This Act 3 Speak with Dead scene in Baldur's Gate 3 has worrying implications, given the spell's D&D roots

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Baldur's Gate 3 is somehow still turning up juicy little surprises. Granted, I only used Speak with Dead when I had to claw info from the grave for an investigation—I rarely did it just for flavour kicks. This use of the spell in Act 3 has some wild implications only obvious to those with tabletop brainworms (like yours truly), and I'm here to pass on that existential dread to you.

If you use Speak with Dead on Lord Gortash after killing him, you get the following dialogue—courtesy of user Impressive-Ad2973 on the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit.

Gortash isn't home. In a fitting end for the smarmy bastard, his master Bane is torturing him forevermore, such is «the fate of all who fail» him. The lines are unvoiced, which do regrettably mark another wrinkle in Act 3's spotty polish—though that's being addressed with refreshing speed—but it's still a fun surprise.

What's funny to me is that Bane, a god of tyranny and control, is somehow bound by the rules of a third level spell. I doubt that's actually the case—he's likely just chatting to you for kicks—and there's some spine-chilling stuff in there when it comes to earning Bane's favour. Turns out he doesn't really care when his lieutenants are killed, as that means whoever gutted them has a bigger lust for power. Killing Gortash just makes you interesting to Bane, not his sworn enemy.

The more unsettling implication here lies in the first line of Speak with Dead dialogue—Bane makes mention of Gortash's soul being in his hands, except that's not how the spell actually works, at least not in Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition (the ruleset Baldur's Gate 3 is built upon). Here's an excerpt from the spell's tabletop counterpart: «This spell doesn’t return the creature’s soul to its