Larian Studios sings a Baldur's Gate 3 Christmas carol, and it's a real earworm

With the holiday season now fully upon us, Larian Studios has decided to mark the imminent arrival of Christmas with a cute, all-original carol inspired by Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s very catchy—in fact, I’ll bet that once it’s in your head, you’re going to have a tough time getting it out.

Tadpoles, in the context of the song, are basically illithid larva, which enter the skull through the nose, eyes, or ears (I told you it’s a real earworm), and then burrows into the brain, eats it, and replaces it with its own tissue, annihilating the victim’s mind and triggering dramatic physical mutations as well. The process is known as ceremorphosis, and it’s how the illithid—also know as mind flayers—procreate.