Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Please Larian, Rewrite or Delete [ACT 3 SPOILERS] (very long with spoilers)

I am engaging in what you might call "examples" of speculation when I bring up ridiculous anythings, referencing Rahaya's response to me who decided my first example of light speculation was open season for such behavior. I am not projecting those things as things that actually happened. I hope that helps you understand my posts. I'm not interested in arguing what kind of worshipper or faithful or follower she was. I have not argued any of the things you're saying worshipping does not equal so I don't understand why you're saying I'm arguing a different concept from another when I can't even discern what you're actually trying to say. All I said is that in the videogames she is a Shar worshipper and in the videogames that Shar worship has not ever explicitly stopped since it first began prior to her introduction.

Again, this is the definition of a retcon, not character assassination. Character assassination is a social attack on someone's personal character with the goal of making them look bad to others. Orin engages in a little bit of this in the story when she's doppleganging, specifically when Jaehira can first run into Minsc as an example. You might be familiar with the term mudslinging from political campaigns which is very similar to character assassination. This is not what happened to her character, retconning happened to her character. But even with the retcon, I can see reasons why her characterization in BG3 makes sense both from within the game narratives, and from meta-narrative stuff as rules change between tabletop editions.