We condensed years of D&D storylines to get you ready for Baldur’s Gate 3
Baldur’s Gate 3, the fast-approaching role-playing game that has been available in early access since October 2020, marks the confluence of a beloved series and one of the most lauded RPG studios working today. With its extensive character creation system and thousands of different endings, Baldur’s Gate 3 continues the work BioWare began in 1998. However, it’s since changed hands — Larian Studios, the team behind the acclaimed Divinity: Original Sin series, has taken over stewardship. What’s more, Baldur’s Gate 3 takes place in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, a sprawling world with enough lore to keep even the most dedicated fans busy exploring for years.
Which is all to say: There’s a lot going on with Baldur’s Gate 3! But fear not, because we’ve done the footwork of corralling all of the most important plot points in the series to date, so you can prepare for the RPG before its Aug. 3 release date on PC.
The narrative of the Baldur’s Gate series begins with a cataclysmic event in the Forgotten Realms known as the Time of Troubles, which is told through a series of five novels called the Avatar series. This is when the then-creator deity Ao cast down the once expansive pantheon of gods to the mortal realm of Toril (also known as Abeir-Toril) as punishment for the theft of the Tablets of Fate, which kept the balance between Chaos and Law.
During this time, the gods were given mortal forms, which left them vulnerable for the first time. Cyric, a mortal man who traveled with the protagonists of the Avatar series, ended up killing Bhaal, the Lord of Murder, out of his own self-interest in becoming a god. However, Bhaal had already prepared for the inconvenience by having children that he could then pass his essence and
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