Should You Save the Goblin Sazza

In Baldur's Gate 3, you should save Sazza in the Emerald Grove because there are many potential rewards in saving her. Read on to learn if you should save the goblin Sazza, how to save Sazza, and possible dialogue choices and outcomes for this side campaign.

Should You Save the Goblin Sazza?

It's much better to save Sazza, since there's a lot of potential rewards that you can get by saving her, and no benefits to letting her die.

1. No Benefits in Letting Her Die
2. Help Her Escape to Bypass Checks in Goblin Camp
3. Get Assassin's Touch by Completing her Quest
4. Get Achievement by Saving Her Three Times

No Benefits in Letting Her Die

There are no rewards to letting Sazza die. Some allies like Astarion will approve of the choice to let her die, but more will disapprove, and it's not worth it.

You'll miss out on a lot of potential rewards and benefits if you let her die, so it's much better to keep her alive at every chance you can.
Emerald Grove Maps and Points of Interest

Help Her Escape Emerald Grove to Bypass Checks in Goblin Camp

When you manage to save her in Emerald Grove and then help her sneak out, she'll return to the Goblin Camp. When you go to the Goblin Camp, instead of having to deal with the guards there, Sazza will vouch for you and allow you to get in without checks.

The same thing will happen with the guards in the Shattered Sanctum in the Goblin Camp.
Goblin Camp Maps and Points and Interest

Get Assassin's Touch by Completing her Save Quest

By completing the Save the Goblin Sazza quest, you'll gain the Assassin's Touch weapon.

You'll only be able to complete the quest and get the item if she stays alive until you peacefully meet with Minthara deep in the Shattered Sanctum.
How to Get Assassin's Touch

Get She Cannot Be Caged Achievement by Saving Her Three Times

The She Cannot Be Caged achievement can only be acquired by saving Sazza three times. The first one is saving her in Emerald Grove, while the second one is saving her from Minthara in the Shattered Sanctum.

The third instance where you can potentially save her is in Act 2, during the Infilitrate Moonlight Towers quest. During the scene where you get to decide her fate, defend her and release her to get the achievement.

This third instance is a bit hard to trigger and you'll need to have selected certain specific choices in Act 1 to keep her alive by Act 2.

Act 2: Infiltrate Moonrise Towers Walkthrough

Save the Goblin Sazza Quest Details

Journal Entry
Save the Goblin Sazza
Reward	Assassin's Touch
Related Quest	Find a Cure
Location
Emerald Grove

How to Save Sazza

To complete the Save the Goblin Sazza side quest, you'll need to save Sazza in Emerald Grove and help her escape, meet her in Goblin Camp, then save her once again against Minthara.

1. Locate Arka, Sazza, and Memnos
2. Stop Arka From Executing Sazza
3. Free Sazza from Her Cage
4. Escort Sazza in Escaping the Emerald Grove
5. Go to the Goblin Camp
6. Rescue Sazza from Minthara

Locate Arka, Sazza, and Memnos

The goblin Sazza can be found behind a makeshift wooden wall towards the back end of The Hollow in the Emerald Grove.

Approach the wall and open the door to witness a confrontation between Sazza, Arka, and Memnos.

Stop Arka From Executing Sazza

To stop Arka from executing Sazza, you will need to step between the crossbow and the goblin.

Doing so will progress the dialogue into the following skill checks.

Arka Dialogue
You! Move!
Dialogue Options	Dialogue Results
[PERSUASION (DC10)] No, shoot me. Should be easy, right?	Success: Arka begrudgingly relents and allows Sazza to live. Failure: Allows the MC to attempt a different skill check to convince Arka not to execute Sazza.
[PERSUASION (DC10)] This won't avenge Kanon. It won't change anything.
[INTIMIDATION (DC10)] Take your shot. Go on.	Success: Arka begrudgingly relents and allows Sazza to live. Failure: Arka and Memnos become temporarily hostile against the MC and the party.
[DETECT THOUGHTS (DC10)] Read the tiefling's thoughts.	Success:Unlocks a new dialogue option: “What would Kanon think of you now?” Selecting the new dialogue option guarantees Sazza's survival. Failure: Arka and Memnos become temporarily hostile against the MC and the party.

Succeeding in any of the skill checks will result in Sazza's survival, so if you're trying to save Sazza, be sure to attempt the skill check that you have the advantage in.

Free Sazza from Her Cage

After the tieflings leave the prison area, you are now free to help Sazza escape. Make sure that there's no one nearby, then lockpick the cage.

Talk to Sazza; there aren't any wrong choices here, so continue the conversation until she agrees to follow you as a companion.

Escort Sazza in Escaping the Emerald Grove

With Sazza now being your companion, you'll have to escort her out of the Emerald Grove. You'll have to go through the secret tunnel under Emerald Grove to avoid being seen by the tieflings and druids at the surface. Behind Sazza's cage, you should find a lower ledge that you could jump to. Enter the stone door that will be revealed with a Perception success.

