Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massive game with multiple quests that take quite a few steps that on the surface don’t go together, but actually do because of the game’s incredibly deep world and its mechanics. This stuff can happen all over the game, thanks to how deep and expansive Baldur’s Gate 3 is, but one occasion of this happening is in the side quest to lift the Shadow Curse with Halsin. During the duration of this quest, you’re sent around the Shadow Lands looking for certain things to help lift the Shadow Curse. One such step of this is talking to Art Cullagh, who is currently asleep with seemingly no way to wake him up. Here’s our guide on how to wake Art Cullagh in Baldur’s Gate 3.
The first step to waking Art Cullagh is to know where he is. You can find Art Cullagh in the Last Light Inn that’s in the northeast of the second map of Baldur’s Gate 3. Once you get there, you’ll want to be able to wake him, and you can do this by using a certain item that you can get by dealing with Malus Thorm.
To find Malus Thorm, you’re going to want to head to the House of Healing, which you can see on the map above. We have a guide for taking Malus Thorm down, which you can use to get through this encounter in either combat or through using some speech checks to make him kill himself. Once you deal with Malus Thorm, you’re going to need to loot his body. This is due to an item you receive from his corpse named the Battered Lute. This Battered Lute is the item we need to go and wake Art Cullagh up in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Once you have the Battered Lute, you can then return to the Last Light Inn to wake Art Cullagh in Baldur’s Gate 3. When you arrive at his bedside, you should now have the option to use your Battered Lute to play a little tune, which will wake him and you can then converse with him.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is available for purchase on Steam.
