What happens if you convince Orpheus to becomes a Mind Flayer | Baldur's Gate 3 

I love how everyone has end-game super badass armor and weapons equipped and Gale just stands there in peasant clothes 😂

The way Orpheus immediately accepts that he had to become the Illithid and the delivery on “Just as I was free” is so genuinely sad to me

Orpheus is Such a Gigachad gave himself up so none of my characters had to go mindflayer. The emperor was so quick to turn heel, what a bastard.

They called him prince. But he was a king.

I only met orpheus for 1 minute but the guy was willing to so this , Orpheus > emperor

i love Voss's reaction. hes pissed, literally about to run you through with his sword, and then the mindflayer speaks and hes like WHAAAT?! just cant beleive it. the Voice acting is so good.

Going after Vlaakith could be an entire ass dlc

I find it funny lae zel did not sacrifice herself….

"please give me my freedom from this form" Persuaded "ok i can still live"

9:39 And just when you thought the Netherbrain was defeated, your controller batteries run out, leaving you defenceless. It was one step ahead all along.

for me, this is the "Good Ending" orpheus becomes the mind flayer a second time and inspires the rest of his people to rise up for a rebellion, rather than make karlach a mind flayer or my PC a mind flayer, cause it doesn't make sense if i had to personalize my PC to my liking only to be turned to mind flayer.

I hope they give us an update that would allow us to call Omeluum for help here if we save him earlier.

Wait a moment, how on earth is this even meant to happen anyway? Orpheus isn't infected with a tadpole, and you never see him get tadpoled.

i wouldnt call it convincing....i just told him i didn't want to become a mindflayer and he was like...guess i will do it

I personally prefer to this ending. The whole goal of this game was to rid yoursef of becoming Illithid.

I love how the animation in these cutscenes is so detailed and smooth; you can actually see everything playing out across their expressions, from annoyance to grief to the joy Karlach feels when she sees the owlbear cub.

On my first playthrough I became illithid myself because the gith made it seem like Orpheus alive was the only way to defeat vlakith, but now I see that it’s not true so my second playthrough I am definitely letting him do the job so I can stay cute and married to wyll.

i was wondering why Lae Zel is not eager to turn into Illithid for his prince, it's so weird.

he didn't even need any "convincing", I feel sorry that you have to sacrifice anyone at all

In my play through not only the Emperor helped me defeat the brain, he also wished me good luck and told me he'll miss me.

Did Astarion become Vampire Ascendant in this run? I didn't see him burn up from the sun.

necromancy wizard seems to have no special option, as far as i have looked

This is the best ending of the game imo. I didn't expect Orpheus to be such gigachad and smart. It was good intuition and feeling to not fully trust emperor and try to free Orpheus to see how he really is. I did the harder way and didn't get the contract then found how to get to house of hope and stolen that hammer Raphael mentioned about. It was a time when I was thinking who I really want to trust because somehow u can feel emotional for emperor of all journey you had with him and that he basically told you everything about you. I wanted to check Orpheus first and I didn't regret. I checked later and emperor kind of betray you in some way, he want to only protect himself, he is free to you deciding of killing or taking control, but you can crealy see that he want to control the nerherbrain the most. He is more evil than neutral for sure. Orpheus as first feels like risky option because if you want to free him, then you need to betray emperor that means someone need to transform to illithid and orpheus might be angry and want to attsck you. It turning much different especially when u have Laezel in team, Orpheus offering he can do it for his people and turning being really good person was amazing. The afterfight dialogues were awesome too, Lae'zel gone to fight Vlakid and if u convince illithid Orpheus to go with her, it feels like its instant success since what powers he have. He for sure later on will give Laezel to be queen and sacrifice himself because he can't live as illithid. Emperor while killing netherbrain, you can get the ending when he is alone at the street and people killing him lol. Sure both endings are good because somehow emperor "trust" you, but his ending is more bittersweet than happy, while Orpheus ending is amazing, especially with DC roll without killing him. There is also option to turn Karlach into mind flayer and her engine will get fixed, Orpheus will accompany Laezel to destroy Vlakith, but I prefer the Wyll turning Blade of Averus and Karlach go with him here or romance her and accompany her yourself.

have you figured out how to finish the Thay book?

