Baldur's Gate 3: Every Major Conflict You Can Resolve And How

Summary

• The fate of the Emerald Grove in Baldur's Gate 3 depends on your actions and choices in resolving the conflict between Tiefling Refugees and Shadow Druids.
• In the Underdark, you have the option to choose sides between the Myconid Colony and the Absolute Cultists, with each party having different objectives and tasks for you to complete.
• The ultimate moral decision in Baldur's Gate 3 comes at the finale, where you must choose between freeing the good people of the Sword Coast or seizing power for yourself and starting a new reign of terror.

Baldur’s Gate 3 greets you with picturesque sceneries, compelling lifelike characters, captivating stories… and an unhealthy dose of conflicts. The Sword Coast is riddled with confrontations both obvious and hidden from the world at large, and the outcome of each of them can — and will — alter the fate of Faerun as a whole.

Baldur's Gate 3: 9 Most Important Choices And Their Consequences

Think carefully about these choices.

As a player, you’re the main character of this story, and it’s up to you to shape the future of the beloved fantasy realm. You can resolve most conflicts one way or another, usually by picking a side or leaving everyone to their devices. Here are the major confrontations in Baldur’s Gate 3 that you can take care of along the way.

10 Tiefling Refugees Vs Shadow Druids

Emerald Grove Locals Seek To Kick Out The Outsiders… Kind Of

As you reach the Emerald Grove, you’re presented with the first major conflict of Baldur’s Gate 3. The local Druids led by Kagha want to seal off the Grove and demand that the tieflings leave — or else. If you dig deeper, you discover a plot as Kagha is a Shadow Druid who wants to make the Grove her new friends’ domain.

There are a few ways you can go about this conflict. Help the tieflings safely evacuate; ensure First Druid Halsin’s safe return; confront Kagha and the Shadow Druids to end their plot; or even encourage the slaughter between the Druids and the tieflings. The fate of the Emerald Grove entirely depends on your actions.

9 Druids & Tieflings Vs Absolute Cultists

Cultists Want To Sacrifice The Emerald Grove To Their Deity

The Absolute cultists share the Shadow Druids’ sentiment that the Emerald Grove’s management has outstayed its welcome. However, the cultists seek to destroy the Grove entirely and kill everyone inside, including the tiefling refugees. Plagued by internal conflicts, the Grove locals can’t defend themselves without your help.

Baldur's Gate 3: Should You Side With The Tieflings Or The Druids?

Baldur's Gate 3 offers players the choice of siding with either Tieflings or Druids during its campaign. Here are the benefits of either.

The two obvious options for you are to either join the Emerald Grove protectors and wipe out the cultists over at the goblin camp or succumb to Minthara’s charm and attack the Emerald Grove and kill its inhabitants. However, there’s another path: if you ignore this conflict, the Grove will be sealed off, and the cultists won’t find it.

8 Myconids Vs Absolute Cultists

The Fungi People Fight Back Against The Duergar Oppression

As you venture into the Underdark, you meet more opposing parties. The Myconid Colony is suffering from the oppression of the Duergars led by the True Soul Nere. The Absolute cultists want to destroy the colony, and the mushroom people want to protect themselves. Each party will task you with taking out its foes, so it’s up to you.

You can choose either side, depending on your playthrough. By siding with Nere, you’ll exterminate all his gnome slaves and the Myconids; by siding with the Colony, you’ll take on the gargantuan task of wiping out the True Soul and the Duergar. Alternatively, you can just leave the Underdark, and Nere will suffocate without help.

7 Sovereign Spaw Vs Sovereign Glut

A Vengeful Myconid Wants To Take Over His Rival’s Colony

Even the Myconid Colony isn’t as peaceful as it initially seems. Sovereign Glut, a Myconid whose Circle was destroyed because of Sovereign Spaw’s refusal to help, is the most bloodthirsty when it comes to killing the Duergar, but he doesn’t intend to stop there. Glut wants to take over the Colony, which involves disposing of Spaw.

Baldur's Gate 3: Should You Side With Glut Or Spaw?

Myconid plea for help – but is trust on the menu?

If you feel like Glut’s rage is righteous and deserves another chance as a ruler, you can help him take out the current Sovereign of the Colony. Otherwise, you can help Spaw destroy the rebellious Myconid and keep his position of power and life. But if Glut dies during your Duergar-killing rampage, this conflict won’t even emerge.

