The way I saved all the 7 Hag victims in Baldur's Gate 3

The way I saved all the 7 Hag victims in Baldur's Gate 3.
BG 3 has a great character customization system which includes: BARBARIAN, BARD, CLERIC, DRUID, FIGHTER, MONK, PALADIN, RANGER, ROGUE, SORCERER, WARLOCK, WIZARD and other subclasses, races & backgrounds. Baldurs Gate 3 has a great alchemy crafting system, spells & actions, illithid powers & cantrips. Weapon Proficiency is related to your class. The companions you'll get in this game are ASTARION, SHADOWHEART, GALE LAE'ZEL, WYLL, KARLACH, HALSIN, MINTHARA, MINSC. There are hirelings too. All the quests & npcs feel lively. This game is full of thrills, romance & adventure. You'll get a lot of magical and secret items throughout the world. The map of the world here is very big. Talking about Baldur's Gate 3 which is a role-playing game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. It is the third game in the Baldur's Gate series and was developed and published by Larian Studios. The game was released in early access for macOS, Windows, and Stadia in 2020. It was released for Windows in 2023 and for macOS and PlayStation 5 in 2023.
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[@GAMOTALK]

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[@ponglenis9273]

Ethel:“Death and I are old friends“ Withers:“No.“

[@devon2280]

He hasn't been death for years

[@ericswenson7504]

Even if withers is nergal he wasn't even the only god of death before he gave the dead three most of his portfolio and powers they hold. At this point in the story he isn't even a main god of death and holds very little true power over the dead ya he can resurrect but that's not limited to gods, infact his most powerful trait is invulnerability and knowledge neither requires godhood. Withers could be a mummy lord that was a priest to nergal before the dead three and now serves his lord by continuing his duties to help keep balance with the living and dead souls.

[@hieuluu6613]

There are like 3+ god of deaths lately, Wither as the scribe, to take notes, Myrkul as the grim reaper to directly take the sould and Kelemvor as the overseer of the whole realm of the death. If there is one Ethel actualy befriend, would be Myrkul who deliver her there, but then hes also, well, dead

[@nicktalope]

I can hear his "No." just in my head :D

[@JoshuaOkolie]

If you tell Mayrina early on about her brothers she won't accuse you when you rescue her. She'll actually cheer you on if you fight Ethel in her presence

[@tbeth]

Yep! Just did this the other day and I was genuinely surprised when Mayrina was nice to me 😂 Though everyone in my party disapproved when I told her, lol

[@thatweirdgirl8466]

Her brother glitch out of existence for me. I had to look up where to find their corpses and there’s just nothing there.

[@Anastassoulis]

@@thatweirdgirl8466 because you chose the option not get involved or wish them well… which means they are alive and turned into sheep at Baldur’s Gate.

[@Anastassoulis]

@JoshuaOkolie only of you let her brothers die. If you chose the answer to not get involved they don’t die and Ethel says that they are alive and well (of course turned to sheep that is…).

[@exxy9931]

@@Anastassoulison my first playthrough, I had tried to help them and they died to traps on the way to the cottage. My second I knocked them out and the game treated them like they were dead.

[@mrlucius57]

the arcane lock on the stairs was galaxy brain idea even if it didnt work at first

[@DieGurke_]

galaxy brain idea ? if you ignore the fact that you will never get the hag hair

[@noblesseoblige319]

It's also rather stupid that it works. Stairs aren't doors, there's nothing to shut.

[@sirjoesphjoestar8361]

oh come on, its magic.@@noblesseoblige319

[@sonikblade]

@@noblesseoblige319 arcane lock its a seal, it locks a passage kinda makes sense

[@noblesseoblige319]

@@sonikbladehuh? no, it's a lock. The spell description literally says "Close a door or container with a magical lock." Neither of which a staircase is.

[@nobuffer101]

You can actually find Mayrina in Baldur’s Gate if you grab the wand in the connected room and bring back her husband. She, along with other Hag survivors, are trying to protect themselves from Ethel who is still alive. Help her and she finally lets go of her husband and dedicates her life to letting people know how to properly kill a hag.

[@victoria9131]

Where can you find her in the city ?

