On a related note, I remember Swen mentioning that in the full release version of the game, the Custom Character will have a Backstory (thus, it will likely be a Semi-Custom Character, not a Fully-Custom Character). Whether there will be one or more Backstory to choose from, and whether one choice will be "Blank", I don't know. But it seems relatively likely that a Custom Character will be canonically considered to be from Baldur's Gate.
I remember this too, but I always just assumed that Baldurian was there as a placeholder.
I am still not sure how I feel about this. I'd prefer a more of the blank slate character so that like many people here I could create my own background, or at least for the game to acknowledge a background selected at the CC. But for better storytelling I can understand that they might need to stick to some sort of predetermined background and personality to make Tav as engaging as other origin characters - a point that's been excessively discussed here on the forums as well.
That said I've been recently replaying DOS2 with a custom character, and I think they've already done a far better job with custom Tav in the EA. Custom Tav seems far more interesting and fun than DOS2 custom character, that is all over the place and lacks individuality. So hopefully in the final game Tav will be more fleshed out, and have more background options to select from?
