What is a Baldurian?

A person from Baldur's Gate is known as a Baldurian. This wealthy port metropolis, whose population, according to many accounts, superseded that of Waterdeep, was an important merchant city on the Sword Coast.
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What does Baldurian mean?

People and things from Baldur's Gate were known as "Baldurian". The term "Balduran" was never used—misusing the founder's name even like this was a grave insult to his memory and the city alike.
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Which race was Balduran?

Balduran was a human born in 754 EW near the location now known as Baldur's Gate. At the time, the land was mostly unexplored, and Balduran's parents were among the first to settle the area.
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Are all characters Baldurian?

If you don't pick an origin character (excluding Dark Urge), the game defaults to a generic Baldurian. BTW, people who live near Baldur's Gate in the nearby wilderness are also labeled as "Baldurians". (Dark Urge is also a generic Baldurian. Some companions are Baldurian, too, but they're specific Baldurians.)
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Why is it called Baldur's Gate?

History. The city takes its name from the great seafaring hero Balduran. Long ago, Balduran sailed to the fabled Anchorome and returned with great wealth which was used to build the wall around what became Baldur's Gate.
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Who was Balduran?

Balduran was a legendary seafaring trader and explorer and namesake of the city of Baldur's Gate, and he was considered its founder. He was the first to cross the Trackless Sea from Faerûn to Anchorome and explored that land, and returned to enrich his home.
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What is so great about Baldur Gate?

Baldur's Gate 3 is a great game that throws players into an amazing fantasy world quickly and dramatically, contriving a dire series of events that thrusts a group of unlikely companions into a situation where they'll have to work together in order to survive.
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What are the 7 types of characters?

If we categorize character types by the role they play in a narrative, we can hone in on seven distinct varieties: the protagonist, the antagonist, the love interest, the confidant, deuteragonists, tertiary characters, and the foil.
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Is the emperor still Balduran?

Ansur will reveal that the Emperor in fact was formerly Balduran, the founder of Baldur's Gate. Furthermore, he explains that while the Emperor initially did not want to become a mind flayer, it eventually fully embraced its new form, and its comfort with this caused a rift between the Emperor and Ansur.
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How old is the emperor in Baldur's Gate?

Even if we assume that Balduran was turned into a Mind Flayer at the last possible second of his natural life, he would have only made it to the 1300s at the latest, and not to 1492 when the events of BG3 takes place - meaning that Balduran/Emperor lived nearly 500 years.
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What races are considered Caucasian?

Following Meiners, Blumenbach described the Caucasian race as consisting of the native inhabitants of Europe, West Asia, the Indian peninsula, and North Africa. This usage later grew into the widely used color terminology for race, contrasting with the terms Negroid, Mongoloid, and Australoid.
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When did Balduran disappear?

Balduran disappeared over 300 years ago and was human. Moonrise towers and the surrounding City were built 150~ years ago by Ketheric BEFORE he lost it.
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Was Balduran a mind flayer?

Involvement. In Baldur's Gate III, Balduran is revealed to be the illithid "The Emperor"; he had somehow escaped or avoided his implied stranding and death on the Isle of Balduran, and eventually was infected by a mind flayer colony.
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Was Balduran an elf?

In the Wyrmway, you can view a mural of Balduran with Ansur where Balduran appears to be an elf. That is the core retcon. Ed Greenwood, the creator of the character Balduran, says he was human, and all the original lore says he was human. Larian needed to make him an elf for the exact reasons you are saying.
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Is Gale baldurian?

Gale is only common race (Humans, Elves, Dwarves etc) not from Baldur's Gate he is from Waterdeep, Lae'zel and Githyanki are from a creche, Underdark races from the Underdark (Lolth Drow, Duergar, Deep Gnomes) and everyone else is from the city one way or another. Evil always finds a way.
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Is Baldur's Gate in the D&D universe?

Baldur's Gate is set in the Forgotten Realms fantasy universe of the popular Dungeons & Dragons franchise. Generating numerous spin-offs and expansions, Baldur's Gate was viewed as a comeback for the lagging role-playing game genre in the late 1990s.
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Which emperor went insane?

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula, (12 CE to 41 CE) was the third Roman emperor and ruled only four years.
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Who was the last true emperor?

Romulus Augustulus (flourished 5th century ad) was known to history as the last of the Western Roman emperors (475–476).
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Is there an emperor in the world today?

The only country that currently has an emperor as its monarch is Japan. Emperor Akihito began his reign on January 7, 1989. The monarchy in Japan is the world's longest ruling monarchy.
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What is a contagonist?

The contagonist is a powerful and often important character, who acts as a secondary antagonist to the protagonist. They are often united with the antagonist, but their goals will usually differ. They will often have a more personal connection to the protagonist, though this is not always the case.
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What is a Tetartagonist?

A tetartagonist is the fourth most important character in a story, after the protagonist, deuteragonist, and tritagonist. This term is rarely used, as not every story may have a character specifically designed or intended to be the fourth lead role.
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What does deuteragonist mean?

In literature, the deuteragonist (/ˌdjuːtəˈræɡənɪst/ DEW-tə-RAG-ə-nist; from Ancient Greek δευτεραγωνιστής (deuteragōnistḗs) 'second actor') or secondary main character is the second most important character of a narrative, after the protagonist and before the tritagonist.
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What is special about Baldur?

Balder, in Norse mythology, the son of the chief god Odin and his wife Frigg. Beautiful and just, he was the favourite of the gods. Most legends about him concern his death. Icelandic stories tell how the gods amused themselves by throwing objects at him, knowing that he was immune from harm.
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Can you be evil Baldur's Gate?

1: Yes, going evil will have some companions leave you (specifically Karlach, Wyll, and Gale... though I think you can persuade Gale into staying.). In return you do get a couple evil companions. 2: While it is entirely possible to do an evil playthrough, doing so cuts out a massive portion of the game's content.
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Why is Baldur's Gate 3 so popular?

Baldur's Gate has remained popular for several reasons. Firstly, it offers a rich, immersive world based on Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), a beloved and established fantasy role-playing game.
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