It's fascinating to see how far others read into things, honestly. The idea that these details may not even have an objective 'truth' at all, and may be entirely retroactively malleable based on our actions and decisions isn't something that I had considered myself.. and yet it's something that I've seen time and time again in actual D&D games with skilled DMs that tailor events around players in seamless ways. It's a distinct possibility, I'm just not sure I'm ready to give Larian that much credit...

I wrote a reply to your comments, KR, but when I re-read it I realised I had written in a very harsh tone, and it's pretty late here, so I'll come back to this late and see if I can't vet my wording to be more friendly ^.^