[@HeadDetectiveLassie]

You can find her even if you don't revive her husband. She still is a hag hunter.

[@h4ppy3nd]

I chose to break the wand instead and she still ended up in BG with other hag survivors.

[@HIGHDRONER]

For my DUrge run, i brought back her zombie husband and killed both of them when Mayrina lashed out when i said if she wanted her husband or not.

[@SordidusFellatio]

@@h4ppy3nd​​⁠ you could’ve gotten a free summoning to fight for you, albeit for 10 turns. It also made me chuckle when I decide to resurrect her husband and THEN keep the wand while saying that her husband would serve useful while in that state 😂 her reaction was priceless. The voice actor did a really good job with her character

[@Miner49er201]

So it seems that in order to get the best outcome for the victims, you should avoid the Mask fight (either by killing Ethel before encountering them, or by finding the secondary entrance into her lair and avoiding their encounter). Then, use Speak with Dead on her corpse before speaking to Mayrina for additional dialogue options. Using the secondary entrance may allow you to save every victim AND get the +1 stat bonus.

[@raphaelregnault6914]

You can also avoid the fight against the masks by wearing a mask yourself while under the Protection from Good and Evil spell, which prevents possessions and charm. Sadly, it's either the permanent stat bonus or the victims. If you avoid the masks before fighting Ethel in her lair, she summoned them at the start of the combat. If you make a deal with Ethel, she'll still be alive so her curses will still apply : the masks wearers will die upon removal and the petrified dwarf will instantly die from the bite after being brought back to flesh. At least that was the case last time I did this part. Maybe it has been or will be changed, but I think it's better if you have actual consequences from making a pact with a hag.

[@technote5124]

With that process, you need to make sure you succeed some i believe wisdom saving throws to not get possessed

[@arcana8012]

Where is the secondary entrance to her lair that bypasses their fight?

[@Barmaglott17]

@@arcana8012 in the Underdark. Southern wall of that fire mushroom field in the very south of map (same field from where you get access to that cleric's/artificer's tower).

[@rimanLip]

@@raphaelregnault6914 You can get both, if one of party member is far enough he dont participate in surrender conversation, once hag give you bonus switch to him (dialog to chose reward pop imidietly to him) and kill Ethel, she disappear upon hit so no loot from her( unless you pickpocket her), but it is counted as killing her in redgard of victims. Edit: My strategy is use potion of invisibility to pass masked vitcims, then sneak and cast silence on area where is she (she run toward character who casted sillence so place buble accordingly) beat her to

[@anttonto]

After beating Auntie i never thought about going back to see her victims. It's crazy to see this level of details, i will never stop being surprised by this game.

[@Eden_jasper]

I saw them as i walked out but if you take the traditional “walk in then combat approach” most are dead as you head back up to the surface

[@Biouke]

@@Eden_jasper There must have been a corrective patch because I remember being careful to knock them out and leave them with the masks, killing Ethel then returning to that room and they wouldn't wake up even after a long rest.

[@raphaelregnault6914]

The three masks wearers who act weirdly are traumatized, you can't heal them. It's implied that they wore the masks for too long and can't bear the fact that they are now free. In a true DnD session, you's be able to take them into an asylum or a temple of Illmater for them to recover, but I suppose you have enough sidetrack to do in this game to not get 3 crazy people under your protection until you reach Baldur's gate.

[@Kosheyaka]

Or they know that the aunt will be reborn and will come for them as she did with Mayrina

[@aaronhumphrey2009]

I tried non lethal dmg to KO them..when you take thier mask off, they die instantly..Remove Curse is ineffective- they don't show as cursed.. I used the Protection/ evil spell to prevent Ethels possession while wearing the mask to bypass the traps/ door man..

[@Anastassoulis]

@@aaronhumphrey2009 but he just showed us how to save them. Did you try that?

[@Observer675]

True, I sometimes think you could just mention them to the druids - maybe ask them to look after them as a favour - dependent on various act 1 choices

[@KittehFox]

@@aaronhumphrey2009 IIRC they only die if you try to take the masks off while Ethel is still alive.

[@axo4383]

Seems like victims were never finished ur uncut. The Dwarf literally tells you to meet in Baldur's Gate but he is no on where.

