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Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion looking into the distance as the Nautiloid ship burns with its tentacles falling into the ground.
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Baldur’s Gate 3: Who is Tav in BG3?

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Published: Aug 23, 2023 02:10 pm

Each time you create a new character in Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3) and reach the last stage of creation after spending hours choosing your race, class, background, abilities, and—most importantly— appearance, a name greets you: Tav, the default name in BG3.

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You have the option to change it to any name with 20 characters max. Because the name section didn’t stand out in the character creation, many players ended up creating a character named Tav without noticing they could change the name.

Is Tav the canon name for BG3‘s main character?

No, Baldur’s Gate 3 main character doesn’t have a canon name. Some RPG games have canon names for the main character even if you can change them in-game like Link from older Legend of Zelda games, Frisk and Chara from Undertale, or all the different Persona main characters.

Tav is a nod to the project name when the game was still in development. Larian Studios’ founder and CEO Swen Vincke said in the Divinity: Original Sin documentary back in 2018 that their next thing after Divinity: Original Sin II was called Project Gustav, named after his dog.

A Shepherd dog liying on the ground with several printed Larian Studios logos and small rullers over it.
Swen Vincke’s dog is called Gustav. Screenshot via Gameumentary Youtube

Many .pak files also carry the name Gustav as well as that is the name of the character if you load the campaign in multiplayer. It’s definitely an homage to the beginnings of Baldur’s Gate 3‘s story and Vincke’s dog.

The CEO has the habit of using his dog’s names in his biggest projects as the studio itself—Larian Studios— is named after another of the CEO’s dogs.

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Nádia Linhares
Nádia is a Brazilian freelance writer who works for Dot since 2020. She has covered everything from Pokémon to FIFA. Video games are an essential part of her life, especially indie games and RPGs. You can catch her playing Overwatch in her spare time, but she writes better than she aims.