrugs off the wounds as if they were minor annoyances, killing one of the goblins as punishment. He will leave the fate of the rest of the goblins to the player. | ||
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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. | ||
=== | ===Confrontation=== | ||
The party may encounter him again at the top of [[Moonrise Towers]] during the siege and are granted a quick exchange with him before combat. Should [[Isobel]] be dead, he will recount his life story, and his sacrifices, blaming the party for her death, but not punishing them, as he wishes to keep up the façade of the [[Absolute]]'s judgement. If [[Aylin]] was saved, she will interrupt the conversation and combat will soon begin. Otherwise, the encounter begins as normal. | The party may encounter him again at the top of [[Moonrise Towers]] during the siege and are granted a quick exchange with him before combat. Should [[Isobel]] be dead, he will recount his life story, and his sacrifices, blaming the party for her death, but not punishing them, as he wishes to keep up the façade of the [[Absolute]]'s judgement. If [[Aylin]] was saved, she will interrupt the conversation and combat will soon begin. Otherwise, the encounter begins as normal. | ||
Once his health drops to around 25%, Ketheric will flee down into the [[Mind Flayer Colony]], with the players giving chase. | Once his health drops to around 25%, Ketheric will flee down into the [[Mind Flayer Colony]], with the players giving chase. | ||
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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: [[Ketheric Thorm/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|Supply Pack}} | *{{RarityItem|Supply Pack}} | ||
*{{RarityItem|Flail of Myrkul}} (conditional) | *{{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. | |||
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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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* {{FRWiki|Ketheric Thorm|long}} | * {{FRWiki|Ketheric Thorm|long}} | ||
{{NavShadowCursedLands}} | {{NavShadowCursedLands}} |