FanloreProject:Baldur's Gate
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| Topics: | Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate |
| See Also: | Category:Baldur's Gate |
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Welcome to FanloreProject:Baldur's Gate!
This project was created because there is so much fan activity around Baldur's Gate 3 and not enough documentation of this great fandom on Fanlore! We need to get organized and make it easy for new editors to find a place to dive in. You can contact us via this page's talk page or by joining the Fanlore Discord server.
Feel welcome to add stuff to this page just to brainstorm, scratch out ideas, make stubs, add redlinks and so on! Let's be enthusiastic and share that enthusiasm with others!
Scope
The scope of this project is anything and everything related to Baldur's Gate, with a particular focus around the active and exciting fandom surrounding Baldur's Gate III, including the following categories:
Regarding any other categories/subcategories we'd want to make - Challenges, Zines, Fics, Actor fandom, and so on - please add those to this list as we make them!
Where to start
If you want to just start editing, some places to start would be fleshing out character pages, relationship pages, and adding famous fanwork and fan examples. Some places to find pages in need of help or creation:
- List of stubs and pages we want to create below, including redlinks we'd like to turn into stubs, and stubs we want to expand!
- Category:Baldur's Gate Characters and Category:Baldur's Gate Relationships which will have stubs and regular pages that could use more content!
Organisation and content-wise, we should establish a way to organise actor-fandom interactions, memes, and meta, as well as any controversies. We're also light on Baldur's Gate fanfiction in general. Brainstorming below. We are still in the process of figuring out what we want - discussions can happen here, on relevant talk pages, or in the Fanlore discord server!
Guidelines
For Baldur's Gate pages, especially those that need more info, you can and should include the following nav box, located at FanloreProject:Baldur's Gate/NavBox:
To use it, put {{FanloreProject:Baldur's Gate/NavBox}} at the bottom of the page.
More Guidelines
We will hopefully:
- Create stubs with extremely reckless abandon.
- Remember to create redirects.
- Summarize any important Discord conversations on the relevant talk page(s).
- Not only keep PPOV in mind but also actively go in search of new opinions in new places.
Some things to keep in mind
- Information for new editors can be found in our New Visitor Portal. Among other things, it explains how to make an account, how to start a new page, and includes a lot of other helpful information.
- Discussion on this project's Talk page is encouraged, as is discussion on individual article Talk pages.
- All edits, whether big, tiny, or in-between, are welcome.
- You don't have to be an "expert" on a subject. Adding what you know and feel passionate about are pieces of the puzzle, and ones that hopefully inspire others to expand on the topic.
- All typos, mistakes, and errors are easily corrected. Don't let perfection hobble you.
- Remember that Fanlore, like all wikis, is a collaborative effort, and may be edited by anyone.
- Pages are not "owned" or controlled by any single person or group of people.
- Pages and the information on them are only as robust, encompassing, and accurate as the information added by interested and enthusiastic fans like you.
- Fanlore practices and encourages a Fanlore:Plural Point of View.
Participants
Active Members
- Aliandry
- Inky
- FBV
- MomeRath
- TimonTomato
- Please add yourself here!
Project Badges
If you have added your name to the project participant list and contributed several edits, a badge may be awarded to you by Fanlore Policy & Admin which will be displayed on your user page, similar to Fanlore Challenges like the International Fanworks Day Fanlore Challenge or Stub September.
Goals and pages that need attention
(not yet organised)
Categories
Active
Aspirational
Characters
Companions and Origin Characters
NPCs and minor characters
- Blurg
- Dammon
- Elminster Aumar
- He Who Was
- Mizora
- Nocturne (Baldur's Gate 3)
- Omeluum
- Orin the Red
- Rolan
- Withers
- Volothamp Geddarm
- Zevlor
- Yenna
Companions and Origin Characters
NPCs and minor characters
Relationships
- Astarion/Cazador
- Astarion/The Dark Urge
- Astarion/Gale
- Astarion/Gale/Halsin
- Astarion/Halsin
- Astarion/Halsin/Tav
- Astarion/Jaheira
- Astarion/Karlach
- Astarion/Karlach/Wyll
- Astarion/Tav
- Astarion/Wyll
- Blurg/Omeluum
- Cazador/Vellioth
- Dame Aylin/Isobel Thorm
- The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash
- Gale/Mystra
- Gale/Tav
- Halsin/Tav
- Halsin/Zevlor
- Karlach/Dammon
- Karlach/Shadowheart
- Karlach/Lae'zel/Shadowheart
- Lae'zel/Shadowheart
- Shadowheart/Tav
- Wyll/Mizora
Other Pages
- Astarion wearing this...
- Baldur's Gate/Dragon Age Crossover
- Baldur's Village (Stardew Valley Mod)
- Batstarion
- Beast (Baldur's Gate III story)
- Cowboy Astarion
- dare I call Astarion artists again
- Dave Jones
- Goostarion
- Neil Newbon
- Perceived Impressions (Story)
- Wavemother's Robe
- Who gave Astarion a gun
- Add pages here!
Brainstorming, Organisation, and Todos
Page ideas
- List of ship page / popular ship section update: Baldur's Gate 3 Relationship Names
- Centering BG3 page and making it discoverbale/findable - maybe "Baldur's Gate (Series)" and have "Baldur's Gate" redirect to BG3?
- Add notable fanworks
- Add notable fancreators
- Notable videos? tiktok presence?
- Actor interaction? I feel like there's a LOT of actor interaction on tiktok/youtube etc with fans
- That thing where the actors played D&D on stream?
- Trends in Tav in fiction?
- Tav vs Durge, Tav = Durge tagging issues, etc
- BG3 events, challenges?
- Memes and notable comics: Dark Ugre x Kar'niss fan-made comic by theOldCrane; many comics by wellen-katze, such as Astarion, Dark Urge BG3 comic; many comics by Timo, such as "The Dark Urge disapproves"; BG3, Karlach + non-ascendant Astarion comic based on Descent into Avernus by SunsetagainD; controversial Party comic by AVIONETCA due to lacking Wyll during it's "first" publication
- BG3 communities - these need pages. Maybe these need a category?
- Drama/controversy page about the white Wyll mod? Another
- Troubles and push back with retcons: Ascendarion censored sex scene, Astarion music overlay during emotional Pale Elf quest good ending, Gortash letters removing "homosexual tones", Lae'zel "softification", the lack of warning for these changes on the Patch notes.
- https://www.tumblr.com/recents/734660705247215616/idk-i-think-what-is-interesting-about-astarion-to?source=share Astarion redemption meta Gollum
To Organise
- Categories to make
- We need redlinks for important minor characters
- Streamers?
- Here are some links related to Jones' fannish interactions, support of pairings, particularly engaging posts, voice acting etc. There's more but I'm leaving these here for now because the situations have been mentioned before and need ref OR because these are important enough to the creation of a new page:
- Voice line for fans
- Voice line based on interaction with Karlach's VA and Halsin & Karlach fanart
- Meme of a thirsty post the VA found
- Halstarion interaction
- Re-draw from EGX, with Halsin, Karlach and Astarion
- Interaction regarding GaleXAstarionXHalsin fanart that later was discussed during Neil's stream
- Some more reblogs that put the fear of God in some artist's hearts
- Voice line for Halstarion fanart
- Related to Halsin, Halstarion and Tavalstarion hate: Harassment towards the VA, Fan and VA'ssentiments.
History of the Project
Project started: 05 November 2023