No-one will remember who your character was anyway. You'll be forgotten by the next game. So, lets have some fun with your craxy char and their mates before "canon" robs us.
Thanks for reminding me that Abdel Adrian is canon.
Firstly, even accepting the idea that a Nautaloid went past a number of cities and randomly abducted people, how likely is it that it grabbed a Priest of Shar, Mystra's Castoff with a magical timebomb, a Vampire Spawn, a Gith and someone with a pact with a demon. Obviously there were others and it wasn't just this group, but it seems unlikely from a narrative perspective to end up with this bunch of people to begin with. The priest of Shar and the Gith you can explain off, at a stretch, but beyond that you are stretching the limits of credibility and it detracts from the world's verisimilitude.
Some of these I can get-they have reasons for being there. Karlach hopped on when we went through Avernus, Lae'zel hardly needs an explanation as a Githyanki warrior, but yeah a lot of super special people. I really wish one of the Origins characters was like a blacksmith or milkmaid or one of the town guard or something more mundane.
Minsc was fairly balanced with help of Dynaheir, they really worked as a couple with all that social background they had (which I liked a lot). But after they got rid of her and left Minsc as a standalone character, well, Minsc has become nothing more than a comic relief.
And unfortunately WoTC seized on him as an easily marketable character and have kept him going into 5e long after his story should have been concluded. I'd love to have another Rashemi character in a D&D crpg, because their history and culture is pretty damn fascinating, but with minsc all of that kinda gets eclipsed by the wacky comic relief hijinks. (spoiler)
I'm not really sure what Larian hopes to accomplish by bringing him back, IMO the comic relief side will get pretty stale fast, and I don't particularly desire to explore his history with the Bhaalspawn, because I'd really rather leave them as undefined as possible so my old bhaalspawn characters can still have some space where they can exist in the realms
