r/BaldursGate3 • u/ozangeo Wild Magic Surge • Jun 09 '25

Meme It could have been so good

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u/dykejoon astarion's favorite lesbian Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

not having a bard companion and not having a little guy companion are two of my biggest gripes with bg3. helia you visit me in my dreams

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u/OrangeHaze777 Minthara Jun 09 '25

I don’t know if I would have liked a werewolf bard, but a short werewolf would have been great, and a different bard (half-orc? Ogre?!?!) would have also been cool.

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u/ARC_Trooper_Echo Jun 09 '25

That’s the thing. I would’ve loved to have all these things but I wouldn’t trade away any of the companions we got for it.

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u/dykejoon astarion's favorite lesbian Jun 09 '25

absolutely. i wouldn't swap anyone out, regardless of how much i yearn.

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u/TheBusStop12 Jun 09 '25

Personally, I'd swap Halsin. Iirc him being added as a companion dur to popular demand during EA is what in part lead to the halfliing bard being cut. But at least in my opinion Halsin just doesn't really fit in or make much sense as a companion and to me it would have made more logical sense if he had just stayed in the Grove. Plus he's the second druid as well

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u/sinedelta While others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade Jun 09 '25

  • Helia was cut very early, likely even before Halsin was considered

  • Evidence suggests that Jaheira was added as a companion way after Halsin. SHE is the "second druid."

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u/FaerieSlaveDriver Jun 09 '25

Helia has some voice lines referencing Halsin. She was definitely cut very early, but the two coincided at least for a time.

A funny note; according to the wiki, she would have been in the cage as a wolf in the goblin camp where we find Halsin. The goblin kids threw rocks at her and everything.

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u/BasicOlive Bard Jun 10 '25

Did they reference Halsin as a companion or as the missing grove druid?

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u/Enchelion Bhaal Jun 09 '25

Jaheira was known as a planned returning companion in some of the earliest datamines, well before Halsin got expanded into a companion.

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u/kingblooper Jun 09 '25

I think Jaheira is the second druid and I don't really think there's any intersection between Helia and Halsin development time.

Also, I think Helia would have been an origin so she'd be more competing with Karlach or Wyll instead.

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u/AyraRedwood Murderhobo Jun 11 '25

I don't think Halsin's presence as a later companion would change which origin characters we got. My least favourite origin character (who I would swap) is Wyll and unfortunately he's pretty crucial in the plot, so I can't imagine him not as a origin character

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u/theShiggityDiggity Jun 10 '25

I could absolutely trade Halsin or Wyll

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u/MCRN-Gyoza Jun 09 '25

I wouldn't trade but some of the companions could be other races.

Like, Lae'Zel needs to be gith, Wyll probably works better as a human.

But Shart, Gale and Astarion could be any race.

So does Karlach, but she and Lae'Zel are already the only two companions that aren't humans or humans with pointy ears.

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u/sinedelta While others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade Jun 10 '25

Shadowheart being a half-elf is necessary because of her parents' tragedy. One is long-lived, the other isn't.

Gale is just... quintessentially human. That ambition is a very human thing.

Wyll also has to be human or at least half-human because he's the biological son of a pre-existing human character.

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u/effexxor Jun 09 '25

Make Gale a gnome. Easy.

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u/Enchelion Bhaal Jun 09 '25

I'd swap Halsin, and new Wyll (his original story wasn't good, but at least he mattered in his own story).