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InBaldur’s Gate 3, the fates of lands and creatures often hang on a roll of dice. Rolling low on a check to persuade, deceive, or recall information might mean that you end up missing out chunks of the story—or worse, lose a vital NPC or quest. For these especially crucial moments, the game introducesa unique mechanic: Inspiration.
Inspiration is awarded when you successfully encounter or resolve events that align with your player character’s background—sort of like mini-achievements obtained by role-playing according to your chosen background’s core traits, bonds, and guiding principles.
The Outlander Background, Explained
In Baldur’s Gate 3, you’re given a choice from a wide array of backgrounds during the character creation process. Backgrounds grant characters two skill proficiencies that align with its flavor. Backgrounds might also provide unique dialogue options, and influence how NPCs treat your character.
An Outlander excels in understanding survival, nature, and creatures. They gain the Athletics and Survival proficiencies.
Athletics
Base Ability Score: Strength
Athletics is commonly used when shoving, resisting shoves, and calculating your character’s jump distance.
Survival
Base Ability Score: Wisdom
Survival is commonly used when following tracks, identifying signs of wild creatures, detecting disturbances in the environment and avoiding natural hazards.
How To Get Inspiration As An Outlander
As an Outlander, your character will most often become inspired when exploring the wilderness, experiencing and healing natural lands, as well as when triumphing over or befriending wild creatures.
you may only have four Inspiration points at a time, and they’re shared between your whole party. Make sure to use them when you get to four, or they’ll start going to waste!
Eyes of the Wild
See past the illusion covering the swamp.
Whenentering the Sunlit Wetlandsby the Riverside Teahouse Waypoint (X:-10, Y:252), you will be prompted with anArcana check. Pass it to see through the illusion covering the wetlands.
Cub Tamer
Obtain the owlbear cub.
Win over the Owlbear cubthat can be found in a cave between the Emerald Grove and Blighted Village.
Cursebreaker
Witness Yeenoghu’s curse and win against his gnolls and hyenas
Win the encounter against apack of hyenas and gnollsto the west of the Risen Road Waypoint (X:85, Y:597).
A Mother’s Fury
Defeat or win over the mother Owlbear.
Successfullydefeat, or pass an Intimidation checkagainst, the mother Owlbear that can be found in a cave between the Emerald Grove and Blighted Village.
Sticky Fingers
Find the pouch in the spider crevice.
Travelsouthwest from the Emerald Grovetowards a rock face at (X:182, Y:411) and climb the Cragged Rock Face to find asmall crevice in the stonefilled with spiders. Pass aSleight of HandorAnimal Handlingcheck to grab the pouch inside.
Rock Steady
Survive the Zhentarim’s rolling boulder trap.
Trigger andsurvive the boulder trap, in the eastern section of the cave whereZhentarim agents aretrapped by gnollsnear the Risen Road (X:85, Y:597).
Abyss Jumper
Enter the Underdark through the hole in the Whispering Depths.
At theend of the Whispering Depths dungeon, jump through the hole under where thePhase Spider Matriarchcan be found.Cast Feather Fallon your party beforehand to avoid a grisly death at the bottom of the pit.
Clever Cuckoo
Discover and take something from the giant bird’s nest.
Find andclimb the Chasm Creeperbetween Ebonlake Grotto (X:99, Y:-101) and the Decrepit Village (X:22, Y:-209) , thentake the lootfrom the giant bird nest. You’ll need a movement spell likeFly or Misty Stepto access the nest.
Nest Egg
Steal something from the Carrion Crawler nest.
Be (or turn yourself into) one of thesmall races in the game, andcrawl through the holeat (X:30, Y:-235) to get into the Carrion Crawler nest.
Walking on Air
Discover and use one of the Fairy Rings.
Use theFairy Ring at the end of the jumping mushroom puzzlenear theFestering Cove. Alternatively, you can also use the onein Auntie Ethel’s lair.
A Noble Endeavor
Use a Noblestalk Mushroom to recover someone’s memories.
Successfully obtain Noblestalk during theFind the Mushroom Pickerquestline and give it toShadowheart, Baelen, or a Dark Urge player characterto recover their lost memories.
The Floor is Lava
Defeat the Lava Elemental.
Fight and win against the Lava Elemental at thelava-filled area of Grymforge. This is also where you canfind the Cursed Amulet.
How To Obtain
Always a Step Ahead of the Darkness
Reach the Nightsong without having every been afflicted by the shadow curse.
Avoid being afflicted by the shadow curse byobtaining a moon lanternorthe pixie’s blessing.
Tools of the Trade
DefeatYurgiir, the orthontrapped within Shar’s Gauntlet.
Never Liked Stairs
Enter a restricted area in the Moonrise Towers from the outside.
Lockpick and enter any locked room from the balconies of Moonrise Towers.
Drink and successfully resist the effects of Thisobald Thorm’s concoction.
Go along withThisobald’s storytelling requestsanddrink his brewwithout becoming sick.
Grove Keeper’s Keeper
Successfully protect Halsin’s portal while he retrieves Thaniel from the Shadowfell.
While trying to lift the shadow curse, successfullyprotect Halsin’s portalfor three rounds without letting the shadow monsters break it.
Sleeping in the Dark
Take a full long rest while in the Shadow-Cursed Lands.
Enter the Shadow-Cursed Lands of Act Two andtake a long rest at campwhile there.
Bumps in the Dark
Win three fights while in the Shadow-Cursed Lands.
Enter the Shadow-Cursed Lands of Act Two andwin three fightswhile there.
Note that most creatures in these lands areweak to radiant damagewhilstdealing heavy necrotic damage.
Child’s Play
Win Oliver’s game of hide-and-seek without ever alerting his “family”.
Successfully find Oliver three timeswithout triggering a fight with his shadow creatures.
Delving Into the Deep
Enter the oubliette under Moonrise Towers.
Jump into the Oubliette through thehole in the Moonrise Towers prison, or getdragged into it through a crack in a wall.
From Head to Toe
Fully explore the Mindflayer Colony.
Explore every area in the Mindflayer Colony, includingsolving theNecrotic Laboratory puzzleand encounteringthe Nursery,where you cansave Zevlor.
For Once, a Warm Meal
Take a long rest at Elfsong Tavern.
Speak to Alan Alyth, the bartender at Elfsong Tavern, tobook a room at the inn.
Beneath the Gate
Enter the Undercellar
Find one of theseveral ways toenter the Undercellar, where the Guild operates.
Enlisted Avian
Meet Commander Lightfeather
In the Post House in Rivington, go to the second floor andspeak to the pigeonswhile under the effect ofSpeak to Animals.
Cat Got Your Tongue?
Find the courier’s missing letters.
Climb therooftop opposite of the Post Housein Rivington, andfind Tara, Gale’s tressym, hoarding the letters.
Solemn Farewell
Witness the Gur funeral
Encounter thecamp of Gur (X:95, Y:-17)northeast of the Rivington waypoint andwitness their funeralforthose who were killed by Cazador.
Primary Needs
Feed and calm down the dinosaur at the circus.
At theCircus of Last Days,find a dilophosaurusin one of the cages and feed it some meat to make it no longer hostile towards you. This will alsoprevent it from attacking youduring the ensuing clown attack.
