This quest is tied with the absolute family Brynna, Andrick and their dying brother.
He got attacked by an owlbear in the cave you can tell them to avenge their brother but I do not recommend this they could kill the cub(I did not try it yet and if I try the Mama Owl will probably kill them anyway) so I kill them myself.

The cave is located near the place you met the Absolute brother and sister from the other event which I kill them and it is below scratch. In this cave you will also see a Selune statue and 1 free speak with animal potions so go grab it.
Once you move near the Nest the mama bear will call you out and threaten you(If you have speak with animal you will understand the situation better.) You can choose peaceful choices like telling her you mean no harm or intimidate her or the worst(best) choice is to kill her(I did this.) If you kill her you need to spare the cub. You will see him getting hungry then feeds on his dead mother or if you did not engage with them at all the goblins will come and get the cub off-screen by some times after you long rest. TBH I recommend you to kill her because I'm a MONSTER.








Look how sad it is :(



some pictures if you don't have speaks with animal on


If you walks near it for the 2nd time it will attack you but before that it will stand up to show that it's strong.(Fierce monster does not mean it's strong tho you'll learn about that soon enough.)



Same pic

Once you're in goblins camp you'll see the cub there with a Goblin named Krolla.(She won't let you play the chicken game if Volo still there so do something about it.)

If you talk to her she will talk about the chicken game. You can call her out that the cub isn't chicken(this won't affect anything she'll still let you play the game.)

next, you need to play the game with her. Then you need to wait for her timer to start then talk to the cub.(I was wrong you DO NOT NEED to play the chicken game you can just talk to Krolla again and tell her to release the cub but you need to tell her that you won't play the game tho.)



Do not tell him to attack the goblins he won't survive because the whole camp will go after him.

Now if everybody's ready if you talk to the cub he will tell you to chase him but instead tell him to go to the goal.




If you free him.(By intimidating Krolla or whatever choices you choose.) He will be super happy and jumping like that




If you tell him to follow your scent to your camp before he will bail out as soon as you finish the conversation with Krolla and he will go to your camp after some long rest. If not you can just go to him and tell him that.
-You cannot get Owlbear cub in ACT3 so basically you need to invite him before traversing to the
Shadowfell
-some pics of him if you don't have speak with animal on




There's another way to skip all the Goblins camp section by just poison their liquor at goblins camp(near the teleportor) and the cub will go to your camp after some long rest. Or you can just kill all the goblins outside before you interact with the cub.
If you choose to do it this way you don't even need to tell the cub that you welcome him at camp which is the way I prefer.

-You cannot get Owlbear cub in ACT3 so basically you need to invite him before traversing to the
Shadowfell

After some long rest he will arrive there at your camp.(Speak with animal is recommended you do not NEED it to get the cub but it is better to have, lore wise.) asking for food.(I'm pretty sure that he thinks you're food as he's seen his dead mother as a food.)
As far as I know he will always come after your GUARDIAN CUTSCENE.


You can choose any options here TBH just don't get charged at or choose to attack him.(Which should not be picked)

-If you throw him food he'll eat then standing up as he wants more.

-If you hold the food in your hand he'll walk toward you.

-If you choose the first option which is hand him the food he will eat it and then you companion will scare him away.(Despite giving him food the only option that he get to eat your food is to throw him the food. If you pick any other options from the same category your companion will interrupt and the cub will bail out as soon as he sees them.)
-If you choose to eat it yourself The cub will get angry and will start charging at you.

-You need to dodge (Dex check)or Calm him down(Persuasion check) and he will stop and say sorry? friend? but as you already know your companion will just scare him away again same as you choose to just feed him easily.

-You can also ask him that is he injured or not he will say that he is strong and BIG.(Obviously he's not)
-Now you have 4 choices the 3rd choice should not be picked but the 4th is kinda okay(No approval if you pick that tho.)
if you pick the 1st choice he will take your sarcastic compliment too serious and will call you BIG friend right off the bat.(He will still got scared by our companion tho.)
-If you pick the 2nd choice He will also wanna show you how strong he is by attacking you. DODGE(DEX check) or Persuade him(PERSUASION check)

This is the same as you eat the food yourself when you show food to him.(IDK what is wrong with this species they always think they are STRONG but the thing is... They're not they're just popular. The way that he thinks he's strong maybe the reason why his brother got killed and eaten by his own mother.) <-spoiler should watch this later.
-Some pictures of your companion rushing to ruin the scene because they can. :)


The 3rd option of the "are you injured" option is the worst you will start a combat immediately after you pick that and you need to reload your save or lost him FOREVER.(Knock him out is okay but he will be a soulless doll in your camp i never try moving to another map tho because I reload my save.)

