Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Concerning Tav.

So apparently the Voice Actors for Tav didn't know his name was Tav, could it be something else?

You can name custom characters whatever you want.

Everyone knows that but thats not what i was asking.

You asked if “Tav’s” name could be something else. . .

I answered Yes.

I’m confused as to what you think you were asking, because I’m not seeing a lot of ways to interpret this question.

Gustav?
Wich was codename for the game?

Interesting i did not know that.

It would be really weird if somebody found out their female elf wasn’t named what they entered in the character creation screen, but was actually Gustav.


The reason the Voice Actors didn’t know Tav’s name is because Tav doesn’t have a canonical name, so “Tav” doesn’t appear anywhere in the script.


If you are suggesting that the custom created character might have a secret name other than what we enter, no, that won’t be a thing.


But I’m not really sure what this topic is about.

S/he’s talking about cannon name and that Tav is a place holder. BG1 and 2 used Adian(sp) at character creation like Tav is currently being used.

No, I mean I’m not sure what they mean by could the name be something else. OP hasn’t made that clear.

And Adrian was not in BG1 and 2 character creation. There was no character creation placeholder name in those games. You had the option to jump right into the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion with a pre-generated save file that used Abdel Adrian as the player character and he can be selected as a pre-generated character in the Enhanced Editions of the game.

Indeed ... but it was codename for game, not character.
Maybe thats the way the name was created ... they wanted some gender-neutral version of their game codename.

To be honest I never seen much reason behind this code names ... I mean if you are afraid that someone will leak that they are working on Baltimore's Gate 3 ... how is calling it project Gustav helping?
Same person can leak that they are working on game that is set in Faerun, with such Races and Classes ... so there is no doubt it's based on DnD.
Of course I know there's several branches this description would fit ... but still.

Ah ... dunno ... the best explanation seems to be that game developers are superstitious and don't want to celebrate too early.