When you click new game the layout of the UI there with 7 origins feels incomplete just from the look of it, like in terms of visual balance.

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There's clearly room for an eighth Origin and a red riding hood werewolf riff would have worked for me.

The layout to me there recommends 12 portraits, which if you included Halsin, Minthara, Minsc and Jaheira would still leave one slot open which should really be a shorty. Not having any shorty companions makes it feel something short of a proper D&D crpg, ya know what I mean hehe. For the Street Fighter II turbo edition they should all just be there looking cool, with cool portraits, even if it doesn't make sense for the whole origin thing lol