Gamers could have already met Araj Oblodra in Act 2 when she requested for some blood in trade for a potion. If the protagonist agrees, she would provide to drink the Mysterious Potion in Act 3, however it is strongly recommended to not rush into it. Though she has at all times given helpful potions earlier than, in Baldur’s Gate 3 unknown potions typically have each optimistic and unfavourable results. This information is meant to assist gamers resolve whether or not to drink Mysterious Potion, as it’s unsuitable for a lot of characters.
BG3: What Occurs if You Drink Araj’s Mysterious Potion?
In Act 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 gamers will discover Araj Oblodra in Crimson Draughts at coordinates X:-76; Y:-88. As talked about above, Araj will solely provide gamers to drink the Mysterious Potion if they comply with give her their blood in Act 2, so if they don’t, this a part of the story will likely be unavailable to them.
Additionally, if Astarion bit Araj in Act 2, and he’s within the get together, they’ll have an attention-grabbing dialogue. When the get together approaches Araj, the home will explode and catch fireplace. She is going to say that that is due to a potion created from the blood of the protagonists. When gamers comply with her into the home, she’s going to give Mysterious Potion after a brief dialog.
At this level, gamers ought to save in the event that they plan to drink the Mysterious Potion, because it has a passive impact that will not be helpful for all characters and in all conditions. This impact is known as Unstable Blood, and it causes the blood of the character who drinks the potion to turn out to be flammable and explode when uncovered to fireside.
After the character drinks this potion, all the things inside a couple of meters will explode and catch fireplace. After that, in a dialog with Araj, she will likely be genuinely happy with the outcomes of her analysis and that the protagonist has made such an necessary contribution to science. Nonetheless, gamers who act as moralists mustn’t cooperate along with her as she conducts experiments on folks.
Unstable Blood could be harmful as a result of it might set fireplace to each get together members and peaceable NPCs, which might typically damage the playthrough. However on the similar time, this passive impact could be very helpful if the potion is drunk by a melee character who wears armor with immunity to fireside harm. A sensible choice could be Helldusk Armour and Cindermoth Cloak, as collectively they will defend towards fireplace and deal further fireplace harm to enemies round them.

Baldur’s Gate 3
- Franchise
- Baldur’s Gate
- Platform(s)
- PC, Stadia, macOS, PS5
- Launched
- August 3, 2023
- Developer(s)
- Larian Studios
- Style(s)
- RPG