I'm hoping Baldur's Gate 3 just glazes over the weird bummer 'canon' version of what happened in the first two games

Canon's a tricky thing, man, and it's something RPG makers especially always have a hard time contending with. When a story could have starred like, thousands of permutations of the same hero and had maybe four or five distinct endings (not including side quest outcomes), what do you take to use as the "official story" for the basis of a sequel?..
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