Baldur's Gate 3 Stats: Zevlor Died 12.3 Million Times

The top name on Larian's chart of the Baldur's Gate 3 story NPCs who died most is not a villain. It is Zevlor, the tiefling leader at the Emerald Grove, who died 12.31 million times by Larian's count. Rolan, the aspiring wizard first met in the same grove, is second at 8.62 million.

Those are the headline numbers from Larian's third-anniversary stats, posted on 4 August 2026 as a five-image thread on Bluesky and mirrored on the Latest News board of Larian's forums. It is not a one-off: Community Update #35 ran a "Baldur's Gate 3 In Numbers" set for the second anniversary in 2025, and referred back to celebrating "the big numbers" the year before. Most of this year's categories are new, and below is every figure in the set, with what bg3.wiki says about the characters, weapons and systems behind them.

One caveat before the numbers. Larian publishes them without method notes. The thread does not say which platforms are counted, how a death or a use is defined, or whether a death the player then reloaded away still counts. Read them as Larian's own tallies, and note that only some of them count players; others count deaths, kills, uses, combats, saves or downloads, and the Netherbrain weapon chart gives no unit at all.

The whole set at a glance

The full NPC and Netherbrain charts are broken out below. Larian also ranked the regions where players most often got the party drunk before a fight: the Shadow-Cursed Lands, then the Lower City, then Wyrm's Crossing. The two aspect-ratio figures come with no explanation beyond Larian's "Kinda weird, but not judging". A 9:16 frame is taller than it is wide, so those 9,008 players were playing in portrait.

The six story NPCs who died most

Larian's caption counts deliberate kills and "accidents" alike, and its one footnote is about an accident: 2.1 million players "accidentally" flung Barcus Wroot from a windmill, against his 2.66 million deaths. The footnote counts players rather than deaths, but set against that total it is roughly four in five. The deaths column is Larian's; the last column is what each character's bg3.wiki page documents.

Larian's 2025 set has a number that sits behind Zevlor's: Community Update #35 said just over 5% of players got through without any tiefling refugee meeting an untimely death. Zevlor leads those refugees, and his bg3.wiki page documents deaths from the Grove in Act One to the final battle.

Volo got a line of his own in Larian's thread: "Not sure what Volo did to you all to deserve this." Larian does not break any of the six down by cause beyond the Barcus footnote.

Dark Urge players led only on Isobel

Larian's second chart takes five NPCs and shows what share of their kills came from players on a Dark Urge run.

Of the five, only Isobel's kills came mostly from Dark Urge runs, and bg3.wiki shows a reason. If Isobel survives the fight with Marcus, Sceleritas Fel appears at camp to task the Urge with her death, and killing her grants the Lunar Eclipse inspiration. Our Dark Urge guide covers that fork and what Slayer form is worth.

Alfira at 48% got a post of its own in Larian's thread: more non-Dark Urge players have murdered her than Dark Urge players. That is despite a scripted kill. On a Dark Urge run, bg3.wiki says, she visits camp when the party prepares to long rest after crossing the bridge to the Blighted Village, and the party wakes to find her killed by the Urge's own hands. The wiki's way to keep her alive is to knock her out in the Emerald Grove before that rest, in which case the dragonborn bard Quil takes her place.

The chart does not explain the other three, and neither does the wiki: bg3.wiki's pages for Zevlor, Wulbren Bongle and Popper do not mention the Dark Urge. Wulbren is the Ironhand gnome leader held in Moonrise Towers Prison in Act Two; Popper is the kobold at the Circus of the Last Days in Rivington who sells items he has looted from corpses. Larian also does not say what share of all campaigns were Dark Urge runs, so the chart cannot tell you whether Urge players kill these characters more often than anyone else.

What players took to the Netherbrain

Larian's chart labels the bars with numbers only, so it does not say whether they count attacks, turns or fights. What the list does show:

• Only two of the five are legendary. The other three are rare or very rare.
• Three come from Act Three locations. The Steel Watch Foundry, the Dragon's Sanctum and Wyrm's Rock Fortress are all Act Three locations on bg3.wiki. The Hellfire Hand Crossbow comes from the Gauntlet of Shar in Act Two.
• The Staff of the Emperor is the odd one. bg3.wiki lists it as the Emperor's own staff, and the way it gives for players to take it is disarming the Emperor in the Astral Plane, during the move from Act Two to Act Three, with a disarming effect that works on allies. Larian's chart does not say whose hands those 22.6 million were in.

Gontr Mael and Balduran's Giantslayer both get full write-ups in our legendary weapons guide.

The drunk and the salami

34,204 players faced the Netherbrain drunk with the Punch-Drunk Bastard equipped. bg3.wiki lists it as a rare +1 greatclub from a chest at the Waning Moon in Act Two. Its Tippler's Rage passive gives Advantage on attack rolls while you are drunk, plus a 1d4 Thunder blast in a 3-metre radius on each melee hit. The wiki also flags a bug that works for you: the Advantage applies to any attack roll the wielder makes, throws and spell attacks included. Larian suspects Drunken Master Monks are partly behind the drinking.

