Talk:Canon/@comment-3045005-20191123212738

Just completed a large rewrite on the game sections of this page. The goal was to essentially "give props" toward characters who seem likely candidates as a canon party, while being very clear that little is stated definitively by the games themselves.

However a lot of work is still needed on the Canon Gorion's Ward section, since much of its writing makes assumptions based on what had been written previously above (stating that the "canon BG1 party" was definitely good, etc.)

These games were all made very carefully in such a way that players are allowed to behave any way they like and recruit or reject anyone they like. BG2 is the ONLY game that has characters making declarations about what happened in previous games (companions in the intro) and even then it is left open to interpretation.

For a counterexample of a game series that DOES retroactively establish some canon, you could look to Diablo 1 -> 2. The Dark Wanderer in Diablo 2 is definitely the male warrior character from Diablo 1, because you see him in cutscenes. Baldur's Gate by comparison doesn't force any prior possibilities on the player, whether they behaved good or evil, whether they were gnome or elf, mage or thief. There is no character who walks up to you and says, "wait, back in the Friendly Arm Inn you used to be a halfling!"

It is possible that Baldur's Gate 3 will contain some lore book that talks about the adventures of Abdel, Minsc, Jan, Imoen, Viconia, and Edwin. Until then, there really is no set canon.