But BG3 already breaks the pre-story blank slate by having background stories like "Noble" etc.
That is not even story ...
Its just who you are, or who you were ... but its not specific enough.
Take "Noble" for example, since you picked it ...
- You are the son of a nobleman who owned a lot of land ... unfortunately, your father had the impression that knighthood would help you get a better view of the world ... so you enlisted in the service.
- You are the bastard of the king himself, although half blue blood is circulating in your veins, but you have no claim to the throne ... unless the whole royal family is completely extinct. (wink, wink)
- You are a spoiled brat, one of the even more spoiled members of the "higher society" and exactly according to the opinions of everyone around you, your money gives you the power to do literally whatever you want.
- You are the real heir to the throne, which was raised in secret by his foster parents as a commoner, because the King was afraid for your life.
> All these stories are completely valid.
And many more ofcourse.
I dont think any warlock would have an issue with actually having an interaction with a great old one at some point in the game.
And that is actualy where you are wrong ...
I use few examples from my own characters: ...
Galanis > Drow, Male ... Great Old One Warlock ...
As a male in Lolthsworn Drow society, Galanis was allways concidered to be "lesser being" (not so low as slave races ofcourse), never allowed to decide litteraly anything ... he hated this whole society, and often was ploting against them, never realized any of those plans ... until one day, when we was wandering "shores" of dark lake ... something talked to him, offered him incredible power, in exchange for souls of all those people who he uses this power against ...
Galanis never known, nor even cared what being it was, the offering of power was too sweat, and since it demanded souls of others, there was no price to pay in his eyes ...
> How can such character "meet" with his patron? That "unknown" is part of his story.
Zyraela > Tiefling, Female ... Fiend Warlock ...
If you have seen first Ghostrider, this story will seem familiar.
Zyraela was an artist, gymnast (now sure wich word is the right one) on a raised horizontal bar ... her family was living and acting in traveling circus for generations, and her shows was breathtaking for many and many years ... until one day, when terrible accident caused her being paralized from waist down ... nobody was able to help her, until one mysterious man came up ... he introduced himself as Azazel, and never even tryed to hide that he is Devil, offering the deal ... Zyraela's soul in exchange for her legs.
As in previous example, even her never thinked twice ... the offering of not just her walking again, but to start performing again, was too sweet to pass.
Sadly, the principal of the circus didnt want her back, bcs he believed that her deal with Devil could bring him bad luck ... that night whole Circus burned to the ground, there was only one victim, the principal.
> Again, as you can see that "castle in the hells getting a tour by a high level demon" ... would ruin this story, since Zyraela was never suppose to see Hells ...
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But dont get me wrong here!
I like the idea, im just not quite sure if the implementation would be right here.
Personaly i can imagine something little different ...
Imagine that in character creatinon screen, there is button named "try this class" ...
Now imagine Nautiloid, but NOT that part we have seen ... lets say it have another floor or something simmilar, actualy even the same floor would work when i think about it ... kinda, but it would still need to start somewhere after freeing US.
Now imagine that this part would work simmilar to our turorial ... few rooms, some enemies ... the usual stuff, EXCEPT you would be fighting cambions, instead of lesser imps.
Now imagine that our "high level" character would get to end of this "trial" version ... everything exploed, he died and we return to our character creation.
And FINALY ... now imagine some short cutscene, that this whole "trial characters" scenario ... was happening in that lower part of Nautiloid, that some dragon destroyed in
THIS cutscene. :P