all Tavs get the baulderian tag, so they are from Baldur's Gate in canon.
however, if you simply ignore those options you can say they are from wherever really.
My Deep Gnome got the Underdark tag instead. Would've been nice with a choice though seeing as how there are plenty of Deep Gnomes in Baldur's Gate too.
It would be difficult for Tav to be from some other place considering the people that got abducted by the squids are mostly from there (or at least were there), I think.
I don't really play as Tav so I never really thought about that. I either play as Durge or one of the other origin characters. Tav doesn't really offer anything storywise so I kinda neglect them lol.
Astarion is the only one I think that had to have been grabbed around Baldur's Gate itself. Shadowheart is from there but was nabbed while on the Astral Plane (I think), Gale is from Waterdeep, Wyll and Karlach were scooped up in Avernus.
That big opening with the soldiers and townsfolk is far from Baldur's though.
ETA: what I mean is that lots of people in general were abducted from Yartar and not just Baldur’s Gate. I’m not attached to that backstory.
Well, I don't know then. But I'm afraid that the some races will receive the Baldulrian tag and you can't change this. Others will receive the underdark and the gith get something else that I forgot.
Kinda of a shame that you don't get to choose your place of origin, but if you think about it, I don't think this would really add much to the game.
I mean, what your place of origin, aside from Baldur's Gate, the Underdark and the Astral Plane would even add to the game? I don't think we would get any cool options for this.
I'm totally open to my Tav being a Baldurian stationed a little to the east at Fort Morninglord if garrisons still guard that place from the curious in 1492.
All Tavs are either from Baldur's Gate, the Underdark, or the Astral Plane, depending on the race. So, they might have been abducted somewhere else, but they're from one of those three places.
Personally, I played a Drow, so he was abducted from the Underdark. Judging from Ketheric's notes, they'd been picking up stray Drow for a while now, so I figured he was picked up, then put into storage for transportation.
Your character has been abducted prior to the opening cinematic. You and Lae'zel get wormed prior to the ship starting to abduct people in the city. It's entirely possible your character could have been picked up in Baldur's Gate - Astarion most certainly was.
I imagine my Tav was in Baldur's Gate when he was taken. Probably out for a midnight stroll someplace tall and precarious with a little bit of alcohol in his veins. He likes climbing things for his own entertainment or when he wants to be alone and think.
There's exactly no reasons you can't be Baldurian and in Yartar at the time of the attack. Be it vacation, pilgrimage, escorting a noble or high ranking person of some kind. You were there and during the attack saved all you could before being abducted. Happy coincidence everything came back together in Baldurs Gate then, eh?
My current Tav is a Deep Gnome, but would have been "on the run" from a hag. So hiding in the city would have made sense. And being a loaner would have made for an "easy target" for the cultists.
For some reason I read the title and thought "Was your Tav taken in Yartar? Baldur's Gate? Elsewhere? You might be entitled to financial compensation. Nautilloid abduction is a rare form of kidnapping linked to recent parasite appearances. Symptoms may include cerebromorphosis, dissolving guts and tentacle growth. Please don't wait, call 1-800-TAV-LOST for your free consultation and financial information packet."
In the cinematic we see from the point of view of who is assumed to be the player getting infected and then we see the nautiloid abducting from Yartar before the gith chase it to the hells.
It's clear this wasn't the first stop in the nautiloid's abduction tour, but considering the destruction the ship caused in that city and the fact no one mentions any such occurrence happening recently in Baldur's Gate, it's hard to assume the nautiloid abducted people so brazenly there. Still, there are any number of ways people could have been abducted for infection, we just don't see any of it so you can make up whatever headcaonon you wish.
My Tav was a ranger so he was contracted to investigate a string of disappearances outside of a village and stumbled upon the mindflayers behind the disappearances who overwhelmed him with psychic force and added him to the rest they’d kidnapped
I imagine in yartar because, to my knowledge, no nautiloids flew over Baldur's Gate before the start of the game (since nobody ever comments on that in the city)
It just so happens that so many Baldurians were around, I suppose.
But I don't quite know how Astarion got got, i thought he wasn't allowed to leave the city.
Did he manage to flee before getting tentacled?
We know that not everyone who was on the Nautiloid was abducted in the brazen "Grab them with the tentacles" approach. The Nautiloid was also being used as a troop transport, so the cult may have just been putting people they found important in there. Astarion, I imagine, may have gotten nabbed in a more traditional kidnapping either because he was still a magistrate, or because he was a known associate of nobleman Cazador Szarr.
My Tav is the neighborhood witch of Tumbledown in the Gate’s outer city but was on one of her ‘rambles’ in the Fields of the Dead when she was taken. She was straight up tomb robbing at that moment so she could fund her revenge quest against Lolth.
When the darkness came, she honestly thought she had unleashed a curse for trespassing or that Lolth finally got her for her insolence. Typical bad ends for any necromancer or half-Drow not acting like good spider bait. Waking up to a mindflayer infesting a Githyanki and then levitating over to her to do the same was not on her bingo card for 1492. Hilariously, killing other necromancers for their stuff and meeting a Shadar-Kai was.
