Macready
Thu, 23rd Dec '04, 3:11pm
Hello -
*minor spoilers within*
Surely this question has crossed the minds of some who have played through Baldur's Gate I, and then used their final save to continue on in Baldur's Gate II. It is fuel for the imagination to speculate on how your prized possessions ended up where they did.
For example: my Baldur's Gate party consisted of myself and Imoen, with Khalid and Jaheira thrown in for tankage when we went anywhere dangerous. Once I obtained the bastard sword +3 vs. shapeshifters, that became Khalid's permanent sword. He had it in his hand as we stood over Sarevok's dead body. Then, I wake up a captive in Irenicus's dungeon, it turns out Khalid has been brutally murdered, and his sword in in the possession of...Lehtinan!
How can this be? Did slavers effect our mysterious capture? Did Irenicus award Lehtinan the sword for services rendered? All manner of possibilities suggest themselves.
Let's try a weirder one. One of my prized possessions from the original game was the magic warhammer "Ashideena." Now, I played a mage and couldn't wield it, but I had taken it from the dead hand of Bassilus, who as it turns out, was the only creature in the whole game who came close to killing me. A trophy, yet a reminder of my mortality, and all that.
Some time later, as I explored the dangerous lower levels of the Unseeing Eye area, I solved a riddle which allowed me to pass a bridge allowing access to an area that surely had seen no visitors in hundreds of years. Even the diseased temple followers told me this was so. But, there on the inaccessible side of that bridge, what did I find stashed in a niche? Ashideena!
What combination of events transpired to convey this warhammer from my unconscious form to this remote place? Surely there must be some fascinating story to explain it!
I am having a fun time trying to reassemble all of my missing possessions from the first game, and then imagining how they got to where they did. Am I the only person that has given these personal mysteries some thought? If not, what's your version of the events surrounding some favorite items?
*minor spoilers within*
Surely this question has crossed the minds of some who have played through Baldur's Gate I, and then used their final save to continue on in Baldur's Gate II. It is fuel for the imagination to speculate on how your prized possessions ended up where they did.
For example: my Baldur's Gate party consisted of myself and Imoen, with Khalid and Jaheira thrown in for tankage when we went anywhere dangerous. Once I obtained the bastard sword +3 vs. shapeshifters, that became Khalid's permanent sword. He had it in his hand as we stood over Sarevok's dead body. Then, I wake up a captive in Irenicus's dungeon, it turns out Khalid has been brutally murdered, and his sword in in the possession of...Lehtinan!
How can this be? Did slavers effect our mysterious capture? Did Irenicus award Lehtinan the sword for services rendered? All manner of possibilities suggest themselves.
Let's try a weirder one. One of my prized possessions from the original game was the magic warhammer "Ashideena." Now, I played a mage and couldn't wield it, but I had taken it from the dead hand of Bassilus, who as it turns out, was the only creature in the whole game who came close to killing me. A trophy, yet a reminder of my mortality, and all that.
Some time later, as I explored the dangerous lower levels of the Unseeing Eye area, I solved a riddle which allowed me to pass a bridge allowing access to an area that surely had seen no visitors in hundreds of years. Even the diseased temple followers told me this was so. But, there on the inaccessible side of that bridge, what did I find stashed in a niche? Ashideena!
What combination of events transpired to convey this warhammer from my unconscious form to this remote place? Surely there must be some fascinating story to explain it!
I am having a fun time trying to reassemble all of my missing possessions from the first game, and then imagining how they got to where they did. Am I the only person that has given these personal mysteries some thought? If not, what's your version of the events surrounding some favorite items?