The only thing that really stands out about the companions we have so far is that they have some of the most outrageous backstories I've seen in a while (and I've seen some questionable backstories), but honestly, the characters without them are... bland? a little bit stereotypical?
Certainly more vanilla than many games I've played, as only Lae'zel is any kind of exotic race, and not even a particularly monstrous one at that, but I've recently come to learn that my circle of acquaintances is a lot more open to that sort of thing than other groups might be. We once went to a tomb of annihilation game with almost an entire party of anthro-races by accident. I wanted to name our party the Menagerie.
