I assume everything thats relevant will be explained in game, onces there's a game. So far we haven't hit a town yet, and it'd be weird if randos in a druid grove or goblin fort were sitting around exposition dumping about the last century? I expect once we hit a town with a library there'll be books and scholars arguing like BG/Kingmaker/PoE/tyranny/etc did lore, maybe even the evil fortress we;re headed to next. But I wouldn't expect the wilderness to have it.
Also thanks, the reincarnation stuff sounds lame but the rest sounds like it could be fun to come up in game. Especially high level diplomacy between the city states? It could be like arcanum where there's quests dealing with unification and you dont find out till the end of the game if your actions contributing to that or made it all fall apart.
I liked the old Zhents, but having local groups probably makes them more interactable, you can run quests for them and stuff as there just another local faction with local interests and ties to the community, just an ideology rather than like a foreign nation? idk, that's how I read that anyway. I hope they turn up once we hit the city then
Well, from what I've seen in Early Access, the Second Sundering and Spellplague are mentioned in the game's story. In case you are wondering what the Second Sundering is, it is the overgod Ao creating new Tablets of Fate which caused unpredictable changes in the Forgotten Realms. The Time of Troubles (the incident when most of the gods were forced to become mortals that led up to Bhaal, Bane and Myrkul's deaths), and the Spellplague happened because Bane and Myrkul stole the original Tablets of Fate (as for the spellplague, that happened because Cyric and Shar assassinated Mystra), and Ao basically fixed all the damages the Time of Troubles and the Spellplague have done.
I hate to say it, but there is too much lore to reveal in one game. It's not like nothing has been happening in the Forgotten Realms after Throne of Bhaal and before Baldur's Gate 3, and suddenly with the announcement of Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios established all the lore in between Baldur's Gate 2 and 3. There are many novels and tabletop adventures and a few comic books and video games set after Throne of Bhaal, including the games Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, and Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 and 2. The truth is, the lore has been steadily expanding between the years 2001 and 2020. The Baldur's Gate games are contained stories set in a larger world where there are many things that are happening years, decades and centuries before Baldur's Gate 1, even during Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, and after them. For example, the games Icewind Dale 1 and 2 are chronologically set many decades before Baldur's Gate 1 and 2.
The Zhentarim is still around 100 years after Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, believe it or not. There have been some D&D tabletop adventure games where players have the choice of working with them. Cool, huh?
I think you might like this list I've compiled these past few months.
Forgotten Realms Lore part 1 (starting millennia before Baldur's Gate 1 to Siege of Dragonspear)
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=675526#Post675526Forgotten Realms lore part 2 (From Baldur's Gate 2 to the end of the 14th century)
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=675528#Post675528Forgotten Realms lore part 3 (From the beginning of the 15th century to Baldur's Gate 3)
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=675618#Post675618
