No matter what you do inBaldur’s Gate 3, the Owlbear Mother dies in Act 1. Getting caught in her nest can trigger a fight if you’re not careful, forcing your hand, but even if you defuse the situation and are allowed to leave,the goblins will come along and kill her, anyway, kidnapping the cub to play games with at camp.It’s heartbreaking.
For two years, we’ve had to watch over and over again as the mother is mercilessly cut down in our unending replays of Act 1 (how many of usreallymake it to Act 3 on replays?). But there might finally be a solution. As discovered byu/FreshIndependent9430, you may save the Owlbear Mother… kind of.
Wanna Save The Owlbear Mother? Just Knock Her Out
“I initially made peace with her, accidentally got her aggressive again, and knocked her out,” they explained. “I then removed the spear and did a basic healing spell that removed her distressed status. Did a long [rest] and she has vanished.”
Knocking the Owlbear Mother out is tantamount to ‘killing’ her as far as the game is concerned, but even if you kill her, she doesn’t disappear. Yet, for u/FreshIndependent943, that’s exactly what happened. Maybe it’s a glitch, because the game isn’t sure what to do with an unconscious Owlbear Mother that has also been healed—it’s hard to say. Whatever the case, no corpse means it’s easy to reconcile that she survived.
Every other knockout remains where you left them unless they appear elsewhere later like Minthara. The owlbear mum has disappeared so that would insinuate she did indeed survive.
That means the goblins never came to finish her off, and the player let her go. The cub was still secreted away to become a stand-in for a weird chicken racing game, and the mother was still separated from her cub, which is always hard to stomach, but she at least survived. That’s a far better outcome than the butchery we’ve had to face in every other playthrough.