There is also a salami drawn into Larian's weapon chart, and the thread jokes that some players brought "a charcuterie board" to the brain. It is a real option. bg3.wiki lists Salami as a one-handed club that deals 1d4 Bludgeoning damage and can still be eaten for 6 camp supplies.

The rare-weapon cards

Larian's thread congratulates players on finding the game's rarer weapons, and one card covers four of them:

• The Blood of Lathander was used in combat 670,474,592 times by players who found it. Larian says that despite sitting in an optional region, it is one of the top two weapons of choice across the game. bg3.wiki places the legendary +3 mace on a locked altar in the Secret Chamber of Crèche Y'llek, in Act One. The legendary weapons guide covers what it does.
• The Twist of Fortune was used across 28,208,396 combats. It is a rare +1 morningstar carried by Gerringothe Thorm at the Reithwin Tollhouse in Act Two. Its Blood Money weapon action deals extra Piercing damage equal to your proficiency bonus for every 300 gold the target carries, and consumes that gold; it recharges on a short rest. Larian's card asks whether players were reverse-pickpocketing gold into enemies' inventories first, and bg3.wiki's notes describe exactly that against bosses. The wiki's worked example: a target carrying 99,999 gold, hit by a level 9 character, takes about 1,330 damage and is left with around 99 gold.
• The Nut-Buster was used as a weapon in two combats in the Crèche. It is a common miscellaneous item worth 1 gold, and its in-game description, quoted on bg3.wiki, calls it "a charming little rock".
• The Poo-Scraper was used in combat four times across Act Three. It is a non-magical dagger that deals 1d4 Piercing damage and is worth 2 gold.

The last two come from the same place. bg3.wiki puts both in a Mouldering Casket in the Apothecary's Cellar under the Blighted Village, an Act One location, among the possessions of Shovel, the quasit familiar. So the Poo-Scraper's four Act Three fights happened a long way from where the wiki says it is found.

Gold, statues, saves and supplies

Gold. Less than 1% of players obtained around 180,000 gold in a single playthrough, and less than 1% spent over 120,000 gold. Larian converts the spending into roughly 24 nude statues from Stoney and Boney at the Circus, and the maths matches bg3.wiki: Boney sells a statue of the player character for 5,000 gold. Per the wiki, you can have it armed, in camp clothing or nude, and it stays at camp and gives the character it depicts a permanent Sweet Stone Features condition.

Camp supplies. 5% of players were holding over 2,000 camp supplies when they finally took a long rest, and 1% had over 4,000 in their inventories. bg3.wiki puts the cost of a long rest at 40 supplies, or 80 on Tactician.

If that is you, our beginner guide makes the case for resting more often.

Saves. A handful of players made 560+ manual saves in a single playthrough, and an even smaller handful made 1,400+ quicksaves. bg3.wiki's Options page lists a cap on stored quicksaves, 25 per campaign by default and adjustable from 1 to 50, and no equivalent cap for manual saves. At the current maximum of 50, a campaign keeps a small fraction of 1,400 quicksaves.

Mods: 500 million downloads

Larian's card puts mod downloads at 500 million and mods uploaded at 13K. Larian's forum post credits both mods pictured to wa_rouk: the Bald Mod, shown on Lae'zel, and the Car Wildshape Mod.

Mods are the one category that appears in the same form in both Larian's 2025 and 2026 sets; the 2025 card used the same layout, with 8.5K uploads. Community Update #35, on 4 August 2025, counted over 8,500 mods uploaded to mod.io and 265 million downloads since mod support arrived in September 2024.

Downloads nearly doubled in a year, and uploads rose by roughly half. The 2026 card shows Xbox, PlayStation and PC icons beside the upload count, but Larian does not split either figure by platform.

Quick reference

• Most deaths, story NPCs: Zevlor 12.31 million, Rolan 8.62 million, Isobel 7.20 million, Volo 4.62 million, Barcus Wroot 2.66 million (2.1 million players flung him from the windmill), Alfira 2.62 million.
• Share of kills from Dark Urge players: Isobel 62%, Zevlor 49%, Alfira 48%, Wulbren Bongle 32%, Popper 30%. More non-Dark Urge players killed Alfira than Dark Urge players did.
• Weapons used to defeat the Netherbrain: Gontr Mael 33.4 million, Balduran's Giantslayer 25.5 million, Staff of the Emperor 22.6 million, Gortash's Fabricated Arbalest 20.3 million, Hellfire Hand Crossbow 19.6 million. 34,204 players did it drunk with the Punch-Drunk Bastard.
• Rare weapons: the Blood of Lathander was used in combat 670,474,592 times, the Twist of Fortune in 28,208,396 combats, the Poo-Scraper 4 times in Act Three and the Nut-Buster in 2 Crèche combats.
• Hoarding: under 1% obtained around 180,000 gold in a playthrough and under 1% spent over 120,000; 5% held 2,000+ camp supplies at a long rest and 1% held 4,000+.
• Saving: 560+ manual saves and 1,400+ quicksaves in a single playthrough, each by a handful of players.
• Mods: 500 million downloads and 13K uploaded, against 265 million and over 8,500 a year earlier.
• Aspect ratios: 9,008 players in 9:16 and 114 in 1:1.
• Larian gives no method notes. Only some figures count players; others count deaths, kills, uses, combats, saves or downloads.