Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 - The Modding Dungeon Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Modding General Add Pet Pal for free in a mod?

I want to make a very simple mod that gives Pet Pal as a free talent to every players (no one in my group of friends want really wants to get it). However, I am very new to modding.

Installing the Divinity Engine 2 was easy, and after looking at the stats editor, I found out that the playable characters are all using the "_Hero" template.

It seems to be possible to override the "_Hero" entry in a mod, and change the default values for a lot of things, including talents. I successfully added "Talent_PetPal" in the talents column.

However, all I did was change the default talent selected at character selection. It's not really what I wanted to do. You can still deselect it and pick something else.

Is there a way to lock Pet Pal and then add one more talent at level 1?