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As long as it creates a great storytelling I am all for it ^^ We can only guess what will the conclussion to each character be... on our individual playthroughs
I'll just pray Gale doesn't blow up while dreaming about Mystra.

Yoshimo: "did someone say backstabbing? Yoshimo is willing"

This or I will blow up after giving him one more artifact. Even Astarion is less thirsty.

Romance is fundamental to DnD. I mean, how else would you meet your wife? Wonder how many of us met our partner over a set of hot dice I love the option to get close to someone and add a bit more gritty adult stuff. Just makes the adventure that bit more interesting. Shadowheart? You hearing this? Babe? Hello....

I'm not terribly proficient in Realms lore, but Gale's backstory does seem more - I dunno, extreme? - than the others. Lover and Chosen of a god must be a much rarer thing to achieve than "vampire spawn", "folk hero", "random githyanki" (is Lae'zel special at all?) and... whatever Shadowheart is. Also, how the heck is our PC supposed to compete with Mystra. Yeesh.

Gale and Shadowheart seem to have the most well-developed romance tracks so far. Once Wyll's gets unbugged, maybe it'll be up there too. I'd like to see more content for Astarion and Lae'zel but I'm not sure if that's even in the works. And I definitely hope we'll get more of this stuff in Act II and III; Original Sin 2 kind of dropped the ball there, IIRC (and I may be remembering entirely wrong, I basically only romanced Ifan).

As far as shady companions go, I think the top spot in this game will go to

I think Lae'zel might be more than she's told us. She talks to that githyanki knight like she's higher than he is unless we intervene...then they attack us, but that's not the point. Shadowheart is either some chosen of Shar, or perhaps a Selunite priestess who's been captured and mindwiped by sharans..hmm? probably the former. Gale's story seems.... um, ok-ish. as long as they keep giving us mediochre blue items to feed him. If I have to start giving him my good items he's getting dumped.

Now that was an EXTREMELY interesting thread.

... I feel like I actually like Gale better now - who does not enjoy a little depth and plot! Still not romancing any of the options though. I really feel like NONE of the available characters suit my ranger lady, even a tiny bit. <.<

Regarding romances, I have an anecdote I'd like to share;

If you really want to know if your companions are hiding something from you, look at this:

Aww, all of the #1 options are so sweet (except Lae'zel - no sweetness allowed!). But of course they exist to give you such options when you play as an origin character - whether the characters have similar desires "on their own", so to speak, is up in the air. Hopefully Larian can manage to work it all in.

But good Lathander, Gale.

What's next? Gonna start aiming for Ao's job?

Jumping in here. I REALLY wish there was some way to prioritize interactions with the companions you want. I find despite being "high" attitude with Astarion and only medium with Shadowheart and neutral with Lae'zel, the game still prioritizes their interactions. I literally have to knock both of them out before any of the Illithid dream sequences if I want to get the Astarion interactions. Don't get me wrong. I love Shadowheart and plan on romancing her, just not with that particular character. But I find I need to use her or Lae'zel a lot because otherwise my party is just too squishy. *sighs* Please, please, please allow us to have some way to prioritize interactions with the characters we want.

The options are all things hinted at by the game for those characters as companions.

Yeah, I was amazed at all the new interactions I got with Astarion when I did a Lone Wolf run (I recruited Gale too but he stayed in camp permanently).

I also dislike that so many meaningful interactions are gated behind abusing the tadpole. Though that does make it more tempting.

I fully agree that certain companion scenes overrides others and made a thread about that not too long ago. I'd wish that instead of overriding, we'd be able to get all the reactions/scenes/longer conversations at camp with ALL party members, regardless of who else is in the party.

I love Shadowheart too, she's one of my favorites so far, but I noticed that the game kind of seems to favor her a lot. Afaik, she's the only companion who will show up in the Grove if you miss her at the beginning, and her solo banter of "hmmm there must be a way to open this thing" as she struggles with her box is impossible to avoid when you run around in that area. She's also the only one who, if you ignore her in the Grove, seeks you out at camp where you get yet another chance to recruit her, even if you try to avoid it.

When I did my first playthrough, I always had her in my party and I always got her reactions to things as opposed to other party members, and her scenes in camp were mostly prioritized with the "!" above her head (after the fourth dream, after Lae'zel attacks you etc.). I've done a playthrough without her and finally get to see more of other companions, though Lae'zel is prone to this as well, I think.

It's a bit frustrating to miss out on content from all the others just because I have SH in the party. And, like xarallei said, I also kind of need her or Lae'zel because I'm playing as a Warlock. Not only that, but I'm interested in her story, so I don't want to have to drop her and avoid her just because she hogs most of the scenes. Hopefully this will be addressed at some point.

I picked up on that too, I've begun to wonder if her constantly referencing Vlaakith as the mother to all Githyanki is more than metaphorical for her.


Looking at this I find it especially telling that Lae'zel is the only character that doesn't get an option that deals with her past.