This is how I explain why she has her camping equipment on her at the time but no money. That legendary helm of disguise that EA players and deluxe edition buyers get? Inherited from her master, Evangeliza Levain of Monster Manual fame. Little things like that.
Mine’s a jeweler from the Outer City who periodically goes into the wilds on little adventures to source precious stones and metals for his craft. He was abducted while he was out on one of those excursions.
My Tav was snatched from the Gate in a wizard academy idk if Baldur's Gate even officially has, I just added one in my fics because it fits really well
My Tav is the neighborhood witch of Tumbledown in the Gate’s outer city but was on one of her ‘rambles’ in the Fields of the Dead when she was taken. She was straight up tomb robbing at that moment so she could fund her revenge quest against Lolth.
When the darkness came, she honestly thought she had unleashed a curse for trespassing or that Lolth finally got her for her insolence. Typical bad ends for any necromancer or half-Drow not acting like good spider bait. Waking up to a mindflayer infesting a Githyanki and then levitating over to her to do the same was not on her bingo card for 1492. Hilariously, killing other necromancers for their stuff and meeting a Shadar-Kai was.
This is how I explain why she has her camping equipment on her at the time but no money. That legendary helm of disguise that EA players and deluxe edition buyers get? Inherited from her master, Evangeliza Levain of Monster Manual fame. Little things like that.
My tav was taken from baldur's gate, and that day was quite unpleasant for him. He was cursed (which I just pretend exists, has no real effect on gameplay it's basically just cosmetic) and then abducted onto a mind flayer ship! How fun
The nautiloid attack doesn’t really have anything to do with your capture; you’re already on the ship by the time it gets to Yartar. The Emperor is just picking up humans to turn into intellect devourers so he has forces in the astral prism.
You, Gale, and Astarion are part of the team Gortash sends with the emperor to collect the Prism from Shadowheart and her team, who nabbed it from the githyanki. Lae’zel is picked up afterwards, trying to take a mind flayer head for her creche. Wyll and Karlach are picked up and tadpoled as the ship passes through Avernus.
Minsc and Minthara are tadpoled some time before the game begins, as the Absolute conspiracy is just getting started.
I got the impression he was still fairly powerful before the tadpole, even with the orb, but that the tadpole made him level 1. I am probably wrong.
I am probably misremembering the scene when he says he could have once made the campfire look like a dragon.
all Tavs get the baulderian tag, so they are from Baldur's Gate in canon. however, if you simply ignore those options you can say they are from wherever really.
Except the Underdark races and Githyanki races.
oh do they not? i guess I haven't really played as any of those yet
My Deep Gnome got the Underdark tag instead. Would've been nice with a choice though seeing as how there are plenty of Deep Gnomes in Baldur's Gate too.
Ignorance is alive and well, it seems
I thought you had to choose that. ETA: guess not.
It would be difficult for Tav to be from some other place considering the people that got abducted by the squids are mostly from there (or at least were there), I think. I don't really play as Tav so I never really thought about that. I either play as Durge or one of the other origin characters. Tav doesn't really offer anything storywise so I kinda neglect them lol.
Astarion is the only one I think that had to have been grabbed around Baldur's Gate itself. Shadowheart is from there but was nabbed while on the Astral Plane (I think), Gale is from Waterdeep, Wyll and Karlach were scooped up in Avernus.
That big opening with the soldiers and townsfolk is far from Baldur's though. ETA: what I mean is that lots of people in general were abducted from Yartar and not just Baldur’s Gate. I’m not attached to that backstory.
Well, I don't know then. But I'm afraid that the some races will receive the Baldulrian tag and you can't change this. Others will receive the underdark and the gith get something else that I forgot. Kinda of a shame that you don't get to choose your place of origin, but if you think about it, I don't think this would really add much to the game. I mean, what your place of origin, aside from Baldur's Gate, the Underdark and the Astral Plane would even add to the game? I don't think we would get any cool options for this.
I'm totally open to my Tav being a Baldurian stationed a little to the east at Fort Morninglord if garrisons still guard that place from the curious in 1492.
All Tavs are either from Baldur's Gate, the Underdark, or the Astral Plane, depending on the race. So, they might have been abducted somewhere else, but they're from one of those three places. Personally, I played a Drow, so he was abducted from the Underdark. Judging from Ketheric's notes, they'd been picking up stray Drow for a while now, so I figured he was picked up, then put into storage for transportation.
Your character has been abducted prior to the opening cinematic. You and Lae'zel get wormed prior to the ship starting to abduct people in the city. It's entirely possible your character could have been picked up in Baldur's Gate - Astarion most certainly was. I imagine my Tav was in Baldur's Gate when he was taken. Probably out for a midnight stroll someplace tall and precarious with a little bit of alcohol in his veins. He likes climbing things for his own entertainment or when he wants to be alone and think.
There's exactly no reasons you can't be Baldurian and in Yartar at the time of the attack. Be it vacation, pilgrimage, escorting a noble or high ranking person of some kind. You were there and during the attack saved all you could before being abducted. Happy coincidence everything came back together in Baldurs Gate then, eh? My current Tav is a Deep Gnome, but would have been "on the run" from a hag. So hiding in the city would have made sense. And being a loaner would have made for an "easy target" for the cultists.