Inside this secret tunnel, you need to protect Sazza from all the obstacles. Alongside the goblins that you have to defeat, there are Guardian Statues that will shoot your party until you activate the corresponding rune. Don't go rushing in as Sazza is pretty frail and will quickly die from these shots; split one member of the party that can tank a couple of hits to activate the runes.

After reaching the exit at the other end of the tunnel, Sazza will leave for the Goblin Camp, where she'll be waiting for you.

Go to the Goblin Camp

Follow Sazza into the front entrance of the Goblin Camp. She'll allow you to go through the guards without issue, which you won't be able to do if you didn't rescue her before going to the Goblin Camp.

Go deeper into the camp and enter the Shattered Sanctum. Sazza will also be there, allowing you to bypass the checks with the guards there who will normally be hostile against you.

Rescue Sazza from Minthara in the Shattered Sanctum

You'll next find Sazza by Minthara's side, deep in the Shattered Sanctum. Here, you'll be able to conclude the Save the Goblin Sazza quest. Talk to Sazza to start the conversation with Minthara, and you'll eventually be given a choice to support Sazza or throw her under the bus.

Sazza Dialogue
No! I mucked up, I'm sorry! But I didn't know who they woz... they didn't tell me nothin'!
Dialogue Options	Dialogue Results
Keep quiet.	Sazza will get dragged away to be fed to the spiders in the spider pit. You won't get any rewards.
I explained everything to her. She's just too stupid to understand.
She's telling the truth. She didn't know.	Sazza will be spared by Minthara. After your conversation with Minthara, you'll get the Assassin's Touch weapon as a reward.

There's only one choice to save Sazza from Minthara, which is to stand up to her, so select that choice. Afterwards, whatever choice you make with Minthara (even the ones that end up with you attacking her, including Sazza) will allow you to get the Assassin's Touch weapon at the end of the conversation.

If you wish to get the achievement to saving Sazza in Act 2, you'll need to end things favorably with Minthara, so avoid selecting the offensive 'I'll kill you' choices in this conversation.

Baldur's Gate 3 Related Guides

List of All Side Quests

Prologue Side Quests

All Prologue Side Quests
How to Free the Intellect Devourer	How to Free Shadowheart

Act 1 Side Quests

Druid's Grove Quests

Druid Grove Quests
How to Steal the Sacred Idol	Should You Save The Goblin Sazza?	How to Avoid Tiefling Pickpockets
Save the Refugees	How to Save Nadira	How to Save Mirkon
How to Save the First Druid Halsin	How to Open the Stone Slab	Request Help from Nettie
How to Investigate and Expose Kagha	Save Arabella	-

The Risen Road Quests

The Risen Road Quests
Find the Missing Shipment	How to Rescue the Grand Duke
Rescue the Trapped Man	How to Free Oskar Fevras

Blighted Village Quests

Blighted Village Quests
How to Beat the Goblins: Blighted Village	How to Open the Necromancy of Thay	How to Recruit the Ogres
How to Finish the Masterwork Weapon	That Barn: Avoid Killing Buthir	Rescue the Gnome and Stop the Windmill

Goblin Camp Quests

Goblin Camp Quests
How to Get Volo's Ersatz Eye	Defiled Temple Puzzle
Find the Nightsong	Ask the Goblin Priestess for Help

Nautiloid Crash Region Quests

Nautiloid Crash Region Quests
Dank Crypt Guide	The Dying Mind Flayer	Auntie Ethel Quest Guide
How to Get Owlbear Cub	Spiderling Nest Guide-	How to Open the Selunite Chest
How to Get Scratch	Should You Heal Pandirna	Underground Passage Guide

Underdark Quests

Underdark Quests
Arcane Tower Guide	Defeat the Duergar Intruders	Save the Grymforge Gnomes
Find the Adamantine Forge	Deliver Nere's Head	How to Find the Mushroom Picker
How to Cure the Poisoned Gnome	Help the Cursed Monk	Omeluum Location

Mountain Pass Quests

Mountain Pass Quests
Steal a Githyanki Egg	How to Beat Gremishkas	How to Access Guardian of Faith Room
Dawnmaster Puzzle Guide	Where to Find the Githyanki Creche	-

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Act 2 Side Quests

Last Light Inn Quests

Last Light Inn Quests
Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse	Rescue the Tieflings	Rescue Wulbren
How to Lift the Shadow Curse: Where to Find Thaniel	Find Zevlor	Help He Who Was
Investigate the Selûnite Resistance	-	-

Gauntlet of Shar Quests

Gauntlet of Shar Quests
Gauntlet of Shar: All Trials and Umbral Gems	Kill Raphael's Old Enemy

Mind Flayer Colony Quests

Mind Flayer Colony Quests
How to Solve the Necrotic Laboratory

Act 3 Side Quests

Rivington Quests

Rivington Quests
Investigate the Suspicious Toys	Solve the Open Hand Temple Murders	Find the Missing Letters
How to Get to Wyrm's Rock Fortress	How to Find Dribbles the Clown	-

Lower City Quests

Lower City Quests
How to Get to the House of Hope	How to Get to Cazador's Palace	Rescue Orin's Victim
Aid the Underduke	How to Get to the House of Grief	Investigate the Murders