Black Elk, agree on your last sentence. I have to read that article later, but it sounds interesting.

I think, it is easier to do Jaheira and Minsc justice, since they basically have their defined morals from beginning of BG1 to the end of ToB.
Viconia and Sarevok are harder,since they can change a lot during different playthroughs. In my playthroughs Viconia stayed the evil Shar priestess and Sarevok was seldom used by me, so I guess, he never had the alignment change.
So for me, having those two appear in BG 3 like they are, was absolutely ok, I didn't even questioned it.
But since they can have so many changes, maybe it would have been better to go with some of the other characters.
Maybe have us meet Kivan in act 2, who is trying to help with the Shadowcurse ( maybe he could even have been an alternative, if Halsin for some reason is dead), maybe meet Korgan in one of the thief guilds, have Xzan tied to the Lorroakan plot.
I don't know, but I doubt, it will be changed now

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