A small unbroken brass lantern glows beside an open iron shackle in a shadowed crimson stone passage.

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Hope

Who would ever want to think of Hell without Hope?

— Baldur’s Gate 3 ‧ 2023

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Hope speaks after surviving Raphael's imprisonment and seeing him defeated. Her name gives the question a second meaning: she is a person who remains in hell, and hope is what makes endurance possible. The line insists that suffering need not erase the wish for something better.

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