Baldur's Gate 3 head writer reveals we almost got to revisit the first game's 'academic dungeon' prologue area, Candlekeep

There is no greater joy than playing BG3 with its ridiculous amount of fantastic content. :D

There is no greater pain than reading about all the content that was cut from the game. T_T

So there's a place in the Forgotten Realms," Smith explained, "or the D&D universe, I should say, called the Far Realms. And some of the lore says that's where the mind flayers began—it's the cosmic horror place, you know. So I had this whole idea that you'd have this seer, who's sitting at the bottom of Candlekeep, who is basically staring into the Far Realms, you know, and has gone completely insane, and you have to go down there and find out what he's seen. I still think it would have been very cool."

That would have been very cool, indeed.

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