[quote=IrenicusBG3] So, in other words, they COULD have started BG3 with you being some nobody from some small village near Elturel. The Cult of the Absolute is some rumor spreading around the area. Who are they? What are they up to? You investigate because you're a mercenary or a cleric on a holy quest or whatever. As you go, you learn more and more about these fanatics. They're infected with something, but what?.
Yes, I think that would be one good idea. I don't necessarily think Larian's premise is bad, I just don't like how they conducted the narrative and everything is so explicit and escalates quickly.
I don't know if 'escalates' is the right word, for the same reasons people feel distant from Tav, there's is no real time spent to acclimate you to the setting, there's really no time spent to just inhabit the world before you're thrown off a cliff. (then pushed off a spaceship) But I might be a little optimistic in this regard, because I have to think there will be something that does this eventually, if for no other reason than to introduce the origin character you're playing as to us. I don't know, but if they expect to rely on telling us these things as we go, it'll require a very deft hand at incorporating exposition into the narrative, a narrative we have a lot of control over.
