Talk:Canon/@comment-3234315-20180110140707/@comment-25340469-20180724110145

Abdel in A Murder in Baldur's Gate has a severely contradictory backstory to the game, and I don't recall it ever explicitly saying he was the PC of Baldur's Gate in the sourcebook. The good o' (/s) Forgotten Realms wiki uses the freakin' novel in its citations for Abdel being the canon PC and has two seperate pages for Abdel and Gorion's Ward. It also completely contradicts the ending of the game, where if the PC chooses to remain human they lose their taint, and I'm inclined to believe it was a simple adaptation to make a Baldur's Gate sourcebook and give a wink towards the game. As far as I know, Viconia's NPC doesn't even make mention of what the ward was like.

As for Bioware, Gaider in his notes for his mod makes no canon mention of who the character is. He just, you know, calls them the PC. As the design director he would have called him Abdel in the notes if he was the clearly intented canon PC.