Origin companions are such a horrible design decision.
Everyone is super duper mega special awesome and rare.
Yet they all ended up in this legendary mindflayer ship.
In hell
And survived.
Being attacked by githyanki elites
With dragons.
And crashing
Bg1, bg2, DA:O thats how you design companions.
First, nothing sets this particular mindflayer ship as "legendary", other than it seeming to be a holdover from a lost era - of course, it could be just one of a huge fleet that has been rebuilt- we know nada at this point of its origins.
I also don't see all the Origin characters as "awesome and rare". Lae'zel is one of a gazillion Gith - only thing special about her is a tadpole. Wyll has a pact with a devil? Hmm...seems I've seen plenty of those in D&D modules, books, comics and the like - nothing special there, other than a tadpole. Astarion? His being around for centuries certainly isn't special - he's an elf - Vampire spawn? Again not special - BG2 had plenty of those - can't recall a Faerun city that DIDN'T have a vamp or 3 dozen. Shadowheart is another in a long lime of religious representatives wrestling with faith - though her backstory of secrets and enemies everywhere at least intrigues me a bit ( I seem to recall Viconia having some potential faith issues back in BG2). The only one I would really characterize as having being awesome and rare might be Gale, due to his hobnobbing with gods and the like - and again he's just an example of the old tale of being too ambitious for his own good - will he gain the wisdom necessary to atone, make amends and turn his life around. All of this is basic hero stuff.
Your character is not attacked by Mindflayers, Githyanki or Dragons on the ship - they are way too busy fighting each other, thus providing you the opportunity to escape, low level that you are. Doesn't matter if they are fighting in hell, heaven, Faerun, Realmspace, or Elminster's Outhouse - they are too damn busy to bother with you.
And as you aren't anywhere near the only survivor of the crash, it clearly wasn't a miracle that you survived. How often to we read about an auto accident where 3 out of 4 in the car were killed, and the 4th survived with minor injuries. So again, nothing too outrageous.
Somedays it seems that if Larian doesn't have exactly the plot/characters/mechanics/events and so on that a poster envisions, Larian is guilty of "horrible design decisions" And somehow they are expected to meet the million competing ideas of this game that a million different folks envision, simultaneously.
Yeah well that just you choosing not see it.
Nautils are Legendary and thought gone so when one shows up you expect it to be treated like a MF TRESURE filled with guards and elits not just low level trash.
Maybe its just me reading to much into it.
There is a Red dragon like 1m next to HERO breathing fire.
The imps that attack kills a full fledge mindflayer but is easly killed by the Hero.
One devil and One mind flayer left at the helm WOW so lucky.
See it just keeps adding up we could easly been killed here but saved by randomness.
YES ITS POSSIBLE! but not very beliveble it became silly instead of nervwrecking.
Lae: Nothing special about her besides being Gith that is pretty special on its own but its ok in the setting just rare (wixh will add up)
SH: Half elven Shar pristess kind of rare but its heavenly hinted that she is so much more.
Ast: Elven Vampire spawn (super rare) But he lost all game breaking powers and curses (now ait that just lucky) while still being level 1.
Gale: Seems to be some kind of former choosen ex archmage who lost hes power for being stupid (another very rare almost impossible back story)
Wyll: The folkhero, the joke, the moron. A Warlock pretenting to be a "fighter" even tho HERO is a Warlock and confronts him he still denices it. (very rare to that stupid)
Picked up by the Nautilus by random in Baldur's Gate
There are no reason to all of this special things. Specially since the game is supposed to be lowlevel only. If we have dragons and mindflayers now what will we have in the expansion. Archdevils and Gods?
Ast: Could been just a elven scout or spy
Gale: the mystra ex lover part really grinds my gear get it of it and boom fits in the campaigne
Wyll: Make him a bard or something that fits his character.
