I do wonder if Baldur's Gate 3 is setting up this movement away from species and alignments. We already see drow and goblins shifting away from their main gods in Lloth and Maglubiyet (? idk how to spell that lmao) and the end of the game could involve divorcing the pantheon entirely from specific races. Meaning gods and their worshippers would be bound only by ideology instead.

Personally, anything that shifts us further away from fantasy eugenics is a win in my book. But I do hope they keep the core concept of alignments, even if the form changes. It's rather grown on me.

Edit: That said, if they make these changes and continue to make creatures like goblins the main antagonist forces that we merk in droves, well... I'm with Niara, then. That's just taking away a defining concept of the cosmology for a cosmetic change.

Last edited by MyriadHappenings; 19/09/21 01:01 PM.
“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red bugles. To be alone and evil! To be a god at bay. What was more absolute?”