Is there any definitive answer on the history of the Player Character in Geneforge 5? I recently played through the GF2 Remaster, and decided to start another run through GF5. I had always grouped 1&2 together, then 3-5 together, but I'm starting to wonder if the PC is actually a past hero from GF2.
If you explore The Foundry Repository for the Trakovite Entry Quest, you find out that you're an amnesiac Rawal found wandering in the Drypeak Mountains, who had significant alterations. At first, I thought this refutes the idea that you're reprising the character from GF2, since
but later, when you get to the Oasis Fields and talk to Sage Lara, she seems to indicate that you played a significant role in your past (which was in the Drypeak Mountains). To quote her,
After thinking about it more, Rawal only found the PC - he didn't see what altered them, and it seems like the Canisters and the Geneforge work the same way. Is it possible that Rawal mistook heavy canister usage for Geneforge usage? I assume that he built his Geneforge in order to repair your damaged character, since the geneforge rewrites genes.