After extensive research, I have found that there is no unifying creation myth for humans. The most I got from the origins of humanity is that we were one of the 5 original creator races that inhabited the ancient world, alongside the Aearee (Bird People), the Batrachi (Amphibian People), the Sarrukh (Lizard People) and the Fey. All the other races who came to Toril/Abeir was the result of gods placing them thereafter they were created.
I also read a legend that apparently when Asmodeus was still an angel he was the angel of a god known as He Who Was, who reportedly created humans, then Asmodeus killed him during the Dawn War and we've been up for grabs ever since. Again hard to tell the truth with Asmodeus.
I wonder if this why only Humans of all the mortal races are the ones who have managed to obtain divinity/godhood in some form or other as a handout to level the playing field. Still interesting topic.

I've been having a dig around in the books.000 file to get the raw text of the lore books and came across a couple of Thelyron's diaries and a whole text in German. I don't recall seeing these in the game itself and the length of the German text is really unusual. Does anyone know if these texts made it into the game, or were they cut?

Creativity and imagination are the greatest weapons that any RPG can utilise to make a great game. Especially if they are adapting a tabletop RPG like DnD. High-level spells like Wish can be game-breaking if implemented poorly it is true, but I have rarely played many adventures where the characters reach that level of power, most games I have played have ended with the party at level 10 or 15 at most and rarely reach the 20 level margin where you suffer the Superman effect, of where your characters are so ridiculously powerful what could conceivably and realistically challenge them.

Several people have reported this problem, at least in a couple cases with his former master showing up dead in the cave after being healed.

Cyberpunk 2077 will be released in November and it would be commercial suicide to go up against it. That leaves BG3 a 3-month window between early access in August and possible earliest full release in October the way I see it. Given a Larian lead designer recently stated there would be a "massive, massive amount of things to do", possibly X-Mas would be more realistic or this time next year even! Loads of games coming out by then. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is likely releasing sometime before Cyberpunk. Not too impressed with what I've seen so far, but liked the Troika original.

[And it is this that bothers me the most about this game. I know some people here want to label me as just a TB hater, but the whole TB combat system issue is actually quite far down my list of things that bother me about this game, which in rank-order are:
Game is being made for co-op play firstly, and single-player is very much secondary
Game looks and feels too much like D:OS (this issue thankfully seems to be going away)
Poor/uninspired crop of companions
Party size reduction to four
TB combat[/quote]

I dont agree with you there...
Turn based because its what Larian do anyway - they always wanted to do the next D&D game & turn based is what D&D is - it may not be what BG1 & 2 are but thats from 20 years past & now its another developers vision (& I suspect WOTC - if they thought RTWP was the thing to do then they'd be doing it ...).

How can you make any serious judgement on the companions with what we've seen so far ? give it a chance first....

Im happy with 4 party members but I can understand those who want larger parties - I think looking at the game itself they are just going to deep to allow for 6 i.e cost to much - then again maybe with enough feedback by release of the finished game 6 might be in ...

Clearly you care about the game - maybe you'll become a TB convert - or failing that you'll have a better idea of what might be improved in EA - I think Larian are trying (after that last interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun) to speed combat up abit & find some middle ground so its got a broader appeal. With any luck we wont have to long to wait & find out..

Why? Has it been confirmed as DX12 only for Windows?

Don't forget that it is also a Stadia game, which means it works on Linux using Vulkan. It may even require Vulkan on Windows, unless Larian have said otherwise.

You weren't the one deleting floods of spam.