Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General who do you think the new origin character will be?

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Im wondering if it will be the bard that sings on the hill near the squirrels
or
anyone any other guesses for in 4 days?

Already a thread:
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=853556#Post853556

ah didnt see

"life audience" Are they bringing press over?

Maybe they got Donnie Yen to be their stage monk.

I confess, this made me chuckle.

I hope it's this character...I want an ally worth having.

Mystery NPC

it's not her. she's just an important NPC in later act1.

We still don't have a dwarf/halfling/gnome companion. Larian's HR needs to organise some diversity seminars. Larian made fun of players making human and elf tavs, and themselves made 3 humans, three elves and two halfeves.

Larian actually made fun of players making a "generic" Tav, perhaps this is their way to push you to make a small race Tav...

Shame.

At least there is Minsk and Jaheira.

Of the rest, I find Wyll and Gale to be pleasant company, and of the two, Wyll doesn't explode or eat magical items like a crack addict.

I actually think he will make a great Warlock / Sorcerer multi-class to rival Gale's magic anyway.

If only 1 more companion it means we will not get more then 1 race, half orc, dragon born, halfling, dwarf, gnome


Gale shld be a gnome

Make wyll a dragon born sinces its a similar story as red prince

I find it weird we probably wont get an npc of every class and race

Considering the focus on making every single companions "attractive" romance options, I rate the chance of a small race companion very low. Halsin easily could have been an old halfling but Larian and its audience are more interested in buff and young half elves.

Well, I hope it's not true that the writers are compromising the companion selection for the sake of romanceability. Which would be, in my view, both creatively disappointing and almost certainly futile, as if characters are well written and engaging then players will want to romance them regardless. I say again ... Garrus.

But, even if that is happening, I don't know why shorter races shouldn't be considered attractive romance options by more than enough players. And while of course love should not be limited by size, my gnome, halfling and dwarf PCs in particular tend not to be naturally drawn to all these galumphing giants and would be more tempted by potential love interests of a proper size.

I am in no way implying that small persons can't be attractive, just that it is far removed from the trend that BG3 seem to follow. They made a fearsome tiefling warrior with a pretty young woman face on an athletic body, a 200y/o vampire as a romanticizing young half elf, a very experienced wizard as your quite good looking human from our society standard and so on... The only companion that I would consider not conventionally attractive is Laezel because her race is very foreign even for DnD standards, but even that is debatable.

I would love if astarion was more old lich like in appearance instead of typical teen vampire
Some guy wanting to find a way to not die, buf i suppose the point in a spawn is to attract victims, I suppose with that point id have preferred a full vampire over a spawn

Helia seems most likely to me because she was datamined.

I would love to have a female elf sorcerer origin to play as!

A monk would also be great! Love the animations they have shown so far!

I don't get why astarion would be considered attractive, when exatly did the powdered wig look come into fashion again, and how did i miss it?

It didn't come into fashion again, it is rather a stack of cliché. The young, suave and charming renaissance era aristocrat coupled with the supernatural dangerous beauty of the vampire.

I will repeat the same thing I said in different topic.

Did you all forget that in the almost three-year-old trailer for BG3, these two mysterious characters were also introduced together with other origin characters?
It may only be new companions, but all the other characters in the trailer that had this shot from the back where they were pulling out the weapon were the origin character.
I don't believe in coincidences (It is quite possible that three years ago they were planning two more origin characters, but they reduced it to one.)

I plan on inventing a time machine, then travelling back to 1973 to steal Anne Rice's typewriter.