Astral-Touched Tadpole |
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This parasite is capable of evolving you or another illithid—infected companion into a new, more psionically powerful being. |
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| Though a thick coating of astral frost prevents this parasite from squirming, you feel an immense psychic weight writhe and roil within. It has languished in the Sea of Dead Gods for countless millennia. Learning, gathering potential; it is something old, ready to become new again. It is ready for evolution. |
Astral-Touched Tadpole is an Item in Baldur's Gate 3. Astral-Touched Tadpole is a powerful tadpole that provides five points for the Illithid Powers tree. Some Items can be consumed, granting various effects like buffing the Character or restoring HP, while others can be used to interact with the environment or provide Lore about Baldur's Gate 3 world.
Though a thick coating of astral frost prevents this parasite from squirming, you feel an immense psychic weight writhe and roil within. It has languished in the Sea of Dead Gods for countless millennia. Learning, gathering potential; it is something old, ready to become new again. It is ready for evolution.
Astral-Touched Tadpole Information
Weight: 0.2 Kg.
Value: 1 Gp.
Astral-Touched Tadpole Location & Where to Find
- Location: Astral Plane
- Quest:
- Dropped by: The Emperor
Astral-Touched Tadpole Notes & Tips
- It unlocks the ability to use your points on the powerful tier 3 illithid powers.
- It gives the Fly ability.
- It refunds you for any tier 1 powers you've activated already and gives you any tier one powers you didn't already have.
- There is no benefit to using the Astral touched tadpole before the normal ones.
| Misc |
AnonymousDestroying this parasite yields no extra dialogue from any of your companions. You only a telepathic scolding from The Emperor, and his dialogue changes slightly if you talk to him in on the Astral Plane.
Not only that, destroying this parasite doesn't even update your quest log in any way. The objective in the Embrace your Potential Quest remains "Commune with the Astral-Touched Tadpole." I don't know if this is a bug or Larian legitimately forgot to include this detail.
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Those visual changes, black veins around your eyes and across your body, are really inconsistent. On my dwarf character. there was barely any difference, while someone like Shadowheart turned basically into ugly zebra
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As of version 4.1.1.3700362, The astral tadpole vanishes from your inventory once you enter the Morphic Pool.
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The powers are cool, but it makes the characters ugly as sin. That's gonna be a hard pass for me.
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As far as I understand, TL;DR:
1. Just keeping this in inventory "without consuming", by just communing with it, will give you powers. So you can do the same with other companions (that accept it)
2. The powers this gives is the entire Tier 1 AND Tier 2 abilities, along with unlocking Tier 3 AND giving you Fly/Levitate ability from Tier 3 for free.
3. This will change your appearence to have black veins, but won't turn you to a Mindflayer.
4. No, this will not change the ending, you still will have choices.
Correct me if I am wrong please.
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If you commune with it it stays in your inventory and can be passed about your party.
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The only reason i haven't consumed it yet is because i have this question:
Does this changes the character appearence? I mean, the context you get it makes you believe you'll turn into one of those octopus guys.
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If you don't want big spoilers don't look up how to get this but it's act 3
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Does using it influence the ending? To be more specific the one where you destroy all illithids? Using this turns you into half-illithid, thats why i wonder.
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> If it's the first consumed tadpole it will automatically unlock the first tier of Illithid Powers
And fly
I am really curious to know what *exactly* triggers the WIS check to resist the tadpole's influence when you first receive it from you-know-who.
Is it just simply the act of consuming any additional tadpole/ i.e adding it to the pool of resources, even if you don't actually spend it to unlock powers?
Is it the actual act of unlocking an Illithid power (this seems most-likely), or the act of using them?
IF it is the act of using them, does that include Illithid persuasion of cultists? Is there a certain threshold of persuasions to trigger it in this way, vs. with powers? Surely freeing Shadowheart at the start of the game doesn't count?
If a companion happens to end up in the conversation with ___ where you receive this, and you have convinced them to use the parasite but not actually unlocked any powers, do *THEY* have to succeed? What if they have the bug where they don't even have Illithid Persuasion unlocked? What if Halsin or Jaheira end up in the conversation?
Just a lot of research to be done and questions to be answered regarding this lil guy.
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