For at least a little longer, you are completely alone in this newfound adulthood, where even the slightest difficulty might be your undoing. When your father Gorion dies-murdered in front of you by an evil warrior named Sarevok as you flee Candlekeep-then true agency arrives. Meanwhile, a mage could have only a single spell memorized, almost certainly Magic Missile with its guaranteed hit and reliable damage.
If you play as a fighter, then by the time you leave Candlekeep to embark upon the proper adventure, you might have nine or ten hit points, a mundane sword, and a suit of chainmail. Unlike most of the other characters who will join your party, you begin Baldur’s Gate as a 1st-level character, a fragile and barely skilled neophyte in whatever class you’ve chosen.
The hero you play throughout the Baldur’s Gate saga is known generically as Gorion’s Ward, named for his or her-and therefore your-adopted father Gorion, the wizard who raised you in the library-fortress of Candlekeep on the Sword Coast of Faerûn, part of a world better known as the Forgotten Realms, the most famous campaign setting in Dungeons & Dragons. None of your failures will be permanent, and unlimited second chances are always only a reload away. Everywhere you go there are obstacles, but they are all intended to be overcome. Every scenario is designed and structured with your eventual success in mind, every storyline shaped to match your character arc. Or at least a hero in the making, guaranteed only to improve.
In a role-playing game, you start life already a hero. Born in Michigan, he now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.īaldur’s Gate II will be released on June 22. This is an excerpt from Baldur’s Gate II, a forthcoming publication from Boss Fight Books written by Matt Bell. Matt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award as well as two previous books, How They Were Found and Cataclysm Baby.
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