Baldur's Gate 3 - Welcome to the Realm of Shadow.. (Death Awaits)

[@WolfheartFPS]

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[@MizuMing]

I'm totally cool with that. Honestly for my first playthrough I'm going to go the evil route just because I know that most people aren't and I want to see everything that everyone else is going to miss. Even though it's not something I would normally do, Larian still put so much effort into the game only to have a section that most people won't see and frankly I think that it deserves to be seen. As a result, if you need any spoiler information for an evil playthrough I will try to get that for you. 😉

[@davidvader8723]

Dude this is SICK. I , just like you really hope Larian studios has put the realm of Shadow fell in the game. Shadow Heart is an advocate of Shar, I will remain hopeful that not only her personal progression as a dark cleric will lead us there; also the story in general. I can't speak with certainty but I'd be willing to bet that you know a little bit more than you're allowed to display. Ha ha, well keep writing the good stuff which THIS certainly is!!! Great ambience by the way.

[@davidvader8723]

I have to point this out. John Irenecus throne in the illustration used looks quite similar to old boys in the trailer.

[@zvenlin]

wait i thought i was in the plane of despair and gloom called IRL 😬

[@dlbrownmac]

I started following your channel because of your lore and character videos before early access.

[@ivyr336]

You are spoiling us with all these videos

[@VladTheBreaker]

A cool series you could make when bg3 comes out are unusual methods to handle various encounters. Theres so much freedom in the game and it would be kinda cool to see really odd ball ways of handling different situations

[@Threxer]

Is anyone else stuck in this Limbo of waiting for games to release and at the same time not wanting to start anything new?

[@DarksideGmss0513]

Wolfheart on the official Baldurs Gate 3 subreddit they released a teaser video. It said the full game will be revealed at SGF. And we get a look at one of the other big bads.

[@iiell1337]

You have a gift for storytelling! Keep this series going. I doubt you will run out of stuff to talk about! :)

[@WolfheartFPS]

Thanks a lot! Will do

[@JoeBuk724]

"I recommend watching my other lore videos in order first." Oooo there's a playlist! There goes my next hour or two. lol

[@Superdazzu2]

I played dnd some times, i like it but never wanted to dive that much into the massive story, then bg3 came and your videos appeared in my home, now i want to read every dnd book, thanks! (or curse you!)

[@connortonight]

Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy was written by BG 1 and 2 Lead Creative Designer James Ohlen, who wrote most of the games, so while the book's canonicity is up for debate I would hardly consider it "fan fiction."

[@johnd.9]

Proud to be a channel member for over 2 years. Such great content and community. I do hope we get to explore the Shadowfell in BG3. Skäal, to you and all my fellow wölves. ❤

[@xJarlaxle]

Awoooo!

[@WolfheartFPS]

Really appreciate it john! Skal

[@KaoticVibes]

I'm new to baldurs gate and DnD in general, so these lore videos have been entertaining and getting me hype for my 1st BG game! Thx! If DoS 2 is anything to go by, it's gonna be quite the experience

[@sazaat7]

I would love for shadar kai to be a elf subrace thats added somewhere down the line.

[@joneve]

Man, I really appriciate these videoes. I played BG1 and BG2 way back in the day, and it`s nice to get som ekstra content for the universe.

[@Vaytra]

I love these videos! We play a lot of D&D, but a lot of home brew stuff, so I don't know a lot of this lore. It's super interesting! I also love the visuals you put into the videos, all the art makes the lore even more beautiful. Thanks for another great Sunday Lore vid!

[@WolfheartFPS]

🙏

[@marco0445]

I cannot eat my Sunday evening dinner without a Realms Lore vid now :)

[@DigitalPhreak765]

Just got the game today really looking forward to playing this game 😊😊

[@frederickroy7039]

The Riven and Cale books by Paul Kemp are truly masterpieces. Ill be thrilled if any of that gets into bg3.

[@TokenDeathmage]

Omg yes Everything about Mask and Shar is just amazing

[@lixnix2018]

Maybe we will be able to visit shars fortress in the steal sees or so

[@lixnix2018]

Damm auto correction

[@Chaotic_frolic]

I used to be properly intrigued with the Plane of Shadows with MOTB in NWN2 with its secretive chilly nature. Looking forward to a re-visit, albeit altered after the Spellplague. Thanks for these videos, I deeply enjoy the lore + storytelling. Keep up the good work!!

[@wickedcrayon6022]

Love this series! Knowing all this lore is definitely going to enrich my experience in BG3. Thanks, Wolf. Love you and Larian!

