ABaldur’s Gate3 player has drawn attention to a musical Easter egg which can be heard in the theme music of Raphael’s boss fight.
The soundtrack for Baldur’s Gate 3, composed by Borislav Slavovhas, has no shortage of amazing songs. From ambient tunes to high-throttle battle music, fans have heavily praised the game’s musical score.
But one player has discovered a brilliant Easter egg hidden inside the melody of one of the game’s major boss themes.
Raphael’s theme is composed in G minor, and its melody begins in this root note. However, it then moves to a C sharp.
This unique movement is known as a tritone, and it waspointed out recently by artist and Tumblr user, supertonicat.
The post goes on to explain a tritone is “the most dissonant interval,” and because of its “creepy” and “unsettling” quality it came to be “known in Western music as “the Devil’s Interval.”
That’s certainly an apt musical movement for a boss like Raphael — who’s literally a devil.
The discovery soon made its way to other social media sites too, with one Twitter user tagging in Slavovhas, calling him a “genius”.
For real?@Borislav_Slavov, you geniusThank youpic.twitter.com/6t81A52ccR
Despite clever Easter eggs like this one hidden in the game’s soundtrack, music was one of the only areas where Baldur’s Gate 3 failed to nab an award at therecent Game Awards.
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Eliana was formerly a staff writer on the Australian Dexerto team. A freelance journalist for a decade, she earned her master’s in international journalism from the University of Western Australia. She has written for a range of outlets and most recently served as a founding member of the editorial team for esports news and leaks website, BLIX.GG. A lover of JRPGs and strategy MOBAs, when she’s not writing you’ll most likely find her playing Dota 2 or FFXIV.
