I’m not sure why this pre-release thread pondering possible connections between Abdel Adrian and the BG3 plot was resurrected after 17 months.

But as it has been, I may as well ask how far Abdel Adrian did indeed turn out to be canon within the BG3 version of the setting. The only reference I can recall was Abdel’s shield we could get from that mindflayer hunter, and I’m okay with that much as I’ll happily imagine that Abdel was some random bloke with no connection to Bhaal. Or was there something I missed that ties the BG3 story more closely to Abdel Adrian as Gorion’s Ward?

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"