[@WolfheartFPS]

🙏 🙏

[@benjaminlombardi3368]

Hey Wolf, sounds to me like your speech and the tone of your voice are the best they've ever been! And it suits this specific video perfectly. Congrats!

[@WolfheartFPS]

thanks for the feedback! I do actively try to improve on that as much as I can each video.

[@XKS99]

Just jumped back into BG3 to check on the progress. I’ll say my god this game is going to be amazing, but also I’m still running into a few bugs and crashes! Hope everything gets sorted before launch!

[@africanchild5932]

You can teally feel the love and effort you put into this series dont quit brother this is art

[@Skuimpie]

These lore videos are some of your best content, hope you can keep them up.

[@Sotozo]

4:16 Down with the Sickness!

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Wolf, thanks for the video on "my homeland"! LOL!!! Hopefully, we'll be able to visit in BG3!

[@FFMolasses]

Thanks for helping pass the time while we wait for release, as a first time player of CRPGs and a very casual DnD player, these videos are well made and informative. Subbed, youre officially my BG3 youtube guy 🫡

[@WolfheartFPS]

Appreciate it

[@Baraz_Red]

Huh... I thought the Raven Queen was just a CR thing, but I see she is also in the Forgotten Realms. Pretty cool entity: she was nearly killed by Corellon and Lolth (two elven gods) and she survives in the Shadowfell rebuilding herself with memories and emotions. Her motivations or goals a mystery. Gods are weird in the Forgotten Realm honestly, but the Raven Queen in intriguing. She is logically opposite to Shar who encourages forgetting ones past. Entities are almost all at war between each other in the Shadowfell.

[@blueeagle2914]

Thanks for all these videos it's so much fun to be able to actual understand more of this world and the previous games. BG3 has been a lot of fun so far and i cannot wait for the release.

[@MutantNetwork]

Another Banger video Wolf! Absolutely love the Shadowfell and the emo Elves. They don't get enough screen time.

[@WolfheartFPS]

Thank you!

[@ttiasrollo]

I love these videos. I get super cozy, thanks Wolfheart

[@WolfheartFPS]

Awesome. Thanks

[@AdaramKalantas]

Thanks for these, Wolf. This will be great to have in the weeks leading up to BG3 launch as well. It really gets me in the mood to explore the game when it finally releases!

[@WolfheartFPS]

CHeers!

[@pepperino-hotterino]

my favorite Plane, cant wait! Shar and the Ravenqueen incoming!!

[@miamibeachworkshop1143]

Absolutely loving these lore videos! Bring on next Sunday!!

[@WolfheartFPS]

Thanks!

[@TheLokiel]

At 8:25 it looks a bit like Strahd castle in the back but it is most likely a simple rock.

[@WolfheartFPS]

haha right. I was examining those scenes so closely hoping to see something

[@ahunsaker172]

Love all the BG3 content man, you're getting me hyped for the game!

[@WolfheartFPS]

🙏

[@michalpekarik4956]

These are very succint and voiced by best narrator on the Tube. Thank you, Wolf!

[@WolfheartFPS]

thanks Michal!

[@brettonalwood4173]

Excellent job on explaining the shadow fell! I'm looking forward to possibly going there.

[@WolfheartFPS]

Thanks!

[@666baby7]

Thanks again!!

[@Khornate]

These videos help get me through until the game releases. Keep up the awesome work. 🤘🏻

[@WolfheartFPS]

Great to hear. Thanks

[@tdub77]

Once again very informative and just good fun

[@SimpleHealth83]

Thanks for making all these lore videos!

[@WolfheartFPS]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching

[@philmedina79]

all i remember is you said ravenqueen and the audio went "caw caw" and i laughed, a visual of you editiing getting them caws right made me laugh more than it should have 😆, good day.

[@TheMarcHicks]

You encounter a Shadow Dragon in Baldur's Gate 2. Thankfully I had a Dragonward Stone, so it just ignored me.

[@christophervanhindenburg4220]

Halsin was talking about an area that clearly sounded like the shadowfell to me.

[@nateobean]

I love shades. I actually gave my players a chance to become them

[@dlbrownmac]

A trippy count down. Cool!

[@WolfheartFPS]

much better than that annoying one I used last Sunday lol

[@PrincessStabbityStabb]

Great vid ^.^ you can get to the shadowfell in NWN2 MotB, its pretty cool 😁😁 You can also briefly go there in the first NWN1 dlc about the netherese flying city. forgotten the name of it lol.

[@mephystophyles]

I know Astarion has a throwaway line where he mentions Strahd by name. Maybe it's just an Easter Egg, but as a veteran CoS player, if we end up in Barovia in any capacity, I'll poop my pants. Honestly I'd pay good money for a standalone Ravenloft game.

