Favorite companions purely for story and why?

[Durzo Gaelfire]

Wondering which companions everyone likes the most? I am purely talking about story and personality.

[Orion Invictus]

Karlach.

[ShockedHearts]

personally my favorites were ShadowHeart, Gale, and Karlach

I find them all very endearing and their stories felt well told and engaging.

I love astarion but am not very mean and he hates that.

[Moonbane]

So not Karlach, she is just a sidecharacter given more space than she deserves. You can easilly see she was added late with relatively little impact on the story.

Lae-zel, Wyll and Shadowheart is the 3 main most story involved characters.

[ShockedHearts]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

So not Karlach, she is just a sidecharacter given more space than she deserves. You can easilly see she was added late with relatively little impact on the story.

Lae-zel, Wyll and Shadowheart is the 3 main most story involved characters.

I find Wyll to be the most yawn inducing character personally. his entire mizora questline can be done without him even being present and he doesnt add much when he is there.

but its all preference personally.

my friends hate lae'zel but I love her

[Metadigital]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

Lae-zel, Wyll and Shadowheart is the 3 main most story involved characters.

These are definitely the ones tied most into the grand narrative. I'd also include Gale for being able to suicide bomb the big bad.

[id795078477]

Scratch (personality is there, use "Speak with Animals")
Why - do I even need to tell it?

[Vertigo]

Originally posted by Durzo Gaelfire:

Wondering which companions everyone likes the most? I am purely talking about story and personality.

Shovel.

Also you don't have to jump through any hoops to keep Shovel permanently, just learn his spell with gold with a mage before you cast it.

[Moonbane]

Ultimately Gale feels more of a side character, whoses stick is being a burden with an explosive finisher. Sure Wyll is a goody twoshoes, but he is much more relevant for the plot than Gale is. At least Wyll is not a ridiculously bubbly goody twoshoes like Karlach.

[Jaeleth]

Originally posted by Durzo Gaelfire:

Wondering which companions everyone likes the most? I am purely talking about story and personality.

Scratch!

The only true friend around the camp which I can befriend and play ball with, without thinking I want to have (gay) sex with him... Otherwise Karlach, the "coolest" girl in town.
So far, that is. I haven't yet found Jaheira. I wonder if she changed a lot since I met her, centuries ago, in the Friendly Arm Inn...

But, storywise I think Astarion and Lae'zel have plenty more "data". Gale, however, is more critical due to the nuclear weapon he carries inside his chest which is an end game solver.

[Ashe]

Lae Zel. Her fish out of water scenario has a lot of moving parts that she needs to come to terms with and that gets further compounded by the romantic route. Seeing her change throughout the narrative as her world-view changes is actually interesting.

Unlike Shart whose change is literally "I was bad but I'm not really it was all brainwashing I've really been good this whole time".

Astarion close second. The others fall off by a long margin.

[Cloud Strife]

I really like Shadowheart character. Even if I feel it's the hétérosexual cliché of wanting a beautiful woman to romance in a video game, I also feel like a cliché myself by doing a white male human fighter, no matter all the others options. But Shadowheart introduction really add another layer of urgency in our very first run, and after watching the other woman becoming an octopus, I really wasn't sure about trying to save her. Nonetheless, her immediate reaction of racism torwards that Githyanki did feel more real then anything else, but her perfect body and helpful cleric skills with the drama of a real woman is very relatable. Yes, I did drink and kiss, but that's it! Nothing since!

[Vertigo]

Originally posted by Jaeleth:

Originally posted by Durzo Gaelfire:

Wondering which companions everyone likes the most? I am purely talking about story and personality.

Scratch!

The only true friend around the camp which I can befriend and play ball with, without thinking I want to have (gay) sex with him... Otherwise Karlach, the "coolest" girl in town.
So far, that is. I haven't yet found Jaheira. I wonder if she changed a lot since I met her, centuries ago, in the Friendly Arm Inn...

But, storywise I think Astarion and Lae'zel have plenty more "data". Gale, however, is more critical due to the nuclear weapon he carries inside his chest which is an end game solver.

Jaheira is a good stalwart sidekick who has a lot of good writing.

[Dudeman]

Lae'zel, Gale, Shadowheart

Their stories just seemed more fleshed out and woven into the main story very well. They had weight and felt important.

[Ironwu]

None of them. Just started a new Campaign and at level 3 have a full party of Hirelings. It is so nice not having all the b*tching and moaning and drama every-single-step of the way. :)

And nuts to all those long, drawn out, pain-in-the-butt Companion Quests.

[Kaisha]

Number 1 for me was Tav. I liked Karlach and Gale as well, they seemed believable. Laezel has the best/most organic story arc. Asterion and SHart are just badly written, like some YA emo novella protagonist. Wyll was just... the proverbial 3rd wheel.