Funny the novelization is getting brought up, because despite being written by Drew karpshyn, it was quite garbage. Y'all know he was involved with the infamous Baldur's Gate novelizations too, right? Neither of those should have been made. And I think it bears pointing out the awful bit of character assassination(as well as literal assassination) that happened to the Exile in the books ToR as well.
Drew admitted in an AMA on reddit years ago that Revan was male lightside because essentially 'the protagonist *had* to be lightside male'....but the exile was 'allowed' to be female because Revan was made male. I'm going to be honest, I thought that was a little bit sexist. And it's pretty clear that Drew didn't like the Exile or KotoR 2 from the novelizations either.
Honestly, I'm not terribly impressed with how WoTC/Lucasarts and the Bioware writers handled the issue of player agency in regards to the two series. Setting aside the actual *quality* of the writing regarding the novelizations/canon protagonists, which was *very* poor. An all-around disaster on all fronts and absolutely nothing that I'd hope Larian would want to use as a precedent.
