Bring back Korgan Bloodaxe or similar. Not a romantic interest, just a blood thirsty head remover.
Yes, an uncomplicated I know why I am here and so do you, lets get on with it. It'd be cool if it was Bloodaxe as he'd still be around and probably doing the same, and the game could explore, what happens to an uncomplicated evil merc/adventurer when they.. save the world and are now famous but don't care. It could be fun and of all the characters to bring back, he'd be the least fanservicey so probably to best to work on his own rather than just, hey remember me from the thing?
I'd kind of like an uncomplicated fighter to be, a not traditionally evil or fighter species though. Something about that personality on a hafling, aasimar or gnome would be hilarious but with the character still being completely played straight and serious not a comic relief.
Yeah I could get into that. Someone who's just there to merc the hapless rubes and take their money hehe. Korgan was great in BG2, and the Zhent pairing from BG1 was also rad, Monty and Xzar had the best barks.
Like I'm guessing they'd save Xzar's reappearance for an NPC Lich King by now, or maybe some unfortunate B-tier Zombie. Maybe he got demoted from some shit that went totally awry and backfired, just trying to shake off the dust now, eat some brains and get his game back. That would have been funny for a "speak with the dead" riff.
There are other PCs from the first two games who might sensibly still be alive 100 years out. Any of the Elves or Dwarves could work. And there are plenty of planar accidents or various 'turned to stone' type tropes that could have been used to bring back a few favs. They teased Minsc and that's cool, but I still haven't seen him, and anyway I probably would have been more interested in seeing Kivan again.
Druids have traditionally ceased to age at higher levels, so if she didn't get off'd at Trademeet, Faldorn could still doing her thing, or maybe we run into Cernd somewhere down the line.
Any of those could work for an act 3 insert.
But mainly I just wish there were a lot of non-origin companions to round things out. For a more BG feel the VA work for such companions should be focused on simple barks and banters, not full on cinematics or romance. More peeps that could come and go, get chunked or left by the wayside, without upending the whole tadpole-team plot device. Right now the bar is set so low, I'd be happy if we end up with a dozen possible companions. Its just sad cause this is BG3 and I'd have hoped for more companions than we got BG2 which had a potential roster of 25. In the first two games there were a couple versions of each class archetype to choose from, which made the party feel a lot more flexible.
With the 5 companions currently available there's not much dynamism to party composition, or room to play it more by alignment. There's basically one Good aligned party that includes Gale and Wyll (with Shadowheart, Lae'zel or Astarion being constantly annoyed with your decisions) and one Evil aligned party where you have to listen to Shadowheart and Lae'zel gripe about each other, or else deal with constant disapproval from Gale or Wyll who don't really want to be there for the bloodsports.
