There are ten companions, six of which are origin characters.

Eight out of ten companions are all elves of one sort or another or humans. The other two are a demon elf (sorry, tiefling) and a githyanki. For the origin characters, it's four out of six being humans or elves, with the tiefling and the githyanki. Githyanki is cool and all, but the short races (and orcs and dragonborn) don't really get an option. Well, there's the Dark Urge, but that's shared with everyone and awesome as it looks, having that as basically the only option for half the races (short ones, dragonborn, half-orc) kind of feels a bit like those races got the shaft (which was probably dug by dwarves in the first place!).

So please Larian, for any future titles or expansion, please show some love to the sturdier races in the form of origin characters and companions.