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5-10% of the beginning of act 1 and 3 is about refugees and how they’re treated by local populations. That theme carries through the game with the Tieflings. Insert random Arabic war or the invasion of Ukraine and resulting refugee population here. The overall story is about mind worms being used by a central hive mind (the absolute), which draws a parallel with our current internet age and the sort of propaganda those with the resources can wreak upon a populace (thralls), but could also be interpreted more literally as religious zealotry, which is thematic throughout the game. There’s more, but the story is much more than just the individual characters’ loyalty quests.
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Do you know why I mentioned the companions whole thing? Because apart from the main quest they take up most of the narrative attention, and if that is one of your chosen themes let me tell you it's weak, if BG3 was about it maybe it'd be more than window dressing in the third act it'd make up a central pillar of the theme of that act, you know when the refugees ARE in Baldurs Gate?
As for the other alright dipshit, it's called an elder brain, or netherbrain if we take what BG3 calls it, and the rest is just nonsense propaganda? zealotry? My guy, my baby boy, the game literally yells it at you several times AUTHORITY, like for fucks sake it's called the Absolute, it is about control and power and here you are going, 'Well it's about propaganda innit and like the stuff' just amazing, am I supposed to take whatever you say serious when you don't know what themes are? When it doesn't seem like you have any media literacy, and I'm somewhat convinced you haven't really played a lot of RPGs because you have nothing to say about any of the games I've mentioned, which just tells me that you are a baby whose opinion can be safely discarded.
Wow! Alright then.