[@WolfheartFPS]

There's so many little things I wanted to bring up in the video, but they are all spoilers for those who have not played early access.

[@cheekypeaky5013]

4:19 Disturbed!

[@subcitizen2012]

Relevant and interesting lore I based a campaign on: Gloomwrought is the Shadowfell shadow echo version of what became Thultanthar; Thultanthar is the material plane version of Gloomwrought. They are sister cities. I had always wanted to run a Shadowfell campaign but struggled with reasons to go there. I had a new player and by chance he was really wanting to have a "hideout" like a mage tower. I set him in front of the map of Faerun and, knowing literally nothing about the world, he pin pointed the Shade Enclave in the middle of 3e or 4e Anauroch. So I was like cool, there's our destination, I'll spend a week or so looking at the lore. To my vast and incomprehensible surprise, the game more or less unfolded organically from there and within the lore. Thultanthar was in Shadowfell for 1700 years, and setike in the late 1300s they came back to netheril/Anauroch to reestablish their empire, the effort thereof lasted about 100 years before they assaulted neoMyth Drannor and Elmonster brought the floating shadow city down. Well, what happened for those 1700 years in Shadowfell? I don't know, but I can tell you what happened in my campaign immediately preceding the events of tieir return to prime material Faerun. With the help of a faction of demons (Orcus) that wanted to overthrow the raven queen, and a lich that was using the shadow mythallars to raise undead, the netherese and their army seiged Gloomwrought and attempted to have two sides planes under their control in their new empire. The siege failed though, thanks to some derpy newb heroes. Epic

[@tdub77]

there is a slight lock up in the video for me at about 8 min, only lasts about 10 seconds or so

[@mitch3064]

Go Wolf!

[@WolfheartFPS]

🙏

[@novoasud3]

Ive never been into history, now thanks to you I am now, at least DnD history haha

[@WolfheartFPS]

the history of the forgotten realms is more exciting than the history of our world :-D

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

Very cool, the only race I play when I can help it, I seriously hope they have Sahadar-Kai in the game somehow. I *WAS* gonna play a Half-Drow but if I get a Shadar-Kai from the start that'll 100% be me!

[@baggylobster3339]

Adventure awaits!

[@davidvader8723]

I have to point this out. John Irenecus throne in the illustration used, looks quite similar to old boys in the trailer for BG3.

[@TheMarcHicks]

We do know from EA that the Shadowfell is bleeding into the Material Plane in the region of Moonrise Towers.

[@Mornmagor]

Really enjoyable, the lore series :3 Reminds me of all those adventures on d&d tabletop Sigh Is August here yet? >.>

[@rickc-arelsii6276]

I think the 'Journal of Villainy' also has Imoen as a vampire now, if I remember correctly. "Heya! It's me. Imoen......I'm going feed on you!"

[@WolfheartFPS]

lol It has so much "updated" information.. we just have no idea if its canon or not. Damnit it Wizards.. give us a statement!

[@Rex1987]

funny i am just considering you buy the adventure books for the curse of Strahd because i like the horror-theme and now there is more info on some of that here. i would love to see some quest take us to Barovia or just meet more vamps than astarion ;)

[@pandoraeeris7860]

The Shadowfell and it can't get up.

[@GreatCentralRace]

A Beautiful Creation. Thank You Beloved Embodied Immortal Ah-Thor, "The Magnificent Silver Beast, The Brother of Merlin The God of Balance and Beauty".

[@lmeade2358]

Aunty Ethel speaks of Netherese shadow magic

[@WolfheartFPS]

for sure! Lots of shadow talk in early access, I am just trying to keep these videos spoiler free

[@manxhu6610]

love your videos.

[@WolfheartFPS]

Thank you!

[@broskichannel4163]

Awesome lore video once again, do you think Shadowfell is the only other place of existence we possibly get to explore in BG3 amongst the Nine Hells and the Material Plane?

[@WolfheartFPS]

I'd say its possible we could be going to more!

[@briankelly1240]

I love this series!

[@arokh72]

So if one moseys on into the Shadowfell and they are more likely to suffer from "apathy, dread, and madness", what happens if they are already apathetic, full of dread, and mad? The Shadowfell sounds like the inside of my mind.

[@WolfheartFPS]

lol

[@prasenjeetbanerjee2867]

will u be doing something like this before Rogue Traders launch ??

[@DonsAnalysis]

Well done sir

[@WolfheartFPS]

thank you

[@allanferreira7688]

Wolf, whats your configuration for playing the game? Do u play 4k? Can u tell your pc configuration too?? Thanks. I'm having trouble playing the game 😢.