[@What_do_I_Think]

Not every NPC you meet in Act 1 is to be there in Act 3. Get over it!

[@gonebuddies]

@@What_do_I_Thinkwhen they tell you they’ll meet you in Baldurs gate they normally do. Calm the hell down and go take a walk no one wants your negative attitude and brattiness rn.

[@axo4383]

@@What_do_I_Think Where is Dwarf ten?

[@What_do_I_Think]

@@axo4383 In Baldurs Gate. But you don't see all the thousands of citizen of Baldurs Gate in the game and speak of "cut content". That stupid rumor is just getting very annoying. Is this your only problem in life, finding a dwarf?

[@jam34786]

​@@axo4383the female duergar (Mask of Regret, i think) will be in Act 3 at least... I dont know about the others

[@MathAraujox3]

Dude solved the side quest better than I though was possible!!! Nice one!!!

[@joshuanuanez9907]

This is interesting, I had a basilisk oil and threw it on the petrified dwarf in Ethel's hideout in Act 1 he started getting angry yelling something along the lines of " No you fool I was petrified because I was sick no no ... " and fell over dead.

[@Tryingcounts]

Same, Ethel must be dead before doing it by the looks of it

[@courtney2313]

I can't remember which stat it uses for the roll, but you can examine him and realize he's not actually sick. The hag made him sick and tricked him.

[@noblesseoblige319]

He was technically sick.... But it was the hags magic, not whatever disease he was told. So if she's still alive, he dies from the hag curse.

[@Mithcoriel]

Also, if you use the command spell to force Lorin the elf to walk out of his niche, he says "I'm sorry, Auntie, I'll go back!" but before he can, he falls over dead.

[@reffa2858]

I encountered Ethel at level 3. Seeing her house of horrors, what she did to people and constantly dying to her during the fight was rough. When I finally killed her, I used raise the dead and what she said was really terrifying. "Where there are people, there are hags." Just kind of makes you think....

[@chriswho12345]

lvl 3 omg not even a feat

[@rendyandrian7149]

Agree. Ethel house is the scariest place.

[@reffa2858]

@@rendyandrian7149 Ethels house gave me chills but The Hospital in act 2 was terrifying.

[@cmwinchell]

There are a total of five victims you can ultimately save. One is saved by being allowed to die, leaving no corpse (the door to Ethel's lair/the mask fight), the petrified Dwarf, the scared Elf, the Mask of Regret, and Mayrina. The door gets saved just by killing Ethel. If you let Ethel summon the masks in her lair you'll get the same result as long as you don't kill them. This isn't an oversight on Larian's part. The Mask of Regret is the only one that can be saved of those four because she hasn't worn her mask as long as the others and her mind is still whole. She had just started slipping and she will show up in act 3 if you save her.

[@sebastianbronowicki7073]

Six if you count the frog near Ethel's hut, so long as you talk to it AFTER killing Ethel

[@Mithcoriel]

@@sebastianbronowicki7073 What is that frog, by the way? Just a weird frog, or is it somehow hexed? What I find confusing about the door: if all it wants to do is die, why is it so terrified of the idea that Ethel might burn it if it disobeys?

[@sebastianbronowicki7073]

@Mithcoriel i don't think it's ever explained but since the frog is noticeably saner after killing ethel it was most likely cursed by her somehow. As for the door that's also up for a speculation. Since I'm not too deep into dnd lore i can only guess, but imo it's either due to numerous culturesbelieving flame could expunge spirits and larian used that for the door, the door fears the pain of burning (understandable) or he fears that ethel could somehow burn him to ash without actually killing him.

[@CiCodiCadno]

​@@Mithcoriel it's only 'hexed' in the same way we are initially 'hexed' - to see the Sunlit Wetlands, a beautiful illusion, instead of the true swamp it is. The frog is addled by having to believe it's in a beautiful meadow, instead of its true swamp home. When we break the illusion with the initial check, we only break it for ourselves. That's why the redcaps still pretend to be sheep - as far as they're concerned, the illusion is still up, they just don't know we can just see through it. It's only when Ethel dies that the illusion truly breaks for everyone, and the frog is now happy

[@meltedrabbit]

Fun detail, knocking Ethel out, stealing her equipment, killing her, and then using Speak With Dead results in a different conversation than just killing Ethel and using Speak With Dead. Ethel is far less less defiant in conversation when using the former method instead of the latter method. I haven't reached Act 3 yet to see what effects this may have.

