Baldur’s Gate 3 Save Mayrina Walkthrough

Auntie Ethel, the hag, has taken a poor soul for her nefarious purposes. Let us help you in finding Mayrina and save her from excruciating fate by defeating the hag.

Save Mayrina quest is part of Act 1 in BG3 and in traditional dungeons and dragons fashion, you are going to face a number of crossroads where a single choice can change the entire outcome of the story. This quest is available in the Sunlit Wetlands, where you’ll see two brothers quarreling with Auntie Ethel, accusing her of kidnapping their sister. Upon intervening in the quarrel you learn that Auntie Ethel is, in fact, lying.

It is now up to you to help the poor brothers and save their sister from Auntie Ethel. After you finish the dialogue, the Save Mayrina in BG3 quest should show up in your quest log. The following Baldur’s Gate 3 Save Mayrina walkthrough is going to outline each and every choice you have to make to save the girl from the hag.

How to save Mayrina in Baldur’s Gate 3

To start the “Save Mayrina” quest in BG3, you must take the path leading to the Sunlit Wetlands through the Blighted Village. Along the road, you witness a quarrel between two men and an old woman by the name of Auntie Ethel.

At this point, it is better to choose to side with the two men against Auntie Ethel. The old lady disappears shortly after, and the men who seem to be brothers, explain that she had taken their sister, Mayrina, captive. With that, the Save Mayrina quest will be started. Even if you try to side with the brothers, they will reject your offer. Unfortunately, there is no way to save Mayrina’s brothers in BG3 as whatever you do, they end up dying as part of the story.

Speak to Ethel

Now, you need to go to the Riverside Teahouse where you’ll see another cutscene. Auntie Ethel will tell Mayrina to finish her food as she is pregnant and needs to take a proper diet.

By this point, you will have the option to tell Mayrina about the encounter with her brothers. If you choose to do so, Ethel turns hostile on the spot and eventually teleports away, along with Mayrina. You must go through the fireplace to follow them and continue through the quest to save Mayrina in BG3.

If you, however, decide not to tell Mayrina about her brothers, Ethel will not turn hostile at the moment. However, she will still teleport away with Mayrina. At this point, Ethel also offers to remove the parasite in your eye in exchange for one of your eyes – which isn’t necessarily a great option to pick.

All of your companions will disapprove of the idea, and even if you approve, the old hag would not be able to do it as it is tainted by strange shadow magic.

Reach the Basement

After whatever decision you make, the Hag teleports Mayrina out of the room. If you roam around the fireplace area, you will figure out that it’s an illusion, and there’s a passageway behind it.

Go through the fireplace to reach the old hag’s basement where she will reveal her true identity. There are other people trapped in that basement as well. You can even interact with them to learn more about Ethel by using the “Speak with the Dead” spell.

Go past the Gnarled Door

As you make your way across the basement to locate and save Mayrina, you will reach BG3 Gnarled Door. At first, the door seems to be inaccessible, but you learn later that it’s just an illusion and can be passed through easily.

There are multiple ways to go through this door.

  • You can pick the Whispering Mask on the ground and equip them to pass the gate. Just be sure to take the masks off later otherwise you will be controlled by the old hag when you fight her.
  • There is an Arcane check near the door and regardless of the outcome, once you perform the check you can just pan the camera around to the other side of the Gnarled door to pass through it.

Once you pass the door, you will fight 4 of Ethel’s pawns and enter the Overgrown Tunnel. Note that you can avoid the fight with them by wearing the Whispering mask.

After you defeat the pawns, jump over the waterfall to reach the next area of the “Saving Mayrina” quest in BG3.

Go past the Noxious fumes

This tunnel leading to Mayrina in BG3 is filled with noxious fumes. There are many ways to cross this tunnel. You can adopt any strategy that best suits you and your companions.

  • You can run through this area using the dash skill and healing yourself.
  • If you have Shadowheart as a companion, you can burn the noxious fumes with fire. Then put out the fire using water as Shadowheart has a spell that creates water.
  • If you have Lae’ zel as a companion, you can cast the Feather Fall skill on her and use her special jump skill to easily make your way across most of the noxious fumes.

