I also hope we’ll get some non-tadpoled companions and that it would feel more interesting if not all companions had exactly the same rationale for being there. There’s already a bunch of possible camp followers who have their own reasons to tag along and there’s at least a couple of these I wish could be companions, too.

Given the main character’s story is tadpole-related I also can’t see there being any origin characters without parasites. Having different protagonist origins in that way would add huge amounts of complexity that I’d not blame Larian for not taking on.

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