Originally Posted by Cahir
Originally Posted by Zerubbabel
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by Cahir
If you really want to label them with old-fashioned alignment, I'd say no companion is Lawful good, but none is chaotic evil either.
Thanks for the feedback.

Isn't Astarion at least a bit on the chaotic side, therefore bordering on CE?
Alignment in this game seems more like a representation of the character descriptively rather than a normative command, so alignment of characters can change based on the choices you make. When you first meet the characters, I would describe the alignments as:
Lae�zel: Lawful Evil
Karlach: Chaotic Good, leans Neutral Good.
Shadowheart: True Neutral (Neutral Evil if Shar bothers you)
Astarion: Chaotic Evil, leaning Neutral Evil.
Wyll: Either Chaotic Good or True Neutral.
Gale: Lawful Neutral, can lean more good or neutral.

Ultimately the lawful-chaotic aspect is less pronounced. Lae�zel is clearly starting evil, as is Astarion. Wyll, Gale, and Karlach are clearly good depending on some early choices. Shadowheart is very neutral early game, with a mix of good and evil opinions.

If you wanted to make a �good� party that is good from the start, it would include some combination of the following:
Wyll, Karlach, Gale, Halsin. Minsc has yet to show up in my game, but he would be an option too judging by BG1+2.

The most viable �evil� party would likely include:
Lae�zel, Minthara, Shadowheart, Astarion.

I'm well aware of that, but since kanisatha was trying to measure their ingame actions by a good old alignment standards, I was trying to share my perspective on the matter and maybe help a little with that.
Yes @Cahir is correct. But I do generally agree with your starting alignment interpretations, @Zerubbabel. And the key word there is 'starting,' which is what I've been saying again and again for people who keep bringing up that companion alignments can change depending on in-game choices. For me, regardless of this in-game reality with which I agree, it does matter what their history (and therefore alignment) is at the point when I first run into them, which is to say, their past matters a great deal to me.

Since I have stated I would only play the game with a mod that allows a party of six, my party, I think, would be Wyll, Karlach, Halsin, Minsc, and Jaheira/Gale.