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Baldur's Gate 3 - Discussion Post #2
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Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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Oh crap I never even thought of that. I haven't looked very deep into dnd lore but does it say anything about how elves handle not sleeping mentally?
They spend 4 hours each day meditating in a trance, during which they remain semi-conscious. They don't dream in the same way that humans do; their trance-visions are the result of mental exercises that have become reflexive through repetition. Having strange dreams should be extremely concerning for them, and sneaking up on them should be more challenging than sneaking up on a sleeping human; neither of these things are really reflected in BG3.
IIRC, elves can sleep properly, if they want to, they just generally choose not to. And depending on the age of the elf, they do "dream" in their trance, IIRC. Said dreams are memories of their past lives. (Since elf souls are special and don't work like regular souls.) Realistically though, none of our companions are in the right age range (dreams being super rare for elves older than ~100 and younger than ~600). Astarion might dream normally though, if he ever sleeps*, severed from their reincarnation cycle as he is by his nature as a vampire spawn?
When in doubt though, blame tadpoles. :P
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