[@dontletyourmemesbedreams7689]

You can save the two brothers by being a bard and choosing the bard unique dialogue when the brothers encounter ethel; it will trigger a fight in which you can knock them out instead of killing them before they get to the swamp. You later can tell Mayrina that you knocked the brothers out with another unique dialogue option

[@F8isRIPPIN]

you dont need to be a bard to fight them lol

[@NovaCascade]

You actually meet the girl wearing the Mask of Regret in Act 3, during the second part of the Hag's quest. She's with the group of hag survivors. The others, regardless of you taking their mask off or not, have the same dialogue. Seems Larian only focused on Mayrina and her to be the ones you encounter later on.

[@daddybendover69]

Well the NPCs say that the longer they have the mask on the more they lose their mind, the woman you can save in Act 1 is a newer addition, you can find notes about someone recommending her to Auntie Ethel. It's obviously just a way to reduce the need to voice and give those characters backstory but only that girl in Act 1 and then Captain Grisly are able to be saved, of the masked victims.

[@NotAndOption]

600hs in this game and I never thought of that, omg this game is insane

[@ItsBofu]

(Act 3 spoilers later on) Mayrina has a much better reaction to being saved if you tell her that the hag killed her brothers, as she wants to back out of the deal she has with the hag at that point. She's much more pleasant and grateful, though the bit with Connor and the wand goes the same way. In Act 3, the one mask who manages to break free of Ethel can be found as part of a quest to save other victims of hags and will be fully recovered. She and Mayrina start a group together in the city, and there's a quest to help them out.

[@visitante-pc5zc]

I wonder how many content I'm loosing because I kill everything in my playthrough to get exp

[@deadworld953]

@@visitante-pc5zc A lot. Also, you will be max level hours before the end even if you don't do that... I'm not sure it's as good of an idea as you originally thought. Though I do that same thing in other games, so I get it.

[@cmwinchell]

@@visitante-pc5zc the Charlatan background gets XP if you get rid of Gimble and co without fighting them then either successfully pretend to be Gimble (I think Gnomes get an advantage on this check) or you say Gimble needs help. Soldier background gets XP at the gate to the Druid's grove if you win the battle WITHOUT any casualties on your side (the three adventurers and Wyll must survive the battle). In other words, killing absolutely everything causes you to lose some bonus XP (and inspiration points). Yes you can only have 4 inspiration points at a time; however, each background inspiration still gives characters with those backgrounds 50xp.

[@misterman6590]

@@visitante-pc5zc you get the xp for killing things if you talk your way out

[@renlysotherlover294]

I beat the hag in first encounter then went below freed Maryina just to have her walk directly into the poison clouds and die

[@MiGujack3]

DOUBLE KILL

[@Mithcoriel]

Same here! After the hag died, I was like "Wait, where is Mayrina? Over there? Wtf, why is she dead? Oh crap, she walked into my whirling blades."

[@DaDude2011]

Ohhhh myyy gooood, ANOTHER play through it is!!!

[@TheNefari]

The mirror victim is a mind bending backstory, really cool 😎

[@brandonphilander661]

How do you help the mirror victim?

[@TheNefari]

@@brandonphilander661 I think you had to break the mirror

[@braiano2131]

@@TheNefari if i remember correctly, breaking the mirror would only apply you a debuff

[@malyacelle9096]

You do have a debuff but when you watch the miror closely when breacking it, you can see a little animation of a soul escaping ^^

[@noblesseoblige319]

What's the backstory?

[@reezuleanu1676]

I knew Larion loves this kind of stuff, but when i played through this section i must have been a little silly goose cuz i could not figure out how to save any of them, so i just assumed this might be intended. Thanks for letting me know

[@sparaz]

On my honormode playthrough I got the same out come as you accidently because I killed her to easy by coming in through the under dark entrance and surprising her from up above behind. I didn't try knocking out too get the masks though and it turns out it's same dialogue without any creepy whispering sound filter. Cool stuff. I was hoping you could save the others in the first cave but headless and dead hard to come back from

[@matthewthacker1876]

How did you get the mask to get through the back door before encountering Ethel?

