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=== Personal quest === | === Personal quest === | ||
Lae'zel's personal quest is [[The Githyanki Warrior]], spanning all acts of the game. In it, she will explore the strong feelings of duty for her people and her zealous devotion to her queen, and begin questioning where her loyalties should truly lie. | Lae'zel's personal quest is [[The Githyanki Warrior]], spanning all acts of the game. In it, she will explore the strong feelings of duty for her people and her zealous devotion to her queen, and begin questioning where her loyalties should truly lie. | ||
Lae'zel's companion quest ties into two further, separate quests. In [[Free Lae'zel]], the party finds her trapped in a cage by a pair of tieflings, and must decide how to proceed. During [[Help Kith'rak Voss]], Lae'zel must consider a proposition that promises to change the fate of her people forever. | |||
===Recruitment=== | ===Recruitment=== | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
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Lae'zel is reserved when it comes to herself, and shares only fragments of her past before the conflict against the [[Absolute]]. She hails from crèche K'liir, also known as Stardock, a githyanki enclave on an asteroid in the Tears of Selûne, an asteroid cluster near the namesake moon. There, Lae'zel received the customary githyanki martial education, with lessons on how to battle, raid and plunder in the name of Vlaakith. This brutal training instilled a hatred for illithid in her, as well as turn her into an ruthless warrior who would do anything to accomplish her missions. | ===Creche K'liir=== | ||
Lae'zel is reserved when it comes to herself, and shares only fragments of her past before the conflict against the [[Absolute]]. She hails from crèche K'liir, also known as Stardock, a githyanki enclave on an asteroid in the Tears of Selûne, an asteroid cluster near the namesake moon. There, Lae'zel received the customary githyanki martial education, with lessons on how to battle, raid and plunder in the name of Vlaakith. This brutal training instilled a hatred for illithid in her, as well as turn her into an ruthless warrior who would do anything to accomplish her missions. The indoctrination further gave her a racial superiority complex, and contempt for races other than githyanki. | |||
Lae'zel is captured by the nautiloid | During her time in the creche, she and her clutch battled beholders in a nearby asteroid and infiltrated a neogi spelljammer, laying waste to its crew. Tested by battle, but still considered a youngling by her people, she wished to prove herself to Vlaakith by presenting her a severed head of an illithid. Lae'zel is captured by the nautiloid during this mission, and is tadpoled in a cruel mockery of their ancestral feud. Kept in a pod, she awaits [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ceremorphosis ceremorphosis], doomed to her fate. | ||
== Events of Baldur's Gate 3 == | == Events of Baldur's Gate 3 == | ||
=== Prologue === | |||
Lae'zel can be encountered during the battle aboard the nautiloid. Having escaped her pod, she will ambush the party as they attempt to find an exit. Seeing as they are free from illithid influence just like her, she proposes a temporary alliance until they find a way out. After the ship crashes near the [[Ravaged Beach]], she disappears leaving the party to fend on their own. | |||
=== The Githyanki Warrior === | === The Githyanki Warrior === | ||
{{Hatnote|See main article: [[The Githyanki Warrior]]}} | {{Hatnote|See main article: [[The Githyanki Warrior]]}} | ||
The Githyanki Warrior is Lae'zel's personal quest. It is added to the journal upon recruiting her and spans all three acts of the game. | |||
====Act One==== | |||
Once properly recruited into the party, Lae'zel discloses that her people know a way of getting rid of tadpoles and that they must find a creche. As the party explores the [[Wilderness]], they eventually find a tiefling named [[Zorru]] in the [[Druid Grove]] who confesses to having run into a group of githyanki near the [[Mountain Pass]]. When reaching this location, the party will find a group of githyanki led by [[Voss|Kith'rak Voss]] skirmishing against a squad of [[Flaming Fist]]. Quickly dispatched by [[Qudenos]], Voss' mighty red dragon, the commander turns to the party and interrogates them on the whereabouts of a [[Mysterious Artefact]]. [[Shadowheart]] and Lae'zel's presence can influence the outcome of this encounter, but regardless of the outcome, Lae'zel will be angry that they're no closer to a cure for their parasites. | |||
Back at camp, Lae'zel will confront Shadowheart over her artefact she carries. Shadowheart is reluctant to part ways with the object, and mockingly suggests a duel at dawn. Later that night, the party will be woken up by a struggle between Shadowheart and Lae'zel, the latter pinned to the ground with a knife at her neck. The argument can be defused, in which case both parties agree to set their differences aside for the moment. | |||
The clues left by the githyanki and the corpses of their victims point to [[Creche Y'llek]] in the nearby mountains. Upon reaching the [[Rosymorn Monastery]], the party finds githyanki dealing with looters, indicating that they're in the right place. Once inside, exploring the creche can lead to an encounter with [[Stornugoss|Ghustil Stornugoss]] at the infirmary. She quickly diagnoses the party as being infected with tadpoles, and prompts them to use the nearby zaith'isk, a device used not for healing, but rather purification through death. The machine ultimately fails and Stornugoss flees to inform the inquisitor. An audience is then granted with [[W'wargaz|Ch'r'ai W'wargaz]], an inquisitor dispatched to the creche to help them find the mysterious object Voss was after. The inquisitor quickly reveals that he knows about the party and that they hold the artefact the githyanki are after. Whatever the outcome of this encounter, Vlaakith herself will appear through a projector and reveal that the object is an Astral Prism designed to contain somebody. She demands they kill the prism's inhabitant and earn her gratitude, opening the way inside. Within the prism, the party finally faces the [[Dream Visitor]] and must make the decision to spare or kill them. Upon exiting, if W'wargaz remains alive, he will turn on the party at the behest of Vlaakith, along the rest of the creche. | |||
At camp, Lae'zel can be found mulling over the events at the creche. Betrayed by her people, she believes it must be a test of faith from Vlaakith, yet seeds of doubt have been planted in her mind. Voss will appear shortly after, asking to be heard. If given the chance, he will reveal that Vlaakith is a pretender and that the true son and heir of [[Gith]], [[Orpheus]], still lives. Voss leaves not long after, but not before asking the party to meet him at [[Sharess' Caress]] in [[Baldur's Gate]]. Lae'zel can be guided down one of two paths here: remain loyal to Vlaakith, or reject the Lich Queen and find Orpheus. Whatever her choice, the next stop is Baldur's Gate. | |||
====Act Three==== | |||
=== Endings === | === Endings === | ||
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== Quest rewards == | == Quest rewards == | ||
* {{MdRarityItem|Silver Sword of the Astral Plane}} — granted by Voss for showing him the [[Orphic Hammer]] as part of the quest [[ | * {{MdRarityItem|Silver Sword of the Astral Plane}} — granted by Voss for showing him the [[Orphic Hammer]] as part of the quest [[Help Kith'rak Voss]] | ||
== Interactions == | == Interactions == | ||