Actually, the world of Baldur’s Gate 3 should have long since perished due to all the threats. The community is now discussing on reddit why Faerûn still exists.
What kind of world does Baldur’s Gate 3 take place in? Baldur’s Gate 3 takes place in the world of Faerûn, the standard world of the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons. Specifically, your adventures unfold in the area west of the city of Baldur’s Gate, along the Chionthar River.
We have marked the area for you here on the official map of Faerûn from Wizards of the Coast. A high-resolution version can be found on the official website.
However, Faerûn is not just a world modeled after the historical Middle Ages, but is filled with magical creatures, powerful spellcasters, gods, and demons.
In over 50 adventure books for Dungeons & Dragons and also in Baldur’s Gate 3, both small and large problems threaten the world – that’s a lot for just one continent.
Faerûn should have perished long ago, yet there’s always a bigger fish
Why has the world not yet perished? In fact, Faerûn could have perished multiple times just from the D&D adventure books alone. On reddit, user VonGoth asks accordingly: […] given all the things you encounter in the game, how can this continent still be populated and thriving?
The general tenor of the commentators is that adventurers save the day
. However, another reddit user provides a pretty good answer: There’s always a bigger fish, and those who don’t stay in their lane are not valued.
The world of Baldur’s Gate 3 always has an emergency plan
Specifically, the reddit user elaborates that there is always a suitable response to any level of threat: If gnolls trouble a village, local young adventurers must eliminate the problem. If a cult destroys an entire city, the surrounding cities gather their armies and confront the issue.
If an antagonist of a level like Sauron from Lord of the Rings appears, huge armies are summoned and great heroes are sent to the front lines. Should this villain at Sauron-level win, the gods intervene.
If a threat ever becomes so powerful that even the gods cannot intervene, there is still someone above: Ao, a god who stands above all gods. The manager of the gods or game master of the world, as the reddit user calls him.
If Ao really has to intervene, it’s as if the game servers are shut down and a patch is applied. In the process, whatever the universe-threatening enemy has done is corrected.
In short: No matter what level an enemy, villain, or knave is, the world of Faerûn always has a suitable answer to maintain the balance. So if you have finished Baldur’s Gate 3, you are the appropriate answer to the cult of the Absolute and all associated threats. One of the hardest enemies in the game can actually be found in Act 1.
