Thread: Jon Icarus
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Old 01-25-2003, 04:28 AM   #2
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Originally posted by ezekill:
This question has probably been asked before, but anyway, in the spider colony with the fat spider bitch in the middle, you ask her how she became that way and she says that her former love "Jon Icarus" turned her that way, is this Jon Irenicus from BG2, did the Black Isle people change his name and forget about BG1 or did they just have a shortage of names?
They are indeed the same person.

Someone else can probably give more of the whys and wherefores, but as I've heard it, the designers of BG2 thought the name "Icarus" was too Greek for the Faerun universe, and changed his last name from "Icarus" to "Irenicus."
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