-You can also just shoo the cub away if you want but he will call you Bad and mean.(I ALWAYS CHOOSE THIS OPTION it doesn't matter he will be back after some long rest anyway.)
KARLACH will always disapprove this option because she likes the cub but other will be neutral about it. Also look how DESPERATE he is HAHA.
https://youtu.be/jr6zHLtbGO8

-Hoot



-1.Give him food


-Toss the food to him.


-If you hold the food he will walk toward you to eat it.(The companion will scare him away he didn't even finish the meal.)

-If you choose to eat that food. He will be angry and charge at you.


Now you need to dodge or persuade him not to attack you.

-If you dodge. He will charge toward you and running away from your camp.

-If you persuade him. He will stop and tilt his head.

-2.Beckon him closer
He will tilt his head if you choose to feed him see the 1st section of this section.

if you choose to stand right where you are he will walk toward you.

If you choose to walk to him he will attack you now you need to dodge or tell him to stop just like the first section.

Anything you did don't matter your companion will scare him away anyway.(Unless you start a combat with him.)




-Yeah... Gale....

-You cannot get Owlbear cub in ACT3 so basically you need to invite him before traversing to the
Shadowfell
He's back again after 3 or more long rest sometimes(could be just 1 long rest depending on your progression. could also be the night after 1st encounter.) but this time he's injured.
But as you can see. He looks happy in the first pic for some reason as if he's not injured.

-If you sinisterly shoo him away he will disappear forever





https://youtu.be/Etk8iVZ_2qs
If you tell him you'll see his wound he will show it to you and any check in this case should help him.
Make sure you're not shooing him away again or leave him be.(He will disappear FOREVER.)
-If you help him.
This will be shown when you're healing him.(MEDICINE CHECK.)

STRONG FIGHT WIN? that's probaby not happening bro. You're leaving the fight injured and coming to my camp bro. and if you ask if he killed his enemy he will say NO. So that's obviously he's lying and just want a free food without doing anything himself.

https://youtu.be/2yr46JJMCbs
https://youtu.be/vSboBKkR3xg
https://youtu.be/hea-CLWNKqQ
-If you say "Gods. Not even fully grown and you're already trouble."
He will say "Not Trouble! Show you!"

https://youtu.be/ieU97idt7-U

-If you tell him to go on.(doesn't matter if you pick it before or after asking him what happen also to hear him say this you might just pick that option right away because any other option will lead to the one that he's jumping or we criticize him about he's making troubles even though he not mature yet.)

https://youtu.be/I_ygZCTZi5g
He will be super happy about the deeds you did to him. He will personally call your camp Home! and call you friend after you pet him for the first time.(and Nice and NO BITE!.)

In the next morning if you have Speak with animal on. He will greet you and tell you that you're not food you are friend.(and made ridiculously stupid face while saying it.)

For some times He will come to your camp.(again) but now in need of healing.

TBH it is easier to tame him without animal speaking you will skip the "Let me see your wound" dialog completely and he will show you his injured limb right away.
(He sounds like he cried too in this scene.)




Now. you can choose anything besides Attack him or leave him be

IF you choose to inspect the wound you'll notice that it is Gnoll that attack him.(Or he attack the Gnoll idk but he got that would from Gnoll.)




It will completely skip your dialog with Fat birb and your companion will complain about taming this creature.

If you talk to the cub afterward He will "*Chirrup!*"
If you pet him he will "*Coo.*"

after some long rest, you'll hear some animal noises and you should choose to investigate the noise.(because why not?) and you'll see that scratch's sleeping with the cub.that is the cub's noise because he has a bad dream about goblins impaling him at camp. Scratch is there just to calm him down.

You can also learn that the cub once has a brother but he got eaten by his mom.(Imagine if you or Goblins didn't help him from his mom.)Now, you need to choose you're both welcome here and pet both animals at the same time!(Scratch will say THANK YOU.)

After this cutscene, you will unlock “You Have Two Hands for a Reason” Achievement and now you can pet both animals!!!
Also if you have seen this cutscene the cub will always running after Scratch like he's scratch little brother but he'll stop running in act 2 and act 3 for some reason.(He's fat and always hungry so I will assume that he wanna use less energy as possible.)

BEST FRIEND!




The differences are you won't know that the cub has a nightmare, about the cub's brother, and you can pet the animals one by one.(If you have speak with animal you'll pet both animals at once.)

-If you don't have speak with animal


If you pet him

If you pick the 2nd option.


