Quote Originally Posted by Cikomyr View Post
If I were to make up something to justify Baldur's Gate 3 membership of the overall BG canon, maybe makeup the idea that the Ascendency of the Bhaalspawn has either :

- changed the timeline and prevented the Gith rebellion, an now never-beaten future Illithids are invading
- opened a rift in this world's transdimentional shielding (whatever) that allowed a new invading army of Illithids to pass through

Make it relevant to the Bhaalspawn somehow..
Because people dying with Illithid larvae inside their heads don't die but become enslaved and live on millenia? It's not murder if the person continues to live with a parasite, right? So a god of murder miiiight loose its divine spark even though I assume there is more than enough actual murder going around.

My cynical self assumes that Larian's writers just asked Wizards: "What are the most tentacly sticky things unique to Faerun that we can use as villains." and their response was Aboleths and Mindflayers.