While playing as the Dark Urge in Baldur’s Gate 3, you will be forced to contend with a mysterious, insatiable desire for violence that can drive you to murder NPCs. One of the many innocent lives you might bring to a violent end is that of Alfira, a kind-hearted Tiefling Bard practicing her craft in the Druid Grove in Act 1. Whether you meet her in the Emerald Grove or not, Alfira will surprise your party at camp and ask if she can join you on your travels.
When the sun rises on your camp the next day, however, you’ll wake up next to her mangled corpse, forcing you to either reveal your dirty secret to your party if you haven’t already or try to hide your crime before everyone else wakes up. However, exploiting a clever loophole can spare her from meeting a gruesome fate. Keep reading to learn how to save Alfira the Bard in Baldur’s Gate 3.
How to Save Alfira in Baldur’s Gate 3
Giving into the Dark Urge’s titular impulse and killing someone is an unavoidable reality of playing Baldur’s Gate 3‘s most mysterious Origin Character since you need to murder at least one person to start the Dark Urge’s questline. However, while Alfira is intended to be the Dark Urge’s first victim, she doesn’t have to be. To save her life, someone else must be sacrificed in her stead. Thankfully, this someone is a lot less likable than Alfira.
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To save Alfira in Baldur’s Gate 3, find her in the Druid Grove and knock her out using non-lethal damage. the easiest way to inflict non-lethal damage is by un-equipping your weapons and entering combat. Once you’ve started combat, you can turn on the “Non-Lethal” option in the Passives menu. You’ll want to do this right before she comes to your camp after you’ve resolved the primary situation plaguing the Druid Grove. The easiest way is to reload your latest save when she arrives at your camp.
With Alfira unconscious, she won’t be able to make it to your camp and won’t be killed when you give in to the murderous whispers in your head. However, the event still triggers at camp that night, just with a new person. The game has a failsafe in place to ensure you’ll still get the first Dark Urge murder scene even if something happens to Alfira, and that failsafe is a Dragonborn named Quil. He’ll arrive at your camp in Alfira’s stead, and you can kill him instead.
Does Killing Quil Affect Anything?
Quil doesn’t appear anywhere else in the game and is a stranger who just happens to wander upon your camp, so killing him has no long-term consequences. Plus, you’ll still get the Deathstalker Mantle as a reward for taking his life. The Deathstalker Mantle is a magical cloak that allows you to turn Invisible for two turns after you kill an enemy in combat, so it’s more than worthwhile.
Many more murders are awaiting you if you’re playing as the Dark Urge in Baldur’s Gate 3, and failing to give in to your urges will only cause you to lose control and hurt people anyway. It’s a rough playthrough, but if you put your mind to it, there are clever loopholes for a few killings. Above all else, though, everything falls to the roll of the dice, so save your Inspiration and make sure you’ve got a decent Wisdom stat, as that’s the stat you use to resist the Dark Urge’s murderous impulses.
