Baldur’s Gate 3 Lets You Be Extremely Cruel If You Pick A Certain Deity As A Cleric

Baldur’s Gate 3 has a ridiculous amount of options and reactivity. Pretty much everything that goes into making your character can slightly alter some of the interactions you face in-game, and as it turns out, there’s an example early on in the game that is just ridiculously cruel.

As discovered by Reddit user mewop64, playing as a Cleric of Lathander allows you to technically be the morally just worshipper you set out to be… but in the most callous, uncaring way imaginable. Just as your god would want you to, you can smite an undead to restore the natural order – but the undead in question is the husband of a grieving widow, who is standing right there.

You Can Be Absolutely Awful To Mayrina In Baldur’s Gate 3 If You Worship Lathander

To get this option, you’ll have to play as a Cleric and choose Lathander – the god of birth, life, new beginnings, and all that good stuff – as your deity. Lathender’s followers really don’t like undead, so it’s no surprise that Larian put this unique response in this Act 1 quest, which sees a woman called Mayrina try and revive her husband, Connor.

Typically, your options here are to revive Connor and pass him on to Mayrina, revive him and steal him for yourself to use in battle, or destroy the rod needed to resurrect him, preventing him from being brought back. However, Clerics of Lathander get another option once Connor is revived – smite him in the name of your god.

So, just to recap, you lead Mayrina on long enough to actually revive her husband, only to then declare that he has to die because it’s what your god would want to do. I am so glad someone else found this, since I will almost definitely never see it, and nor will I ever pick it. Gotta love being so good aligned that you become an absolute asshole.