Celestial Fury
A long time ago, on the Baldur’s Gate 2 newsgroup, one Westley Weimer remarked about the weapon Celestial Fury something to the effect of:
If Demogorgon dropped Celestial Fury when he died, I’d pick it up and go ‘oh, that seems about right.
— My fuzzy memory, sometime around 2002
Demogorgon is one of the most powerful monsters in that game. Demogorgon is an optional boss optionally fought at the bottom of an optional dungeon which has two rewarding optional alternate defeats and gives you a huge pile of experience and no loot. Demogorgon is one of the hardest fights in the game, and he gives you, in return for that difficulty, dick nothing.
But if he’d given you Celestial Fury, that would be a pretty reasonable drop.
So what the heckadilly is Celestial Fury?
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