Baldur's Gate 3 is an enormous game, with so much content it still feels like we could keep uncovering new lines of dialogue and secrets for months, if not years to come. However, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that plenty of content was cut from the final release, too, including several explorable locations, such as the first area in the original Baldur's Gate – Candlekeep.
This was revealed during a recent IGN interview with Baldur's Gate 3 director and head of Larian Studios, Swen Vincke. He doesn't reveal any details about how Candlekeep's inclusion would have tied into the story, but explains: "There was a moment where the maps were going to be smaller, and so we were going to be able to give you [a] bigger diversity of locations that you would explore."
