Always hope for redemption:)
I suspect that’s what they might be going for. “Evil” characters with the potential to be redeemed, and “good” characters with the potential to be corrupted.
It seems WotC is downgrading the importance of good/evil alignment in general, and apparently asked Larian to put less emphasis on it. I guess the idea is to make it easier or better to role play someone who thinks they are fighting for a just cause, but prepared to do some nasty things in pursuit of it, for example. Making things a bit less black and white may make mixed alignment parties easier to deal with as well.
I expect all the characters will have substantial flaws and/or secrets, but not necessarily “evil or tainted”.
I think we might get a companion based on all the standard player classes, each of varying morality/ethics, not to mention we the player character can choose how good/evil we want to be. The BG series was great for having a party that complemented your morality to ensure cohesion and cooperation between the group. So far we have a Wizard, Warlock, Cleric, Warrior and Rogue class companions, that leaves plenty of room for the other classes.
Ensuring cohesion and cooperation in the party might not be the name of the game in BG3 though. I’m guessing again that fiction, disagreements and animosity might be the more normal experience, and perhaps irreconcilable differences.
All that said, there does seem to be a lack of generally “good” characters so far. This might not mean anything though. Maybe these are just the first characters ready to be tried, or there’s specific things about them or their interactions Larian want feedback on? Perhaps they want to stress test their party system by making everyone play early access with the biggest bunch of dicks available? There could be any number of reasons that these are the first characters to be released.
