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* Abdel Adrian, the protagonist from the novels, is a big reason why they are considered FanonDiscontinuity. Considering that the game provide a wealth of options for character creation, he's already got a strike against him by being the most generic protagonist possible - a DumbMuscle male human fighter. But what truly pushes him into this is his JerkAss personality; He treats his companions with contempt, cheats on his romantic partner, fights like a thug, and is more interested in money and base pleasures than anything else. The novels treat him as a skilled and seductive AntiHero, but the fanbase doesn't buy it one bit and he's widely seen as an unlikable DesignatedHero. It doesn't help the novel also completely warped the personalities of several characters like Khalid as seen above so Abdel can shine.
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* Abdel Adrian, the protagonist from the novels, is a big reason why they are considered FanonDiscontinuity. Considering that the game provide a wealth of options for character creation, he's already got a strike against him by being the most generic protagonist possible - a DumbMuscle male human fighter. But what truly pushes him into this is his JerkAss personality; He treats his companions with contempt, cheats on his romantic partner, fights like a thug, and is more interested in money and base pleasures than anything else. The novels treat him as a skilled and seductive AntiHero, but the fanbase doesn't buy it one bit and he's widely seen as an unlikable DesignatedHero. It doesn't help the novel also completely warped the personalities of several characters like Khalid as seen above so Abdel can shine. ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' deliberately {{unperson}}ed him as a result of this with even characters who knew him personally refusing to use his name or pronouns, and the only indication Abdel ever existed being a hidden NPC who gifts you his shield.
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* Several {{NPC}}s have minor hatedoms. [[LordErrorProne Anomen]], however, has a fairly major one, not only because he's a major {{jerkass}} and a {{hypocrite}} but, until the Enhanced Edition came out, for being the only canonical female PlayerCharacter love interest on top of that. It really doesn't help that initially, he really has pretty average Wisdom scores - something Clerics needed plenty of in order to cast quite a few high-level spells. His personal quest ''is'' reasonably well-regarded, SchrodingersGun issues aside, for providing worthy character development, where he grows up and becomes a better, mellower and nicer person, but while most party members' personal quests are activated on a timer Anomen has to gain ''TWO LEVELS'' to trigger it, which means you have to endure his assholeness for quite a long time. And if you help him succeed his trial, his wisdom score goes from 12 to 16... which he will lose in ''Throne of Bhaal'', if you didn't took him at the end of ''Shadows of Amn''.
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* Several {{NPC}}s have minor hatedoms. [[LordErrorProne Anomen]], however, has a fairly major one, not only because he's a major {{jerkass}} and a {{hypocrite}} but, until the Enhanced Edition came out, for being the only canonical female PlayerCharacter love interest on top of that. It really doesn't help that initially, he really has pretty average Wisdom scores - something Clerics needed plenty of in order to cast quite a few high-level spells. His personal quest ''is'' reasonably well-regarded, SchrodingersGun issues aside, for providing worthy character development, where development in terms of both revealing [[FreudianExcuse why he grows is the way he is]] and either causing him to grow up and becomes a better, mellower mellower, and nicer person, person or sink into bitterness and despair, but while most party members' personal quests are activated on a timer Anomen has to gain ''TWO LEVELS'' to trigger it, which means you have to endure his assholeness for quite a long time. And if you help him succeed his trial, his wisdom score goes from 12 to 16... which he will lose to bugs in ''Throne of Bhaal'', if you didn't took him he wasn't in the party at the end of ''Shadows of Amn''.
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* [[TricksterMentor Elminster]]. Many people feel that he is too powerful in his role in the first game (he is NighInvulnerable) and your Journal entry will glorify him regardless of your attitude. It also doesn't help that his role in the series essentially boils down to [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper giving you tidbits of information that you just risked life and limb to scratch from the remotest corners of the Sword Coast, while barely making any efforts to lift a finger himself]].
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* [[TricksterMentor Elminster]]. Many people feel that he is too powerful in his role in the first game (he is NighInvulnerable) and your Journal entry will glorify him regardless of your attitude. It also doesn't help that his role in the series essentially boils down to [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper giving you tidbits of information that you just risked life and limb to scratch from the remotest corners of the Sword Coast, while barely making any efforts to lift a finger himself]]. ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' didn't do much to endear him to players as his only role in the story is to tell his protégé the beloved SquishyWizard Gale [[spoiler:to perform a StupidSacrifice on the behalf of their goddess who abandoned him]].
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* Several {{NPC}}s have minor hatedoms. [[LordErrorProne Anomen]], however, has a fairly major one, not only because he's a major {{jerkass}} and a {{hypocrite}} but, until the Enhanced Edition came out, for being the only canonical female PlayerCharacter love interest on top of that. It really doesn't help that initially, he really has pretty average Wisdom scores - something Clerics needed plenty of in order to cast quite a few high-level spells. Most party members' personal quests are activated on a timer. In Anomen's case, he has to gain ''TWO LEVELS'' to trigger his sidequest, which means you have to endure his assholeness for quite a long time. And if you help him succeed his trial, his wisdom score goes from 12 to 16... which he will lose in ''Throne of Bhaal'', if you didn't took him at the end of ''Shadows of Amn''.
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* Several {{NPC}}s have minor hatedoms. [[LordErrorProne Anomen]], however, has a fairly major one, not only because he's a major {{jerkass}} and a {{hypocrite}} but, until the Enhanced Edition came out, for being the only canonical female PlayerCharacter love interest on top of that. It really doesn't help that initially, he really has pretty average Wisdom scores - something Clerics needed plenty of in order to cast quite a few high-level spells. Most His personal quest ''is'' reasonably well-regarded, SchrodingersGun issues aside, for providing worthy character development, where he grows up and becomes a better, mellower and nicer person, but while most party members' personal quests are activated on a timer. In Anomen's case, he timer Anomen has to gain ''TWO LEVELS'' to trigger his sidequest, it, which means you have to endure his assholeness for quite a long time. And if you help him succeed his trial, his wisdom score goes from 12 to 16... which he will lose in ''Throne of Bhaal'', if you didn't took him at the end of ''Shadows of Amn''.