6 Orpheus Vs Vlaakith

The Leech Queen’s Dark Secrets Might Just Become Her Demise

This hidden ancient confrontation is first somewhat unveiled at the Mountain Pass. After speaking to Vlaakith, the Leech Queen of Githyanki, you learn that Orpheus, the Prince of the Comet and Gith's son, is still alive and held in captivity, and Vlaakith uses the lies about his death to establish her reign of submission and terror.

Orpheus’s fate is ultimately in your hands, since the Prince of the Comet is trapped inside the Astral Prism. You can either free him from his chains, and he will lead the war against Vlaakith’s tyranny after helping you, or sacrifice Gith’s son to your own ends, be it the Emperor’s embrace or the taking over the Crown of Karsus’s power.

5 Harpers Vs Absolute Cultists

The Classic Tale Of Good And Evil Clashing For People’s Souls

For centuries, Jaheira’s Harpers have been tracking down any and all evil forces to protect the Sword Coast and save its good people. The Cult of the Absolute is just another enemy for them, but the most formidable one they have encountered to date, and even Jaheira admits that it’s a battle that takes a heavy toll on them all.

Your first chance to choose a side comes in Act Two, as you travel in the creepy company of Kar'niss and get ambushed by the Harpers. This fight, however, doesn’t even tip the scales. You can later join the Harpers and Jaheira in their fight against the cultists or destroy them at the Last Light Inn by killing Izobel, their protector.

4 Selune Vs Shar

Typical Sibling Quarrels Are More Dramatic On The Deity Scale

Shar and Selune are two sister goddesses with opposing domains who hate each other. Shar is the deity of loss, and Selune is the Moonmaiden who tries to defeat her sister’s darkness with her light. The Shadow-Cursed Lands are Shar’s territory and her pride, and Selune has long attempted to end its unspeakable horrors.

Baldur's Gate 3: How To Lift The Shadow Curse

Act Two of Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in a land plagued by a magical curse - luckily, you have the power to lift the curse.

To aid the Moonmaiden, you can cleanse the Shadow-Cursed Lands, save her daughter Dame Aylin, and turn Shadowheart to the light. Should you wish to help Shar, do just the opposite and destroy Selune’s only fortress in the area, the Last Light Inn. This won’t exactly resolve their conflict, mind you; they’re deities, after all.

3 Guild Vs Zhentarim

Baldur’s Gate’s Criminal Underworld Falls Into Internal Struggle

Massive criminal organizations can rarely ever conduct their business without interfering with each other, especially in a place like Baldur’s Gate. The Guild’s power over the city is strong, but the Black Network wishes to take over the reigns and return to its former glory. The Zhentarim plan a rebellious attack on the Guildhall.

This confrontation is very straightforward: during the Guildhall attack, you can support either the Zhents or the Guild members. Your decision will shape the future of Baldur’s Gate’s criminal underworld for years to come… Especially if, after taking out one party, you turn on the other and destroy both these organizations.

2 Illithids Vs Githyanki

The Ancient War Keeps Raging Amid Mortals’ Perils

The two powerful races of the Astral Plane, Mind Flayers and Githyanki, have been at war for ages. The latter seek to exterminate the Illithids for enslaving them back in the day, and Mind Flayers still try to conquer and dominate other races on their supremacy grindset. The main reason Githyanki came to Faerun is to hunt ghaik.

Baldur's Gate 3: Should You Side With Orpheus Or The Emperor?

In Baldur's Gate 3, trust is a perilous quest.

While you don’t directly partake in their epic confrontation, you can severely hamper the Githyankis’ chances of winning. When siding with the Emperor, you have to sacrifice Orpheus, the Gith’s son prophesied to save his people. Alternatively, if you free the Prince of the Comet, you sort of take a shot at the Illithids by releasing him.

1 Compassion Vs Power

Did You Do What’s Right Or What’s Easy And Beneficial?

Baldur’s Gate 3 has many bloody conflicts and struggles, but the internal ones are the most important. Every choice, every situation in the game puts you in a tough spot, and you often find yourself between a rock and a hard place. Being kind and compassionate often proves difficult and lacking in the benefits department, too.

Regardless of your previous choices, the finale of Baldur’s Gate 3 is the ultimate moral decision. Do you free the good people of the Sword Coast from tyranny or do you seize the power for yourself and begin the new reign of terror? This is your last choice between the good and the easy that will affect Faerun’s history greatly.

Baldur's Gate 3: All Recruitable Allies For Gather Your Allies And How To Get Them

One last battle.