The chuds at RPGHQ did it again with another banger of an update.
Restored Realms 4.0 — Baldur's Gate 3
Hells Overhaul and Rework
Mod download link (MODHQ) |
Mod update description
ModdersHQ team (loregamer, Silver, orinEsque, and Lancaster)
Table of Contents
- Aesthetics
- Realms Restored: Mizora
- Race-Specific Updates: CAMBIONS
- Location-Based Updates
- NAUTILOID
- HOUSE OF HOPE
- Race-Specific Updates: PLANAR ALLY
- Swaps
- Assorted Fixes
- Undeviled Tieflings
- Bugfixes
- External links
Aesthetics
Restored Realms 4.0 introduces a full overhaul of planar entities, primarily those of the Hells. These including Mizora and the Sisters of Justice, your cambion summon from the Planar Ally spell, and all cambions that you meet in the Nautiloid and the House of Hope. In addition, the mod also overhauls all NPCs that you encounter in the House of Hope. With Mizora, there is a massive overhaul where you get to customize her to your liking.
Realms Restored - Mizora 1.0
Mod download link (and different customizations) - RPGHQ
- The human skin used by Mizora was changed to a Tiefling one, to maintain Cambion ridges, spikes and improve on the overall devil-like appearance
- Added forehead roots for horns
- Eyelashes and eyebrows colours better match hair colour
- Multiple outfits that look less like "normal human" fashion, and more in line with overall "alternative fashion" of their earlier concept art
You may create your own Mizora from the current selection of:
- 4 outfit options
- 7 outfit colour options
- 5 skin colour options
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- 6 hair colour options
- 6 hair style options
- 1 option to add classic hair on top
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- 8 bangs style options
- 2 permanent fringe style options
- 4 eye style options
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- 4 eye glow style options
- 2 unique eye style options
- 7 eye colour options
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...bringing the total number of possible unique visual variations to more than
36,126,720 options!
A guide on customization can be found on the
mod OP on RPGHQ.
In addition, a human form of Mizora was added as a disguise so she could match the aesthetic of the nobles present at Gortash's coronation at Wyrm's Rock Fortress [PRESENT IN AESTHETICS].
Race-Specific Updates: CAMBIONS
Cambions no longer look like simple humans with horns attached. They were given a comprehensive race rework to make them feel genuinely demonic across the board and like a different, unique RACE and not a copy pasta of each other drenched in inappropriate colours. The overhaul carries through to every Cambion in the game, including Mizora and her Sisters, the House of Hope Raphael's cambions, the Nautiloid prologue, and the Cambion Planar Ally summon. Featuring:
- Scales on the skin for some
- Red skin in different hues
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- Slightly different looking wings
- Dark and red-leaning hair colours
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- Variety of demonic, flaming eyes
- Variety of horns
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- Variety of clothing that still fits with the Cambion aesthetic, but is not a clear copypasta
- ALL Female Cambions now use Tiefling skin with ridges and spikes, instead of the smooth Human skin they previously had
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Act 1: Nautiloid | Act 3: House of Hope | Mizora and her "Sisters of Justice" |
Location-based Updates - Act 1: Nautiloid
The prologue area finally gets a Realms Restored pass, with background characters, stand-ins, and corpses all brought in line with the rest of the game
- Losiir, the stand-in character used in place of Lae'zel when she's played as an Origin, given a visual update and no longer has pink hair
- 2 Absolute Cultists updated
- 4 Dead NPCs were made to look, well, dead
- 5 Copypasta Cambions updated in line with the new Cambion race overhaul
- 1 Human in the pod updated
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Location-based Updates - Act 3: House of Hope
Raphael's infernal estate has been overhauled top to bottom ─ debtors, their ghosts, petrified victims, and Haarlep's various forms all received visual updates, with a handful of gender swaps rolled into existing add-ons. All debtors received a personalised update supporting their dialogue / story, e.g if an NPC is scratching his skin to try and get out "rats that are crawling inside him", then he is visibly scratched and bruised.
More images can be found on the update post in RPGHQ.
Cambions
6 Cambions from Raphael fight updated
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NPCs
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Nubaldin race swapped, Archivist received an aesthetics update and was not moved to Undeviled Tieflings, if anything, he is more deviled now | 10 Interactable Debtors updated, 2 entries moved into SWAPS |
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6 Eternal Debtors (non-interactable, fight-only characters) updated; 5 F to M swaps, 1 moved into the Undeviled Tieflings add-on | 15 Soul Spirit Debtors (the ghosts) updated, their discrepancies between looks and races fixed; 4 entries moved into SWAPS, 3 moved into the Undeviled Tieflings add-on |
In addition,
3 Petrified Debtors updated, including a F to M swap; 1 entry moved into
SWAPS, 1 moved into the
Undeviled Tieflings add-on
Haarlep
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Race-Specific Updates: PLANAR ALLY
Improved aesthetic for summons of Planar Ally spell, which is a divine ritual used to request aid from an otherworldly entity. And creatures that come to aid you now look appropriate.
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Cambion Planar Ally | Deva Planar Ally | Banite Planar Ally |
Swaps
To keep the region surrounding Baldur's Gate demographically consistent to be majority-human, a small batch of NPCs that were race-swapped to humans. These include:
- 12 NPCs swapped to Human
- 1 NPC swapped to Wood Elf
- 1 NPC swapped to Lolth-Sworn Drow
Assorted Fixes
More environmental art updates, bringing religious iconography, paintings, and murals in line to fit the European-based human demographics of the region around Baldur's Gate.
More images can be found on the update post on RPGHQ.
Environmental Assets
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Emerald Grove | Temple of Lathander | Temple of Lathander | Stormshore Tabernacle |
Noble Paintings
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Replace black human and githyanki noble for white human nobles | Change orc noble to human and improve painting resolution | Change elf nobles to human nobles |
Painting of Raphael
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Horns and eyes in Raphael's portrait matches Raphael's in-game model and the mod's aesthetic for him respectively |
Thorm Family
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New Thorm family portrait added over Kethric's bedroom at Moonrise Tower | Ketheric looks younger and less Asian in the mural at the Thorm Mausoleum |
Undeviled Tieflings
- 6 Tiefling debtors were made with less devilish features in the House of Hope
Bugfixes
Several bugfixes were done, such as
- Manip Edenosa: non De-Girlboss version existing in Swaps fixed
- Jaheira: her mysterious clown makeup has been washed away
- RR Aesthetics 4.0 is now VIRTUAL TEXTURE FREE
- Meaning that Mystra's dress, which previously contained VTs, will look slightly different, and with slightly less detail
- If you oh so desire to have Mystra's dress back in full VT glory, you can just download this MystraDressVT patch, that will return all the detail of the dress
- You are free to install and uninstall that patch whenever in case you experience trouble with hitting VT limit in your modded game
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External links