Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
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50 free Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is the role-playing game many players still measure the genre against: a sprawling adventure with a party of bickering companions, a villain who dominates every scene he appears in, and side quests that grow into small epics of their own. This quiz covers the story from the opening dungeon to the last fight, the companions old and new, the guilds and mages of Amn, and the people who made the game. It also gives proper attention to Saemon Havarian, the smooth-talking smuggler captain whose offers of passage never end the way he promises, including his return in Throne of Bhaal. It is written for fans who finished the saga years ago and for newcomers arriving from Baldur's Gate 3. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still teaches you something about Jon Irenicus, Minsc or the Bhaalspawn.
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Q 01In Baldur's Gate II, the ranger Minsc takes advice from a pet hamster of what name?
Boo
Boo is, in Minsc's view, a miniature giant space hamster. Writer David Gaider said the pet has no abilities beyond those of a normal hamster.
Q 02Which voice of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger also plays the ranger Minsc in Baldur's Gate II?
Jim Cummings
Jim Cummings gave Minsc such a distinctive delivery that the writers rewrote some of the ranger's lines around his readings.
Q 03Which English actor from Tron and Titanic voices the mage Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate II?
David Warner
David Warner made the arrogant mage one of the most memorable villains in role-playing games, and came back to voice him again in a 2016 expansion.
Q 04BioWare, the studio that developed Baldur's Gate II, is based in which Canadian city?
Edmonton
Edmonton, Alberta, is the studio's home. Its three founders were newly graduated medical doctors who turned to making role-playing games.
Q 05Which Belgian studio made Baldur's Gate 3, the 2023 sequel to Baldur's Gate II?
Larian Studios
Larian Studios released the sequel 23 years after Shadows of Amn and brought back Minsc and Jaheira as companions.
Q 06What does the mage Jon Irenicus steal from the hero of Baldur's Gate II during a ritual?
Their soul
Their soul is torn away in the ritual, and without it the hero starts transforming into a monstrous avatar of a dead god.
Q 07The hero of Baldur's Gate II is a child of Bhaal, the slain god of what?
Murder
Murder was Bhaal's domain. He foresaw his own destruction and left behind mortal children whose deaths were meant to fuel his rebirth.
Q 08Baldur's Gate II is set in which Dungeons & Dragons campaign world, home of the Sword Coast and Faerûn?
Forgotten Realms
Forgotten Realms is a high fantasy setting that resembles a medieval Earth, and players and designers simply call it the Realms.
Q 09Which hero of R. A. Salvatore's fantasy novels makes a cameo in Baldur's Gate II and can aid the party?
Drizzt Do'Urden
Drizzt Do'Urden turns up with his companions, and he reacts badly if the player imports a hero who killed or robbed him in the first game.
Q 10Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition reached PlayStation 4, Xbox One and which other console in 2019?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch got the remaster through Skybound Games. An earlier Wii U version was cancelled after the developer's bad experience porting another game.
Q 11In Baldur's Gate II, the smuggler Saemon Havarian sails the party to which pirate-run island town?
Brynnlaw
Brynnlaw is a port town taken over by pirates, and the asylum the party is trying to reach stands on the north side of the same island.
Q 12Which voice of Johnny Bravo also plays the smuggler Saemon Havarian in Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal?
Jeff Bennett
Jeff Bennett also voices Cespenar in the same expansion, the imp butler who forges weapons from the odds and ends the hero collects.
Q 13In Baldur's Gate II, which race hunts the party for carrying the sacred blade Saemon Havarian hands over?
Githyanki
Githyanki hold the blade sacred, so they attack the party's ship and later send warriors to demand that the hero surrender it.
Q 21Much of Baldur's Gate II takes place in which capital of Amn, ruled by the anonymous Council of Six?
Athkatla
Athkatla was built by artists who had learned on the first game's city, and the art director said that made it far more diverse and interesting.
Q 22Which childhood friend of the hero is revealed in Baldur's Gate II to be a fellow child of Bhaal?
Imoen
Imoen was a late addition to the first game and proved unexpectedly popular with players, and the sequel reveals her as the hero's half-sister.
Q 23Where does the hero wake at the very start of Baldur's Gate II, before a wizard begins his experiments?
In a cage
In a cage is where the game opens, with a wizard who knows the hero's heritage experimenting on them until an attack on his lair draws him away.
Q 14After Saemon Havarian teleports off a stolen ship in Baldur's Gate II, which undersea people capture the party?
Sahuagin
Sahuagin take the party to their underwater city, a detour that players miss entirely if they turn down the captain's offer of a voyage home.
Q 15In Throne of Bhaal, Saemon Havarian runs his smuggling from a cave beside which monastery village?
Amkethran
Amkethran is where he pins his own thefts on the hero, leaves the party to fight a band of angry mercenaries and teleports away.
Q 16In Baldur's Gate II, Saemon Havarian persuades the party to help seize a ship from which Pirate Lord?
Desharik
Desharik rules the island's pirates, and one way into its asylum is to convince him to have the whole party committed as inmates.
Q 17In Throne of Bhaal, Saemon Havarian offers to sneak the party into the monastery of which Bhaalspawn monk?
Balthazar
Balthazar's monks expect the hero to arrive drugged, but the smuggler admits he skipped that step because he felt he owed the party one.
Q 18Which island asylum does Jon Irenicus seize control of in Baldur's Gate II?
Spellhold
Spellhold sits above a magical maze that was built, in rare cases, to test whether an inmate was sane enough to leave.
Q 19Bodhi, sister of Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate II, leads a rival guild of which undead creatures?
Vampires
Vampires fill her coven. The story implies she chose undeath herself, as a way to survive after an elven punishment shortened her life.
Q 20Which order of mages arrests Jon Irenicus for unsanctioned spellcasting at the start of Baldur's Gate II?
Cowled Wizards
Cowled Wizards regulate the use of magic in Amn, and after the street fight they teleport both the mage and the hero's friend away.
Q 24Which monstrous avatar of Bhaal does the hero of Baldur's Gate II first turn into when confronting Bodhi?
The Slayer
The Slayer bursts out when Bodhi corners the party in a maze, and the sight startles her so much that she retreats to warn her brother.
Q 25In Baldur's Gate II, the party chases Jon Irenicus through which underground world of mind flayers?
The Underdark
The Underdark is the party's only road back to the surface, where it emerges to find an elven army locked out of its own city.
Q 26Jon Irenicus, the villain of Baldur's Gate II, was once an elf exiled from which hidden city?
Suldanessellar
Suldanessellar cast him out when he was still known as Joneleth, the lover of its queen.
Q 27At the climax of Baldur's Gate II, Jon Irenicus drains the power of what sacred heart of the elven city?
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is his route to immortality, and draining it would doom the elven city that once threw him out.
Q 28In Baldur's Gate II, Gaelan Bayle offers the party the help of which guild for a huge sum of gold?
Shadow Thieves
Shadow Thieves operate all along the Sword Coast from their base in Amn's capital, and they promise to find the hero's missing friend.
Q 29In Baldur's Gate II, Minsc swears to avenge which witch of Rashemen, killed while the party was held captive?
Dynaheir
Dynaheir was the witch Minsc had sworn to protect on his rite of passage, so her death gives the comic ranger a real grief to carry.
Q 30Which Kara-Tur bounty hunter joins early in Baldur's Gate II and later betrays the party?
Yoshimo
Yoshimo reveals that the villain bound him with a spell to obey or die, and he is the one companion who cannot return in the expansion.