Should you let Auntie Ethel take your eye?

Choosing to have your eye taken out can greatly impact your game. For our run, we decided not to go along with Auntie Ethel's plan. It's important to note that most players have reported that not letting Ethel take your eye will leave the quest incomplete in your journal until you head to Act Two.
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What happens if you let Ethel take your eye?

First off, your character will visually get a whited out eye. This will give you the Paid the Price condition, meaning you have +1 on Intimidation checks but disadvantage on Perception checks or when you're fighting Hags.
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Should I let the hag take my eye?

Baldur's Gate 3 - should you give the Hag your eye? If you're actually looking to remove your tadpole, you should know that this choice won't actually do that. She realizes that yours is special and refuses to work with it. Unfortunately, at this point, your eye is already gone and replaced with a magical green eye.
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Should you let Ethel remove the parasite?

It also makes attacks on hags have disadvantage, so deciding to go to battle with Auntie Ethel after this point will result in an even tougher fight than before. Most importantly, Auntie Ethel aborts the removal of the parasite, rendering the main draw of helping her in Baldur's Gate 3 moot.
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What should I do with Auntie Ethel?

The first time you meet Auntie Ethel, she'll offer to cure you of your parasite - do not take this deal! She just takes your eye, permanently giving you a stat penalty and not curing you of anything. However, if you can lower her health significantly in the boss fight without killing her, she offers you a new deal.
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What Happens If You Give Your Eye To The Hag In Baldur's Gate 3

Is Auntie Ethel good or bad?

Auntie Ethel is a minor villain and boss in the video game Baldur's Gate III. She is a Green Hag (a race of witch monsters) who disguises herself as a kind old merchant to lure and capture victims for her experiments. She is voiced by Rena Valeh.
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Can you save Auntie Ethel's victims?

Yes it is quite possible and easy to save them all. You cannot save any of the prisoners in her lair prior to the fight as removing the mask will kill them since she is actively holding the spell on everyone. So you have to fight and kill Ethel to break the spell.
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What happens if you let Auntie Ethel remove the tadpole?

so there are several NPCs in the game that claim to be able to remove the tadpole (e.g. auntie ethel, volo). In these two examples in particular, if we choose to throw all caution out of the window and agree to the removal, we get severe debuffs due to the procedure.
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How do I save the girl from Auntie Ethel?

Ethel will start the fight by lighting Mayrina's cage on fire, so players will need to head for the control orb on the far side of the room to lower the cage and let her out before it kills her. Players can tell the real Ethel from the fakes because only the real Ethel can receive debuffs.
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How to ally with Auntie Ethel?

How to do it:
  1. Don't kill her in Act 1, instead, make a deal for a lock of her hair.
  2. In Act 3, she appears as a drunken pirate in the Blushing Mermaid bar. Kill the woman who asks for her child back. Go back to the drunken pirate. Ethel will join you at the end.
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What happens if I give the hag my eye?

Also its not a curse, you literally lost an eye. You didn't lose it, she pops it back in after casting her spell on it. From what I researched in the lore, the Hag's Eye allows the hag to see the world through your eyes. Effectively, she turned you into a proxy through which she can spy on your adventures.
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Does Auntie Ethel come back?

Even if killed in Act One, Auntie Ethel will reappear in her Hag form during the Help the Hag Survivors, Avenge the Hag Survivors, and Save Vanra questlines. She can be found posing as Captain Grisly in The Blushing Mermaid in Lower City.
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Can you get both the hags eye and Volos eye?

It's worth noting that the same character cannot have both Volo's Ersatz Eye and the Hag's Eye from Auntie Ethel. This shouldn't be a huge issue, as the Hag's Eye effect is not worth its disadvantages, it's just something to consider if the character has already given her their eye.
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What happens if you let Auntie Ethel?

Re: What happens if you don't attack Auntie Ethel in Act 1 at all? If you help her in act 3, letting her keep the child, then she will be an ally in the final battle. I never did that myself,since I prefer freeing the child, so I don't know, how useful she'll be.
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How strong is Auntie Ethel?

Auntie Ethel is a formidable boss who can split herself into many other clones that will cause significant damage to your party members, and some might even die from a single hit.
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Is there a way to save the hags pawns?

Although they will make Ethel's fight much harder if you ignore them , saving them may be the moral decision. If you want to make the fight easier and also save them, knock them unconscious but refuse to take off their masks. Otherwise, their minds will collapse, and they will die.
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How do you know which Auntie Ethel is real?

Another way to tell is the real one will be grayed out in the turn order since she ends her turn after casting the duplicates. At like 15hp left she will ask for a deal. You get a hair of hers and she keeps the girl.
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What level should I be to fight Auntie Ethel?

I fought her again at level 4, and was prepared, and she went down pretty quickly. Remember, you can kill her clones really easy with Magic Missle. She is nowhere near as hard as the first Gith patrol you encounter. Got her easy at lv4.
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How do I get Astarion approval with Auntie Ethel?

If Astarion has revealed being a vampire spawn to you, let him kill Gandrel. Tell Auntie Ethel about the tadpole if not already done so in the Druid Grove. Speak to Lorin and roar at him. When Auntie Ethel's true form surrenders, accept the deal to let her go, with or without Mayrina.
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Where does Auntie Ethel go?

Entering the teahouse

Next, make a quicksave and enter the teahouse. Here you find Auntie Ethel and her captive, Mayrina - the sister from before. Regardless of how your interaction with the brothers played out, Ethel will offer to help with the parasite in your head.
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Can Raphael get rid of the tadpole?

Raphael can remove the tadpole in your head in an instant, but is this option worth owing him one? You'll run into all manner of characters during your journey in Baldur's Gate 3, but one of the most peculiar is Raphael, who appears behind your party during Act 1.
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What is the best ending in BG3?

To get the good ending (or the standard story ending), you'll need to defeat the Netherbrain in the final battle of Act Three then command it to destroy itself, along with all the Ilithid Tadpoles.
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What do Auntie Ethel's Potions do?

Auntie Ethel's Potions

A Mother's Loathing (Good): Grants the Bite attack (2d4 piercing) until the next long rest. Broken Promises: (Bad): Permanently grants +2 Strength but takes 1 Strength away after every lost rest. Faltering Will (Bad): Applies disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws until the next long rest.
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How do I get Mayrina's husband back?

Inside, you'll find the Staff of Crones, as well as the Bitter Divorce wand, which has the name of Mayrina's husband. Use the portal to go back outside, where you'll see Mayrina in front of her husband's grave. If you use the wand on the grave, her husband will be raised from the dead as a zombie.
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