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That said, since Dragonborn and Half-Orc are PHB races, they will probably incorporate enough lore on those races into BG3. Dwarves, Elves and Halflings don't need much since they are so established and similar in generic fantasy everywhere. But even I don't know what the deal with the Dragonborn is even though I'm a D&D vet since AD&D because I haven't played 4e or 5e. Being a dragon humanoid does raise a lot of questions.
Couple of different origins. They were part of the "Points of Light" campaign that was in 4e which they decided to basically just abandon when they went to 5e.
(I really hate this, there was a place for Points of Light even if its cosmology was very different from the Great Wheel... but WotC wants everything in the same multiverse rather than letting them be separate... Eberron and MtG also feel like they should be separate really... the Great Wheel cosmology has Toril, Greyhawk, Athas, Krynn... Earth... there's plenty of room to just have a separate reality entirely for some of their IPs)
One theory is that they were intended to be servants to the true dragons but rebelled and became their own thing. There's another possible origin that is less "created as slaves" but I can't remember it off the top of my head.