[@BoxheadBB]

You can just fight her normally and save everyone by just toggle “Non-lethal” in passive and make sure you use melee to finish those masked people. It will be a hard fight because you need to be careful not to kill them. Then only loot their equipment BUT NOT THE MASK. if you pull out their mask before the Hag is not dead. They will die. Then go and kill the hag (I’m not sure you can get hag’s hair and kill her in the same time without breaking this sequence but feel free to try) After you kill the hag, go back and pull off their mask. Then long rest and come back, they will be alive and able to talk with you.

[@Anxomaxo]

It's not mandatory to prevent Ethel from reaching her usual fightspot to save everyone in her lair. As seen in the video, you just need to knock out the mask bearers activating the non lethal attacks passive. Once they are out, you can move along and fight Ethel (and get her charm to boost a skill, which you can't get the other way) and once she is dead the mas bearers should be free. BEWARE: Removing the masks while they are out but Ethel is alive will kill them.

[@purpleghost106]

It's a lot harder though, I reloaded my save so many times, finally just decided to defeat her upstairs so I wouldn't have to fight them at all.

[@Biouke]

It must have been patched because I remember clearly in early September being extra careful to knock them out, killing the witch, returning there and nothing changed even after a long rest. I was disappointed that a non-lethal combat option was even in the game when later some quest characters were considered dead thought I had knocked them out instead. Maybe it was just a bug that have been corrected, which would be awesome :)

[@kevinbarnard355]

@@Biouke DId you remove the masks from their inventory after killing her, but before your long rest?

[@Biouke]

@@kevinbarnard355 Maybe ? It's been a while, I remember reloading to test different things.

[@puck7572]

@@Biouke I did this in August in the first patch, I do remember it being slightly different and that I really really tried saving them and failed over many saves.

[@M_Alexander]

It took me a few minutes to realize that Ethel recognizes you but speaks anyway just to berate you

[@Mithcoriel]

What do you mean?

[@M_Alexander]

​​@@Mithcoriel the dead refuse to speak to the ones who killed them, that's why you use Disguise Self to get around it. Ethel's mad enough that she takes the opportunity to yell at you. She doesn't even wait for you to ask your questions or anything

[@Scott.E.H]

I immediately had Gale eat her amulet since it seems to have something to do with her being so confident she won't "truly" die. Also you don't need to do all that with the masks. Their answers are the same either way.

[@Suzanne_sf]

You can help "raise" Mayrina's husband with the bitter divorce wand. Thank you for helping with the mask people. I will try that on my next playthrough.

[@demonderpz7937]

I never considered to do this, so thanks for the tips :)

[@XorsosedutoX]

I snuck into Ethel's house and attacked her without her starting the dialogue. She turned invisible and ran, without teleporting Mayrina into the hideout. On that occasion I could speak with her right away: the girl was not as defiant as when you save her from the cage, and she actually sounded quite thankful. Also, I snuck past the masked folks and killed Ethel (if they aren't dead when you fight her, she will summon them into her arena) without hurting them. Their dialogues are the same as in your video.

[@nicktalope]

I'll definitly try this in my next playthrough

[@Gnight787]

I had no idea! Thanks!

[@MoonsongReverb]

And also, during the Hag fight, you get still dialogue options if you wait till you find Mayrina first. Depending on your choices you can still grab some approval points alongside

[@indiestripper5374]

fun fact: if you put a fog cloud over mayrina in the first room, auntie ethel won't take her down to the cave

[@neferiusnexus]

also there's a wand in the hag's lab that will raise the dead husband as a zombie, an then Mairina travels together with him to BG... don't know if you can actually find them tho

[@cameronpearce5943]

Doing the lords work!

[@wiej007]

As for the fight to prevent her from running you can also use paralyse/sleep poison or spell so she skips her turn. Not sure about spell Silence but in mine logic it should work because she cant teleport, this need testing.

