Baldur’s Gate 3 players simply don’t trust the Emperor after “nightmare fuel” interaction

Baldur’s Gate 3 players are once again confused about the ethics of the Emperor after a particularly harrowing Act 3 experience with Raphael.

The Emperor has always been one of the more morally grey characters in Baldur’s Gate 3. Sure, he seems honorable, and he protects you from being corrupted by the cult of the Absolute, but the way he goes about doing this is questionable at best.

We also can’t forget that he catfishes you as the awesome dream guardian that you spent hours creating at the beginning of the game. That’s not something we can forgive easily.

When Act 3 gets going, players are presented with a wide variety of ways to approach the ending of the game, one of which involves betraying the Emperor and throwing your lot in with Raphael, who’s after the Netherite crown being worn by the Elder Brain.

Act 3 interaction has players seeing the Emperor in a different light

However, the impact of this interaction on your relationship with the Emperor has made some players much warier of the illithid, with one even branding it as “nightmare fuel”.

After speaking to Raphael about his plans to take the crown, the Emperor almost immediately demands to know why he wasn’t able to read your thoughts during the conversation, prompting one player to ask: “Did anyone else have the impulse to straight up murder The Emperor after meeting Raphael again in Baldur’s Gate, when you discover The Emperor was listening to your thoughts for the entire game?

“I guess it didn’t really dawn on me that the dream visitor in the Astral Prism being an illithid meant that this illithid was listening to my thoughts this entire time, until he straight up admitted it.

“Goddamn, the body horror in this game, from tadpoles in the eyeballs to having psionic motherfuckers just touching all up in your mind space. Nightmare fuel.”