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The '''Baldur's Gate Wiki''' is about the {{tag|Video games|video games}} and related {{tag|novels}} set in the ''Forgotten Realms'' with ''Baldur's Gate'' in the title. Currently, there are six games released. The last released game is Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, which was released for Windows and Mac users at 15 November 2013.

The first [[wiki]] about the whole series of ''Baldur's Gate'' was founded in September 2009 and after the creation, it was soon abandoned by bureaucrats and [[sysop|administrators]], which caused major problems editing the wiki. At January 2012, a second ''Baldur's Gate'' wiki was created, which focused only on Baldur's Gate, until both wiki's were merged in May 2013.

This wiki is about two series, the ''Bhaalspawn'' series and the ''Dark Alliance'' series. The Bhaalspawn series is about the resurrection of Bhaal, the Lord of Murder, who was slain in the Time of Troubles, an event 10 years before the first game, Baldur's Gate. In this western {{tag|Role-playing|RPG}} series, the player controls the actions of a humanoid character created by the player. The player character can be a humanoid of in total six races and pick one of the eight classes or multi-class combination in Baldur's Gate. In the other three games, the player can choose seven humanoid races, eleven classes with the option of a large number of class kits and multi-class combination.

At some point in the story, the player learns that the character is a Bhaalspawn, who are the children of Bhaal, who can be all kinds of races and alignments. The sage Alaundo, prophecied that these children will saw chaos across the lands and kill each other or be killed by heroes, until all of them are dead and the essence of the children is returned to Bhaal, which makes it possible to resurrect the former god of Murder.

These four games are based on BioWare's Infinity Engine. The first game is based on the second edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons rulebook, while the other three are a mix between the second and the third edition.