Baldur's Gate 3: 10 Secret Instant Deaths You Must AVOID

10. Falling To The Underdark

Assassin's Creed has been teaching us for almost two decades (yep, we're all getting old) that taking leaps of faith is fine, so long as you have a neatly placed pile of hay waiting for you below.

But what if there's no hay pile to speak of? Or if the ground is so far below you that you can't even see it?

These two oddly specific questions can be answered in the secret spider lair hidden below the well in the Blighted Village in the first act of Baldur's Gate 3.

This web-covered tunnel system is filled with mysterious chasms, one of which serves as a secret entrance to the Underdark. The only problem? The fall is hundreds of feet high.

There are two ways in which you're likely to discover this "shortcut" in your first playthrough. One: Your character notices something strange about the pit, and you jump in to find out what. Two: You jump onto the cobwebs above it without realizing they're too frail to hold your weight.

In either case, you'll see a cutscene of your character falling hundreds of feet into the underdark and then turning into a bloody splatter on the ground below.

Now that's a quick shortcut! To Death!