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The only reason I doubt that is that if they were to declare a canon they'd already erase most player choices...so the custom character will likely be it, mentioned in some generic term like Saviour of Baldur's Gate or some such so when listening to it people could think "oh yeah, that was my character".

But with that said, I don't think a canon will ever be declared at all for BG3 because this is it, this is the end of the story of the dead three and this story, there will no more sequels. If there are to be other Baldur's Gate games they will be entirely unrelated stories with all new characters, etc. So BG3 will most likely be left open ended in terms of canon, with no defined main hero and plot results...whatever happened will be left to the imagination of the players and whatever paths they best liked.

We've been in the EA for a very long time, a lot a lot of concepts have come up. Here's one of the times the concept of the main character transitioning between character after their personal story ended.


And for good measure here's another involving a theory around Shadowhearts memories. We've seen 'Blondheart' officially in one of the trailers, which I haven't fully factored, it seems a bit past the point for wild speculation now.

Considering people have floated her being the long dead daughter of Thorm, to a brainwashed avatar of Selune, how the story can twist to fit what you want your 'canon' class after the fact seems moot. I think the canon classes will be exactly what they seem on the tin, even if a novelization comes out later how about the adventures of Abdel McTavendish.

Uh when?

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Shadowheart origins poll



Shadowheart as Thorms daughter has poped up a number of places. I think it was in my attempt to make a timeline that I learned that the book you could find in the grove referencing Thorms daughter was removed from the EA, so who knows what'll become of that plot thread.

Are you referring to the meme post from yesterday?

The ashen handed cleric in one of the trailers isn't shadowheart. She was mentioned in the pfh

Ah, you mean Blondheart, no she's not Shadowheart, but she's certainly related to her. Her story if nothing else.

That's fine, you don't have to get it, enjoy it, or even participate in it. That doesn't mean it can't be fun to experience how the developers planned for these characters to mechanically develop. I'm only talking about leveling up, at no point have I been talking about story decisions, or any of the other questions that have cropped up in this thread. Though, the multiclassing discussion has been interesting. This is also meant for a Custom Character play through, not an Origin Character play through. Sometimes I just like to see how another character was meant to develop outside of what I would make them.

I was answering the question of , is the correct Revan male. Yes, canon Revan is male. My Revan was always female, and while I did a lightside playthrough, I prefer darkside. It's not wrong, it's just not canon. I'm not clear why you need to relate. This is not an option you're interested, that's clear. That also doesn't help with the question if it's an option that exists, though, I increasingly suspect it doesn't.

I don’t think there is any canonical progression for any of the characters. I don’t know why there would be.

The only reason I considered it is because Baldur's Gate had it, and it was something I was interested in, because why not?

You can consider it, sure, but I am pretty sure it is a question without an answer.

This is not 'Nam, Warlocke. This is BG3, there are rules.

There are rules out in the bush.
*squints into the sunset and takes a long drag on a bent cigarette*

The original Baldur's Gate use 2nd edition rules. There where a lot fewer options.

There was no "canon" Revan until the comic adaptation, around three years after the game was published. As conceived for the video game, Revan had any gender and appearance, and three main endings to KOTOR had equal status (one ending was cut before launch). KotOR 2 made a point of not contradicting any potential version of the original story.

And of course, anything to do with Revan has been declared "legends" and there is no canon version of the character now.

If I choice beastmaster subclass for Minsc will he have a giant hamster animal companion?