Anyway, Sarevok and Viconia's treatment is still my biggest issue with BG3 as a whole. It's just not cool to take characters people love and make them as repulsive as possible. My theory is still that whoever put the characters in this game (whether Larian or WotC) did not play BG1/BG2 or did not play with these characters. Or pay attention to the vast amount of free information on the internet about these characters. I could probably find upwards of 80% of their dialogue online if I looked.
Furthermore, there are weird things said about BG2 that just don't make any sense if you've actually played the game. Like Jaheira tells Gale that Irenicus did a blood transfusion to steal Charname's power, which is a bafflingly inaccurate summary of a major plot point of BG2. I know BG3 takes place over a century after BG2, but IMO it should not take that much effort to make callbacks to BG1/BG2 consistent and accurate. BG3 is a good game, but it's a horrible sequel (to my favorite game ever, no less), and that's why it disappointed me.
That Sarevok is in the BG city in the first place is barely explainable, since in the most widespread ending for ToB he leaves for Kara-Tur to bury Tamoko and isn't heard from since. Not to mention that, since he was stripped of his Bhaalspawn powers upon being resurrected, it makes even less sense for him to still be following Bhaal (which he doesn't even in the non-redeemed path for him in that expansion) or be over a century old by the time of BG3 (he was a calculating schemer and a deadly warrior, but not a mage or a druid who have the means to slow down aging). The whole incest scenario just seems like wanting to make him as unlikeable as possible on whoever wrote him's part.
Whereas Viconia has been reduced to a leader of a college clique with a midlife crisis and the wrinkles to come with one (she was still young by elvish standards in the originals, and elves live for ~800 years in the setting, with visible aging only beginning at around 600+, so her looking like she's in her forties is completely wrong). Sharrans as a whole are rather difficult to take seriously, being, again, less of a sect and more of a campus sorority, bullying and gratuitous edginess included.
