It’s been confirmed that Minsc will be tadpoled. We have also seen Jaheira and Minthara acting as NPCs in act2, rather than companions. I suspect, companions won’t become companions until act3 and all will get tadpoled as well - potentially reducing their power to the player party level and giving them same objectives as us. I suspect Helsin will be acting as Camp follower as he did in Ea, and only later will get granted a status of a companion.
If they indeed act as late game injection of new (or old) blood I do wonder if we should prepare to loose some origins along the way. Larian said they won’t be locking the party down, but there still could be choices to made along the way - Laez vs Shadowhear, Wyll vs Karlach seem like too deliberate pairings to be just tossed aside - and it would pay homage of BG1&2 companion conflicts.
Where was it confirmed? I was hoping to make my party of mostly non-origin companions, so I hope they are not only late game companions!
