Baldur's Gate 2 Canon Party?
Noloir
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Been thinking. Upon beating the game a variety of different character combinations could be canon. Based on your personal play experience which character party is canon? (Gorion's Ward, Imoen/Yoshimo, Jaheira, Khalid, Aerie, and Keldorn would be my guess.)
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I read somewhere on this forum that a canon party for BG2 should be CHARNAME, Imoen/Yoshimo, Jaheira, Minsc, Aerie and Keldorn changed for Sarevok in ToB. Another idea is that only CHARNAME, Imoen/Yoshimo, Jaheira, Minsc are a part of a canon party for BG2, others differ.
I think that it is very much tied with particular NPCs you had in BG2 when you first played BG2.
For example, it's very easy to meet Aerie when you play for the first time, as is to meet Anomen - I mean, they're on the first 2 areas after the dungeon. So you can very much end with imagining that they're both canon.
But what about a situation if you weren't a goody two shoes? Then you possibly included Edwin and Viconia, as they come from BG1 and are evil, and Korgan. What if you didn't like the canon BG1 party?
These questions actually influence everything.
For me, a canon BG2 party was CHARNAME, Yoshimo, Jaheira, Anomen, Jan Jansen and Korgan. As you see, I didn't prefer neither good, nor evil way, something in between.
From those, in BG2 you're left with Charname, Imoen, Jahiera and Minsc, so shouldn't the remaining slots be filled with characters already mentioned in the books - or maybe it's not 'canon' that the party must contain six members?
Unfortunately, I couldn't stand Minsc's idiocy and Aerie's incessant whining. I dumped them both at the start of Ch 3 in favor of Anomen and Keldorn, then finally gave up the project as a bad idea, since I prefer cheerful, bubble brained Neera over the preachy Nalia. I mean, replacing 3 of the 5 early NPCs rather negated the entire concept.
It only makes sense to me if charname is LG or LN.
So are you exaggerating, or does he seriously sleeps with nearly every female? Edit, yay for wiki, I could careless that he slept with bhodi, I don't like what i just read about bhodi.
The remaining two spots are a little more difficult, and you can find arguments for many inclusions. Aerie, being so near to the starting point, always struck me as the "canon" love interest, but obviously that is an opinion others might not share. I kinda want to say either her or Anomen, because I feel like the game wants you to have a cleric of some sort. They are also incredibly accessible early in the game, strengthening their position. For some reason I can't see Nalia there, though she has a strong case being in the Copper Coronet and approaching you without you having to trigger it.
Keldorn also fills the "father figure" void, at least until you complete his quest. The fact that you can let him off with his family then replace him with Sarevok later is also pretty convenient.
I do think it is far more fitting to the overall theme, and the direction of the game, for it to be a good aligned party. That's why I would probably disqualify any evil character other than Sarevok.
Yea, I know about that... which while I haven't read the book, unless there was revealed to be some massive strain on the two relationship, then they just poorly jaheira's character.
@booinyoureyes
What, why? Freaking how? Did they like, rewrite her character type completely? What, was she suppose to be Viconia jr?
On, someone verify this for me...
So Khalid, once cheated on jaheria.
Char name kills Khalid at some point in the series.
Jaheria is reduced to a damsel in distress in the novels, even ripping her blouse off when a spider gets between her breast.
She also isn't independent at all in the series.
The only people he doesn't travel with over his month long, disastrous quest to make bail are Keldorn - Killed in the sewers in part of an ongoing feud with Paladins (and because it's so hard for even a moderately impolite character to not have to murder the aged cuckold), Haer'Dalis - Who he technically owns, but has no idea what to do with a bard so he leaves him to stay in the Five Flagons for the rest of time (Because Bards are terrible), Wilson, who he frees but never meets again (because why would you speak to a random bear?), and Jan - Who he has a long, scintillating conversation with, but for the good of the realms the two never actually join forces (because five mages is slightly too many for one party).
Naturally Dings is also a canon party member.
Ultimately only two people even survive all the way through to the end of Throne of Bhaal - Imoen and Rasaad, leaving him to choose between a destiny beyond the planes or a life where he has been forsaken by the world, his only companions two short lived creatures who won't even survive long enough for him to become an adult.
My Bhaalspawns be dark, yo.