[@randichin5712]

I saved the dwarf and instantly got the line from narrator like I was stealing and got caught 🤣 sooo I assumed you couldn’t save any of them

[@ryzeking33]

very good guide many ggs to you

[@dlima5007]

Forgot the woman head, and soul of calim aprisioned in mirror

[@Edmilsonfsjr]

Every time I see a video about baldurs gate it looks like I didn't play the game. I played it 2 times, 300+ hours!

[@MrSoloDolo20100]

I guess im not a good savior lol. I didn’t even notice the others, got to mayrina and was like “I killed your brothers, you can leave now”

[@sawyerk641]

Dude, I have NO IDEA how I did it but when I tried to pickpocket Auntie in her teahouse in my natural first run, it triggered a fight where she teleported to come after Astarion (who pick-pocketed her) outside. I got so excited, I thought I uncovered something so I reloaded to better prepare for the fight, ready to take her down in the teahouse, did everything exactly the same save bringing Shadowheart with me instead of Wyll and... nothing. It must've been some kind of glitch, but oh what a special glitch it was! It was a fun fight too; I had her down to half health with my party and then she started using the healing potions in her inventory to heal herself after running away to the front of her house. Boo. Really thought I was going to have to chase her through the swamp! So cool!

[@RealWorldGaming]

As mentioned earlier in the vid regarding the masks, if you didn’t come along here mind would have been gone and hollowed out. I tried on the mask and it’s designed for Ethel to warp your mind and for you to become her little toy. Their minds are to broken now with only love and undying loyalty to the hag.

[@davidtheprankster6813]

Does the Addled Frog have any different dialog changes with this? The frog comes off being cursed by the hag, too, and it also makes me think the reinforced helmet and sword belong to the frog if not cursed.

[@SordidusFellatio]

Wow the fact that Larian thought about the possibility of the players exploiting the exits and then having all of the characters be voiced with their own lore, stories and reasonings, it’s just crazy. I swear all of these planned and thought out goodies are either entirely made by AI like ChatGPT or that Lariant spent a good chunk of a decade developing every crevices of this game’s possibilities. This game definitely deserves the dozens of Ws they got this year’s game award.

[@Dumah36]

The dialogue from the Hag is vastly different from when I just did this about an hour ago.

[@i3yaz]

With the new patch arcane lock method is no longer applicable

[@JS-lr7dc]

It's such a pointless spell. Enemies have no problem opening any door you lock if their AI pathing requires it. There is no point in using it to set up for a fight. Larian shouldn't have put it in the game.

[@fjalarhenriksson]

yet it still worked when i did it just days ago

[@marcusspears9165]

If you kill the red caps while going through the swamp. Pickpocket the necklace off of Maryrina then fight Ethel she will not teleport away and fight you in the shack.

[@saikawa2024]

Very interesting video

[@gienleestudio]

That will costing some approval lol but i agree.. i did try to kill that Ethel but didnt work lol

[@ciaxeresregio7694]

You forgot the frog outside

[@Re3Ns]

A bit off topic but I summoned the three Ogres in the Hag's lair and they immediately tried to kill the headless corpse which took 0 damage from them no matter how hard they hit it. I had to reload the game :D

[@antoinehicks2681]

You get the dialogue from the last four even if they have the mask.

[@bloomyblondehearts1001]

I don’t think this works anymore. I tried this a few times, but she’s been able to unlock the stairs and get away everytime. ;-;

[@MrWingkirby]

Well...in my case I some how killed Auntie Ethel when she is talking with Mayrina's brothers but not yet talked with them (aka shot her from quite far away before going to them), turns out the brothers dead but a choice of dialogue said "Auntie Ethel killed your brothers!" appeared in conversation with Mayrina then she will then trust you directly with even no checks, at least you don't have to speak with the dead as well I guess

[@haydenstephens8053]

Most NPCs in Act 1 show up later in Act 3. I think the reason most of the mask wearers don't show up is because they probably considered "Regret" alone to be enough. Hell, if you try to save any of the victims before you kill Ethel, they universally die. The petrified dwarf will succumb to his necrotic ailment, and the mask wearers die if you take their masks.

[@Spirittism]

saddest part of this is Mayrina's brothers.

[@jameswaterfield]

I just rendered them all unconscious

[@antagonisstic]

But if you kill the Hag before she teleports. You do not get a perma + 1 to what ever your main str, dex int, wis, cha.

