Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 hides spicy reference to first game\u2019s companion Arcanum WorldsOne of the fabled heroes from the Bhaalspawn Saga is referenced in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, but only in a rude book that the player can find. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 occurs over a century after its predecessor, but the cast from the original game can easily be alive, considering how D&D is filled with long-lived races and magical means to stop the aging process. This is why Minsc is still a playable character, as he was frozen in time for decades. Despite this, not all Baldur\u2019s Gate 1 & 2 companions appear in the latest entry. There is a reference to Xan, an elven Enchanter who joins the party in the first game and wields an incredibly powerful Moonblade sword in combat, but you must look hard to find it. In Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, you can buy a book in the titular city that details an illicit encounter between Xan and his Moonblade. This encounter presumably occurs in a story in which he never joined the party in Baldur\u2019s Gate 1 and was left in the Nashkel Mines. This is just one of the many spicy books the player can read in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, many of them referencing different aspects of the series\u2019 lore, as well as different parts of D&D, including the adventures of Elminster and Volo that likely won\u2019t see print in real life. The fans on the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 Reddit love finding these Easter Eggs, especially when they reference classic party members that don\u2019t physically appear in the game. Larian Studios has confirmed it\u2019s not working on Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 DLC or the next entry in the series. This means that another studio has the chance to bring Xan back, as his elven longevity means he can easily still be alive in the current timeline. What he thinks about his appearance in the world of literature is anyone\u2019s guess. Hopefully, he hasn\u2019t been reading much lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 hides spicy reference to first game\u2019s companion Arcanum WorldsOne of the fabled heroes from the Bhaalspawn Saga is referenced in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, but only in a rude book that the player can find. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 occurs over a century after its predecessor, but the cast from the original game can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}