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* The outcome of the quests relating to the [[Nightsong]], as well as dialogue checks, can influence the encounters with him | * The outcome of the quests relating to the [[Nightsong]], as well as dialogue checks, can influence the encounters with him | ||
== | === Quests === | ||
*[[Infiltrate Moonrise Towers]] | |||
*[[Decide Minthara's Fate]] | |||
*[[Lift the Shadow Curse]] | |||
*[[Capture Isobel the Selûnite Cleric]] | |||
*[[Resolve the Abduction]] | |||
*[[Find Ketheric Thorm's Relic]] | |||
*[[Defeat Ketheric Thorm]] | |||
== Spells and abilities == | == Spells and abilities == | ||
*{{SAI|Deadly Orders}} | *{{SAI|Deadly Orders}} | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
== Encounters == | |||
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. | |||
===First meeting=== | |||
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]] and [[Minthara]] if either 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. | |||
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. | |||
===Act two finale=== | |||
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. | |||
== Combat == | |||
See: [[Ketheric Thorm/Combat]] | |||
Ketheric Thorm's actual battle has three individual stages. | |||
After either destroying, or liberating the [[Dame Aylin|Nightsong]], his invulnerability is lost, and he can finally be killed. During the first stage of the boss fight, he will eventually flee to the lower levels of the Tower, towards the [[Mind Flayer Colony]] to reconvene with [[Lord Enver Gortash]] and [[Orin the Red]], revealing himself, Gortash, and Orin as the Chosen of Myrkul, Bane, and Bhaal respectively. | |||
If [[Gale]] uses his [[Netherese Orb Blast]], the game can end at this very moment, allowing the party to kill Ketheric Thorm, [[Enver Gortash]], [[Orin the Red]] and the [[Absolute]] in one fell swoop. | |||
The latter two will leave Ketheric to retrieve the [[Mysterious Artefact]] in order to lead the [[Absolute]]'s army to [[Baldur's Gate]]. During this second segment of the boss fight, which the player can bypass entirely with a successful Charisma skill check. In either case, if the [[Dame Aylin|Nightsong]] has not been destroyed, he will retrieve it once more, and either he, in the second stage or the [[Apostle of Myrkul]] in the third, will regain their invulnerability - but this can be rectified by using a [[Help]] Action on [[Dame Aylin|Nightsong]]. | |||
Once he is defeated, he will finally die for good, allowing the party to retrieve his Netherstone, and proceed to [[Baldur's Gate]]. | |||
[[File:Absolute trinity.webm|gif|thumb|The Chosen of Myrkul]] | |||
== Loot == | == Loot == | ||
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*{{RarityItem|Supply Pack}} | *{{RarityItem|Supply Pack}} | ||
*{{RarityItem|Flail of Myrkul}} (conditional) | *{{RarityItem|Flail of Myrkul}} (conditional) | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||