Originally Posted by Lake Plisko
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by Lake Plisko
Maybe Shadowheart is the "main character" of the game for the most part. It's just that we have such an incomplete picture that it is hard to say.
If it does turn out that SH is the main character of the game, then in my game I can guarantee that I will kill her off as soon as I first meet her. In an RPG the PC is who should be the main character of the game. If that rule is ignored in BG3, I will remedy that defect in the game by killing her off as a matter of principle.

If Shadowheart is the Fane of this game - it isn't going to change anything. Even if you killed off Fane in D:OS2 or didn't take him in your party the entire game still pretty much revolves around his origin and story.

EDIT: I don't even think that is a bad thing either - to me I could care less. I care more about it being a good story and the characters being interesting than I do about my character being the most important person at any given time. I actually prefer stories where there are more important characters than myself - makes them significantly more interesting.
That would actually be okay if the game explicitly forced you to play only as Fane (D:OS2) or SH (BG3) or Geralt (Witcher 3). A better way would be the game very clearly saying to me the player: "Hey player, although you can play this game as one of the other Origin characters or even a self-made character, the game is meant to be played with you as SH, because the whole game has been built around SH as the central protagonist of the game."