In Baldur’s Gate 3, Soul Coins have a few distinct uses:
- Empowering Karlach: This is arguably the most impactful use. If you have Karlach as a companion, she can consume a Soul Coin to activate her Infernal Engine, granting her the Infernal Fury condition until her next Long Rest. This enhances her attacks, adding 1-4 fire damage to her melee attacks while raging or when her HP is below 25%. This damage can potentially stack, dealing 2d4 fire damage with unarmed attacks under the Infernal Fury buff.
- Draining Life: You can spend one of the Soul Coin’s three charges as an action to drain a creature’s life force, gaining 1d10 temporary hit points.
- Querying the Soul: You can use an action to expend a charge and telepathically question the soul trapped within the coin. The soul will answer truthfully and to the best of its ability, but its knowledge is limited to what it knew in life, and the answer will be brief and potentially cryptic.
- Selling: Soul Coins are valuable and can be sold to vendors for a good amount of gold.
- Currency in Avernus: Soul Coins are a form of currency used in the Nine Hells, also known as Avernus. This is less of an in-game mechanic and more of a lore element.
- Each Soul Coin is infused with a tormented soul.
- Non-evil creatures carrying more Soul Coins than their Constitution modifier will suffer penalties on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws. Evil creatures are unaffected.
- You cannot free the souls within Soul Coins in Baldur’s Gate 3, though this is possible in Dungeons and Dragons lore.
What do you do with the soul coin in Baldur’s Gate 3?
Great question! There is no way in the game to free the souls. You can feed them to Karlach or sell them. There’s no other function.
Should I just sell soul coins in BG3?
You Shouldn’t Sell Soul Coins In Baldur’s Gate 3
Once the option arises in game, giving Soul Coins to Karlach allows her to get an extra boost of power in combat, which could be the deciding factor in a tight battle with a Baldur’s Gate 3 boss or a last stand against hordes of enemies.
How does a soul coin work?
From my experience, A creature in possession of a soul coin could use its innate powers. The coin could be used to drain the life of a target creature. Another ability was that the soul inside the coin could be communicated with telepathically. It would answer questions but often gave vague answers.
How to exchange soul stones for soul coins?
Note: The Soul Shop is the only place where you can get Jet. You get Soul Coins by exchanging Soul Stones of absolute evolution heroes. The exchange rate is 1 Soul Stone = 100 Soul Coins. Once you open the shop, the game will offer you to trade the excessive Soul Stones.