Baldur's Gate 3: How To Complete Free The Artist (2024)

There is an interesting man you meet in Act One of Baldur's Gate 3 that you can visit again later in the game. Oskar is a painter locked away in the Zhentarium Hideout in Act One. If you pay his captor enough coin, you can free him from enslavement.

By freeing Oskar, he will tell you to come find him once you reach Baldur's Gate. Now that you are in Act Three, it is time to find Oskar and get your reward for buying him off a couple of months back. Finding Oskar actually turns out to be a big quest in and of itself, so here is how to get through it.

Updated March 20, 2024, by Sean Murray: Saving Oskar in Lady Jannath's Estate can be a tricky bit of business, which is why we've updated this guide to make it a little easier. We've given this guide our latest formatting and also links to other helpful BG3 topics.

Where Is Oskar In Baldur's Gate?

To find Oskar in Act Three, you must first gain access to the Lower City of Baldur's Gate. The Lower City is past the inaccessible bridge north of South Span of Wyrm's Crossing waypoint.

Once in the Lower City, you want to head west, passing Lower City Central Wall and Bloomridge Park, until you reach a mansion called Lady Jannath's Estate. Lady Jannath's butler will be outside muttering to himself.

Upon entering the mansion you will hear smashing and see chairs flying across the room. These chairs can hit you and will deal damage to you if you are not careful. You can find Lady Jannath and Oskaron the second floor, in the bedroom.

Lady Jannath will let you know that Oskar is possessed and will ask you to find a way to end the curse. No matter what, by speaking to Lady Jannath and Oskar, a fight will start.

How To Subdue Oskar

Lady Jannath asks you to subdue Oskar using non-lethal attacks. You can enable non-lethal attacks in combat by selecting Passives at the bottom of your HUD, beneath your spells. After being enabled, any melee attack you perform will be non-lethal for all party members. Spells do not count.

How To See The Ghosts

You need some way to see invisible creatures to kill the poltergeists in the fight. There are multiple ways to see invisible creatures:

• Let Volo try to cure you in Act One, receiving Volo's Ersatz Eye after the operation goes awry.
• Use a See Invisibility potion.
• Use Faerie Fire .
• Use See Invisibility spell.

As long as you subdue Oskar here, the ghosts will disappear from the room and the fight will be complete.

How To Break Oskar's Curse

You can get to the top of Lady Jannath's house and find the source of the possessions, but you won't be able to stop it and will be stuck in tough combat until you can leave the house again.

You need to acquire the Torch of Revocation to remove the curse placed on Oskar. A certain character hiding in Baldur's Gate is holding this torch and requires your services.

Head back to the beginning point of the Lower City, near Basilisk Gate. Head west, toward Sorcerous Sundries then head south.

There is a building off the water south of the Heapside Strand waypoint. There is seemingly no way to enter this building. Head to the west side of the building to find a stone doorway. Upon inspection, your character should find that it is magically sealed.

Once inside the mansion, the being known as Mystic Carrion will ask you to find the body parts of one of his men, Thrumbo. The problem is, he doesn't know where they are or where Thrumbo is.

Where Is Thrumbo In Baldur's Gate?

Thrumbo is pretty close to Philgrave's Mansion. Leave the mansion and head back to the Heapside Strand waypoint. Walk past the stairs until you find the balcony broken to your right. There are some vines leading down into a small shack. Inside the shack, there is blood leading to a wardrobe.

Interact with the wardrobe as if you were looting it. Thrumbo will jump out. If you are playing morally good, you should want to save Thrumbo from the Mystic Carrion's enslavement.

To help Oskar, you only need the Torch of Revocation. Either kill Thrumbo here or pickpocket the Jar of Mystic Carrion's Heart from his person.

The jar located on Thrumbo's person is one of the many body parts of Mystic Carrion. Acquiring this gives you the upper hand against Mystic Carrion. By handing the jar over to Mystic Carrion, you can convince him to increase your reward and hand over the Torch of Revocation.

Mystic Carrion will still desire Thrumbo's body parts as per his side quest, so you must still complete his quest, but for now, you can return to Oskar with the torch.

How To Get Up The Stairs In Lady Jannath's Estate

Once you have the Torch of Revocation, head back to Lady Jannath's house. As you enter the stairwell, you will be affected by Phantasmal Force for ten turns. As you go up the stairs, Cursed Skulls will Thunderwave you back down. The challenge here is getting at least one party member to reach the attic above.

Like before, there are invisible poltergeists that need to be revealed if you plan to defeat them. Our advice is that you do not need to defeat every ghost. All you have to do is make sure someone gets upstairs. Even with the poltergeists gone, the Cursed Skulls will deal damage and push you back downstairs.

The Cursed Skulls will only push you back the first time you find them. Six Cursed Skulls are leading up to the top floor, so you will be pushed back by Thunderwave six times trying to get up.

You can avoid the stairwell altogether. The best way to access the top floor is by using your most agile character with Misty Step or Fly. A balcony across the hall from Jannath's bedroom can be accessed by jumping out a window.

Once on the balcony, go to the furthest west side and use Fly or Misty Step to access the small ridge of roofing on the west side of the building. There, you can use the same actions to reach a higher balcony.

The highest balcony will have a door leading to the top of the stairwell that contains the Cursed Skulls. This way, you have successfully avoided all the Cursed Skulls and can walk straight to the atelier.

There will be paintings and easels around the attic. Pick up the painting of Oskar and interact with the empty easel. Combine the Oskar painting inside the easel to unlock a secret door. The secret door will reveal a hidden painting.

Equip the Torch of Revocation into your weapon slot and interact with the hidden painting to break the curse.

This ghost will head directly to Lady Jannath's room and attempt to kill Oskar unless you help. The Cursed Skulls will disappear after burning the hidden painting. You will have to return to the bedroom to defend the couple quickly.

How To Save Oskar From Kerrie

Back in the bedroom, Kerri will be confronting Oskar for not letting her rest in peace. You have a few options here.

• You can either defeat Kerri's ghost, let Kerri kill Oskar
• Or persuade Kerri to leave.

To pacify Kerri, you must have high skills in Persuasion, Intimidation, or Deception.

If you initiate a fight with Kerri, you will also have to deal with multiple poltergeists. Oskar will also have 1 health thanks to you knocking him out earlier. To make things even worse, Kerri can possess you which will make you attack others and make Oskar attack you.

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Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.

Platform(s)

PC , macOS , PS5 , Xbox Series X

Released

August 3, 2023

Developer(s)

Larian Studios

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