Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Are we supposed to imagine everyone's forgotten their abilities?

The emperor seems to be like Doctor Strange (Marvel superheroes), able to analyze millions of possible steps in the future and choose the one that has the best ending. If he had seen that Astarion was a link in Cazador's ascension ritual, now broken free. He might have calculated a fairly high possibility that the spawn would want to take revenge, discover t the existence of the ritual and ascend instead. So that would make him a valuable soldier, even if he wasn't very high level rogue before.
Yes, I know every explanation is a bit contrived.
Apparently the emperor didn't know that Raphaël could block him out. Oops.

I think someone, preferably Larian, should write the story. Maybe as a comic book. Of the whole prequel , from the 3 chosen planning to get the crown. The rise of the absolute. The emperor's and Shadowheart's quest for the prism. All up to the beginning of the game. I think it could make some money, even though there would obviously be inconsistencies with the game. But I think there would be a public for a consistent story. I think I would buy that book.

BTW, in my latest PT there was a discussion with Karlach that I think I didn't have before. (I'm now playing a Gale origin PC) which made me think that Gortash sold Karlach to Zariël in order to get the plans to create the steel watch. (They are made of infernal iron after all)
Or maybe this is common knowledge and I just missed it before.