Literally Space Jesus

How in the h.. to you have 246 hp? I'm a barbarian with max constitution and I'm not even close to that. Is it related to difficulty?

Does someone disapproves you asking Orpheus to turn? I don't want to turn any of my babies and the Emperor is a gonner for me...

There's another option. why didn't lae'zel want to become a mind flayer to spare the prince so he could save their people?

Reminder that Orpheus DOES NOT have a tadpole so this just happened to move the plot LMAO This ending is so rushed its actually unbelievable

Is ospheus infected or he used magic to turn into mind flayer?

What armour is Shadowheart wearing?

Damn Voss. If you didn't cause Orpheus to be captured. None of your war becomes a thing. Damn Orpheus. For millennial none of your honor guard freed you. How do you think they can? Damn you.

how did he... do that??? why does he have a purple finger ceremorphosis power

How does this affect lazels romance?

Man... Now i regret turning Karlach illithid... This dude seems much more willing and accepting. Im a monster.

No Illithid dong?

how did he become mindflayer without tadpole?

What happened to the emperor in this version of events? Is he sided with the Netherbrain or with you?

Do you get unlimited spell slots at the end?

Once you've finished the campaign, is the game over or can you still do the side missions?

Gith would be proud of her son, our prince ascend to become a king, orpheus >>>> whiny squid called "eMpErOr" anyday

Spoiler! I think the only one who should turn into a mindflayer without hesitation should be the dark urge. In the end this entire thing is their fault. But that's just my opinion.

Orpheus is a hypocrite. He was infected all along and he was hiding it. Thats why it didnt take effort to make him turn. Through the whole game all the githyanki are portrayed as cold warmongerers and the connection with them is pure necessity. If Vlaakith stays in power, literally nothing changes. If Orpheus takes power, whats to guarantee he wont be a nuisance in the future? There's no positive relationship with the githyanki. So its very hard to sympathize with them. Orpheus dying is pretty dumb as well. Orpheus isnt a good guy by any means. He's a cold calculating githyanki with allot at stake. He would have had Lae'zel or some other loyalist become a mindflayer. And thing is, if you turn mindflayer you technically die. Withers said mindflayers have no soul. And when the main character makes the suggestion to Orpheus, there's an option to revoke the suggestion with the commentary "Keep your soul". Its like becoming a vampire. And when you become a mindflayer, not only does the mindflayer look like the wimpiest mindflayer ever; it looks and behave like nothing your character was. The only thing left is the voice and memories. And that goes away. It doesnt matter if Lae'zel gets to to die serving Orpheus or die rebelling against Vlaakith, she will still be the same old Lae'zel. I say, let the githyanki hold that L and move on to the next chapter tadpole free.

So wait was Orpheus infected already when he was imprisoned?

I wish laezel sacrifices herself being ghaik and die gracefully for his prince

Does this happen if you get the Hammer? I didn't have it and I never got the option but now I have it

This is the best ending. His entire race is fucked up and him winning the war against vlakit would unleash a greater evil upon the stars.

He says it 3 times to make sure noone else will do it :P

How did Shadowheart do 4 spells in one action?

Why does Gale look like he’s undergoing chemo 😢

I keep trying to look up qhether or not the part becomes mind flayers if Orpheus becomes one but all I find is the same vague bit of infor 😅 Can we all live happily ever after if we convince Orpheus to take one for the team? 👀

so will i become a mind flayer if i choose this option or no i just wanna b sure

Why can he just turn into a mind flayer like that?

how do you dress shadowhearth like this??

Lol - I had no idea this was even possible. :D

How did you get shadowheart to change her hair white? I made her spare the nightsong but it’s still black when I get to this cutscene

Wait.. He was tadpoled at some point?

Did he have a tadpole tho?

So in other words, we upgraded

is there anyway I can make other companion to be a mindflayer? I'd love to choose gale or wyll as mindflayers since I never use them

Easy difficulty 😂

Sorry but only canon ending is Tav becoming illithid to me.

We need a dlc to get dragons and kill vlaakith

Alternate title: Prince Orpheus has his glowup

Thank you. Before playing this part, I had to know if my best buddy Lae'zel could go fight for the githyanki and hatch that egg without me turning into a mind-flayer.