Originally Posted by Eddiar
If Helia was going to be an origin character then its not Halsin that replaced her, it was Karlach.

No, Karlach was planend from the beginning. We will probably never know, who replaced whom, but Karlach was already planend, when Helia lines were still datamined by people like Chubblot

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