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Rurik was a [[dwarf|dwarven]] [[rogue]] found outside the [[The Risen Road#Toll_House|Risen Road Toll House]], in Early Access. He was a member of {{CharLink|Anders|Anders'}} group, hunting the origin character {{CharLink|Karlach}}. Unlike Karlach, he was removed from the final game.{{ref|''Baldur's Gate 3'' Early Access.|name=ea}}

Spencer was a [[halfling]] [[paladin]] monster hunter that was cut sometime before Early Access. He could have been situated in or nearby the [[Emerald Grove]],{{ref|Spencer being labeled as ''"DEN_MonsterHunter"'' within the game files, with ''DEN'' being the tag used for representing the Emerald Grove.}} and the currently-existing tiefling called {{CharLink|Eramas}} was once meant to be his associate. He also had interactions with {{CharLink|Wyll}}, could tell the party about his profession, and was at some point involved with a mysterious vampire ambush that would have happened during Act Two, within the [[Shadow-Cursed Lands]]. It's unclear as to who his hunt was, but it is possible that his vampire target was {{CharLink|Cazador Szarr}} himself, as he is associated with a deprecated wanted poster for Cazador.<ref>YouTube Video: SlimX. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZxy4EoaD4&t=16m04s These Dev Secrets Are Hidden Out of Sight in BG3 Act 1: 16:04]</ref><ref>YouTube Video: SlimX. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6v-gs7M_kM&t=6m45s Secrets in the Skybox | Baldur's Gate 3 Datamining: 6:45]</ref>

A significant amount of content was changed during development. Some were placeholder models, like {{CharLink|Karlach|Karlach's}} and the Chosen from Early Access Patch 5.

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Karlach-early-early-access.png|Karlach's EA Model

Astarion Model EA.png|Astarion's EA Starter Costume

Gale-beta.png|Gale's Earliest look

Guadrian of Faith Concept Art Gods.png|Concept Art of [[Guardian of Faith (Creature)|Guardian of Faith]]'s Shields that would have changed depending on deity.

Chosen_Placeholders.webp|Chosen Placeholders from Early Access Patch 5

Gale-ea.jpg|Gale in Early Access

Old harper lassandra.png|Harper Lassandra pre-release as seen in the Official Launch Trailer

Gauntlet Yeva EA.png|Gauntlet Yeva in Early Access

=== Minsc ===

{{dcond|Minsc is probably proposing that Guex gets himself an attack hamster.}}

=== Dream Visitor ===

 

 

 

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=== Nightsong ===

===Nose of the Nautiloid===

An entire area of the [[Nautiloid]] ship in the [[Prologue]] was removed. This area could be visited right after a slightly different imp battle<ref>YouTube Video: Shirrako. [https://youtu.be/TVw1GDlTq8U?si=m-15ml7gQbADD7G1&t=1565 Walkthrough Part 1 - Prologue (Early Access): 26:05]</ref> and provided a roundabout way to get to {{CharLink|Shadowheart|Shadowheart's}} room. It was available in Early Access but was eventually removed likely to shorten the Prologue chapter to enhance replayability.

When walking out into open air, a short cinematic played, in which the nose of the Nautiloid in front of the party was badly damaged by attacking red dragons. Thankfully this did not affect the party's route.<ref>YouTube Video: Shirrako. [https://youtu.be/TVw1GDlTq8U?si=wZKRyfk3DNXGQx8K&t=1840 Walkthrough Part 1 - Prologue (Early Access): 30:40]</ref>

[[File:Prologue-05.jpg|thumb|right|Nose of the Nautiloid]]

[[File:Prologue-06.jpg|thumb|right|The path forward]]

* Various dead lesser imps and thralls could be looted around this whole area for minor riches and equipment, including a [[Studded Shield]]. One incinerated dead thrall all the way towards the nose of the ship had a {{SmRarityItem|Potion of Poison Resistance}} (where the "1" is marked on the map). It was necessary to jump over some fire to reach the body. The thrall also held on to yet another brain in a jar, and this one is called {{SmRarityItem|Our Mind}}.

* Turning back, the party could climb another set of stairs to reach an upper level of the Nautiloid, from either side.  An intellect devourer told the party that they must go to the helm of the ship to provide assistance. The party could choose to attack, but the ensuing fight might actually proved difficult as there were also two lively thralls there maintaining some cannons.  

* There were also two lesser imps towards the south, having some sort of argument, one of them already wounded. There was a {{SmRarityItem|Battleaxe}} lying on the ground here.

Talking to some of the dying enthralled cultists on the ground around this area granted the party a little insight on how they thought. One talked about red, flying rats in the kitchen clawing at him, clearly referring to the imps who attacked the thralls. Another spoke as if he was talking to his mother, saying that he was tired and wanted to go to sleep early. Although talking to them revealed, rather tragically, that the thralls were just poor victims under mind control.

The path forward was back into the Nautiloid via a corridor to the north, stretching east. There was a mucous membrane the party needed to attack to break through, and then a door leading into the next major room, where Shadowheart was locked up in Mind Flayer pod.