[@kankazea]

They give the same answers if they have the masks still on and ethel is dead, doesn't matter if you take them off or not. Same reaction unfortunately :(

[@TheMaxCloud]

what I did was to avoid the masks by using stealth, quite difficult, and then she summoned them but I still fought her ignoring them all.

[@Mithcoriel]

I snuck out the back door first time around without a fight. Then I had an easier way in for when I was actually ready for the fight.

[@REALSHAMROCKSAN]

Dont let her flee? well what about her hair? Fuck that im getting more power.

[@warchiefballer8809]

If I have known... I didn't speak with dead Auntie, thus Mayrina was a wheeping, ungreatful biach, and as a lawful good paladin, I killed her. For being a biach.

[@peagames2002]

You can also throw spectator bottle in her home to make spectator fight the Auntie Ethel. I am not certain if they patched it, but this won't trigger her to go to her hideout since the attacker is not player but npc.

[@Mithcoriel]

Neat!

[@alexandertiberius1098]

The musical sting at 2:10 sounds like a slipknot song is about to start.

[@John_1920]

Those three masked ones there aren't anymore saved than before you knocked them unconscious and took their masks, just FYI.

[@TamTroll]

i forgot to check on the trophy room victims after defeating ethal in my run.. woops.

[@matthewleech7901]

didn’t even know you COULD save people 😭

[@Mithcoriel]

Not even Mayrina?

[@eszed611]

I love your accent!

[@flashfan2]

I used protection from good and evil on the priest masked one and got one extra line of dialogue

[@Anon-iq1lt]

When I remove the mask of the victims, they just die instantly

[@nulllex0099]

Wtf. I did this yesterday, knocking one of them with nonlethal caused it to gain HP for no apparent reason, and taking the mask off while unconscious outright killed them.

[@Mithcoriel]

You can only take the masks off after the hag is dead.

[@elestromusicgamesfun1101]

This does NOT work on the current patch. Ethel does break illusion on the lock and teleports away.

[@adrianmartin-ef8dt]

well what i did the first time was, i was overleveled when i visited and killed her without giving her turn then in my other playthrought i didn't know she can escape because i visited her early

[@rachelwalker4100]

I tried this method a while ago, and it did not work. The mask wearers were no longer hostile after I killed Ethel, but I couldn't talk to them at all either. I guess they must have fixed it. The alternative way is to sneak past the mask wearers while invisible, but then Ethel will summon them during the fight, making it harder, but if you did not kill them in that fight, they would be free once you killed the hag.

[@ScarecrowJames]

They have patched a lot of stuff out. For some reason I can't get to the hag anymore through the underdark before killer her.

[@dreamingdragon5245]

In my run I ended up getting both Mayrina and the hags hair. I thought it'd prevent me from saving the others but surprisingly the guy seeing the future was set free, but when I cured the dwarf he died near instantly.

[@cixelsyd40]

using the option you took leaves the hag alive and since the dwarf's disease is caused by the hags magic, it would still be present when you cure the petrification thus killing him.

[@Mithcoriel]

It's strange that Lorin was set free then. What did he say when he was free?

[@HoRS]

Hag can be killed in one shot, I managed to do it by sneaking in cave with Mayrina and using that thorn whip on her, which caused her to fell into pit under Mayrina cage, but dunno how to loot Aunties body after that....

[@sd2257]

Hold up did you get the ability point upgrade and what about the hag does she come back in act 3 from what I heard never got passed act 2

[@Mithcoriel]

Yeah she does.

[@anyadarlingg]

Interesting. I didnt have those dialogue options with Lorin. He kept freaking out about how we were gonna turn into Mind Flayers and ran out 🫠 this happen to anyone else ?

[@Mithcoriel]

Yep, me too. I killed Ethel in her lair, but didn't talk to her, so Lorin was the one telling me about how I would be a mind flayer. I only got the idea to talk to the dead hag afterwards, and she didn't have the dialogue option to tell me about the mind flayer. Instead when I asked her her regret, she said "Only one. But you'll never know."

