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You’ll have tocross a small bridgeto the humble building on the city’s outskirts.
For the House of Grief, we cannot stress enough the importance ofbringing Shadowheart with you.
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Speak with the elf, Mirie, and demand to be let through.
She’ll tell you to submit to the mapping.
An Inquirer of Grief will appear.
In the case ofShadowheart’s Shar path, this fight is a cakewalk.
Shadowheart’s Selune path,however, takesno small amount of persistence and strategy.
However, there isa third option.
The downside is thatShadowheart will permanently leave your group.
Karlach is Baldur’s Gate 3’s resident Tiefling Barbarian, and she’s tricky to find at first.
Nightbringer’s Beloved
Viconia regains 7-56HP each time she uses Channel Divinity.
Born Into Darkness
Viconia is immune to being Blinded and can see through magical and non-magical darkness.
Darkvision
Viconia can see 12m in the dark.
Fey Ancestry
Viconia cannot be put to sleep against her will by magical means or Charmed.
Magic Resistance
Advantage on Saving Throws against spells and magical effects.
Shadow Ambush
Viconia deals an additional 4-32 Necrotic damage when she attacks from shadows.
Sunlight Sensitivity
Viconia has Disadvantage on Perception and Attack Rolls that rely on sight.
Heartform Terror: Wolf
Viconia DeVir can Polymorph into a wolf.
Attacks
Sinister Howl
All Viconia’s allies are given one additional action.
Bite
Deals 1d12 + 4 Psychic damage to a target.
Channel Divinity: Cloak of Shadows
Viconia becomes Invisible.
She gains Advantage on Attack Rolls while imposing Disadvantage on enemy Attack Rolls.
+11 to hit; 5ft.
Deals 2d10 + 7 Slashing damage.
Handmaiden’s Mace
Very rare mace.
Increases wearer’s Strength to 18.+11 to hit; 5ft.
Deals 1d6 + 4 Bludgeoning + 1d6 Poison damage.
Divine Strike: Poison
Viconia can add 1d8 Poison damage to a strike with her melee weapon.
With the addition of the disciples’spam-use ofChill TouchandDarkness,healing isn’t easy either.
Clerics and paladins, in general, may feel useless in this fight at times.
Keeping Shadowheart alive as a cleric will be a struggle.
The other Sharrans are Vulnerable to Radiant damage.
Theenemies will spam Darknesson any group you have, rendering it not within your best interests to stay.
If you haveIce Storm, we recommend your spellcasterwear theSnowburst Ring.
This will cause your Difficult Terrain area to expand greatly.
Bone Chill provides an extra layer of complication.
Use your spellcaster to run crowd-controlon the weaker enemies while yourremaining party focuses on the high-level Justiciars.
This will be a long and grueling fight.
Thebest strategieshere will be those that:
Only once all Sharrans are defeatedshould you attempt to strike Viconia.
She does not resist any damage, soattack her with anything that is not Radiant.
Therefore, hermost dangerous action is Sunder the Heretical.
To instigate a Disadvantage on her melee attacks, you canuse spells likeDaylight.
This will take advantage of her Sunlight Sensitivity.
you could undo this with:
Whittle down her healthuntil she’s knocked out.
Check out these tips to avoid them.
Viconia’s Walking Fortress:+3 AC Legendary Shield.
Grants Reflective Shell and Warding Bond Actions.
Wearer gains Advantage on Saving Throws against spells and spell attacks.
Once you enter the next room,descend the stairsto reach Shadowheart’s parents hanging from two magical disks.
Approach andinteract with themwhile Shadowheart is in your party.
You will havetwo options:
Theconsequencesof this choicechangedepending on which path you choose.
Otherwise, you will not receive any bonuses from the mirror.
If you killed Viconiaand the rest of the cult,Nocturne will leave permanentlyafter your next long rest.
This means long-resting after Viconia is dead, but before you speak to Nocturne results in missing her entirely.
You should noticea wooden barricade on the wall.Use your weapon to break it open anddiscover a ladder.
Inside this cave, the only items of note here arethe night orchids.
Bringing Shadowheart here willunlockspecial dialoguein passing, in conversation with Shadowheart, and in conversation with Nocturne.
We recommendpicking all the night orchidshere.Give one to Shadowheart- platonically or romantically.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.