=== Assaulting Moonrise Towers ===

At some point in development, the Act Two questline called for the inclusion of {{CharLink|Counsellor Florrick}} and the deeper involvement of the [[Flaming Fist|Flaming Fists]] during the [[Infiltrate Moonrise Towers|Assault on Moonrise Towers]].<ref>YouTube Video: Larian Studios. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOWGnC3h9WQ&t=1m18s Baldur's Gate 3 - The Game Awards Trailer: 1:18]</ref> Not only is Florrick involved during the main battle, her usual cohort made up of {{CharLink|Cyril|Fist Cyril}}, {{CharLink|Thadwick|Fist Thadwick}}, and {{CharLink|Vidor|Manip Vidor}} can be seen during the assault, accompanied by an unknown masked Harper gnome that bears some resemblance to the failsafe character {{CharLink|Lanni}}. Notably, usual Harper and Fist characters like {{CharLink|Lymn}}, {{CharLink|Essius}}, {{CharLink|Ulthred}}, {{CharLink|Helena}}, and {{CharLink|Rhed}} are nowhere to be seen. In the release versions of the game, Florrick as well as her cohort disappear from Act Two as soon as the party long rests after they encounter them at Last Light Inn.

There are also some very minor differences for {{CharLink|Z'rell|Disciple Z'rell}}, who is instead clothed in white Absolutist robes and missing a {{SmRarityItem|Absolute's Protector|Shield}} in her off-hand.

=== Rugan at the Guildhall ===

{{CharLink|Rugan}} had originally been planned to be present at the [[Guildhall]], but his presence in Act Three was seemingly cut from the released version of the game. Despite this, there are still trace amounts of information in the game files that attest to his unimplemented role.

By saving Rugan from the gnolls in Act One, and remaining on friendly terms with the [[Zhentarim]] of the [[Zhentarim Hideout]], Rugan will tell the party to look for him once they were in [[Baldur's Gate]], promising to buy them a drink should they ever cross paths again. Nevertheless, in the release version of the game, Rugan is never seen again from this point forward - were his cut content implemented however, the party would've originally been able to find him the Guildhall alongside both members of [[The Guild]] and the other Zhents; tipsy and dejected, he'd attempt to celebrate the party's arrival by telling the Zhents around him his rescue from the gnolls, only to elicit no reaction and get ignored by everyone around him.

Rugan then goes on to reveal that the original Zhentarim in Baldur's Gate were backstabbed and put under ''"new management"'' in an internal power play, with every single Zhent beneath [[Waukeen's Rest]] returning to the city being betrayed, turned to the [[Steel Watcher (creature)|Steel Watch]], and then hanged. He then explains that their new superiors thought they were responsible for the kidnapping of {{CharLink|Ulder Ravengard|Duke Ravengard}}, and that he owes his survival to his decision to confess to the lies and accusations as though they were true. Further dialogue elaborates that he is the only original "Gate crew" Zhentarim left and that he'd drink to his fallen comrades. Upon asking who the new Zhent management are, he simply says that he has no idea who they are, but that they impressed {{FRWiki|Darkhold}} enough for them to send additional support in the form of reinforcements. As he's still loyal to the Zhentarim after all this, the party could then convince him to leave their ranks.

* {{Dialogue option|The Zhentarim sold your friends out. You think they wouldn't do the same to you?|tags=rogue|roll=Persuasion|dc=10}}

* {{Dialogue option|The Zhentarim made you turn on your people. You really think you owe them loyalty?|tags=rogue|roll=Persuasion|dc=10}}

Successfully doing so will make him move away from his posting in the Guildhall, and head towards the bar where he'd start drinking incessantly; there, he'd drink to his fallen comrades, like {{CharLink|Olly}}, who he'd rather humorously misremember his name to be Ronnie or Ozzy. During the Zhentarim's attempted takeover of the Guild, Rugan will not join combat and keep drinking. Talking with Rugan after the battle ends simply has him ask the party incredulously if a fight happened.

As Rugan's involvement in Act Three has been cut from the game, much of the story and information concerning the original [[Risen Road]] Zhentarim and the Zhents' internal intrigue has been lost. The only piece of information about this that the party can learn comes in the form of an interaction with {{CharLink|Slick Inatra}}, who only reveals it to the party if the latter seized the {{SmRarityItem|Caravan Strongbox}} from Rugan in the first place, received the quest to deliver the strongbox to Inatra from {{CharLink|Zarys}}, and killed Rugan on her orders. Slick Inatra then simply states that the original caretakers of the cargo are already dead, and that there is new Zhentarim leadership in the city, without elaborating any further.

It's unclear as to who the new management refers to, though it may be possible that it may refer to either {{CharLink|Roah Moonglow}}, {{CharLink|Boss Friol}}, or {{CharLink|Trinoda}} as Rugan never seems to acknowledge or is aware of their existence. Likewise, it appears that the rest of the Zhentarim in Act Three are either the new crew, and/or reinforcements from Darkhold.  

=== Illithid Powers ===

== Unimplemented Content ==

=== Unimplemented Spells ===

 

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===Unimplemented Coinage===

===Unimplemented Instruments===

===Unimplemented Jewelry===

==Unimplemented D20 Design==

'''GEN_Quest.dds''' is an item that looks like a D20 dice. The name suggests it to be a generic placeholder image for a quest-related item, possibly for the {{RarityItem|Mysterious Artefact}}. The design is different than any of the implemented [[die designs]].

 

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===Unimplemented Scrolls ===

The "Jergas Scroll of the Dead" ''(sic)'' is referencing [[Jergal]], a god of death who appears in the game, and was likely an early design iteration of the Circle of Death scroll (added below for reference).

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Item_LOOT_SCROLL_JergasScrollOfTheDead.png|Jergas Scroll of the Dead ''(sic)''

==Notes and references==