Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (2001)
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal is a 2001 role-playing (rpg) video game made by BioWare and BioWare Edmonton.
Throne of Bhaal is the final expansion to Baldur's Gate II, and its premise is the one the entire trilogy was building toward: the Children of Bhaal, god of murder, are moving, and the world is beginning to burn. The expansion takes the player's party into Amkethran and the Pocket Plane, raising character levels to the ceiling of the AD&D ruleset and closing the arc that began in the original Baldur's Gate. The stakes are godhood, lineage, and what a person built from violence chooses to become.
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What is Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal about?
Throne of Bhaal is the final expansion to Baldur's Gate II, and its premise is the one the entire trilogy was building toward: the Children of Bhaal, god of murder, are moving, and the world is beginning to burn. The expansion takes the player's party into Amkethran and the Pocket Plane, raising character levels to the ceiling of the AD&D ruleset and closing the arc that began in the original Baldur's Gate. The stakes are godhood, lineage, and what a person built from violence chooses to become.
When was Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal released?
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal was released on 21 June 2001.
Who made Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal?
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal was made by BioWare, BioWare Edmonton and MumboJumbo.
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A few thoughts on Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate II grounds the Forgotten Realms mythology the saga rests on, worth reading before the final act. For fiction in the same key, Warcraft: Day of the Dragon follows a mortal caught between forces of divine scale, written with the same earnestness the Bhaal saga earns.
Dark Fantasy Fiction for the Long Run
When a trilogy ends at this scale, the tie-in novels that surround it earn a look. Dragon Age: Last Flight, Warcraft: Day of the Dragon, and Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow all inhabit the same tradition of dense world-building across media.
Endings You Earn After Forty Hours
Throne of Bhaal has six endings, each shaped by a hundred decisions made long before you arrived. Mass Effect 3, Undertale, and Dishonored take the same position: the final chapter is just the ledger of everything that came before it.