Talk:Kivan/@comment-25870309-20141222163436/@comment-98.119.99.136-20150310014404

It should also be noted that you could recruit him early in the original, vanilla Baldur's Gate and he would never, ever leave. The script that limited his time in the party was broken, and the only way to get the script to work was to click the talk icon on him---but who was gonna do that in the first game, when your companions had nothing to say to you? The script was only fixed in the Enhanced Edition, which came as a shock to many of the players that liked to pick up Kivan early, only to have him leave the party suddenly because they didn't know his timer existed and had been fixed.

I also recall reading that he had files and an original portrait in BG2, but I don't remember where. It was a long time ago, unfortunately, and I didn't bookmark it.