Baldur’s Gate 3: How To Hatch The Githyanki Egg

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Baldur's Gate 3 is a game full of secret interactions and hidden quests, and the Githyanki egg you can pick up in Act One comes with both. If you complete a few interactions correctly, you can get the egg to hatch and interact with its occupant. To get started, you'll need to complete most of Act One and make your way to the mountain pass, into the Githyanki Crèche.

The Crèche contains both a training ground and a Hatchery for the Githyanki in BG3, making it a veritable stronghold for this group of Gith soldiers. You can steal one of the Gith eggs in the nursery, much to Lae'zel's disdain. What you choose to do with it will determine the child's destiny.

Where To Find The Githyanki Egg In Baldur's Gate 3

Head Into The Creche, Then Find the Hatchery

Map of Creche Y'llir from Baldur's Gate 3

Towards the end of Act One, or once you reach the northwestern part of the map, you'll run into a group of Githyanki soldiers and one Dragon Rider. After your group finishes this interaction, Lae'zel will mention the Crèche if she hasn't already, so keep heading north towards the mountains. In the Mountain Pass, you'll run into a trader named Lady Esther, who will ask you to steal an egg from the Crèche.

Lae'zel, Vlaakith and Orpheus in front of the Githyanki Creche Lazer

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If you agree, keep on the path until you reach the overtaken Rosymorn Monastery. In the monastery, there are a few interactions you have to complete before you have semi-free rein to walk around, so wrap these up however works for you.

While attacking the Gith in the Creche won't actually impede your ability to get the egg, the Crèche might be more challenging to navigate if everyone wants you dead.

They have no bearing on how the egg situation turns out, so proceed however you wish. Once you're able to, take the hall on the left from the entrance and then your next right to get to the Hatchery.

How To Obtain The Egg From The Hatchery

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Once you arrive at the Hatchery, you have two options. You can jump or fly around the pools of acid to steal the Gith egg, or you can chat with Varsh Ko'kuu instead and try to convince him to give you an egg. To get the option to persuade him to give it to you, you'll need to pass an Insight check that pops up automatically when you ask why the birthing chamber is so bereft of eggs.

A duergar, drow, and githyanki side-by-side in Baldur's Gate 3.

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As long as you pass, you'll be able to follow the line of dialogue that allows you to ask Ko'kuu about the egg and then another line to convince him to give it to you. Each option involves a Persuasion check, DC 14 ("I’ll raise it as if it were my own flesh and blood.") and DC 16 ("I’ll find another crèche. One that’s more forgiving.") respectively, but if you succeed at both, you'll be able to get the egg without violence and without aggro-ing the rest of the Githyanki Crèche.

If the party frees Orpheus, he will confront you about taking the egg, regardless of what you decide to do with it.

If you do want to steal the egg, picking it up without asking will result in the whole Crèche—and Lae'zel, though she doesn't attack you—becoming upset with you. If you're already fighting your way through, this choice won't matter too much, but if you're trying to keep your presence on the down-low here, talking with Ko'kuu is a better option.

What To Do With The Egg Once You've Got It

Return To Chat With Lady Esther, Then Refuse To Give Her The Egg

Lady Esther, an old human woman, raises her eyebrows in a screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3.

After successfully obtaining the egg through whichever means you choose, you should talk to Lady Esther again to tell her of your success. Lady Esther will ask for the Githyanki egg so she can sell it to the Society of Brilliance in Baldur's Gate. Now, you have a decision to make.

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To keep the Githyanki egg, you'll need to make one of two choices. If you flat-out refuse to give Lady Esther the egg, she gets mad enough at you to attack. You can fight and kill her, which will end the questline here. Additionally, the Dark Urge Origin will have a unique option: you can destroy the egg in front of her by sending it over the cliff.

If you give the egg to Lady Esther, she'll return it to the Society of Brilliance in Baldur's Gate and help raise it. Here, it will hatch and have its aging sped up, resulting in it becoming a wild killer named Ptaris who will eventually murder Lady Esther, Havkelaag, and other Society of Brilliance members.

Your other option is to persuade her to take the Owlbear egg that you can pick up earlier in the quest to save the baby Owlbear. She'll relatively readily agree to your plan to trick the Society of Brilliance, taking the Owlbear egg off your hands. For a full rundown on this conversation. Now that you've secured the Gith egg, you're well on your way to hatching it.

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All Possible Outcomes For The Githyanki Egg

A character strumming a lute while looking over an outdoor camp at night in Baldur's Gate 3.

This next step won't come into play until the very end of the game, so be patient. Before you head up to the Netherbrain fight, you'll want to ensure that Lae'zel has the Githyanki egg in her inventory. This means she'll have it for the post-fight scene, where everyone goes their separate ways.

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At this point, what happens will depend on whether you and Lae'zel are in a relationship and if you decide to have her keep the egg. The different endings that the egg can have if not given away or destroyed up to this point are:

Condition

Ending

You and Lae'zel stay together and raise the hatchling.	You care for the child, whom Lae'zel names "Xan," which means "Freedom" in Gith, together.
You and Lae'zel aren't together, but she raises the hatchling.	Lae'zel mentions that the child is named "Xan" and that he is being raised well with freedom of choice.
Lae'zel heads to the Astral Plane to fight against Vlaakith's tyranny.	She leaves Xan with the mages of Xamvadi'm, who will care for and raise him. She tells you that she is leaving him to choose his own destiny.
The egg is not given to Lae'zel nor given away.	The party will lodge at the Elfsong Tavern, leaving the egg in a chest. You will then hear word of a newborn Gith crawling about the Tavern later.

All of these endings will be revealed to you in Baldur's Gate 3's epilogue when you meet Lae'zel again. Here, you'll be able to catch up with Withers and the rest of the party to see what everyone's been up to since you parted ways. It seems to be that Lae'zel's journey with you through Baldur's Gate 3 has taught her quite a bit, and her satisfaction at being able to break the pattern of her society's ways has been nothing but healing for her.