Embrace Your Potential

Embrace Your Potential is a Quest spanning Acts One through Act Three of Baldur's Gate 3. It is first encountered by finding a Mindflayer Parasite Specimen after the Dream Visitor has appeared to the party.
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== Objectives ==
== Walkthrough ==
Embrace Your Potential occurs once a has been discovered. It unlocks the use of the Illithid skill tree.
The next step in the quest occurs after Help Your Protector. Now revealed as the , an illithid, he implores the party to also embrace their potentials as illithids. He grants an that turns a user into a half-illithid. The tadpole has enough power to be used on all camp members.
The player character can commune with the Astral-Touched Tadpole immediately upon receiving it from the Emperor, or try to refuse -- though if they have used any parasite specimens already, they must pass a DC 21 Wisdom check to reject it. A successful refusal still results in the player character receiving the Astral-Touched Tadpole as an inventory item.
The Astral-Touched Tadpole can be used at any time with the player character; doing so gives options to consume the tadpole, commune with it (if that has not already happened) or destroy it. Destroying the tadpole ends the quest. 
While the player character can use the tadpole at will, companions must be convinced. At camp or in the party, a new dialogue option is presented:
* We've been given a rare gift. An Astral-Touched Tadpole, with the power to grant you a new, partial illithid form...
The party member must then be convinced, with skill checks and an appropriate approval rating. Some party members are easier to convince than others. The Astral-Touched Tadpole can only be used with characters already infected with a tadpole, so and are not eligible.
In all cases, convincing the companion to use a tadpole results in a brief cutscene with choices. There is a brief window where the companion can back out of using the tadpole.
=== Astarion ===
 is extremely reluctant to take the tadpole, as he recalls the pain of his vampiric transformation. However, he can be convinced.
If Astarion's personal quest has not been resolved, he can be coerced if the player is half-illithid:
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Pushing further to explore Astarion's greatest fear:
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Then, choosing the following options will result in Astarion reluctantly taking the tadpole.
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If Cazador has already been defeated as part of The Pale Elf and Investigate Cazador's Palace:
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Astarion will instantly take the tadpole if he is a Vampire Ascendant. Otherwise, he will need to be further convinced by choosing either two options:
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If the player character chooses '#I'm so sorry for making you remember. Let's drop this. it won't be possible to ask Astarion in the future about the tadpole.
=== Gale ===
 will take the Astral-Touched Tadpole, regardless of if the player character has become half-illithid themselves.
* (Approval 20+)
* (Approval 60+)
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=== Karlach ===
 can be persuaded to use the tadpole as it offers an advantage to facing off against the Chosen Three.
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Karlach will hesitate again, asking if ten years in Avernus wasn't enough. However, she can still be pushed to use the tadpole:
* [INTIMIDATION] I asked nicely. Do you want to know what comes after that? (DC 14)
* [PERSUASION] If we finish this, and win, we'll be free. Really free. (DC 14)
=== Lae'zel ===
 can be convinced using her desire for power to protect the Githyanki people.
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* (Approval 20+)
=== Minsc ===
 can be persuaded by assuring him it will make a huge difference in defeating the Cult of the Absolute:
* (Approval 20+)
=== Minthara ===
 is easily convinced to take the Astral-Touched Tadpole, as she is eager to unlock more powers of the mind. Simply offer it to her, and she accepts:
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=== Shadowheart ===
 can be convinced by mentioning the powers the tadpole provides:
* (Approval 20+)
=== Wyll ===
 can be persuaded to take the tadpole by appealing to his desire to protect the Sword Coast.
* (Approval 20+)
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== Quest Rewards ==
* Unlocking Illithid Powers
* Half-Illithid form
== Achievements ==
Category:Quests
Category:Personal Quest