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Athletics Intimidation |
Soldier is a Background in Baldur's Gate 3. Backgrounds are special traits or expertises that affect the starting Proficiencies the player has and also add two bonus background features. Backgrounds may also decide how your character be treated by certain NPCs, and how can they handle certain situations.
Soldier Information
- You are trained in battlefield tactics and combat, having served in a militia, mercenary company,
or officer corps. Show smart tactics and bravery on the battlefield to enhance your prowess. - Lae'zel has this background.
- Jaheria has this background.
Soldier Background Features
- Athletics Proficiency: Add your proficiency bonus to any roll made with Athletics.
- Intimidation Proficiency: Add your proficiency bonus to any roll made with Intimidation.
Soldier Background Goals
- When a character performs an action that's true to their Background, they will be Inspired. Earning +1 Inspiration Point and +25 Exp. Inspiration may be spent to reroll an Ability Check. Not only your character can become Inspired, but also your Companions.
- You may hold up to 4 Inspiration points at once. Inspiration earned over the cap will become Experience Points.
Click Details to learn how to complete the selected Background Goal
Pentacrush
Kill 5 Enemies in a single turn
Stalwart Heart
Persuade Rolan to stay and protect the grove
Chain of Command
Follow Flaming Fist orders at the burning inn
A Headless Horde
Kill every leader in the goblin camp.
Conquer the Conquerors
Defeat the Githyanki raiding squad
Crown Crusher
Kill every leader in the Goblin Camp
Warrior of the Hells
Kill the cultist leader seeking Karlach
Start then Young
Inspire the Tiefling children to train harder
Drowned in the Dark
Defeat the Duergar patrolling on the Ebonlake
No One Left Behind
Ensure all of the Grove's defenders survive the first goblin assault
Strategist
Destroy a powerful foe in one strike
One for the Ages
Survive a fight in which you kill ten or more Enemies
To Arms!
Help Guex learn how to fight.
A Bone To Pick
Overcome the skeletons in Moonrise prison during the assault.
Absolute Devastation
Destroy Last Light.
An Apple a Day Keeps the Scalpel Away
Defeat the Surgeon without being operated upon.
Centennial Rivalries
Complete the Harper ambush.
Devastation of the Absolute
Complete the assault on Moonrise.
Familicide
Kill all members of the Thorm family.
Know Thine Enemy
Defeat yourself in the Gauntlet of Shar's mirror trial.
Masterful Execution
Kill any of the bosses in and around the Shadow-Cursed Lands in a single round of combat.
Notched Armor
Show off your prowess to the bugbear merchant.
Realities of War
Tell Arabella what happened to her parents.
Return to Sender
Kill the orthon, returning him to Raphael.
Shield of the Moon
Obtain Selûne's blessing from Isobel.
Soldier of Fortune
Give Nightsong to Ketheric. (or Allow Balthazar to transport Nightsong from the Shadowfell.)
The Best Offense is Virtually Nonsense
Defeat a member of the Thorm family without drawing steel.
Court Marshall
Expose the Flaming Fist deserter.
Double-Tap
Kill Auntie Ethel... again...
Great Helm of Legends
Find the Helm of Balduran.
Hot Exit
Escape the House of Hope.
Innovations in Volatility
Give your blood to Araj a second time.
Kicking the Rust Bucket
Destroy a Steel Watcher.
Putting the Past to Rest
Execute Orin.
Regicide
Execute Gortash.
Reporting for Duty
Report to Commander Lightfeather.
Sharing the Spoils
Donate to the refugees.
Urgent Communication
Commune with the Netherbrain.
Veteran's Hotspot
Purchase a room at the Elfsong Tavern.
Soldier Tips & Notes
- Tips and notes go here.
- Having both Lae'zel and Jaheira in the party provides two inspiration - making it an effective method to stock up on them.
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| Backgrounds |
Acolyte ♦ Charlatan ♦ Criminal ♦ Entertainer ♦ Folk Hero ♦ Guild Artisan ♦ Haunted One ♦ Hermit ♦ Noble ♦ Outlander ♦ Sage ♦ Sailor ♦ Urchin |
AnonymousEasiest way to get Strategist that I've found, is by having a Warlock with Repelling Blast (Such as Wyll) blast the Spider Matriarch in Act 1 when she's standing on the web next to the rock.
This knocks her into the chasm for an instant kill granting the inspiration.
- Anonymous
I had a pleasant surprise when i battled Mother Spider in cave. Enemy spawned eggs and hatched those nasty little spiders, so the next turn i used Shatter and killed all hatchlings at once, very easy targets.
- Anonymous
Inspiration - Strategist; this one can be achieved... surprisingly easily. Well, I say easily, but you do have to work for it. When you get to the Underdark, and get into the fight with the Bulette, eventually. Instead of killing it, knock it out. Head back to camp, then return. Use your Soldier or Lae'zel to attack the KO'd Bulette, thus triggering the Inspiration. I'd guess this works on anything classified as a "Boss", including the Phase Spider Queen. That would need confirmation though. This involves... some serious, and I mean SERIOUS effort in attempting to NOT cheese the fight, pushing it(Bulette) off the ledge.
- Anonymous
One for the Ages is easily completed just prior to the getting to Last Light Inn, just prior to the bridge area, you will come across a dead crow. Interacting with it, will summon 10 or 11, 1HP Crows. Simply have your party go on the defensive, while your Soldier, probably Lae'zel, goes around smacking the birds down one by one. They inflict minimal damage. Alternatively, if one is particularly Murder Hobo-ey. You can attack the goblins in the Blighted Village, specifically kiting them so you aggro the one's at the front gate, and the one's in front of the Windmill with the gnome. Those are the two easiest points in which to obtain One for the Ages. Killing civilians while they are Temporarily Hostile does NOT trigger it. So, no wholesale slaughter out the gate at the Druid's Grove, and additionally, it has to be one combat initiative count. I recommend going the Bird route, and downing Alchohol to net yourself an achievement for killing a certain amount of enemies in an adventuring day drunk. It also has no implications narrative wise immediately, or down the road whether one chooses the Absolute or to be a "Hero".
- Anonymous
Stalwart Heart is either bugged or removed. I've triggered the effect with the Custom and Lae'zel herself for the conversation to keep Rolan from bugging out, and in both cases regardless of Persuasion, Githyanki, Barbarian and a slew of other options. It does pop up as completed. I noticed a similar effect with Pentacrush and One for the Ages. Very, VERY specifically, it has to be the character with the Soldier Background to do the killing. It cannot be someone else. Otherwise the Inspiration will not update. This is either a bug, or intentional. I am unsure as of this moment, but it is very... aggravating, to say the least. Tested with three characters in the Blighted Village with Feez (10+ Enemies), and outside of the Druids Grove (8 Enemies). Custom killed 10 in Blighted, no dice for Lae'zel, but popped for the Soldier Custom. Wyll killed 10, neither Soldier or Lae'zel popped. Lae killed 10, popped for Lae, not for Custom. Also worth noting, you interestingly can't get both Penta and One for the Ages from the same fight. One of the two pops, not both; though that may be unintended.
- Anonymous
I would love to see variants for more immersion. In this particular case the Mercenary-Veteran.
Headless Horde: Kill every leader in the Goblin Camp has replaced Crown Crusher.
To date - haven't figured out how to obtain this AND Dark Urge's Morally Acceptable Massacre (Spill the blood of the goblins). They appear mutually exclusive - killing Minthara outside of the Goblin Camp seems to void Headless Horde.
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