You all really shouldn’t be so worried about the character alignments. If you listen to Karlach’s audio files you will hear lots of lines where she expresses empathy. While it’s of course too early to say definitively, she sounds very much like a good aligned character.
My guess is that it will be:
Minsc - good Karlach - good Helia - good Wyll - neutral Gale - neutral Astarion - evil Shadowheart - evil Lae’zel - evil
This seems like a very decent spread, especially seeing as BG2 had a very poor selection of evil companions.
That being said, the more the merrier, so hopefully Larian is going to add a few.
Edwin was one of the best companions in the game and he was Evil.
Also someone mentioned wings as a problem but they aren't. They were in DOS2, and you can play the whole game with wings on your back with a mod.
Not to mention Viconia and Korgan? At this point its futile the even compare BG3's lacking companion line up to BG2. Not mentioning the dozens of amazing well written MODDED in companions (Kelsey, Adrian, Fade, Yvette, Solaufein, Isra, Arath, Sirene, Angelo, Xulaye....) that have romances, interact with the game story, have banters between you other NPCs and the game world etc... something that will be impossible to do in BG3, the way dialogue works. How many new companions did modders make in DOS2? lol. For me this is the most depressing aspect of the game. Low npc count, and NO WAY to add anything afterwards due to these mostly annoying cinematic dialogues. We are stock with a bunch of non interesting wining jerks. At this point Id take JAN over any of these.
