I do find it odd that we don't have a companion here that's actively encouraging us to go with the Absolute. Especially since Larian has said that they gave us the evil companions first to encourage us to go the evil route. Yet none of the companions really seem keen on going the evil route. Based on what Larian has said, it seems fair to assume we're not going to be getting a companion that's okay with the evil route in the future, so that leaves me feeling pretty...I don't know about the choice.
I definitely am not a fan of the evil route's execution, but in terms of the way it interacts with companions, it feels weird to me and seems like a poor choice on their part not to have a companion advocating for this route. They don't even have to know anything more about the cult than we do, they could just look at it and think "yeah, those guys have the right idea." Instead all our most evil companions seem like they would range from against allying with the cult to just ambivalent about it.
Yeah, I'm kinda getting
Fallout New Vegas 'Ceaser's Legion' vibes from siding with the Goblins right now. That game also had a problem with it's 'evil route/faction' being ostensibly equal to the NCR, but in practice not so much. There really wasn't much reason to join them compared to the other options to begin with, and none of the companions would advocate for them (hell, most of them hated the legion)...which didn't help to present them as a viable option to the player, outside the novelty perhaps.
The losing companions thing is really grim for the evil path IMO.
And for what? The only real tradeoff you get for siding with the Tieflings is that Minthara dies, but Larian hasn't even confirmed that there will be non-origins party members yet, so we just can't take for granted that she'll be available to plug into the hole where our missing companions were.
Actually if I recall correctly I believe it has been said that there are several more companions yet to be implemented. I am guessing at this point they are not Origin Characters?
There are three more origin characters yet to be added. That's probably what you are thinking of-Larion hasn't said that Minthara, for ex- or any of the other npcs we meet will be recruitable. It's important to note that (as Gray Ghost pointed out) The five companions we have now are the evil and neutral ones. We know exactly who two of the three remaining ones are-and from what we know, they aren't naturally the sort to join up with goblins and drow to massacre civilians (and it's seemingly confirmed that one of them will leave if you fight for the goblins....consider that the other is noneother than
. However lopsided things seem to be playing through CH1 as an evil character right now-in terms of losing out on companions and romance options, it's
only going to get more lopsided as more content is released if Larion stays on its present course.
