If you've played Baldur's Gate 3, you'll have seen Kanon. You may not remember him, but you've definitely witnessed his untimely demise at the sharp end of a goblin arrow.
You see, Kanon is the tiefling who opens the gate for Aradin and his men when the party first arrives at the Emerald Grove. His primary purpose in the narrative is to give the tiefling refugees someone to mourn, especially Kanon's sister Arka, who is the tiefling threatening to murder the imprisoned goblin Sazza.
The conventional thinking was that Kanon's death was set in stone, a scripted event that couldn't be influenced. That answer didn't satisfy Aero_Naught, however, who set out to find a way to save the doomed tiefling, and made some incredible discoveries along the way.
The poster's original method was a complex caper involving a dead Wyll, but thankfully, further experimentation yielded an easier method of saving Kanon.
There were two hurdles to overcome to save Kanon: stopping the cutscene from triggering, and ensuring a scripted "die" command doesn't trigger on him. The latter is a failsafe Larian placed in the game to ensure Kanon dies if the party chooses to avoid the Emerald Grove.
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