-Speak with animal on.
If you talk to him after he was in your camp he will always has these 3 dialogs which is not great.(at least for me.)
First, He will talks about how tasty you are when you talk to him and he will pull his head up like he prouds of himself for not attacking us.(Also He made "THE ROCK" face while saying that.)

Now you can choose to pet the cub, asks how he's faring in the camp, and telling him that he'll be around with us until he's not. :)
If you pet him.
If you ask that he likes your camp.(Even though it should like months from the 1st act he still repeat this dialog if you ask him this very same question.)
if you 're telling him you're stuck with him.
-if you SIDE WITH TIEFLINGS and the GROVE
He will also comment about the tieflings when you invite them to your camp.
First he will say "Red people, Blood people."
If you talk to him again he will say "Back! Bite? No...(Probably because he doesn't like strangers.)
-if you SIDE WITH GOBLINS
He will say "Captors here, Why?"

If you talk to him again he will say "Bite them. Kill THEM?

Even though I didn't let the Goblins capture him he will still says something about Goblins capture him and something about Goblins camp which is weird as in my latest play through I didn't go in the owlbear cave at all and finish the whole goblins camp without Long rest.

-What will happen if scratch died?
If Scratch died somehow he will be sad but you can cheer him up by petting him again. (Scratch needs to die to trigger this conversation it won't work if you give up Scratch to his mean owner you could try a quicksave then kill Scratch and see what happens to the cub if you want and don't forget to reload the save you don't want good doggo to die, right?)

As you can see he has Darkvision up to 40 metres, Opportunity attack, and Skittish(He will flee after badly injured.)
He has very low hit points so do not fight in your camp.(If the fight has cutscene just like in act 3 He will disappear so don't worry but the previous act should not have that kind of cutscene in camp so.)

In the final battle he will appear there with the bros if you rescue the cub and Dammon is alive.
He will repeat 3 voice lines again and again and again.(Randomly.) :)




Dammon will tell you that he create a drug without your knowledge and the cub ate it without hesitation. :)

Look at his stat it looks good but it's mediocre. 19 AC? yikes. he will return to his former self for sometimes or if he dies.(I used cheat engine to see what happened it took him around 5 attacks then he revert to little cub form) so he's not that good but obviously better than nothing, right?

When I first see him grow this large it's like I see my own child grows up and that makes me very proud of him.(Not really.)

-If Dammon died he will appear as a normal owlbear unarmored.(Don't look at the above section I just kill Dammon just to see what will happen.)
-If Dammon's alive he will be fully armored in the high hall and will be back armored in the epilogue.(Even if he lost the armor in the final battle he'll still appear as armored owlbear OFC if he didn't die then.)
-If you talk to him he will be excited that we come and say


He doesn't look difference at all it's either he's wearing armor or not and a little change of 1 dialogue if he has the armor.

The first time you pet him in this dialogue. You, for some reason, will be invisible.(probably a bug.)
but if you talk to him again then pet him you'll see the body.
-If you tell him that he's bigger than Scratch now

-If you ask him that wither invite him he will say

Freeloader then freeloader now. Nothing changed.
-If you ask him what he's been doing since the last incident
-If he's armored

-If he's not

SADGE
-If you ask him 3 question he will say he's tired now you'll have more options for the dialog but in this save I do not have halsin with me so he cannot be with Halsin.(Also these dialogues are one-time answer if you wanna see the other options outcome you'll have to reload the save but don't worry I've got ya.)

-If you tell him to go with Shadowheart he'll call her Nice lady and he'll be super happy about going with her.


-If you tell him to sleep here

-If you say STOP WHINNING


the 2nd and 3rd options are the same. Same outcome but you can choose to be mean or not up to you.

-If you tell him to go with Shadowheart then talk to him again



-If you pet him



-If you don't invite him to Shadowheart then talk to him again(Scratch's alive)

-like above option but scratch died


some pic of his idle animations
-Sleep with big brother Scratch!

-Playing with the firefly





-Shadowheart reaction if you tell her about it

Let's wrap this up, folks. I enjoy playing this game so much I see great amount of effort Larians Studios put on this game. Even with all these bug we've encountered but they always end with good endings so if you can't unlock the achievement somehow make sure you update your game.
This is my first time writing a guide if you have any question please feel free to ask. Sorry for bad English tho it's not my first Language.

And Enjoy your game!
and for every person who read my guide.


BTW there's new mod that you can summon Owlbear cub as a familiar.(He doesn't die for real if he die as a familiar.)

This is the link to that mod https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/3943?tab=description
SHOUT OUT to Aetherpoint for creating this wonderful mod.