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Auntie Ethel's Hair

Auntie Ethel's Hair
Consuming this piece of fey flesh grants a permanent +1 bonus to an Ability Score of your choice.
Two lice still scurry around on the little flap of skin attached to this clump of matted, crusty hair.
Single Use
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Description

This is one of the key items enabling you to get +1 to any Ability Score. It is available in Act 1, and allows maximizing stats for various builds

How to Obtain

If you want to avoid any kind of spoilers.

The Auntie Ethel's Hair icon bg3Auntie Ethel's Hair is a quest reward that grants +1 to one selected ability. This is usually done at levels 4-5. The hair can only be applied to a single character per playthrough. Due to this, some builds, are able to get better stat allocations if they get this

Meeting Auntie Ethel

During Act 1, you will encounter Map icon bg3Auntie Ethel in Druid's Grove. At first, she is a nice lady who will sell some very good potions that you can stock up on for the rest of the game. She is a very popular choice to stock up on Elixir of Hill Giant Strength icon bg3Elixir of Hill Giant Strength. More or less, there are no major decisions that you should worry about here, besides stealing from her (I would avoid this).

However, there is a breaking point where the story and Ethel's shop will not be accessible anymore. Once you reach the area below, the quest related to her will progress, and you will enter the next step:

After this, progress as normal into the Map icon bg3Gnarled Teahouse.

Progressing to the fight

So once you reach the teahouse, here is a sequence of steps that will happen:

  1. Meet Auntie with Mayrina
  2. Engage in combat with Ethel
  3. She disappears once you beat her up.
  4. Enter the cellar of the Map icon bg3Gnarled Teahouse
  5. Talk with the Map icon bg3Gnarled Door and persuade it to let you through.
  6. Inside the next area either kill the minions or let them live. Saving them will make them appear in the next fight with Ethel, but she will waste an action point for that. So I leave this up to you.
  7. Progress through the traps into the deeper area of the dungeon.
  8. Once you see a large area called Map icon bg3Ancient Abode with a chasm in the center this is where the fight will start.

Ancient Abode auntie ethel lair bg3

The Fight to obtain Auntie Ethel's Hair icon bg3Auntie Ethel's Hair

Okay so here are the main things to keep in mind - you will want to engage in combat with Ethel.

It's good to become invisible and save Mayrina before initiating the fight (by touching the lever). Ethel will also be invisible

auntie ethel control orb save mayrina bg3

Let's go through some steps:

  1. If you did not kill the masks, they will appear to help Ethel once the fight starts. This is a good way to avoid her duplicates, as she will use up her action to summon allies. However, for Honour Mode she can still use her Legendary Action, which still creates duplicates.
  2. Once you engage in combat, be sure not to kill her on the first turn.
  3. Fight her, and once she reaches about 20% of HP or 30 HP, stop and wait for her turn. She will then engage in dialogue with you.
  4. You can agree with her to get her Hair.
  5. Pick your preferred ability that you will want to increase.

ethel hag hair ability increase bg3

Overall, this is easy on Tactician, and on Honour Mode, the encounter is a bit more difficult due to Legendary Actions.

I hope this helps!

 

 

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