How to save Mayrina from the Ancient Abode burning cage

Auntie Ethel awaits at the Ancient Abode. Despite your encounter with her last time, she is still at max HP, but the fight is surprisingly easier against her at this stage. Note that before patch 5, you could simply just sneak up on and push Auntie Ethel off the cliff, killing her easily. After the patch though, you have to fight her head-on.

You will see another cutscene where the old hag threatens to kill you as she has Mayrina held captive inside a cage. She later sets the cage on fire, which is why it is very important to tend to her if you want to save Mayrina in BG3.

You can save Mayrina from the cage by making your way to her and using the Mage Hand on her. If you use an Interrupter who is invisible, you will be able to save Mayrina in BG3 from burning without initiating a fight.

You can either use a Water spell to create and splash the cage with water. Or you can throw a bottle of water at the cage to douse the flames. After that, the battle will start. Ethel will clone herself a total of 3 times during this fight. You will see three hags at the same time, and while it is difficult to identify which is the real one, damaging a clone will destroy it, and only the real one has debuffs.

As soon as you deal with her, she will pull Mayrina out of her cage and clone herself as Mayrina. Now you have to figure out which is the real one and which is the hag to save Mayrina in BG3. Doing this is simple, as Mayrina informs you herself that she isn’t Ethel. As Auntie Ethel clones herself for the last time she turns invisible. You can use an AoE skill or an arrow to reveal her location and deal damage.

To avoid extending the fight, you can leave the cage on fire and kill Auntie Ethel in the meantime. But you will need to finish the fight before Mayrina burns to death. Then put the flames out and hit the orange orb to get Mayrina out of the cage in BG3. This will save you precious time without having to decide who is the real Mayrina.

Let Ethel cure the parasite or help Mayrina?

When Auntie Ethel is down to about 10 HP, you can either kill her or leave her. Depending on what you do will have different outcomes.

  • Killing Ethel would make Mayrina very angry as she had a deal with Ethel, and you ruined it.
  • Allowing Ethel to cure the parasite will spare her at 10 HP will result in Ethel begging you for mercy. She will agree to grant you any power in return for her life and Mayrina. If you succeed in persuasion and intimidation, you can have both.

If you decide to take Ethel’s offer and spare her, she will give you an item called Auntie Ethel’s Hair. You can eat this item to gain a permanent buff in BG3. Moreover, letting Mayrina go was part of the deal as well. Therefore, at this point whatever you choose does not matter, as you have saved Mayrina from Auntie Ethel at last.

If you decide to kill Auntie Ethel, make sure to talk to her body with “Speak with the Dead” spell. Talk to Mayrina afterward and use persuasion to make her believe Auntie Ethel’s plans. As a reward, you will get Mayrina’s locket.

Search the Hag’s lair to help Mayrina

Search the hag’s lair thoroughly as it has some decent stuff to loot, and you need a way to help Mayrina with her request. Among Ethel’s things, you will find a wand for Mayrina called Bitter Divorce that is capable of raising the dead. Once you are done searching her workshop, use the portal to get out of there. Hand over the wand to Mayrina in Baldur’s Gate 3 to revive her husband.

However, you can also use the wand to raise her husband from his grave as a zombie instead of giving it to her. If you refuse to hand over the wand to Mayrina, it will anger her, and you will create a potential enemy. Mayrina’s zombie husband refuses to follow her to Baldur’s Gate because she doesn’t have the Bitter Divorce wand. For the worst-case scenario, simply break the wand and don’t raise Mayrina’s husband as an undead at all. This marks the end of the Save Mayrina quest in BG3.

BG3 Save Mayrina quest bug

There is a serious bug with Save Mayrina quest in BG3. If you kill Auntie Ethel before she can teleport to her lair, Mayrina will be stuck with same dialogues. She will be angry at you no matter what you do. This will potentially lock you out from her locket reward and quest completion. Make sure to make a save before engaging Auntie Ethel and if possible, let her go to her lair.

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