Aerie Birth

noldor372 · Wed, 31st Jan '07, 7:04pm

Isn't Aerie supposed to give birth to a kid once the romance is far enough along? I'm almost finished with Watcher's Keep, and I've killed Abazigal and Sendai, so the game's pretty far along.

8people · Wed, 31st Jan '07, 7:13pm

After she announces she's pregnant to you it takes 30 hours of real time.

The joys of time progressing cheats!

Felinoid · Wed, 31st Jan '07, 8:29pm

60 hours, actually. Info on how to advance it can be found here.

Kulyok · Thu, 1st Feb '07, 8:31am

Actually, her "birth" happens right after PC defeats the Ravager(and all other challenges are complete), irrelevant of the real time. Ugh. Just don't mention the name "Quayle", please. Just don't.

Wordplay · Thu, 1st Feb '07, 4:16pm

Really? Never happened to me and I have finished the game several times.

It's time dependant and I hear the dialog isn't really worth it either.

Alavin · Thu, 1st Feb '07, 4:33pm

It happened to me in the middle of the final battle, right before Mel's final appearance.

Rastor · Fri, 2nd Feb '07, 4:49pm

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Actually, her "birth" happens right after PC defeats the Ravager(and all other challenges are complete), irrelevant of the real time. Ugh. Just don't mention the name "Quayle", please. Just don't.

Never happened for me either. I'm pretty sure it is 60 hours of real time.

thetruth · Fri, 2nd Feb '07, 6:21pm

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quote:Actually, her "birth" happens right after PC defeats the Ravager(and all other challenges are complete), irrelevant of the real time. Ugh. Just don't mention the name "Quayle", please. Just don't.

Never happened for me either. I'm pretty sure it is 60 hours of real time.

Probably both of you are right.
In my experience, no matter how long I wait , Aerie doesn't give birth if the Ravager challenge is not completed.

But it happens immediately after it if the required time has passed.

Goli Ironhead · Fri, 2nd Feb '07, 7:24pm

Heh, I can imagine that...
Everyone's prepared, all the buffs cast. They are tired, but they know that this is it, the last battle. They cannot back down, it must be done. And then Aerie carefully tries to get attention.
"Dear, I think it's the time..."
"Aerie, we don't have time right now! Whatever it is, it will have to wait!"
"But I meant *that* time."
"Oh..."

omnigodly · Sat, 3rd Feb '07, 7:44pm

I was playing with this romance going while a friend was over and the first thing my friend read from her dialogue was:

"I'll prove to you I'm not so innocent as we lay together tonight" or something along those lines... Suffice to say I was a bit embarassed haha.

She never did give birth in my run through either, I thought she gave birth in SoA not ToB, but it seems I was mistaken.

Yulaw9460 · Sun, 11th Feb '07, 9:41am

As far as I remember, she gave birth right after the destruction of Saradush... in my game, anyway.

Drew · Mon, 19th Feb '07, 7:03pm

Someone needs to mod Aerie into, uh, actually carrying the child for 9 months before delivering it. I doubt charname's kid will be all that cute if born after only 2 months in the womb......

Elfen Lied · Mon, 19th Feb '07, 7:11pm

that seems a bit much. i know it would be more realisitic, but 9 months with it only happening after you finish the ravenger challenge, there isnt much game left at that point.

prehaps if the mod it so she has the baby earlier in the game then she could be pregnant for longer.

Drew · Mon, 19th Feb '07, 7:39pm

Story aside, 9 months don't even pass between the beginning and the end of the entire saga. I think the devs set the absurdly long amount of game time requirement in place in order to ensure that the birth never happens in-game.

Felinoid · Tue, 20th Feb '07, 2:05am

Perhaps not "ensure", or they wouldn't have bothered making it available at all. It's easy to cut content; just look at UB. Rather, I have the feeling they wanted to make it an extremely rare occurence that only the most dedicated (or forgetful, in the case of leaving the paused game running) player would see. An Easter Egg, of sorts.

CamDawg · Tue, 20th Feb '07, 2:39am

It's in some of the developer notes IIRC. Basically, they didn't think Aerie should give birth in-game, but since they knew someone would sit around in the game for nine months to try and get to it, they added it.

Elfen Lied · Wed, 21st Feb '07, 2:47am

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I have the feeling they wanted to make it an extremely rare occurence that only the most dedicated (or forgetful, in the case of leaving the paused game running) player would see. An Easter Egg, of sorts.

seems possible, still its a kinda of cool feature. its kind of annoying it happens so late in the game.

Kitrax · Wed, 21st Feb '07, 2:05pm

For me it always happens right after I defet the Ravager...but only if I've been using the console to "advance real time".

Elfen Lied · Sun, 25th Feb '07, 9:06am

it will only happen after the ravenger.

that was deliberate on the part of Bioware right? they made it so it occurance is rare. kind of like an easter egg, like someone said.

Proteus_za · Thu, 8th Mar '07, 5:28pm

If charname has a kid, wont said kid also be a bhaalspawn?

Silverstar · Thu, 8th Mar '07, 5:52pm

^Not really, I don't think the spawn of a Bhaalspawn will be a full-powered Bhaalspawn too, the taint will be very thin.

Daie d'Malkin · Thu, 8th Mar '07, 6:20pm

A Bhaalspawnspawn! Weaker blood, probably.

Kip · Thu, 8th Mar '07, 9:04pm

Wouldn't that mean we'd be killing babies if it were?

Elfen Lied · Fri, 9th Mar '07, 5:20am

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If charname has a kid, wont said kid also be a bhaalspawn?

no bhaalspawn implies child of bhaal. the son of <charname> wouldnt be the son of bhaal. but i think they would posess part of the taint from <charname>.

im not sure on the genetics of the taint of bhaal, but if it was to be passed on to the next generation it would be weaker than that of the previous generation. the further down the line the weaker it gets.

hmm guess if the child of <charname> and Aerie is partially tainted then that means Draconis is partially tainted too then, He is Abigazals son, and Abigazal posesses the taint of bhaal same as <charname> does.

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Wed, 31st Jan '07, 7:04pm	#1
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Wed, 31st Jan '07, 7:13pm	#2
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