How Baldur's Gate 3 might have brought back Candlekeep, the library fortress where Baldur's Gate began

24 May 2024Source: RPS
Videogames and especially role-playing games are chock-full of sheltered upbringings that go tits up. Innocent times and places like the prologue for Baldur's Gate, which unfolds in the vast, fortified monastery of Candlekeep (beware spoilers from this point on).


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