I agree …
1. Companions having their own agenda makes them more engaging, and I don’t mind the resultant squabbling.
2. It would be interesting if that has consequences and/or they leave if you don’t support them or they don’t like you (both have precedents in BG1 & 2 of course) and I like the hint of this with a certain side deal Gale strikes in some circumstances.
3. mrfuji3 is right that there should be warning if a companion is reaching the end of their tether, and I love the idea of coming across them later and finding how they fared without us.
4. I think Gale, Astarion, Shadowheart and Lae’zel are great characters with mainly excellent voice-acting and, glitches aside, good animation. For me, Wyll isn’t quite coming off yet but I still think he has promise and take him along on some playthroughs. And fair point that Shadowheart should probably be more secretive and that there may be too many similarities in the overall shape of the companion stories at least to begin with.
5. We have plenty of tadpoled characters already and I’d be happy with any further companions having different motivations for joining. (Despite the fact that we seem to have at least Karlach still planned to come.)
6. I’d also be happy with no more origin characters, or indeed no origin characters at all.
7. I’d like Halsin to be companion too, and would also put in a bid for Barcus Wroot!
