We don't know if the narrator is or isn't a character yet.
No. This is the fundamental misunderstanding that those supporting the 'narrator as Absolute' line of thinking continuously make. If the narrator is telling us, as given information, what we specifically, perceived, felt or sensed, then they are NOT an active character or force in the story. The narrator we have does this, and so they are not, by definition.
A narrator that is also a participant character does not do these things, unless they are narrating their own actions.
Art that contravenes this is not being mysterious or clever - it's just poorly composed and flawed; in short, bad.
Telling the player what their character *thought* or *felt* about something is an even more cardinal sin, but that has nothing to do with the narrator's VA, and lies more broadly at the feet of Larian's bad writing.
