The more I experience this game, the more I realize that Larian was just really, really 'loose' with the lore of the setting. Which is a shame, because it makes it feel even less of an experience shared in the same universe as BG I + II even after the timeshift/retcons going from 2e to 5e. Just way too casual with how it ignores/changes established lore. I would have *hoped* that a game in which Mindflayers play such a big part Larian would full-on deep delve into their lore and wow us with the depth of their portrayal using the fairly large reservoir of stuff that's been written about them. Instead it's very surface level, and not really interested in getting much of anything 'right' .
