I think the Gith in the monastery actually have a lot of business, and it's an interesting peek into their culture, like with the hatchery warden and the reluctant trainee.
Lakrissa, the Tiefling you can banter with and make a bet with before the battle, is fun to follow through the acts. She and Alfira end up together in the third act, and I kinda want to run through a few variations there to see how much Larian put into it.
I love all the goblins terribly. Crusher is the main character we're stealing the spotlight from. I wish we got more from them and their perspective. There's an evil route I can get behind! It's nice to be dumb.
All the origin characters range from good to ok, I'm crawling through a Wyl playthrough just to get a better feel for him after his rewrite, but I got sidetracked playing around with the modding tools.
I've had the most fun as a with Astarion and Shadowheart character stories, but I enjoy the banter with Gale most of all.
I might do a Wyll playthrough at one point. He does feel like a main character. Shadowheart is interesting in light of act 2 and Gale has a lot of insight into the whole background of the Crown of Karsus and Lae'zel and the githyanki culture is interesting too. And yes, those conversations at the creche were nice.
I don't really vibe with Karlachs and Astarions story - Karlach is my favourite character and I love to have her in the party, and her outbreak after we kill Gortash is one of my favourite scenes in the game, but her quests are pretty barebone - get infernal iron and upgrade her two times and kill Gortash - oh and those false paladins. It's not much.
Astarion is just - I think, I'm a bit tired of the sexy vampire trope and if I want a vampire story, I go and play Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines (malkavian supremacy
). He is the origin, I click the least with, so maybe I should take a leaf from your book, and play his origin.
Karlach is probably more fun to play as a main character too, though I love to have her in the party for her interactions alone.
Lakrissa and Alfira made me so happy - I love, how those two end up together in act 3 (if you don't do Durge stuff in act 1).