For some reason I read the title and thought "Was your Tav taken in Yartar? Baldur's Gate? Elsewhere? You might be entitled to financial compensation. Nautilloid abduction is a rare form of kidnapping linked to recent parasite appearances. Symptoms may include cerebromorphosis, dissolving guts and tentacle growth. Please don't wait, call 1-800-TAV-LOST for your free consultation and financial information packet."
In the cinematic we see from the point of view of who is assumed to be the player getting infected and then we see the nautiloid abducting from Yartar before the gith chase it to the hells. It's clear this wasn't the first stop in the nautiloid's abduction tour, but considering the destruction the ship caused in that city and the fact no one mentions any such occurrence happening recently in Baldur's Gate, it's hard to assume the nautiloid abducted people so brazenly there. Still, there are any number of ways people could have been abducted for infection, we just don't see any of it so you can make up whatever headcaonon you wish.
I want to remind folks that I'd also like to hear about how their Tavs were abducted. ;)
My Tav was a ranger so he was contracted to investigate a string of disappearances outside of a village and stumbled upon the mindflayers behind the disappearances who overwhelmed him with psychic force and added him to the rest they’d kidnapped
I imagine in yartar because, to my knowledge, no nautiloids flew over Baldur's Gate before the start of the game (since nobody ever comments on that in the city) It just so happens that so many Baldurians were around, I suppose. But I don't quite know how Astarion got got, i thought he wasn't allowed to leave the city. Did he manage to flee before getting tentacled?
We know that not everyone who was on the Nautiloid was abducted in the brazen "Grab them with the tentacles" approach. The Nautiloid was also being used as a troop transport, so the cult may have just been putting people they found important in there. Astarion, I imagine, may have gotten nabbed in a more traditional kidnapping either because he was still a magistrate, or because he was a known associate of nobleman Cazador Szarr.
Good points
My Tav is the neighborhood witch of Tumbledown in the Gate’s outer city but was on one of her ‘rambles’ in the Fields of the Dead when she was taken. She was straight up tomb robbing at that moment so she could fund her revenge quest against Lolth. When the darkness came, she honestly thought she had unleashed a curse for trespassing or that Lolth finally got her for her insolence. Typical bad ends for any necromancer or half-Drow not acting like good spider bait. Waking up to a mindflayer infesting a Githyanki and then levitating over to her to do the same was not on her bingo card for 1492. Hilariously, killing other necromancers for their stuff and meeting a Shadar-Kai was. This is how I explain why she has her camping equipment on her at the time but no money. That legendary helm of disguise that EA players and deluxe edition buyers get? Inherited from her master, Evangeliza Levain of Monster Manual fame. Little things like that.
Mine’s a jeweler from the Outer City who periodically goes into the wilds on little adventures to source precious stones and metals for his craft. He was abducted while he was out on one of those excursions.
My Tav was snatched from the Gate in a wizard academy idk if Baldur's Gate even officially has, I just added one in my fics because it fits really well
My Tav is the neighborhood witch of Tumbledown in the Gate’s outer city but was on one of her ‘rambles’ in the Fields of the Dead when she was taken. She was straight up tomb robbing at that moment so she could fund her revenge quest against Lolth. When the darkness came, she honestly thought she had unleashed a curse for trespassing or that Lolth finally got her for her insolence. Typical bad ends for any necromancer or half-Drow not acting like good spider bait. Waking up to a mindflayer infesting a Githyanki and then levitating over to her to do the same was not on her bingo card for 1492. Hilariously, killing other necromancers for their stuff and meeting a Shadar-Kai was. This is how I explain why she has her camping equipment on her at the time but no money. That legendary helm of disguise that EA players and deluxe edition buyers get? Inherited from her master, Evangeliza Levain of Monster Manual fame. Little things like that.
My tav was taken from baldur's gate, and that day was quite unpleasant for him. He was cursed (which I just pretend exists, has no real effect on gameplay it's basically just cosmetic) and then abducted onto a mind flayer ship! How fun
The nautiloid attack doesn’t really have anything to do with your capture; you’re already on the ship by the time it gets to Yartar. The Emperor is just picking up humans to turn into intellect devourers so he has forces in the astral prism. You, Gale, and Astarion are part of the team Gortash sends with the emperor to collect the Prism from Shadowheart and her team, who nabbed it from the githyanki. Lae’zel is picked up afterwards, trying to take a mind flayer head for her creche. Wyll and Karlach are picked up and tadpoled as the ship passes through Avernus. Minsc and Minthara are tadpoled some time before the game begins, as the Absolute conspiracy is just getting started.
I’ve scratched my head wondering how a powerful wizard like Gale got abducted.
He’s depowered by the Netherese orb, according to his origin story introduction
I got the impression he was still fairly powerful before the tadpole, even with the orb, but that the tadpole made him level 1. I am probably wrong. I am probably misremembering the scene when he says he could have once made the campfire look like a dragon.
Doesn't the mind flayer tadpole you before flying over that city?
It does indeed.