[@atlast7928]

The “lock” trick doesn’t seem to work on consoles

[@kerraii2008]

I haven't tried this but can you pick up the Hag's corpse and just carry it around for the rest of the game?>

[@waitwhat1029]

She's HEAVY; smuggling lead in her corset or something.

[@1MarmadukeFan]

I tried and the game said she was too heavy. Maybe with a strength potion?

[@cmwinchell]

@@1MarmadukeFan I've modded my strength to 30 (literally the highest you can get, and only with mods). I haven't tried picking up Ethel like that; however there are things that you can't pick up with even 30 strength. Haven't tried a 30 strength Bear Barbarian though....hmm....

[@maguslascivious4980]

can't get hags hair like this though... so meh... I feel like, at this point , withers should be able to help with the dead husband

[@rainonleaves6762]

Wirh a Spore Druid, is it possible to make a zombie out of her?

[@lion4611]

So I have to be a necromancer to make her talk from the dead

[@Mithcoriel]

No, you just need a scroll of Speak with Dead or the Amulet of Lost Voices

[@lion4611]

How or where do I find the amulet of lost voices

[@Mithcoriel]

@@lion4611 In the ruins north of the crashed Nautiloid.

[@seanlamarsh744]

Did you try to enter her base through the underdark?

[@YouTubeCensorshipStinks]

I wonder if she means she'll be reborn because of the mushroom contingency hags are said to have? I wonder if it matters then if I went around blasting everything with fireballs?

[@Starfloofle]

Someone's well-read on the bestiary... Wyll would be impressed.

[@Mithcoriel]

You'll find out in Act 3.

[@arminakuma2828]

I tried to rescue all of them but during the fight I killed one felt bad for it

[@BrewstaRoost]

Maaaan at that point in the game when I was green, I had no supploes to work with to be on my a game for this so I sided with the hag instead to save me trouble.

[@Mithcoriel]

Why not. Not the end of the world. She would come back anyway. You can kill her in Act 3.

[@sylphephilippe449]

The way you dealt with them is actually a bug, they've the same dialogs with or without the mask, and they never get mentionned nor appear after this, they're too far gone and only one can be saved, all the others are better dead than paralyzed in her lair for eternity.

[@bryanrocha2035]

i saved them all in my first run, it was simple, just don't kill anyone, kill only the hag. :)

[@alex00smash46]

I ve red a book that says you need to burn the mushrooms to kill the hag forever , haven't tried it yet

[@fransps6375]

In act 3

[@darkmatter32x]

I almost killed her on our first encounter I was already level 5. I held back since I wanted the boon.

[@keepironman14]

There are other victims in the main room that you can 'help' as well. A headless lady holding her head in her hands. Magic stasis keeping her from dying. Take the head and she dies. A skull looking at a mirror with a Trapped soul. I took the skull and couldn't see the ghost anymore. Unfortunately you can't help the door or the one with the EYE.

[@Mithcoriel]

Well you "help" the door by killing Ethel and allowing it to die finally.

[@Saycille]

Will the halfling (mask of regret) be in act III if you rescue her with the anti hag support group?

[@Mithcoriel]

Yep

[@rekliejder4154]

What class did you choose?

[@LinkKnight77]

Hags are Archfey so when she died she just went to the Feywilds, so she will be back at some point just not in game.

[@fjalarhenriksson]

shes already back when you reach baldurs gate

[@Lilac-and-Gooseberries]

You should have been able to give them the Nobestalk mushrooms to fix their minds. Kinda sucks that Larian didn’t make it an option.

[@xenosaga8436]

Is this new? I've non-lethaled them before and removing the mask killed them.

[@user-mu8ok5xf8d]

Try to only take them off after the hag is dead

[@What_do_I_Think]

Did you kill the hag BEFORE you removed the masks?

[@kinggoomba1142]

U gotta kill the hag before removing the masks

[@sparaz]

You have to kill hag first

[@raphaelregnault6914]

It have been added under patch 4, but only works if you actually kill the hag, not if you make a deal with her and get the +1 stat bonus

[@AlanStrandbygaard]

Why not just cats 'Silence' on Auntie Ethel and then let Lae'zel cut her down with Non lethal Damage with her sword? She will be lying there on the ground still alive with 1 Health and you can rummage around as you see fit.