[@GreenieTreenie]

Maybe it has been said, but wasn't the Minsc and Boo book put out by DMs Guild, not WotC? It was a charity event thing, iirc?

[@WolfheartFPS]

Yes and it was published by wizards. It’s very unclear if anything is canon or not.

[@GreenieTreenie]

@@WolfheartFPS I'll admit there are REALLY interesting things about characters in that book.

[@AnadreasMatrix]

i hope the game comes out at the intended date instead of being pushed back to late 2023

[@AzraelVonJaeger]

Ah yes the shadowfell, the place where all our inner edgelord are born

[@VengefulJarl]

I wonder if mask's symbol nowadays should only have a single eyehole. Similar to Deathstroke from DC comics

[@spilledfeed]

great job.

[@WolfheartFPS]

thank you

[@dragonhuntereargon3501]

Please keep doing lore videos even when the game comes out

[@WolfheartFPS]

I’m sure I will just at the initial launch I will be more focused on guides / builds!

[@florenmage]

It would not all together shock me if moonrise towers turned out to be in the shadow plane. I'm not saying it is I'm just speculation.

[@TokenDeathmage]

Did you just quote the cycle of shadow trilogy ? hail Shar

[@jamesjosephlister]

Dammit Wolf don't get me even more hyped for BG3 by making me think we'll get a Curse of Strahd DLC 😂

[@WolfheartFPS]

😂

[@mikee9464]

Binge watched to #8!

[@neurolancer81]

Shadow-effing-fell!

[@WolfheartFPS]

true

[@xJarlaxle]

All hail the beautiful Queen of Ravens

[@raphaelw8s4u]

Ravenloft is now the Shadowfell? wow that totally went past me, well i play only baldurs gate 3 and solasta in dnd 5e, otherwise i only play pathfinder 1st e. It would be awesome to see shadowfell then in the game :D

[@WolfheartFPS]

According to the lore it is located in the "Domains of Dread" which are demiplanes within the Shadowfell. So yes & no lol.

[@DarksideGmss0513]

It's technically its own pocket plain. It's part of the domains of dread.

[@Nnx1ful]

Demogorgon

[@ricktusgrin906]

Cheers

[@WolfheartFPS]

🍻

[@WarbossGazbag]

Another one down.... many more to go...

[@shinichigojir12]

I am very conflicted, can you help me decide. I don’t know whether to get early access now as i cannot wait to play it anymore, or whether to save the experience for full release. I just don’t like that my progress won’t transfer and i’ve spoiled the early game.

[@WolfheartFPS]

Sounds like you will be better off waiting!

[@shinichigojir12]

@@WolfheartFPS i guess i made it for 3 years a couple more weeks wouldnt hurt.

[@TheQuazar1961]

Sounds like my neighbourhood 😀

[@iranicus]

Like the upside down in Stranger Things 👍

[@WolfheartFPS]

💯

[@JaszaricOrionheim]

Ravenloft ❤❤❤ hope there will be a DLC that connects Cazador or Astarion to it.

[@naz88-36]

i thought Straud was in Ravenloft?? or is that the same now as shadowfell?

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

"The plane of Barovia is a Domain of Dread, and Domains of Dread are located physically in the Shadowfell, in a far remote corner of the plane and hidden away from the rest of the Shadowfell. (DMG 51-52)"

[@WolfheartFPS]

What that guy said ⬆️

[@naz88-36]

just curious many many years ago i did a adventure that was in Ravonloft the mist took us . Straud & Lord Soth we got the pleasure of visiting there domains they were close to each other. i dont recall hearing that we were in shadowfell is all but like i said that was many years ago ...thx all

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

@@naz88-36 Wolf briefly mentions during the "history of Shar" chapter that it was originally called the Plane of Shadow. From what I can tell his script is based on the Forgotten Realms Wiki since a lot of the words are identical, and the sentence structure is only slightly altered most of the time. If you'd like to know more that's the place to read.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

Comment for the dark powers

[@PrimetimeD]

Really appreciate the spoiler warnings,

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

Shadow fell is alittle to emo, surely Sigil would be great?

[@HellsCourtesy]

Comment has been done

[@WolfheartFPS]

appreciate it

[@kyasevi]

i really hope we don't see anything to do with the domains of dread / strahd in particular because 5e really massacred the lore from previous editions and characterisations

[@mikem.4269]

Goot warkz

[@noctus9668]

You can keep on loring without talking just about bg 3. or just write your own story. You got a shitload of knownledge about the multiverse ;)

[@BlottyWellRight]

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[@killercarzilla]

Oh no Im obsolete now!

[@WolfheartFPS]

Thank ya