In Baldur’s Gate 3, your background defines your inspiration goals; you are a wise Sage who dedicated life to studying history and magic.
What is Sage Background?
Sage is a background in Baldur’s Gate 3, and it represents their proficiencies, where the character comes from, and what their life was like before. NPC characters, including your companions, will recognize your knowledge and intelligence. You can also use your magical training when interacting or identifying objects, and spells. Your knowledge of history will also prove useful, and all those skills can occasionally earn you foes or respect and allay.
You are curious and well-read, with an unending thirst for knowledge. Learning about rare lore of the world will inspire you to put this knowledge to greater purpose.
Source Baldur’s Gate 3
What are Sage Proficiencies?
In addition to the role-playing aspect, the background defines proficiencies, giving you a slight bonus to dice rolls and success in checks. Proficiency is what your character is good at and what knowledge they possess. Also, this background’s default proficiencies are Arcana, History, Religion, Insight, and Perception. Your Sage proficiency features are Arcana and History.
Arcana is an Intelligence skill that will help you with the following checks:
- Understanding of spells, symbols, and their lore
- Knowledge about Magical traditions
- Plains of existence and creatures who inhabit them
- Helps when interacting with:
- Artifacts
- Enchanted Items
- Powerful Spells
History is an Intelligence skill that will help you with the following checks:
- Knowledge about Faerun’s and Baldur’s Gate’s past events
- Lore
- Understanding of Artefacts about Legendary Items
- You Know Famous Heroes and People
- You Recall lore about wars and ancient civilizations
Should you choose Sage in Baldur’s Gate 3?
In Baldur’s Gate 3, you should choose Sage if it fits your character and you like it. Backgrounds have defined proficiencies, while classes have a list of skills they can be proficient with, and you can pick only two or three. You are a Sage, and the game will reward you for reading massive tomes and discovering forgotten Faerun’s history. As a result, you know how to handle all kinds of magic and what spells and enchantments can be useful for your team. So make sure it’s how you want your character to act before you make a final decision.
How Inspiration Goals Work Baldur’s Gate 3?
Further, in Baldur’s Gate 3, your Sage background allows you to complete special goals that will award you with inspiration that you can later utilize when playing the game. When you perform an action that is authentic to your character’s origin, they will be inspired.
Sage Inspiration Goals
The following table presents the Baldur’s Gate 3 Sage background’s Inspiration Goals:
| Sage Inspiration Goal | Goal Description |
|---|---|
| All Knowledge Is Worth Having | Read The Necromancy of Thay tome and pass all checks |
| A Natural Alliance | Recognize Harper Armor |
| A Solitary Spider | Climb down the well and read the Arachnomancer’s journals in the Whispering Depths – In the Blighted Village. |
| Reanimator | Resurrect Gale following his instructions |
| Roots Of The Grove | Learn local history from the Druidic Frescos. |
| Read Educating the Faithful by Drow Matron. In the Underdark – the Spectator area. | In the Goblin Camp, convince Booyagh Piddle to give you Volo’s Guide to Goblins and read it. |
| Secrets Of The Matron | Read Educating the Faithful by Drow matron. In the Underdark – the Spectator area. |
| Secrets Of The Necromancer | Read The Necromancy of Thay tome and discover its nature. |
| Secrets Of The Shadow Druids | In the Druid Grove, enter Kagha’s room and read Faldron’s Canticle found in the locked chest. |
| Secrets Of The Sundering | Open the lock and read the Book of Dead Gods. Found in the Dank Crypt – one of the rooms (near the Entombed Scribes). |
| Secrets Of The Sussur Tree | Read the treatise on Anti-Magic. Or use a Sussur Flower to disable an Arcane Turret. Found in the Underdark – the Arcane Tower’s first floor. |
| The Forbidden Arcane | Buy and Read Omeluum’s notes on Illithid magic |
| The Phases Unfold | Recognize Harper Armor |
Looking for more Baldur’s Gate 3?
Thank you for reading the “Baldur’s Gate 3 Sage: Inspiration Goals & Background” Guide! We provide the latest news and create guides for the BG 3. Additionally, check out our website, watch me play games on Twitch, or visit my YouTube channel!
