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Bg3.wiki is an unofficial fan wiki for the video game [https://baldursgate3.game Baldur's Gate 3] by [https://larian.com Larian Studios]. Any copyrighted works (text, code, images, etc.) published on bg3.wiki are licensed under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)] and [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)], unless otherwise stated, with additional exceptions described on this page.

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