Rodeolifant: Revan was Old Republic, so long before the movies. They used that character ( that like Gorions Ward was fully customizable) in books and in the MMO SWTOR and suddenly it was canonically a white male, not quite right in the head.
And I actually preferred Dynaheir to Edwin, I just did get rid of Minsc, because I didn't want him in the party.
I used Edwin in BG2 though.
Slight correction: Revan was canonically always intended as a male character, even the D20 Star Wars system that predates the MMO has him as a male. Just as the Jedi exile is canonically female, which didn't stop me from making her a white male in my playthroughs of KotOR 2.
In regard to Edwin:
I always used him in BG 1 because I liked his portrait. Of course I changed his alignment with a trainer/cheat program to make him compatible with my usual characters
